Sentences with phrase «better schools for»

«I think that's one of the most dramatic examples of a successful turnaround — the support among families knowing they have better schools for their kids in their neighborhood.»

But every day I read so many inspiring stories of parents from around the country demanding better schools for their children.

It suggests that people from poorer backgrounds are not «choosing» better schools for their children.

[T] he punitive evaluation policies that New York state has adopted (and that many other states have adopted) due to the Race to the Top competition are... a dangerous gamble that might score political points but... will hinder what you and I and so many others want — better schools for our kids.

View the Jan. 17 report «Better Schools for All Students: DCPS» Consolidation and Reorganization Plan»

While Better Schools for Missouri, represents everyone that supports public education, we have five organizations that are sustaining, cornerstone members of the committee: the Missouri Association of School Administrators, the Missouri Association of Elementary School Principals, the Missouri Association of Secondary School Principals, the Missouri Council of Career and Technical School Administrators, and the Missouri Association of School Business Officials.

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Better Schools for Missouri is an opportunity for school administrators, teachers, parents, business owners, and citizens to make their voices heard when it comes election time.

Come out next Monday, August 1, at Friendship Baptist Church to join the conversation on how to better schools for our kids.

«I applaud the brave parents, teachers and community leaders of this city for banding together and standing up for what they believe in: better schools for all children.»

Over the past three years, Dr. Cassellius has delivered on Governor Dayton's 7 - point Plan, Better Schools for a Better Minnesota; which puts a sharp focus on early learning, third grade reading, high school graduation and the elimination of achievement gaps.

Sadowski, author of Safe Is Not Enough: Better Schools for LGBTQ Students and on faculty at Bard College, adds, «Even LGBTQ issues in general are relegated to a small segment of a diversity class or a youth development course if they're covered at all.

Even with a streamlined enrollment process and better information, Cleveland recognized that families also need social support to choose better schools for their children.

Those top charters have also demonstrated an ability to team up with troubled traditional urban school districts — a role that probably represents the best shot for providing better schools for all.

He added: «We need better schools for all our children, not just those who can pass an exam at the age of 11.

Beholden to the teachers unions, both the WFP and Teachout oppose measures that would give New York parents more and better schools for their children.

There is no price tag on elevating the voices of parents demanding better schools for their kids.»

«Elected leaders, community members and grassroots supporters know that John Liu is the only choice to stand up to the Republican status quo and fight for good jobs, affordable housing and better schools for every community in the 11th District.»

«I'm all for holding the Mayor's feet to the fire because we need better schools for all families.

We live in a town that we (mostly) love but are looking to move for better schools for our children or, if those areas with better schools don't pan out, for a more urban area with more support for homeschooling.

As she and her husband struggle to find the best school for their daughter, «I worry about the experiences she'll have early in her life on the other side of town where the parks are picturesque and pristine and none of the other kids have beads and braids like her, and how that might impact her culturally.»

Lyne: A suburban life was very comfortable, lots of great clubs around, lots of good schools for kids, but for somebody who grew up thinking, «I want to do something, I want to have an impact on the world,» it was not necessarily the place you could do that.

Marriott Vacations Worldwide (NYSE: VAC) is pleased to announce its donation to Step Up For Students, its third in three years, to help provide scholarships so low - income children can find the best school for their learning needs.

You can disagree on what color to paint the kitchen, the best school for your kids, and even about which church denomination or political party is best.

Anyway all is not lost, this season would be a good schooling for them and if they still can not step it up, Wenger has to buy somebody else anyway since this Arsenal is modelled after Cesc, there has to be somebody who can complement him.

Probably not, although I would like to think that, like other parents, he was looking for the best school for his son.

We understand the importance of finding the best school for your child.

Its very good school for the kids learning from 6 months to 6 years.

We can't imagine that we could have possibly found a better school for him to attend and can't thank you enough for all your hard work.»

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Their children no longer attend the good schools for which the Igbos have become well known.

Let there be good schools for children.

Voters want good schools for their kids,» said Easton, AQE's executive director.

«You can't imagine a better school for kids with severe special needs,» said Brewer.

He criticised MPs representing affluent parts of the South - east who claim they can not find good schools for their sons and daughters.

Pilates gave me a lot of answers and STOTT PILATES ® was just a best school for me.

Support like this is on par with good schools for kids.»

However, finding the best school for yoga teacher training can be a tough job.

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Alice Phillips, head of St Catherine's, an independent girls» school in Bramley, Surrey, responded to Cairns» comments saying they were dangerous as they could dissuade parents from sending their children to the best school for them.

Naturally, parents are most interested in finding the best schools for their own children; they have less incentive to care about the overall performance of an entire system of schools.

«At the end of the day, parents don't care about charter, union, traditional, they just want a good school for their kids,» says Riley.

Both America and Britain have outstanding universities — Harvard, Cambridge, Stanford, Oxford — but behind those high - performing institutions (and there are some amazingly good schools for children five to 18) there is a long history of underachievement that has correlated with poverty.

Have you any concern that the families with more financial and social capital might choose the best schools for their children, and other families» children would have to attend inferior schools?

Mr Hammond said: «These announcements take the next steps in giving parents greater choice in finding a good school for their child, whatever their background.»

Parents armed with data about school performance will in theory choose the best school for their children.

This initiative mattered only if it resulted in more good schools for our kids.

«The important decision to make is not what is a good school, but what is a good school for the child, and that depends on his abilities and your plans for the future.»

None of these approaches has resulted in consistently better schooling for low - income children.

«We can not create more good schools for our children by accepting more failing schools,» Mary Bradley, CPS top officer responsible for charter schools, told the commission before it decided to keep the South Side charters open.