Sentences with phrase «both parents and the public»
«Parents and families across the country are applauding as one by one, restaurants are listening to parents and public health experts and starting to do their part to help keep America's kids healthy, but we aren't done yet!
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As the chairperson of the nutrition committee of HISD's School Health Advisory Council (SHAC), I'm working with a dedicated group of parents and public health professionals to address the issue of a la carte foods in HISD — both the items sold by the district itself (like the Flaming Hot Cheetos above) and items sold by parent and student groups (usually in violation of state rules) as campus fundraisers.
Dr. Dina Kulik is a mother and Pediatrician in Toronto and is one of Canada's leading child health media experts, providing child health information to parents and the public through television, radio and print media and via her thriving blog DrDina.ca.
«Unfortunately, after George Amedore got elected to office all his campaign promises were conveniently forgotten, and it's the parents and public school students who are suffering as a result,» she said.
Patrick Roach, deputy general secretary of the teacher's union NASUWT, brands free schools a costly and unnecessary experiment which will produce misery for children: «We are on the side of parents and public who are opposed to free schools.
The bill proposed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to make the state's new teacher evaluation system a valuable tool for parents and the public is almost good enough to support.
The NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, has launched an advertising campaign aimed at parents and the public, highlighting the impact of the Conservative - driven Government education policy on children and young people.
The cost of going to college is an issue of growing concern among students, their parents and public officials.
The NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, has marked 100 days to the General Election with the distribution of materials aimed at teachers, parents and the public emphasising the entitlements that our public education service should deliver for all children and young people.
The NASUWT has marked 100 days to the General Election with the distribution of materials aimed at teachers, parents and the public emphasising the entitlements that our public education service should deliver for all children and young people.
«In the 100 days to the General Election, the NASUWT will be reminding teachers, parents and the public of the impact of the Coalition Government's policies on children and young people and on ordinary working people and their families.
«I urge local authorities to join with schools, parents and the public, who are outraged by the cuts to the school building programme, and support the NASUWT's lobby of Parliament on Monday 19 July.»
Conference further applauds the continuing success of the pupil, parent and public friendly industrial action which has delivered considerable benefits, including sustained levels of member and public support.
«The fact that only 16 have been announced in the first instance, only confirms a recent Ipsos MORI poll which showed that 96 % of parents and the public oppose the Coalition Government's free school policy.
«Teachers, parents and the public would be right to question why Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister, is not insisting these provisions are restored now rather than making them a manifesto commitment.»
«If it is about choice for parents and the public, evidence shows that what parents and the public want are good local schools run by local councils, democratically accountable to local communities.
Teacher Evaluations Go Public, Teachers» Rights Protected A new New York law ensuring that parents and the public have access to information involving how the teachers, principals and schools are performing while still respecting the educators» privacy is on the horizon.
And yet there you stand, arm in arm with union bosses and — quelle horreur — Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, all in an effort to hide vital information about teacher performance from parents and the public.
In announcing the postponement in a statement, Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott said, «After reviewing concerns raised by parents and public officials about this year's Citywide and Community Education Council elections, I have concluded that the process could and should have been handled better.»
Less than two weeks into her new gig, Schools Chancellor Cathie Black has riled parents and public officials by jokingly suggesting that «birth control» was the solution to school overcrowding.
Nonetheless, NCLB offered some positive changes that the new ESSA maintains, including academic standards, annual assessments of reading and math achievement, and report cards on schools that students, parents and the public can use to gauge results.
Clearly some sort of screening process for aspiring teachers is essential; parents and the public rightly expect safeguards for those working with youngsters.
The median response was lower than those for parents and the public as a whole.
Dr Hinz says that while standardised testing has existed in Australia for some time, NAPLAN is the first test where the results of schools in different states could be easily compared and were also available to parents and the public.
CCSA plans to use every tool at our disposal to ensure parents and the public understand how California charter schools are performing.
We policy wonks may see the value in such tests (Brookings has been especially effective in making powerful arguments for keeping them), but parents and the public are fed up.
In a survey of parents and the public, the following percentages of respondents said they agreed with these statements.
«Short inspections will reduce the burden of inspection without losing the rigour which parents and the public rightly expect of Ofsted.»
There is a growing concern on the part of youth specialists, educationalists, parents and the public that many young people are retreating into a virtual world and are losing contact with reality, leading to social dislocation and isolation.
The system would be fluid, self - improving, and driven by parents and public authority, ensuring the system uses the best of market and government forces.
For both parents and the public as a whole, the wording change made no significant difference.
7) Both parents and the public as a whole remain supportive of testing and opposed to policies that would allow parents to withhold their children from state test - taking, but support for parental opt - out has gained ground among teachers.
«Academy finances are a matter of public interest and the present system does not allow parents and the public to have confidence that financial decisions are being made for the benefit of pupils and that public money is being spent effectively and ethically.
The Every Student Succeeds Act requires states to give parents and the public a wealth of information on school quality and performance.
In addition, California provides a dedicated CAASPP Results Web site, where parents and the public can view and compare aggregated results among schools, districts, and counties along with statewide results.
All states participating in Title I, as well as all LEAs in those states, must report assessment results and certain other data to parents and the public through annual «report cards.»
States participating in Title I are required to meet a variety of requirements for assessing the achievement levels of public school students, reporting results of achievement tests to parents and the public, and taking actions intended to improve the performance of schools where achievement results are deemed inadequate.
California is providing a range of new resources to teachers, parents and the public to make Smarter Balanced tests and student scores easier to understand — and more useful in actually guiding instruction.
The simplicity of such ratings meant it was easy for parents and the public to sort and rank schools by the supposed strength of their performance.
These are huge victories for reformers, and losses for the teachers unions and other advocates of hiding the truth from parents and the public.
Second, both parents and the public appear to be more responsive to the level of student achievement at a school than to the amount students learn from one year to the next.
A successful school - accountability system contains three basic elements: It gauges education quality and progress by measuring data that accurately reflect student achievement; it disseminates the results to parents and the public in a simple and transparent manner; and it rewards and incentivizes success and provides interventions to support low - performing schools and reverse failure.
Under NCLB, for the first time, schools were required to measure improvement in student achievement across all groups of students, and each state, district, and school was required to lay the results out on the table for parents and the public to see.
The evidence on these questions available to date comes from small - scale studies of specific school districts, making it difficult to reach general conclusions about the degree to which parents and the public at large are well informed about the performance of local schools.
Reformers in those locales have every reason to be disappointed, and will have to work double - time to inform parents and the public of the relative performance of all of their states» schools.
Edley has complained, according to the San Francisco Chronicle (February 14, 2007), that parents and the public can not get in the courthouse door to argue that officials are failing to live up to the obligations of education statutes: «If the state fails to enforce environmental regulations against a polluter, members of the public can not only go to the ballot box, they can also go to court.
Does Connecticut's Governor Malloy and the array of state and local officials who are saying that schools will lose money really not know what the federal law is or are their intentionally misleading, even lying, as a way to keep parents and the public from knowing the truth?
As teachers, parents and public school advocates know, the corporate education reform industry has been putting out inaccurate and misleading statements, along with outright lies, to persuade the public that teacher tenure is bad.
When President Barack Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan continued and expanded NCLB's absurd ranking and punishing of public schools based on socio - economic and other inappropriate measures, teachers, parents and public school advocates spoke out.
As parents and public school advocates join teachers and their unions in this historic battle to ensure our public schools are run for the benefit of the public and not corporate America, we should be just as loud and clear that our schools need far more IAs and that IAs deserve far better pay.