Sentences with phrase «broader public school funding»

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The new Dr. Deirdre Loughlin Fund will provide essential support that allows us to connect Broad Meadow Brook with students attending Worcester Public Schools.

The new Dr. Deirdre Loughlin Fund will link two of Deirdre's highest priorities: Broad Meadow Brook, where she has served for many, many years as chair of the advisory board; and Worcester Public Schools, where — as a teacher, and later, as a top administrator — she inspired generations of students to be curious and confident about science.

These partnerships also provide a range of funding opportunities, and many grants are broad enough to include support for the fees associated with public use of school kitchens.

«Sometimes, some of these issues take a lot longer to negotiate and compromise with, and you shouldn't be holding up funding for our schools, and funding for our roads, and funding for local governments to keep property taxes down, because of some of these major, broader public policy issues that should be kept out of the budget.»

Better than the performances themselves, though, is their broader purpose: all proceeds from Miscast help to fund MCC in its continual efforts to produce some of New York's most ambitious and original works of theater, as well as support its MCC Youth Company and in - school partnerships that serve public schools across New York City.

Key recommendations for government in the report that won API support were: for play to be embedded within a Whole Child Strategy under the aegis of a Cabinet Minister for Children responsible for cross ‑ departmental roll out and co-ordination; for government to require local authorities to prepare children and young people's plans including strategies to address overweight and obesity with its physical, mental and emotional consequences; for funding for play to be ring - fenced within local authority budgets; to address barriers to outdoor play for children of all ages and abilities; to extend the Sport England Primary Spaces and Sport Premium programmes to all schools with a broader scope to incorporate a wide variety of physical literacy activities including play; to communicate through public information campaigns to parents and families the value of active outdoor play, including risk or benefit assessment; and to improve public sector procurement practice for public play provision.

Yet even a preliminary assessment is remarkable, beginning with John Walton's major contribution to the nationwide Children's Scholarship Fund, which revealed to a broad public the desire for school choice among low - income families.

But a broader policy that ties funding to costs creates perverse incentives for schools to drive up costs in order to increase their public funding.

NewSchools Venture Fund, whose goal is to improve school districts, invests in charter entrepreneurs in the hope that they can «spark broader transformation in the public school system.»

The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, which funds the prize, and the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, which administers the prize, did not play a role in selecting the top three charter systems.

Funded by: Smith Richardson Foundation via subcontract w / Brown University Amount: $ 10,843 Dates: 1/1/17 — 7/1/20 Summary: In collaboration with researchers from Brown University Dr. Jones will examine the effects of Boston Public School's autonomous hiring policy reform on student, teacher, and school outcomes, with the broader goal of examining the nature and challenges of the teacher hiring and match process in large urban school distSchool's autonomous hiring policy reform on student, teacher, and school outcomes, with the broader goal of examining the nature and challenges of the teacher hiring and match process in large urban school distschool outcomes, with the broader goal of examining the nature and challenges of the teacher hiring and match process in large urban school distschool districts.

On Monday, March 5, 2012, members of the broad alliance of Florida education advocacy groups including: Citizens for Strong Schools, 50th No More, Florida PTA, Fund Education Now, Marions United for Public Education, Save Duval Schools and Support Dade Schools traveled to Tallahassee to join a press conference at 9:30 A in Room 301 of the Florida Senate Office Building.

The CSFP is administered by the State Allocation Board (SAB), and is part of a broader School Facilities Program which funds all public schools in California.

This campaign, it says, is really «a proxy for a broader assault on public education itself» and is coming at a time when public schools have been weakened by funding cuts, «vitriolic political attacks on teachers and their unions, and state programs to privatize schools through vouchers, charter schools and other «school choice» measures.»

The Broad plan is to be actualized by a nonprofit called Great Public Schools Now, which keeps its funders hidden on its website.

As public schools are increasingly threatened by a view of education that supports privatization, zero - tolerance discipline policies, less funding, and high - stakes standardized tests, AROS is fighting back with a broad vision of American public education that prioritizes racial justice, equity and well - resourced, world - class, public community schools.

A broad, bipartisan coalition now urges a new method of funding our public schools — one that finally ensures the students who need the most receive it, that empowers school leaders to make key decisions, and that opens the door to public school choice.

His collaborations with colleagues at UIC and Chicago Public Schools have been funded by the Broad Foundation, Chicago Community Trust, McCormick Foundation, National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, and other organizations.

The union also contends that Broad of «secretly funded groups» that tried to defeat Proposition 30, a state tax initiative that has generated millions of new tax dollars for California public schools.

The national group, Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools, issued a statement explaining: «As public schools are increasingly threatened by a view of education that supports privatization, zero - tolerance discipline policies, less funding, and high - stakes standardized tests, AROS is fighting back with a broad vision of American public education that prioritizes racial justice, equity and well - resourced, world - class, public community schools.Schools, issued a statement explaining: «As public schools are increasingly threatened by a view of education that supports privatization, zero - tolerance discipline policies, less funding, and high - stakes standardized tests, AROS is fighting back with a broad vision of American public education that prioritizes racial justice, equity and well - resourced, world - class, public community schools.schools are increasingly threatened by a view of education that supports privatization, zero - tolerance discipline policies, less funding, and high - stakes standardized tests, AROS is fighting back with a broad vision of American public education that prioritizes racial justice, equity and well - resourced, world - class, public community schools.schools.»

The latest investment is in addition to the $ 1.7 million The Broad Foundation invested in two pilot competitions NGLC launched last fall in Washington, D.C. and Chicago, also funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and local partners: CityBridge Foundation in Washington, D.C., New Schools for Chicago and the Chicago Public Education Fund.

What is lost in the debate is that we have not adequately addressed the broader school funding issues facing all of our public schools, including charter schools.

The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, which funds the prize, and the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, which administers the prize, did not play a role in selecting the top three charter systems or the winner.

You can read more about the Broad Foundation's role in public education in an article I wrote for Public School Shakedown entitled «Funding «Education Reform»: The Big Three Foundations.&public education in an article I wrote for Public School Shakedown entitled «Funding «Education Reform»: The Big Three Foundations.&Public School Shakedown entitled «Funding «Education Reform»: The Big Three Foundations.»

LANSING, Mich. — Flat test scores by Michigan students on a national test highlight the pressing need for a new, comprehensive look at how we fund Michigan's public schools so all students can achieve and succeed, regardless of their circumstances, said a broad - based group of Michigan business and education experts.

Despite having promised their support for the lawsuit, they are now not only trying to get the case dismissed, but are asking the court to prevent the Connecticut Coalition for Justice in Education Funding [CCJEF], a broad coalition of towns, schools, parents and public school advocates, from even serving as the plaintiffs in the case.

The latest national comparison of school test scores could reveal challenges with the way we fund schools in Michigan LANSING, Mich. — Flat test scores by Michigan students on a national test highlight the pressing need for a new, comprehensive look at how we fund Michigan's public schools so all students can achieve and succeed, regardless of their circumstances, said a broad - based group of Michigan business and education experts.

Previous work on the impact of philanthropy in education terms these types of status quo investments as «lower leverage» grants, which can include funding for efforts in professional development, unrestricted or general purpose grants to schools, or special - purpose grants to fund a particular program or activity (e.g. arts enrichment).4 The contrasting approach — the «higher leverage» investment — is investment with the potential to exert systemic influence on public education, which can be divided into two broad categories: 5

The Broad plan, and others like it, funded by groups such as the Walton Family Foundation, are instead part of a coordinated national effort to decimate public schooling by rigging the system against neighborhood public schools and the students they serve.

Also, South Kent does enjoy the status of being a private school, so while it's not about the funding issue, it is definitely an oversight issue; the school is fairly autonomous, as opposed to public schools who have an elected school board making broad, sweeping, one - size - fits - all curriculum decisions for every school in its district.