Sentences with phrase «child for school reform»

Newark was supposed to be the poster child for school reform.

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• In 1993, as the hysteria over child sex abuse cases was beginning to decline in the U.S., charges started flying around a reform school for boys in Shelburne, Nova Scotia.

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Private schools, charter schools, voucher programs and other school choice options have been championed by reform - minded conservatives such as Jeb Bush for years now, partly because of their success for countless children of color living in poor communities with even poorer - performing public schools.

The Citizens Commission on School Nutrition recommended sweeping reforms and increased federal funding for the system that feeds 24 million children each schooSchool Nutrition recommended sweeping reforms and increased federal funding for the system that feeds 24 million children each schoolschool day.

When advocates who share a common interest in fighting child obesity are at each other's throats over whether chocolate milk is a tasty way for kids to get important nutrition, or the Drink of Satan, the whole school food reform movement suffers, and that hurts kids.

BARRINGTON Karen Rogers, professor of gifted studies at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn., and author of «Reforming Gifted Education: Matching the Program to the Child,» will talk about four things parents must ask of schools for their gifted children at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Hough Street School, 310 S. Hough St.. The program is sponsored by the Barrington Council for the Gifted and Talented, and there is a $ 5 fee for non-members at...

As I've often said on TLT, when we debate the minutiae of school food reform it's easy to forget that, for some children, school food is the only food they get in the course of a day.

[EDUCATION: Promote innovation and reform in education, including support for choice and charter schools, so our children are prepared for college and to become active participants in the 21st century economy]

He has accepted significant contributions from Ravenel Boykin Curry, a wealthy supporter of education reform and trustee of Girls Prep charter school, which made the news in 2010 when Joel Klein used emergency powers to displace the public school program for autistic children with which Girls Prep was co-located.

Meanwhile discussions elsewhere reached consensus on disability rights, taking competition out of the NHS, tribunal fees, legal aid, zero - hours and short - hours contracts, agency workers, immigration, local government funding, housing, the Middle East, the minimum wage, the living wage, Royal Mail, the railways, science and technology, mental health, fracking, animal welfare, Lords reform, reducing smoking and consumption of alcohol, fats and sugar, reaffirming all - women shortlists, youth services, careers advice, sexual and relationship education, and even the 11 - plus (recognising that selection at age 11 damaged education for all children, but stopping short of abolishing existing grammar schools).

In place of Labour's hopeless acceptance of mediocrity in education, which has seen Britain tumble down the world league tables just when we need our children to be doing better than those in other countries, we will offer the hope of a decent education for every child, with immediate action to raise standards and radical reform to end the state monopoly over new school places.

Other transportation proposals include procurement reforms to reduce sealed bids for MTA contracts; requirements that all backseat automobile passengers wear seat belts, and children under age 8 be properly restrained in school buses; and removal of legal barriers to encourage self - driving car manufacturers to operate in New York.

Just as he couched his education reforms in arguments of ensuring access to top schooling for all children regardless of background, Gove sees his central mission as closing the gap between the experiences of those at opposite ends of the justice system.

«The reforms in this Budget build upon measures implemented last year to create an educational system that ensures every child has an opportunity to succeed, and holds schools and teachers accountable for the results they achieve.»

Other announcements expected include reform of the system for diagnosing and helping children with special educational needs to give parents more choice in how they are schooled; reforms to the family justice system to speed up care proceedings so no cases take more than six months; and promised changes to the adoption system to make sure parents and children are matched more quickly.

Driven by anger at education reforms included in this year's state budget, there's a movement afoot in Albany to encourage parents to keep their children home from school, rather than sit for state tests.

This man has had an opportunity for years to be an effective catalyst for educational reform, Charter Schools and Vouchers for black children and HE JUST DOES N'T CARE.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

Joe Williams, executive director of Democrats for Education Reform, said «It shocks the conscience that we continue to look the other way while we permit our schools to pair our most ineffective teachers with the children most in need of great classroom instruction.

«Dennis Walcott has been working his entire life to help New York City's school children, and I am confident that experience will help him build on the successful reform efforts of the past nine years and improve our classrooms for the generations to come,» Bloomberg said in a statement praising Steiner's decision.

IDS is trying to reform welfare to reduce unemployment, and Michael Gove is trying to narrow the education gap, with his Free Schools and the «pupil premium» for poorer children.

Campaign finance reform, the Dream Act — which offers college tuition support to the children of undocumented immigrants — and more money for underperforming schools are just a few items that might be approved under a Senate controlled by Democrats.

It's why I led the fight for mandatory kindergarten city - wide, it's why I increased the number of pre-K slots available in New York City, it's why I have been a staunch advocate for ensuring that children get access to breakfast at school, and it's why I have made reforming our public education system one of the cornerstones of my campaign.

Leaving No Child Behind in Our Nation's Schools The No Child Left Behind Act is a blueprint for fundamental education reform, and it represents a huge step in the right direction for Americans who believe big government is not the solution to problems with our education system.

As these schools experienced success (and in the rising wake of Race To the Top), their practices quickly spread to places like post-Katrina New Orleans, the poster child for the latest incarnation of education reform.

Five years of studies on charter schools prove they are meeting the needs of traditionally underserved children and forcing regular public schools to change for the better, the Center for Education Reform concludes in a report released last week.

The singular contribution of the education reform movement has been a moral one, making it unacceptable for schools and teachers to admit to holding any child — particularly low - income, black, and brown children — to lower standards.

A Department for Education (DfE) spokesman said: «Pupils are already benefiting hugely from the academies programme and thanks to our reforms more of them than ever before are going to good or outstanding schools, meaning more parents can access a good school place for their children.

In his final chapter, Putnam recommends a variety of well - known school - based reforms, such as moving poor children into better schools, compensatory financing for schools in poor neighborhoods to enable them to attract the best teachers and counselors, more school - based extracurricular activities and social services, and more effort to engage the whole community in the education process.

The one unambiguous, reform - driven victory of the last two decades has been the successful networks of urban charter schools that we used to call «no excuses» schools before the term, which once meant there's no excuse for adults to fail children, fell into disrepute and it became de rigueur within the movement to criticize those schools» discipline practices instead of applauding them for sending tens of thousands of low - income kids of color to college, which not long ago was nearly the entire point of the movement.

Stand for Children exists to challenge the conventional power arrangements of the K - 12 public education system, organizing parents at the grassroots level to advance a school reform agenda.

A Department for Education spokesperson said: «Our reforms are raising the quality of early years education and childcare, and by doubling the childcare entitlement for working parents we are helping to ensure more children are ready to make the transition to school.»

Our key finding is that increased per - pupil spending, induced by court - ordered SFRs, increased high school graduation rates, educational attainment, earnings, and family incomes for children who attended school after these reforms were implemented in affected districts.

A Department for Education spokesperson said that recent reforms placed high expectations at the heart of the school system in England: «We are determined to ensure that every child, regardless of background is given an education which allows them to realise their potential.

The No Child Left Behind Act marked a major step forward for school reform, Rep. George Miller, D - Calif., writes.

To take advantage of this opportunity, states must abandon the thinking that led to the failure of previous reforms such as No Child Left Behind and instead embrace a new mindset about the most promising strategies for improving schools.

Panelists mentioned various important changes that needed to be made such as a juvenile justice system reform, access and support for early childhood education, comprehensive support services for parents that includes job training, a professional teaching structure, high schools that build pathways beyond just a four - year college degree, and educational supports for children living with undocumented immigrant parents.

4 A filmmaker calls for school lunch reforms, students run for fun and fitness, and an environmental group calls for banning parents cars within a half - mile of schools to curb pollution and force more children to walk to school.

From Detroit to Los Angeles, from Camden and Newark to Minnesota and Massachusetts, pushback to school reform is ending critical programs, with material consequences for families and children.

Beyond identifying the conception that educators should «take responsibility for the psychological adjustment of children» as a «barrier» to the success of current reform efforts, Mr. Cohen implies that this outlook is also the primary cause of the problems schools face.

Nine major civil rights organizations today called on Congress to make reforming America's high schools and improving graduation rates for minority students the most urgent priority as it moves forward on renewing the No Child Left Behind Act.

The Brookings Institution, the Center for American Progress and the Thomas B. Fordham Institute have joined together to publish Education Governance for the Twenty - First Century, a new book that looks at how America's fragmented and decentralized system of education governance impedes school reform and how governing arrangements might be further altered to produce better educational outcomes for children.

Supporters who join the reform side can lose confidence, leave the fight, and exercise their interest in education in other ways — for example, by sending their children to private schools or supporting the improvement of individual schools, as opposed to the whole system.

And when it comes to complicated school reforms like empowering parents to choose a new school for their child, «going through the motions» isn't good enough.

In the voucher program's first five years, more than $ 27 million that could have gone toward reduction of class size or other reforms for the 76,000 children who attend Cleveland's public schools was instead diverted to vouchers.

I was prepared for a rant against all things reform when I started reading the New York Times Q & A interview with Maria Velez - Clarke, the principal of the Children's Workshop School in Manhattan's East Village, about the school's C - grade from theSchool in Manhattan's East Village, about the school's C - grade from theschool's C - grade from the City.

For a decade or more, school reform has been an urban tale of superintendents seeking to «turn around» schools in poverty - stricken communities, where vast numbers of children read below grade level and drop out before graduation.

After the report appeared, stimulating a variety of reform efforts, public evaluations of their local schools climbed steadily to an all - time high of 51 % in 2000, just prior to the national debate over the passage of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, which held schools accountable for low performance.

Mostly this new ESEA is a rollback of No Child Left Behind, with a few reform - minded elements (on teacher evaluations, charter schools) thrown in for good measure.