Sentences with phrase «create public performances»

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At agencies throughout the country, Socrata has provided or created tools to help governments track performance of public initiatives.

Without naming any particular company, Harty explained that recent public market performances of companies in the enterprise infrastructure space have created the perception that overall market for data storage, servers, and related data center technology space is unsteady.

Conference Board of Canada The Conference Board builds leadership capacity for a better Canada by creating and sharing insights on economic trends, public policy and organizational performance.

In Bring Back the Bureaucrats, I crudely calculated that we need about one million more full - time federal workers by 2035 in order to serve the public, stop draining its purse, start improving performance, and create an actual system of national public administration.

BMI represents the public performance rights of nearly 13 million musical works created and owned by more than 800,000 songwriters, composers, and music publishers.

Mr. Cuomo has hinted occasionally at the makings of a broad, if workmanlike, agenda for the next four years: creating jobs, particularly upstate; rebuilding infrastructure, including upgrading New York's aging airports; demanding better performance from the state's public schools.

Then, through public performance, participants felt the power that their stories could have on others and gained both an appreciation for their lives and a desire to unleash their newly found «voices» to change the social conditions that create HIV risk, stigma and trauma.

This requires honest performance - based assessment of schools and the creation of options - by finding spaces in effective schools, creating new schools, or even, as Rod Paige did on a small scale in Houston, finding money to pay tuition in available private schools for a few dozen children whose public schools just wouldn't turn around.

by Brett Wigdortz, founder and CEO, Teach First; Fair access: Making school choice and admissions work for all by Rebecca Allen, reader in the economics of education at the Institute of Education, University of London; School accountability, performance and pupil attainment by Simon Burgess, professor of economics at the University of Bristol, and director of the Centre for Market and Public Organisation; The importance of teaching by Dylan Wiliam, emeritus professor at the Institute of Education, University of London; Reducing within - school variation and the role of middle leadership by James Toop, ceo of Teaching Leaders; The importance of collaboration: Creating «families of schools» by Tim Brighouse, a former teacher and chief education officer of Oxfordshire and Birmingham; Testing times: Reforming classroom teaching through assessment by Christine Harrison, senior lecturer in science education at King's College London; Tackling pupil disengagement: Making the curriculum more engaging by David Price, author and educational consultant; Beyond the school gates: Developing children's zones for England by Alan Dyson, professor of education at the University of Manchester and co-director of the Centre for Equity in Education, Kirstin Kerr, lecturer in education at the University of Manchester and Chris Wellings, head of programme policy in Save the Children's UK Programme; After school: Promoting opportunities for all young people in a locality by Ann Hodgson, professor of education and director of the Learning for London @IOE Research Centre, Institute of Education, University of London and Ken Spours, professor or education and co-director of the Centre for Post-14 Research and Innovation at the Institute of Education, University of London.

For any number of reasons, this is a very poor strategy for reporting, one that generates bad incentives, creates badly distorted views of trends in performance, and leads to serious misinterpretations by the public.

The program may have modestly increased academic performance in public schools, consistent with the theory behind school vouchers that they create competition between public and private schools.

While the ASD and other authorizers like Nevada's State Public Charter Schools Authority create contracts with clear performance expectations, the ESA program provides no apparent standards for judging whether public funds are buying strong outPublic Charter Schools Authority create contracts with clear performance expectations, the ESA program provides no apparent standards for judging whether public funds are buying strong outpublic funds are buying strong outcomes.

For Glodie and Ny» lasia, that performance — and the public hearing space they created — was a chance to push for school discipline policies that were more culturally responsive.

The awarding of scholarships by lottery created a rare opportunity in educational research: a field experiment in which students were assigned randomly to both public and private schools, thus allowing me to test the effects of receiving a voucher and, more generally, to compare the performance of public and private schools.

Leveling the Playing Field: Creating Funding Equity Through Student - Based Budgeting When Cincinnati Public Schools devised a reform strategy for improving student performance, it became clear that the district's traditional budgeting system was inadequate.

We surveyed over 1,100 entering college freshmen, majoring in business and engineering at a public university in the US, and combined this information with administrative data to create a comprehensive data set that, in addition to the usual academic performance data, cognitive ability measures, and demographics, also included measures of non-cognitive skills, personality traits, and student expectations about college success.

About PCSB: The DC Public Charter School Board (PCSB) is setting a national model for creating quality public school options through its rigorous review of new charter applications and effective oversight of charter school performance that is leading the transformation of public education in WashingtoPublic Charter School Board (PCSB) is setting a national model for creating quality public school options through its rigorous review of new charter applications and effective oversight of charter school performance that is leading the transformation of public education in Washingtopublic school options through its rigorous review of new charter applications and effective oversight of charter school performance that is leading the transformation of public education in Washingtopublic education in Washington, DC.

PICCS was originally launched in 2007 with a grant from the federal Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) to bring together 10 New York City - based public charter schools to create a performance - based compensation system.

The Senate bill creates two review boards: one for charter and public schools «attached» to DPI, and another board to review voucher schools» performance administered by the state's Department of Administration.

WakeEd has previously advocated for creating a single accountability tool that meets the federal standards and fairly reports the performance of public schools across the state.

Require that there will be annual performance reviews of public charter schools created under this measure, and that the performance of these schools be evaluated to determine whether additional public charter schools should be allowed;

Analysts there created statistical «virtual twins,» enabling them to compare charter school performance to that of its «virtual» traditional public school.

The NYS Charter Schools Act of 1998 was created for the following purposes: • Improve student learning and achievement; • Increase learning opportunities for all students, with special emphasis on expanded learning experiences for students who are at - risk of academic failure; • Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods; • Create new professional opportunities for teachers, school administrators and other school personnel; • Provide parents and students with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system; and • Provide schools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement results.

It operated by Alliance College - Ready Public Schools, an independent non-profit charter management organization that has grown to 18 high performance small public high schools and middle schools created in Los Angeles between 2004 andPublic Schools, an independent non-profit charter management organization that has grown to 18 high performance small public high schools and middle schools created in Los Angeles between 2004 andpublic high schools and middle schools created in Los Angeles between 2004 and 2010.

Among other things, NCLB requires every state to conduct annual assessment tests in reading and mathematics, tracks progress and imposes penalties on consistently underperforming schools, and requires public schools to create and distribute report cards that compare their performance to that of other schools (Gormley & Balla, 2008).

The key performance indicators on which all eight regional commissioners are judged were not made public until December 2014, several months after the roles were created, and only came to light after they were requested by Schools Week under the terms of the freedom of information act.

And, the research team created a performance model from a combination of ISAT math scores and school - level demographics for district and charter public schools.

The Commission to Reform Public Education Funding and Improve Student Performance in Maine was created by LD 1641 which added an additional $ 15 million in education funding for local schools.

High - Stakes Testing With public demand and recent federal legislation calling for high standards and improved student performance, virtually every state in the nation has created and administered statewide tests that measure student progress over time.

For example, they have forcefully opposed efforts to create high - quality public charter schools and to move away from seniority - based systems to performance - based systems.

Today the same coalition is keeping close watch on the state's critical steps to create a performance tool to help parents and the public understand how well schools are doing to close the achievement gap and create career - and college - ready students.

That's why Vector Solutions creates innovative training and performance optimization applications for public sector entities and professionals.

The Broad Prize for Urban Education and The Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools were created to recognize the public school systems that show the greatest academic performance and improvement while reducing achievement gaps among low - income students and students of Public Charter Schools were created to recognize the public school systems that show the greatest academic performance and improvement while reducing achievement gaps among low - income students and students of public school systems that show the greatest academic performance and improvement while reducing achievement gaps among low - income students and students of color.

Since its inception in 1999, FCPCS has been dedicated to creating a national model of high quality, accredited public charter schools that are student - centered and performance - driven.

Although the state intends to release scores to parents and districts in the next few months, it does not plan to use them to create the familiar Academic Performance Index, or API scores, which the public has relied on in the past to compare schools.

That act, adopted in 2010 as part of a state effort to qualify for federal Race to the Top grant funding, established a formula for the state superintendent of public instruction to use in creating a list of 1,000 underachieving schools on what's now called the «open enrollment list,» starting with the lowest - achieving schools on California's Academic Performance Index.

Nearly 80 percent of Connecticut's charter schools outperform their host districts on the state's School Performance Index, all while creating a meaningful diversity of approaches within the state's public education landscape.

Although charter schools have their own boards (created by the founders of the school), they are still directly accountable for their academic and financial performance to either the local school board or the Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) through the specific contractual provisions of their charters.

ASCD is partnering with Atlanta Public Schools to create a customized, blended capacity - building model of professional learning to provide APS district leaders, specialists, coordinators, and coaches with the understanding, knowledge, skills, and resources needed to successfully begin implementing the Common Core Georgia Performance Standards via school - based, job - embedded professional learning within the APS Professional Development System.

By adopting an approach that looks holistically at the current technology, policy, and cultural environments of the agency and actively soliciting and incorporating public feedback, DOT is creating a plan that will enable the agency to align Open Government initiatives with strategic objectives, mitigate the risks associated with transparency, and improve performance by embracing the use of emerging communications technologies to increase citizen involvement.

Creating a public spat between the automotive heavyweights, the boss of the Hyundai's high - performance N brand, former BMW M chief Albert Biermann, recently slammed the Golf GTI as a wannabe that'll only be good for «a few laps on the race track».

Roush has always been synonymous with performance, along with creating some of the most iconic Mustangs for the general public.

The Armory will be the setting for a series of groundbreaking performances, temporary installations, events, and other programs, all free to the public, by Biennial artists from March 4 to March 23, creating an exciting opportunity to present works that could not be accommodated within the Whitney's walls and remaining true to the fluid, interactive way in which these works were conceived.

A robust public programme also accompanies the show, including the opening and closing night performances of Thomas Teurlai's intriguing Score for Bodies and Machines (2017) in which two photocopying machines create a choreographic sequence for, and in response to, the movements of local performers Benjamin Wardell and Anna - Martine Whitehead.

Jesús «Bubu» Negrón creates sculptures and performances by inserting small gestures into the everyday landscape: for example, creating a carpet out of cigarette butts collected by street sweepers, or mending a cracking bronze public sculpture with a plaster cast.

They included Carlos Garaicoa, Los Carpinteros (then a three - man collective), Alexis Leiva Machado (who goes by Kcho and is a superstar in Cuba), and the performance artist Tania Bruguera, a cause célèbre since her arrest and detainment for creating a public disturbance days after Obama's pronouncement, when she attempted to stage a free - speech rally in Revolution Square.

She was awarded an honorarium to create a public art performance piece for the Americans for the Arts Annual Conference in Las Vegas (2007) and she was a nominee for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (2009).

By creating artworks ranging from multimedia installations to performances, public events, and workshops, the collective has enriched, inspired, and provoked the imaginations of viewers and participants both locally and internationally.

Jerri Allyn (MA, Feminist / Art and Community) creates site - oriented, interactive installations and performance art events that become a part of public life, and builds connections between various communities.

She often creates and facilitates structured programs for children, teens, seniors and adults to participate in, such as talk shows, talent shows, dating shows, dance classes, cooking classes, walking tours, video portraiture and documentary style interviews; resulting in online and public video screenings, installations and performances.