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This series, called the CES Essentials, offers thoughts on these works from educators and others who create schools and school systems that demonstrate the power of the Common Principles in action.

We believe that if schools and school systems clearly define their graduate outcomes for students to include not only the courses or subjects they need to pass but also Deeper Learning Outcomes — mastering academic content, thinking critically, communicating effectively, collaborating productively and learning to learn — we will create schools and school systems that ensure students are ready for success in college and career.

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On Monday, just hours before a scheduled press event about GE's move, the industrial giant pledged to invest $ 25 million in the city's underfunded public school system by creating a career lab and other resources.

The STOP School Violence Act, which Kashuv strongly supported, creates an annual $ 50 million grant to schools for training programs and revamped reporting systems for school safety (and doesn't mention School Violence Act, which Kashuv strongly supported, creates an annual $ 50 million grant to schools for training programs and revamped reporting systems for school safety (and doesn't mention school safety (and doesn't mention guns).

She contends that educational choice will create a «two - tiered system in urban districts, with charter schools for motivated students and public schools for those left behind.»

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A nation - wide ecclesiastical structure was rapidly erected for them and an extensive school system was created to nurture youth in the faith.

On the one hand, Chicago - area school systems are following the national trend of creating healthier menus, primarily by reducing the fat content of entrees; on the other, borderline junk food entrees - pizza and chicken patties - remain the most popular items among students.

At Pope John XXIII, teachers are required to fully utilize an online communication system and are creating individual web pages that are connected to the school's site while parents at Avery Coonley look inside their student's «Smart Folder» to see a slide show of their child's daily classroom experience.

The program was created to reduce rates of obesity and diabetes, but the school system hasn't yet collected any information showing students are healthier.

While some of Boundas» techniques could be employed in the Chicago Public Schools, creating food from scratch is difficult in a system with few highly skilled cooks and no working kitchen in about a third of its sSchools, creating food from scratch is difficult in a system with few highly skilled cooks and no working kitchen in about a third of its schoolsschools.

John Turenne, the president and founder of Sustainable Food Systems LLC, which works with schools to create healthier, sustainable food programs, nicely summed up this past week's collective anger: «Agribusiness is corrupting society with processed garbage,» said Turenne.

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The club, which strives to create a more sustainable food system, began with an on - campus garden and soon expanded to a school food pantry.

Alvord Unified School District — Pamela Lambert Innovation: Systems Change by Cultivating Community In order to create a culture supportive of healthy food and lifestyles, Pamela Lambert designed events that brought the community together around health and wellness — arranging walks with the mayor, parents, and students and a health fair in the guise of a day at an indoor trampoline park.

Vance created an online ordering system so that staff can choose their toppings and then have their salads delivered to the school kitchens for pick - up at lunch.

Progressive Redesign Opportunity Schools of Excellence (PROSE), created under the new UFT - DOE contract, gives schools flexibility in designing their schedules, programming, teacher evaluation systems and other aspects of their school environments so that they are able to implement innovative school improvement straSchools of Excellence (PROSE), created under the new UFT - DOE contract, gives schools flexibility in designing their schedules, programming, teacher evaluation systems and other aspects of their school environments so that they are able to implement innovative school improvement straschools flexibility in designing their schedules, programming, teacher evaluation systems and other aspects of their school environments so that they are able to implement innovative school improvement strategies.

By creating one system, it also simplifies administrative processes, allowing schools, principals, and teachers to focus on teaching.

De Blasio is creating a task force to grapple with the space crisis in the city's school system — and is including supporters of charters.

But the governor's plan would effectively give him ownership of the state's massive public school system, and would be among the most ambitious changes he's pursued in his governorship, a tenure that so far has included legalizing same - sex marriage, strengthening gun control, creating a statewide property - tax cap and reforming the state pension system.

«It is our intention that we set up a system of school governance that will allow us to become a great school system in which the voices of all stakeholders are heard and to create an environment in which all our children will achieve,» UFT President Michael Mulgrew wrote in an email to members.

Citing stances the Senators have taken detrimental to the cause of working people, the flyers highlight: Protecting a failed tax system that favors the privileged at the expense of working people; increasing the tax on health insurance; siding with big corporations and against teachers and students to pass a Charter School Bill - with no real reform; creating a new Tier V pension; and attacking education by supporting an irresponsible property tax cap.

Jen knows that fully funded schools, healthcare for all, and a clean energy economy that creates good local jobs will remain out of reach unless our state representatives are willing to fix New York's broken tax system and pass legislation that helps working families.

«What Michael wants to create is a first class, world class state system which means that in future years you will have more pupils from state schools, people like me, around the cabinet table, and in that I fully support Michael Gove,» the faith and communities minister said.

... so we create real and permanent pressure in the system to encourage schools to drive improvements.

She is likely to celebrate CUNY's proud legacy of creating opportunity for New York's striving class, but the present for the school — and entire system — is troubled.

«We have a real shot to flip the State Senate this fall so we can build a New York that works for all of us: reforming our broken criminal justice system, fighting climate change and creating good jobs, expanding opportunities for immigrant New Yorkers, fully funding all of our schools and public universities, and taking on big money in politics to expand and protect our democracy.

In a statement, Stewart - Cousins criticized Cuomo for «demonizing» teachers in his effort to create a more stringent teacher - evaluation system and make it easier for schools to fire educators deemed low performing.

«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.»

Commenting on reports that the Secretary of State is proposing to scrap the current GCSE examinations and abolish the national curriculum in all secondary schools, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said: «This appears to be yet another example of the Secretary of State's ambition to create a two tier education system.

The city has estimated that, between new positions that would have to be created and the expense of holding community school board elections every three years, a return to a decentralized system would cost the city $ 125 million to $ 160 million a year.

Mayor de Blasio is creating a task force to grapple with the space crisis in the city's school system — and is including supporters of charters.

The document was created by a team from the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning's Food Systems Planning and Healthy Communities Lab, led by Dr. Samina Raja.

A report by Professor Allyson Pollock, from Barts hospital and the London School of Medicine, and David Price, senior research fellow at its Centre for Health Sciences, found the reforms would create a system where the government «finances but does not provide healthcare».

Voters will prefer my vision for finally fixing our broken school system and my job - creating ideas for the economy.»

The negotiations, which both sides agreed to in writing, were aimed at creating a system for fairly evaluating teachers, using both student performance and observation, in the 33 schools receiving federal school improvement grants.

The foundation long backed controversial education reforms, including retooling teacher evaluation and compensation systems based in part on student test scores and creating smaller schools.

We have watched as politics that have decimated the black family, perpetuated poverty and created failing schools systems that we no longer want to send our children to.

The state was prepared to use part of its federal Race to the Top money to pay Wireless Generation to develop software to track student test scores, achievement and so on, creating a system similar to the Achievement Reporting and Innovation System, or ARIS, that it developed for the city scsystem similar to the Achievement Reporting and Innovation System, or ARIS, that it developed for the city scSystem, or ARIS, that it developed for the city schools.

«Ultimately it's become an unfunded mandate for our counties so this would really create a win - win - win by offering much better programs for the kids who need the special needs programming at that age and support our counties and allow the school system to do what the school system does, which is provide educational programs,» says Barrett.

Also Tuesday night, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced his own bill creating a performance and seniority evaluation system for next school year.

«Now that Ms. Black and Mr. Polakow - Suransky have been approved by State Education Commissioner Steiner, I hope we can move forward on the many challenges the system faces, including creating a curriculum that will give students a well - rounded education, new and better interventions for struggling students, and early action to turn around failing schools,» he said in a statement.

«Policies supported by the Democratic and Republican parties in this state are creating a dual school system: separate and unequal.

But the mayor and Mulgrew have since found common ground fighting charter schools and standardized testing and creating a universal pre-K system.

Cuomo noted the effort to create an objective evaluation system that could be used to improve faculty and schools statewide as well as for layoffs is being watched closely by unions representing other types of workers.

Transforming failing schools, reforming tenure, expediting removal of underperforming teachers, providing performance bonuses, adding wraparound services to create Community Schools and reducing testing, are all reforms that have the potential to dramatically improve our schools, reforming tenure, expediting removal of underperforming teachers, providing performance bonuses, adding wraparound services to create Community Schools and reducing testing, are all reforms that have the potential to dramatically improve our Schools and reducing testing, are all reforms that have the potential to dramatically improve our system.

Today's u-turn makes clear that fully segregated school intakes are anathema to an open, diverse society, but the Government should now recognise this throughout the education system and not create new segregation.»

The competition — a partnership between County Executive Robert P. Astorino and Pace University's Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems — challenged students to create mobile applications to address the needs of the Alzheimer's and Dementia community.

Joining de Blasio on a press call this afternoon, Duncan insisted that the mayoral control system has both led to improvements to local schools and created a rare kind of electoral accountability for educational performance.

The hard - left party has been bashing Mr. Cuomo since state lawmakers finalized a budget last weekend, labeling it «Cuomo's Inequality Budget» because it slashed some taxes, protected charter schools and did not create an expansive public financing system for statewide elections.