Sentences with phrase «education district push»

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«I'm certainly looking forward to some meetings where the board can get away from distractions that have taken us off the tasks that we really need to do that will push forward the education achievement of the children in this district,» Board President Dr. Barbara Seals Nevergold said.

She spoke at a press conference Monday organized by the Alliance for Quality Education, an activist group that pushes for more state funding for schools and has said that the current funding distribution favors wealthy, white districts over poor areas with people of color.

Even though it's four lawmakers, the letter is reminder of the power of the so - called «Long Island Nine» a voting bloc of Republican senators from Long Island who often push for education aid and assistance to the school districts of Suffolk and Nassau counties.

Nixon has been very close with the Alliance for Quality Education, an organization that has been pushing the state to fulfill the terms of a lawsuit over equitable funding for school districts.

The rally, organized by the Rise and Resist and the Alliance for Quality Education (AQE) in recent weeks, is part of a statewide push to fulfill the 2007 Campaign for Fiscal Equity court ruling that mandates education funds be distributed to New York's school districts to ensure all schools can provide students with a «sound basic educatioEducation (AQE) in recent weeks, is part of a statewide push to fulfill the 2007 Campaign for Fiscal Equity court ruling that mandates education funds be distributed to New York's school districts to ensure all schools can provide students with a «sound basic educatioeducation funds be distributed to New York's school districts to ensure all schools can provide students with a «sound basic educationeducation.»

As the future congressman from this great district, I know Keith stands ready to deliver on the same fundamental issues he has fought for alongside me in the legislature — bringing more affordable housing to our neighborhoods, pushing through meaningful criminal justice reform and ensuring that all of our children have every chance to succeed with the promise of a first - rate education.

Sen. Gustavo Rivera, who has a high number of failing schools in his Bronx district, responds to Cuomo's recent highlighting of that fact in an effort to push his education reform agenda.

But the fallout from the budget's education measures which Cuomo pushed for continues in Albany: Lawmakers are considering a variety of means to reduce standardized testing in schools and the Board of Regents is pushing back a deadline for school districts to adopt the new teacher performance criteria for those demonstrating hardships.

At 9:30 a.m., Assembly members James Skoufis, Ken Zebrowski, Joe Morelle (majority leader), Cathy Nolan (Education Committee chair), and fellow legislators representing half - day kindergarten districts, and stakeholders will push for the inclusion of full - day kindergarten enhanced transition aid in the 2017 - 2018 state budget, LOB, LCA Room 130, 198 State St., Albany.

School funding has always been a perennial battle at the state Capitol, with lawmakers pushing for a slice of the state pie for their districts, while education advocates have decried the complicated formula they say has starved the neediest districts.

Senate Democrats earlier this year pushed for a community schools grant program that would provide wraparound social services and empower the education commissioner to award competitive grants to eligible school districts that use existing buildings for community - based hubs.

The Utica - area lawmaker said he wanted to continue pushing issues in the Legislature such as health care, education and infrastructure, as well as quality - of - life concerns for the Mohawk Valley district.

Since its implementation, school officials across the state have heavily criticized the state Department of Education for pushing the new mandates before local districts were ready for them, among other complaints

State Regents Chancellor Merryl Tish and the acting state education commissioner recently issued a letter that calls on the governor to create and push a bill that would allow the state to both remove and replace school boards in troubled districts, like Buffalo.

During her time as a parent advocate and member of School District 28's Community Education Council, Huntley heard frequent complaints from the community about PS / IS 48 and pushed for a bigger space.

Adapted screenplay: District 9 (Sony Pictures Releasing), Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell An Education (Sony Pictures Classics), Screenplay by Nick Hornby In the Loop (IFC Films), Screenplay by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche Precious: Based on the Novel «Push» by Sapphire (Lionsgate), Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher Up in the Air (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios), Screenplay by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner

Best motion picture of the year: Avatar (20th Century Fox), A Lightstorm Entertainment Production, James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers The Blind Side (Warner Bros.), An Alcon Entertainment Production, Nominees to be determined District 9 (Sony Pictures Releasing), A Block / Hanson Production, Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham, Producers An Education (Sony Pictures Classics), A Finola Dwyer / Wildgaze Films Production, Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, Producers The Hurt Locker (Summit Entertainment), A Voltage Pictures Production, Nominees to be determined Inglourious Basterds (The Weinstein Company), A Weinstein Company / Universal Pictures / A Band Apart / Zehnte Babelsberg Production, Lawrence Bender, Producer Precious: Based on the Novel «Push» by Sapphire (Lionsgate), A Lee Daniels Entertainment / Smokewood Entertainment Production, Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel - Magness and Gary Magness, Producers A Serious Man (Focus Features), A Working Title Films Production, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Producers Up (Walt Disney), A Pixar Production, Jonas Rivera, Producer Up in the Air (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios), A Montecito Picture Company Production, Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman, Producers

When pushed, they may find a way: As one official at a recent State Education Technology Directors Association (SETDA) event noted, in his state districts and schools felt like they were being pushed off the cliff when online testing was implemented, but in reality, the cliff was only a couple of feet high.

Mapping our district staff's course through these radical innovations pushes me to look outside traditional education resources as we prepare our kids for adult life.

A story in the May 1, 2002, issue of Education Week about air quality in schools («EPA Pushing Improved Air Quality in Schools») should have said that the Mesa, Ariz., school district tested classrooms for high levels of carbon dioxide.

As they have already done with Kindergarten, Gifted & Talented, and Universal pre-K applications, the New York City Department of Education has pushed back their deadline for parents wishing to run for a spot on various education councils, including Citywide Council on High - Schools, English Language Learners, Special Ed, and several DistrictEducation has pushed back their deadline for parents wishing to run for a spot on various education councils, including Citywide Council on High - Schools, English Language Learners, Special Ed, and several Districteducation councils, including Citywide Council on High - Schools, English Language Learners, Special Ed, and several District offices.

Why the Trump administration wants school districts to change their budgets - and how Title I could stand in the way (Chalkbeat) Professor Marty West shares perspective on how a DeVos - led education department might push for new programming and funding approaches in education.

Two longtime education experts have launched an organization to push for transforming how the nation's largest school districts recruit and groom the teaching and school leadership talent that they argue is key to improving student achievement.

In the piece, headlined «Alternative» Education: Using Charter Schools to Hide Dropouts and Game the System, ProPublica reporter Heather Vogell describes how traditional schools and districts are pushing kids into low - cost, low - quality alternative programs in order to hide dropouts from the public and boost test scores and graduation rates.

NCLB «is pushing school districts to do things out of their comfort zones,» says Robert Maranto, who last year surveyed state education officials throughout the country about NCLB.

There the Education Department Office for Civil Rights (OCR), often teamed up with the Justice Department, has gone wild in pushing schools and districts around, via both formal regulations and menacing «dear colleague» letters, in far - flung realms from student discipline to bathroom access.

The center, a collaboration between the 15,000 - student Coweta County school district and West Central Technical College in Carrollton, Ga., is one example of what Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes wanted to accomplish with the A-Plus Education Reform Act he pushed through the state legislature this year.

As Congress considers the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, families and teachers in school districts that serve low - income students and students of color struggle to understand how to address the highly punitive, push - out climate of overtesting brought on by the No Child Left Behind Act, the ESEA's last reauthorization.

But they are supported by hundreds of thousands of educators across the country who are fed up with flawed evaluation systems being pushed by politicians and corporate education reformers in school districts across the country.

Haddad highlights the core components of St. Vrain — a district - wide 1:1 program, STEM studies that start at pre-K and run into higher education, curricula that push students to problem solve and employ critical thinking skills, a «design thinking» mindset from administrators, public — private partnerships, and effective professional learning that reinforces all these ideas.

The rules are designed to make it easier for districts to comply with the 65 percent policy than under a plan being pushed by a national group lobbying for ensuring that classrooms get that share of school spending, said Texas Commissioner of Education Shirley Neeley.

What one education advocate describes as a «perfect storm» over school finance is brewing in Georgia, as a top lawmaker pushes to replace local property taxes for education with a statewide sales tax, even as the state gears up to fight a lawsuit from school districts over the current funding formula.

What has happened in Gadsden shows how the push to rank schools based on measures like graduation rates — codified by the No Child Left Behind Act and still very much a fact of life in American public education — has transformed the country's approach to secondary education, as scores of districts have outsourced core instruction to computers and downgraded the role of the traditional teacher.

California Business for Education, a coalition of business groups that pushes for improving the state's schools, on Jan. 18 launched a new Web - based tool for state legislators that provides data on the performance and demographics of schools in all 120 Assembly and Senate districts.

In a push to provide more children with free tutoring under the No Child Left Behind Act, the Department of Education is expanding two pilot programs that allow school districts to offer the extra assistance a year earlier than usual, and to serve as tutoring providers even if they themselves have been deemed poor performers.

At the same time, it would improve on the blunt - instrument approach of the U.S. Department of Education, which has pushed the use of test scores so hard that some states and districts make those scores count for half or more of evaluations.

Euphemistically called the «Commissioner's Network,» Governor Malloy's plan would allow the unelected Commissioner of Education to take over up to 25 of Connecticut's lowest performing schools, and potentially their entire districts, pushing aside the democratically elected school boards that are the foundation to Connecticut's historic commitment to citizen government.

Broward County, site of the Parkland shooting, was one of the nation's first school districts to implement «restorative justice» policies the Obama Department of Education pushed on school districts.

On Aug. 12, the U.S. Department of Education announced its new $ 400 million Race to the Top competition aimed at pushing districts to innovate, improve, be transparent and hold all parties accountable.

Physical education standards have been relatively unchanged at most U.S. schools since the early 1990s, and the push by the District was embraced by those linking exercise and academic achievement.

Zimmer identified three factors pushing the district toward the financial abyss: the federal government's reneging on promises of more money for special education students, creating a $ 200 million shortfall for the district; the state's «extremely low» per - pupil funding level and the district's steady decline in enrollment.

From the embarrassment of approving abysmally low — and Plessy v. Ferguson - like — proficiency targets (including that for Virginia, which had only required districts to ensure that 57 percent of black students and 65 percent of Latino peers were proficient in math by 2016 - 2017), to complaints from House Education and the Workforce Committee Ranking Minority Member George Miller and civil rights - based reformers about how the administration allowed states such as South Dakota to count General Education Development certificates in their graduation rate calculations (and minimize graduation rates as a factor in accountability measures), the administration finds itself contending with complaints from civil rights - based reformers as well as from centrist Democrats finally acknowledging the high cost of their push for revamping No Child at any cost.

Thea Williams - Black, chair of elementary and early childhood education at Jackson State University, said the school is pushing students to get experiences in both high - poverty and low - poverty districts.

He noted that when schools in his small district must reorganize classes to cope with new students who push classrooms out of compliance, it disrupts education in a way that's «counterintuitive to what we wanted.»

The state's governor, Bobby Jindal, is looking to further burnish the state's efforts on the teacher quality front this week with his proposal to eliminate near - lifetime employment for laggard teachers with unsatisfactory ratings on the state's new teacher evaluation system, while pushing further on expanding charters by allowing successful charter operators to expand without having to go through the current approval process, and allowing the state education department to authorize charters throughout the state (and thus, ending efforts by traditional districts to restrict school choice within their boundaries).

The case study, A Clear Focus: Leadership Lessons in Purposeful Instruction, describes how a push for purpose in the Anchorage School District is creating pathways to more equitable education, critical in an increasingly diverse urban dDistrict is creating pathways to more equitable education, critical in an increasingly diverse urban districtdistrict.

That it means pushing for a rollback of federal education policy that have helped black and brown children as well as a return to the bad old days when states and districts were allowed to ignore their obligations to poor and minority children doesn't factor into any of their thinking.

CCSA's well funded lobby wing is trying to push the deeply flawed bill through the Education and Local Government committees even though the bill endangers local school districts.

Another is the declining influence of the National Education Association, the American Federation of Teachers, suburban districts and other education traditionalists who push against theseEducation Association, the American Federation of Teachers, suburban districts and other education traditionalists who push against theseeducation traditionalists who push against these efforts.

Today, three dedicated drug education teachers travel to the districts» 29 schools to «push in lessons» for grades three through 10.