Sentences with phrase «education equity for students»

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He returned the favor to Easton, praising him for having the «leadership and the courage... to stand up for fairness and equity in education funding, standing up for fairness and equity in our tax structure because I'm fairly certain that it was not students who made those terrible gambles that caused this economic hardship.»

«The Regents and I are focused on providing greater equity for students throughout the entire education system,» Board of Regents Chancellor Betty A. Rosa said.

«The court order in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit was founded on the principle that all schools need adequate funding levels in order to provide every student a «sound basic education.»

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.»

New Yorkers for Students» Educational Rights, an education advocacy group, is suing Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the Board of Regents and state Education Commissioner John King, claiming the state has systematically shortgaged the public school system by failing failing to comply with an agreement that followed the landmark Campaign for Fiscal Equity Rulingeducation advocacy group, is suing Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the Board of Regents and state Education Commissioner John King, claiming the state has systematically shortgaged the public school system by failing failing to comply with an agreement that followed the landmark Campaign for Fiscal Equity RulingEducation Commissioner John King, claiming the state has systematically shortgaged the public school system by failing failing to comply with an agreement that followed the landmark Campaign for Fiscal Equity Ruling of 2006.

As a result of a 2006 lawsuit known as the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, the Court of Appeals, New York's highest court, ruled the state education department was not adequately funding its schools, thus violating students» constitutional right to a sound, basic education.

The Alliance for Quality Education, a group that advocates for increased school funding, slammed the report for not addressing the question of student need or equity in New York.

According to a lawsuit filed by parents with the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, New York State has systematically discriminated against districts with black, Latino, and poor students by inadequately funding their education.

The Court of Appeals, New York's highest court, ruled in 2006 in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity case that the state had failed to meet its constitutional obligation to provide adequate education to New York City students.

The School of Medicine expands its class size from 122 to 134, adding 12 students enrolled in a special new curriculum, called the Program in Medical Education - Health Equity, developed to train physicians interested in caring for at - risk and historically underserved populations.

Several groups, led by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE), a nonprofit legal advocacy organization, filed suit in 1993 claiming that New York State was depriving New York City public school students of their constitutional rights to a «sound basic education,» a standard that had been prescribed in 1982 by the state's highest court (in New York, the Court of Appeals).

He agrees that questions of economics and equity are essential in any discussion of gap years, but he also believes there is a breakdown in how our education system prepares most high school students for adulthood — and that gap - year programs offer clues toward a corrective of this breakdown.

Recently, several prominent national education organizations (including the NEA, AERA, AFT, and NCTE) have called for addressing equity in schools and society, specifically recommending that we need to highlight the «systemic patterns of inequity — racism and educational injustice — that impacts our students,» and that educators and school leaders «receive the tools, training, and support they need to build curricula with substantive exploration of prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination.»

Equity - oriented groups that want as many students from disadvantaged groups as possible included in the accountability system, including the Alliance for Excellent Education and the Education Trust, have advocated for states to adopt a minimum n - size of 10, whereas since revoked Obama - era accountability regulations allowed states to choose any n - size up to 30.

By promoting code literacy, schools could improve education equity, offer inclusion for students with ASD, improve STEM proficiency, and build neuroplasticity associated with multilingual education.

For example, the U.S. Department of Education's Equity and Excellence Commission found in its 2013 report that «students, families and communities are burdened by the broken system of education funding in AmericEducation's Equity and Excellence Commission found in its 2013 report that «students, families and communities are burdened by the broken system of education funding in Americeducation funding in America.»

Today more than 9,000 Teach For America corps members are in the midst of two - year teaching commitments in 43 regions across the country, reaching over 600,000 students, and nearly 24,000 alumni are working inside and outside the field of education to continue the effort to ensure educational excellence and equity.

Prepared for the Connecticut Educational Equity Study Committee, the six - page report revealed that 11 «typically high - spending» districts spent $ 3,215 per student, while 11 lower - spending ones allocated $ 1,988 per student, said Lise M. Heintz, a spokesman for the state's department of education.

Michael Rebell is executive director of the Campaign for Educational Equity at Teachers College, Columbia University, and is the author of Courts and Kids: Pursuing Educational Equity through the State Courts (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming), in which he proposes a new functional separation of powers among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches to promote education reform and student achievement.

Many L&T students are attracted to HGSE for its historic commitment to social justice and greater equity in education.

Our lab actively advocates for honest, data - driven conversations about the failings of the current education delivery system, the impact of poverty on student learning, and the necessity for designing and building new systems that guarantee that our twin educational goals of equity and excellence are achieved for each and every child.

This has inspired the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) to include global competence in its metrics for quality, equity and effectiveness in education.

In September 2005, approximately 18 months after the School Funding Task Force report was released, the Association of Metropolitan School Districts, the Minnesota Rural Education Association, and Schools for Equity in Education contracted the services of APA to «examine the Task Force results and, using widely accepted methodologies, determine the costs necessary to ensure that each public school student is educated to meet the state's academic standards.»

Embracing these reflective habits of mind will allow me to look at the complex challenges associated with my practice and drive me to continually formulate and reformulate strategies to better teach all students, lead for short - term and long - term change, and more effectively promote democracy and equity in education.

New data released in the 2016 Brown Center Report on American Education shed light on tracking, who it applies to, and its implications for student achievement and equity in American schools.

Video of Dear #edtech: Thoughts on Digital Equity Justin Reich is a fifth - year doctoral student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and the project manager for the Distributed Collaborative Learning Communities project.

Others oppose opt - out, viewing universal standardized testing as an important source of information for educators, students, and parents and a necessary tool for ensuring equity in public education.

Arts education today is more than instruction: it is also a barometer of our willingness as a nation to provide equity through our public institutions.I applaud Rocco Landesman for bringing his important message directly to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan at their joint appearance at the Arts Education Partnership: «Arts exposure is fine, but unless students are prepared for the art, unless teachers are integrating the art into the student's overall learning for the year, it remains exposure, not educeducation today is more than instruction: it is also a barometer of our willingness as a nation to provide equity through our public institutions.I applaud Rocco Landesman for bringing his important message directly to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan at their joint appearance at the Arts Education Partnership: «Arts exposure is fine, but unless students are prepared for the art, unless teachers are integrating the art into the student's overall learning for the year, it remains exposure, not educEducation Arne Duncan at their joint appearance at the Arts Education Partnership: «Arts exposure is fine, but unless students are prepared for the art, unless teachers are integrating the art into the student's overall learning for the year, it remains exposure, not educEducation Partnership: «Arts exposure is fine, but unless students are prepared for the art, unless teachers are integrating the art into the student's overall learning for the year, it remains exposure, not educationeducation....

Shaun Harper, the executive director of the Center for the Study of Race and Equity in Education at the University of Pennsylvania, has studied higher education graduate programs around the country — the programs that train students to manage admissions, student life, strategic planning, and even diversity initiatives at Education at the University of Pennsylvania, has studied higher education graduate programs around the country — the programs that train students to manage admissions, student life, strategic planning, and even diversity initiatives at education graduate programs around the country — the programs that train students to manage admissions, student life, strategic planning, and even diversity initiatives at colleges.

This adverse effect is especially pronounced in five areas: oversight of federal education law; enforcement of federal guarantees of educational equity; budget and tax policy; the rescinding of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy; and Trump's embrace of bigoted rhetoric and action that challenges the identities of students who are racial, ethnic, or religious minorities.

Above all, we need a new policy regime that gives teachers and schools ample incentive to press for academic growth in all their students, just as we need a culture that embraces excellence as well as equity and demands that its education system raise the ceiling on achievement even as it also lifts the floor.

In my in - depth interview with the OECD Director for Education and Skills, Andreas Schleicher, on the newly published PISA 2015 results, there are many fascinating findings: Just four provinces in China now provide 13 % of the world's top - performing students; Singapore, Canada, Estonia, Japan and Finland have combined excellence and equity over a number of PISA tests, and interestingly these countries have a steadfast commitment to outstanding teaching and to supporting schools and students that are struggling.

If we hope for equity in education, we may have to abandon our efforts toward standardization and recognize the individuality of our students.

Dr. Molina has served over 20 years in the public education system and she is passionate about extending educational equity and access for all students.

The 2015 - 2016 Civil Rights Data Collection is a survey of all public schools and school districts in the country that measures student access to courses, programs, staff and resources affecting education equity and opportunity for students.

Chiefs for Change is a coalition of state education Chiefs and district superintendents dedicated to excellence and equity for all students.

The CRDC collects information from schools on a variety of measures such as student access to courses, staff and resources and school climate measures that impact education equity and opportunity for students.

The U.S. Department of Education has invited each State education agency (SEA) to request flexibility regarding specific requirements of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) in exchange for rigorous and comprehensive State - developed plans designed to improve educational outcomes for all students, close achievement gaps, increase equity, and improve the quality of insEducation has invited each State education agency (SEA) to request flexibility regarding specific requirements of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) in exchange for rigorous and comprehensive State - developed plans designed to improve educational outcomes for all students, close achievement gaps, increase equity, and improve the quality of inseducation agency (SEA) to request flexibility regarding specific requirements of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) in exchange for rigorous and comprehensive State - developed plans designed to improve educational outcomes for all students, close achievement gaps, increase equity, and improve the quality of insEducation Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) in exchange for rigorous and comprehensive State - developed plans designed to improve educational outcomes for all students, close achievement gaps, increase equity, and improve the quality of instruction.

But there has been pushback against the Office of Equity for what educators, including UCLA education professor Pedro Noguera, view as a siloed approach to the needs of a diverse student body.

Under the law, these plans are intended to help states think comprehensively and collaboratively about their ESSA programs to ensure equity and excellence for all students, including a fair, equitable, and high - quality education that closes achievement gaps.

Dedicated to advancing excellence and equity in education for all students, the Core Knowledge Foundation publishes educational books and materials and supports a growing network of Core Knowledge schools.

Widespread attention to the standards increases equity of access to a high - quality education for every student, not just for those lucky enough to attend schools in more advantaged communities.

For a high - poverty urban district like LAUSD, where declining birth rates, reduced immigration, gentrification and the expansion of charters have left neighborhood schools scrambling for resources, education researchers believe that community schooling offers the first meaningful bang for its buck in delivering equity for its highest - needs studenFor a high - poverty urban district like LAUSD, where declining birth rates, reduced immigration, gentrification and the expansion of charters have left neighborhood schools scrambling for resources, education researchers believe that community schooling offers the first meaningful bang for its buck in delivering equity for its highest - needs studenfor resources, education researchers believe that community schooling offers the first meaningful bang for its buck in delivering equity for its highest - needs studenfor its buck in delivering equity for its highest - needs studenfor its highest - needs students.

A Case for Culturally Relevant Pedagogy in Classrooms Education Elements This article is not about PBL per se, but it's full of resources for teachers interested in exploring issues of representation, race, and equity with their students.

«New approaches in education — including setting higher state standards, measuring students» progress, and requiring schools to improve — haven't fully addressed issues of equity for all students,» that report said.

Because New York State law is different, the group's legal argument here will probably rest on students» right to a «sound basic education» — a standard established in 2001 by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit.

Chiefs for Change (CFC), a coalition of over two dozen state and district education chiefs, serving 5.3 million students and 330,000 teachers, and dedicated to excellence and equity for all students, urge Congress to fund the Title II, Part A (Supporting Effective Instruction State Grants) at no less than $ 2.055 billion, the FY 2017 appropriation.

«Across the country, states, districts, and educators are leading the way in developing innovative assessments that measure students» academic progress; promote equity by highlighting achievement gaps, especially for our traditionally underserved students; and spur improvements in teaching and learning for all our children,» stated U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. «Our proposed regulations build on President Obama's plan to strike a balance around testing, providing additional support for states and districts to develop and use better, less burdensome assessments that give a more well - rounded picture of how students and schools are doing, while providing parents, teachers, and communities with critical information about students» learning.»

Under this plan, state education agencies would be granted flexibility in meeting certain NCLB requirements in exchange for «rigorous State - developed plans designed to improve educational outcomes for all students, close achievement gaps, increase equity, and improve the quality of instruction» (Department of Education, Octobeducation agencies would be granted flexibility in meeting certain NCLB requirements in exchange for «rigorous State - developed plans designed to improve educational outcomes for all students, close achievement gaps, increase equity, and improve the quality of instruction» (Department of Education, OctobEducation, October 2011).

Their recent paper, Leading for Equity: Opportunities for State Education Chiefs, sets out 10 commitments to help state education chiefs take action to promote equity in education for all stuEquity: Opportunities for State Education Chiefs, sets out 10 commitments to help state education chiefs take action to promote equity in education for all Education Chiefs, sets out 10 commitments to help state education chiefs take action to promote equity in education for all education chiefs take action to promote equity in education for all stuequity in education for all education for all students.