Sentences with phrase «education improvement»

Outstanding educators should be the resource of education improvement, and the brokerage of skill to meet need should be overseen by outstanding educators too.

For others, the specific type of leadership they are to provide in the context of a mathematics or science education improvement effort may differ from past leadership activities.

Although he is stepping down from his position as secretary of education this weekend, he won't abandon his advocacy for education improvements.

State policy plays a critical role in determining whether and how well local education improvement strategies can be implemented.

We all want to maximize the communications tools available to us, but we also want to avoid real mistakes that could set our efforts — particularly in education improvement — back.

Our members support our work on forward - looking issues such as education improvement, sound fiscal policies, workforce development, and promoting a strong and diverse economy.

To get the first batch of stabilization money, states have to agree to make key education improvements.

Case studies provide lessons from three leading education improvement efforts that are tackling the problem of how to improve rural education in the face of challenges such as population change and financial constraints.

Political, philanthropic, and education leaders should focus on creating the policy conditions, supporting the entrepreneurs, and more fully integrating the industry opportunities that can best address rural education improvement.

Unfortunately, any attempt to drive education improvement with high - stakes testing and accountability may have a fundamental flaw.

The takeover has resulted in only minimal education improvement.

That leadership should include setting a bold vision for education improvement that includes an emphasis on research and evidence.

The symposium focused on the issue of poverty as it relates to school reform and education improvement efforts.

One Hundred Eighth U.S. Congress, Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004, Pl -108-446, 20 USC 1400, Washington, December 03, 2004.

A9906A Chapter 74 Nolan — Extends certain provisions relating to the implementation of the federal individuals with disabilities education improvement act of 2004 Same as S 7608 FLANAGAN

The first of its kind, the Fair Workload Charter has been devised by Nottingham City Education Improvement Board in response to a growing shortage of teachers.

Virginia The Education Improvement Scholarship Tax Credits program, enacted in 2012, provides scholarships to children in families that do not earn more than 300 percent of the federal poverty guideline.

Prof. Naana Opoku Agyemang commenting further noted the beneficiary students in the free SHS program exclude day students in the 2015/16 academic year that are benefiting from other forms of scholarships such as the Ghana Cocoa Board Scholarships, Northern Scholarships, Secondary Education Improvement Project Scholarships, and those on scholarships provided by NGOs, corporate bodies and individuals.

«Councils must be regarded as education improvement partners and not a barrier to change.

Subject: Request by 10 school districts for a waiver of Section 131 (c)(1) of the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act of 2006 (Public Law 109 - 270).

The event, hosted by Nottingham Education Improvement Board, will focus on good practice to help reduce the excessive workloads of education staff.

Charter schools have proven to be the most sustained and high - impact public education improvement strategy of the past quarter century.

The LGA, which represents over 370 councils across England, has criticised the government after it was confirmed that only # 50 million will be allocated to councils from September to cover education improvement work.

One of the lessons from the failed Annenberg Challenge, he would later explain, was that «You have to have superintendency» — by which he means authority — «so you start to change the system itself... You want to find new ways of supporting education improvement as a matter of routine.»

Education improvement needs to be «a national priority,» Bush believes.

The Nottingham City Education Improvement Board (EIB) has devised a new charter that aims to reduce workload and relieve pressure on teachers in the city.

States» applications to secure one of the federal grants will be scored on the basis of more than 30 selection criteria, involving such education improvement priorities as school turnaround, teacher and principal effectiveness, and encouragement of high - quality charter schools.

The start of work on 200 Community Day Senior High Schools, implementation of a $ 156 million Secondary Education Improvement Programme (SEIP), implementation of a Progressively Free S.H.S. Programme in 2015, start of work to expand infrastructure in our technical and vocational institutions among others are evidence of his work.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is clear: States are on the hook for advancing education improvement goals spelled out in the law as a condition for receiving up to $ 100 billion in economic - stimulus aid to education.

Professional learning communities for mathematics / science education improvement: What do we know?

He has been President (since its founding in 2004) of the Special Education Improvement Authority for Los Angeles, a Joint Power Authority that includes the leading conversion and start - up charter schools / organizations advocating higher quality special education options within the LAUSD and other state SELPAs.

The Shasta County Charter Schools Special Education Consortium, San Diego Special Education JPA, and Los Angeles Special Education Improvement Authority are three examples of charter school consortia for special education that have enabled charter schools to improve outcomes for students with disabilities and gain independence from their authorizers for purposes of special education.

Lacking solid evidence to answer these questions, those who have sought to make the case for greater attention and investment in leadership as a pathway for large - scale education improvement have had to rely more on faith than fact.

At the February 12 school board meeting, NISD Board of Trustees approved the 2018 - 2019 calendar as recommended by the District Education Improvement Council (DEIC), a committee made up of parents, teachers and administrators.

$ 27 Million for Public School Programs: Under this portion of the Education Scholarship and Program Tax Credit, public school students and educators will benefit from $ 27 million in new funds for education improvement programs.

Parliament has approved a financing agreement between the government and the International Development Association (IDA), for the release of $ 40 million as additional finance for the Ghana Secondary School Education Improvement Project (SEIP).

It seems like education improvement is itself a violation of the contract.»

This focus on outcomes has its roots in her experiences in Texas, where during the 1980s and 1990s she was chief lobbyist for the Texas Association of School Boards and worked on several education improvement efforts piloted by business leaders, including a commission headed by billionaire H. Ross Perot.

«Technology offers unprecedented opportunities for meaningful education improvement, and Emiliana is stewarding the kind of innovation that is essential to give each person the right to an education that empowers them to become architects of their own lives.»

It's because education improvement is hard work.

If the World Bank and USAID could find ways to invest in private schools, then genuine education improvement could result.

I am perplexed by this criticism, since the Secretary in fact proposed national «education improvement targets» when he released the chart.

The list of regulations that burden rural education improvement goes on and on.

Emerging from one of the most protracted budget negotiations in Massachusetts history, lawmakers there have restored some $ 90 million in education improvement money to the final state spending plan.

Steven L. Paine is a nationally recognized leader in systemic education improvement and school transformation, currently serving as Educational Innovation Leader with the San Francisco - based organization BrightBytes.

The state House recently passed an expansion of the existing Education Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) program by a 190 - 7 vote.