Sentences with phrase «educational opportunities for children most»

«Derrell Bradford has brought a refreshing amount of energy to battle for better educational opportunities for children most in need.

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For example, because of article 23, which defines the universal right to education, most children around the world who did not have the opportunity to enroll in a school prior to 1948 gained such access as UNESCO mobilized governments and international institutions to support the most dramatic educational expansion in the history of humanity.

«Alyssa Chan exemplifies well the qualities that distinguish students and graduates of the International Education Policy Program: a strong commitment to expanding educational opportunity for the most disadvantaged children around the world, an extraordinary ethic of hard work and rigorous pursuit of academic excellence, and an understanding of leadership as service to others,» says Professor Fernando Reimers, director of IEP.

At the same time, NCLB needs major revisions to make sure it focuses on the most important kinds of learning, accountability for improvement, and creates genuine educational opportunity for all our children.

Teachers in attendance, most of whom also worked under No Child Left Behind, ESSA's predecessor, spoke of their experiences in the classroom and offered ideas for how Minnesota can improve educational opportunities for their students under ESSA.

While most of the action on education reform broadly, and school choice specifically, is at the state level, the items in the President's budget and these additional policy ideas would be a tremendous help in facilitating greater educational opportunity for America's K - 12 children.»

«The evidence suggests that in areas where most children are expected to do less well in exams, the educational opportunities for all children are being restricted.»

With the evident benefits for those students most in need, the strong appeal to parents desperate for better educational opportunities for their children (with an admission waiting list of one million names nationally) and the predominantly non-union academic faculty, charter schools represent a powerful threat to the economic and political hegemony of the unions.

«The Welsh government is taking practical action to deliver better educational opportunities for our most disadvantaged children.

House Bill 384 sponsored by Rep. Tommy Thompson (D) and Rep. David Floyd (R) is a unique opportunity to help parents exercise their right to choose the educational environment most appropriate for their children.

Choice: Charter schools give families an opportunity to pick the school most suitable for their child's educational well - being.