Sentences with phrase «empowering local leaders»

Sen. Murray and Sen. Scott argue that the new rule «honors Congressional intent» by «empowering local leaders with greater latitude in...

It's also crucial to empower local leaders.

Governors and state education officials can provide direction to empower local leaders by supporting a collaborative decision - making system that brings a new relationship between policy and practice.

50CAN finds, connects and empowers local leaders across the country in pursuit of educational policies that lead to great schools.

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We are leaders in the responsible lending movement and dedicated to advancing local and national initiatives that support and empower entrepreneurs.

And Help One Now is a catalytic tribe committed to empowering and resourcing high - capacity local leaders who care for orphans and vulnerable children in order to transform communities and break the cycle of extreme poverty.

They're a tribe — people like us — committed to caring for orphans & vulnerable children by empowering & resourcing high - capacity local leaders in order to transform communities & break the cycle of extreme poverty.

I wondered if that might be a nudge from the Holy Spirit, so I took a few steps back and, as I got to know Chris and the rest of the team, I learned they were centered on empowering and resourcing local leaders for the long - haul precisely because of their great love for God.

Furthermore they implement projects, with global and regional partners, which facilitate conversion to Organic Agriculture, empower local stakeholders and strengthen supply chains as well as help raise consumer awareness and shape the future of the organic sector by training a new generation of leaders through our Organic Leadership Courses and other services.

We know that empowering our restaurant team members as frontline leaders in the local hunger relief effort will only strengthen their role in the program and allow them to engage customers in their restaurant's Harvest story.

In our continued spirit of American entrepreneurialism, we have launched Towne Park Systems to enable us to serve more markets throughout the US, empower more leaders, start more businesses, create more jobs, and better serve more local communities.

Participants attend a series of classes that explore big picture issues and local solutions, network with peers and sustainability thought - leaders, and practice community organizing skills that empower Chicagoans to make difference.

Encourage and empower recognition of potential school nutrition leaders to become public policy advocates at the local, state, and national level;

NY19Votes has now put over 1,000 volunteers out on doors, empowered local Indivisible groups to run their own local canvasses and provided training for hundreds of leaders and activists.

«If you have a leader, with a mandate, with a strong vote, you could package a bill that rolled back Common Core, that empowered local schools with resources and flexible policies and in the same bill, roll back the SAFE Act and include mental health and include provisions to crack down on gangs and narco traffickers,» Gibson said.

«New York must continue to lessen the burden of property taxes for all residents, lift middle - class families up out of challenging times, and empower voters to engage their local leaders to make real, positive fiscal change,» Cuomo said.

«Just like any Constituency whether local, State or National is empowered by law to recall or suspend any recalcitrant officer, the leaders and followers in the local chapters have the rights to do the needful when their representatives step out of the track.

Teacher union leaders, school administrators and state officials harmonized last week over a proposed teacher evaluation system.But Tuesday when Gov.Dannel P. Malloyannounced plans to reduce red tape and to «empower local school districts» — steps that...

A fellow commissioner and local leader, Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney said earlier this week that it was unrealistic to expect the commission — empaneled by Cuomo and empowered by Schneiderman — to investigate the executive branch.

He announced a proposal that would empower county executives to convene local leaders, come up with a plan and then present that plan to voters as early as November.

I want every child to have quality school choices, I want stronger (and broader) external standards, I want more open paths to becoming an educator, I want empowered school leaders (really empowered, in ways that would also break the union stranglehold) who are compensated like CEOs, I want super pay for great instructors and no pay for incompetents, and I want a complete makeover of «local control.»

Alturas International Academy School Type: Charter Public Location: Idaho Falls Grades Served: K - 8 ’20 in 10 ′ Investment: $ 1,000,000 over five years ’20 in 10 ′ Impact: 538 new seats About the School: Alturas International Academy promotes academic distinction, while empowering students to be principled and intellectual leaders as they explore, create, investigate, and analyze in a safe, engaged, collaborative environment that inspires them to make a genuine difference in their local and global community.

She leads the CFF's grantmaking portfolio, which focuses on investing in local public schools, nonprofits that develop teachers and school leaders, and innovative organizations that empower the local community.

This analysis is intended to help policymakers, education leaders, and advocates understand the changes in state law and policy needed to support local strategies that empower educators, promote new schooling options, and let parents choose.

Given the unique understanding of their communities and vital role school boards have, federal regulations should empower state and local leaders to make decisions, which Congress clearly intended when it passed ESSA.

The Committee has been an active participant with the Kentucky Department of Education and other stakeholders in creating a new accountability system for the state that sets ambitious goals for student learning, educates and empowers parents with information about schools, and provides state and local education leaders and policymakers with data to help make more informed decisions to improve opportunities for each student.

In this op - ed, Arun Ramanathan, executive director of The Education Trust - West, writes that «by authentically engaging and empowering parents and community members in their planning and budgeting processes, district leaders can really put the «local» into local control.»

The mayor's stated goals were to bring in new leadership, create greater accountability, empower educators and parents, and give local leaders a voice in their local schools.

«This legislation will empower state and local leaders to tailor programs to meet the unique needs» of students in their community, Foxx said in the Wednesday committee meeting.

«This program will not only help you connect your classroom experience to the policies being made in Sacramento and in your local district, but it will empower you with the knowledge and skills to become a true teacher leader, representing your school and charter teachers across the state,» said Keith Dell «Aquila, who recently joined CCSA as Director, Teacher Engagement after 6 years teaching at PUC Schools in Los Angeles.

He ensures that our work empowers and enables local leaders and practitioners so that we leave a lasting, sustainable legacy.

And one way we are doing that is by empowering and engaging parents of our most vulnerable students, as well as working with local leaders and civil rights groups, in the fight to improve their child's elementary and secondary education and helping them to hold school systems accountable when it comes to their children's future.

Held to a higher standard of accountability than traditional public schools, but with the benefit of added autonomy that puts local school leaders and teachers in charge, Tennessee's public charter schools are empowered to create a challenging and focused learning environment for students, while giving parents even more direct and meaningful opportunities to participate in their children's education.

About CCSA Families CCSA Families (formerly Families That Can) is part of the California Charter Schools Association, a nonprofit organization that helps empower charter school leaders, teachers, and parents to make their voices heard in the state capitol and in their local communities.

The ESSA is to reduce «the federal footprint and restore local control, while empowering parents and education leaders to hold schools accountable for effectively teaching students» within their states, and also «[reset] Washington's relationship with the nation's 100,000 public schools» and its nearly 50 million public school students and their 3.4 million public school teachers, while «sending significant power back to states and local districts while maintaining limited federal oversight of education.»

Our passionate team of parent leaders, education advocates and legal experts empowers local communities to strengthen their schools by pursuing common sense policy changes.

What's more, local school leaders, empowered by ESSA, will have more say about the school improvement efforts targeting low - performing schools.

Alturas International Academy promotes academic distinction, while empowering students to be principled and intellectual leaders as they explore, create, investigate, and analyze in a safe, engaged, collaborative environment that inspires them to make a genuine difference in their local and global community.

According to Department budget documents, the proposal «would support LEAs in establishing or expanding student - centered systems that: (1) differentiate funding based on student characteristics, providing disadvantaged students more funding on a per - pupil basis than other students; (2) offer a range of viable school options and enable the Federal, State, and local funds to follow students to the public school of their choice; (3) make school performance and funding data easily accessible to parents; and (4) empower school leaders to use funds flexibly to address student and community needs.

We are leaders in the responsible lending movement and dedicated to advancing local and national initiatives that support and empower entrepreneurs.

The college, which has its own 200 acre farm promoting local food, aims to empower the workforce to produce food, whether community group leaders, commercial enterprises, land maintainers, or volunteers.

Frances Seymour, a senior fellow with World Resources Institute, agreed: «Papal attention can inspire, encourage and empower local religious leaders and faith communities to redouble their efforts to stave off forest destruction and violations of human rights.»

One of her tips for success is to own that role as an empowered and trustworthy leader in your local community.

Local leaders across health and mental health, early childhood and family support are empowered to partner to create better infrastructure, streamline services and supports and infuse early childhood mental health knowledge to better serve families across settings.