Sentences with phrase «ensure equity in education»

The desired outcome of an effective principal - counselor relationship is to raise achievement levels for all students and ensure equity in education outcomes.

The Tennessee Educational Equity Coalition believes in promoting a research - driven approach to ensuring equity in education.

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Patrick Roach said: «As the number and diversity of providers in education is unlikely to decrease, the government must face up to the implications of a system which has the potential to become highly fragmented and recognise that the challenge of ensuring equity for all children and young people will be greater and require new arrangements for system governance.

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.»

The state Legislature adopted it one year after a 2006 ruling in a lawsuit brought by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity that ordered New York to provide enough funding to schools to ensure a «sound, basic education» for all public school children.

Montserrat Gomendio, deputy director of education and skills at the OECD, said: «We applaud Scotland for having the foresight and patience to put such an ambitious reform as Curriculum for Excellence in place; we hope that our OECD review will help ensure that it will live up to its full potential and realise excellence and equity right across Scotland.»

-LSB-...] discipline has become the subject of one of the most polarizing and entrenched debates in education: Opponents of the Obama guidance argue that it has handicapped schools from ensuring schools are safe and productive learning environments; proponents assert the rules promote equity and prevent educators from resorting to punitive discipline practices that are ineffective at best and pernicious at worst.

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.

To be truly effective, efforts to ensure equity in IDEA by Congress, the U.S. Department of Education, and education scholars require a correct empirical understanding of the types of inequities currently being experienced by minority schoolEducation, and education scholars require a correct empirical understanding of the types of inequities currently being experienced by minority schooleducation scholars require a correct empirical understanding of the types of inequities currently being experienced by minority schoolchildren.

White children are much more likely than otherwise similar racial and ethnic minority children to receive special education services in the U.S. Ensuring equity in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) means making sure all children with disabilities are able to access the services to which they have a civeducation services in the U.S. Ensuring equity in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) means making sure all children with disabilities are able to access the services to which they have a civEducation Act (IDEA) means making sure all children with disabilities are able to access the services to which they have a civil right.

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.&raquIn 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.&raquin 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.»

New data and accountability Finally, when we contemplate disruption in education, many questions remain as to how the government will hold a «next - generation» school system accountable to ensure equity, rigor, and excellence.

So many of us have been drawn to education reform because we're interested in big philosophical questions or wedded to a specific ideology — expanding free enterprise, ensuring equity, protecting local control, unwinding «privilege,» preserving longstanding institutions, empowering the powerless.

The OECD also stated that the focus of continuing reforms should be on «developing high - quality teaching profession, making leadership a key driver of education reform, ensuring equity in learning opportunities and student well - being, and moving towards a new assessment, evaluation and accountability that aligns with the new 21st - century curriculum».

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.

Some parents have elected to opt their children out of the annual tests as a message of protest, signaling that a test score is not enough to ensure excellence and equity in the education of their children.

The Education Trust came on the scene in the early «90's and has worked in partnership with many civil rights organizations to ensure that the equity agenda would command more headlines in the future.

To be clear, progressives» use of equity arguments to ensure all kids get a great education is in the finest traditions of American public education.

NSBA looks forward to working with Congress and the Administration in addressing the flexibility states and local school districts need to ensure equity and excellence in public education; such as the development of innovative programs that address the unique needs of each school district and respective community, programmatic flexibility and compliance for rural districts, and recruitment and retention of highly effective teachers and leaders.

The Council of Chief State School Officers, the Aspen Institute Education & Society Program and America's Promise Alliance released a new report «showing promising practices in states to ensure educational equity for all students.»

Establishing a high - quality UPK program is a critical first step toward creating equity in access to early education and ensuring that all children begin kindergarten with an equal opportunity to succeed.

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«NSBA applauds lawmakers in the House and Senate for their commitment to passing a modernized law that preserves important federal cornerstones, such as equity and excellence, while establishing a «new federalism» in education policy — upholding local governance and creating a new federal - state - local partnership to ensure that states and local school board members are better positioned to provide all students with a world class public education,» stated Thomas J. Gentzel, Executive Director of the National School Boards Association.

In light of this historic milestone, NSBA will continue to work with Congress and the Administration in addressing the flexibility states and local school districts need to ensure equity and excellence in public education; such as the development of innovative programs that address the unique needs of each school district and respective community, programmatic flexibility for school districts, and recruitment and retention of highly effective teachers and leaderIn light of this historic milestone, NSBA will continue to work with Congress and the Administration in addressing the flexibility states and local school districts need to ensure equity and excellence in public education; such as the development of innovative programs that address the unique needs of each school district and respective community, programmatic flexibility for school districts, and recruitment and retention of highly effective teachers and leaderin addressing the flexibility states and local school districts need to ensure equity and excellence in public education; such as the development of innovative programs that address the unique needs of each school district and respective community, programmatic flexibility for school districts, and recruitment and retention of highly effective teachers and leaderin public education; such as the development of innovative programs that address the unique needs of each school district and respective community, programmatic flexibility for school districts, and recruitment and retention of highly effective teachers and leaders.

Working with and through our state associations, NSBA will remain steadfast in advocating before Members of Congress and the Administration to ensure that local school districts receive the funding and flexibility vital to continuous improvement in student achievement, and to advancing equity and excellence in public education.

Every student deserves a high - quality education, and states are uniquely positioned to lead the way in ensuring educational equity for all students.

In 2014, under the Obama administration, the U.S. Department of Education required states to develop Comprehensive Educator Equity Plans to ensure that every student had access to effective teaching.

During her year as CCSSO's Board President and Mississippi Superintendent of Education, Carey Wright, is focusing on early learning — Commitment No. 6 in the Leading for Equity report — and how state chiefs can increase early learning opportunities for all children and ensure quality in PreK programs.

As shared in a letter to the school board, members of the GO network call on the board to hire a superintendent who is community - driven, equity - focused and a systems thinker — all qualities critical to successful school transformation and ensure all students have access to an excellent education.

It will include experts in closing the attainment gap, achieving equity, and system reform, following First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's pledge to ensure Scotland's education system is world class.

She has spent her career ensuring equity and excellence in education (P - 20) and is a tireless advocate for ensuring that every student in America has the chance to learn and grow under teachers whose knowledge and skills have been verified through a peer - reviewed, performance - based process.

I am called to a career in education because of my commitment to ensuring educational equity for all children.

In order to reach education equity and ensure that students have the school conditions, resources and support they need to succeed, school climate can not be neglected any longer, rather, students and parents are urging that this be the «year of school climate.»

On March 28th, 2016 the first - ever Educator Equity Lab was held at Jackson State University in Mississippi, where more than one hundred education stakeholders made commitments to ensuring equal access to excellent teachers for the state's students of color and students from low income backgrounds.

We are helping to build a diverse movement for educational equity led by and with communities, one that will hold decision - makers accountable and ensure that every child in every community across the nation will have the opportunity to attain an excellent education.

This year's theme was «The Challenges of Ensuring Educational Equity and Excellence» and focused on factors that affect the state of equity in American educEquity and Excellence» and focused on factors that affect the state of equity in American educequity in American education.

Our commitment to equity and equal opportunity runs like a ribbon through all of our initiatives at the U.S. Department of Education — from ensuring that low - income minority students aren't stuck in chronically under - performing schools, to working with districts to get great teachers in the schools and subjects where they are needed most, to targeting billions of dollars to students and schools in need of support.

Filed and actively pursue an equity lawsuit constructed to ensure a fair and appropriate amount of state funding and equal opportunities for a thorough and efficient education for students in small and rural school districts

Her passions include working with new arrivals, curriculum development and working to ensure ELLs have access to a quality education and equity in the classroom.

This is not based on incompetence, but on a fundamental disdain for the historic role of the federal government in ensuring access and equity to public education for all children.

-- Ensuring a Commitment to Equity in All Classrooms for All Learners One of the current hot topics in education is district, school and classroom level equity toward underserved student populaEquity in All Classrooms for All Learners One of the current hot topics in education is district, school and classroom level equity toward underserved student populaequity toward underserved student populations.

However, if schools are not held accountable to performance gaps among subgroups, it is difficult to ensure equity for disadvantaged groups in career and technical education.

NSBA looks forward to working with Congress and the administration to restore state and local control of public education, as well as ensure equity and excellence in schools across the country.

Australia About Blog Early Childhood Australia advocates to ensure quality, social justice and equity in all issues relating to the education and care of children from birth to eight years.

Early Childhood Australia Victoria advocates to ensure quality, social justice and equity in all issues relating to the education and care of children from birth to eight years.

Early Childhood Australia NT advocates to ensure quality, social justice and equity in all issues relating to the education and care of children from birth to eight years.

NBCDI is also engaged in federal and state advocacy, with a wide range of partners and collaborations, to protect and promote investments and policies that support children's access to quality care and education birth through age 8, empower parents and families, and ensure funding and resource equity