Sentences with phrase «ensure equity in school»

Urban school districts are increasingly considering this model as a way to reform their school systems, believing that it can ensure equity in school choice and better hold schools accountable for performance.

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More specifically, the school agreed to «ensure that its Title IX coordinator is trained concerning gender equity in athletics,» to «spend at least $ 5 million to improve the permanent athletic facilities used by its women's varsity sports teams... so that they are comparable to the facilities provided to men's varsity sports teams in the same tier,» and are obligated to «elevate two... women's teams to tier one.»

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 education.»

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.

The district had claimed in court that when the elementary grades were returned to resegregated neighborhood schools, safeguards would be installed to ensure that equity was monitored, and that programs would be implemented to foster student integration.

-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.

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.&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.&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.&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.

Faculty interests and experiences encompass ensuring equity of access to quality literacy instruction, especially in urban schools, addressing the opportunity gap, promoting effective data - driven school - wide literacy programs, and developing sustainable school - based professional development.

Here's an example of how NCTQ mis - reads the research: Standard 13 is «Equity» and judges teacher prep programs based on whether «The program ensures that teacher candidates experience schools that are successful in serving students who have been traditionally underserved.»

The advocacy of the civil rights community will be essential in at least three significant areas: defining what learning progress means; ensuring equity; and promoting diversity in our schools.

See what CUBE conferences, seminars, publications, and online resources are available to help your school board ensure excellence and equity in your schools.

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.

Each such educational firm, or edfirm for short, functions like an independent contractor within the school district (with some requirements, to ensure much greater equity than is typical in public schools today) and is not controlled by the district office.

There is absolutely work to be done to ensure equity among district and charter schools in Oakland, which is why the 1Oakland Campaign is seeking to understand, discuss, and address disparities in enrollment and outcomes.

There is absolutely work to be done to ensure equity among district and charter schools in Oakland, which is why the

The key purposes of accountability are to inform the public — to give an accounting — of the status of the school or system; to provide information that can be used to improve teaching and learning; to ensure equity within the system; to strengthen democratic participation in governing schools; and to ensure that participants in the system carry out their responsibilities well.

To extend the metaphor in this picture, the educational equity orientation reframes the policy discussion and orients it around ensuring that schools help all students to achieve, even if that means distributing resources «unequally.»

«Standardized measures of student learning are vital to ensuring transparency, equity and that our tax dollars are reaching the students and schools most in need of support,» said Evan Stone, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Educators for Excellence.

One of the keys of achieving educational equity is ensuring these gaps in resources are, at least in part, covered up by resources provided by schools.

With roots in community organizing and a deep level of passion towards the pursuit of academic equity for historically underserved communities, Dr. Lyons - Moore is dedicated to ensuring that schooling experiences are accessible, responsive, and relevant to students, families, and the communities they serve.

Similar to CCE's MA Personalized Learning Network, it has been inspiring to observe how the PSESD's focus on personalized learning has gone a step beyond its primary objective of redesigning teaching and learning in regional school districts, it has also transformed practice within the service district with an agency - wide strategy of personalized learning to ensure PSESD's commitment to equity and excellence is realized.

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.»

Equity has been understood to be both a key driver of school improvement and a major factor in ensuring that each child is able to achieve and succeed, yet our systems and societies still harbor inequities.

He believes that this cultural shift goes a long way to fixing the problem, symbolized by the equity policy he helped get passed in Fairfax County Public Schools to ensure equity for every service enacted, including health care.

Second, Baxter noted some recent public comments made by Scott Pearson, the Executive Director of the D.C. Public Charter Schools Board (DCPCSB) about that authorizer's attempts to ensure equity in the charter schools it ovSchools Board (DCPCSB) about that authorizer's attempts to ensure equity in the charter schools it ovschools it oversees.

How does your school or district ensure equity in access to rigorous coursework, while simultaneously promoting these courses with groups of students who are traditionally underrepresented?

CCSSO Innovation Lab Network Resource Page CCSSO Every Student Succeeds Act Resources CCSSO Leading for Equity USC Center for Urban Education Changing the Discourse in Schools Educational Debt by Gloria Ladson - Billings Equity Chalk Talk Quotes The Problem We All Live With (This American Life podcast) How Do We Ensure Personalized Learning is a True Equity Initiative?

«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 Associschool 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 AssociSchool 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.

Though ensuring that all schools have teachers with the correct licenses and a baseline of years of experience are definitely steps in the right direction, much more work remains to be done to move toward true teacher equity in Minnesota.

Leadership competence is measured by our capacity for creating the conditions of the «big five» and ensuring equity and opportunity for everyone in our schools and districts.

Larry: What Federal and / or state policy changes do you think would do the most to ensure continued progress in creating supportive school discipline and fostering equity in our schools?

The AASA campaign and other like initiatives have launched this year in response to proposals to extend school choice, perceptions of declining support for public schools, and the collective drive to ensure equity in deeper learning opportunities for each child.

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.

June Rimmer, associate director at CEL, highlights the role of the principal in closing achievement gaps, describes the work of an equity - centered instructional leader in the improvement of instructional practice and explains how we can build the capacity and expertise of principals to equip them to be leaders of schools that ensure equity so that every student experiences excellence in their learning and achieves at high levels.

Here's what some of your peers have to say about the systems of support that school leaders need most to ensure equity in diverse learning environments.

Ensuring that students in all schools across the nation have access to and are enrolled in rigorous coursework is also a critical component to ensuring educationalEnsuring that students in all schools across the nation have access to and are enrolled in rigorous coursework is also a critical component to ensuring educationalensuring educational equity.

Leading for Equity: A Practical Framework for Board Discussion and Action Using a framework developed by the Arizona School Boards Association, participants will unpack five essential and interrelated areas through which school boards can lead for equity, consider key questions within each, and identify actions board members can take individually and as a leadership team to ensure personal or social circumstances such as gender, ethnic origin or family background of students in their district are not obstacles to achieving educational poteEquity: A Practical Framework for Board Discussion and Action Using a framework developed by the Arizona School Boards Association, participants will unpack five essential and interrelated areas through which school boards can lead for equity, consider key questions within each, and identify actions board members can take individually and as a leadership team to ensure personal or social circumstances such as gender, ethnic origin or family background of students in their district are not obstacles to achieving educational poteSchool Boards Association, participants will unpack five essential and interrelated areas through which school boards can lead for equity, consider key questions within each, and identify actions board members can take individually and as a leadership team to ensure personal or social circumstances such as gender, ethnic origin or family background of students in their district are not obstacles to achieving educational poteschool boards can lead for equity, consider key questions within each, and identify actions board members can take individually and as a leadership team to ensure personal or social circumstances such as gender, ethnic origin or family background of students in their district are not obstacles to achieving educational poteequity, consider key questions within each, and identify actions board members can take individually and as a leadership team to ensure personal or social circumstances such as gender, ethnic origin or family background of students in their district are not obstacles to achieving educational potential.

overview The American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) and the Campaign for High School Equity (CHSE) hosted a day - long discussion group in Washington, DC entitled «Ensuring the Equitable Distribution of Effective Teachers.»

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.

Schools: Schools in our network are guided by commitments of the CES Common Principles, which include putting students at the center, assess student performance authentically, offering multidisciplinary curriculum, governing democratically, emphasizing inquiry, committing to equity, ensuring that school community members know each other well, and employing pedagogies that support students to become lifelong learners.

However, the law requires districts to include certain practices, such as relying on multiple objective measures in placement decisions, using student performance data to ensure equity and efficacy, and ensuring the consistency of placement policies between elementary and high school districts.

Key Issues To ensure charter schools and neighborhood public schools function in the best interests of students, parents and community members, we believe that, like all public institutions, they must be guided by six basic principles of a democratic society: transparency, accountability, quality, oversight, equity and public control.

Our state funding formula (the BEP) is supposed to ensure some level of equity, but the funding may not be enough in those districts lacking the resources to provide significant funds for schools.

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.»

«We encourage our legislators to take even stronger steps in ensuring equity for the many diverse delivery models including public schools, magnet schools, charter public schools and others.»

At the core of our work is equity: we work to ensure that every child succeeds and thrives in school every day.

Rather than recommending rolling back Sweden's system of free choice and competition in schools, however, it suggests that the country «revise school choice arrangements to ensure quality with equity».

Community Conversation: School Equity In February 2016, The Mind Trust and UNCF hosted a «community conversation» on the topic of «School Equity,» during which community stakeholders discussed ways to ensure that every child in Indianapolis has equitable educational opportunities and experienceIn February 2016, The Mind Trust and UNCF hosted a «community conversation» on the topic of «School Equity,» during which community stakeholders discussed ways to ensure that every child in Indianapolis has equitable educational opportunities and experiencein Indianapolis has equitable educational opportunities and experiences.