Sentences with phrase «ensure parents and the public»

CCSA plans to use every tool at our disposal to ensure parents and the public understand how California charter schools are performing.

Not exact matches

The principal / headmaster of each public school must ensure that the information is provided annually to each youth athletes and their parents / guardians and that they annually sign a form acknowledging receipt of the information and return it to the school prior to participation.

We also helped develop the Men's Coalition — a partnership launched in November 2007 by a group of agencies (Men's Health Forum, Respect, Fatherhood Institute, Men's Advice Line, Relate, the Research Unit on Men and Masculinities at Bradford University, NCH and the White Ribbon Campaign) to ensure public policies take full account of the specific needs and experiences of men and boys (eg across health, parenting and caring, relationships, education, employment, crime and violence).

Manila, 4th August, 2011 — During World Breastfeeding Week, UNICEF joins global partners in calling for the benefits of breastfeeding to be broadcast beyond clinics and delivery rooms to the public at large, ensuring that young people both in the developing world and in wealthier countries understand the importance of breastfeeding long before they become parents.

Or alternatively, just ensuring public health campaigns and antenatal clinics informing parents of the infection and advising on a private test.

The survey found that 97 percent of voters and 96 percent of public school parents think serving nutritious foods in schools is important to «ensure that children are prepared to learn and do their best.»

-- supportive public health system that can ensure parents have the resources they need to properly care for their children (including vouchers for transportation to routine medical appointments, and clinics located in the neighbourhoods where people live).

Article 11 (2) In order to prevent discrimination against women on the grounds of marriage or maternity and to ensure their effective right to work, States Parties shall take appropriate measures: (a) To prohibit, subject to the imposition of sanctions, dismissal on the grounds of pregnancy or maternity leave and discrimination in dismissals on the basis of marital status; (b) To introduce maternity leave with pay or with comparable social benefits without loss of former employment, seniority or social allowances; (c) To encourage the provision of necessary supporting social services to enable parents to combine family obligations with work responsibilities and participation in public life

Students, parents, employees and the general public are hereby notified that it is the policy of the Cherokee County Board of Education to ensure non-discriminatory practices in educational programs or activities and in employment.

NEW YORK / GENEVA, 30 July 2011 - During World Breastfeeding Week, UNICEF joins global partners in calling for the benefits of breastfeeding to be broadcast beyond clinics and delivery rooms to the public at large, ensuring that young people both in the developing world and in wealthier countries understand the importance of breastfeeding long before they become parents.

He then advised the general public to consume electricity wisely during this festive period that schools are on vacation and cautioned parents to ensure their wards turns off electrical appliances when they are not in use.

The NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, and the Schools Co-operative Society, have today entered into a landmark agreement to help ensure that state schools remain not - for - profit and democratically - accountable to the public and parents.

«Good on - farm hygiene, such as disinfecting animal pens daily and keeping public areas clean, as well as parents and open farm staff ensuring children always wash or sanitise their hands after contact with animals will minimise risk.

Now, parents and education advocates from across New York City are asking state legislators to ensure the future of high - performing public charter schools by supporting the Governor's proposal.

Teacher Evaluations Go Public, Teachers» Rights Protected A new New York law ensuring that parents and the public have access to information involving how the teachers, principals and schools are performing while still respecting the educators» privacy is on the hoPublic, Teachers» Rights Protected A new New York law ensuring that parents and the public have access to information involving how the teachers, principals and schools are performing while still respecting the educators» privacy is on the hopublic have access to information involving how the teachers, principals and schools are performing while still respecting the educators» privacy is on the horizon.

On Thursday, with the New York State Board of Regents hearing testimony regarding the newly approved teacher evaluation system, leading education reform organization StudentsFirstNY and public school parents offered recommendations and sent letters calling for a system that ensures all public school students have access to high - quality teachers.

We believe that education is a human right and we want to ensure that New York City public schools are places of learning in which all stakeholders (parents, students, educators, non-pedagogical staff, administrators and the community) are engaged in a democratic process to provide a free and quality education to all its students, from Pre-school to College.

But the dual function of early care and education at a critical educational period and as economic security for families with parents in the workforce argues for continued public responsibility for ensuring ECE access for all children.

Parents who send their children to public schools often volunteer in the schools so that they can identify the best teachers and ensure that their children are assigned to their classrooms.

With this in mind and whatever the governance structure in place (single converter or a more complex multi academy trust model), it is essential that governing body members understand their role in ensuring that risk and risk management is taken seriously and is part of their accountability to parents, the wider public and other stakeholders.

In the first version of its «Public School Choice: Non-Regulatory Guidance,» published in December 2002, the department built on these basic statutory requirements to encourage districts to provide helpful information to parents: «The [local educational agency] should work together with parents to ensure that parents have ample information, time, and opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity to choose a different public school for their children.&Public School Choice: Non-Regulatory Guidance,» published in December 2002, the department built on these basic statutory requirements to encourage districts to provide helpful information to parents: «The [local educational agency] should work together with parents to ensure that parents have ample information, time, and opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity to choose a different public school for their children.&public school for their children.»

If parents are generally more satisfied with charter schools than district public schools, what can they do to ensure that charter schools have the political and financial support to keep growing?

The system would be fluid, self - improving, and driven by parents and public authority, ensuring the system uses the best of market and government forces.

School systems need to ensure all information provided to the public, parents, and guardians is accessible.»

Moreover, in the public system, the ability of parents and students to ensure that they receive a high - quality education is constrained by the enormous obstacles to leaving a bad school.

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.

As the daughter of New York City educators and parent of a son with special needs, she writes frequently about the need to listen to families and ensure access to good public school options for all.

As the organizational sponsor of Doe v. Antioch, Students Matter is uniting students, parents, teachers, and concerned California taxpayers with an interest in ensuring accountability in our public schools.

Education Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Hill touted DeVos» visits to 12 public, charter, private, religious and military schools — «an average of one per week» — as evidence that «the Secretary is engaging with students, parents, teachers and leaders to deliver the President's vision of ensuring every child in America has the equal opportunity to receive a world - class education.»

In California, we believe parents, as educated consumers and advocates for their children, want to know more about how public schools are performing, and that policymakers should ensure the public has the necessary tools to make good use of multiple measures.

Preserving and expanding the Title I portability established in No Child Left Behind is one of the most important things Congress can do to ensure parents have the right to make real changes when public schools are falling short of expectations.

On the importance of government, for example, Brian Eschbacher, executive director of Planning and Enrollment Services in Denver Public Schools, described policies and systems in Denver that help make choice work better in the real world: a streamlined enrollment system to make choosing easier for families, more flexible transportation options for families, a common performance framework and accountability system for traditional and charter schools to ensure all areas of a city have quality schools, and a system that gives parents the information they need to choose schools confidently.

We need to ensure that all learning materials — including software — are subject to public inspection by taxpayers and parents of students assigned to use them.

«This is the only way to restore the public service ethos in education, guarantee a high - quality education for all children and young people in England's schools, and ensure the accountability and public probity that parents and communities are entitled to expect of their education service.»

«Well - meaning but ill - informed expressions of policy, especially without the benefit of formal public comment from affected stakeholders, confuse rather than aid the legal landscape and make the work of schools and parents in ensuring students receive appropriate education needlessly difficult,» said Francisco M. Negrón, Jr., Associate Executive Director and General Counsel, National School Boards Association.

We can NOT allow parents to continue to be «arrested and criminalized» for placing their children in out - of - district public schools to ensure the quality, high - performing education that their in - district public schools are continually unable to provide.......

As parents and public school advocates join teachers and their unions in this historic battle to ensure our public schools are run for the benefit of the public and not corporate America, we should be just as loud and clear that our schools need far more IAs and that IAs deserve far better pay.

To these advocates, the very idea of public oversight of private providers is redundant: market forces will ensure that schools will deliver high quality service because customers — parents just as much as outsourcing public agencies — will otherwise just take their money, and children, elsewhere.

Tuck said his campaign will focus on ensuring that Gov. Jerry Brown's new school funding formula — which provides additional money to districts with large numbers of poor children, English learners and foster youth — is really funneling money to the neediest students and that its accountability measures are more understandable for parents and the public.

The site tells the stories of parents, teachers, and students that all share a love for their charters and who all want to ensure every student has the chance to attend a great public school.

Families that Can educates, empowers and mobilizes parents to be the voice of public school students and hold our leaders accountable for ensuring every child has access to a high - quality public education.

Two key issues during the 2008 - 2009 school year brought together our network of parents, educators, and community members to begin building GO Public Schools Oakland to ensure our community had information and opportunities to shape decisions about our public schools and hold leaders accounPublic Schools Oakland to ensure our community had information and opportunities to shape decisions about our public schools and hold leaders accounpublic schools and hold leaders accountable.

The means advocating for labor and public assistance laws that ensure poor parents can spend time with their children.

Families That Can educates, empowers and mobilizes parents to hold our elected leaders accountable for ensuring every child has access to a high - quality public education.

«This support signals the strong role unions still play in their local school districts to partner with parents and their communities on ensuring the best public schools for students.»

«Charter schools in California are committed to these goals, and to offer students and parents quality choices in public education to ensure that every student is receiving the education they need and deserve.»

«Unions continue to play a very strong role in their local school districts and partner with parents and their communities to ensure the best public schools for students.»

In light of the many challenges that charter schools face, Families That Can educates, empowers and mobilizes charter parents to hold our leaders accountable for ensuring every child has access to a high - quality public education.

We will continue to respect and support parents who choose public charter schools for their children, while also continuing to support a regulatory environment that provides robust safeguards and standards to ensure a high - quality education for children in these settings.

Before a single child's information is turned over to any 3rd party, policymakers should give assurance to parents and educators that no harm will come to Tennessee school children by adopting the following principles: The state and districts should be required to publish any and all existing data sharing agreements in printed and electronic form, and include a thorough explanation of its purpose and provisions, and make it available to parents and local school authorities statewide; The Department of Education should hold hearings throughout the state or testify before the legislature to explain any existing data agreement, and answer questions from the public or their representatives, obtain informed comment, and gauge public reaction; All parents should have the right to be notified of the impending disclosure of their children's data, and provide them with a right to consent or have the right to withhold their children's information from being shared; The state should have to define what rights families or individuals will have to obtain relief if harmed by improper use or release of their child's private information, including how claims can be made; and finally, any legislation must ensure that the privacy interest of public school children and their families are put above the interests of any 3rd Party and its agents and subsidiaries.