Sentences with phrase «ensure quality public school»

Our mission at Project GRAD is to ensure a quality public school education for students in low - income areas, so that more students ‑ especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds ‑ graduate from high school and enter college prepared to excel.

That the BCTF supports legislation and policies that ensure quality public school distributed education programs.

Ensure quality public schools are accessible to all families in Los Angeles by supporting the improvement of existing schools, a needs - based expansion of quality school options and improved school transportation availability

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Ensuring quality, inspiring demand and improving access to school food is a three-fold effort to address public health concerns resulting from hunger, malnutrition, and obesity among D.C. school children and their families.

Jean Ronnei, director of school nutrition for the St. Paul Public Schools in Minnesota, said the school district purchased high - quality equipment in bulk to ensure that all designated equipment funds were used effectively when available.

The programme also registered suppliers to distribute farm produce to public institutions including the School Feeding Programme, the Free Senior High School Programme, Prisons, Defence and Police, among others to ensure availability of quality food in a timely manner in these institutions.

Taking Success's argument «to its logical conclusion,» Ms. Elia wrote, «would mean that D.O.E. would be required to provide charter schools» prekindergarten programs with public funding without any mechanism to ensure» that they were meeting quality requirements, and that «public funds are being spent in accordance with the requirements.»

Said DeSantis: «The purpose of updating the guidance is to ensure that all New York state students, whether they attend a public or nonpublic schools, receive a quality education.»

The Public Relations Officer of the school feeding secretariat, Siba Alfa told Citi News that his outfit constantly monitors the caterers to ensure that the quality of the food served to the pupils at the basic level is not compromised.

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.

«The issue of ensuring quality and competent teachers in public schools is something crucial and doable, but it requires courage, sincerity and honesty as guiding principles.

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.

«As the technology and use of HDR brachytherapy advances, it is imperative that clinical, physics and quality assurance guidance be reviewed and updated, as necessary, to ensure quality and patient safety in the treatment delivery,» said Bruce R. Thomadsen, PhD, a professor in the Department of Medical Physics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.

Since my focus is on life and learning at the intersections of the arts and education, there seems to always be considerable work ahead to ensure that high - quality arts learning experiences are available to all through our public schools and out - of - school settings.

And until we ensure high - quality assessments focused on student learning, real efforts to improve public schools and ensure students are college and career ready will struggle to gain the hold they need to succeed.

Since 1968, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), an office of the Department of Education, has collected data from public schools on student and school characteristics to ensure all students have equal access to a quality education.

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.

Instead of arguing whether charter schools should be included in No Child Left Behind, a more fruitful question is how to ensure that state accountability schemes allow enough flexibility for boutique programs within the public system while not opening up loopholes that low - quality schools can slip through.

Equity is at the center of our campaign, with the long - term goal of ensuring all communities have access to a high - quality public school.

With 70 percent of Boston Public Schools students coming from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, ensuring that all are both prepared for, and have access to, a quality postsecondary education is a critically important topic.

Before joining Public Impact, Mr. Field was a regional director for the KIPP Foundation, where he provided coaching support to KIPP executive directors, coordinated internal and external resources, and provided quality oversight to ensure that KIPP regions are prepared to open and sustain high - performing schools in their communities.

After the State's repeated failure to ensure that all Connecticut children have access to quality public schools, the student plaintiffs have asked the federal court to intervene.

I've written a lot about the systemic changes we need to put in place to ensure that all children and families have access to high - quality public schools.

«Governor Corbett remains committed to ensuring that all Pennsylvania public school students - regardless of zip code - have access to a quality education,» Eller said in an e-mail.

AB 2548, sponsored by Assemblymember Shirley Weber in response to California's overhaul of its public school accountability system, would have helped to ensure that our public schools are providing all students — regardless of zip code or background — with the quality education they need to succeed academically and in the future.

The Idaho Charter School Network advocates, supports and gives voice to its members to ensure charter schools have the flexibility, public support, and funding to deliver high - quality education to their students and to the thousands of students on Idaho's charter school wait School Network advocates, supports and gives voice to its members to ensure charter schools have the flexibility, public support, and funding to deliver high - quality education to their students and to the thousands of students on Idaho's charter school wait school wait lists.

With such demand, it is up to our elected officials to remove the facilities and funding barriers that exist to ensure that every child has the option to attend a high - quality public charter school.

That experience left an indelible mark, convincing me that giving every child a quality public education starts with ensuring parents have access to a high quality public school in their neighborhood.

• Overwhelming parental support for the following elements of an education agenda: Provide extra resources to turn around struggling neighborhood schools; hold charter schools accountable; provide more support / training for struggling teachers; expand / improve new - teacher mentoring; reduce class sizes, especially in the early grades; make public schools hubs of the neighborhood with longer hours, academic help and health services for families; provide extra pay for teachers in hard - to - staff schools; and ensure access to high - quality preschool for all 3 - and 4 - year - olds.

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 confiSchools, 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 confischools to ensure all areas of a city have quality schools, and a system that gives parents the information they need to choose schools confischools, and a system that gives parents the information they need to choose schools confischools confidently.

«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.»

New Hampshire has laid out rigorous steps to ensure that the nearly 200,000 public school students living there receive quality education.

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.......

We are a coalition mobilizing communities across the state to keep New York true to its promise of ensuring a high - quality public school education to all students regardless of ZIP code.

Seattle Public Schools is whole - heartedly committed to ensuring that all students attend a quality school in which they experience powerful teaching and learning.

Below is the Quality Schools Action Framework ™ developed by IDRA (Robledo Montecel & Goodman, 2010) that may assist the Legislature in drafting future laws that could help the state achieve its public education mission of «ensuring that all Texas children have access to a quality education that enables them to achieve their potential and fully participate now and in the future in the social, economic, and educational opportunities of our state and nation» (Texas Education Code § Quality Schools Action Framework ™ developed by IDRA (Robledo Montecel & Goodman, 2010) that may assist the Legislature in drafting future laws that could help the state achieve its public education mission of «ensuring that all Texas children have access to a quality education that enables them to achieve their potential and fully participate now and in the future in the social, economic, and educational opportunities of our state and nation» (Texas Education Code § quality education that enables them to achieve their potential and fully participate now and in the future in the social, economic, and educational opportunities of our state and nation» (Texas Education Code § 4.001).

«Rather than working to pit one type of public school against another, now is the time to work toward solutions that ensure all Arizona schools are supported and every Arizona student has access to the quality education they need.»

«By connecting with and engaging each member of the learning community, Hickory Public Schools will ensure a high quality education for all students preparing them to become responsible, productive citizens in the 21st century.

In the months ahead, we plan to work side by side with our partners in Mississippi to defend the state's strong charter public school law and ensure that the state's low - income students have access to a growing number of high - quality public school options.»

Moreover, on behalf of Arizona's more than 500 public charter schools, we will remain a champion of policies that ensure parents have quality choices when it comes to the education of their children.

We look forward to working with the board, the school and the State Department of Education to ensure that more students have access to a quality public school education, regardless of race, wealth or zip code.»

Fortunately, options exist to ensure that high - quality public charter schools can secure financing to meet the needs of their students.

Using real - life examples of OML violations in Arizona public schools, this interactive session will ensure participants are well - equipped to run quality meetings that are compliant with state law.

Committee members were clearly uneasy about how these schools could ensure children, particularly in the early grades, receive a quality education without any in - person interactions with teachers, peers, counselors, and other support personnel that occur in traditional public, charter, and private schools.

Parents Will Risk Jail Time For Their Children's Education December 7, 2015 by Brett Kittredge Two Washington D.C. police officers are the latest to face jail time for committing residency fraud in an effort to ensure their children receive a quality education that was not available in their assigned neighborhood public school.

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.

«There is not a better motivator than the nectar of victory to push along the issue that you care about, and that's improving public education and ensuring that every child in every school has a high - quality teacher,» Trujillo said.

States can — and should — play a more active role in fostering collaboration efforts if they are serious about ensuring quality public education for all of their students, regardless of what type of public school they attend.

Summit Public Schools and Lindsay Unified School District, with the partnership of Transcend, are working to codify learner - level, adult - level, and site - level competencies needed to ensure high quality personalized learning for all.

Lindsay Unified School District and Summit Public Schools, with the partnership of Transcend, are working to codify learner - level, adult - level, and site - level competencies needed to ensure high quality personalized learning for all.