Sentences with phrase «equitable funding for»

The first strategy addressed by the CES is to «ensure sustainable and equitable funding for efficiency.»

Can you imagine how great the school would do if it received facilities aid or more equitable funding for its students?

The communities he works in need change fast, and he works to spread the message of equitable funding for charters and more quality options for the families that need them the most.

Our policy paper discusses a critical issue facing our education system: equitable funding for the highest needs schools.

The goal of Brown vs. New York is to get more equitable funding for charter schools.

a school finance formula based on individual student needs, which provides adequate and equitable funding for public schools, and is funded through a balanced tax policy at both the state and local levels.

Former Texas Solicitor General James Ho made the case for equitable funding for public charter school students and TCSA General Counsel Denise Pierce drove the point home at the school finance trial before the Supreme Court of -LSB-...]

We support lifting the cap on the number of charter schools in Texas and providing equitable funding for charters.

To ensure the charter community is aware of and engaged in the ongoing work in DC and Sacramento to secure sustainable, equitable funding for charter school students.

Legislators voted in bipartisan favor for equitable funding for charters schools and the state's first private school choice program — an impressive feat in a predominantly blue state.

Here's why equitable funding for charter schools matters:

Organizations such as GeorgiaCAN are currently advocating for equitable funding for all schools.

We must demand equitable funding for all public schools.

This is a critical topic and connects to our recent post about equitable funding for schools.

Therefore school districts and State Departments of Education play a huge role in the process of equitable funding for charter schools.

Whereas, the Hawkins / Jones platform of a Green New Deal calls for equitable funding for all of our schools, reduced class sizes across the state, support for programs that promote desegregation in our schools, an end to zero - tolerance discipline policies driving the school - to - prison pipeline, and allowing schools to develop methods of assessment organic to the learning process, and

Don't look for supports for their families and communities, equitable funding for their schools, or investments in professional learning.

At a time when Arizona is facing challenges that include improving literacy, the high school graduation rate, the recruitment and retention of effective teachers and leaders, and ensuring equitable funding for its schools, these are critical questions.

The local school board plays a pivotal role, and sufficient and equitable funding for schools is a foundational requirement.

The four «guiding principles» for the march are: equitable funding for all public school communities; an end to high - stakes testing used for the purpose of student, teacher, and school evaluation; curriculum developed for and by local school communities; and teacher, family, and community leadership in forming public education policies.

MARCH, 14 2018 Charter school advocates from across the state will gather at the Georgia Capitol with HB 787 sponsor Rep. Scott Hilton, the Georgia Charter Schools Association and other elected officials in support of more equitable funding for state charter schools.

Evers, in a statement, said more equitable funding for schools and engaging school communities are key to shrinking achievement gaps.

We advocate aggressively for new charter schools in Georgia and for fair and equitable funding for all our schools.

I am so sick of reading about McCleary (Washington's ongoing intragovernmental battle for equitable funding for K - 12) I don't know what to do with myself.

Achieving equitable funding for your public charter school will not happen without you exercising your voice and encouraging other parents to do the same.

Lecker writes, «As Stamford's mayor, Dannel Malloy was an original plaintiff in the pending school funding case, The Connecticut Coalition for Justice in Education Funding v. Rell, and led the charge to win just and equitable funding for Connecticut schools.

Since joining the Association in June 2007, Eileen led the Association in notable efforts including: developing a model that measures «value - added» growth in achievement, which is used for A-F rankings of all Arizona schools; creating trainings that enable teachers and school leaders to collaboratively use data; launching joint purchasing programs; filing lawsuits for equitable funding for all K - 12 students; increasing positive public perceptions of charters; and, building a comprehensive program to support prospective charter school operators.

What could we do to shine a spotlight on what is going on in the classrooms, what great work these schools are doing, and the fight for equitable funding for all students?

As the fight for economic and educational justice continues, an important lawsuit on equitable funding for...

The state is trying to say that students in Buffalo, Rochester and elsewhere in New York state are getting a «sufficient education» and that «equitable funding for charter schools is not required.»

As the fight for economic and educational justice continues, an important lawsuit on equitable funding for charter - school students is moving through New York's courts and faces a critical moment.

«Demand for charters has grown by 60 % to nearly 6,000 names in the past year, but we can not meet that demand without equitable funding for our students.

In my book I propose equitable funding for education, but argue that the federal government must substantially increase its aid to achieve this end.

And rather than more funding for expanding prisons or school vouchers, why not fund a higher minimum wage, paid family leave, universal early childhood education, and full, equitable funding for all our schools, starting with our poorest communities?

Members of the Radical University Professionals staged a rally at Peace Park across from the SUNY New Paltz campus on Tuesday, demanding equitable funding for the SUNY system and a fair contract for professors.

Members of the Radical University Professionals (RUP) staged a rally at Peace Park across from the SUNY New Paltz campus on Tuesday, demanding equitable funding for the SUNY system and a fair contract for professors.

Meanwhile, education advocates on Tuesday began their lobbying efforts with a rally calling on more equitable funding for high - needs schools across the state.

However, board member Luis Reyes, a researcher at Hunter College in Manhattan, said the graduation goal would prove «delusional» unless the state provides more equitable funding for schools in poor neighborhoods.

The Moral Mondays movement came to New York State on Jan. 12 as about 1,000 students, parents, advocates and union leaders from New York City and across the state converged on the state Capitol to demand fair and equitable funding for public schools.

Senate Republicans blame Democrats for the G.E.A. and argue that their leadership has led to more equitable funding for schools.

This short of the $ 1.5 billion education advocates like the Alliance for Quality Education say is necessary to provide more equitable funding for poorer schools deemed to be in high - needs districts.

Nixon has been very close with the Alliance for Quality Education, an organization that has been pushing the state to fulfill the terms of a lawsuit over equitable funding for school districts.

Not exact matches

With this in mind, James says her next big goals are to make the funding situation more equitable for local women and to push local early - stage startups toward commercialization.

«You would think that funding for the arts, if it was going to be equitable, would be equal across the province, but it's not.»

We do support, however, changes to the funding and management of the federal employees» pension plans, including the move to more equitable contribution rates, changes in retirement provisions for new employees, among others.

Funds are disbursed to organizations and initiatives that are driving critical work on the frontlines to meet immediate relief needs and organizing for the building of an equitable Puerto Rico.

Widely affirmed proposals call for the restructure of low - performing schools, more emphasis on the basics, safer classrooms, more rigorous graduation standards, periodic measurement of progress through some kind of standardized tests, longer days and year - round schooling, decentralization into smaller learning communities and greater freedom for those smaller units, smaller classes, better - qualified teachers and improved salaries, more parental input and more equitable funding.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

Secretary of the Senate Angelo Aponte briefed reporters at the Capitol today on the chamber's new guidelines for the use of taxpayer - funded media — including everything from bulk mailings to Websites — and insisted the majority is striving for an equitable distribution of resources.

«When the charter industry begins serving students with special needs and English Language Learners at the same rate as traditional public schools, and cracks down on the fraud, mismanagement and abuse prevalent at so many charters, perhaps its leaders can then join our longstanding fight for the equitable funding that all kids need.»