Sentences with phrase «equity agenda»

Diana leads Urban Strategies» national health strategy development, program implementation and evaluation of the organization's broad health equity agenda.

He leads an ambitious equity agenda to eliminate...

It's essential to livability,» Levine said in a statement, noting that these workers are critical for the city's Park Equity Agenda that aims to improve long - neglected parks in low - to - moderate - income neighborhoods.

His most recent book, co-edited with Vanessa Morest, is Defending the Community College Equity Agenda (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006).

I am excited to apply my extensive strategic grant - making, policy development, program management and capacity building in the field of health equity and social justice to help advance HMBANA's equity agenda.

As Deputy Director, Abja works with The Education Trust — New York team to lead and support an equity agenda to...

Sheehan walked the gathering through what she said are some of the many highlights of her first term, including Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion as part of the community police initiative; restructuring the city budget; lobbying for additional state aid; developing an equity agenda; engaging marginalized communities; transforming neighborhoods like Sheridan Hollow and Park South.

De Blasio usually swatted away the barbs and returned to his carefully crafted talking points about his equity agenda and the reasons that Quinn, the early frontrunner, should not be mayor.

Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan made the case for her re-election on Saturday saying she has done the «unsexy» work of repairing the city's finances, instituting an equity agenda, employing traffic calming measures to make the city more walkable and getting nonprofits to pitch in to help the city's financial situation.

, Moving the equity agenda forward (pp. 5 - 20).

Undergirding the potential benefits of MOOCs in K — 12 schools is an access and equity agenda: extending access to all students, regardless of zip code or SAT scores, to the «best» from the nation's education system.

Bersin is hopeful that the leadership fund in his and his wife's names will help address two key areas in the education sector with which he is deeply concerned: the equity agenda and the national competitiveness agenda.

Today, the challenge is to embrace increasing diversity with different [shades of] pedagogical practice, and that's really at the heart of the equity agenda... it's about personalising educational experiences, it's about realising that ordinary students have extraordinary talents.»

«And that's absolutely essential to an equity agenda.»

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.

While federal policy from No Child Left Behind, to Race to the Top and the Every Student Succeeds Act defined multi-issue agendas that included elements of the accountability, choice, and equity agendas, within the advocacy sector, «education reform» has never been a unifying framework.

Eight years ago, Rick Hess and my Bellwether colleague Andy Rotherham forecast the «unavoidable tension» emerging between the equity agenda and other legitimate priorities.

It also changed because STRIVE embraced the new challenge, part of a broader «equity agenda» that includes other changes in enrollment and school practices.

Faced with a choice between a committed backer of public schools and a vouchers candidate who appeared to be more concerned about feathering his own nest than an education and equity agenda, Wisconsin sent a strong signal.

«Lillian's strongly held belief in the capacity of all children to learn to high levels, her expertise as an educator, and deep experience in the complexities of leading districts and states make her the ideal person to advance our equity agenda,» said John B. King Jr., president and CEO of The Education Trust.

«The equity agenda championed by our mayor is my equity agenda.»

This draft framework is a work in progress to articulate IEL's beliefs and plan of action towards an equity agenda for the community schools movement.

Our Equity Framework articulates our beliefs and plan of action towards an equity agenda for the community schools movement, but our webinars re-ignite this message by bringing leaders across the field to discuss and illuminate the possibilities of community schools as a vehicle for change.

The Governor's Executive Budget proposal provides an important opportunity to enact an equity agenda for the state's public charter schools.

Not that the Obama team will welcome this reassertion of the equity agenda.

The background here is that the equity agenda continues to haunt the climate negotiations, as it has done since their inception.