Sentences with phrase «equity gaps»

And school and system leaders use data to evaluate the impact of school - wide and system - wide programs and initiatives to raise achievement levels and close equity gaps.

Learn how community sectors work together inside and outside the classroom to target supports and eliminate equity gaps in student retention and success.

Furthermore, all 17 states have committed to holding themselves accountable for their progress in eliminating educator equity gaps.

«Still, we have large equity gaps with our students in poverty, with our minority students, our students with disabilities and English language learners,» she said.

Further, districts are required to «identify and address» teacher equity gaps.

We must do more to ultimately close these persistent equity gaps.

And while equity gaps in graduation rates remain, Latino students made significant progress.

The Negative Equity gap is killing the market and preventing new credit from being extended.

Additionally, states are taking steps to ensure equitable access to effective teachers by identifying equity gaps and implementing innovative programs to recruit a diverse workforce.

Current math proficiency requirements and assessments are creating unfair and unnecessary equity gaps in educational attainment.

To close equity gaps, all schools must offer equal opportunities to take advanced courses.

But, to deliver on that right, leaders, educators, and the community have to work closely together to address the quality and equity gaps in our schools.

Teaching Matters, a leader in the movement to support educators through competency - based professional development using micro-credentials, joined forces with the CSA to recognize principals and assistant principals for evaluating school data and initiating pedagogical shifts that address equity gaps found in their analysis.

«Given our linguistic diversity, California should lead the nation in closing equity gaps for English learners,» said Ryan J. Smith, executive director of Ed Trust — West, in a statement.

Measures the percentage of juniors and seniors in high school who complete broad and challenging coursework — including Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate and honors courses — in order to incentivize participation in rigorous coursework and to reduce equity gaps among student subgroups enrolled in advanced courses.

Earlier this month, 3 legal aid lawyers filed a pay equity gap complaint to the Ontario's Pay Equity Commission.

A culturally safe healthcare system not only encourages Indigenous doctors, but is positive also for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients and an extremely important step in closing the health equity gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

The investment in Edinburgh - based Bellfield Brewery was led by the angel syndicate Equity Gap and was supported by Scottish Investment Bank, the investment arm of Scottish Enterprise and existing shareholders (many of whom supported Bellfield's original Crowdcube raise in 2015).

This study describes the characteristics of high school students who enroll in dual credit at Oregon community colleges, focusing on equity gaps in participation and the relationship between students» participation in dual credit and high school graduation, postsecondary enrollment and postsecondary persistence.

I believe a stronger Indigenous health workforce is a critical plank in bridging the health equity gap for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.»

Crowdfund Insider said: «LendingCrowd, one of the UK's fastest - growing alternative finance lenders to the SME market, announced on Wednesday it secured # 2 million through its latest investment round, which was led by Equity Gap and included a number of prominent private investors from Scotland's entrepreneurial and finance scene and the Scottish Investment Bank.

And by that time, the more than a century that has to elapse before we close the gender equity gap should just fly by.

Speaking on behalf of Equity Gap who co-ordinated the private investors, Jock Millican said, «We are very pleased to support Bellfield Brewery with this investment and look forward to working with them as they continue to grow and develop their brands.»

State legislators addressed members at the convention center just before the educators fanned out to lobby their local elected officials to call for an increase in school funding, more Teacher Centers, an end to the charter equity gap and further expansion of the Community Learning Schools initiative.

There is a rising STEM equity gap.

Each of the proposals presents a number of different ways for Congress to address resource equity gaps.

And, with the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act, there is at least implicit acknowledgment that standardized testing and the No Child Left Behind Act have failed at closing stubbornly wide equity gaps by race, income, language, and special education status.

How the New Jersey and New York State School Finance Formulae Create Educational Equity Gaps, Stephen Coffin, The Alternative Press, June 23, 2011

The scores also show that many persistent equity gaps remain and some have even widened.

Texas Equity Gaps Would Have Increased Under Aycock's School Funding Plan Legislature Now Has Opportunity to Positively Impact Equity and... read more

To ensure that it is accurately reflecting all existing equity gaps, Maine should consider reporting not only school - level data but also student - level data regarding educator effectiveness.

To build the talent pool needed for the 21st century global economy, Florida needs to close these and other equity gaps for our most vulnerable students.

Community leaders, education reformers, policymakers and elected officials must work together to accurately and honestly examine equity gaps across the state and districts and then provide an influx of resources based on school or district need.

Progress for all student groups has gone up, yet there are still significant equity gaps.

Washington's charter public schools are helping to close the education equity gap.

Three of the leading candidates for Governor go on the record to discuss their plans for investing in #CAHigherEd, increasing college access, closing racial equity gaps, and more.

Second, there was a vast equity gap in the United States, with high - poverty students drastically less likely to have the arts in their schools.

The charter school movement grew in Atlanta when these programs ended and their grew a huge equity gap in Atlanta schools.

Overall, district students are high - achieving; however, achievement and equity gaps persist and all students need stronger instruction to meet the challenges of new Common Core State Standards.

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E3 Alliance has provided ground - breaking data analysis and community facilitation recognized by the White House as a national model to help the Greater Austin Area My Brother's Keeper effort to eliminate equity gaps for our young men of color.

A recent report by the California Acceleration Project shows that the use of high school measures has dramatically broadened access to and completion of college - level math and English courses, significantly reduced equity gaps, and has had little impact on course success rates.

Options on the budgetary table include narrowing the pay equity gap, ensuring more gender equality in boardrooms, easing access to capital for female entrepreneurs and opening up more funding opportunities for female scientific researchers.

Texas has had an equity plan in place since 2005 and has made notable progress in closing equity gaps over the past decade.

The investment was led by the angel syndicate Equity Gap and was supported by Scottish Investment Bank, the investment arm of Scottish Enterprise and existing shareholders (many of whom supported Bellfield's original Crowdcube raise in 2015).

Correcting this problem is a goal of the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which requires districts and states to monitor and address teacher equity gaps, including the distribution of effective and experienced teachers.

Our existing data systems fall short in giving policymakers and institutions the tools they need to achieve strong outcomes and effectively address equity gaps.»