Catalyst combined data analysis, extensive on - the - ground reporting and a wealth of knowledge about the Chicago Public Schools to address a wide range of topics, among them issues in teaching and learning, school choice,
equity in school resources and the latest relevant research.
Not exact matches
Promotes socially responsible teaching
in inclusive, safe, and healthy
schools by providing money to assist teachers
in developing and implementing violence - prevention, antiracist, multicultural, gender -
equity, global, environmental, or peace
resources, through the Ed May Social Responsibility Fund.
He also noted education spending was
in many ways driven by the result of the Campaign for Fiscal
Equity's 2006 court decision and the following year's legislation enhancing
resources for public
schools.
The chancellor said it was important to have an «
equity lens» to serve disadvantaged students and vowed «we're going to have
resources» to serve them when they're integrated
in schools with higher - performing students.
A few years ago, I and dozens of others frustrated by the state's failure to resolve the Campaign for Fiscal
Equity lawsuit and provide the
resources coming to the city
schools as a result barricaded the entrance to the Capitol
in Albany
in an act of civil disobedience.
Two conclusions from recent PISA studies are that increased national performance is associated with greater
equity in the distribution of educational
resources and that
equity can be undermined when
school choice segregates students into
schools based on socioeconomic background.
«If the Coleman Report was expected to mobilize the
resources of the nation's
schools in pursuit of racial
equity, it failed,» says Hanushek.
The measure of
resource «
equity» is incomprehensible to anyone who has not specialized
in school finance and earned a degree
in statistics.
Provides comprehensive data for individual states
in the following categories: summary of grades, student achievement, standards and accountability, efforts to improve teacher quality,
school climate,
resources:
equity and spending.
Assistant Superintendent for Human
Resources, Kankakee
School District 111 Race,
Equity, and Leadership
in Schools 2017 participant
Withdrawal of the Obama Administration's guidance on
school discipline and
equity in resources
If «Equality of Educational Opportunity» was expected to mobilize the
resources of the nation's
schools in pursuit of racial
equity, it undoubtedly failed to achieve its objective.
It is adequate to conclude, from international perspective, that the most disadvantaged
schools, especially those serving large proportions of aboriginal children and other children with special needs, should be much better
resourced if
equity is to be enhanced
in Australia.
But the speaker, Cynthia G. Brown, the director of the
resource center on educational
equity for the Council of Chief State
School Officers, highlighted the division
in the special - education community over how to amend the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, the landmark 1975 federal law.
«We are plenty
in technological
resources to enhance our education, yet the lack of
equity and amount of
resources that kids have
in America is amazing,» he said, citing the vast difference between technology use
in poor and affluent
schools.
Since 2010, the civil rights office has issued detailed directives on eliminating racial disparities
in school discipline; the allocation of
school resources among racial groups;
schools» responsibility for preventing bullying; the use of race - based assignments to achieve diversity; achieving gender
equity in intercollegiate and interscholastic sports, and support for pregnant and parenting students.
Areas of Focus: philanthropy
in schools,
school resources,
equity, parent engagement, community involvement, historically marginalized communities, data journalism, Texas, Southwest
Dr. Kathleen E. O'Connor, Assistant Superintendent for Human
Resources, Kankakee
School District 111 Race,
Equity, and Leadership
in Schools 2017 participant
The 2015 - 2016 Civil Rights Data Collection is a survey of all public
schools and
school districts
in the country that measures student access to courses, programs, staff and
resources affecting education
equity and opportunity for students.
McDaniel College, Montgomery County Education Association (MCEA), and Montgomery County Public
Schools (MCPS), through the Office of Human
Resources and Development, partner to offer a five course, 15 - credit graduate certificate program
in Equity and Excellence
in Education.
We offer a variety of projects and
resources, workshops and consulting services, and scholarship grounded
in equity and social justice
in schools and communities.
For a high - poverty urban district like LAUSD, where declining birth rates, reduced immigration, gentrification and the expansion of charters have left neighborhood
schools scrambling for
resources, education researchers believe that community
schooling offers the first meaningful bang for its buck
in delivering
equity for its highest - needs students.
Advocates
in Colorado also helped achieve a major funding
equity win last year by sticking to a main message: all public
school students deserve equal access to public
resources.
See what CUBE conferences, seminars, publications, and online
resources are available to help your
school board ensure excellence and
equity in your
schools.
STEM education
in Australia won't realise its full potential unless we address issues of
resources,
equity, teacher professional learning, the needs of students who speak English as an additional language and may have low literacy and numeracy skills, and ageing
school facilities.
The event is behind held
in conjunction with The Alliance to Reclaim Our
Schools (AROS), an organization that works on behalf of «educational justice and
equity in access to
school resources and opportunities.»
Technology alone will not improve academic achievement, but when used as a part of a comprehensive
school improvement approach it will empower students to take a greater role
in their own learning and will provide
equity in access to quality instructional
resources.
To extend the metaphor
in this picture, the educational
equity orientation reframes the policy discussion and orients it around ensuring that
schools help all students to achieve, even if that means distributing
resources «unequally.»
In particular, ESEA reauthorization provides an opportunity for Congress to consider fresh ideas that would support states and districts in increasing school funding equity so that students in low - income communities receive the resources they need to achieve at high level
In particular, ESEA reauthorization provides an opportunity for Congress to consider fresh ideas that would support states and districts
in increasing school funding equity so that students in low - income communities receive the resources they need to achieve at high level
in increasing
school funding
equity so that students
in low - income communities receive the resources they need to achieve at high level
in low - income communities receive the
resources they need to achieve at high levels.
One of the keys of achieving educational
equity is ensuring these gaps
in resources are, at least
in part, covered up by
resources provided by
schools.
In these
schools,
equity does not mean equality; they recognize some students need additional
resources to have the same opportunity for success as others.
In places likes Finland, the investment in children and families health and well - being, in addition to fairness in school resources and quality, has resulted in educational equity and shared prosperit
In places likes Finland, the investment
in children and families health and well - being, in addition to fairness in school resources and quality, has resulted in educational equity and shared prosperit
in children and families health and well - being,
in addition to fairness in school resources and quality, has resulted in educational equity and shared prosperit
in addition to fairness
in school resources and quality, has resulted in educational equity and shared prosperit
in school resources and quality, has resulted
in educational equity and shared prosperit
in educational
equity and shared prosperity.
According to Politico Pro, Murray and Scott agree with certain provisions, like the «requirement that states come up with concrete evaluations or scores for
schools,» but want to see changes like «including the timeline for states to get their new accountability systems up and running, transportation for students
in foster care, calculating graduation rates, n - sizes,
resource equity and more.»
CCSSO Innovation Lab Network
Resource Page CCSSO Every Student Succeeds Act
Resources CCSSO Leading for
Equity USC Center for Urban Education Changing the Discourse
in Schools Educational Debt by Gloria Ladson - Billings
Equity Chalk Talk Quotes The Problem We All Live With (This American Life podcast) How Do We Ensure Personalized Learning is a True
Equity Initiative?
To try and answer some of those
equity issues, Reed recommended that the
school board create a committee to study how HISD distributes its
resources, something he said hasn't been done
in over 15 years.
Given the gap
in fiscal and technical expertise between traditional districts and independent LEAs, public charter
school networks that multiply each
school's capacity and access to
resources offer a promising strategy to scale
equity and access for students with disabilities.
UTLA President Alex Caputo - Pearl mentioned the day of action as part of his state of the union speech
in July and said the event will be
in coordination with the Alliance to Reclaim Our
Schools, a national group of parent, youth and community organizations and labor groups whose stated goal is «fighting for educational justice and
equity in access to
school resources and opportunities.»
Rather public
schools can be more effective working toward a view of «
equity» which recognizes that some children may need more
resources and support
in order to become college - and career - ready graduates.
Having read this
resource with my own
school's problem of practice
in mind, I found it pushed my thinking
in new directions and provided me with specific steps I could take to examine
equity and bias
in instructional practices
in service of closing our achievement gaps.
If constituents are willing to accept less - than - perfectly - integrated
schools in the interest of better serving different constituencies and drawing on teacher strengths, it will be crucial to monitor those
schools for
resource equity and academic quality and to provide students with frequent opportunities to interact meaningfully with students from the other learning communities.
In a Student & Family Town Hall meeting held last evening by SNAPPS, an advocacy group in Atlanta for the South and Westside communities, attendees had the opportunity to hear from students and parents around grave concerns about equity, academic rigor, access to resources, being adequately prepared for college and careers, how schools add to the school to prison pipeline by fueling suspensions over counseling support and most importantly the poor connection and relationship between the District and South / Westside parent
In a Student & Family Town Hall meeting held last evening by SNAPPS, an advocacy group
in Atlanta for the South and Westside communities, attendees had the opportunity to hear from students and parents around grave concerns about equity, academic rigor, access to resources, being adequately prepared for college and careers, how schools add to the school to prison pipeline by fueling suspensions over counseling support and most importantly the poor connection and relationship between the District and South / Westside parent
in Atlanta for the South and Westside communities, attendees had the opportunity to hear from students and parents around grave concerns about
equity, academic rigor, access to
resources, being adequately prepared for college and careers, how
schools add to the
school to prison pipeline by fueling suspensions over counseling support and most importantly the poor connection and relationship between the District and South / Westside parents.
Our state funding formula (the BEP) is supposed to ensure some level of
equity, but the funding may not be enough
in those districts lacking the
resources to provide significant funds for
schools.
In order to reach education
equity and ensure that students have the
school conditions,
resources and support they need to succeed,
school climate can not be neglected any longer, rather, students and parents are urging that this be the «year of
school climate.»
Equity and justice
in funding,
resources, and opportunity is far more important
in our
schools than integration.
But together, we've laid the groundwork to advance charter
school funding
equity and mill sharing to combat these disparities, so that every public
school student
in Colorado will finally get their fair share of
resources in the classroom.
The report also addresses
equity and funding issues that exacerbate distrust between districts and charter
schools, and examines ways
in which the two sectors may work together to improve opportunities for all students to attend charter
schools and to increase charter
schools» access to district
resources that would enhance their ability to serve all types of students.
Funding, staffing and other
resources for
equity - based excellence that are manifested
in the existence of equitably assigned qualified staff, appropriate facilities, other environmental learning spaces, instructional hardware and software, instructional materials and equipment, and all other instructional supports, are distributed
in an equitable and fair manner such that the notion that all diverse learners must achieve high academic standards and other
school outcomes become possible.
CCSA advocates for fair
equity in facilities for our charter
schools and students, and offers support and
resources from our regional and statewide staffs, as well as our legal, legislative, and communications experts for those seeking facilities, and as a response mechanism for issues that may arise.
William P. Jackson is a curriculum development specialist, pedagogical strategist, program analyst, and the founder of Village of Wisdom — an organizing and advocacy entity that develops tools,
resources, and quantifiable measures of racial
equity to eliminate racial injustice
in schools.
The nation also began to implement the idea of
equity in terms of
resources and facilities for disadvantaged students and their
schools.