Sentences with phrase «equity policies in the state»

This past year, the district adopted one of only two active racial equity policies in the state.

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As the American Association of University Women notes in its Policy Guide to Equal Pay in the States, pay equity laws are robust and wide - ranging in states like California and DelStates, pay equity laws are robust and wide - ranging in states like California and Delstates like California and Delaware.

Equity market volatility has increased from the very low levels of last year, partly because of concerns about the direction of international trade policy in the United States.

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Staff at Edward R. Murrow HS in Midwood, owed $ 10 million in Campaign for Fiscal Equity funds from the state, put together a multilanguage video telling the governor what the school needs and have sent photos with the same message to the governor and sent postcards to legislators urging them to stand against Cuomo's policies.

James held a rally at City Hall on Sunday to call on the State to fully fund city schools in line with the Campaign for Fiscal Equity and to criticize Gov. Cuomo's education reform policies.

Among the proposals not included by the Assembly: a sweeping policy change that would give the state wide latitude in determining value - based payments for health care providers, a plan to allow private equity investing in hospitals and a plan that would limit how much providers can charge for drugs in Medicaid - managed care plans.

The policy makes the Erie County IDA the most aggressive in the state in pushing companies receiving tax breaks to comply with pay equity rules.

Cynthia Herriott, Vice President of Public Policy, American Association of University Women of New York State, said, «The American Association of University Women of New York State, continues to play a critical leadership role in promoting equity and education for women and girls.

«Excellence and equity are parts of our system,» she stressed, emphasizing the difficulty to achieve this in a country like the United States, especially with current reform policies.

NCLB is in many respects the latest in a long line of efforts in the policy and legal arenas to promote equity and opportunity in the public schools, including desegregation cases, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the original ESEA, and school finance and adequacy cases in the states.

In this book some of the most respected minds in educational equity provide a critical interruption to the ongoing policy conversations taking place around public education in the United StateIn this book some of the most respected minds in educational equity provide a critical interruption to the ongoing policy conversations taking place around public education in the United Statein educational equity provide a critical interruption to the ongoing policy conversations taking place around public education in the United Statein the United States.

«How to fix reading in the era of ESSA» and «Using ESSA to fix reading: Implications for state policy» by Robert Pondiscio and Lisa Hansel With the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), state and district policymakers have an opportunity to increase achievement and equity by supporting knowledge - rich instruction.

In these roles, she leads and grows a national network of charter school attorneys known as «The Alliance of Public Charter School Attorneys»; provides technical assistance and training to charter school operators, authorizers, attorneys and advocates seeking to improve school - level civil rights policies and practices; addresses fiscal equity and labor issues confronting charter schools; provides litigation and strategic assistance to state partners considering litigation; and supports charter school advocates and operators seeking to improve their regulatory and authorizing environments.

Demographic quotas for charters in the name of equity are the latest policy cudgel of choice pushed by teachers union bosses in states all over the country.

This panel is useful for studying changes in state resource levels and resource equity over time, with respect to policy and contextual changes.

An assistant professor in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University, Dr. Jimenez - Castellanos has published extensively in the area of K - 12 education finance, policy and parent engagement and its impact on opportunity, equity and outcomes in low - income ethnically and linguistically diverse communities.

«NSBA applauds lawmakers in the House and Senate for their commitment to passing a modernized law that preserves important federal cornerstones, such as equity and excellence, while establishing a «new federalism» in education policy — upholding local governance and creating a new federal - state - local partnership to ensure that states and local school board members are better positioned to provide all students with a world class public education,» stated Thomas J. Gentzel, Executive Director of the National School Boards Association.

IDRA Policy Issues for Texas in 2017 See PDF version Fair Funding Means Equity and Excellence for All Students IDRA Stands All state and local aid made available for public schools should be funded through equalized formulas.

Larry: What Federal and / or state policy changes do you think would do the most to ensure continued progress in creating supportive school discipline and fostering equity in our schools?

«District and school administrators overwhelmingly agree with ISBE that every high school junior should have access to a college entrance exam, a policy that promotes equity and access and that provides each and every student with greater opportunities in higher education,» state Superintendent of Education Tony Smith said in a written statement.

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Education Commission on the States Equity in Education: Key questions to consider This brief supports states in identifying their equity needs and bringing together thought partners across the education field to better understand, develop, and implement policy options that improve opportunities for all students across the P20 speStates Equity in Education: Key questions to consider This brief supports states in identifying their equity needs and bringing together thought partners across the education field to better understand, develop, and implement policy options that improve opportunities for all students across the P20 speEquity in Education: Key questions to consider This brief supports states in identifying their equity needs and bringing together thought partners across the education field to better understand, develop, and implement policy options that improve opportunities for all students across the P20 spestates in identifying their equity needs and bringing together thought partners across the education field to better understand, develop, and implement policy options that improve opportunities for all students across the P20 speequity needs and bringing together thought partners across the education field to better understand, develop, and implement policy options that improve opportunities for all students across the P20 spectrum.

The Council on Educational Services for Exceptional Children, an advisory panel for the state board that includes parents, educators and legislators, offered a number of cautions about the new policy in January, citing concerns about equity.

In particular, this history demonstrates that while these data provided only mixed progress towards the stated goal of greater educational equity, they proved «useful» in other ways: providing researchers and policymakers with an array of possible research and policy targets and sustaining the belief that the education system, if properly tweaked and optimized, could ultimately secure educational equitIn particular, this history demonstrates that while these data provided only mixed progress towards the stated goal of greater educational equity, they proved «useful» in other ways: providing researchers and policymakers with an array of possible research and policy targets and sustaining the belief that the education system, if properly tweaked and optimized, could ultimately secure educational equitin other ways: providing researchers and policymakers with an array of possible research and policy targets and sustaining the belief that the education system, if properly tweaked and optimized, could ultimately secure educational equity.

With continued anti-immigrant sentiment reflected in our executive branch and now in many states as well as across the globe, school policies compel urgent curricular transformation and a renewal to a commitment toward equity, social justice, and cultural consciousness.

The recent national election portends a significant shift in the direction of federal education policy in the United States and raises serious concerns for those of us who care about equity and an opportunity to learn for all students.

State policymakers are in an ideal position to address disproportionate discipline policies and practices in order to improve school equity and climate.

The report, «States Leading for Equity: Promising Practices Advancing the Equity Commitments, «provides a brief overview of practices and policies states are currently engaging in to provide a stronger education for stuStates Leading for Equity: Promising Practices Advancing the Equity Commitments, «provides a brief overview of practices and policies states are currently engaging in to provide a stronger education for stustates are currently engaging in to provide a stronger education for students.

The George Washington University Center for Equity and Excellence in Education offers a database listing each state's policies regarding modification on high - stakes tests for ELLs.

In this role, Holly directed a wide range of state and local policy initiatives focused on improving educational outcomes for children through promoting autonomy, accountability, and equity in New Orleans charter schoolIn this role, Holly directed a wide range of state and local policy initiatives focused on improving educational outcomes for children through promoting autonomy, accountability, and equity in New Orleans charter schoolin New Orleans charter schools.

Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY $ 150,000 over one year for operational support of the Campaign for Educational Equity to research and analyze policy strategies for developing sustainable financing for high - quality, universal preschool in New York State across diverse program settings.

In many cases, states already have policies in place to advance equity, especially as states transition to the Every Student Succeeds Act; the ten commitments can supplement these effortIn many cases, states already have policies in place to advance equity, especially as states transition to the Every Student Succeeds Act; the ten commitments can supplement these effortin place to advance equity, especially as states transition to the Every Student Succeeds Act; the ten commitments can supplement these efforts.

Currently, education - policy debates in the United States are divided between two warring camps: On one side are «school reformers,» who argue that efforts to improve equity for low - income youngsters must focus on fixing failing schools.

Au contraire, it has led education policy makers to come up with ever - more - costly and damaging changes in educational practices to what is ultimately a non-educational problem — a problem that can not be solved by the schools no matter how much money Congress or state legislatures vote to give local school districts in the name of equity or compensation for the low - income students they happen to enroll.

Because of these two factors, in the absence of a dramatic change in the balance of federal, state, and local revenues for education, any policy discussion around improving funding equity must focus on the state and local levels.

«District and school administrators overwhelmingly agree with (the State Board of Education) that every high school junior should have access to a college entrance exam, a policy that promotes equity and access and that provides each and every student with greater opportunities in higher education,» state Superintendent Tony Smith said in a stateState Board of Education) that every high school junior should have access to a college entrance exam, a policy that promotes equity and access and that provides each and every student with greater opportunities in higher education,» state Superintendent Tony Smith said in a statestate Superintendent Tony Smith said in a statement.

Formulates and recommends Departmental policies, plans and guidelines related to the natural and human environment, including efforts regarding resiliency and climate mitigation; livability and quality of life in states and communities; equity and economic growth; historic preservation, and bicycle and pedestrian transportation.

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However, as the Agreement's key policies are yet to be realized, member states have both an exceptional opportunity and a moral impetus to use these results to address climate change equity in a meaningful manner.

One of the reasons the world is now running out of time to prevent dangerous climate change is because fossil fuel companies and their allies in the US Congress has prevented the United States from taking serious action on climate change since 1992 when the George H. W Bush administration agreed in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that the United States should adopt policies and measures to prevent dangerous anthropocentric interference on climate change on the basis of equity and common but differentiated responsibilities.

NGOs who support stronger climate change policies in many nations, including those in Australia, Canada, and the United States, are failing to frame climate change issues on the basis of ethics, justice, and equity.

NGOs who support stronger climate change policies in many nations are failing to frame climate change issues on the basis of ethics, justice, and equity including those in Australia, Canada, and the United States

For some time now, real and measurable progress has been made at the state and local levels, and in the private sector where building design and planning, innovation, equity, policy, business, and climate change intersect.

To this end, agents must, as a condition of their appointment, comply with the requirements set out in this policy,» states the government's workplace equity policy for legal agents.

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