Sentences with phrase «established public education system»

I'm a practical person, so I know that any significant changes made to our enormous, well - established public education system will take a lot of time and a lot of money.
Education Provisions: The provisions in all state constitutions establishing a public education system.

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His accomplishments in his island paradise service to the crown (1846 - 54) range from establishing the postal system, creating the first library and public education system on the island, to having piped water delivered to Port of Spain, the capital.
Establishing a single set of national standards and assessments would effectively make the federal government the owner and operator of America's public education system.
The RAND Corporation and the University of Washington's Institute for Public Policy and Management have jointly established a new center that will explore alternatives to the current system of education governance, particularly in urban areas.
Last fall she was tapped by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who studied at Harvard as an undergraduate, to head Startup: Education, a nonprofit established to aid the public schools of Newark, N.J., a system in dire need of reform.
These results support our basic reasoning that as long as Catholics could not be sure that the emerging public school systems of the 19th century would provide education in line with their church's demands, they tended to resist state schooling and establish their own private schools alongside the state sector.
One of the central features of By All Means is a set of convenings which serve two purposes: 1) to bring together teams from the six or seven cities in which we'll be establishing learning labs for our design work; 2) to bring together a national audience of thought leaders to consider some controversial subjects relating to the future of public education and that system's work with economically disadvantaged students.
To establish that the school was a «state actor,» he made five arguments: that Arizona law defines a charter school as a public school; that a charter school is a state actor for all purposes, including employment; that a charter school provides a public education, a function that is traditionally and exclusively the prerogative of the state; that a charter school is a state actor in Arizona because the state regulates the personnel matters of such schools; and that it is a state actor because charter schools, unlike traditional private schools, are permitted to participate in the state's retirement system.
Early education is an established «diverse delivery» system: many types of providers, including Head Start programs, public schools, private childcare centers, and community - based nonprofits, are permitted to serve children.
The state constitution's education clause stipulates that «the public school system shall include common schools, and such high schools, normal schools, and technical schools as may hereafter be established
Transforming education in the District of Columbia into an all - ESA district — establishing a truly universal policy to create education savings accounts for every DC student — would transform the existing school finance system from one that is based on student enrollment counts in boundary - defined regular public schools to one that is student - centered and responsive to the needs of individual families.
The Department of Education, public postsecondary educational institutions, public school districts, public schools, state education foundations, consortia, and professional organizations in this state shall work collaboratively to establish a coordinated system of professional devEducation, public postsecondary educational institutions, public school districts, public schools, state education foundations, consortia, and professional organizations in this state shall work collaboratively to establish a coordinated system of professional deveducation foundations, consortia, and professional organizations in this state shall work collaboratively to establish a coordinated system of professional development.
With enrollment projected to grow between 20 and 40 percent over the next 20 years, charter schools have established themselves as a fixture in the U.S. public education system and can no longer be viewed as an experiment or pilot reform.
How can we establish a system of K - 12 teacher education and preparation in our public universities that will produce a sufficient quantity of highly qualified teachers necessary to revitalize elementary and secondary education?
A 14 - member review board of prominent education researchers, policy leaders, practitioners and executives from around the country evaluated publicly available student achievement data on 20 large established urban charter school systems and found that YES Prep Public Schools had the best overall student academic performance between 2007 and 2011.
CCJEF, established in 2004, is a broad - based 501 (c)(3) nonprofit that seeks to achieve an adequately and equitably funded PreK - 12 public education system that is based on the learning needs of students and the real costs of delivering high - quality education in every community.
That ambitious plan is key to her broader aim of establishing Success as what the network describes as a «catalyst and national model for education reform efforts,» and a legitimate citywide competitor to the incumbent public school system.
Fortunately, the lower court rejected this strained interpretation, holding instead that «the Nevada constitution requires the state to establish a non-sectarian system of public schools, but it is also empowered to encourage education by other means that are not limited to non-sectarian schooling.»
Since the landmark 1973 U.S. Supreme Court Decision in San Antonio School District v. Rodriguez, which established that public education is not a right under the federal Constitution, state courts have been the battlegrounds for resolving disputes regarding public education finance systems.
Bellwether Education Partners developed The Learning Landscape to establish a fact base around multiple facets of the U.S. public educatioEducation Partners developed The Learning Landscape to establish a fact base around multiple facets of the U.S. public educationeducation system.
ESSA requires each state to establish challenging state academic standards in mathematics, reading / language arts, science and any other subject determined by the state, that are aligned with entrance requirements for credit - bearing coursework in the system of public higher education in the state and relevant career and technical education standards.
In 1995, the University of Arizona and the Southern Arizona VA Healthcare System established the Valley Fever Center for Excellence (VFCE) to mobilize resources for the eradication of Valley Fever through promoting public awareness and education and research on prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of Valley Fever in humans and animals.
The Bousliman award recognizes lawyers who have established a reputation for professionalism and have demonstrated extraordinary professionalism by contributing time and resources to public service, public education, charitable or pro bono activities, and encouraging respect for the law and our legal system by making the legal system more accessible and responsive.
Education, knowledge, media and employment rights are contained in articles 14 — 17 of the Declaration: right to establish and control their educational systems; right to education, including in their own culture and language; right to indigenous cultures, traditions and histories, reflected in education and public information; right to establish their own media, in their own languages, and access non-Indigenous media without discrimination; and right to employment without discrimination and protect Indigenous children from economic explEducation, knowledge, media and employment rights are contained in articles 14 — 17 of the Declaration: right to establish and control their educational systems; right to education, including in their own culture and language; right to indigenous cultures, traditions and histories, reflected in education and public information; right to establish their own media, in their own languages, and access non-Indigenous media without discrimination; and right to employment without discrimination and protect Indigenous children from economic expleducation, including in their own culture and language; right to indigenous cultures, traditions and histories, reflected in education and public information; right to establish their own media, in their own languages, and access non-Indigenous media without discrimination; and right to employment without discrimination and protect Indigenous children from economic expleducation and public information; right to establish their own media, in their own languages, and access non-Indigenous media without discrimination; and right to employment without discrimination and protect Indigenous children from economic exploitation.
National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) The NCTSN works to serves the nation's traumatized children and their families by raising public awareness of the scope and serious impact of child traumatic stress on the safety and healthy development of America's children and youth; advancing a broad range of effective services and interventions by creating trauma - informed developmentally and culturally appropriate programs that improve the standard of care; working with established systems of care including the health, mental health, education, law enforcement, child welfare, juvenile justice, and military family service systems to ensure that there is a comprehensive trauma - informed continuum of accessible care; and fostering a community dedicated to collaboration within and beyond the NCTSN to ensure that widely shared knowledge and skills become a sustainable national resource.
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