Sentences with phrase «families about the school system»

The town hall was hosted by Orleans Parish School Board superintendent Henderson Lewis Jr. to present the results of a survey of thousands of families about the school system and to discuss its future after oversight of all the charter schools is transferred back from the state in summer of 2018.

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Liberal MLA Mary Polak (Langley) was instrumental as a Surrey School Board trustee in banning gay - positive books from Surrey Schools: The book ban was later struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada which said «instead of proceeding on the basis of respect for all types of families, the Board proceeded on an exclusionary philosophy, acting on the concern of certain parents about the morality of same - sex relationships, without considering the interest of same - sex parented families and the children who belong to them in receiving equal recognition and respect in the school system.&School Board trustee in banning gay - positive books from Surrey Schools: The book ban was later struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada which said «instead of proceeding on the basis of respect for all types of families, the Board proceeded on an exclusionary philosophy, acting on the concern of certain parents about the morality of same - sex relationships, without considering the interest of same - sex parented families and the children who belong to them in receiving equal recognition and respect in the school system.&school system.»

It nonetheless raised some disturbing ideas about our «we - are - a-Christian-community» slogans (since we were to apportion salary solely according to performance rather than also, say, on need) and about our endorsement of responsible family and church involvement (since the new system would tempt people financially to neglect these other responsibilities in order to work harder at school)

Culture has many complicated meanings, but I use it here simply to describe a system of beliefs (about God or reality or ultimate meaning), of values (about what is true, good and beautiful), of customs (about how to behave and relate to others), and of the institutions which express the culture (government, church, law courts, family, school and so on)-- all of which bind the society together and give it meaning.

A family with a child who does not have an IEP but who might qualify for one should contact their local public school system about setting the IEP process in motion as soon as possible, since it takes time for the public school system to determine each student's eligibility.

To obtain the best education for your child research into your local public school system as well as research about homeschooling will help you to make a decision that makes sense for your own family.

«Even if government policy included an acceptance of private schooling for those with special needs, the fact that the complainant did not feel that the current state system could meet her child's requirements raised questions about the nature of publicly - funded schooling and its ability to cater for children with special needs (including those whose families would not be able to pay for private schooling).»

Unfortunately, the opacity of the title system prevents us from successfully bragging about our accomplishments to our family members, who still aren't sure why we spent such a long time in grad school.

He talked about Newark's universal enrollment system, which includes all of the city's public schools (both district and charter), noting that 75 % of families chose a school other than their neighborhood school and that 42 % of families listed their first choice as a «high - performing charter school.»

«But the uncertain future of the system - weighted average, as well as radical changes to the fee expectations for Catholic primary schools, means principals and families are increasingly worried about the affordability of Catholic schools in coming years.»

While her husband worked, Palomera and her daughter began attending classes at a local chapter of the Toyota Learning Program, a family engagement and child development program, to improve their English and learn more about the school system.

As part of this agenda, and in line with the report, we are attempting to solve the problem of information in the system: families have imperfect information about the actual performance of their kids in the school.

Meanwhile, defenders of the current system view all this talk about the achievement gap with suspicion — asserting, as they do, that schooling is hopelessly intertwined with conditions in the family and community, and thus that we can't expect results to improve much until we alleviate poverty and racism.

It doesn't erase the need for rigorous standards, tough accountability, vastly improved data systems, better teacher evaluations (and training, etc.), stronger school leaders, the right of families to choose schools, and much else that reformers have been struggling to bring about.

[3] Just as voucher holders may benefit from a real estate broker to find housing in a high - opportunity neighborhood, low - income families in school choice systems with limited information about high - performing schools could benefit from an adviser who connects them to educational opportunities.

For much of the past few years, reflecting general concerns about the quality of public schooling, discussions of magnet schools have centered on their potential for providing intensive instruction in such subjects as science and mathematics, serving as models of effectiveness, and increasing family choice within the public system.

Parents can grow defensive about their children's behavior, and, especially in low - income or minority communities, many families may have years (if not decades) of negative associations with school systems.

The overall goal of this extension of our existing work in partnership with TFF and Achievement First Bridgeport Academy (AFBA) is to continue and expand our work in Bridgeport focusing in several keys areas: (1) building knowledge about (a) children's emerging skills and areas of challenge in the social - emotional domain and why these skills are critical to school success, and (b) the ways in which adult stress and skills in the social - emotional domain can impede or foster children's social - emotional skill development; (2) identifying, deploying, and evaluating strategies to build adult and child skills in social - emotional learning with an emphasis on the Tauck Family Foundation's (TFF) five essential SEL skills; and (3) developing and testing a performance management system for SEL that (a) guides the identification of strategies, (b) provides a mechanism for ongoing progress monitoring, feedback, and changes to practice, and (c) serves as an anchor point for ongoing coaching and support in using SEL strategies.

These families feel strongly enough about choice that they pay extra to opt out of the public school system.

I continue to wrestle with the legacy of privilege that many US independent schools share, so I approach this week curious about the strategies used by the Finnish school system to promote equity and justice for all students and families.

As Bush strategist Karl Rove explained in his book Courage and Consequence: «When Bush said education was the civil rights struggle of our time or that the absence of an accountability system in our schools meant black, brown, poor, and rural children were getting left behind, it gave listeners important information about his respect and concern for every family and deepened the impression that he was a different kind of Republican whom suburban voters... could be proud to support.»

Find out more about Linkages Project positive outcomes at the child and family, school, and systems levels.

The OneApp continues to evolve as its administrators learn more about school - choosing families and families learn more about this novel system.

Parents had mixed feelings about OneApp, the unified enrollment system where families can sign up to attend a majority of the city's public schools and private schools that participate in the Louisiana Scholarship Program.

The State of Arizona initially instituted an «A-F» rating system in order to provide parents and families with easy - to - understand information about the relative performance of public schools across our state.

A unified enrollment system would streamline the school choice process for families, provide more equitable access to quality schools and increase the information available to families as they make choices about schools.

Groups that want to change the system say families should have more choice about which schools their kids attend.

It also means similar actionable information about families, teachers, schools, districts, and systems.

From the time they enroll, we can provide newcomer students and their families with information — in their home language — about the grade - based promotion system, high school graduation requirements, standardized testing, college applications, high school exit exams, and the process of class programming.

Like students, the families, teachers, and staff within a school system are uniquely positioned to provide actionable feedback about performance that simply can't be captured through other measures.

Walnut Valley, with 20 percent low - income families and about 10 percent English learners, had among the state's highest Academic Performance Index scores — a system for rating schools based on test scores — before the index was suspended three years ago, with an average of more than 900.

• States should set a vision for their accountability systems and be purposeful about the incentives they create when selecting system indicators; • States must weigh the trade - offs between simplicity and complexity to create a tailored yet comprehensive system of accountability; and • States, districts, and schools should increase transparency and clarity of school accountability and rating methodology for communities and families.

Only 13 percent of students from closing D.C. schools have signed up to stay in the traditional school system next year, Chancellor Kaya Henderson said Tuesday, raising questions about whether the school closures are driving families into charter schools.

Re: the US News article on top about ESSA: Chairwoman Foxx is right about the role of the federal government in America's K - 12 education system; and families can continue to pressure educrats like Mr Botel by opting out, wherever and whenever possible, from their local state schools until the federal government gives up on the continuing mistake of its annual testing requirement in two subjects only, which has produced no significant improvement in American education for 15 years now, but has cost us in lost opportunities, including time and energy that might have been devoted to non-tested subjects, including those in the broader curricula represented by the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, which requires assessment — including but not limited to external final exams — in six subjects distributed over at least five fields, an assessment approach that has been imitated by the world's leading educational jurisdictions, but is being discouraged by the ignorant Luddites in the the U.S. ED.

«if educational responsibility remains solely on the immediate family, «choice» may take place in a world of insufficient numbers of quality schools, inadequate information about the stakes and alternatives, and large numbers of people unable to use the choice system effectively.

Shanley confirmed that many of their families expressed concern about the environment in many schools, particularly the public - school system, as their main reason for home schooling.

We're talking about ensuring that Chicago children get the best education possible, that families are drawn to Chicago, that parents are willing to invest their most precious assets, their children, in the school system.

Visit the NCASE Resource Library and learn more about key topics in out - of - school time, including systems - building, quality improvement, family engagement, and professional development.

Learn more about our beliefs, America's long history of unequal access to great schools, and what students are doing to improve education for their family and friends still in the K - 12 system.

This will help in designing relevant professional development opportunities for school staff, communicating clearly with parents and families about their child's growth, and aligning early childhood and K - 12 systems.

Families gave higher ratings to WSS when they perceived that their child's teacher liked using the system and the school staff was helpful and available to answer their questions about WSS.

The MOST initiative produced concrete evidence about the need for concerted efforts by families, community organizations, the school system, businesses and political and cultural institutions in order to provide more and better programs.

Once the student has been accepted in their system, a TCGDC staff member will reach out to families about enrollment into the school.

This enables scholarship organizations to work with families and schools to determine the amount necessary to finance a child's education, an amount usually far lower than government per - pupil spending or even many set voucher amounts; the average tuition at private schools is about half what is spent per pupil in the public system.

Next, she traveled to New York City with RISE CEO Veronica Palmer, to speak with U.S. Secretary of Education, John King, about the importance of family engagement and leadership in the public school system.

Smith said after talking to parents of students and parents of those outside the public school system, he learned that families learned about the Tennessee Virtual Academy at various times following an advertising and promotion push by K12.

Webinars in our series include: Community Schools and Equity: Our Framework (January 28th, 2015) My Brother's Keeper and Community Schools (March 17th, 2015) Community Schools and Equity: Changing Systems (May 2015) Mobilizing Families and Communities (June 2015) To learn more about this series, please email us.

A group of business and civic leaders is urging the Los Angeles school district and teachers union to quickly develop a new evaluation system that incorporates student test score data and gives families more access to information about instructors.

(1997) E652: Current Research in Post-School Transition Planning (2003) E586: Curriculum Access and Universal Design for Learning (1999) E626: Developing Social Competence for All Students (2002) E650: Diagnosing Communication Disorders in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students (2003) E608: Five Homework Strategies for Teaching Students with Disabilities (2001) E654: Five Strategies to Limit the Burdens of Paperwork (2003) E571: Functional Behavior Assessment and Behavior Intervention Plans (1998) E628: Helping Students with Disabilities Participate in Standards - Based Mathematics Curriculum (2002) E625: Helping Students with Disabilities Succeed in State and District Writing Assessments (2002) E597: Improving Post-School Outcomes for Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders (2000) E564: Including Students with Disabilities in Large - Scale Testing: Emerging Practices (1998) E568: Integrating Assistive Technology Into the Standard Curriculum (1998) E577: Learning Strategies (1999) E587: Paraeducators: Factors That Influence Their Performance, Development, and Supervision (1999) E735: Planning Accessible Conferences and Meetings (1994) E593: Planning Student - Directed Transitions to Adult Life (2000) E580: Positive Behavior Support and Functional Assessment (1999) E633: Promoting the Self - Determination of Students with Severe Disabilities (2002) E609: Public Charter Schools and Students with Disabilities (2001) E616: Research on Full - Service Schools and Students with Disabilities (2001) E563: School - Wide Behavioral Management Systems (1998) E632: Self - Determination and the Education of Students with Disabilities (2002) E585: Special Education in Alternative Education Programs (1999) E599: Strategic Processing of Text: Improving Reading Comprehension for Students with Learning Disabilities (2000) E638: Strategy Instruction (2002) E579: Student Groupings for Reading Instruction (1999) E621: Students with Disabilities in Correctional Facilities (2001) E627: Substance Abuse Prevention and Intervention for Students with Disabilities: A Call to Educators (2002) E642: Supporting Paraeducators: A Summary of Current Practices (2003) E647: Teaching Decision Making to Students with Learning Disabilities by Promoting Self - Determination (2003) E590: Teaching Expressive Writing To Students with Learning Disabilities (1999) E605: The Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP)(2000) E592: The Link Between Functional Behavioral Assessments (FBAs) and Behavioral Intervention Plans (BIPs)(2000) E641: Universally Designed Instruction (2003) E639: Using Scaffolded Instruction to Optimize Learning (2002) E572: Violence and Aggression in Children and Youth (1998) E635: What Does a Principal Need to Know About Inclusion?

Camilla Gibb, Author and Non-Fiction Judge, says: «Wab Kinew's story is a deeply moving memoir about the possibility of forgiveness and healing within a family, a community and a country coming to terms with the damaging legacy of the residential school system.