Sentences with phrase «from equitable school»

Our recent wins — from equitable school funding to more fair discipline policies have created an opportunity for great change in our schools.

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De Blasio defended the co-location decisions as equitable and fair when taking into account the needs of students from other schools.

The Moral Mondays movement came to New York State on Jan. 12 as about 1,000 students, parents, advocates and union leaders from New York City and across the state converged on the state Capitol to demand fair and equitable funding for public schools.

Knowing that all of these schools would benefit from a classroom's worth of hands - on STEM materials, the district took an unusual and equitable approach.

Years of research show that it's closely linked to almost everything that we as a nation say we want for our children and demand from our schools: academic achievement, social and emotional development, civic engagement, and equitable opportunity.

Here are resources and project ideas to foster more equitable, hands - on citizenship education from elementary years through high school.

It lists 40 recommendations for bringing about more equitable treatment of girls by schools, ranging from strengthened enforcement of federal laws prohibiting sex discrimination to the adoption of «gender fair» curricula.

The exhibit, in which 15 teachers demonstrated their work through posters, attracted an audience of graduate students, administrators, and educators from other communities, as well as representatives from Project Zero and the Center for Collaborative Education, an organization that partners with public schools and districts «to create and sustain effective and equitable schools.»

Third, I want to use my research to inform policy around early childhood and early intervention programs so that schools become more equitable and accessible for students from their first years of education.

The moral and equitable case for providing special ed vouchers is strong: some special ed students get a raw deal from the traditional public schools, which often are unable to provide the needed services or specialized teachers that a disabled student needs.

As Snehal Bhakta, from Clark County Schools, Zach Wagner, from Everfi, and Yvonne Kao, from WestEd, will show, it is only when STEM becomes grounded in real - world applications that transformational learning can take place and STEM become an equitable terrain for all.

The tipping point between enabling classroom technology affordances and producing negative side effects lies in a school's ability to leverage adult engagement and to design equitable and responsive technology programs from the onset.

Hill and Jochim indicate that students must be protected from discrimination and that the system must work toward equitable outcomes for all students, but provide the faulty argument that school choice leads to greater equity.

The school will draw from an area with a large population of low - income, diverse students and families, which aligns with its mission and vision to provide more equitable educational opportunities for all students.

While North Carolina continues on a path of disinvestment in public education, equitable and adequate school funding is perhaps more critical than ever now that children from low - income families make up the majority in the United States» public schools, according to a report released by the Southern Education Foundation earlier this year.

Many school systems have gotten the message that they need to be more data driven, and they are now awash in data - not just yearly student test scores, but figures on how different groups of students are doing in particular subjects or grade levels, how successful a school is at attracting and retaining teachers or closing the achievement gap among disadvantaged students, or how equitable funding is from school to school.

And unfortunately, those misunderstandings threaten to distract from the real issue at stake: families need a better way to find and enroll in public schools — one that is equitable, transparent and accessible for all Oakland families.

PEAPS - LA is working to reduce and ultimately eliminate the barriers that prevent families from having equitable access to great public school options.

According to EdWeek Market Brief's Michele Molnar, a new report from Allovue takes a look at school district spending patterns in the 2016 to 2017 school year, and highlights the challenges of tracking the «equitable use of resources across schools because of the way budgeting...

MARCH, 14 2018 Charter school advocates from across the state will gather at the Georgia Capitol with HB 787 sponsor Rep. Scott Hilton, the Georgia Charter Schools Association and other elected officials in support of more equitable funding for state charter sSchools Association and other elected officials in support of more equitable funding for state charter schoolsschools.

Results from PISA show that some countries succeed in securing high and equitable learning outcomes as well as rapid school improvements.

Its founders wanted to eliminate the normal neighborhood borders and provide students from across a wide geographical area equitable access to specialized and focused training,» explained Dr. Jeffrey Hodgson, Provost and CEO of New World School of the Arts.

At the OLN institute, Gil will be speaking to a group of education leaders and school staff from OLN member districts and representatives of organizations dedicated to equitable and successful outcomes for students across Oregon.

Engage in conversations with representatives from each school about what it takes to design equitable learning experiences and engage the whole child in deeper learning.

The LCFF is a much needed step in the right direction to ensure that all California schools receive equitable funds from the state.

This society - wide phenomenon shows that our education establishment allows traditional public schools to «get students they want» in ways that have prevented literally millions of families from having more equitable opportunity for generations.

While not every dollar a school spends directly improves academic outcomes, a new report from Rutgers school - finance expert Bruce Baker finds certain kinds of money very much do matter: extra funding for higher teacher salaries and more equitable distribution of resources between rich and poor districts, for example, are correlated with higher student achievement, especially for the neediest kids.

Our work to create a more equitable school system is far from over.

Along with putting a new Education Cost Sharing (ECS) formula into statute and moving away from — beginning in FY 2019 — the practice of allocating ECS funds to towns via arbitrary block grants, the ECS formula passed by the General Assembly incorporates several key elements to establishing a fair and equitable school funding system for Connecticut.

To me, it's completely unrelated to the agenda from Brown, which was about getting equal access to educational opportunities for students — you know, initially through desegregation, but the heritage of Brown is also a large number of school finance reform lawsuits that have been trying to advocate for equitable resource distribution between districts and schools.

The study also found that voucher programs harmed students from low - income families because many private voucher schools failed to provide equitable Title I services to eligible students.

Here's a repost from October — «And yet, in her 10/14 email and video about Foley's «Money Follows the Child» plan, Sheila Cohen states, «CEA supports public charter schools that are fully state funded in an equitable way.»

The principal also must support a school environment where diversity is valued and accepted and where students from diverse backgrounds and identities are affirmed, supported, and assured equitable educational opportunities and access to school and community - based support services.

Lessons from the Heartland: A Turbulent Half - Century of Public Education in an Iconic American City by Barbara J. Miner, former managing editor of Rethinking Schools, is both a narrative portrait of the struggles for equitable education in Milwaukee, and an exploration of the larger issues of race and class.

Hear student stories from across the nation that continue to overcome various disparities and how their schools are closing the equitable gaps.

In addition, the dollars coming from the state's Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) targeted student population funds — the dollars intended to be the most equitable — disproportionately favor high schools in LA Unified.

However, to make success in college and career a reality for Carver students and students from other high - need schools in Los Angeles, equitable funding is needed to provide significantly more tangible resources to schools and students who need it most.

We wish that our Governor and State Education Department would pay attention to the need for equitable class sizes, rather than their current focus on taking control of our public schools away from our communities and putting them into the hands of private corporations.»

The new School Performance Framework from OUSD is a much more equitable, comprehensive, and developmental.

However, this requires support from leadership, adequate and equitable resources from the school / district and effective partnerships with parents, communities and businesses to support such instruction.

As Democrats and Republicans alike race to claim victory on ESSA for their parties, now more than ever it is crucial to shift the conversation back to the students the law was designed to help: those from low - income areas whose schools have traditionally lacked access to equitable education resources.

The Court used its equitable powers to waive a particular requirement of a court rule concerning admission to the bar, and more specifically the law school accreditation requirement set out in S.J.C. Rule 3:01, § 3.3, that an applicant have graduated from a law school accredited by the ABA.

The fact that an action might be maintained by taxpayers or that an action might be maintained by patrons of a public school system, provided sufficient facts are alleged to show that complainants are entitled to the relief sought, will not save the instant petition from dismissal where it fails to allege positively what in fact is the petitioners» basis for seeking equitable relief.

To start, we collected data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), including both for - profit and nonprofit schools, ensuring an equitable comparison of all institutions.