Sentences with phrase «great public schools in our communities»

More families across our state deserve the opportunity to send their children to these great public schools in our communities.

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Mr Brown continued: «We need responsible parents and empowered local communities working in partnership with our great public institutions - schools, colleges, children's centres - to provide a shared response.»

Poloncarz noted the impact poverty in the county has on the greater community along with several actions his administration has undertaken to address poverty and its myriad effects, including the imminent opening of the new Erie County Health Mall; a new partnership with Catholic Health, the Buffalo Public Schools and the Say Yes program to expand social work, mental health services, and clinics into Buffalo Public schools; and increased collaborations with partners to bolster workforce develSchools and the Say Yes program to expand social work, mental health services, and clinics into Buffalo Public schools; and increased collaborations with partners to bolster workforce develschools; and increased collaborations with partners to bolster workforce development.

And, compared to the earliest days of the movement, greater numbers of community leaders, elected officials, and philanthropies support public charter schools in their communities.

If the skeptics are right, Wood writes, Common Core «will damage the quality of K — 12 education for many students; strip parents and local communities of meaningful influence over school curricula; centralize a great deal of power in the hands of federal bureaucrats and private interests; push for the aggregation and use of large amounts of personal data on students without the consent of parents; usher in an era of even more abundant and more intrusive standardized testing; and absorb enormous sums of public funding that could be spent to better effect on other aspects of education.»

If we in the charter community respond with robust growth of high - quality schools, we will surely see greater public understanding from all quarters.

At Denver Public Schools (DPS) and in every district in Rhode Island, family and community engagement empowers parents to be partners in creating great sSchools (DPS) and in every district in Rhode Island, family and community engagement empowers parents to be partners in creating great schoolsschools.

NEA Leader Stresses Goal of Great Public Schools for All Kids National Education Association president Dennis Van Roekel wants to give all students access to a quality education in part by working to close the achievement gap, seeking more funding for public schools, and increasing parent and community involvPublic Schools for All Kids National Education Association president Dennis Van Roekel wants to give all students access to a quality education in part by working to close the achievement gap, seeking more funding for public schools, and increasing parent and community involSchools for All Kids National Education Association president Dennis Van Roekel wants to give all students access to a quality education in part by working to close the achievement gap, seeking more funding for public schools, and increasing parent and community involvpublic schools, and increasing parent and community involschools, and increasing parent and community involvement.

As the debate on school choice heats up next week, I share this post as a voice in support of the nation's public schools, which remain the number 1 choice, a great option for families and communities across the country.

A month after Kentucky's governor and superintendent of public instruction began visiting each of the state's 120 counties to promote greater community involvement in education reform, members of the state legislature's joint education committee announced that they, 3 too, would leave the marble halls of Frankfort to discuss school improvements.

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The cost of busing, the harm that members of all racial communities feared that the Seattle Plan caused, the desire to attract white families back to the public schools, and the interest in providing greater school choice led the board to abandon busing and to substitute a new student assignment policy that resembles the plan now before us.

We grew up in similar communities and know the transformative power of great public schools like ours, which graduate virtually every student from high school and are engaged in innovative programs to support college matriculation and completion.

Mass IDEAS: Innovating Design in Education for All Students is helping communities across Massachusetts create the great public schools our students deserve by supporting bold education thinkers to turn their ideas for reimagining school into reality.

While the two massive victories mean a great deal to the education justice community who've been demanding the legislature fully fund public schools, the state education funding formula bill will now have to be passed in the House where it faces a serious uphill battle.

CSDC, a 501 (c)(3) non-profit corporation and Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), is celebrating 20 years of promoting innovation and excellence in education by financing and developing facilities for great public charter schools nationally.

The charter schools model offers a community a way to create a school that often has lower operating costs than traditional schools — particularly for employee compensation — and greater flexibility in class offerings, all funded with federal start - up money and a large portion of the annual per - pupil payment from the state for public school students.

«Today marks a great victory for local and community leadership in public education,» said Thomas J. Gentzel, Executive Director, National School Boards Association.

Published in January 2003, this report discusses three direct service programs designed to mobilize community support and leverage public resources to strengthen the public schools: Great Expectations, Readers to Achievers, and Incentives for New Educators.

The charter movement has transformed public education, and heralded in an era in which parents and communities can create schools of choice for their children and have greater flexibility and richer learning environments in exchange for added accountability.

Charter Schools Development Corporation, a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit corporation and Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), promotes innovation and excellence in education by helping charter school entrepreneurs and leaders finance, build, expand and replicate their school models, to create great public charter schools natiSchools Development Corporation, a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit corporation and Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), promotes innovation and excellence in education by helping charter school entrepreneurs and leaders finance, build, expand and replicate their school models, to create great public charter schools natischools nationwide.

Charter Schools Development Corporation, a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit corporation and Community Development Financial Institution, promotes innovation and excellence in education by helping charter school entrepreneurs and leaders finance, build, expand and replicate their school models, to create great public charter schools natiSchools Development Corporation, a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit corporation and Community Development Financial Institution, promotes innovation and excellence in education by helping charter school entrepreneurs and leaders finance, build, expand and replicate their school models, to create great public charter schools natischools nationwide.

IEL and its Coalition for Community Schools are working to ensure key principles are embedded in reauthorization, including incentives for public - private partnerships, success indicators to report on beyond basic achievement, stronger definitions of family and community engagement, and greater consultation with school stakCommunity Schools are working to ensure key principles are embedded in reauthorization, including incentives for public - private partnerships, success indicators to report on beyond basic achievement, stronger definitions of family and community engagement, and greater consultation with school stakcommunity engagement, and greater consultation with school stakeholders.

I strongly support the community school model, as does the great majority of Americans — in the latest PDK poll, 74 % of respondents said they would approve of giving their schools additional public money to provide wrap - around services focusing on mental health, nutrition, college counseling, and other needs.

Mary Najera, community liaison for Extera Public Schools and a veteran parent organizer who lives in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, said she was excited by the collaborative nature of Great Public Schools Now.

We are also asking educators to go back to their communities with the school success indicators developed by the NEA Great Public Schools project, and have discussions about what kinds of changes we all want to see in our schools, and how we can express our values through the school accountability system undeSchools project, and have discussions about what kinds of changes we all want to see in our schools, and how we can express our values through the school accountability system undeschools, and how we can express our values through the school accountability system under ESSA.

It means talking with parents and community activists worried about children with greater needs having access to fewer resources, local business leaders concerned about protecting the critical contributions of public schools to their local workforce and economy, and many others who have a stake in public education and our country's future.

Nearly 1,300 TFA corps members and alumni teach and lead across the Greater New Orleans community, and TFA corps members or alumni will be found in seven out of ten Orleans Parish public schools.

Dedicated to giving every child the chance to attend a great school, Civic Builders partners with the nation's best educators to create public charter school buildings in communities where the need is greatest.

PITTSBURGH In November, the Pennsylvania Interfaith Impact Network (PIIN) launched their Community Schools Campaign in conjunction with local AROS partner Great Public Schools PittsburgIn November, the Pennsylvania Interfaith Impact Network (PIIN) launched their Community Schools Campaign in conjunction with local AROS partner Great Public Schools Pittsburgin conjunction with local AROS partner Great Public Schools Pittsburgh.

Lucinda Mendez, Director of Transfer Schools at New Visions for Public Schools presented two of the awards and echoed this sentiment in her response to the event: «It was truly great to reconnect with so many members of the transfer school community and celebrate the people and the work.

The charter movement transformed public education, and heralded in an era in which parents and communities can create schools of choice for their children and have greater flexibility and richer learning environments in exchange for added accountability.

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If you are interested in how schools, unions, and communities collaborate to create great public schools for every student, then look no further.

For instance AROS put forth a six - point platform that the national coalition has rallied behind including: greater investments in public schools and development of «sustainable community schools» that offer culturally relevant curricula, restorative practices and wrap - around services.

In fact, one can advocate for a much more expansive definition of public education: one that offers greater parental choice in a system that is responsive to local community and parental demand, while absolutely shunning for - profit elementary and secondary schoolIn fact, one can advocate for a much more expansive definition of public education: one that offers greater parental choice in a system that is responsive to local community and parental demand, while absolutely shunning for - profit elementary and secondary schoolin a system that is responsive to local community and parental demand, while absolutely shunning for - profit elementary and secondary schools.

«For us, it is really about the vision that instead of investing billions of dollars in a wall that divides our community, what we really should be doing is investing heavily in great public schools for our children,» said Blair, whose coalition represents groups like the Advancement Project and the Center for Popular Democracy.

«Our teachers are one of our city's greatest assets, and Relay's investment in educators in both our public and public charter schools is also an investment in our students and our communities.»

In partnership with the United Way, a dozen public school districts and higher learning institutions, local museums, local medical partners, and under the leadership and guidance of the YMCA of the USA, the YMCA of Greater Rochester continues to implement innovative programming that strengthens their communities, help children to be active and make healthy food choices, develop passions for arts and sciences, and strives to close the achievement gap.

Presenting Organizations Charter Board Council of New Orleans / / Eastbank Collaborative of Charter Schools / / Young Leadership Council / / Citizens for 1 Greater New Orleans / / Louisiana Association of Public Charter Schools / / Bureau of Governmental Research / / Scott S. Cowen Institute for Public Education Initiatives / / Black Alliance for Educational Options / / New Orleans Chamber of Commerce / / Urban League of Greater New Orleans / / Orleans Public Education Network (OPEN) / / EngageNOLA / / New Schools for New Orleans / / Neighborhood Partnership Network / / Algiers Economic Development Foundation / / New Orleans Regional Black Chamber of Commerce / / Puentes New Orleans / / Vietnamese Initiatives in Economic Training / / Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of LA / / NOLA Parent Organizing Network / / Greater New Orleans Education Foundation / / United Negro College Fund / / Baptist Community Ministries

Omid Amini of Denver Public Schools Department of Extended Learning Cecelia Auditore of Northeastern University, Center for Community Service Devan Blackwell of New Jersey Department of Education, Division of Student Support Services & Career Readiness Olu Burrell of DC Department of Employment Services Sara Cole of the YMCA Greater Rochester Dare Dukes of Deep Center Briana Flannery of For Kids Only Afterschool Andrew Fletcher of 21st Century Community Learning Centers Afterschool Program in Cassia County, ID Rudy Garcia of The New York Public Library Ian Hippensteele of Keiller Leadership Academy Rachel Katkar of St. Paul Public Schools Community Education Program Andrea Magiera - Guy of Youth Development Solutions Kendra Moore of City of Tallahassee Parks, Recreation, and Neighborhood Affairs Kimberly Newberry of Don Bosco Hall and Developing K.I.D.S. Ashley Peters of Wando Community Education Pamela Prevost of Maine Roads to Quality Elana Rosenberg of Expanded Learning, United Way of Rhode Island Julia Rugg of Wings for Kids Ana Thomas of the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago Sonia Toledo of Diginity of Children, Inc..

August 18, 2017, (LOS ANGELES, CA)-- With the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education set to discuss critical budgetary and policy decisions for the first time this term, Great Public Schools Now (GPSN), a nonprofit dedicated to identifying and replicating successful educational programs in underserved communities, today released additional results of its summer poll of Angelenos on the topic of education.

At a recent town hall held by Great Public Schools Now, Myrna Castrejón, the leader of the nonprofit seeking to expand excellent schools in Los Angeles, waded into the audience of parents, community members and LA Unified officials to ask what kind of schools they wanted for theiSchools Now, Myrna Castrejón, the leader of the nonprofit seeking to expand excellent schools in Los Angeles, waded into the audience of parents, community members and LA Unified officials to ask what kind of schools they wanted for theischools in Los Angeles, waded into the audience of parents, community members and LA Unified officials to ask what kind of schools they wanted for theischools they wanted for their kids.

Ongoing community engagement efforts to continue ahead of release of Great Public Schools Now Plan in 2016.

«The idea behind Great Public Schools Now is to do something that hasn't been done before - to focus on bringing the best education possible to students in communities in need, and not get bogged down in the politics.

Great Public Schools Now, a nonprofit formed to accelerate the growth of high - quality public schools in LA, held its first in a series of town halls with parents and community members from those Northeast San Fernando Valley neighborhoods to learn what they're looking for in scPublic Schools Now, a nonprofit formed to accelerate the growth of high - quality public schools in LA, held its first in a series of town halls with parents and community members from those Northeast San Fernando Valley neighborhoods to learn what they're looking for in sSchools Now, a nonprofit formed to accelerate the growth of high - quality public schools in LA, held its first in a series of town halls with parents and community members from those Northeast San Fernando Valley neighborhoods to learn what they're looking for in scpublic schools in LA, held its first in a series of town halls with parents and community members from those Northeast San Fernando Valley neighborhoods to learn what they're looking for in sschools in LA, held its first in a series of town halls with parents and community members from those Northeast San Fernando Valley neighborhoods to learn what they're looking for in schoolsschools.

The organization plans to continue these conversations with a broad cross-section of parents, educators, governmental leaders and community members before finalizing the Great Public Schools Now plan in 2016.

November 4, 2016 (LOS ANGELES, CA)-- Great Public Schools Now (GPSN), a non-profit organization committed to replicating successful schools in communities in need, released the following statement in response to a press release from United Teachers Los Angeles opposing GPSN's work with the Los Angeles Unified School DiSchools Now (GPSN), a non-profit organization committed to replicating successful schools in communities in need, released the following statement in response to a press release from United Teachers Los Angeles opposing GPSN's work with the Los Angeles Unified School Dischools in communities in need, released the following statement in response to a press release from United Teachers Los Angeles opposing GPSN's work with the Los Angeles Unified School District.

In 2015, A + Colorado and a coalition of Aurora - based community groups came together to inform the Aurora community and offer recommendations in the report If Not Now: Transforming Aurora Public Schools from Failing to GreaIn 2015, A + Colorado and a coalition of Aurora - based community groups came together to inform the Aurora community and offer recommendations in the report If Not Now: Transforming Aurora Public Schools from Failing to Greain the report If Not Now: Transforming Aurora Public Schools from Failing to Great.