Sentences with phrase «great public schools like»

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.

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Like Malcolm X, DuBois did extremely well in the public schools of the town of Great Barrington, Massachusetts, where he grew up.

In public life — driving people to do great things, like setting up schools, creating public services, leading the way in charitable acts.

Things like our vital public services, our schools, our police, housing, and our great national achievement, our NHS.

The great public institutions like Kings College, the Government Colleges at Umuahia, Ibadan, Zaria or Ughelli — once the great national pride of Nigeria — are as a result underfunded and abandoned, so that the private, for profit secondary schools, may now thrive.

In September, he joined thousands of Bronx families and advocates like me at the #PathToPossible rally in Prospect Park, giving an inspiring speech about the power of a great public education and supporting our effort to grow New York City's public charter schools to 200,000 students by 2020.

The 85 year old filmmaker is probably more well - known for his examinations of public institutions in films like Welfare (1975), Titicut Follies (1967), At Berkeley (2013) or High School (1968, followed by a sequel in 1994), but he's also one of cinema's great chroniclers of art as work.

What is needed is a competitive certification process that establishes key criteria for entry into the teaching profession; gives public schools greater freedom to hire and fire teachers; and treats teachers like professionals and their schools like professional institutions by allowing them to tailor professional development to meet the needs of teachers.

If you think that sounds like a great environment for student teachers to learn great teaching from the start, the iZone initiative of Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) agrees.

Comprehensive school reform has been identified by both Democratic and Republican administrations and Congress as a key strategy in turning around the country's lowest performing schools, but this fact does not make NAS just like any other education group in D.C. Instead, it means that after a great deal of review, comprehensive school reform emerged as one of the country's best hopes for public school improvement on a grand scale.

Even if 1 in every 10 of these graduates entered teaching for two years (average tenure at KIPP - like No Excuses charter schools) before moving onto other careers, they would provide only 6 percent of the some 450,000 teachers currently working in the member districts of the Council of Great City Schools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school syschools) before moving onto other careers, they would provide only 6 percent of the some 450,000 teachers currently working in the member districts of the Council of Great City Schools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school sySchools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school systems).

Although a few members have been prominent supporters of charter school expansion, the group has tended to support traditional public - school interests like greater funding for struggling schools and pay raises for teachers rather than choice proposals.

The Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools board voted 7 - 2 Tuesday night to reject an application by Great Hearts Academies, a nonprofit that operates prep - school - like charter schools, for five new establisSchools board voted 7 - 2 Tuesday night to reject an application by Great Hearts Academies, a nonprofit that operates prep - school - like charter schools, for five new establisschools, for five new establishments.

Being Los Angeles based, you are likely aware of the changes in the LAUSD Board, the success of many charter schools, their unique approach, the importance of groups like The Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, Great Public Schools Now, ExED, and schools, their unique approach, the importance of groups like The Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, Great Public Schools Now, ExED, and Schools, Great Public Schools Now, ExED, and Schools Now, ExED, and others.

Her desire to transform hypothetical, ideological speculation into serious science is captured in sentences like this: «From a purely mathematical perspective, vouchers have a greater potential for increasing segregation in public schools than for increasing integration.»

Each such educational firm, or edfirm for short, functions like an independent contractor within the school district (with some requirements, to ensure much greater equity than is typical in public schools today) and is not controlled by the district office.

Public charter schools like Side by Side are beating the odds to provide a great education for their students.

Carmen Avalos, city clerk for the South Gate community of Los Angeles and a mother of six children, four of whom attend charter schools, said the Great Public Schools Now plan has been greatly anticipated by parents of color like herself who have endured what she called a «two - tiered system.schools, said the Great Public Schools Now plan has been greatly anticipated by parents of color like herself who have endured what she called a «two - tiered system.Schools Now plan has been greatly anticipated by parents of color like herself who have endured what she called a «two - tiered system.»

I do feel that if you can actually visit places — like you've got a great museum that's in your town, or if your school district has the resources to take your students to Washington D.C. or a national park — definitely take that opportunity first, but you know school budgets are, you know, not always the (especially in a public school district like I teach) sometimes you're kind of limited.

Vista Charter Public Schools, like almost all charter schools, are here to provide a great and unique education choice for all parents and stSchools, like almost all charter schools, are here to provide a great and unique education choice for all parents and stschools, are here to provide a great and unique education choice for all parents and students.

Think how public schools would flourish if they were funded like they should be, and if the country got behind one great public school system!

There are some great district public schools that don't use admissions tests... sure wish there was more discussion of those and more questioning of elite quasi private schools like the one mentioned above.

«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.

The Death and Life of the Great American School System excoriates the reform movement, arguing there's virtually no evidence that any of the agenda — school choice, testing, and the like — have improved public educSchool System excoriates the reform movement, arguing there's virtually no evidence that any of the agenda — school choice, testing, and the like — have improved public educschool choice, testing, and the like — have improved public education.

In addition to monetary compensation, public school teachers may also enjoy greater benefits (like health insurance) compared to other occupations.

Through her network of nonprofits and political - action committees such as American Federation for Children and the Great Lakes Education Project, DeVos is pushing to direct public money into private religious schools like Potter's House.

I envision them continuing along a collaborative path with partners like LAUSD, Educators 4 Excellence, Families in Schools and Great Public Schools Now to move educational equity to the next level at district and charter schoolsSchools and Great Public Schools Now to move educational equity to the next level at district and charter schoolsSchools Now to move educational equity to the next level at district and charter schoolsschools alike.

While families with greater means can move to neighborhoods with public schools they like, or pay twice for education by opting for a private school, lower - income families often don't have those options.

Since poverty, language barriers and the need for special education services are the demographics that have the greatest impact on standardized test scores, perhaps these charts and the CTMirror article will remind the media and public officials that next time Jumoke claims that schools like theirs are such a success, and schools like Milner are such failures, they will look deeper into the different populations schools serve.

The charter expansion plan, known as the Great Public Schools Now Initiative, seeks to raise nearly a half billion dollars by tapping wealthy charter school supporters like the Walton Family Foundation, which has led UTLA to dub it the «Broad - Walmart plan.»

«It would be great if all the politically energized public school supporters turn their attention to things that are less visible but higher impact — like how the federal government will permit states to implement accountability under the new ESSA law.

«There are people who got a really great education in New Orleans public schools prior to Katrina, and they also had things like football, band, arts programs that supported their whole experience,» La Roche says.

And think of the message that «we need to make all public schools great» sends to parents like me who are making decisions for their children's education right now.

The Public School Forum once again addressed the need for much greater accountability in school choice alternatives like private school vouSchool Forum once again addressed the need for much greater accountability in school choice alternatives like private school vouschool choice alternatives like private school vouschool vouchers.

The fracas eventually culminated in the creation of the ad - hoc organization Action Against Racism in the Arts (AARA) and ushered in an era of lively public debates about institutional racism in the art world.1 As a result of this sort of multicultural activism and affirmative action policies, elite art schools like Yale came under greater political pressure to accept students of color.

«We have really good schools; a very, very low crime rate; great public spaces like an in - town square; and we're actively developing entertainment venues.