Sentences with phrase «help improve public education»

While I regret the incident at our TEACH Conference, in an ironic way, it has given me and the AFT the opportunity to promote our belief in working in partnership with anyone who wants to help improve public education.

The Mind Trust regularly engages Indianapolis leaders, stakeholders and parents in «community conversations,» which explore various topics in education and innovative ideas and programs that can help improve public education in Indianapolis and beyond.

School choice is a positive reform that will help improve public education.

Billions in federal economic - stimulus dollars are slated to be spent to help improve public education, but Americans relying on traditional news outlets are likely to find out little, if anything, about what that effort might mean for the schools in their communities, a new report suggests.

The 2,000 - odd respondents said companies should help improve public education, for example.

«If charters are going to succeed in helping improve public education, accountability must go from being rhetoric to reality.»

Not exact matches

§ 49-6-1007 (2008) requires public school instruction to include character education to «help each student develop positive values and improve student conduct.»

I think the discussion of the 2 republicanisms, and 2 communitarianisms can help social democrats come up with policies to improve public services like education, healthcare, and identify new labour laws worth implementing.

According to Gillibrand's office, the legislation would help improve nutrition and enhance learning in under - served areas by better integrating summer education and meals programs, making it easier for public - private partner organizations to participate in the summer meals program, and by providing a third meal for children who attend evening enrichment programs.

«The results of this study should help us to improve brain health by developing new dietary guidelines for clinical use and for public health education.»

The news comes as the Government launches an LGBT survey which aims to understand the experiences of LGBT individuals across the UK and help identify ways to improve public services for LGBT users, including health and education.

«We would like all teachers and schools, both public and private, to be aware that the SchoolNotes.com service is available to help facilitate family - school - community partnerships that strengthen education by improving communication,» said Bocinsky.

Ten years after the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP) began as a collaboration between the Ed School and the Harvard Business School to see how business strategies could be used to help public schools improve student performance, what has been the program's iPublic Education Leadership Project (PELP) began as a collaboration between the Ed School and the Harvard Business School to see how business strategies could be used to help public schools improve student performance, what has been the program's ipublic schools improve student performance, what has been the program's impact?

A joint initiative of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Harvard Business School, the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP) evolved out of the desire to improve the management and leadership competencies of public school leaders in order to help improve student perforPublic Education Leadership Project (PELP) evolved out of the desire to improve the management and leadership competencies of public school leaders in order to help improve student perforpublic school leaders in order to help improve student performance.

For now, I hope that more parents will begin to recognize that standardized tests provide invaluable information that can help us move toward equity in public education and improve the system for everyone.

89, Ed.D.» 94, president and CEO of the Arizona Community Foundation, explains, «Through forums and public education campaigns, Expect More Arizona will help broaden the base of people who are interested in seeing policies passed to improve education throughout the state.»

The DoED might also provide modest funding and technical assistance to help demographically similar states work together to improve their public education systems.

Philanthropic leaders who support Alliance share a passion for improving our nation's public education and want to directly help the city's most under - served communities...

• Overwhelming parental support for the following elements of an education agenda: Provide extra resources to turn around struggling neighborhood schools; hold charter schools accountable; provide more support / training for struggling teachers; expand / improve new - teacher mentoring; reduce class sizes, especially in the early grades; make public schools hubs of the neighborhood with longer hours, academic help and health services for families; provide extra pay for teachers in hard - to - staff schools; and ensure access to high - quality preschool for all 3 - and 4 - year - olds.

The concept was created to help improve our nation's public education system and offer parents another option to meet their children's needs.

FERTIG: But U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has said rankings can still help teachers improve and should be shared with the public.

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 and expand their school models, with the goal of ultimately improving student achievement by increasing school choice within the American public education system.

We help charter school entrepreneurs and leaders finance, build, expand and replicate their school models, turning educational visions into reality, with the goal of ultimately improving student achievement by increasing school choice and catalyzing competition within the American K - 12 public education system.

School Board Leadership Resource Center and Center for Public Education Briefing Room: These two resources bring you school improvement research, best practices and examples from high - performing school systems, and expert guidance that can help your school board set a course for improving student achievement and district excellence.

First introduced around the country in the early 1990s, the concept was created to help improve our nation's public education system and offer parents another option to meet their children's needs.

CSDC has a special focus on new schools, and helps charter school entrepreneurs and leaders finance, build, expand and replicate their school models, turning educational visions into reality, with the goal of ultimately improving student achievement by increasing school choice and catalyzing competition within the American K - 12 public education system.

Nor does the fact that vouchers have not only improved education for the kids who have taken advantage of them, but also help those kids who remain in nearby public schools.

As the only CDFI in the country focused exclusively on the facility and financing needs of charter school organizations, CSDC helps charter school entrepreneurs and leaders finance, build and expand their school facilities with the goal of ultimately improving student achievement by increasing school choice and catalyzing competition within the American public education system

CSDC helps charter school entrepreneurs and leaders finance, build, expand and replicate their school models, turning educational visions into reality, with the goal of ultimately improving student achievement by increasing school choice and catalyzing competition within the American K - 12 public education system.

Although we know you are acutely aware of the connections between health and education — and are working hard to improve both in your local areas — we need you to help us spread the word among other education professionals, public health partners and parents!

Akshai is also the lead founder and board member of DeansList, an education software company that helps high - performing schools nationally use data to improve results, and he is a part - time instructor at the Arizona State University (ASU) Public Service Academy.

Further, the compendium shows a clear effort by the education community to share successes and knowledge to help improve public schools, and ultimately, student learning.

Brenda Berg, CEO of BEST NC, a coalition of business executives committed to improving North Carolina's public education system, says she too has helped shape the bill over time.

«Quality talent is the single most important driver in creating and supporting great schools,» said Chris Barbic, Superintendent of the Achievement School District in Memphis, Tenn. «We're excited to partner with Education Pioneers to help expand the pipeline of great people working to improve public educatioEducation Pioneers to help expand the pipeline of great people working to improve public educationeducation.»

EmpowerDC.org: A citywide membership - based organization, Empower DC is dedicated to effecting social change through a democratic, self - help empowerment approach to community organizing working on issues including affordable housing, quality affordable child care, preserving public property and improving public education.

The concept was created to help improve our nation's public education system and offer parents another option to meet their child's needs.

With more than 3 million public school teachers in the United States, it is not possible to improve education simply by dismissing those who earn unsatisfactory ratings without also helping teachers improve their practice.

What happens when you gather educators committed to improving public education, help them brush up on their organizing skills...

To help eliminate confusion among stakeholders and to improve credibility of the Utah public school system, the Utah State Board of Education approved a resolution calling for a single, coherent student achievement accountability system for Utah.

Whether it's growing to serve more students, improving academic outcomes for historically underserved students, protecting our most vulnerable students so they can focus on learning, or developing innovations that are working their way into all public schools throughout the state, CCSA members have played a catalytic role helping public education improve for all California students.

We challenge our students and educators every day with ways to raise the bar on achievement, and help to improve best practices in public education, to the benefit of all Rhode Island's students.

He has also served as Director of the Hyde Family Foundation's K - 12 education portfolio and provided strategic guidance to grantees and helped identify and invest in promising new organizations (local and national) to help drastically improve the public education system in Memphis.

So, in five years I hope we're able to help even more schools across the nation to improve public education as a whole.

Texas AFT actively works to better the profession of educators by promoting effective public education policy and laws to help improve the pay and working conditions of our teachers, nurses, counselors and other professionals.

Her passion for reinventing education led Shelli to found UPforEd, a grassroots, non-profit organization that works with parents, teachers and community members to help support public schools and improve student outcomes.

«Myrna brings decades of experience in education to Great Public Schools Now, especially the ways that charter schools have helped to improve educational outcomes for students in need,» said Bill Siart, Chairman of Great Public Schools Now.

The idea was that the key policies and practices that affect the success of school leaders — the standards that define high - quality leadership and provide a basis for holding leaders accountable; the training that prepares leaders for their role as catalysts for learning; and the range of conditions and incentives that help or hinder those leaders — are most likely to be successful and sustained if they are both well - coordinated and aligned to the goal of improved student learning at all levels of public education: state, district and school.

We work every day to help improve K - 12 public education by providing exemplary services for administrators.

Specific provisions included scholarships and loans to students in higher education, with loans to students preparing to be teachers and to those who showed promise in the curricular areas of mathematics, science, engineering, and modern foreign languages; grants to states for programs in mathematics, science, and modern foreign languages in public schools; the establishment of centres to expand and improve the teaching of languages; help to graduate students, including fellowships for doctoral students to prepare them to be professors at institutions of higher learning; assistance for the improvement of guidance, counseling, and testing programs; provisions for research and experimentation in the use of television, radio, motion pictures, and related media for educational purposes; and the improvement of statistical services at the state level.

But has all this money, dumped into states without public comment or hearings, actually helped improve education outcomes for students?