Sentences with phrase «help support public schools»

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.

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Which brings us back to Oona Stannard's clear and public statement on 25 February that the Government's «draft guidance is a positive step forward -LSB-... It] helps support schools in counteracting [false impressions of relationships] from within their own carefully planned SRE programmes.»

A concerted effort by government and industry will help more Scottish - grown food find its way onto menus in schools, hospitals and other public settings, to support Scotland's food and drink sector.

The fact that Nick agreed to support VH1 Save The Music to promotion music education in public schools, as well as MyWorkButterfly, a social network to help moms return to work and working moms trying to do it all, tells a woman all she needs to know.

Strong stakeholder support and a Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom grant were the keys to helping Grand Island Public Schools» director of nutrition services Kris Spellman implement a breakfast - in - the - classroom program.

We thank the North American Registry of Midwives Board for helping facilitate the study; Tim Putt for help with layout of the data forms; Jennesse Oakhurst, Shannon Salisbury, and a team of five others for data entry; Adam Slade for computer programming support; Amelia Johnson, Phaedra Muirhead, Shannon Salisbury, Tanya Stotsky, Carrie Whelan, and Kim Yates for office support; Kelly Klick and Sheena Jardin for the satisfaction survey; members of our advisory council (Eugene Declerq (Boston University School of Public Health), Susan Hodges (Citizens for Midwifery and consumer panel of the Cochrane Collaboration's Pregnancy and Childbirth Group), Jonathan Kotch (University of North Carolina Department of Maternal and Child Health), Patricia Aikins Murphy (University of Utah College of Nursing), and Lawrence Oppenheimer (University of Ottawa Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine); and the midwives and mothers who agreed to participate in the study.

I can not think of a better way to support and show them gratitude than by keeping my kids in public schools and volunteer or help in any way I can.

Since most countries have free government supported public schools, your education cost is less (even if you spend time helping your school do fund raising).

In addition to program support, Dawn and Shedd will roll out a pilot education - based program for Chicago Public Schools in early 2017 as part of the larger Dawn Helps Save Wildlife campaign.

For instance, the Administrator said through the Schools Support Project, the Foundation hoped to answer to infrastructural needs of schools in Lagos State and work with manufacturers of building and construction materials, building technology professionals and other well meaning sponsors to help refurbish and upgrade public schools, while the Foundation has so far won three awards for projects executed at Government Technical College, Agidingbi; St. Jude's Primary School, Ebute Metta and Ojokoro Community LSchools Support Project, the Foundation hoped to answer to infrastructural needs of schools in Lagos State and work with manufacturers of building and construction materials, building technology professionals and other well meaning sponsors to help refurbish and upgrade public schools, while the Foundation has so far won three awards for projects executed at Government Technical College, Agidingbi; St. Jude's Primary School, Ebute Metta and Ojokoro Community Lschools in Lagos State and work with manufacturers of building and construction materials, building technology professionals and other well meaning sponsors to help refurbish and upgrade public schools, while the Foundation has so far won three awards for projects executed at Government Technical College, Agidingbi; St. Jude's Primary School, Ebute Metta and Ojokoro Community Lschools, while the Foundation has so far won three awards for projects executed at Government Technical College, Agidingbi; St. Jude's Primary School, Ebute Metta and Ojokoro Community Library.

«These projects include the completion of the 2017 Farmland Protection Plan, with a grant from the NYS Department of Agriculture & Markets we have hired a Farm to School Marketing Coordinator to help our regions farmers sell locally produced food products to our public schools» lunch programs and with the support of the Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties, Oneida County Health Department, Oneida County Planning Department, Mohawk Valley Community College ThINCubator and the Mohawk Valley Food Policy Council we will be conducting an extensive study of the total Oneida County Food system.»

Wadleigh supporters say intense pressure from numerous politicians, including Rep. Charles Rangel, Assemblymen Keith Wright, state senator Bill Perkins, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, Comptroller John Liu and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, and even professor and activist Cornel West, helped to galvanize support for the school.

Public Preparatory Network, a network of three single - sex schools, launched a «Life Knowledge» course for eighth - graders, to help them envision futures where they won't have babies before they can support them.

Parochial and independent schools provide essential learning opportunities and help students grow just like public schools, and we should be doing everything we can to support them and the families that depend on them.

Confronted with public high school students in a jam with the law, NYC wants to connect these students with legal support and help them stay out of trouble in the first place.

It supports mental health outreach efforts to young people with a peer - to - peer component and was developed with the help of a funded graduate student internship through the University at Albany's School of Public Health.

Mr. Cuomo has also voiced support for a bill, backed by the Catholic Church and advocates of vouchers, that would offer tax credits to individuals and corporations who donate money to public schools, or to scholarship programs that help poor and middle - class students attend private schools.

In Spring Valley and Hillcrest, Jaffee's support of East Ramapo public schools helped her assemble a bloc vote of her own; she won the 19 districts there with 87 % of the vote, and crushed Chabot 6,127 to 738.

«This study demonstrates the critical need to invest in support services for boys, too — not only for their own protection, but to help prevent them from becoming abusers themselves,» said Whetten, who is also a professor in Duke's Sanford School of Public Policy.

President Obama's Fiscal Year 2014 budget proposal reflects a strong commitment to supporting research at our public universities while also providing financial assistance to help students pay for school.

Better than the performances themselves, though, is their broader purpose: all proceeds from Miscast help to fund MCC in its continual efforts to produce some of New York's most ambitious and original works of theater, as well as support its MCC Youth Company and in - school partnerships that serve public schools across New York City.

Funds raised from Miscast help MCC Theater produce new works Off - Broadway and support their Youth Company and partnerships that serve New York City public high school students.

The groups he has supported reads like a Who's Who of the brand of education reform that favors online learning and charter schools over traditional schools: According to the publication Education Next, his money helped start the NewSchools Venture Fund, a major funder of charter schools and ed tech start - ups, and Aspire Public schools, a charter school network.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

With the support of a flock of community allies ranging from Boston Children's Hospital to the Whole Foods grocery chain, the Boston Public Schools district is helping parents select and enroll in local schools through a program called Countdown to KinderSchools district is helping parents select and enroll in local schools through a program called Countdown to Kinderschools through a program called Countdown to Kindergarten.

He set about creating «a technical support and advisory group that would seek out the very best of these community leaders, give them the start - up funds and technical advice [finances, payroll system, health care program, implementing curriculum, relations with public authorities] they needed, and help them manage their own schools.»

I am pleased that there is a clear consensus emerging in this area — a consensus that moves away from the divisiveness of vouchers and toward support for partnership and investment in our public schools and helping families pay for college.

In 2016, 65 % of the public say they favor tax credits for donations to foundations that help low - income students attend private schools, reflecting a modest decline from 70 % support in 2013.

Riley cited the defeat of voucher initiatives in California and Michigan, stating that he is pleased by «a consensus that moves away from the divisiveness of vouchers and toward support for partnership and investment in our public schools and helping families pay for college.»

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There are limits on what the public should be asked to support financially; schools that don't help students reach basic proficiency in math and reading, in particular, don't deserve public subsidies.

Told about a proposal «that would give low - income families with children in public schools a wider choice, by allowing them to enroll their children in private schools instead, with government helping to pay the tuition,» 50 percent of the American public comes out in support and 50 percent expresses opposition.

He spent more than seven years as Executive Director of Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, where he helped to launch the Massachusetts Charter School Resource Center, which supported the development of the state's first charter schools.

For lots of reasons; D.C. has great school operators that are expanding; the charter law is quite good; the city has valuable support organizations; and public support has helped insulate the sector from unfounded attacks.

Overall, 43 percent of the uninformed American public support «a [universal voucher] proposal that would give families with children in public schools a wider choice by allowing them to enroll their children in private schools instead, with government helping to pay the tuition,» while just 37 percent oppose the idea, with the remainder taking no position on the issue.

Diagnosed in second grade with a learning disability, Grant says she was supported in her public schools in Massachusetts and Kentucky and feels the legislation helped her get the accommodations she needed as both a student and later as a teacher.

Hastings provided start - up funding for the Aspire Public Schools charter network and helped start and fund EdVoice, a lobbying group, and the NewSchools Venture Fund, which supports education entrepreneurs.

In 2002 he gave a private pledge to business leaders organized by Terence C. Golden, a former Reagan administration Treasury official and chief executive of Host Marriott, to support vouchers as part of a broader initiative to help charter and regular public schools.

At Albemarle County Public Schools, teacher - driven instructional coaching supports teachers in their professional development, helps them to engage their students in authentic learning, and spreads innovative practices district - wide.

For the most part, both the public as a whole and the various groups appear equally likely to support proposals that would use government funds to help pay the private school tuitions of either «low income students» or «all students.»

In 2013 when Newark Public Schools began to roll out blended learning in some of its K - 8 schools, the school leadership of both Quitman and Chancellor elementary schools knew that for it to succeed, they needed to support their teachers and help them shift their teaching prSchools began to roll out blended learning in some of its K - 8 schools, the school leadership of both Quitman and Chancellor elementary schools knew that for it to succeed, they needed to support their teachers and help them shift their teaching prschools, the school leadership of both Quitman and Chancellor elementary schools knew that for it to succeed, they needed to support their teachers and help them shift their teaching prschools knew that for it to succeed, they needed to support their teachers and help them shift their teaching practice.

«Educators across the country have struggled to identify a rich, engaging, and rigorous curriculum that will help them support students in meeting dramatically higher expectations,» said John E. Deasy, former superintendent of Los Angeles public schools.

Some of the lowest - performing urban public - school systems are also those that spend the most money per pupil — but despite Catholic schools» record of helping disadvantaged students learn, and despite their desperate need for financial resources, these institutions are denied any direct public support.

Require schools to provide all students with supportive staff to help them construct realistic schedules and financial plans, and ensure that they are screened for eligibility for all forms of financial aid and public benefits each year to support their college attendance.

«Charter Public Schools: Providing Educational, Economic, and Community Development in Urban America» will explore how charter schools can help support educational achievement and community centered development in urbanSchools: Providing Educational, Economic, and Community Development in Urban America» will explore how charter schools can help support educational achievement and community centered development in urbanschools can help support educational achievement and community centered development in urban areas.

Further, when told that a voucher system either could help public schools by making them compete or hurt them by reducing their funding, preference for only funding public schools rises to 67 %, compared to 26 % support for vouchers, a 41 - point gap.

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.

• 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.

And although Dreyer hopes the new support systems are effective, she says it's more important that the initiative helps reshape public discussion, and helps unearth what exactly contributes to the quality of a given virtual school.