Sentences with phrase «high needs communities for»

«These schools would provide a high quality, culturally relevant curriculum; health, social and emotional services in high needs communities for both students and their families; and sahre best practices across the state and nation,» she wrote in the letter.

Not exact matches

The mission the community decides upon must appeal to a higher, long - term sense of purpose, but for a community to work the collaboration needs to produce immediate benefits for each set of constituents.

«It really comes down to this combination of funding and mentoring — the two key areas high - growth startups need,» says Michael Goldberg, visiting assistant professor of design and innovation at Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management where he created an online course that uses Cleveland as a model for other communities.

It will work closely with utilities to identify high - priority, cost - effective opportunities for improved solutions, ensure that the innovation community is addressing the needs of the system, and will support the adoption of standards - based programs like Green Button to drive both domestic and export market opportunities.

This trend was driven by inadequate access to startups across verticals, limited exposure to high - quality deal flow, and the need for startups to achieve their fundraising goals from the small number of active angels in their community.

The United States, averaging over 40 per cent, is a strange anomaly for sociological commentators — one often explained by denying that the higher U.S. rate is an expression of greater national religiosity, and suggesting that in America religion fulfills certain nonreligious needs: for sociability and community, for example.

Though I myself welcome the recent cultural ascendancy of the community question, I need to admit and then to face honestly three further difficulties that have attended this development before I can then proceed to demonstrate the need for the cultivation of certain religious virtues within communities of higher learning.

One aspect of the problem is administration; particularly in institutions of higher learning, treatment of various departments and their faculties is as discrete, isolated substances, seeking their own competing self interests, that need to be balanced, instead of a community of common inquiry embarked on the quest for a common vision.

In order to address this problem, high academic standards will need to be achieved in every school, and communities will have to provide the necessary resources for those students facing additional challenges.

The High 5 For Farmers program provides support directly to the farms where the organic coffee is produced by providing $ 10,000 to growers to complete much needed community based projects in education, health care, agricultural programs and farm development.

The Murray - Darling Basin Plan is a high level framework for managing the Basin's water resources to better meet the needs of the environment, communities and industry in the Basin.

Kathleen Wood, moderator of The Food - service Council for Women panel presented the Beacon Award to City Harvest's CEO, Jilly Stephens for her hard work to deliver rescued food to 500 soup kitchens, food pantries and other community food programs in New York City - free of charge and focused on ensuring that high - need communities receive more fresh produce.

Next we heard from Mark Terry, who gave a compelling comparison of his old school district — a low SES urban district with a high ELL population, an 85 % free / reduced qualifying rate, and a high need for meal and nutrition education services — and his current district, which is more affluent with a much lower free / reduced qualification rate and a community of parents who have high expectations for student success and a healthy lifestyle.

The Baby Box Company is working with hospitals, community health organizations, and the non-profit Babies Need Boxes Ohio to give away cardboard box beds, for every newborn in the state this year, in an effort to reduce high infant - mortality rates.

Pediatric Therapy Network (PTN) was founded in 1996 by a handful of therapists, parents and volunteers who envisioned an organization that would provide the community with high quality therapy, research and education as it relates to fostering the best possible outcomes for children with special needs.

With his election in November to a fourth term, Buffalo's chief executive, Byron Brown, has set himself up for high expectations from a community that needs strong and focused leadership.

Molinaro, who has been highly critical of Cuomo, said that while he won't run for the state's highest office, he believes New York needs «new leadership, new ideas and renewal of a spirit of community that too many of our elected officials have abandoned,» and he vowed to be an «ardent supporter» of whoever is ultimately tapped by the GOP.

Despite the urgent need for affordable housing uptown, Jackson indicated that Sherman Plaza would not be a good deal for the community, as the affordability level of many of the units would still be too high.

Per - pupil funding levels should be adequate across all programs and settings — both school districts and community based organizations — in order to support high - quality pre-k for 3 - and 4 - year - olds, and the state should establish a timeline for ensuring adequate resources while expanding access to all eligible children, particularly in high - need communities.

The metro mayor will need to set the agenda on this, convening the business community, universities and skills providers, and highlighting the importance of high quality apprenticeships for residents and businesses, as well as matching apprenticeships with businesses from different areas of the city region.

«Two days of testing is a natural next step, as long as the assessments continue to cover the material needed to truly measure every student's strengths and challenges, and the changes are implemented carefully and with the input of educators and communities,» High Achievement New York, which advocates for higher standards, said in a statement.

«Downtown residents are in great need of recreational space and the Stuyvesant High School Community Center has served our community well for 20 yearCommunity Center has served our community well for 20 yearcommunity well for 20 years.»

Bill Owens, a Plattsburgh lawyer and community leader who served in the House from 2009 to 2015, gave Clinton high marks for effectiveness and responsiveness to upstate needs.

In February, 200 public school parents from communities across New York City traveled to the State Capital in Albany for a special panel co-sponsored by State Senator Kevin Parker and StudentsFirstNY on the need for high - quality school options in our communities.

«The way this society said we are going to pay for high school because you need high school, this society should say we're going to pay for college because you need college to be successful,» Cuomo told a crowd at LaGuardia Community College in Queens.

We already know, for example, that members of Black and Minority Ethnic communities have a higher risk of illnesses such as high blood pressure that may lead to the need for an organ transplant.

BEDFORD - STUYVESANT — The city is expanding its network of «community» schools, where high - needs students are given extra supports like mental and physical health services, as well as longer school days for expanded learning time and social services for their families, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday.

There was something for everyone on the menu: using Apple technology, developing research - based practices to teach students in the early grades, engaging students through digital instruction, understanding the new teacher evaluation system as set by state law, preventing high - risk student behaviors and how Community Learning Schools meet the needs of students and their families.

«Pre-K has the highest impact for kids from low - income communities, kids of color, so in the very districts that probably can't afford it is exactly where we need it.»

The time has come for the DOE to use this last space to fulfill our local Lower Manhattan needs for high school seats, which our community can and will use.»

Another $ 40,000 went to North Star Fund as a matching grant «to educate and organize grassroots communities on the need for high - quality, universal Pre-K and after - school and the UPKNYC plan to pay for these critical investments,» said a campaign spokesman.

We support the governor's proposed $ 150 million for the creation of new community schools in high - needs districts, but we hope the state will increase this funding to $ 200 million and provide it as categorical aid to adequately support schools.

Speaking at the Inauguration of a one of the Community Day Senior High Schools at Kwaobaah Nyanoa in the Eastern Region, Mahama argued that his first four years in office was spent on improving the social infrastructure of the country which has been in dire need of a face - lift for some time now.

«We need a planning process that is equal to the scale and complexity of the challenge, rather than continuing to depend on piecemeal efforts that put wildlife species and human communities at higher risk in the face of global pressures like climate change and a race for resources.»

Our findings underscore the need for supportive services in higher education to integrate student veterans into campus communities and refer them to mental healthcare resources toward improving their academic success.»

While building a community and giving teachers a venue where they can share ideas is among the important goals of the yearly Noyce Summit, this year's event also advanced a $ 3.7 million AAAS initiative, funded by NSF, to help stimulate research and foster evidence - based innovations in the preparation of STEM teachers for high - need schools.

But for the most part, Beyrer says, the failure to get PrEP to the people who need it most — those who are HIV negative and are at high risk of infection — and the backsliding in terms of civil liberties for the gay community in nations such as Russia, Nigeria and Uganda have contributed to the continued high HIV rates among gay men.

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Hence, for many labs, the time and money needed to make high quality pluripotent stem cells available to the broad research community is beyond their means.

«The higher number of black and Hispanic children now being identified with autism could be due to more effective outreach in minority communities, and increased efforts to have all children screened for autism so they can get the services they need,» he added in an agency news release.

While states under ESSA need to identify for intervention only the lowest performing 5 percent of schools, high schools with graduation rates under 67 percent, and some unspecified percentage of schools in which at - risk subgroups are underperforming, the National Governors Association reports that «40 percent of all students and 61 percent of students who begin in community colleges enroll in a remedial education course at a cost to states of $ 1 billion a year.»

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

(41) Above all, tertiary education is a weapon to change a refugee situation and, finally, the primary vehicle by which they can meaningfully engage with various stakeholders, such as hosting communities, local authorities, hosting state government, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and a home country's government (in the case of a need to return arises).

Instead we need to be doing what an increasing number of schools like another Arizona - based school, the Carpe Diem Collegiate High School and Middle School, are doing and disrupting that flawed paradigm by implementing online learning to create a student - centric system — not to increase costs for the community through bond measures or otherwise, as the article reports — but to use existing resources to prioritize student learning and achieve great results.

Participating states would have to «coordinate high schools, community colleges, and four - year institutions to reduce the need for remediation and repeated courses; and allocate a significant portion of funding based on performance.»

Long - term ELLs — those who haven't reclassified after five years — often drop out of high school or graduate without the skills needed to train for a job or pass a community college class.

In recent years (or even in recent decades), it has become all too common for folks to accept that our «best» teachers are the ones going to the well - funded, suburban schools, while our high - need schools — be they in urban or rural communities — are left wanting.

Alum.us is an online engagement platform that provides alumni networks for public high schools and community colleges with an aim to help give back to schools in need.

So Pixar, Churchill, and the needs of the school community all helped me lay out a blueprint for transforming our library into a constant learning organization — by creating a virtual campus for New Milford High School.

Troubled by high percentages of students who are not ready for credit - bearing work when they enter community college — and low graduation rates for students who enter needing remediation — Tennessee is experimenting with a different approach.