Sentences with phrase «hold their school systems»
Federal guidance remains essential for holding our school systems accountable at the local level and for keeping this issue at the center of the national dialogue so that we can bring an end to racial and discipline disparities and support all students to succeed in communities across our nation.
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Twenty - three major organizations from across the country also signed a letter sent to Secretary DeVos, in which they stressed: «This federal guidance remains essential for holding our school systems accountable at the local level and for keeping this issue at the center of the national dialogue so that communities can work together to create solutions that bring an end to racial and discipline disparities and provide support so that all students can succeed in our nation.»
I encourage stakeholders to hold their school systems accountable in the following ways to help build advocacy and voter engagement.
And one way we are doing that is by empowering and engaging parents of our most vulnerable students, as well as working with local leaders and civil rights groups, in the fight to improve their child's elementary and secondary education and helping them to hold school systems accountable when it comes to their children's future.
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For example, the US Department of Education's Race to the Top Fund, which offered $ 4 billion in grants to states that developed successful educational reforms, spurred innovations that hold promise for school systems across the country.
Further, if one removes the emotional aspect from whichever belief is held, it must be conceded that Ham did offer an objective and indisputable fact concerning how the public school system has intentionally excluded the intelligent design argument.
Looking back I feel I was held hostage in our (American) school system until I was sixteen years old.
Groomed by the American system for some job like the one he holds — high school at Roxbury Latin, undergrad at Yale (and president of Yale's prestigious Political Union in his last year there), law school at Harvard — he belongs to a type of quiet and careful civil servant that Caesar Augustus would have recognized.
Many school systems only allow students to miss a certain number of days a year, or risk the possibility of being held back.
If your toddlers seem to have above - average abilities, it might be a good idea to begin research into home - based learning at once rather than have them suffer years of boredom, being held back in the school system.
They've certainly been smart enough to game the system into serious real estate holdings and an expensive private school.
Shimon Waronker, the embattled superintendent of the Hempstead school district, was placed on administrative leave by the district's school board majority — an action, which if it holds up, will ban the former New York City educator from intervening in the operations of Long Island's most troubled school system.
Governor Cuomo's Commission on education reform got an earful at a public hearing held at the State Capitol today, as speaker after speaker complained about a statewide school system that they say is in disarray.
«Holding the public - school system hostage for charter - school expansion isn't right,» said Kallos, who represents the Upper East Side.
When de Blasio lost his hold on education policy in June, he warned that corruption and chaos would return if the school system reverted back to the control of its educational board.
Before people filled the auditorium at Hoosick Falls Junior - Senior High School for a state Senate hearing chaired by Marchione on the Hoosick Falls and Petersburgh water crises and other water quality issues, Shaun Francis held a news conference to unveil a billboard critical of his opponent's response to the discovery of perfluorooctanoic acid, a suspected cancer - causing chemical, in both the village water system and wells in the village and surrounding town of Hoosick.
On his radio show this morning, the mayor held out little hope for a deal and said Gov. Cuomo would have to intervene to save prevent severe cuts in the school system.
We are proud that the final agreement not only includes these longstanding priorities of our conference but also makes significant investments in our public education system, community schools, and struggling schools while holding the line on tuition increases at our SUNY and CUNY institutions.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The Rochester City School District held a press conference detailing their system's issues that they say failed Trevyan and his family.
«Earlier this year, my office held a number of community forums throughout New York City to discuss the future of public schools and it became clear that New Yorkers will no longer allow their voices to be drowned out of our schools system.»
«People have every right to hold me absolutely and totally accountable for everything that happens in their school system, and if they find my efforts insufficient, they literally can choose to remove me, because we have a scheduled election,» de Blasio told state lawmakers, among them Assembly Ways and Means Committee Chairman Denny «Herman» Farrell (D - Manhattan).
Other schools and school systems use NAPLAN to hold teachers and school leaders accountable for improvement, including making test results part of performance reviews.
Hofstra University was chosen to hold a 2012 presidential debate, making it one of only two schools to host back - to - back debates since the modern debate system was created more than two decades ago.
«Students in New York schools should not be held hostage by legislators kowtowing to the special interests that have created our broken education system,» said Tenicka Boyd, the group's Director of Organizing.
«Funding for New York State schools should not be held hostage due to the ongoing debate over how best to reform our education system.
[Cuomo is reportedly holding back a promised 4 - percent increase in school aid in exchange for a tougher teacher evaluation system.
«The reforms in this Budget build upon measures implemented last year to create an educational system that ensures every child has an opportunity to succeed, and holds schools and teachers accountable for the results they achieve.»
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Back in 2001, the Partnership for New York City worked closely with legislative leaders to design the laws that replaced a dysfunctional and highly politicized system of central and community school boards with a governance system that holds the Mayor accountable for running the city schools.
The state significantly expanded its testing and funding for installation of private systems only after students from the Hoosick Falls school district held a press conference to ask Gov. Andrew Cuomo for help.
The city has estimated that, between new positions that would have to be created and the expense of holding community school board elections every three years, a return to a decentralized system would cost the city $ 125 million to $ 160 million a year.
Students from the Hoosick Falls school district held their own press conference in February to request a new water system, which they feel is exactly what the town needs to bounce back.
New York State's latest teacher evaluation system, which was supposed to be in place by Nov. 15, has essentially been put on hold as 90 percent of school districts have been granted waivers to delay its implementation.
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UFT President Michael Mulgrew praised the vote by the three teacher members of the New York City Teachers» Retirement System to sell the $ 13.5 million pension fund holdings in publicly traded securities of gun and ammunition manufacturers as «the right thing to do» in the wake of the December school shootings that left 20 children and six adults dead in Newtown, Conn..
New York has a 3 - to 4 - year probationary periods for new teachers and a new evaluation system, which established an expedited process allowing schools to hold teachers accountable based on teacher evaluation results.
The defendants falsely claimed that Parent Workshop would use member item funds secured by Huntley to hold workshops for and conduct outreach to parents on the workings of the New York City public school system.
ALBANY — Members of the Assembly's Democratic majority were angered Tuesday night over a plan they said was developed by Governor Andrew Cuomo and Senate Republicans to hold back a school funding increase until June, when an appointed commission would recommend a new teacher - evaluation system.
The state's latest teacher evaluation system, which was supposed to be in place November 15, has essentially been put on hold, as 90 percent of school districts have been granted waivers to delay its implementation.
While many previous studies proposed ways M1 might contribute to strep virulence, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences have uncovered a new explanation that may trump all others: M1's ability to hold off antimicrobial peptides — natural antibiotics that comprise one of the immune system's front lines of defense.
In only two weeks of driving, the district coordinator of science for the Port Chester, N.Y., public school system has driven at least 600 miles (965 kilometers) on the car and her fuel cell Equinox has gotten as much as 191 miles (307 kilometers) on its three full tanks (each holding slightly more than four kilograms, or 8.8 pounds, of compressed hydrogen gas).
The Stoughton public school system had three classes in elementary school: A, B, and C. I was put in the C class with the kids throwing spitballs at the teachers, the ones who had been held back.
«One of the responsibilities that we have as scientists, particularly those of us who receive public funding for our research, is to be engaged with the public about our understanding of the way that the world works and also about the limits of our understanding,» said the Stanford University researcher, who holds dual appointments with the School of Environmental Earth System Science and the Woods Institute for the Environment.
Horava, who now works at Triton Systems, collaborated with co-author and co-inventor Nicholas A. Peppas, the director of UT Austin's Institute for Biomaterials, Drug Delivery and Regenerative Medicine and a Cockrell School professor who also holds appointments in the Dell Medical School and School of Pharmacy.
Danny holds a JD from Stanford Law School and a PhD in Environment and Resources (E-IPER) from Stanford University, where he earned his MS in Management Science & Engineering and a BS with Honors in Earth Systems.
«In an Iyengar class, poses are typically held much longer than in other schools of yoga, so that practitioners can pay close attention to the precise muscular and skeletal alignment this system demands.
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If the momentum holds, a century - old pillar of the school system could crumble entirely, leading to dramatic transitions and potential pitfalls for students and schools alike.
«We do not believe there is capacity within the system to withdraw funding and powers for councils to support school improvement and hold schools to account in August 2017 as currently planned by the government.
But he believes the traditional arguments used to defend loose - coupling will grow weaker with time — particularly as market - model voucher systems, capitation grants, and charter schools take hold.