Sentences with phrase «ideas with other public school»

As we grow, KIPP continues to seek opportunities to facilitate the exchange of ideas with other public school educators, so that we can all help students achieve at the highest levels.

Not exact matches

She shared some creative ideas on how anti-hunger groups can help school nutrition programs through initiatives like school meal application campaigns and grant writing, and she punctuated her points with success stories from DC Hunger Solutions and DC public schools, Ohio's Children's Hunger Alliance, and Project Bread, among others.

President Bush included business leaders, university presidents, union and association leaders, policy analysts, and a public - school teacher, among others, on his 24 - member education - policy advisory committee, established last fall to provide him with innovative ideas.

Three other corporate education reform industry groups, the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now, Inc. (ConnCAN), the Connecticut Council for Education Reform (CCER), and Achievement First, Inc. (the charter school management company with strong ties to the Malloy administration,) have spent nearly $ 100,000 more in recent weeks in a lobbying program designed to persuade legislators that it is good idea for them to cut funding for their own public schools, while increasing the taxpayer subsidy for the privately run charter schools.

The nonprofit KIPP Foundation trains and develops outstanding educators to lead KIPP schools; provides tools, resources and training for excellent teaching and learning; promotes innovation; and facilitates the exchange of insights and ideas both within the KIPP network and with partners including other public schools, non-profit organizations, and institutions of higher learning.

But according to NEA, the reforms suggested by DFER (and many other groups) have «acquired a bit of a stench over the last few years, as the ideas with which it is most closely associated — high stakes accountability, vouchers, merit pay, charter schools, not to mention teacher bashing — have not worn well with much of the public.»

Despite his fraught political history with charter schools, on the first day of class today Mayor Bill de Blasio said he wants to see charter and traditional public schools sharing ideas with each other more often.

2 For more ideas on how teachers can be integral to the change process, see the book I coauthored with 12 other teachers, Teaching 2030: What We Must Do for Our Public Schools — Now and In the Future (Teachers College Press, 2011).

The idea was unusual, maybe even unwise: Bring together people and organizations sometimes at odds with each other — the teachers union, the School Board, reporters, business leaders — and wrangle them into consensus and cooperation on challenges facing Madison public schools.

But I am writing today about the concerns I have with some of her other ideas about students and their public schools.

«I came up with the idea for The Empathy Gap Project after I realized it seems like we're having a harder and harder time putting ourselves in each other's shoes,» Zalcman said in a video addressed to the students of the Inspired Teaching Public Charter School, one of Pulitzer Center's D.C. education partners.

Using Education Savings Accounts to fund private school tuition and other private education costs is a terrible idea and will further deprive our real public schools with loss of funding

Our urban public school is open to teachers and administrators who want to see effective teaching strategies at work in real classrooms, share ideas with other committed educators and see measurable gains in student achievement.

Metro Ideas hopes the schools and other government organizations become more transparent with budget numbers, allowing the public the opportunity to derive conclusions and help solve problems.

We draw on the research and ideas of faculty members in Information Studies, our partner in the Graduate School, and work collaboratively with colleagues at the Semel Institute, the Luskin School of Public Affairs, the UCLA Law School, and other schools and departments to strengthen our knowledge and practice.

Vouchers undermine the protections and rights students with disabilities attending public schools are entitled to under IDEA, enacted by Congress in 1975 to provide funding and other support for students with special needs.

OSERS emphasized that children with disabilities who attend charter public schools and their parents retain all rights and protections under Part B of IDEA just as they would if the children were enrolled in other public schools.