Sentences with phrase «improve our public school system»

Larson, whose brother is U.S. Rep. John B. Larson, said he would focus on growing jobs and improving the public school system, two issues that he said are linked.

But he soldiers on, buoyed by his vision of a vastly improved public school system informed by noble convictions and rational incentives.

Program knowing that we really need to improve the public school system to provide better outcomes for kids.

I can imagine why the private schools in the D.C. program might struggle to improve test scores, especially when compared to highly effective (and highly accountable) D.C. charter schools and an improving public school system.

Ten years of good intentions — with more rules and greater resources — have failed to dramatically improve our public school system.»

Twenty - five years ago, Finland, a country no bigger that the state of Minnesota made the singular decision to improve their public school system.

But this debate should not distract us from what is now the greatest obstacle to improving our public school system: the two - headed monster that rules over the administrative side of our public school system.

It would please me to be able to suggest to you that there is, in fact, a grand plan to improve our public school system (rather than abandon it in favor of a hodgepodge of lower - performing alternatives), to reinvigorate the teaching profession, and to direct resources to the campuses and students where they are most needed, but that vision hasn't yet been articulated or embraced at the state level.

Charter public schools are just one tool in the K - 12 tool belt, but they are tools of reform that we must learn how to wield, to improve our public school systems in Atlanta, Augusta and all over Georgia.

Like in Indiana, the North Carolina legislative argument for removing tenure from all categories of teachers was to improve the public school system and to more easily remove «adequate but marginal» teachers from their positions.

Educators in a charter public schools have a mission - driven vision and are commited to improving the public school system.

Not exact matches

They donated $ 25 million in the fight against Ebola last year, and they gave $ 100 million worth of Facebook shares toward improving a New Jersey public - school system.

To improve mobility and traffic patterns, the project will include: · Improved access to Woodbury Common Premium Outlets · Replacing the Route 32 bridge over Route 17, which will include standard Interstate height clearance over Route 17 · Reconstruction and expansion of Park and Ride facilities which will include a bus stop and solar - powered bus station to promote public transit · Reconfiguring the Route 17, Exit 131 eastbound ramp leading to the Thruway · A new interconnected and adaptive traffic signal system along Route 32 to minimize delays and enhance access to local businesses and schools · Intelligent Transportation Systems to adapt to changing traffic conditions and optimize signal responses

Critics have carped that the Bloomberg - led system fails to give parents sufficient voice — whatever that means — but the current arrangement is a night - and - day improvement over the old Board of Education, which was not only less accountable to the public, but failed at its most basic mission: improving our schools and teaching our kids.

Here in the Ctiy of Buffalo this year a report from the Council on Great City Schools on Improving the Academic Achievement of English Language Learners in the Buffalo Public Schools System cited that only 21 % of these students graduate from high school and the academic achievement programs ignored them as a group as though they don't exist with as many as 100 never recieving their mandated language instruction.

«Since her first child entered the City's public school system ten years ago, Ann Kittredge has immersed herself in learning about the many different facets of educational policy and has dedicated a great deal of her time and effort to volunteer projects aimed at improving the education experience of our children,» Borough President Katz said.

A new report by the Foundation for Education Reform and Accountability (FERA) argues that Governor Andrew Cuomo can use public school choice to significantly improve New York's public education system.

Attacking new teacher evaluation systems that are, for the first time, enabling district public schools to make decisions based on teacher quality, does violence to the cause of improving the quality of education for the overwhelming majority of students who don't attend charter schools.

However, results from a new study show that teacher turnover under IMPACT, the teacher - evaluation system used in the District of Columbia Public Schools, improved student performance on average.

The ability to predict the need for referrals stems from an unprecedented and ever - increasing availability of diverse data sources and has the potential to improve health services delivery and health system performance, said Paul K. Halverson, founding dean of the Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health at IUPUI and one of the project's researchers.

A mindfulness practitioner and a long - time champion of efforts to improve the health and well - being of American families and children, Congressman Ryan is also a public advocate for mindfulness - based programs in schools, the military, and the health - care system.

The paper suggested that if the program were working and the system improving, those numbers should be decreasing and more middle - income parents would be sending their children to Chicago public schools.

While these results support the contention that vouchers would improve the quality of education for the entire education system, it remains to be seen whether even the prospect of competition can provoke a public school response.

One way to do this is avoid complex index systems that only confuse educators, parents, and the public and which ultimately undermine efforts to improve schools.

Beginning within the Boston public school system, Schwarz and cofounder Ned Rimer applied their Harvard School of Education degrees to improving what they agreed was a devastatingly inefficient public education sschool system, Schwarz and cofounder Ned Rimer applied their Harvard School of Education degrees to improving what they agreed was a devastatingly inefficient public education sSchool of Education degrees to improving what they agreed was a devastatingly inefficient public education system.

As part of the School's focus on using research findings to improve classroom practice nationwide, Murphy established a dedicated office to work with Massachusetts public school sySchool's focus on using research findings to improve classroom practice nationwide, Murphy established a dedicated office to work with Massachusetts public school syschool systems.

India's public education system needs an overhaul and eLearning is the only medium I can see improving the current status of education provided by government schools in India.

Survey Question # 5: In order to improve public education in America, some people think the focus should be on reforming the existing public school system.

I learned plenty about whether charter schools outperform district schools, and in which conditions, and whether competitive effects from charter schools can improve the traditional public school system.

Gov. Haley Barbour insists Mississippi can continue to improve its public schools without pouring bunches of new money into the K - 12 system.

There's no hope for improving education policy if we don't keep the facts and evidence distinct from the public - school system's party (and often partisan) line.

NewSchools Venture Fund, whose goal is to improve school districts, invests in charter entrepreneurs in the hope that they can «spark broader transformation in the public school system.»

Tom Payzant, the veteran superintendent who heads up Boston Public Schools, says large school districts get funding from a variety of philanthropic organizations, but he has had to work hard to persuade these funders to align their efforts to support a system - wide vision of how to improve education and avoid contributing to what he calls «project-itis,» which is just a series of ad hoc donations that make givers feel good but have little impact on students.

The solution isn't an improved traditional district; it's an entirely different delivery system for public education: systems of chartered schools.

I met Lee Ju - Ho, the former Minister of Education, Science, and Technology and now a professor at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management, to understand his efforts to improve the Korean education system In the book The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley, Lee comes across as a forward - minded thinker about the challenges facing Korean education and the need to make changes to the status quo of how education is regulated, managed, and delivered.

If voters and parents get behind these systems, and we implement them with fidelity, we will be able to use test results — and other measures — to dramatically improve our public schools.

Chanin could only reply: «There is no evidence that competition improves the lot for the 96 percent of the students who remain in the troubled Cleveland public school system with less resources and even worse problems.»

The inability of the system to improve its provisional state accreditation put the public school cartel's grip on the district in jeopardy.

The overwhelming defeat of private - school - voucher initiatives in California and Michigan last week shows that voters consider such proposals risky and that they would prefer to improve public schools from within the system, voucher opponents said.

The federal government has a critical investment role to play in 1) supporting the replication and scale - up of the best providers through its grant programs; 2) improving access to low - cost public facilities for charter schools through its own funds and by leveraging existing public - school space; 3) pushing states and local districts toward more equitable funding systems for all public school students, including those in charter schools; and 4) supporting efforts to create early - stage, innovative, and scalable models that incorporate greater uses of learning technology.

He joined DMC at the firm's inception in 2004, and led a broad range of research and consulting services to help improve the management of the nation's public school systems.

In the last State of the Union address of this century, President Clinton proposed a five - point plan to improve the nation's public school system.

I've led and served on the board of several education nonprofits devoted to improving California's public - school system.

By using a range of strategies, we raise the level of thinking in schools working in partnership to raise the standard of teaching and of learning, improving outcomes and increasing opportunities for all of those whose futures are so dependent upon the public education system.

That suite includes «public and private school choice,» which would be «a catalyst to improve the system»; better teacher training and evaluation; school evaluations based on student performance; and more digital learning.

As the nation continues to search for ways to upgrade the public school system, much attention has focused on how to improve the quality of K — 12 teachers.

Leveling the Playing Field: Creating Funding Equity Through Student - Based Budgeting When Cincinnati Public Schools devised a reform strategy for improving student performance, it became clear that the district's traditional budgeting system was inadequate.

IMPACT, the controversial teacher - evaluation system recently introduced in the District of Columbia Public Schools, appears to have caused hundreds of teachers in the district to improve their performance markedly while also encouraging some low - performing teachers to voluntarily leave the district's classrooms, according to a new study from the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education and the Stanford Graduate School of Education.

These education experts have forsaken the reform consensus; they now argue instead for an improved version of the «one best system» of American public schools — which harks back to the Horace Mann - era conviction that a single, uniform public - education system, run by professional educators, is the surest path to both literacy and civic unity.

My hope is — as the public school system continues to change and improve — school choice will be available to all families who find themselves in need.