Sentences with phrase «improve public education by»

The mission of the SCSC is to improve public education by authorizing high quality charter schools that provide students with better educational opportunities than they would otherwise receive in traditional district schools.

Future Is Now works to improve public education by organizing and supporting effective educators and lead improvements in their schools, districts, and unions.

A task force of Ohio foundations and other grantmaking organizations is calling on state leaders to improve public education by adopting five broad, ambitious policy priorities.

«Our state continues to be on a solid path to improving public education by offering more and more quality educational options for students and parents.

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Meanwhile, to improve education, he said public school students should take online courses through the Khan Academy, the digital education start - up, instead being taught by the mediocre teachers they currently have.

In Dec of 1993, Patrice was honored by then President Clinton as an American hero who dramatically improved the health commitment to the world's children as a public health expert promoting nutrition in nursing education and fostering breastfeeding worldwide.

HUMAN Everywhere's mission is to leverage the power of social entrepreneurship to improve the nation's collective health by increasing access to nutrition education and healthful foods while advocating for public policy that contributes to these goals.

By a two - to - one margin, voters think Common Core has worsened, not improved, public education, and a small plurality think those educational standards will continue to worsen public education in the future.

· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.

«I am honored to be endorsed by Senator Gillibrand, and I thank her for supporting my fight to clean up Albany, bring good jobs to our region, and improve the quality of our children's public education,» Niccoli said.

Parents and students across New York, including grassroots activists organized by education reform advocacy organization StudentsFirstNY and Derrell Bradford, executive director of NYCAN, view Governor Cuomo's reforms as critical to improving public school options.

Surrounded by supporters on the steps of City Hall Sunday, Jackson, who serves as the chair of the council's education committee, painted himself as a tireless fighter with a long track record of working to improve public schools.

According to Gillibrand's office, the legislation would help improve nutrition and enhance learning in under - served areas by better integrating summer education and meals programs, making it easier for public - private partner organizations to participate in the summer meals program, and by providing a third meal for children who attend evening enrichment programs.

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 educatioEducation Reform and Accountability (FERA) argues that Governor Andrew Cuomo can use public school choice to significantly improve New York's public educationeducation system.

«By investing in education, workforce development, agriculture and public safety initiatives, we are improving the quality of life for residents across the state and providing new opportunities for families to learn, work and live in New York.»

The plan calls for independent oversight of the city's Housing Preservation Department; establishing a public education campaign to inform tenants about HPD's role; empowering a new body or building inspectors to collect fines against landlords; having HPD make repairs not completed by the landlord in the specified amount of time and then billing the landlord; making inspectors carry citations in multiple languages and send out reports in multiple languages; forcing landlords to make repairs within 24 hours of emergency violations; establishing an East Harlem HPD oversight team as a pilot for other areas with at - risk low - income housing; providing inspections 24 - hours - a-day, 7 - days - a-week; and improving HPD's follow - up on violations.

The research builds a cognitive bridge between the practical and applied in addressing minority disproportionality in public education by improving the learning disabilities definition for culturally and linguistically diverse students.

«The results of this study should help us to improve brain health by developing new dietary guidelines for clinical use and for public health education.»

The mission of the foundation is to improve healthcare by integrating advances in nutritional, environmental, and behavioral science into clinical practice, professional training, and public education with an aim to empower consumers and healthcare professionals in the use of integrated medicine for the effective prevention and treatment of illness, and to achieve well - being and longevity.

Westmont, Illinois About Blog Prostate Cancer Foundation of Chicago is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving quality of care and quality of life by funding patient support programs, clinical research as well as professional and public education.

Our mission is to heighten public awareness about Cystic Fibrosis and improve the quality of life for the families it affects by providing education, life skills, inspiration, and positive support.

The labor agreements signed by both public officials and labor leaders, governing every aspect of New York City public schools, profoundly inhibit our ability to improve public education.

14 - 16 — School improvement: Improving America's Schools regional conference, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, open to the public, at the Sheraton Washington Hotel in Washington.

«We would like all teachers and schools, both public and private, to be aware that the SchoolNotes.com service is available to help facilitate family - school - community partnerships that strengthen education by improving communication,» said Bocinsky.

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.

If that's the case, then why is the mayor's chancellor of schools, Carmen Fariña, the board chair of the Fund for Public Schools, whose express legal purpose is «improving New York City's Public Schools by attracting private investment» in public educPublic Schools, whose express legal purpose is «improving New York City's Public Schools by attracting private investment» in public educPublic Schools by attracting private investment» in public educpublic education?

This education reform documentary, produced and directed by Randy Murray and Andrew James Benson, follows twenty of the twenty - nine teachers at a Phoenix, Arizona public school who set out on a journey toward improving the quality of their teaching by attempting to achieve National Board Certification.

About Askwith Forums: The Askwith Forum, established in 1998 by an anonymous donor and named in honor of New York City public - relations consultant, writer and publishing executive Herbert Askwith, is a series of public lectures at the Harvard Graduate School of Education that provide an opportunity for practitioners, policymakers, and researchers to share their work, talk with one another, and advance proven practices that will improve learning opportunities for all.

Murray warns against false hope: «Some say that the public schools are so awful that there is huge room for improvement in academic performance just by improving education.

President Reagan's criticisms of the nation's schools and his proposals for improving the quality of education are misleading the American public and threatening to reverse 20 years of progress made possible by federal support of education, according to a report by 19 education and civil - rights leaders.

A recent book by Greg Duncan and Richard Murnane, Restoring Opportunity: The Crisis of Inequality and the Challenge of American Education, for example, describes what the authors call «high schools that improve life chances,» pointing in particular to small, nonselective high schools created in New York City by the Department of Education and New Visions for Public Schools.

Charter schools have the potential to have broader effects on student achievement if traditional public schools respond to the threat of losing students to charter schools by improving the quality of their own education programs.

Its mission: «To improve public education for disadvantaged children in Palm Beach and Martin counties by developing, testing, and implementing new strategies for learning.»

But his interest in education reform led him soon after to The Mind Trust, an organization, as Gray says, «dedicated to dramatically improving public education for underserved students by empowering education entrepreneurs to develop or expand transformative education initiatives.»

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 dEducation, 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 deducation 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 deducation and the need to make changes to the status quo of how education is regulated, managed, and deducation is regulated, managed, and delivered.

The addition of about seven public schools with McKay funding within five miles of a public school improved the academic achievement of special education students by about.05 of a standard deviation.

According to surveys conducted by the Attleboro Public Schools, retention rates — holding students back — in grades 2 - 8 decreased by more than 43 percent, special education referrals dropped by more than 55 percent, and discipline and suspensions — especially in the middle schools — declined significantly, while attendance rates improved for both students and teachers.

Alum Ethan Gray's interest in education reform led him to The Mind Trust, «dedicated to dramatically improving public education for underserved students by empowering education entrepreneurs to develop or expand transformative education initiatives.»

EWA was organized in 1947 by a group of newspaper reporters with the intent of improving education reporting to the public.

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.

«By and large — both in public and independent school education — there is still a tendency to focus on the disciplines separately, and, frankly, there's a lot of value in that,» says Heidi Hayes Jacobs, a highly regarded education consultant, president of Curriculum 21, and author of several influential books on improving K - 12 education, including Interdisciplinary Curriculum: Design and Implementation and Active Literacy Across the Curriculum.

Proponents of Common Core made their case by arguing that the standards would improve public education and eventually strengthen the workforce: they would ensure that all high - school graduates were «college and career ready,» that America remained «globally competitive,» and that all students had access to a rigorous education «regardless of where a child lives or what their background is.»

The 1909 law, which is still in place, was intended to improve education by providing increased state involvement in public schools while still permitting considerable local control and accountability.

The Graduate School of Education's Convocation ceremony on Wednesday afternoon in Radcliffe Yard began with the exuberance of a pep rally and closed with three sets of personal reflections: on the importance of love; on the reason people enroll at the GSE; and on ways to improve public education, in part by restoring the kingdom of God to theEducation's Convocation ceremony on Wednesday afternoon in Radcliffe Yard began with the exuberance of a pep rally and closed with three sets of personal reflections: on the importance of love; on the reason people enroll at the GSE; and on ways to improve public education, in part by restoring the kingdom of God to theeducation, in part by restoring the kingdom of God to the process.

By the early 1990s, attempts to improve public education had morphed into the standards - based education reform agenda, often called test - based accountability.

It suggests that within a local and statewide context that was ripe for change, turnaround leaders improved the public response by employing a «third way» approach to transcending polarizing political disagreements in the education space.

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.

Any Finnish educator will say that Finland improved its public education system not by privatizing its schools or constantly testing its students, but by investing in the preparation, support, and retention of excellent teachers.

Improving Access and Creating Exceptional Opportunities for Students with Disabilities in Public Charter Schools, authored by Lauren Morando Rihm and Paul ONeill of the newly - formed National Center for Special Education in Charter Schools, outlines the federal, state, and local laws that govern special education in all public schools and makes key recommendations for how charter schools can leverage current programs to best serve students with disabilPublic Charter Schools, authored by Lauren Morando Rihm and Paul ONeill of the newly - formed National Center for Special Education in Charter Schools, outlines the federal, state, and local laws that govern special education in all public schools and makes key recommendations for how charter schools can leverage current programs to best serve students with disaEducation in Charter Schools, outlines the federal, state, and local laws that govern special education in all public schools and makes key recommendations for how charter schools can leverage current programs to best serve students with disaeducation in all public schools and makes key recommendations for how charter schools can leverage current programs to best serve students with disabilpublic schools and makes key recommendations for how charter schools can leverage current programs to best serve students with disabilities.

(Curriculum development was supported by the Gates, Hewlett, and Noyce foundations — all heavily involved in improving public education.)