Sentences with phrase «improve public school»

And worst of all, more lawyers won't improve the public school programs.

Leading national voices on this hot topic will debate how school choice is delivering on its promise, how it is not, and what steps can be taken to improve public school choice options to families and students.

Participating inspires me with questions: How can we work together to improve public school education across the city?

This organization's goal is to improve all public school education and amplify the message that school choice in education is vital.

To fulfill this mission, ESSA requires states to measure, report on, and improve public school performance.

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.

50CAN strengthens the impact of our work to improve public school policy through innovative and best practice supports in communications, mobilization, policy and research.

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.

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.

These forums — which are still ongoing — were widely publicized, open to all and attended by both supporters and skeptics of the initiative to improve public school enrollment.

School choice can improve public school graduation rates and produce millions of dollars in public savings.

Educate78 is providing financial support to improve public school enrollment in Oakland — specifically, to help facilitate community engagement and access the technical and experiential expertise needed for this type of improvement.

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

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

Aside from the fact that this is a false choice (competition can actually improve public school performance and school choice programs can save money), the wording is blatantly designed to push respondents toward Approach A.

In the light of policy interest in measures to improve public school performance, this paper studies the e ects of collective parental pressure and competition from private schools on public school

Aside from the fact that this is a false choice (competition can actually improve public school performance and school choice programs can save money), the wording is blatantly designed to push respondants toward Approach A.

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

With promises of more transparent government, better - trained police and improved public schools, four of the leading candidates for Baltimore County executive made their pitch to voters at a forum Saturday in Woodlawn.

Part of the reason for this is that so many choose to send their kids to private school and have no interest whatsoever in improving the public schools.

Democrats are working hard to bring more people into the economic mainstream, to improve our public schools, to protect our homeland, to make quality health care accessible, and to keep our air and water clean.

StudentsFirstNY is a grassroots education advocacy organization dedicated to improving public school options throughout New York State.

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.

Improving our public schools in order to provide our children with a first - class education has been my top priority.

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.

The man who wanted to improve public schools is closing them, in a city where some school districts (like District 24) are packed to the brim with students.

Instead of rolling up his sleeves and getting to work to improve public schools, De Blasio has to close 14 (yes 14!)

On education, only 19 percent of respondents said the state's new Common Core educational standards have improved public schooling while 40 percent say they have worsened public education.

Hawkins and Jones want to defend and improve public schools, not increase profits for charter schools and their hedge fund investors.

During an announcement that was attended by dozens of friends, family, supporters and local officials, Killian, a Republican, laid out a reform platform that included enacting term limits, providing tax and mandate relief, improving public schools, promoting substance abuse prevention and helping small businesses.

Making life more affordable for regular New Yorkers and improving public schools are among top issues for Lancman, who has raised $ 427,849.

«Voters should remember this fact as they weigh how much credibility to give the UFT's rhetoric on improving public schools: When given seven years to show New York how to craft a great school, it didn't even come close.»

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.

«Let me be very clear here in saying that I wholly agree with, and share, the mayor's goals of reducing homelessness, improving our public schools, and closing Rikers,» he said.

Amanda also served as the Director for Participatory Budgeting for Council District 30, where she spearheaded the allocation of over one million dollars in capital funds, as voted on by thousands of local residents, to improve public schools, libraries, and parks in the district.

The organizations share a similar goal — improving our public schools: GreatSchools adds an emphasis on parental involvement in this mission, which is a personal passion.

The result is that, as our nation has struggled to improve its public schools, the teacher unions have emerged as the fiercest, most powerful defenders of the status quo, and the single greatest obstacle to the reform of American education.

[4] Would the competitive pressure from private schools improve public schools in the absence of resource changes?

For the past 15 years, standards - based reform has been the nation's strategy for improving public schools.

Despite 15 years of earnest efforts to improve public schools and raise student achievement, states haven't made much progress.

In March 1996, the nation's governors met in Palisades, N.Y., and called for an «external, independent, nongovernmental effort» to measure and report on each state's annual progress in raising student achievement and improving the public schools.

Most activists in the voucher movement are dedicated to improving the public schools, and they see vouchers as a powerful means of effecting improvement through greater choice and competition.

Washington — Secretary of Education William J. Bennett last week offered a broad and emphatic defense of tuition tax credits and compensatory - education vouchers, saying that increased parental choice would be «one of the best catalysts» for improving public schools.

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

Ask to choose between improving public schools or providing vouchers, Americans see a no - brainer — they support public schools.

«I appreciated [Mitchell's] interest in lessons that could be learned from other countries and jurisdictions, and his generosity in always finding time to speak to various education delegations from other countries that visited Massachusetts to learn about the State's efforts to improve our public schools,» said Professor Fernando Reimers in a remembrance piece.

How could an elected legislature, traditionally thought to be locally oriented, err so grievously by attempting to improve the public schools by punishing their teachers and administrators?

Interviewed in October on the Today Show, President Obama seemed to be channeling a generation of conservative education analysts in stating bluntly that more money absent reform won't do much to improve public schools.

Let's join together and work for improving our public schools instead of constantly dragging them down.

Paterson said he thinks New York could have won $ 500 million to $ 700 million in the Obama administration's «Race to the Top» program to improve public schools if the Legislature made two changes he urged: lifting the cap on the number of charter schools in the state from the current 200 and ending a measure that prohibits student...