Sentences with phrase «improved access to quality schooling»

They will support improved access to quality schooling and better education outcomes for Indigenous secondary school students.

We look forward to seeing what this school year brings, as the charter community continues to build on the tremendous success of improving access to quality schools and raising academic achievement for all children in Illinois.

Yesterday, INCS Action, a recently launched organization focused on improving access to quality schools for Illinois families through the legislative and political process, was victorious in its first Illinois general election.

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This grant is designed to help improve student access to high - quality, nutritious foods at school, and provides funds to help schools improve or expand their breakfast programs with an emphasis on sustainable, alternative breakfast options.

The D.C. School Food Project's mission is to support and accelerate the school system's progress toward ensuring quality, improving access, and inspiring demand for healthy food in and out of schools in our nation's caSchool Food Project's mission is to support and accelerate the school system's progress toward ensuring quality, improving access, and inspiring demand for healthy food in and out of schools in our nation's caschool system's progress toward ensuring quality, improving access, and inspiring demand for healthy food in and out of schools in our nation's capital.

Ensuring quality, inspiring demand and improving access to school food is a three-fold effort to address public health concerns resulting from hunger, malnutrition, and obesity among D.C. school children and their families.

The bill will significantly increase access and remove barriers to child nutrition programs, improve the quality of the meals served and implement new school food safety guidelines.

Effective food policy actions are part of a comprehensive approach to improving nutrition environments, defined as those factors that influence food access.1 Improvements in the nutritional quality of all foods and beverages served and sold in schools have been recommended to protect the nutritional health of children, especially children who live in low - resource communities.2 As legislated by the US Congress, the 2010 Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA) updated the meal patterns and nutrition standards for the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetSchool Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetSchool Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetschool year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetables.

The Fuel Up Breakfast Grants program is designed to improve student access to high - quality, nutritious foods at school; specifically targeted to the morning meal, the breakfast grants provide funds to help schools improve or expand their breakfast program with an emphasis on alternative breakfast options that are sustainable.

The Project Development Objective is to increase access to senior secondary education in underserved districts and improve quality in low - performing senior high schools (SHSs) in Ghana.

«In addition to ensuring that there is space in the curriculum to address these issues, schools need improved access and quality provision of safeguarding training that specifically addresses the issue of sexual violence and harassment.

Lafayette, who served for 32 years in the Assembly before retiring, said he endorsed Dromm after years of working personally with him and also because of Dromm's «commitment and effectiveness on the issues that matter most to me, — better schools, more access to doctors and health care, and improved quality of life».

The establishment of the Community Day Senior High School would expand and improve access to secondary education as well as develop the quality and affordability of education in Ghana.

The report, «Access to high performing schools in England» looks at the density of high - quality secondary school places across England, comparing high - quality places in 2015 with 2010 in order to identify whether geographic access to high performing schools is imprAccess to high performing schools in England» looks at the density of high - quality secondary school places across England, comparing high - quality places in 2015 with 2010 in order to identify whether geographic access to high performing schools is impraccess to high performing schools is improving.

Most of all, families and students need both sides to get past their defensiveness and mistrust and get to work creating citywide information, funding, enrollment, transportation, and other systems that will improve equity and access to high - quality schools.

The plans, first outlined by Prime Minister Theresa May, form a core part of her education reforms, including plans to open new grammar schools, which she claims will raise education standards, give more pupils access to a high quality education and improve social mobility.

Every discussion of education policy, program design, implementation and evaluation on instruction, teacher policies and education, or school governance focuses on improving educational outcomes for young people and ensuring that all learners have access to a high - quality education relevant to the 21st century.

At Bill Quay Primary School, the technology allows people to upload their own self - assessment contributions, saving time and improving access to information such as Ofsted reports, policy documents, quality assurance processes and guidelines, minutes of meetings, school performance data and other documentSchool, the technology allows people to upload their own self - assessment contributions, saving time and improving access to information such as Ofsted reports, policy documents, quality assurance processes and guidelines, minutes of meetings, school performance data and other documentschool performance data and other documentation.

A first - generation college student and public school graduate, James Kelly is passionate about improving schools and committed to making sure that all students have access to a quality education.

This brief and related report synthesizes findings from 143 rigorous research studies and finds that community schools can improve outcomes for all students, especially those facing lack of access to high - quality schools and out - of - school barriers to learning.

Our new GreatSchools Summary Rating offers expanded information about important aspects of school quality — including student access to advanced courses, student progress information, and equity data to help parents see whether or not all students are being served similarly — that parents across the country can use to support their children's education and take action to improve their local schools.

Pay Teachers More and Reach All Students with Excellence — Aug 30, 2012 District RTTT — Meet the Absolute Priority for Great - Teacher Access — Aug 14, 2012 Pay Teachers More — Within Budget, Without Class - Size Increases — Jul 24, 2012 Building Support for Breakthrough Schools — Jul 10, 2012 New Toolkit: Expand the Impact of Excellent Teachers — Selection, Development, and More — May 31, 2012 New Teacher Career Paths: Financially Sustainable Advancement — May 17, 2012 Charlotte, N.C.'s Project L.I.F.T. to be Initial Opportunity Culture Site — May 10, 2012 10 Financially Sustainable Models to Reach More Students with Excellence — May 01, 2012 Excellent Teaching Within Budget: New Infographic and Website — Apr 17, 2012 Incubating Great New Schools — Mar 15, 2012 Public Impact Releases Models to Extend Reach of Top Teachers, Seeks Sites — Dec 14, 2011 New Report: Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction — Nov 17, 2011 City - Based Charter Strategies: New White Papers and Webinar from Public Impact — Oct 25, 2011 How to Reach Every Child with Top Teachers (Really)-- Oct 11, 2011 Charter Philanthropy in Four Cities — Aug 04, 2011 School Turnaround Leaders: New Ideas about How to Find More of Them — Jul 21, 2011 Fixing Failing Schools: Building Family and Community Demand for Dramatic Change — May 17, 2011 New Resources to Boost School Turnaround Success — May 10, 2011 New Report on Making Teacher Tenure Meaningful — Mar 15, 2011 Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best — Feb 17, 2011 New Reports and Upcoming Release Event — Feb 10, 2011 Picky Parent Guide — Nov 17, 2010 Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance: Cross-Sector Lessons for Excellent Evaluations — Nov 02, 2010 New Teacher Quality Publication from the Joyce Foundation — Sept 27, 2010 Charter School Research from Public Impact — Jul 13, 2010 Lessons from Singapore & Shooting for Stars — Jun 17, 2010 Opportunity at the Top — Jun 02, 2010 Public Impact's latest on Education Reform Topics — Dec 02, 2009 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best — Oct 23, 2009 New Research on Dramatically Improving Failing Schools — Oct 06, 2009 Try, Try Again to Fix Failing Schools — Sep 09, 2009 Innovation in Education and Charter Philanthropy — Jun 24, 2009 Reconnecting Youth and Designing PD That Works — May 29.

The bill also eliminates goals and performance targets for academic achievement, removes parameters regarding the use of federal funds to help improve struggling schools, does not address key disparities in opportunity such as access to high - quality college preparatory curricula, restricts the federal government from protecting disadvantaged students, does not address poor quality tests, and fails to advance the current movement toward college - and career - ready standards.

This report, which synthesizes findings from 143 rigorous research studies, finds community schools can improve outcomes for all students, and especially those facing lack of access to high - quality schools and out - of - school barriers to learning.

The draft also eliminates performance targets, removes parameters regarding the use of federal funds to help improve struggling schools, does not address key disparities in opportunity such as access to high - quality college preparatory curricula, restricts the federal government from protecting underprivileged students, and fails to advance the current movement toward college - and career - ready standards.»

• Overwhelming parental support for the following elements of an education agenda: Provide extra resources to turn around struggling neighborhood schools; hold charter schools accountable; provide more support / training for struggling teachers; expand / improve new - teacher mentoring; reduce class sizes, especially in the early grades; make public schools hubs of the neighborhood with longer hours, academic help and health services for families; provide extra pay for teachers in hard - to - staff schools; and ensure access to high - quality preschool for all 3 - and 4 - year - olds.

Kane added that PIER provides young researchers with the necessary connections and access to conduct «high - quality research while helping schools to improve children's lives.»

While the President's FY 2012 Budget requests funding to improve D.C. public schools and expand high - quality public charter schools, the Administration opposes targeting resources to help a small number of individuals attend private schools rather than creating access to great public schools for every child.

With the open access resolution, the work of the faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Education will now be available to all — especially those who seek to improve the quality of education worldwide,» said John Collins, librarian of Gutman Library at HGSE.

The Co-op will leverage partnerships across multiple school districts to share and reduce the costs of accessing high - quality professional develop and consulting for language and literacy teachers, instructional coaches, and school administrators who are passionate about improving literacy outcomes.

Technology alone will not improve academic achievement, but when used as a part of a comprehensive school improvement approach it will empower students to take a greater role in their own learning and will provide equity in access to quality instructional resources.

One school board will be selected for its excellence in establishing and executing policies, practices and strategies that promote and enhance equitable conditions, increased access to quality instruction and improving academic outcomes and career readiness for African American students.

Driven by the belief that all Arizona students should have access to a high quality public school, the Association is focused on creating and sharing innovative programs designed to support leaders and teachers as they work to improve student achievement.

While most schools will need increased funding — and flexibility — to expand school schedules, the authors found several federal funding sources that currently support efforts to redesign the school day, reform the calendar year, rethink professional development, or improve access to quality after - school programs.

«The idea is to give more countries, rich and poor, access to comparing themselves against the world's education leaders, to discover their relative strengths and weaknesses, and to see what the long - term economic gains from improved quality in schooling could be for them,» said OECD education director Andreas Schleicher.

You may also start to notice some subtle changes in our approach to professional development at your association, all of which are designed to improve our services and help our member schools access the highest quality training to help you achieve your school's mission.

Here's how education reform was phrased in the poll question: «The education reform bill passed last year by the State Legislature and signed by the Governor takes essential steps to close Connecticut's worst - in - the - nation achievement gap, raise standards for educators, allows immediate action to improve failing schools, increases access to high - quality public school choices, and improves how education dollars arespent.

But challenges remain in providing all children access to quality schools, in improving opportunities for young people, and in retaining middle - income families.

Inform parents, communities, lawmakers, business leaders, taxpayers and other stakeholders about inequities in Colorado public schools and the urgent need to improve access to high quality educational opportunities for all Colorado students.

If we are really committed to ensuring that all young people have access to a good education, we need to improve the quality of schools, particularly in the north and coastal areas.»

Access to high - quality preschool will significantly impact the lives of millions of children by improving school readiness, which is essential to later academic success and high achievement.

Since becoming the principal at FCA, Tonya has worked to improve the culture and climate of the school while increasing access to top - quality programs.

Improving access to high - quality public school options, particularly for families in underserved communities

Explore this curated collection of tools, information, and examples of promising practices, which is meant to inform and support your efforts to increase access and to improve the quality of programs for school - age children.

SRI conducted a process evaluation to understand the implementation of the two initiatives and an outcome evaluation to determine the initiatives» effectiveness in increasing access to high - quality ELD programs, meeting the needs of families, and improving children's school readiness.

This draft is a detailed plan to develop school leadership aimed at strengthening and improving the public education system while addressing one root of the existing problem of unequal access to quality education — state and local leadership «capacity.»

She oversaw a portfolio of over $ 80 million in grants focused on expanding access to high - quality college preparatory schools, improving the quality of math and science education in Texas, and expanding the pipeline of highly skilled employees qualified for careers in the economy of the 21st century.

Our policy work focuses on expanding access to and improving the quality of expanded learning programs (after school and summer) and community schools.

The project aims to improve the quality of and access to Catholic schools across the country.

Gerard Randall is the executive director of the Milwaukee Education Partnership (MEP), which aims to enhance the quality of teaching and learning in Milwaukee Public Schools; bring every student to grade level or beyond in reading, writing, math and science; improve access to higher education opportunities; and advocate for public education.