Sentences with phrase «improving education options»

That year, Moskowitz ran on a platform of improving education options and opposing MTA fare hikes, and adopted campaign rhetoric about inequality reminiscent of de Blasio's 2013 bid.

As a result, GCI's report makes several recommendations to improve oversight and sustainability of the state's charter schools, ultimately improving education options for all children.»

That combination of improved education options and reduced tax burden will in turn attract new businesses to the state, spurring economic growth.

She firmly believes all education policies must improve education options and outcomes for students.

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«We have dramatically increased access to school options for Newark families, provided grants directly to teachers at 37 schools, given 300,000 books to Newark students through the My Very Own Library program, and just recently, we committed to a $ 1 million initiative to improve early childhood education in Newark,» the foundation said in a statement to CNBC.

Amplio realized they could be a major player in the refugee crisis and improving their standard of living, education, and employment options.

She is member of the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services (CIMS) and works to provide physiologic birth options and education in her community.

Believe Midwifery Services isn't the option with fewer resources for the what - if, but rather the VIP option that offers greater time, greater education, greater staffing, a cohesive and collaborative team, and as evidence by our outcomes, far improved success.

They will likely also look to improve vocational education at FE Colleges and to expand options for adult retraining.

Mr. Thompson said the City should focus on fighting obesity through other initiatives including improved health education, increasing access to healthy foods and improving recreation opportunities rather than by banning unhealthy options.

The Governor and the Legislature acted quickly to improve treatment options, create new penalties and dramatically improve public education.

· 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.

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

Astoria's Aravella Simotas said she would focus on expanding health care options and improving education in western Queens if she is chosen to replace state Assemblyman Michael Gianaris (D - Astoria) this fall.

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.

At 1:30 p.m., the Senate Standing Committee on New York City Education Subcommittee will meet to discuss various amendments to education law - including an act in relation to requiring certain public schools in any city with a population over one million to offer food options during lunch, an act to direct chancellors of city school districts, in cities having a population of one million or more, to examine and assess the feasibility of expanding the number and types of career and technical education schools and programs within such city school districts and an act in relation to improving educational outcomes for homeless Education Subcommittee will meet to discuss various amendments to education law - including an act in relation to requiring certain public schools in any city with a population over one million to offer food options during lunch, an act to direct chancellors of city school districts, in cities having a population of one million or more, to examine and assess the feasibility of expanding the number and types of career and technical education schools and programs within such city school districts and an act in relation to improving educational outcomes for homeless education law - including an act in relation to requiring certain public schools in any city with a population over one million to offer food options during lunch, an act to direct chancellors of city school districts, in cities having a population of one million or more, to examine and assess the feasibility of expanding the number and types of career and technical education schools and programs within such city school districts and an act in relation to improving educational outcomes for homeless education schools and programs within such city school districts and an act in relation to improving educational outcomes for homeless students.

Recently, we have begun to have discussions with Mr. Ogilvie about how best to proceed to give students and their families improved options for their foundational educations.

We should be encouraging school choice and encouraging schools to provide students with opportunities to improve their education rather than forcing students to accept sub-standard options.

Appropriate combinations of, for example, behavioural change, improved technology, research, adequate levels of finance, improved education and public awareness programs are among other options.

The question for education policymakers is, How can states improve access to high - quality early childhood education while supporting the wide variety of childcare options available to parents?

Considering the growing variety of education and professional training options available online, modern students and life - long learners certainly have a range of opportunities to improve their career prospects.

The report questioned the academy model as a viable option for improving the prospects of disadvantaged pupils, claiming that evidence does not yet support the Department for Education's claims that sponsored academies are transforming the performance of the most disadvantaged pupils and turning around the worst performing schools.

In the coming years, Muralidharan expects his research to focus on systematically evaluating the effectiveness of various policy options to improve education in developing countries through rigorous randomized evaluations.

64 Employing brain research to improve instruction; abstinence - only education could be on its way out; restrictions on cyberbullying raise Constitutional concerns; Peaceful Playgrounds offers kids options for active play.

In the RAND report «Federal Options for Improving the Education of Low - Income Students,» released last week, we recommend reformulating Chapter 1 to play a far more significant role by increasing and concentrating funding for the nation's lowest - income schools.

[xv] So improving the quality of curriculum materials is a very low - cost way to improve outcomes, even if it is the least supported among the options presented by Education Next.

He has undertaken a number of reviews for governments, including a review of examination procedures in the New South Wales Higher School Certificate; an investigation of options for the introduction of an Australian Certificate of Education; a national review of options for reporting and comparing school performances; and a review of strategies for improving literacy and numeracy, and school improvement in Queensland, the Northern Territory and Tasmania.

The best way to foster innovation and improved quality at scale is to empower parents — through mechanisms such as ESAs — to find education options that meet the unique learning needs of their children.

These sections of the federal law place identifying and addressing childhood trauma and other variables linked to poverty alongside policy options for recruiting and retaining effective teachers and school leaders, maximizing the impact of early childhood education, using data to improve student achievement, and serving students with disabilities.

Education policies to improve the quality of New York's public schools, with a focus on improving teacher quality, expanding school options for families and improving the way our school systems are governed and funds are spent.

«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.

The concept was created to help improve our nation's public education system and offer parents another option to meet their children's needs.

First introduced around the country in the early 1990s, the concept was created to help improve our nation's public education system and offer parents another option to meet their children's needs.

The authors examine the current performance of America's K — 12 education system, identify the market share of different types of educational choice options and analyze how effective open enrollment, charters, and educational choice programs are at improving student outcomes.

The Rogers Family Foundation has recently released a new strategic plan for Oakland education focused on increasing quality school options, expanding blended personalized learning, and improving early literacy.

Walker's support for expanding choice and charter options is based on the view that competition creates a better product and that an education marketplace will improve all public schools, according to Walker policy director Ryan Murray.

To have those kinds of teachers we need to prepare them, universities and districts need to take teacher preparation seriously, State Departments of Higher Education and of Elementary and Secondary Education need to see teacher preparation and support as one of the most important strategic options to improve education, holding teacher preparation institutions and districts accountable so they provide the best preparation and support to teachers, we have to figure out ways to help teachers learn what so many of them say they need to learn, like how to personalize instruction, how to manage discipline in their classrooms, how to integrate technology into their teaching, how to implement culturally responsive insEducation and of Elementary and Secondary Education need to see teacher preparation and support as one of the most important strategic options to improve education, holding teacher preparation institutions and districts accountable so they provide the best preparation and support to teachers, we have to figure out ways to help teachers learn what so many of them say they need to learn, like how to personalize instruction, how to manage discipline in their classrooms, how to integrate technology into their teaching, how to implement culturally responsive insEducation need to see teacher preparation and support as one of the most important strategic options to improve education, holding teacher preparation institutions and districts accountable so they provide the best preparation and support to teachers, we have to figure out ways to help teachers learn what so many of them say they need to learn, like how to personalize instruction, how to manage discipline in their classrooms, how to integrate technology into their teaching, how to implement culturally responsive inseducation, holding teacher preparation institutions and districts accountable so they provide the best preparation and support to teachers, we have to figure out ways to help teachers learn what so many of them say they need to learn, like how to personalize instruction, how to manage discipline in their classrooms, how to integrate technology into their teaching, how to implement culturally responsive instruction.

Vouchers may be helpful in places with few viable public options once we learn how to oversee their progress, but it's naive to assume that privatization alone can automatically improve education.

Giving our family a voucher will not improve the range of education options available to anyone.

The Commission of Higher Education is working to: 1) improve the quality of teacher preparation and performance; 2) open the level of dialogue among superintendents and principals and higher education teacher preparation programs; 3) expand communication among vertical teams in P - 16 to support students entering post-secondary education; and 4) review and measure learning outcomes at all levels, including higher education and demonstrate significant value - added for post-secondaryEducation is working to: 1) improve the quality of teacher preparation and performance; 2) open the level of dialogue among superintendents and principals and higher education teacher preparation programs; 3) expand communication among vertical teams in P - 16 to support students entering post-secondary education; and 4) review and measure learning outcomes at all levels, including higher education and demonstrate significant value - added for post-secondaryeducation teacher preparation programs; 3) expand communication among vertical teams in P - 16 to support students entering post-secondary education; and 4) review and measure learning outcomes at all levels, including higher education and demonstrate significant value - added for post-secondaryeducation; and 4) review and measure learning outcomes at all levels, including higher education and demonstrate significant value - added for post-secondaryeducation and demonstrate significant value - added for post-secondary options.

The concept was created to help improve our nation's public education system and offer parents another option to meet their child's needs.

Senate Education Chairman Sen. Dan W. «Blade» Morrish and Rep. Kirk Talbot championed the legislation, demonstrating their commitment to expanding school choice options and improving the quality of education in LEducation Chairman Sen. Dan W. «Blade» Morrish and Rep. Kirk Talbot championed the legislation, demonstrating their commitment to expanding school choice options and improving the quality of education in Leducation in Louisiana.

Whether the goal is to enhance instruction, create a culture of excellence, or broaden education options for parents, it's nearly impossible to improve schools without strong leaders.

Education Commission on the States Equity in Education: Key questions to consider This brief supports states in identifying their equity needs and bringing together thought partners across the education field to better understand, develop, and implement policy options that improve opportunities for all students across the P20 Education Commission on the States Equity in Education: Key questions to consider This brief supports states in identifying their equity needs and bringing together thought partners across the education field to better understand, develop, and implement policy options that improve opportunities for all students across the P20 Education: Key questions to consider This brief supports states in identifying their equity needs and bringing together thought partners across the education field to better understand, develop, and implement policy options that improve opportunities for all students across the P20 education field to better understand, develop, and implement policy options that improve opportunities for all students across the P20 spectrum.

The program featured a discussion of the importance of improving K - 12 education, providing parents with quality educational options and creating America's future workforce.

In an op - ed published in the Star - Ledger newspaper of Newark in June, state Commissioner of Education Christopher D. Cerf discussed the urgency of the state's work on improving schools or, in some cases, «even closing down the school and creating a better option for the students — which research has shown to have worked in other parts of the country.»

«Given the ability to customize educational programs, public schools could be leaders in innovating new solutions that improve education and attract new revenues in response to the clear, and growing, demand from parents for quality options,» said Bender.

In this training, learn how maximize the co-teaching service delivery option for students by combining the strengths of the general education teacher and the special educator to increase and improve differentiation and interventions before students are placed in a full replacement program.

When most charter school laws were first passed in the 1990s, we understood the potential of charters to improve public education options for families.

An audience of 800 community leaders and stakeholders gathered to listen to Rice discuss the crisis in K - 12 education, and how to improve it and the need for all parents to have options when it comes to their children's education.