Sentences with phrase «improving our public education system»

The DoED might also provide modest funding and technical assistance to help demographically similar states work together to improve their public education systems.

We base our findings on the analysis of six excellent examples of how teachers and their unions have been critical to improving public education systems in collaboration with administration.

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.

But the value of standardized testing in terms of better understanding and improving a public education system as vast and fragmented as ours is undeniable, right?

He then spent seven years dedicated to education reform and working to improve our public education system through his strategic, analytical, and operational expertise.

Second, can voucher programs be expected to enhance student performance or improve public education systems, based on the education reforms implemented in the nations that currently rank in the top five in the world in reading, math, and science under PISA?

«I am happy to see progress in the PARCC scores that were released today as we continue the drive toward improving our public education system.

He has also served as Director of the Hyde Family Foundation's K - 12 education portfolio and provided strategic guidance to grantees and helped identify and invest in promising new organizations (local and national) to help drastically improve the public education system in Memphis.

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.»

(LOS ANGELES) Eighty - seven percent of Los Angeles residents support improving the public education system, nearly three in four favor expanding charter public schools and 69 percent want more charter public schools in their neighborhoods, a new poll of 1,150 Los Angeles voters released today showed.

«On average, charter schools may marginally improve the public education system.

Not exact matches

A multitude of local programs, differing according to the national cultures and social systems in which they sparing up, struggle to improve public education, deliver medical care, reduce crime, and enhance economic opportunity.

· 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.

Rather, we felt our charge was to recommend a set of tangible actions the Governor and Legislature could undertake to improve the current system of public education in New York so as to produce better outcomes for our children.»

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.

However, today Mr Hutton argued that you can not deal with differences in life expectancy through the pension system - these must be tackled with better strategies on public health, child poverty and improved education and skills training.

New Labour were also hampered with the theory of the «Third Way» mantra, meaning that even intellectuals like David Milliband were reduced to abandoning big ideas which could have a real impact, and instead being forced to concentrate on administrative details - hence the awful targets system he dreamed up to improve the performance of public services like education, policing and health.

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

BROOKLYN, NY — Council Member Rafael Espinal, who represents East New York, Cypress Hills, Bushwick and Brownsville, applauded Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan announced on Thursday to allot $ 1.4 billion to Central Brooklyn for improving crime rates, education systems and other public utilities.

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.

Texas's pre-K pilot program combines a mixed delivery system comprised of public and private providers and consultant services from a third - party expert, the Center for Improving the Readiness of Children for Learning and Education (CIRCLE) at the University of Texas.

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 educatioEducation degrees to improving what they agreed was a devastatingly inefficient public educationeducation system.

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.

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.

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 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.

In the same way that we've manifested safer roadways via a driver's education system that not only teaches but also lets people drive, we can improve cybersecurity in the US with STEM - based public eLearning as well as employee eLearning courses.

«The establishment of higher standards is critical to improving Florida's system of public education,» said Frank Brogan, the state education commissioner, who is now appealing to individual districts to approve the standards on their...

And second, giving these kids a choice will force the entire public - education system to improve.

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.

For now, I hope that more parents will begin to recognize that standardized tests provide invaluable information that can help us move toward equity in public education and improve the system for everyone.

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.

Mayor Richard M. Daley has made the key appointments in his state - mandated takeover of the Chicago public schools — 13 people assigned to plug the system's $ 150 million deficit and improve education for its 410,000 students.

In the clunky, incremental manner of real - world social systems, school choice is improving public education in Arizona.

The failure of the public education system to retain its best employees represents a wasted opportunity to improve student outcomes.

As a former state governor told me in the 1990s, test - driven reform would be the lever that would improve the system of public education.

Our donors recognize that empowered educators need to lead the dialogue about improving our education system in order for transformational change to happen in ways that benefit public schools and students.

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.

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

Dismantling our nation's public education system while investing in unproven schemes to incentivize private school vouchers that have no evidence of improving student achievement could have devastating consequences for students that could take decades to fix.

Funding for charter schools that will disseminate best practices likely to significantly improve academic achievement in California's K - 12 public education system.

Charter Schools Development Corporation, a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit corporation and Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), promotes innovation and excellence in education by helping charter school entrepreneurs and leaders finance, build and expand their school models, with the goal of ultimately improving student achievement by increasing school choice within the American public education system.

We help charter school entrepreneurs and leaders finance, build, expand and replicate their school models, turning educational visions into reality, with the goal of ultimately improving student achievement by increasing school choice and catalyzing competition within the American K - 12 public education system.

School Board Leadership Resource Center and Center for Public Education Briefing Room: These two resources bring you school improvement research, best practices and examples from high - performing school systems, and expert guidance that can help your school board set a course for improving student achievement and district excellence.