Sentences with phrase «improving public schools in their community»

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While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

We hope this will help improve the treatment decision making process and ultimately, the patient's quality of life,» added Orom, PhD, associate professor of community health and health behavior in UB's School of Public Health and Health Professions.

Rachel Tompkins is president of the Rural School and Community Trust, a nonprofit educational organization «dedicated to improving student learning and community life by strengthening relationships between rural schools and communities and engaging students in community - based public worCommunity Trust, a nonprofit educational organization «dedicated to improving student learning and community life by strengthening relationships between rural schools and communities and engaging students in community - based public worcommunity life by strengthening relationships between rural schools and communities and engaging students in community - based public worcommunity - based public work.»

This summer, Raise Your Hand Texas (RYHT)-- an education coalition composed of business and community leaders, parents, and tax payers dedicated to strengthening and improving Texas public schools — sent 125 educators from throughout the state to four leadership institutes at the Programs in Professional Education.

The study, «The Louisiana Scholarship Program,» by Anna J. Egalite and Jonathan N. Mills, finds that the transfers resulting from the LSP vouchers statewide «overwhelmingly improve integration in the public schools students leave (the sending schools), bringing the racial composition of the schools closer to that of the broader communities in which they are located.»

Billions in federal economic - stimulus dollars are slated to be spent to help improve public education, but Americans relying on traditional news outlets are likely to find out little, if anything, about what that effort might mean for the schools in their communities, a new report suggests.

Among the subset of students for whom data are available, we find that transfers made possible by the school - choice program overwhelmingly improve integration in the public schools that students leave (the sending schools), bringing the racial composition of the schools closer to that of the broader communities in which they are located.

A slight majority of those surveyed, nonetheless, think that the public schools in their community are improving.

• Best approach for improving education: 77 percent said the focus should be on ensuring that every child has access to a good public school in his or her community; just 20 percent said there should be more public charter schools and vouchers.

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.

Since the National Commission on Excellence in Education roundly indicted the public schools for failing to meet students» educational needs, individuals and communities have scrambled to discover how to improve education.

Our community will have both the public and political will to invest boldly in WCPSS by supporting and improving teaching and learning in every school.

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.

As Baltimore City Public Schools began searching last year for a new leader, the Fund for Educational Excellence, a nonprofit working to secure resources needed to improve student achievement in the city schools, recognized that we knew very little about how community members viewed the major educational reforms that had taken place over the previous six years when Andrés Alonso was at thSchools began searching last year for a new leader, the Fund for Educational Excellence, a nonprofit working to secure resources needed to improve student achievement in the city schools, recognized that we knew very little about how community members viewed the major educational reforms that had taken place over the previous six years when Andrés Alonso was at thschools, recognized that we knew very little about how community members viewed the major educational reforms that had taken place over the previous six years when Andrés Alonso was at the helm.

HOPE COMMUNITY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL will seek to improve its environmental sustainability and engage in sustainable agriculture practices through:

«The 2017 Charter Award honorees embody the promise of public charter schools and work tirelessly every day to improve education in schools and communities across Arizona,» said Eileen B. Sigmund, President and CEO of the Arizona Charter Schools Assocschools and work tirelessly every day to improve education in schools and communities across Arizona,» said Eileen B. Sigmund, President and CEO of the Arizona Charter Schools Assocschools and communities across Arizona,» said Eileen B. Sigmund, President and CEO of the Arizona Charter Schools AssocSchools Association.

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.

Charter schools in Los Angeles are partners with the district and the broader community in improving our public schools.

But in many cases, these school grades have raised concerns and questions about how effectively they improve public education, how fair it is to punish schools that serve disadvantaged communities, and the potential for politicians to game the system for their own benefit.

«Da Vinci Schools is enormously honored to be the recipient of a Next Generation Learning Challenges grant and to work alongside a community of innovators and educators committed to creating transformative, cost - effective change in public education and to dramatically improving college readiness and completion,» said Dr. Matthew Wunder, a Founder and Executive Director of Da Vinci Schools.

Laura Staich is executive director of All Points North Foundation, a small, private foundation dedicated to measurably improving public middle school education and teacher training through funding innovation programs in underserved communities in the U.S.

The Fellowship is a two - year, cohort - based program that identifies innovative leaders in the educational equity movement, facilitates their dynamic growth, and strengthens their collective efforts to dramatically improve public schools for low - income children and communities.

I just read all the way through a May 2012 Public Agenda report called «Community Responses to School Reform in Chicago» and was surprised by at least one of the report's recommendations for more effectively collaborating with the community in school reform: that CPS «consider re-engaging and strengthening the capacity of Local School Council (LSC) members» by «improving the way new members are educated and prepared for their role and responsibilities and by using this structure as a means to reach residents in local neighborhoodCommunity Responses to School Reform in Chicago» and was surprised by at least one of the report's recommendations for more effectively collaborating with the community in school reform: that CPS «consider re-engaging and strengthening the capacity of Local School Council (LSC) members» by «improving the way new members are educated and prepared for their role and responsibilities and by using this structure as a means to reach residents in local neighborhoods.&School Reform in Chicago» and was surprised by at least one of the report's recommendations for more effectively collaborating with the community in school reform: that CPS «consider re-engaging and strengthening the capacity of Local School Council (LSC) members» by «improving the way new members are educated and prepared for their role and responsibilities and by using this structure as a means to reach residents in local neighborhoodcommunity in school reform: that CPS «consider re-engaging and strengthening the capacity of Local School Council (LSC) members» by «improving the way new members are educated and prepared for their role and responsibilities and by using this structure as a means to reach residents in local neighborhoods.&school reform: that CPS «consider re-engaging and strengthening the capacity of Local School Council (LSC) members» by «improving the way new members are educated and prepared for their role and responsibilities and by using this structure as a means to reach residents in local neighborhoods.&School Council (LSC) members» by «improving the way new members are educated and prepared for their role and responsibilities and by using this structure as a means to reach residents in local neighborhoods.»

To that end, we hope that Dr. Johnson - Trammell will be the leader who brings our community together with a renewed focus on improving quality, equity, and sustainability within and across all public schools in service of all students.

GO's founding Declaration of Beliefs and Visions for Improving Oakland Schools was endorsed by more than 250 parents, teachers, principals, and community leaders from the heartlands and hills, East, West, and North Oakland, charter and district public schools in 200Schools was endorsed by more than 250 parents, teachers, principals, and community leaders from the heartlands and hills, East, West, and North Oakland, charter and district public schools in 200schools in 2009 - 10.

«If Congress passes legislation to help states and local communities improve the quality of their public schools absent federal intrusion, we applaud it, but this should apply to all students equally, not just those enrolled in charter schools.

These honorees embody the promise of public charter schools and work tirelessly every day to improve education in schools and communities across Arizona.

Among its promises are that Democrats will support free community college for all, make it easier to repay student loans, allow borrowers with student loans to discharge their debts in bankruptcy if necessary, strengthen higher education schools that serve minorities, crack down on «for - profit schools that take millions in federal financial aid,» and continue to work to improve public schools by holding teachers and schools «accountable.»

Healthy school communities are an outgrowth of work ASCD began in 1998 to link schools and community public health agencies to provide meaningful opportunities for students to create and participate in activities designed to improve the health of their communities.

Lynn Briley, Principal of I.C. Norcom High School, Portsmouth County Public Schools, describes how the I.C. Norcom High School Early Warning System and On - time Graduation Teams developed community partnerships to collaboratively improve student achievement and to keep students in school and on track to graduSchool, Portsmouth County Public Schools, describes how the I.C. Norcom High School Early Warning System and On - time Graduation Teams developed community partnerships to collaboratively improve student achievement and to keep students in school and on track to graduSchool Early Warning System and On - time Graduation Teams developed community partnerships to collaboratively improve student achievement and to keep students in school and on track to graduschool and on track to graduation.

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.

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

The Education Alliance is a non-profit organization dedicated to strengthening business and community support for public schools and advancing policies and practices that improve student achievement in West Virginia.

The central idea of the school - reform community, Perry said, is that improving public education will lead to an overall improvement in New Orleans social conditions, and that this goal justifies the radical changes they have imposed on schools here — firing teachers, closing schools, moving students every few years.

Schools and community groups based in smaller towns and rural communities, however, often do not regard public colleges and universities — which might be 50 or 100 miles away — as a resource for starting up, expanding, or improving afterschool and summer learning programs or for assisting them with their 21st Century Community Learningcommunity groups based in smaller towns and rural communities, however, often do not regard public colleges and universities — which might be 50 or 100 miles away — as a resource for starting up, expanding, or improving afterschool and summer learning programs or for assisting them with their 21st Century Community LearningCommunity Learning Centers.

Anthony Bryk, Eric Camburn, and Karen Seashore Louis, «Professional Community in Chicago Elementary Schools: Facilitating Factors and Organizational Consequences,» Educational Administration Quarterly 35, no. 5 (1999): 751 — 781; Andrew Calkins, William Guenther, Grace Belfiore, and Dave Lash, The Turnaround Challenge: Why America's Best Opportunity to Dramatically Improve Student Achievement Lies in Our Worst - Performing Schools (Boston: Mass Insight Education and Research Institute, 2007); Yvonne L. Goddard, Roger D. Goddard, and Megan Tschannen - Moran, «A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation of Teacher Collaboration for School Improvement and Student Achievement in Public Elementary Schools,» Teachers College Record 109, no. 4 (2007): 877 — 896; Karen Seashore Louis and Helen M. Marks, «Does Professional Community Affect the Classroom?

The Portfolio Network is a group of district superintendents, new school office directors, mayor's staff, school board members, community leaders, and charter school leaders who are interested in implementing the portfolio strategy to improve their community's public school system.

To affirm NASSP's support for a global community of educators, offer recommendations for improving the relevance and significance of international comparisons, and promote appropriate comparative analysis of the data from international assessments to aid in reaching valid conclusions regarding the performance of public schools in the United States of America.

Under Superintendent Chris Coffelt, Leon's public schools — known as the Central Decatur Community School District — set out in 2012 with a multi-faceted plan to recruit and retain teachers and improve student achievement under some especially challenging circumstances.

Energize the D.C. education community around the potential of blended and personalized learning to improve student outcomes in DCPS and D.C. public charter schools.

The Learning Community, one of Rhode Island's most successful urban schools, was founded in 2004 to serve its students and families and to function as a center for research and development to improve public education.

Berkeley Principals Leadership Institute — The mission of the Principal Leadership Institute at Berkeley is to prepare, induct, and support a diverse community of equity focused school leaders who will improve education for vulnerable and historically underserved students in California's public schools in support of social justice.

In partnership with public schools, RISE builds community, democratizes innovation, and improves systems to support educators working to ensure all students graduate college and career ready.

For many years, parent and community - based organizations have led the way in calling for dramatic action to improve low - performing public schools.

A community school strategy makes explicit that in order to significantly improve the academic and developmental outcomes of children, schools must work with partners — e.g. families, community organizations, institutes of higher learning, public agencies — to ensure that all students have equitable opportunity to succeed in school.

The guide first lays out the distinguishing characteristics of the community organizing approach, and shows through a theory of change how community organizing effects change by building community capacity and linking that capacity to increased public accountability which creates the political will to improve conditions in schools and student learning.

MYTH: In this financial crisis, there is no additional funding available for education, but even if there were, increased funding does not improve education, Chicago's public schools already enjoy equitable funding, and if a community wants to raise more funds it has that option.

Legislation to protect Dreamers — including the 20,000 educators with DACA — that includes pathways to legal status or citizenship would not only increase the GDP, creating more revenue with which to improve public schools, but it would also mean that students and families across the country currently living in fear of deportation could focus on both their education and creating a better future for themselves and their communities.99

Deborah Meier is responding to a writing prompt in Richard Elmore's new book: I Used to Think... And Now I Think... 1 In this book, 20 leading educators, researchers, and policy analysts individually reexamine their longstanding views on such school reform topics as community schools, inclusion, the role of unions, the effectiveness of turnaround strategies, and even their faith that any single public policy can make a difference in improving schoolin Richard Elmore's new book: I Used to Think... And Now I Think... 1 In this book, 20 leading educators, researchers, and policy analysts individually reexamine their longstanding views on such school reform topics as community schools, inclusion, the role of unions, the effectiveness of turnaround strategies, and even their faith that any single public policy can make a difference in improving schoolIn this book, 20 leading educators, researchers, and policy analysts individually reexamine their longstanding views on such school reform topics as community schools, inclusion, the role of unions, the effectiveness of turnaround strategies, and even their faith that any single public policy can make a difference in improving schoolin improving schools.

Since there is no one - size - fits - all plan for improving and supporting public schools, it is the conversations in our neighborhoods and communities that are most important.