Sentences with phrase «lack access to quality schools»

By placing all district and charter public schools into these quality tiers, the Association is now poised to investigate where students lack access to quality schools.

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«Legislators in Ohio have once again stood up for families that lack access to high - quality educational options, and we thank them for putting kids first,» said Betsy DeVos, Chairman of The American Federation for Children, a school - choice advocacy group.

For example, the 2015 FCC Broadband Progress Report states that approximately 35 percent of schools lack access to fiber, meaning the high - quality broadband with appropriate speed students need to work.

Poor conditions or lack of school facilities, low - quality teachers, teacher shortages, poor student - teacher interactions, geographic access to school, less challenging courses and student boredom

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.

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.

In one of the nation's largest school districts, Clark County, Nevada, which includes Las Vegas, far too many students — especially particularly poor and minority students — lack access to a high - quality school.

NUT Cymru secretary David Evans added that there were «significant barriers» to promoting better collaboration between schools or better access to professional development «from a lack of high quality training provision, a lack of financial resources to release teachers or workload pressures making non-classroom activity almost impossible».

In the open - ended questions about technology learning, some respondents expressed that technology should be hands - on and practical, yet others described either their universities» or local schools» lacking access to high - quality technology; therefore, using technology to teach content was superfluous under these conditions.

Poverty, lack of access to high - quality preschool, low levels of parental education attainment, and hypersegregated schools all play a crucial role.

On the other hand, she thinks neighborhood preference would have been «a good idea» at the campus Two Rivers is opening this fall in Trinidad, which she says is surrounded by low - income residents who lack access to a high - quality school.

The resolution cited the fact that charter boards accept public money but lack democratic accountability, that charter schools are contributing to increased segregation, that punitive disciplinary policies are disproportionately used in charter schools as well as other practices that violate students» rights, that there is a pattern of fraud of mismanagement in the sector in general, and it then called for opposition to privatization of education, opposed diversion of funding from public schools, called for full funding for quality public education, called for legislation granting parents access to charter school boards and to strengthen oversight, called for charter schools to follow USDOJ and USDOE guidelines on student discipline and to help parents file complaints when those guidelines are violated, opposed efforts to weaken oversight, and called for a moratorium on charter school growth.

But many schools lack up - to - date computers, fast internet access and quality teacher training, compounding the tech disparities students face at home.