Sentences with phrase «more equitable school»

Morningside Center provides training and coaching for all members of the school community to help them on the path to a more equitable school.

At Berkeley High School in California, teacher leaders shape the path toward a more equitable school culture.

Illinois enacted a new, more equitable school funding formula in 2017.

Under the section labeled «community control,» M4BL called for an end to state and mayoral takeovers of school systems in favor of local, democratically elected boards, more equitable school funding and a de-emphasis on standardized testing.

Our work to create a more equitable school system is far from over.

LCFF was designed as a step towards a more equitable school finance system.

Culturally responsive leadership is paramount for creating more equitable school systems.

CHICAGO (August 31, 2017)-- Advance Illinois applauds Illinois» new, more equitable school funding formula that puts kids first and ends an era of the state having the most inequitable school funding system in the country.

California's new Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) 1, signed into law in 2013, promised a new school finance system that would provide both more local control and a more equitable school finance system.

The Commission recommended more equitable school financing systems, measures to ensure effective teachers and curriculum, and access to high quality early childhood education.

Finding ways to reduce teacher stress in these situations is a vital part of ensuring better outcomes for individual children — and more equitable school experiences for all.

The Regents will also push for a more equitable school aid formula and for some adjustments in the implementation of the Common Core academic standards, Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch said in a statement.

El - Mekki was also a Principal Ambassador Fellow at the U.S. Department of Education under Arne Duncan, and he is the founder of Black Male Educators for Social Justice, a fellowship dedicated to supporting and recruiting more African American men into the teaching profession — a critical component, El - Mekki believes, in creating more equitable schools.

Much of the decision was a clarion call for more equitable schools.

«We need more equitable schools,» she says.

Together, PUC and LMU designed a program that is centered on social justice theory and includes a focus on how teachers can create more equitable schools and classrooms, according to Leslie Chang, PUC Schools superintendent for instruction and leadership.

Not exact matches

Widely affirmed proposals call for the restructure of low - performing schools, more emphasis on the basics, safer classrooms, more rigorous graduation standards, periodic measurement of progress through some kind of standardized tests, longer days and year - round schooling, decentralization into smaller learning communities and greater freedom for those smaller units, smaller classes, better - qualified teachers and improved salaries, more parental input and more equitable funding.

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.

Nixon said Cuomo is not obeying a 12 - year - old court order in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity case, which says the state needs to spend billions more on schools in order for them to become equitable.

For the last 17 years, I've been fighting for better schools and more equitable education funding all across New York state.

«The NASUWT has always stressed that progress measures are, in general, a more effective and equitable indicator of the contribution schools make to the achievement of pupils than those focused on assessment.

This short of the $ 1.5 billion education advocates like the Alliance for Quality Education say is necessary to provide more equitable funding for poorer schools deemed to be in high - needs districts.

The group's poll surveyed 300 voters in New York, finding 61 percent of voters backed a more equitable balance in public school funding for rich and poor communities.

Senate Republicans blame Democrats for the G.E.A. and argue that their leadership has led to more equitable funding for schools.

However, board member Luis Reyes, a researcher at Hunter College in Manhattan, said the graduation goal would prove «delusional» unless the state provides more equitable funding for schools in poor neighborhoods.

is AFFIRMING that a more democratic, equitable and collaborative system is possible where local schools supported by the entire community provide excellent education and the wrap around services needed to meet each child's right to reach his / her full human potential and their community's right for social and economic development,

Meanwhile, education advocates on Tuesday began their lobbying efforts with a rally calling on more equitable funding for high - needs schools across the state.

As an advocate for better schools and more equitable education funding all across the state, affordable housing, LGBTQ equality, clean energy, legalizing marijuana, and women's reproductive rights, Cynthia Nixon is running a grassroots campaign for governor without corporate funding.

Three days earlier, Mr. Cuomo's budget director, Robert Mujica, issued an 1,100 - word statement about «fair and equitable» school funding — an issue Ms. Nixon has advocated around for more than a decade.

Nixon has worked over the years with the Alliance for Quality Education, a group heavily funded by unions that has pushed for more equitable distribution of state aid to public schools.

Here are resources and project ideas to foster more equitable, hands - on citizenship education from elementary years through high school.

This would create not only a more equitable system, but also more effective schools.

To make pensions more equitable and effective tools for staffing schools, we propose that retirement benefits paid to any teacher should be tied to the lifetime contributions made by or for that teacher.

Allocating funds based on the number and characteristics of students that attend a school, instead of more typical methods of district - based budgeting and funding personnel, has the potential to facilitate public school choice by helping to ensure district schools of choice receive equitable funding.

However, PISA data can not discern whether this is because schools are more equitable in providing learning opportunities for collaborative skills, or whether collaboration skills are mainly developed outside schools.»

First, just as the states refused to make good on the «equal» part of «separate but equal» after Plessy, for more than 40 years states have failed to provide equal access to the funding needed to achieve excellent schools for all children, largely because of a lack of federal accountability for equitable school funding.

It lists 40 recommendations for bringing about more equitable treatment of girls by schools, ranging from strengthened enforcement of federal laws prohibiting sex discrimination to the adoption of «gender fair» curricula.

In addition to providing a more equitable and improved educational experience, which will (as panelist Meira Levinson pointed out) serve the civic mission of schools in and of itself, there are specifics in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) that promote this agenda.

«I was asked to come in to Rindge and Latin to make the school more equitable and raise the standards,» says Evans.

A starting point for building `... more peaceful, equitable and sustainable societies through education» is to wind back policies that entrench inequality in schools.

Thus, the process of holding schools and school districts accountable for results is more equitable and useful.

«We need a more equitable approach to family engagement,» Weiss continues, «one that takes into account family strengths and a shared responsibility assumed by families, schools, and communities for children's development across time and in different settings.»

There are several education systems that spend far more money in schools than Australia but get less quality out of the system that is also less equitable.

More equitable education systems are those that are able to weaken this association of socio - economic situation and learning achievement in school.

Gonski's key finding that fair allocation of resources to schools is the key condition of more equitable education is not actually new or revolutionary.

The federal government has a critical investment role to play in 1) supporting the replication and scale - up of the best providers through its grant programs; 2) improving access to low - cost public facilities for charter schools through its own funds and by leveraging existing public - school space; 3) pushing states and local districts toward more equitable funding systems for all public school students, including those in charter schools; and 4) supporting efforts to create early - stage, innovative, and scalable models that incorporate greater uses of learning technology.

How can I spend my life making school more fulfilling, more practical, and more equitable for all children?»

«Making sure we do it the right way is one of our best hopes for a more just and equitable future,» the elementary school teacher says.

Third, I want to use my research to inform policy around early childhood and early intervention programs so that schools become more equitable and accessible for students from their first years of education.

Though both states succeeded in passing legislation allocating a more equitable share of local tax revenue to charter schools, the authors note that partisan conflict and legislative force led to a flawed process — as well as potentially jeopardized implementation of the new law — in Florida.