Meanwhile, the press release quoted the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now (ConnCAN), which was founded by Achievement First's Jonathan Sackler [the same Jonathan Sackler who held a $ 40,000 fundraiser last May for the political action committee affiliated with Governor Malloy] as saying, «We welcome [the New York charter school association] and look forward to working with the Network to further ensure that the voices of communities, families and students who demand
more quality public school choices are heard loud and clear in Connecticut.»
Rather than bowing to special interests that seek to roll back or limit access to educational choice, Arizona policymakers should support policies that create
more quality public school options.
Not exact matches
Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far
more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor -
quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's
public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.
What may be
more worrisome is the prospect that home
schooling will attract new recruits motivated mainly by disenchantment with the
quality of their
public schools.
As the general
quality of
public education has declined, at least in
public perception, and as the power of the youth culture in
public schools has increased, many
more parents seek private
schools for their children, and many of these
schools are connected with churches.
• increase
public funding for after -
school programs • serve suppers instead of (or in addition to) snacks • recruit
more school districts to provide after -
school suppers and snacks • support and expand year - round participation by integrating the Afterschool Supper Program with the Summer Food Service Program • streamline and simplify the Afterschool Supper Program • serve meals during weekends, holidays and unanticipated
school closures; and • improve meal
quality
I have been proud to lead the fight in creating several high -
quality schools with
more on the way, opening new
public parks and upgrading our waterfront, new retail, and the rebuilding of the World Trade Center.
Democrats are working hard to bring
more people into the economic mainstream, to improve our
public schools, to protect our homeland, to make
quality health care accessible, and to keep our air and water clean.
Unlike the Liberal Democrats» broken pledge to oppose hikes in tuition fees, which has severely dented the standing of the party on the national stage and clobbered Clegg's own personal ratings, the Conservatives had a clear mandate to proceed with reforming Britain's hospitals,
schools and other vital
public services to drive up the
quality in a
more cost effective way.
These proposals are a reflection of the wide variety of community needs that delegates analyzed such as
more access to technology in
schools, senior - friendly spaces, safe
public housing,
quality recreation and parks.
Lhota's top priorities, he said, would include improving education with the introduction of new teaching methods,
more tablets and a conversation on longer
school days and years, creating jobs and maintaining
public safety and
quality of life.
We need better
schools with
more accountability,
public safety, and improved
quality of life in the neighborhoods.
Groups like Citizen Action and the Alliance for
Quality Education have long been fighting against tests used to determine if teachers and
schools are effective and are fighting the push by members of the current
school board for
more charter
schools and potentially conversion of some
public schools into charters.
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.
«There is mounting scientific evidence that diets including less low -
quality carbohydrates, such as white breads, potatoes, and sweets, and higher in protein - rich foods may be
more efficient for weight loss,» said first and corresponding author Jessica Smith, Ph.D., a visiting scholar at the Friedman
School and a research fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan
School of
Public Health.
«As air
quality standards become
more stringent, people are going to be thinking about other technologies that can reduce pollution,» said Jonathan D. Raff, assistant professor in the
School of
Public and Environmental Affairs at IU Bloomington and an author of the study.
Lead report author Kevin Cromar, PhD, director of the Air
Quality Program at the Marron Institute and associate professor of population health and environmental medicine at the NYU
School of Medicine, added, «Metropolitan areas and states with large populations and elevated concentrations of one or both air pollutants would realize the biggest improvements in
public health by meeting the
more protective standards.»
In a constructive response to competition,
school faculty and administrators may implement reforms that use resources
more efficiently, improve the overall
quality of education within the traditional
public schools, and increase responsiveness to student needs.
For the first part of his dissertation, Muralidharan surveyed a representative sample of
more than 3,000
public schools across India to measure the
quality of
public service delivery in education.
Attitudes: support for diversity (racial integration), a perception of inequity (that the
public schools provide a lower
quality education for low - income and minority kids), support for voluntary prayer in the
schools, support for greater parent influence, desire for smaller
schools, belief in what I call the «
public school ideology» (which measures a normative attachment to
public schooling and its ideals), a belief in markets (that choice and competition are likely to make
schools more effective), and a concern that moral values are poorly taught in the
public schools.
If the skeptics are right, Wood writes, Common Core «will damage the
quality of K — 12 education for many students; strip parents and local communities of meaningful influence over
school curricula; centralize a great deal of power in the hands of federal bureaucrats and private interests; push for the aggregation and use of large amounts of personal data on students without the consent of parents; usher in an era of even
more abundant and
more intrusive standardized testing; and absorb enormous sums of
public funding that could be spent to better effect on other aspects of education.»
That is, the high rate of private placement in D.C. may be
more a function of the
quality of D.C.
public schools than a function of special education per se.
The conscience of a liberal should struggle with supporting a system in which the children of the poor are consigned to attend the
school that is assigned to them by
public officials, regardless of its
quality, whereas
more affluent parents can shop for the
school they want for their children by purchasing a home in the vicinity of the
public school they prefer or paying private
school tuition.
Charters are important for stimulating improvement in all
public schools — and providing even
more quality choices — as research has clearly shown that they do.
A
public statement followed by a series of activities to promote
more high -
quality schools could drive improvement from the ground up if state leaders continue to fail to act.
More intriguing, however, is news that the report will discuss «how to expand
school choice to increase equity and create a market within the
public sector for
school quality.»
Given the need for
more high -
quality schools, we should be open to finding ways for any high -
quality public -
school operator to be successful, whether they are stand - alone charter
schools, EMOs, franchises, networks, or CMOs.
Even
more controversial among teachers than Shanker's advocacy of high standards and
public school choice was his embrace of a series of reforms intended to improve the
quality of the teaching profession.
Instead of arguing whether charter
schools should be included in No Child Left Behind, a
more fruitful question is how to ensure that state accountability schemes allow enough flexibility for boutique programs within the
public system while not opening up loopholes that low -
quality schools can slip through.
NAF cited Schwartz's long history of advocacy for high
quality school - to - career programs, especially in his current position cochairing Pathways to Prosperity, a foundation - funded initiative designed to increase
public support for the creation of multiple pathways linking work and learning to enable
more young people to successfully complete high
school and go on to obtain a meaningful postsecondary credential.
Nina Rees, CEO of the National Alliance for
Public Charter Schools, said the law could be «a game - changer when it comes to giving more public school students access to high - quality charter public schools.&
Public Charter
Schools, said the law could be «a game - changer when it comes to giving more public school students access to high - quality charter public schools.
Schools, said the law could be «a game - changer when it comes to giving
more public school students access to high - quality charter public schools.&
public school students access to high -
quality charter
public schools.&
public schools.
schools.»
Finally, Adam Peshek proposes a way to tackle some of the obstacles to charter -
school growth through the Opportunity Zone program (part of the 2017 tax reform package)-- and hopefully create
more high -
quality public school options for children along the way.
NEA Leader Stresses Goal of Great
Public Schools for All Kids National Education Association president Dennis Van Roekel wants to give all students access to a quality education in part by working to close the achievement gap, seeking more funding for public schools, and increasing parent and community involv
Public Schools for All Kids National Education Association president Dennis Van Roekel wants to give all students access to a quality education in part by working to close the achievement gap, seeking more funding for public schools, and increasing parent and community invol
Schools for All Kids National Education Association president Dennis Van Roekel wants to give all students access to a
quality education in part by working to close the achievement gap, seeking
more funding for
public schools, and increasing parent and community involv
public schools, and increasing parent and community invol
schools, and increasing parent and community involvement.
The growth of for - profit online
schools, one of the
more overtly commercial segments of the
school choice movement, is rooted in the theory that corporate efficiencies combined with the Internet can revolutionize
public education, offering high
quality at reduced cost.
When judging
school quality, the
public gives much
more weight to students» job preparation and interpersonal development than to their standardized test scores, the poll shows.
It's about our shared belief that every family in the Commonwealth deserves a
quality public school in their neighborhood — no matter their economic circumstance, ethnic background or zip code; it's about opening currently closed doors and giving
more Massachusetts students a seat at the table.
And do they offer a
more holistic, and potentially
more useful, approach to
quality control for
public and private
schools?
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.
Design a
school that pays more and reaches all with excellence — October 10, 2013 Public Impact Co-Directors Refresh Vision: Opportunity Culture for ALL — September 25, 2013 Report shows promising alternative to closing failing charter schools — August 14, 2013 Rocketship Education: Bringing tech closer to teachers — July 24, 2013 Case study: New charter pays more, extends teachers» reach, gets strong results — July 9, 2013 Case study: How Charlotte zone planned Opportunity Culture schools — June 27, 2013 Case study: How one Leading Educators fellow extends her reach — June 17, 2013 Opportunity Culture district creates paid role for student teachers — May 22, 2013 Reports: City - based organizations» roles in quality digital learning — May 15, 2013 Nation's fifth - largest district explores extending reach of excellent teachers — May 9, 2013 A Better Blend: Combine digital instruction and great teaching to dramatically improve learning — April 30, 2013 Indiana Encourages Dramatically Different Models in New Charter Schools — April 18, 2013 Charlotte Flooded with Teacher Applicants Seeking Roles to Extend Their Reach — April 11, 2013 New charter school study shows the steps to great schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — Now
school that pays
more and reaches all with excellence — October 10, 2013
Public Impact Co-Directors Refresh Vision: Opportunity Culture for ALL — September 25, 2013 Report shows promising alternative to closing failing charter
schools — August 14, 2013 Rocketship Education: Bringing tech closer to teachers — July 24, 2013 Case study: New charter pays more, extends teachers» reach, gets strong results — July 9, 2013 Case study: How Charlotte zone planned Opportunity Culture schools — June 27, 2013 Case study: How one Leading Educators fellow extends her reach — June 17, 2013 Opportunity Culture district creates paid role for student teachers — May 22, 2013 Reports: City - based organizations» roles in quality digital learning — May 15, 2013 Nation's fifth - largest district explores extending reach of excellent teachers — May 9, 2013 A Better Blend: Combine digital instruction and great teaching to dramatically improve learning — April 30, 2013 Indiana Encourages Dramatically Different Models in New Charter Schools — April 18, 2013 Charlotte Flooded with Teacher Applicants Seeking Roles to Extend Their Reach — April 11, 2013 New charter school study shows the steps to great schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — No
schools — August 14, 2013 Rocketship Education: Bringing tech closer to teachers — July 24, 2013 Case study: New charter pays
more, extends teachers» reach, gets strong results — July 9, 2013 Case study: How Charlotte zone planned Opportunity Culture
schools — June 27, 2013 Case study: How one Leading Educators fellow extends her reach — June 17, 2013 Opportunity Culture district creates paid role for student teachers — May 22, 2013 Reports: City - based organizations» roles in quality digital learning — May 15, 2013 Nation's fifth - largest district explores extending reach of excellent teachers — May 9, 2013 A Better Blend: Combine digital instruction and great teaching to dramatically improve learning — April 30, 2013 Indiana Encourages Dramatically Different Models in New Charter Schools — April 18, 2013 Charlotte Flooded with Teacher Applicants Seeking Roles to Extend Their Reach — April 11, 2013 New charter school study shows the steps to great schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — No
schools — June 27, 2013 Case study: How one Leading Educators fellow extends her reach — June 17, 2013 Opportunity Culture district creates paid role for student teachers — May 22, 2013 Reports: City - based organizations» roles in
quality digital learning — May 15, 2013 Nation's fifth - largest district explores extending reach of excellent teachers — May 9, 2013 A Better Blend: Combine digital instruction and great teaching to dramatically improve learning — April 30, 2013 Indiana Encourages Dramatically Different Models in New Charter
Schools — April 18, 2013 Charlotte Flooded with Teacher Applicants Seeking Roles to Extend Their Reach — April 11, 2013 New charter school study shows the steps to great schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — No
Schools — April 18, 2013 Charlotte Flooded with Teacher Applicants Seeking Roles to Extend Their Reach — April 11, 2013 New charter
school study shows the steps to great schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — Now
school study shows the steps to great
schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — No
schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter
School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — Now
School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — Now What?
All are
qualities Paolo calls on daily as he works to support an education system of nearly 3,600
public schools and
more than 1.8 million students.
In other words, high -
quality pre-K is a much
more powerful political issue than
public charter
schools.
More than two - thirds of parents see the following as reducing the
quality of
public education: teacher and staff layoffs; increased class sizes;
school closings; high turnover rates; and cutbacks in art, music, libraries and physical education.
• Overwhelming parental support for the following elements of an education agenda: Provide extra resources to turn around struggling neighborhood
schools; hold charter
schools accountable; provide
more support / training for struggling teachers; expand / improve new - teacher mentoring; reduce class sizes, especially in the early grades; make
public schools hubs of the neighborhood with longer hours, academic help and health services for families; provide extra pay for teachers in hard - to - staff
schools; and ensure access to high -
quality preschool for all 3 - and 4 - year - olds.
And although Dreyer hopes the new support systems are effective, she says it's
more important that the initiative helps reshape
public discussion, and helps unearth what exactly contributes to the
quality of a given virtual
school.
What's
more, because private management could be introduced directly into any of the nation's 80,000
public schools, private management might improve the
quality of
schools more rapidly than would vouchers for private
schools, which must change the
public schools indirectly through competition.
On the importance of government, for example, Brian Eschbacher, executive director of Planning and Enrollment Services in Denver
Public Schools, described policies and systems in Denver that help make choice work better in the real world: a streamlined enrollment system to make choosing easier for families, more flexible transportation options for families, a common performance framework and accountability system for traditional and charter schools to ensure all areas of a city have quality schools, and a system that gives parents the information they need to choose schools confi
Schools, described policies and systems in Denver that help make choice work better in the real world: a streamlined enrollment system to make choosing easier for families,
more flexible transportation options for families, a common performance framework and accountability system for traditional and charter
schools to ensure all areas of a city have quality schools, and a system that gives parents the information they need to choose schools confi
schools to ensure all areas of a city have
quality schools, and a system that gives parents the information they need to choose schools confi
schools, and a system that gives parents the information they need to choose
schools confi
schools confidently.
8:30 AM — 9:15 AM Keynote: Dr. Joshua Starr, CEO, PDK International Understanding
Public Attitudes About Schools During this presentation, Dr. Starr will discuss new polling data that shows the public's current attitudes about public education; the overall quality of local schools; curriculum and standards; school funding and taxes; homework and testing policies; school choice; and
Public Attitudes About
Schools During this presentation, Dr. Starr will discuss new polling data that shows the public's current attitudes about public education; the overall quality of local schools; curriculum and standards; school funding and taxes; homework and testing policies; school choice; an
Schools During this presentation, Dr. Starr will discuss new polling data that shows the
public's current attitudes about public education; the overall quality of local schools; curriculum and standards; school funding and taxes; homework and testing policies; school choice; and
public's current attitudes about
public education; the overall quality of local schools; curriculum and standards; school funding and taxes; homework and testing policies; school choice; and
public education; the overall
quality of local
schools; curriculum and standards; school funding and taxes; homework and testing policies; school choice; an
schools; curriculum and standards;
school funding and taxes; homework and testing policies;
school choice; and
more.
We look forward to strengthening our entire charter law, with an eye on flexibility and a better system for funding
schools, so that
more children in Connecticut can have access to
quality choices, like
public charters, in their communities.
«Harbormasters» are unelected entities that seek to put themselves in control of managing
public education in a particular community, and (b) «High -
Quality Seats» is a euphemism for
more charter
schools.
The profound lack of knowledge about
public education, as reflected in comments about
public schools being «flush with cash» and badly underserving the nation's children, coupled with policy proposals based on these «alternative facts», pose a threat to a high -
quality education for
more than 50 million students.