Sentences with phrase «most equitable school»

Finland is remarkable for not only routinely scoring among the top nations on the PISA exams, but also for being among the most equitable school systems in the world.

By contrast, Education Trust's report, reflecting the effect of Abbott, ranked the Garden State as the second most equitable school finance system in the country.

Not exact matches

By focusing on the lowest - performing students, we want to create a system that truly focuses on students who need the most help and is equitable across all schools.

Performance increases have not been achieved by ignoring equity; rather, New Orleans has become one of the most equitable urban school districts in the country.

Perhaps more important than their PISA results, however, was the take home that the Finnish school system is one of the most equitable in the world, i.e. performance variation among students in schools remains small.

Lastly, there must be an assurance that funding for school choice initiatives results in an equitable distribution of resources across participating schools, with those schools serving students with the most intensive needs receiving resources proportionate to that challenge.

The Foundation is a trusted voice promoting school choice as the most effective and equitable way to improve the quality of K — 12 education in America.

But the fund helped convince most charters that an enrollment system where parents had to submit separate applications to multiple district and charter schools, particularly as options grew, was neither sustainable nor equitable.

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.

First established as the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation in 1996, the Foundation promotes school choice as the most effective and equitable way to improve the quality of K — 12 education in America.

MORE stands for equitable funding and more resources to the schools that need them the most.

ENN submits testimony on SB 390, in support of the expansion of the successful ZOOM school program as a way to ensure an equitable education for our most vulnerable students - those in low - income neighborhoods and in one - and two - star schools.

Putting educator quality at the center of national school improvement efforts remains as relevant today as it was 20 years ago when a national commission described recruiting, preparing, and supporting teachers as the single most important in - school resource for providing all students with an equitable and excellent education.

Most experts agree that comprehensive education systems are more equitable than differentiated systems (where the schools choose the pupils) because they are less selective.

The editors» word choice is a bit hyperbolic — after all, most of the city's 1.2 million students attend traditional public schools and always will — but the 10 % benchmark highlights parents» sense of urgency about equitable educational opportunities.

• The best school systems were the most equitable — students do well regardless of their socio - economic background.

Over the past quarter of a century — and since well before NCLB was enacted — access to arts education in the public schools has become less and less equitable, with minority students and students attending high - needs schools most often shortchanged (Rabkin & Hedberg, 2011; Yee, 2014; GAO, 2009; Stringer, 2014).

Funded in part by the U.S. Department of Education, the IDRA EAC - South technical assistance in the U.S. South promulgates family engagement as a civil rights issue because families are the most logical advocates and supporters of all children's rights to an accessible, excellent, equitable and welcoming public school.

The reality is that many Connecticut charter schools are failing to provide equitable and adequate access to the full array of Connecticut's public school students and that even after cherry - picking the students they will accept and keep, most charter schools are failing to do an adequate job.

First established in 1996, the Foundation is a trusted voice promoting school choice as the most effective and equitable way to improve the quality of K — 12 education in America.

Our vision is for Connecticut to have the highest - performing, most equitable education system in the nation — a system that provides education leaders with the flexibility needed to pursue excellence and rigorous standards to measure their success, that is supportive of many different types of schools and many paths to success and that empowers parents to be in the driver's seat of their child's education.

In addition, the dollars coming from the state's Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) targeted student population funds — the dollars intended to be the most equitable — disproportionately favor high schools in LA Unified.

However, to make success in college and career a reality for Carver students and students from other high - need schools in Los Angeles, equitable funding is needed to provide significantly more tangible resources to schools and students who need it most.

The same phrase was also inserted after the promise to «ensure the equitable distribution of effective teachers» — a reform aimed at allowing school systems to assign their best teachers to the schools most in need.

Good schools are a scarce commodity in the city which made fashioning an equitable way to distribute them most imperative.

After a year - and - a-half of work, «most board members said they were satisfied that the document meshes with and advances the state's larger comprehensive effort for school improvement combining new academic standards, more equitable funding and a locally driven accountability system.»