Sentences with phrase «most improve our public education»

Not exact matches

Although arriving in his mid-sixties and living well into his eighties, when most men find it necessary to slow down, Theodore traveled extensively through the island, creating dioceses, consecrating bishops, and improving the education of the clergy and the public worship.

Critics have carped that the Bloomberg - led system fails to give parents sufficient voice — whatever that means — but the current arrangement is a night - and - day improvement over the old Board of Education, which was not only less accountable to the public, but failed at its most basic mission: improving our schools and teaching our kids.

«This decision should bring an end to the politicking and grandstanding and allow us all to focus on what matters most: continuing to improve the quality of education we offer New York City's public school children,» Mayor Bloomberg said.

«Hosting Speaker Boehner provides an opportunity to discuss with one of the most important leaders in our country issues like expanding economic opportunities both in Indian County and Central New York, investing in public priorities and improving education and civil rights protections,» Barkin said without offering specific details.

The result is that, as our nation has struggled to improve its public schools, the teacher unions have emerged as the fiercest, most powerful defenders of the status quo, and the single greatest obstacle to the reform of American education.

But the bottom line is pretty simple: for at least the past two decades, Democrats have enjoyed a steady advantage when the public is asked who it trust most to improve education.

Washingtonians are accustomed to seeing their elected and appointed leaders attempt to improve public education in the city: Since 1804 there have been 17 different school governance and administrative regimes, the most recent established in 2007.

Philanthropic leaders who support Alliance share a passion for improving our nation's public education and want to directly help the city's most under - served communities...

Boston Public Schools wins Broad Prize for Urban Education Fifth time the charm for national recognition as most improved urban school district; $ 1 million in total scholarship money awarded to students Mayor Thomas M. Menino, School Committee Chair Elizabeth Reilinger and Interim Superintendent Michael Contompasis today accepted the Broad Prize for Urban Education from Eli Broad and the Broad Foundation as the most improved urban school district in the country.

Despite the fact that 95 percent of those surveyed in the August 2015 Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup Poll on Public Education said that the most important way to improve schools is to improve the quality of teachers, professional development is often the first budget item to be cut or reduced.

The empirical evidence simply does not support the use of one - size - fits - all curriculum standards and high stakes testing as effective tools to improve the education and life outcomes of over 56 million public school students in the third most populous country on the planet.

If New York is serious about improving public education for all students, particularly for our most at - risk children, then we should be enabling charters to teach more students with disabilities and ELLs.

Sylvia Lazos, policy director at Educate Nevada Now — a program launched by The Rogers Foundation to advocate for improving public education — called Nevada's school choice law «the most radical voucher program in the country.»

As director of community engagement, Garrett will work with the Indianapolis communities and neighborhoods most affected by education change and foster community conversations about improving and supporting public education.

«Quality talent is the single most important driver in creating and supporting great schools,» said Chris Barbic, Superintendent of the Achievement School District in Memphis, Tenn. «We're excited to partner with Education Pioneers to help expand the pipeline of great people working to improve public educatioEducation Pioneers to help expand the pipeline of great people working to improve public educationeducation.»

When we improve instruction and curricula for our students who have been the most ill - served by American public education — including for young black, white and Latino men — we are improving education for our high - performing students as well.

Although this bill has created a visceral reaction among those of us who have dedicated our lives to improving the outcomes in the most struggling of schools through traditional public education, this letter avoids emotionalism and rests on logic and facts to persuade you to reject HB 5105.

Most disturbingly, the test score inflation led the public to believe that the current reforms improved the quality of education.

Whether it's growing to serve more students, improving academic outcomes for historically underserved students, protecting our most vulnerable students so they can focus on learning, or developing innovations that are working their way into all public schools throughout the state, CCSA members have played a catalytic role helping public education improve for all California students.

One of the most improved areas is public education as a direct result of the diligence and talent of charter school teachers, school leaders, and executive management.

When most charter school laws were first passed in the 1990s, we understood the potential of charters to improve public education options for families.

Regardless of what side of the education reform debate we may choose, most Americans agree on one thing: Public schools must improve.

The idea was that the key policies and practices that affect the success of school leaders — the standards that define high - quality leadership and provide a basis for holding leaders accountable; the training that prepares leaders for their role as catalysts for learning; and the range of conditions and incentives that help or hinder those leaders — are most likely to be successful and sustained if they are both well - coordinated and aligned to the goal of improved student learning at all levels of public education: state, district and school.

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.

We acknowledge the inequality that most residents of New Orleans have endured, and are working to right deep class and race divisions in our city through improving public education.

As we enter another education policy season with hundreds of legislative bills designed to improve public education, I thought it might be interesting to take a look at who sits on some of the state's most influential education organizations.

Unfortunately, those most directly responsible for improving education — state officials, school board members, administrators, and teachers — and those concerned about its success — educators, parents, policymakers, and the public — have few resources at their disposal to answer this question.

Perhaps both the most fundamental and overlooked aspect of public education, attendance rates have attracted increased attention in recent years as educators and policy makers grapple with the many barriers to improving student performance.

William DiSessa, a spokesperson at the Michigan Department of Education, told Michigan Capitol Confidential that the most recent NAEP results show that traditional public schools in the state have room to improve.

Rather than making a series of empty, unfilled promises, these policies would actually improve teachers» working conditions, students» learning conditions, and school funding; would protect public schools from inequities of funding caused by the proliferation of charter schools; and would «encourage» the decision makers who currently establish public education policy to play within the rules, or forfeit the thing they are really most concerned about: those sweet, sweet campaign contributions.

Unions have historically played leading roles in improving public education, and most nations with strong public educational systems have strong teacher unions.

As the local expert on magnet programs, you are the most qualified to inform politicians about your schools and how they are improving public education.

Other services, such as mediation, co-parenting education, and batterer intervention programs have also shown promise in improving outcomes for these families.13 Though the dynamics of relationship violence are complex and, collectively, seem unlikely to yield to any single intervention, a serviceable mix of public and community - based efforts may help stem the prevalence of violence in women's lives while offering refuge to those most at - risk.