Sentences with phrase «need equitable access»

Like persistently failing public schools, community charter schools need equitable access to resources afforded to all public schools.

1) Women need equitable access to resources.

Not exact matches

The state should encourage high - performing colleges to improve access by enrolling more low - income students, and it should ensure equitable per - student support for the institutions that serve students with the greatest needs.

The administration needs to formalize a siting agreement for Queens, including how, when and where they will increase the number of WiFi kiosks and how they plan to ensure equitable access,» said Queens Borough President Melinda Katz.

«For example, electricity access is needed in schools and homes in order for all girls and boys to have access to free, equitable and good - quality primary and secondary education.»

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.

They need to continue to support efforts to address equitable access for students with disabilities and other special needs.

What is needed is improved education and access to skills with a more equitable system of education, finance and admission.»

Coverage of areas specially conserved for biodiversity and ecosystem functions should be increased (at least to the Aichi Target 11 of 17 % terrestrial and 10 % marine area), with systems of conservation being democratized and based on integration of rights and responsibilities; in all kinds of land / water uses, activities that are ecologically damaging need to be modified or replaced; high priority should also be given to the regeneration and restoration of degraded ecosystems and the revival of populations of threatened species; equitable access (including through territorial and resource tenure) must be accorded to natural resources, with special focus on populations with high and direct dependence on such resources for their survival and livelihoods.

The theme for this year's Prize recognizes the urgent need to respond to major obstacles that lie in the path of the most vulnerable populations with regard to equitable and inclusive access to quality education and lifelong learning.

«The goals and measures of success outlined in our approved state plan shows Hawaii's continued commitment to providing equitable access to quality education, and empowers our educators to innovate and design schools that meet the needs of their communities,» said Hawaii State Department of Education Superintendent Dr. Christina Kishimoto.

Learning opportunities: Educators plan for learning that accommodates differing access levels and individual student needs, for example, providing homework alternatives for students who do not have internet access at home, providing competency - based or other opportunities to demonstrate learning, scaffolding student learning to challenge and support individual students where they are and advocating for an equitable system for all students.

Advocate for equitable access to educational technology, digital content and learning opportunities to meet the diverse needs of all students.

The complaints cite issues of school safety, transportation, and equitable access and service for high need and at - risk student populations.

Or conversely, are states and authorizers implicitly or explicitly deciding they do not need to hold charter schools accountable for equitable access and quality programs for students with disabilities?

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) became law in 1975, and has provided regulations for individuals with disabilities to have access to an equitable education with resources that address their individual needs.

This partnership addresses the needs of our shared stakeholders and is characterized by a continued collaboration and efforts to improve equitable access and provide a variety of resources to the students of Baltimore County.

Acknowledging the various roles of technology leaders within schools and districts across the country, the Future Ready Technology Leaders ™ framework define the actions steps that are needed to ensure that all students have equitable access to qualified technology leaders, digital researchers, and innovative learning environments.

The persistent effects of conditions outside student control raise serious concerns about whether the education system is providing equitable access to meet the needs of high - achieving students of color.»

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).

Access the skills, guidance and courage you need to nurture a diverse, equitable and inclusive organization.

Every student has access to highly effective teaching and our highest need students have equitable access to our most highly effective teaching.

Approaches to State Pre-K Eligibility Policy: Considerations for Virginia Policy Makers provided an overview to the Joint Legislative Committee on Virginia's Preschool Initiative of national data on state pre-k eligibility policy and considerations for policy makers in ensuring that high need children have equitable access to quality preschool programs.

Accessibility resources provided on Smarter Balanced assessments ensure equitable access for students with diverse accessibility needs and preferences.

College access advocates need to develop long - term structural solutions to these disparities such as equitable school finance laws and more generous financial aid policies.

Since some of the food was needed by people who had no direct hand in producing it (such as weavers, shamans and granary guards), some means had to be found of giving them equitable access to it.

Yet energy justice — defined here as meeting one's needs for the services that energy provides at reasonable cost, with fair and equitable access, and without disproportionate economic and environmental burdens — can mitigate the problems and pressures in other areas, especially when efficiency and solar energy are developed so as to create local jobs.

Build the BRT, address the needs of current riders, and grow ridership by investing in improved reliability and affordability so that all Bay residents have better access to equitable and sustainable transportation now and in the future.

A reconsideration of what equitable energy access means for human development and the environment is needed.

With all agreements at the OCDE level, it will be possible to eventually harmonise tax regulations from a global perspective to solve the needs and concerns of international tax and cross border tax, which will bring positive results, benefiting taxpayers fairly, such as avoiding double taxation, being able to access greater knowledge, exchange of experiences among tax administrations with the consequent achievement of strengthening the actors that implement and execute the application of substantive rules on tax matters; to acquire and strengthen an application of the norm in a standardised, equitable, compatible and fair manner.

IFLA and its members in more than 150 countries worldwide believe that people, communities and organisations need universal and equitable access to information, ideas and works of imagination for their social, educational, cultural, democratic and economic well - being.

«We are Canadian civil society organizations committed to the basic principle that access to medicines and to health care should be equitable, based on need and not on ability to pay, whether at home or around the world.

They reflect the fundamental value of equitable inclusion in the legal system, and the need to respond to differences that result in inequitable access.

The needs assessment makes it clear that efforts to improve health in northern Queensland must tackle the social determinants of health (SDOH), as well as ensuring better and more equitable access to more appropriate health services, especially in the community.

Budgeting also needs to ensure access to professional learning is equitable and that educators have allocated time for planning and discussion.

In order for our state to continue leading the nation in early education, we will need to enhance access to a comprehensive, racially equitable early childhood system.»

A key requirement is Commonwealth seed funding for the provision of satellite and outreach Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHS) that Indigenous people will access, and which provide the comprehensive services needed to fill the service gaps, boost use of MBS and PBS services to more equitable levels, and reduce preventable admissions and deaths.

Local Government Structures: To ensure that local governments can provide for needs of clients, and that they can benefit from equitable access to resources.