Sentences with phrase «new focus on equity»

The federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) establishes new opportunities for building and supporting birth - to - third - grade systems at both state and local levels, enabling states to integrate B - 3rd strategies into their new focus on equity, accountability, assessment, professional learning and school improvement.

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Avenue Capital focuses on distressed and undervalued debt and equity in the United States, Europe and Asia, with headquarters in New York and 11 offices across the globe.

• Dominic Murphy is planning to raise 1 billion euros ($ 1.2 billion), for 8C Capital, a new private equity fund, which will focus on deals in the healthcare and consumer industries, according to Read more.

«There is no more clarity on new products or changes in operations,» Richard Adams, owner of Franchise Equity Group, a consulting firm focused on McDonald's franchisees, told Buzzfeed News.

When she's not working alongside her husband, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, McCray is focused on her own work with pay equity, domestic violence and mental health.

The SEC's focus on the average net IRR disclosures, which has not been previously reported, marks a new phase in the agency's efforts to regulate private equity and comes at a time when the industry is already under pressure from investors to simplify its fees and expenses structure.

Equities in Europe closed lower Wednesday afternoon as investors began to focus on earnings at the start of a new reporting season.

«We've responded to the competitive environment by focusing on industries that are currently out of favor with the public - equity market, like biotech, medical devices, and early - stage information - technology companies,» says Patrick Boroian, a general partner at Sprout, which is the New York City - based venture - capital affiliate of financial - services giant Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.

«People who do private - equity investments right are very shrewd and very driven to focus on key issues like investment return and exit strategies,» says Gary Simon, a partner at the New York City - based law firm Jenkens & Gilchrist Parker Chapin.

From 2001 to 2005, Ms. Peluso was an Associate with Chadbourne & Parke LLP in New York where her practice focused on representing private equity clients in M&A and securities and general corporate matters.

All markets will continue to focus on the volatility in the equity and bond markets, geopolitical events, developments with the Trump Administration, corporate earnings, oil prices, and will turn to reports tomorrow on Japan's Leading Index and Machine Tool Orders, German IFO, US Case - Shiller Home Price Index, New Home Sales, Richmond Fed and Consumer Confidence for near term guidance.

New Energy Capital Partners, LLC («NEC»), a leading alternative asset management firm focused on debt and equity investments in small - and mid-sized clean energy infrastructure projects and companies, today announced its appointment as sub-advisor to North Sky Capital's Alliance Fund... Continue reading →

New Energy Capital Partners, LLC («NEC»), a leading alternative asset management firm focused on debt and equity investments in small - and mid-sized clean energy infrastructure projects and companies, today announced that it held a final closing for the New Energy... Continue reading →

Where, exactly, the line is drawn that defines a new product as smart beta or not is still fuzzy, but the broad common trend so far has been that the vast majority of these new products has been focused on equities.

New Energy Capital, which focuses on providing equity to small and midsized projects utilizing proven clean energy, clean water, and waste management technologies, has invested in renewable energy and efficiency projects since 2004.

New Energy Capital Partners, LLC («NEC»), a leading alternative asset management firm focused on debt and equity investments in small - and mid-sized clean energy infrastructure projects and companies, today announced that it held a final closing for the New Energy Capital Infrastructure Credit Fund (the «Fund») with total capital commitments of $ 325 million.

TechStars focuses on technology companies with transnational appeal, and requires a 6 percent equity stake in any new companies that are funded.

Prior to working at Backlash Solutions, Assaf was an associate at Bryant Park Capital, a New York - based investment bank focusing on debt and equity financing and M&A advisory.

Spark Capital has hired Will Reed as a new associate focused on growth equity deals.

Crescent Capital, a private equity firm which owns nearly 50 % of the company's shares, has appointed a new management team which can now focus on improving the business's performance

Adam Sharp the founder of EarlyInvesting.com, a new e-letter focused on equity crowdfunding.

Prior to his time at CIBC, Tyler was an Analyst at Summer Street Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in lower middle market companies, based in Buffalo, New York.

Previously, Mr. Satchu spent 12 years in New York City where he was a General Partner at Fenway Partners, a US$ 1.4 billion private equity firm focused on acquiring leading middle market companies typically from families or large corporations and a Financial Analyst at Merrill Lynch in the High Yield Finance and Restructuring Group.

We recommend that investors looking to benefit from the new stimulus focus on cyclical equity sectors, which we already favor.

Ex-Värde Partners executive Neal Johnson has launched a new alternative investment management firm that will focus on opportunistic credit and equity transactions in the middle market, including real estate and finance opportunities.

The private - equity firm, which is focused exclusively on the restaurant industry and has worked with brands like Taco Bell and Denny's, said the partnership will recapitalize the company and accelerate new store growth across the Midwest and beyond.

She praised the bill currently pending in New York, saying that it is «very focused on that equity piece.»

«That means that we can now focus our efforts in the coming years on getting New York City schools the Campaign for Fiscal Equity money they are still owed and building equity into the state aid formula so that poor school districts get more state aid than wealthier ones,» MulgrewEquity money they are still owed and building equity into the state aid formula so that poor school districts get more state aid than wealthier ones,» Mulgrewequity into the state aid formula so that poor school districts get more state aid than wealthier ones,» Mulgrew said.

A former corporate lawyer, she poured herself into her children's charity and returned to the business world, eventually finding a home at New World Capital Group, a private equity group where she focuses on investments in clean energy.

Community partners gathered today to launch the Centre for Research on Health Equity and Social Inclusion (CRHESI), a new organization focused on studying the effects of inequality and discrimination to...

We are reviewing new curriculum frameworks for primary and secondary education, with a focus on peace, human rights, gender equity and life skills.

We are providing a 21st century approach to its observance not just by recharging memory, but through an artistic reflection with a balanced affirmation of Hispanic heritage and indigenous traditions for collaborative new routes of expression from ancestral roots focused on the concerns of UNESCO: Cultural Rapprochement, Biodiversity, Ocean Care and Seafaring, Climate Change mitigation through sustainable energy, reforestation, gender equity and health issues.

The disruptive models of blended learning ultimately introduce new benefits that focus on providing individualization; universal access and equity; and productivity.

The OECD also stated that the focus of continuing reforms should be on «developing high - quality teaching profession, making leadership a key driver of education reform, ensuring equity in learning opportunities and student well - being, and moving towards a new assessment, evaluation and accountability that aligns with the new 21st - century curriculum».

Unlike the former Academic Performance Index (API), which was based solely on testing results, this new accountability system uses multiple measures to determine performance and progress and emphasizes equity by focusing on student group performance.

Ed Trust changed all that with a single - minded focus on equity, hitched to the relatively new notion of school - level accountability.

Attendees will focus on case studies from the new book Every Child, Every Classroom, Every Day: School Leaders Who Are Making Equity a Reality by HGSE Professor Deborah Jewell Sherman and Professor Emeritus Robert Peterkin.

School districts are critical for a variety of oversight and equity reasons, as we are now seeing in New Orleans, yet most districts seem unable to focus on what is most important.

The new Every Student Succeeds Act maintains a federal focus on closing the equity gap with respect to students» access to expert, experienced teachers.

In addition to programmatic areas such as membership, operations, and CCSA's annual conference, Daniel focuses on data - inspired efforts to drive growth and increase the organization performance, and on a new diversity, equity and inclusion undertaking to increase the number of school leaders of color in California.

Minnesota's new accountability system increases the focus on equity by supporting high schools with graduation rates below 67 percent overall or for any student group.

PBIS and SEL can be integrated into a range of school practices and procedures, including new teacher onboarding processes focused on equity, collaborative professional learning, district policies aimed at reducing suspensions, and restorative practices.

• Explore this new paper on school climate, from Educators4Excellence, which focuses on school climate as part of the movement toward educational equity and makes specific recommendations around ways to leverage LCFF to improve school climate.

The FEAs have taken many forms, including: sheltered instruction observation protocol (SIOP) implementation in Texas; community - based equity assessment in Texas; IDRA's Focusing on Language and Academic Instructional Renewal (FLAIR) program implementation in reading in Louisiana; gender equity also in Louisiana; implementation of a multicultural framework in staff development to support student success in New Mexico; parent leadership in New Mexico; unitary status planning in Arkansas; English as a second language (ESL) classroom strategies in Arkansas; service learning in Oklahoma; and meeting civil rights requirements under the law in Oklahoma.

Advocates are focusing on equity to ensure that the most vulnerable students are protected by the new law.

So I'm gonna close with just saying that, again, at the Alliance because of our focus on secondary schools and on equity, this study is really important to our thinking about how do we take our new national federal policy and how do we make recommendations and support the work that's happening in the field?

I spoke with the principals assembled by NAESP about their hopes for the implications for the new law, and the conversation touched on topics as wide - ranging as funding equity, fair pay for teachers, and supports for English - language learners, as well as the concept of more uninterrupted time to focus on instruction that Campbell, who is a former principal, asserts is currently missing from most school days.

In this role, Holly directed a wide range of state and local policy initiatives focused on improving educational outcomes for children through promoting autonomy, accountability, and equity in New Orleans charter schools.

The new law encourages states and schools to innovate, while at the same time maintains a focus on equity and accountability.

Additional steps will include grounding the city's teacher leadership and new principal mentoring programs in a racial equity lens, developing a new Social Studies Scope and Sequence and Passport to Social Studies curriculum, and using the keynote address at the citywide principal's conference this spring to focus on the subject of culturally responsive teaching.