Sentences with phrase «of equitable schools»

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In the commentary in question we commended the USCC for «trenchant statements on protecting the unborn and on the evil of active euthanasia, together with a call for equitable tax support for school choice and support for increased immigration.»

Widely affirmed proposals call for the restructure of low - performing schools, more emphasis on the basics, safer classrooms, more rigorous graduation standards, periodic measurement of progress through some kind of standardized tests, longer days and year - round schooling, decentralization into smaller learning communities and greater freedom for those smaller units, smaller classes, better - qualified teachers and improved salaries, more parental input and more equitable funding.

«The Coalition of Essential Schools (CES) is at the forefront of creating and sustaining personalized, equitable, and intellectually challenging sSchools (CES) is at the forefront of creating and sustaining personalized, equitable, and intellectually challenging schoolsschools.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

De Blasio defended the co-location decisions as equitable and fair when taking into account the needs of students from other schools.

Nixon has been very close with the Alliance for Quality Education, an organization that has been pushing the state to fulfill the terms of a lawsuit over equitable funding for school districts.

«Our members are very knowledgable about education issues, and while there is great concern about the implementation of the Common Core and the over-reliance on testing, there are many other issues that are front - burner for NYSUT members,» he said, listing concerns over the property tax cap, equitable school funding, the teacher evaluation system and the statewide expansion of pre-kindergarten.

Also at 11 a.m., Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb and his colleagues will be joined by education advocates and professionals at a press conference to call for equitable education funding and the release of school aid runs, back of Assembly chamber, state Capitol, Albany.

«New York State United Teachers today issued early endorsements to three incumbent state senators who have reliably stood with parents and educators in fighting for fair and equitable funding while vigorously opposing the climate of over-testing that is harming students and public schools,» NYSUT said in a statement.

«The NASUWT has always stressed that progress measures are, in general, a more effective and equitable indicator of the contribution schools make to the achievement of pupils than those focused on assessment.

When their daughter started kindergarten in 2001, Nixon discovered the Alliance for Quality Education, a parent organization that advocates for increased and equitable distribution of school funding.

This short of the $ 1.5 billion education advocates like the Alliance for Quality Education say is necessary to provide more equitable funding for poorer schools deemed to be in high - needs districts.

«This review provides the opportunity to ensure that issues around the redeployment of the school workforce rather than redundancy, tight fiscal accountability rather than cheque book management, and the fair and equitable treatment of employees rather than subjective and punitive management are addressed.»

The group's poll surveyed 300 voters in New York, finding 61 percent of voters backed a more equitable balance in public school funding for rich and poor communities.

A significant minority of the free schools are opting to use these methods of allocating places despite concerns that they do not promote fair, equitable access for all children.

State Sen. John Flanagan (R - East Northport), chairman of the Education Committee, said in talks leading up to the budget presentation, that Republicans who control the Senate told the governor that any proposed cuts to school aid should to be «fair and equitable.»

Instead of high - stakes tests to define high - poverty schools as failing and to justify their conversion to privately - managed charter schools, we need to desegregate schools by race and class and provide equitable and adequate funding of all public schools.

Hawkins» opposition to Common Core and Race to the Top, as well as his platform to fully fund schools in an equitable manner has caught the attention of teachers and parents around the state who are distressed about the state of their schools due to high stakes testing, unworkable and narrow standards and a lack of funding.

The issue of equitable aid was at the heart of the $ 1.11 billion lawsuit brought by the Alliance for Quality Education on behalf of 26 students in eight small city school districts, including Kingston, in 2008.

The Regents will also push for a more equitable school aid formula and for some adjustments in the implementation of the Common Core academic standards, Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch said in a statement.

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.

Each of the schools has selected an equity adviser, who monitors and assesses policies and progress in «the development and maintenance of an equitable environment for all faculty» at UCI.

Knowing that all of these schools would benefit from a classroom's worth of hands - on STEM materials, the district took an unusual and equitable approach.

We should accomplish the following four tasks by September 2017 so we can build an equitable, transparent, dynamic, self - improving, choice - driven, citywide system of schools.

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.

Years of research show that it's closely linked to almost everything that we as a nation say we want for our children and demand from our schools: academic achievement, social and emotional development, civic engagement, and equitable opportunity.

For many communities, the phrase «magnet school» calls up familiar images of an equitable learning environment, an interest - based curriculum, and progressive education in action.

The conference brought community organizers, education researchers, youth, educators, funders, and other stakeholders together to discuss the contributions of community organizing to school improvement and equitable education policy.

Part of the answer certainly lies in the policy arena — giving charter schools equitable access to funding (including capital funds), cutting unnecessary regulations, ensuring that institutions other than local school boards can issue charters in every jurisdiction.

But a truly integrated school focuses on creating a positive experience for all students of all backgrounds, and supports what we call the «ABCDs» of diverse and equitable schools: strong academics, a strong sense of belonging, a commitment to dismantling racism, and an appreciation of diversity.

Allocating funds based on the number and characteristics of students that attend a school, instead of more typical methods of district - based budgeting and funding personnel, has the potential to facilitate public school choice by helping to ensure district schools of choice receive equitable funding.

If we are serious in our desire for a just and equitable society, the real question is how to create entire systems of high schools where excellence is the product of everyday practice.

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.

Similarly, many schoolchildren today attend schools that lack sufficient and equitable funding in part because of Rodriguez, which foreclosed the federal judicial accountability that could require states to remedy their inequitable funding disparities.

• Ensure that all students within a participating school are included in the pilot and that participating districts and schools pay appropriate attention to the needs of different subgroups in designing policies to make them as equitable as possible.

El - Mekki was also a Principal Ambassador Fellow at the U.S. Department of Education under Arne Duncan, and he is the founder of Black Male Educators for Social Justice, a fellowship dedicated to supporting and recruiting more African American men into the teaching profession — a critical component, El - Mekki believes, in creating more equitable schools.

It lists 40 recommendations for bringing about more equitable treatment of girls by schools, ranging from strengthened enforcement of federal laws prohibiting sex discrimination to the adoption of «gender fair» curricula.

Lastly, we continue to advocate for equitable distribution of state facilities aid for all public schools.

Finding ways to reduce teacher stress in these situations is a vital part of ensuring better outcomes for individual children — and more equitable school experiences for all.

In addition to providing a more equitable and improved educational experience, which will (as panelist Meira Levinson pointed out) serve the civic mission of schools in and of itself, there are specifics in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) that promote this agenda.

Culturally Responsive Classroom Management (CRCM) seeks to provide «all students with equitable opportunities for learning» by minimizing discriminatory school discipline practices that occur when the behaviors of nondominant populations are misinterpreted.

It would certainly appear equitable, in light of the tortured history of school - finance litigation in Ohio.

The exhibit, in which 15 teachers demonstrated their work through posters, attracted an audience of graduate students, administrators, and educators from other communities, as well as representatives from Project Zero and the Center for Collaborative Education, an organization that partners with public schools and districts «to create and sustain effective and equitable schools.»

Thus, the process of holding schools and school districts accountable for results is more equitable and useful.

Many of the individuals who are driving education policy in this country... sent their own children to abundantly financed private schools where class sizes were 16 or less, and yet continue to insist that resources, equitable funding, and class size don't matter — when all the evidence points to the contrary (Haimson, 2009).

There are several education systems that spend far more money in schools than Australia but get less quality out of the system that is also less equitable.

We will be sponsoring field work with cities and states that agree to implement aspects of our three central design principles: personalization, integrated health and human services, and equitable access to «out of school» learning.

Later as the first African American and female superintendent of San Francisco Public Schools, she introduced a program to target additional resources and create a new equitable funding formula for sSchools, she introduced a program to target additional resources and create a new equitable funding formula for schoolsschools.

More equitable education systems are those that are able to weaken this association of socio - economic situation and learning achievement in school.

Gonski's key finding that fair allocation of resources to schools is the key condition of more equitable education is not actually new or revolutionary.