Sentences with phrase «of strengthening public schools»

«Richard Carranza understands the power of public education to change lives, and he has a proven record of strengthening public schools and lifting up students and families,» de Blasio said in a news release.

«Richard Carranza understands the power of public education to change lives, and he has a proven record of strengthening public schools and lifting up students and families,» said de Blasio.

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Regardless of the educational options available or schooling choices made for their own children, Christians can serve and strengthen public schools through volunteering as tutors or reading partners.

CDC and ASCD developed this expanded model — in collaboration with key leaders from the fields of health, public health, education, and school health — to strengthen a unified and collaborative approach designed to improve learning and health in our nation's schools.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos was more supportive of the effort to strengthen charter schools statewide as the governor wants to lift the cap on the alternative public schools by 100.

«I am running to build a real Democratic State Senate majority that finally fully funds our public schools, protects tenants from being thrown out of their homes and strengthens our loophole ridden rent laws, passes badly needed ethics reforms, election reforms and real criminal justice reforms and makes Andrea Stewart - Cousins the first woman Senate Majority Leader, breaking up the so - called «three men in a room.»

Nevertheless, Cuomo has been criticized by liberals advocates for not being more forcefully in favor of a Democratic takeover of the chamber this year, which came to a head this week when the governor knocked public schools as a «monopoly» he wants to break by strengthening charter schools.

Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein announced Wednesday he had introduced a bill that would extend mayoral control of New York City public schools for two years and strengthen Community Education Councils.

But the governor's plan would effectively give him ownership of the state's massive public school system, and would be among the most ambitious changes he's pursued in his governorship, a tenure that so far has included legalizing same - sex marriage, strengthening gun control, creating a statewide property - tax cap and reforming the state pension system.

Supporters of strengthening charter schools say they offer children at failing public schools a chance out of poverty.

Cuomo has been supportive of strengthening charter schools, putting him at odds with Democrats who back more money for traditional public schools.

The state's teachers union is already gearing up for a major fight this budget season on education issues after Cuomo declared he wanted to end the «public monopoly» on education through a strengthening of charter schools.

The Brooklyn lawmakers criticized Cuomo for linking the education tax credit, aimed at spurring donations to public and private schools, to a strengthening of rent control.

As Borough President, I worked to create more than 27,000 new seats in 48 new public schools, fought to strengthen the role of the local Superintendents, and provided funding to modernize our schools so they can meet the challenges of future.

All of the Senate's bills on mayoral control include provisions to strengthen charter schools, which Flanagan said are an integral part of the public school system.

Unlike Governor Cuomo, who supports privatization in the form of charter schools, the Green Party ticket of Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones advocates a comprehensive «Quality Education for All» platform grounded in fully funding and strengthening our public school system.

Lasher said his campaign will focus on issues like housing, strengthening rent laws and protecting tenants, building «a new generation of Mitchell - Lama - style housing» and ending state income tax for public school teachers.

The research from Harvard School of Public Health and the University of Southern Denmark found that the chance of developing Type 2 diabetes was cut by between 30 and 40 per cent with just 3.5 hours of yoga and other muscle - strengthening activities along with aerobic exercise a week.

Foster: Parents for Public Schools (PPS) is a national organization of community - based chapters working to strengthen public schools by engaging, educating and mobilizing paPublic Schools (PPS) is a national organization of community - based chapters working to strengthen public schools by engaging, educating and mobilizing pSchools (PPS) is a national organization of community - based chapters working to strengthen public schools by engaging, educating and mobilizing papublic schools by engaging, educating and mobilizing pschools by engaging, educating and mobilizing parents.

The initiative aims to extend and strengthen the range and quality of the services these professionals provide in all kinds of school settings: public and independent; rural, suburban, and urban; and elementary and secondary.

On Thursday, February 26, HGSE's Master Class welcomes Dan Levy, senior lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, faculty chair of the Kennedy School's SLATE (Strengthening Learning and Teaching Excellence) initiative, and co-chair of the HarvardX research committee.

Spring slate of HGSE Master Classes Announced On Thursday, February 26, 2015 HGSE will welcome Dan Levy, senior lecturer in Public Policy at HKS, faculty chair of the Kennedy School's SLATE (Strengthening Learning and Teaching Excellence) initiative, and co-chair of the HarvardX research committee.

Survey Question # 6: Which one of these two plans would you prefer — improving and strengthening the existing public schools or providing vouchers for parents to use in selecting and paying for private and / or church - related schools?

The second of them asks, «Which one of these two plans would you prefer — improving and strengthening the existing public schools, or providing vouchers for parents to use in selecting and paying for private and / or church - related schools?»

One of Jewell - Sherman's biggest successes as the leader of the Richmond Public Schools was the strengthening of the district's connections to the community.

Rachel Tompkins is president of the Rural School and Community Trust, a nonprofit educational organization «dedicated to improving student learning and community life by strengthening relationships between rural schools and communities and engaging students in community - based public work.»

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

RIBA's report also believe that the outcomes of school POE reports should also be published to strengthen transparency and public trust and ensure that future projects learn from previous successes and mistakes.

On Thursday, February 26, 2015 HGSE will welcome Dan Levy, senior lecturer in Public Policy at HKS, faculty chair of the Kennedy School's SLATE (Strengthening Learning and Teaching Excellence) initiative, and co-chair of the HarvardX research committee.

This summer, Raise Your Hand Texas (RYHT)-- an education coalition composed of business and community leaders, parents, and tax payers dedicated to strengthening and improving Texas public schools — sent 125 educators from throughout the state to four leadership institutes at the Programs in Professional Education.

In the recent noisy debate about the state of public education, nobody argues that it makes sense to strengthen ties between school and home.

Bad private schools will get lots of media attention, which will drive down public support for school choice and strengthen the hands of those who opposed such programs in the first place and are just waiting to eradicate them.»

Seven years ago, Raise Your Hand Texas (RYHT), a nonprofit education advocacy organization, collaborated with the Harvard Graduate School of Education to help strengthen public education and Texas school leSchool of Education to help strengthen public education and Texas school leschool leaders.

While it is difficult to disentangle the reasons for this strengthening over time of the program's estimated effects, these findings nonetheless suggest that our first - year results may understate the positive effect of the FTC program on public school performance

Reville, who directs the Education Redesign Lab, points to several key ingredients for expanding and strengthening afterschool programming — moves echoed by Hillary Salmons, the executive director of the Providence After School Alliance, and Heather Tow - Yick, Providence Public School's Chief Transformation Officer.

Proponents of Common Core made their case by arguing that the standards would improve public education and eventually strengthen the workforce: they would ensure that all high - school graduates were «college and career ready,» that America remained «globally competitive,» and that all students had access to a rigorous education «regardless of where a child lives or what their background is.»

The initiative aims to help the helpers, extending and strengthening the range and quality of the services these professionals provide in all kinds of school settings: public and independent; rural, suburban, and urban; and elementary and secondary.

Omaha Public Schools, under Executive Director of IMS Rob Dickson, strengthens innovation through technology integration to serve 52,000 diverse students and improve learning.

«Enhancing professional development, coaching and collaboration opportunities for our dedicated Oakland teachers and school leaders, as well as strengthening partnerships and support for public schools already in existence is critical to realizing our vision of educational equity across the city.»

Strengthening school districts — Launched in 2009, the Irvine - funded California Linked Learning District Initiative was implemented over seven years within nine California school districts that, together, served 14 percent of the state's public high school students (including a high percentage of low - income youth of color, within rural and urban geographies).

Instead of nominating an education secretary who sees her mission as strengthening public schools and implementing the blueprint Democrats and Republicans crafted and cheered, Donald Trump dismissed the will of the people, choosing instead the most anti-public education nominee in the history of the department.

In September 2008, Weingarten led the development of the AFT Innovation Fund, a groundbreaking initiative to support sustainable, innovative and collaborative reform projects developed by members and their local unions to strengthen our public schools.

A new report released today by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools outlines the complex maze of laws governing special education and recommends best practices charter schools can use to strengthen the recruitment of and services provided to students with disabiSchools outlines the complex maze of laws governing special education and recommends best practices charter schools can use to strengthen the recruitment of and services provided to students with disabischools can use to strengthen the recruitment of and services provided to students with disabilities.

We need to STRENGTHEN School Governance Council Language (public act 10 - 111) We also have to continually hammer / promote the message of a «TEAMWORK» collaborated effort between the local district boards of education, turnaround committees and the SGC (school governance councils) in the reconstitution of our low - performing schools once they have been «accepted» into the state Commissioners NeSchool Governance Council Language (public act 10 - 111) We also have to continually hammer / promote the message of a «TEAMWORK» collaborated effort between the local district boards of education, turnaround committees and the SGC (school governance councils) in the reconstitution of our low - performing schools once they have been «accepted» into the state Commissioners Neschool governance councils) in the reconstitution of our low - performing schools once they have been «accepted» into the state Commissioners Network.

Lyn Hoyt, co-founder of TREE (Tennesseans Reclaiming Educational Excellence) will lead Tennessee AROS to strengthen public school advocacy by recruiting alliance members that will support schools and districts committed to the creation of transformational community schools.

The session saw bipartisan support for Louisiana's Scholarship Program as it was renewed and strengthened, creation of a public school choice program and more options made available for Louisiana parents.

The Illinois Association of School Boards is a voluntary organization of local boards of education dedicated to strengthening the public schools through local citizen control.

«I believe public schools of choice will enhance that important contract that needs to be strengthened between parent and child in the engagement of the educational future of the child.

Alexandria, Va. (March 9, 2016)-- The National School Boards Association (NSBA), the leading advocate of public schools, announced today that Rory Davenport has joined the organization to strengthen its advocacy capabilities and enhance its brand.

The key purposes of accountability are to inform the public — to give an accounting — of the status of the school or system; to provide information that can be used to improve teaching and learning; to ensure equity within the system; to strengthen democratic participation in governing schools; and to ensure that participants in the system carry out their responsibilities well.