Sentences with phrase «officials challenged parents»

I'd just come from a parent engagement meeting where public school officials challenged parents and staff to help children achieve beyond all expectations — and beyond those who believed they could not achieve.

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This year's theme, «Take the School Breakfast Challenge,» encourages parents, students and school officials to start their morning with a healthy breakfast.

President Clinton challenged public officials, business leaders, universities, schools, teachers, parents, and students to take the steps necessary to boost student achievement in math and science.

The systematic evidence clearly shows that school officials dominate special education, parents rarely challenge school officials» decisions, schools win most of those challenges from parents, and parents very rarely get their children placed in private schools at public expense.

Parents are entitled to challenge the decisions of school officials, but they rarely do and even more rarely win those challenges.

As schools across the country move toward implementing the Common Core State Standards, district officials face a major challenge: How do they make the new academic expectations understandable to parents?

But in spite of our financial challenges, our commitment to providing every child in every community with a high - quality education is as strong as ever, and the district, parents, teachers, principals, community members, local elected officials and business leaders must work together to protect investments in student learning that will maintain the tangible progress being made by our students.

«The number of New York students passing state reading and math exams dropped drastically this year, education officials reported on Wednesday, unsettling parents, principals and teachers and posing new challenges to a national effort to toughen academic standards.

GoodEReader.com spoke with Sarah Mackey, Community Liaison for the Office of Letters and Light, the parent organization of NaNoWriMo, literally hours before the official start of this year's National Novel Writing Month about how technology and digital publishing have affected the «thirty days and nights of literary abandon» and may have influenced record numbers of writers to take on the challenge.

For example, others outside of the family don't always recognize the step - relationships (e.g., school officials, medical providers) 4 and they also often challenge the validity of the family relationships (e.g., «they are not real brothers if your parents are not married»).