Sentences with phrase «on improving public education»

Under Cardinali's leadership, the organization has developed and embraced an evidence - based model of integrated student service provision and has launched a national growth strategy to increase the organization's impact on improving public education.

Though the organization endorsed Dr. McKenna's opponent, Alex Johnson, it wishes Dr. McKenna the best as he assumes his new role and greatly looks forward to working with him on improving public education for students in Board District 1 and across LAUSD.

During this evening's State of the Union address, President Barack Obama is expected to lay out a series of initiatives designed to make the United States more competitive, including a focus on improving public education.

California is focusing on improving public education with a bold two-fold strategy: rebuilding the capacity and local decision - making power of its about 1,000 school districts with LCFF and implementing the new Common Core standards over this school year and next.

The Ellis Center for Educational Excellence, a non-profit foundation based in Phoenix on whose advisory board I sit, decided in 2006 that it would focus its funding on improving public education through a district - wide strategy.

Not exact matches

To reach their goals, trade groups support various tactics including increased public education, on - premise recycling initiatives, improved curbside collection practices, expanded state beverage container deposit programs and mandatory recycling programs or landfill bans.

On six — reducing corruption, improving public education, balancing upstate and downstate needs, improving infrastructure, improving the economy and planning for New York's future — only between 23 and 35 percent of voters say Cuomo has done an excellent or good job.

He gets a 68 percent negative job performance rating on improving the quality of public education in New York.

That means working with a Senate Majority committed to bringing economic and tax relief to the communities I represent, demonstrating compassion for the poor and respect for the middle class, and a commitment to improving public education and easing the burden on tuition - paying parents.

All over the world, groups and individuals are using technology in a variety of innovative ways to increase government transparency, fight corruption, open data, hack on civic problems, strengthen economic development, address environmental problems, improve public health and education, and advance the conditions of women and children.

On key issues facing the state — reducing corruption, improving public education, balancing upstate and upstate concerns, improving infrastructure, growing the economy and planning for the state's future — only between 23 percent and 35 percent of voters believe the governor has done a good or excellent job.

However, today Mr Hutton argued that you can not deal with differences in life expectancy through the pension system - these must be tackled with better strategies on public health, child poverty and improved education and skills training.

«This decision should bring an end to the politicking and grandstanding and allow us all to focus on what matters most: continuing to improve the quality of education we offer New York City's public school children,» Mayor Bloomberg said.

New Labour were also hampered with the theory of the «Third Way» mantra, meaning that even intellectuals like David Milliband were reduced to abandoning big ideas which could have a real impact, and instead being forced to concentrate on administrative details - hence the awful targets system he dreamed up to improve the performance of public services like education, policing and health.

The report proposes a series of policy recommendations to close the wage gap, including launching statewide public education campaigns on the breadth of career opportunities, salary negotiation and financial literacy, expanding access to child care and family leave, increasing career mentoring for young women and improving data and transparency on job titles, pay and benefits.

Bill Gates» philanthropic organization, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is making an about - face on its education priorities to focus on networks of traditional public schools aimed at improving student achievement.

On education, only 19 percent of respondents said the state's new Common Core educational standards have improved public schooling while 40 percent say they have worsened public education.

The governor said during the next four years he will focus on raising the minimum wage, improving public education, fighting the local property tax burden, passing the Women's Equality Act and passing the DREAM Act.

Lhota's top priorities, he said, would include improving education with the introduction of new teaching methods, more tablets and a conversation on longer school days and years, creating jobs and maintaining public safety and quality of life.

Surrounded by supporters on the steps of City Hall Sunday, Jackson, who serves as the chair of the council's education committee, painted himself as a tireless fighter with a long track record of working to improve public schools.

At 1:30 p.m., the Senate Standing Committee on New York City Education Subcommittee will meet to discuss various amendments to education law - including an act in relation to requiring certain public schools in any city with a population over one million to offer food options during lunch, an act to direct chancellors of city school districts, in cities having a population of one million or more, to examine and assess the feasibility of expanding the number and types of career and technical education schools and programs within such city school districts and an act in relation to improving educational outcomes for homeless Education Subcommittee will meet to discuss various amendments to education law - including an act in relation to requiring certain public schools in any city with a population over one million to offer food options during lunch, an act to direct chancellors of city school districts, in cities having a population of one million or more, to examine and assess the feasibility of expanding the number and types of career and technical education schools and programs within such city school districts and an act in relation to improving educational outcomes for homeless education law - including an act in relation to requiring certain public schools in any city with a population over one million to offer food options during lunch, an act to direct chancellors of city school districts, in cities having a population of one million or more, to examine and assess the feasibility of expanding the number and types of career and technical education schools and programs within such city school districts and an act in relation to improving educational outcomes for homeless education schools and programs within such city school districts and an act in relation to improving educational outcomes for homeless students.

Governor Cuomo's newly formed Education Reform Commission met for the first time on Tuesday, July 26, and determined that they will strive to reach a «consensus» on a plan for improving New York State public schools.

«A decade ago, New York's highest court ruled that our state must hand over billions of dollars to improve public education — but that money has not materialized,» said Zakiyah Ansari, the advocacy director of the Alliance for Quality Education, which organized the Jan. 10 press conference on the City Hall steps to kick off the lobbyeducation — but that money has not materialized,» said Zakiyah Ansari, the advocacy director of the Alliance for Quality Education, which organized the Jan. 10 press conference on the City Hall steps to kick off the lobbyEducation, which organized the Jan. 10 press conference on the City Hall steps to kick off the lobbying push.

Attacking new teacher evaluation systems that are, for the first time, enabling district public schools to make decisions based on teacher quality, does violence to the cause of improving the quality of education for the overwhelming majority of students who don't attend charter schools.

The plan calls for independent oversight of the city's Housing Preservation Department; establishing a public education campaign to inform tenants about HPD's role; empowering a new body or building inspectors to collect fines against landlords; having HPD make repairs not completed by the landlord in the specified amount of time and then billing the landlord; making inspectors carry citations in multiple languages and send out reports in multiple languages; forcing landlords to make repairs within 24 hours of emergency violations; establishing an East Harlem HPD oversight team as a pilot for other areas with at - risk low - income housing; providing inspections 24 - hours - a-day, 7 - days - a-week; and improving HPD's follow - up on violations.

Governor Cuomo's New NY Education Reform Commission on Jan. 2 released its preliminary recommendations for improving the state's public schools.

With a new administration coming to City Hall and the Department of Education, the UFT launched a television ad campaign on Nov. 18 urging all New Yorkers to work together to improve the city's public schools.

BROOKLYN, NY — Council Member Rafael Espinal, who represents East New York, Cypress Hills, Bushwick and Brownsville, applauded Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan announced on Thursday to allot $ 1.4 billion to Central Brooklyn for improving crime rates, education systems and other public utilities.

-- The purpose of the program is to provide grants to public and private institutions of higher education to carry out projects which will improve understanding of the effects of consumer behavior on energy consumption and conservation.

The Wills Eye Hospital Department of Research will continue to work on projects that improve education, research, clinical care, and public service for vision care issues.

State of the Union: The Spotlight on Education In his 1999 State of the Union, President Clinton proposed a five - point plan to improve America's public schools.

Survey Question # 5: In order to improve public education in America, some people think the focus should be on reforming the existing public school system.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a new investment of $ 1.7 billion for K - 12 education over the next five years, with the bulk of the funding aimed at existing traditional public schools that show progress in improving educational outcomes, the development of new curricula, charter schools focused on students with special needs, and «research and development» for scalable models that could inform best practices.

This education reform documentary, produced and directed by Randy Murray and Andrew James Benson, follows twenty of the twenty - nine teachers at a Phoenix, Arizona public school who set out on a journey toward improving the quality of their teaching by attempting to achieve National Board Certification.

He recounted his participation on Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's Committee On Education Excellence, which included a diverse array of education experts, among them economist Eric Hanushek, who were tasked with recommending steps to improve California's public schoolon Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's Committee On Education Excellence, which included a diverse array of education experts, among them economist Eric Hanushek, who were tasked with recommending steps to improve California's public schoolOn Education Excellence, which included a diverse array of education experts, among them economist Eric Hanushek, who were tasked with recommending steps to improve California's publicEducation Excellence, which included a diverse array of education experts, among them economist Eric Hanushek, who were tasked with recommending steps to improve California's publiceducation experts, among them economist Eric Hanushek, who were tasked with recommending steps to improve California's public schools.

Interviewed in October on the Today Show, President Obama seemed to be channeling a generation of conservative education analysts in stating bluntly that more money absent reform won't do much to improve public schools.

Charter schools have the potential to have broader effects on student achievement if traditional public schools respond to the threat of losing students to charter schools by improving the quality of their own education programs.

Tom Payzant, the veteran superintendent who heads up Boston Public Schools, says large school districts get funding from a variety of philanthropic organizations, but he has had to work hard to persuade these funders to align their efforts to support a system - wide vision of how to improve education and avoid contributing to what he calls «project-itis,» which is just a series of ad hoc donations that make givers feel good but have little impact on students.

However, Unions highlighted reports from MPs on the cross-party education select committee and the public accounts committee, both published last week, which criticised the academies and free schools programme and pointed to the lack of evidence that it was leading to improved standards.

Australia's education leaders have supported the Federal Government's $ 70 million Independent Public Schools Initiative as a step in the right direction, but have warned that the focus must remain on improving student outcomes.

He has built a number of educational organizations focused on advancing global education and in improving the quality of education in public schools in Colombia.

«The establishment of higher standards is critical to improving Florida's system of public education,» said Frank Brogan, the state education commissioner, who is now appealing to individual districts to approve the standards on their...

Today's committee report states: «Unjustifiably high salaries use public money that could be better spent on improving children's education and supporting frontline teaching staff, and do not represent value for money.

Others are involved with parent - based community groups: the Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation (working to create a dialogue among parents on local education issues, including assignment processes for schools), the Black Ministerial Alliance (working to improve the quality of Boston public schools), and City Life / Vida Urbana (working with a group of Latina mothers advocating for their special - needs children).

The project, which he calls, The Chastened Dream, will look at how publicly - oriented professional schools, including those focused on education, public health, public policy, and urban planning and design, develop knowledge that they hope will be useful for ameliorating poverty, curing disease, improving education, and increasing the quality of life for us all.

I've led and served on the board of several education nonprofits devoted to improving California's public - school system.

• Isadora Faber, who launched an online campaign to improve her school when she was 13, and has since sparked a nationwide conversation on the right to public education.

«By and large — both in public and independent school education — there is still a tendency to focus on the disciplines separately, and, frankly, there's a lot of value in that,» says Heidi Hayes Jacobs, a highly regarded education consultant, president of Curriculum 21, and author of several influential books on improving K - 12 education, including Interdisciplinary Curriculum: Design and Implementation and Active Literacy Across the Curriculum.

A task force of Ohio foundations and other grantmaking organizations is calling on state leaders to improve public education by adopting five broad, ambitious policy priorities.

When it worked, it improved examination results and also impacted on reducing community disorder, neighbourhood nuisance, the number of NEETS (young people Not in Education, Employment, or Training), and saved the public money that would otherwise have been spent for many years on students who were now employable and would become net contributors.