Sentences with phrase «parent and the public»

But she has no intention of giving up the fight to bring parents and public schools in her community closer together.

Showing school performance on multiple measures that impact student performance provides a more complete picture for parents and the public of the how schools are serving students.

In a survey of parents and the public, the following percentages of respondents said they agreed with these statements.

Chapter 8 takes a look at communicating with parents and the public about differentiation.

The median response was lower than those for parents and the public as a whole.

The system would be fluid, self - improving, and driven by parents and public authority, ensuring the system uses the best of market and government forces.

These are huge victories for reformers, and losses for the teachers unions and other advocates of hiding the truth from parents and the public.

And that's exactly what's needed: journalists writing about key elements of their state's plan, providing a good look at what parents and the public should expect to see.

These «report cards» would allow parents and the public to compare absence rates across state districts, alongside other indicators.

Clearly some sort of screening process for aspiring teachers is essential; parents and the public rightly expect safeguards for those working with youngsters.

Second, both parents and the public appear to be more responsive to the level of student achievement at a school than to the amount students learn from one year to the next.

I don't think we always have done a great job taking into account other things that parents and the public care about.

These six C's are attributes that parents and the public value, and employers seek.

In fact, I'd go as far as to say inflammation is the new obesity and is the real secret we need to reveal to both pet parents and the public.

The simplicity of such ratings meant it was easy for parents and the public to sort and rank schools by the supposed strength of their performance.

While those values may be well received by parents and the public, it is important to consider why we should include moral values and sustain the connection between moral and performance character.

While it isn't too late for Senator Williams and Representative Johnson to act, their inaction leaves parents and public education advocates with no option but to consider legal action to stop Special Master Adamowski's inappropriate actions and potentially significant violations of Connecticut law.

In announcing the postponement in a statement, Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott said, «After reviewing concerns raised by parents and public officials about this year's Citywide and Community Education Council elections, I have concluded that the process could and should have been handled better.»

But Dr. Vos said the AHA chose to make just one recommendation for all kids over age 2 in order to keep things simple for parents and public health advocates.

Dr. Dina Kulik is a mother and Pediatrician in Toronto and is one of Canada's leading child health media experts, providing child health information to parents and the public through television, radio and print media and via her thriving blog DrDina.ca.

Teachers in her school say she leads by example, demonstrates how technology and gaming can be integrated across the curriculum through STEAM, and helps parents and the public understand how STEAM content prepares students for future success.

The Every Student Succeeds Act requires states to give parents and the public a wealth of information on school quality and performance.

Reformers in those locales have every reason to be disappointed, and will have to work double - time to inform parents and the public of the relative performance of all of their states» schools.

Today the same coalition is keeping close watch on the state's critical steps to create a performance tool to help parents and the public understand how well schools are doing to close the achievement gap and create career - and college - ready students.

The evidence on these questions available to date comes from small - scale studies of specific school districts, making it difficult to reach general conclusions about the degree to which parents and the public at large are well informed about the performance of local schools.

The NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, has marked 100 days to the General Election with the distribution of materials aimed at teachers, parents and the public emphasising the entitlements that our public education service should deliver for all children and young people.

«We know what parents and the public want.

«While I'm gratified that DOE has now admitted there were serious problems with its plans to hold CEC and Citywide Council elections, I simply don't believe one week is enough time to fix this deeply flawed process,» Stringer said in a statement following a rally with parents and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio at the Tweed Courthouse.

«Short inspections will reduce the burden of inspection without losing the rigour which parents and the public rightly expect of Ofsted.»

We expect Seton Catholic Schools to be assessed by parents and the public on our ability to increase educational outcomes for all students who walk through our doors.

We at the California Charter Schools Association will continue to work with our members to help educate parents and the public about how best to navigate the transition from a command and control system of education to one where parents make well - informed choices between an abundance of quality options.

«We have had some progress but we can not have a compromised transparency framework where considerations relating to profit and competition take priority and restrict the information parents and the public get to see.»

We're here today because parents and the public need to know what's really going on in schools run by the Noble Network, a charter school management company that has been called «a miracle,» a model that all schools should copy.

Conference resolves that the National Executive pursues a strategy to the General Election in 2015 which: (a) seeks to secure commitment from the main political parties to the principles in the NASUWT's «Maintaining World Class Schools» report adopted unanimously at Conference 2013; (b) actively engages members, parents and the public in the NASUWT Vote for Education campaign and (c) continues to campaign with other unions in the TUC, the WTUC, the STUC and the ICTU.

Conference further applauds the continuing success of the pupil, parent and public friendly industrial action which has delivered considerable benefits, including sustained levels of member and public support.

CCSA plans to use every tool at our disposal to ensure parents and the public understand how California charter schools are performing.

Patrick Roach, deputy general secretary of the teacher's union NASUWT, brands free schools a costly and unnecessary experiment which will produce misery for children: «We are on the side of parents and public who are opposed to free schools.

«The CBI is right to call for a move away from the damaging system of crude performance tables which provide perverse incentives, narrows the curriculum and denies parents and the public access to quality information on schools» strengths, weaknesses and opportunities for development.

«The fact that only 16 have been announced in the first instance, only confirms a recent Ipsos MORI poll which showed that 96 % of parents and the public oppose the Coalition Government's free school policy.

«Parents and the public made clear their views in the run - up to the election on the importance of local and national government having direct involvement in running schools,» she said.

Less than two weeks into her new gig, Schools Chancellor Cathie Black has riled parents and public officials by jokingly suggesting that «birth control» was the solution to school overcrowding.

In addition, California provides a dedicated CAASPP Results Web site, where parents and the public can view and compare aggregated results among schools, districts, and counties along with statewide results.

Does Connecticut's Governor Malloy and the array of state and local officials who are saying that schools will lose money really not know what the federal law is or are their intentionally misleading, even lying, as a way to keep parents and the public from knowing the truth?

«It's an important piece of information that parents and the public used to have and now they no longer have,» Robitaille said.

LA Unified officials have already seen the results for the district and have begun preparing parents and the public for some low proficiency results.

(Fla.) Michelle Rhee's StudentsFirst is driving legislation in Florida that would establish a «return on investment» index comparing education spending with standardized test scores — something supporters say would help school administrators, parents and the public better recognize the most cost effective programs.

After reading his piece, one can only assume that the proponents of the Common Core; President Obama, Secretary of Education Duncan, Governor Malloy, Commissioner of Education Pryor and Education Gadfly Michele Rhee are either purposefully misleading parents and the public or are incredibly ignorant about the facts.

good practice would be to have a comparability study to forecast the apparent decreases and help explain the changes to students and parents and the public when the results are released.