Sentences with phrase «parents and the public understand»

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

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.

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.

Not exact matches

The fact is that the two questions regularly posed over the past ten years do not allow us to understand the state of public opinion on a whole range of issues associated with homosexual marriage and parenting.

The fact is that the two questions regularly posed over the last ten years do not allow us to understand the state of public opinion on a whole range of issues associated with homosexual marriage and parenting.

Dr. Siegel's unique ability to make complicated scientific concepts easy to understand and exciting has led him to be invited to address diverse local, national and international groups of mental health professionals, neuroscientists, corporate leaders, educators, parents, public administrators, healthcare providers, policy - makers, and clergy.

When talking to teens about this issue, parents need to understand that their own notion of what's public, what's private, and what's appropriate, may differ greatly from how teens and young adults define these concepts.

'' (Parents and kids) need to view the Internet and social networking sites as public spaces where the footprint never fades and understand that anything kids post can follow them for years to come,» Blair says.

Manila, 4th August, 2011 — During World Breastfeeding Week, UNICEF joins global partners in calling for the benefits of breastfeeding to be broadcast beyond clinics and delivery rooms to the public at large, ensuring that young people both in the developing world and in wealthier countries understand the importance of breastfeeding long before they become parents.

Gifted children need a special environment, as does any special needs child, and it's important for parents to understand what to look for in a school, whether it's private or public.

NEW YORK / GENEVA, 30 July 2011 - During World Breastfeeding Week, UNICEF joins global partners in calling for the benefits of breastfeeding to be broadcast beyond clinics and delivery rooms to the public at large, ensuring that young people both in the developing world and in wealthier countries understand the importance of breastfeeding long before they become parents.

He is a public school parent, he was a school board member, he really understands the lives of people who are struggling and need help from Washington,» Mr. de Blasio said.

With this in mind and whatever the governance structure in place (single converter or a more complex multi academy trust model), it is essential that governing body members understand their role in ensuring that risk and risk management is taken seriously and is part of their accountability to parents, the wider public and other stakeholders.

A 2014 Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) survey found that while 55 percent of public school parents participated in choice, nearly one - third of families had some difficulty understanding which schools their children were eligible to attend, a quarter had trouble getting information to choose a school, and one in five reported difficulty in transporting their child to the school of their cPublic Education (CRPE) survey found that while 55 percent of public school parents participated in choice, nearly one - third of families had some difficulty understanding which schools their children were eligible to attend, a quarter had trouble getting information to choose a school, and one in five reported difficulty in transporting their child to the school of their cpublic school parents participated in choice, nearly one - third of families had some difficulty understanding which schools their children were eligible to attend, a quarter had trouble getting information to choose a school, and one in five reported difficulty in transporting their child to the school of their choice.

But where one would hope for plentiful public information to help parents understand the performance of participating schools, Section 12 of the act requires only that the department publish aggregated results, sliced by grades and income levels, and that it conduct a survey of parent satisfaction with the ESA program, not the schools.

According to the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH), most parents did not find the information useful, and only half understood why their children were being weighed.

The funding is allocated for each financial year, but the information you publish online should refer to the academic year, as this is how parents and the general public understand the school year.

California has launched a new accountability system to provide educators, parents, and the public with important information they can use to evaluate their schools and school districts in an easy - to - understand report card format.

California is providing a range of new resources to teachers, parents and the public to make Smarter Balanced tests and student scores easier to understand — and more useful in actually guiding instruction.

But we also understand that the weakened status of public schools is a personal dilemma for many families, and we sympathize completely with parents who choose to opt out of their neighborhood school.

This leaves large gaps in our understanding of how well schools are meeting both the broader needs of students and the expectations of policy - makers, parents, and the public.

Based on our research and our own understanding as New York City public school parents, we encourage the DOE to shift its focus away from highly competitive, market - based school choice policies, such as charter schools, which consistently lead to greater racial segregation and a winner - take - all mentality.

To better understand the sizable impact of these policies, we compared parent contributions in Portland Public Schools with parent contributions to Seattle Public Schools, a district of comparable size and demographics that does not have an equity fund.

The State of Arizona initially instituted an «A-F» rating system in order to provide parents and families with easy - to - understand information about the relative performance of public schools across our state.

Of course, differing views exist within this group of educators and other stakeholders, but «there is a common understanding that it is hard to create a rating system that is both fair to educators and administrators and simple enough for parents and the public to understand.»

Removing these out - of - date materials will make it easier for schools, educators, parents and the public to understand what guidance is still in effect.

I think what he's trying to say is this: the school system has become so complicated parents (and the public) no longer understand it.

Under those circumstances, I help parents apply to progressive public schools like Manhattan School for Children (only a few blocks from where you once lived on the Upper West Side of Manhattan), or Central Park East I and II (though that would have meant travelling uptown to Harlem and, well, I understand, Matt Damon, your limo driver didn't know the way.)

The State of Arizona initially instituted an «A-F» rating system in order to provide parents and families with easy - to - understand guidance regarding the relative performance of public schools across our state.

So with no public hearing, no input from parents, teachers, taxpayers or citizens, the Board of Education is scheduled to APPROVE — changing the structure of SAND Elementary and re-naming it «Capital Prepatory School II» and then giving both «SAND Elementary and Capital Prepatory» to a new «non-profit management organization (Perry's company) and via a Memorandum of Understanding.

Her own Korean heritage and experiences as an English - Language Learner have enabled her to be a role model to students and a magnet for parents seeking to understand how to navigate the public school system.

Educators now understand what a truly democratic and revitalized teachers union, working arm in arm with parents and students, can do to protect public education in New York City,» Kit Wainer public school teacher and MORE member, said.

«But however they talk about it, the fact remains that parents want strong public schools for their kids and for all kids, and I consider it to be my job to help cut through rhetoric that is intended to confuse, and make sure parents understand the true impacts of policies on students across the country.»

PowerMyLearning's partnerships with under - served public schools foster growth in teachers as instructional leaders, helping them better understand and implement technology in their classrooms, while also providing a clear role for parents to meaningfully engage in their children's learning through their multilingual (English / Spanish) family engagement programming.

Because as parents and state lawmakers understand, school choice simply means empowering parents to choose from a variety of educational options for their children, including traditional public schools, public magnet schools, online academies, private schools and homeschooling.

We publish easy - to - understand school quality data and research that highlights both problems and solutions, and we build the capacity of parents, community leaders and educators to innovate and act together to create world - class public schools.

Released test forms / items may be used by parents and the general public in gaining a greater understanding of how the NC Standard Course of Study for English Language Arts and Mathematics and the Essential Standards for Science are measured.

The State Board of Education on Wednesday will discuss new parent and teacher resources that are available to help understand the tests, as well as improvements to the public website, where this year's scores are expected to be posted by the end of August.

The Connecticut Smarter Balanced Interpretive Guide 2015 (This guide is designed to help educators, parents, students, the public, and members of the media understand and explain the results of the Smarter Balanced summative assessments.)

Naturally, different points of view exist within our group of educators and laypeople, but there is a common understanding that it is hard to create a rating system that is both fair to educators and administrators and simple enough for parents and the public to understand.

The Illinois Report Card provides information about public schools across the state to help community members and parents understand school performance.

When it comes to their new proposed education agenda, it is bad enough that Malloy and Wyman plan to give more money to the privately owned but publicly funded charter school industry while making the deepest cuts in state history to Connecticut's public schools, but in a little understood piece of proposed legislation, the Malloy administration is trying to sneak through legislation that would give his Commissioner of Education and the political appointees on his State Board of Education a new mechanism they would use to punish taxpayers in certain communities where more than 5 percent of parents opt their children out of the wasteful and destructive Common Core SBAC testing program.

The notion that parents understand that Common Core SBAC testing is undermining public education was just too much for the State to handle and last Thursday, after communications that the State Department of Education has yet to release a response to a Freedom of Information request, the Sherman Board of Education held a «special meeting» to «focus solely on a presentation to the Board of Education by our superintendent, Don Fiftal, and a panel of educational experts to provide direct and up - to - date information about the Connecticut Common Core Standards and the SBAC Assessments.»

We'll also be contacting the state Department of Finance, the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office, the California State Teachers Retirement System, the California Public Employee Retirement System, the Brown administration, state lawmakers and staff from both sides of the aisle, school officials, teachers and their union representatives, parents and interest groups — asking for help understanding this topic and also sharing our findings to seek further comments.

This hour - long feature documentary, Consider The Alternative provides viewers with a balanced understanding of publicly - funded charter schools from those who can speak about it best: charter school supporters, public school teachers and administrators, members of the legislature, the Nebraska State Board of Education and a parent moving through the education system.

A growing number of parents (and educators) understand that the Common Core standardized testing frenzy is bad for students, teachers and public schools.

Romero is the founder of the California Center for Parent Empowerment, established by in order to empower public school parents — especially those with children trapped in chronically underperforming schools — to understand and use the Parent Empowerment Act of 2010.

I am a parent of a freshman in an Austin public high school who is already fretting about what she understands to be very serious and formidable consequences of this new policy for her future.

All stakeholders — educators, parents, philanthropists, banks, and leaders in all sectors interested in seeing and supporting improvements in Indiana's public education system — deserve to understand decisions that lead to opening and / or closing a school.

This summary is designed to help parents and other concerned citizens better understand the Broad Foundation's role in training new superintendents and other «reform» activities, and how the foundation leverages its wealth to impose a top - down, corporate - style business model on our public schools.