Not exact matches
As the general
quality of
public education has declined, at least in
public perception, and as the power of the youth culture in
public schools has increased, many more
parents seek private
schools for their children, and many of these
schools are connected with churches.
As Paris
parents know, the
quality of
public schools are in no way predictive of the
quality of those
schools» cantines.
Many
parents decry the current conditions in
public schools and feel that their children are learning negative character
qualities there.
«Maintaining mayoral control of city
schools is critical to students,
parents and employers who all depend on high
quality public schools,» said Kathryn Wylde, President & CEO of the Partnership for New York City.
(2) to supplement and complement the efforts of States, the local
school systems and other instrumentalities of the States, the private sector,
public and private educational institutions,
public and private nonprofit educational research institutions, community - based organizations,
parents, and students to im - prove the
quality of education;
New York, NY —
Public school parents from across New York City gathered outside today's mayoral control hearing to send a clear message: parents are dissatisfied with the quality of NYC public schools and they expect Mayor de Blasio to be held accoun
Public school parents from across New York City gathered outside today's mayoral control hearing to send a clear message:
parents are dissatisfied with the
quality of NYC
public schools and they expect Mayor de Blasio to be held accoun
public schools and they expect Mayor de Blasio to be held accountable.
«New York City
public school parents are highly dissatisfied with the
quality of education their children are receiving,» said Tenicka Boyd, StudentsFirstNY Director of Organizing and mother of a
public school student in Brooklyn.
In February, 200
public school parents from communities across New York City traveled to the State Capital in Albany for a special panel co-sponsored by State Senator Kevin Parker and StudentsFirstNY on the need for high -
quality school options in our communities.
At 1:30 p.m.,
parents, students, educators and advocates from the Alliance for
Quality Education call on Sens. George Amedore and Jim Tedisco to to fund «real» Foundation Aid for
public schools and not «need - neutral» aid, lobby outside state Senate chamber, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, Albany.
At 10 a.m., members of New York Communities for Change, Alliance for
Quality Education,
Public School Parents «call out Families for Excellent
Schools» reports and ads that promote racist discipline practices, and criminalize Black and Latino children by playing fast and loose with facts,» City Hall steps, Manhattan.
«Maintaining mayoral control of city
schools is critical to students,
parents and employers who all depend on high
quality public schools,» said Kathryn Wylde, the president of the Partnership for New York City.
On Thursday, with the New York State Board of Regents hearing testimony regarding the newly approved teacher evaluation system, leading education reform organization StudentsFirstNY and
public school parents offered recommendations and sent letters calling for a system that ensures all
public school students have access to high -
quality teachers.
Calling for an end to the unfair distribution of teacher
quality across New York City
public schools, StudentsFirstNY organizers and hundreds of New York City
public school parents came together today to demand action to address the disproportionate number of unsatisfactory - rated teachers in
schools with the highest needs.
Also at 10 a.m., dozens of
parents will deliver letters to City Hall demanding that the de Blasio administration expand access to New York City's high -
quality, high - performing
public charter
schools, Manhattan.
Nixon joined AQE as a volunteer in its incipient years, as a
public school parent concerned about the
quality of her children's education, she has said.
We believe that education is a human right and we want to ensure that New York City
public schools are places of learning in which all stakeholders (
parents, students, educators, non-pedagogical staff, administrators and the community) are engaged in a democratic process to provide a free and
quality education to all its students, from Pre-school to College.
In 2007, the New York Lawyers for the
Public Interest, acting on behalf of the Bronx Committee for Toxic Free
Schools, a coalition of
parents, neighborhood residents and community organizations, successfully sued the
School Construction Authority and the Department of Education for violating the
Public Authorities Law and the State Environmental
Quality Review Act by not disclosing a Site Management Plan.
«As
parents, we are outraged that Success Academy charter
schools can enter a New York City public school building, and without any oversight or approval, rip out potentially dangerous PCB - containing fixtures without taking any environmental precautions,» says the formal complaint to the state by the parents, who are backed by two nonprofit organizations, New Yorkers for Great Public Schools and the Alliance for Quality Edu
schools can enter a New York City
public school building, and without any oversight or approval, rip out potentially dangerous PCB - containing fixtures without taking any environmental precautions,» says the formal complaint to the state by the parents, who are backed by two nonprofit organizations, New Yorkers for Great Public Schools and the Alliance for Quality Educ
public school building, and without any oversight or approval, rip out potentially dangerous PCB - containing fixtures without taking any environmental precautions,» says the formal complaint to the state by the
parents, who are backed by two nonprofit organizations, New Yorkers for Great
Public Schools and the Alliance for Quality Educ
Public Schools and the Alliance for Quality Edu
Schools and the Alliance for
Quality Education.
They represented groups including
Parents for
Public Schools of Syracuse, the Syracuse chapter of the NAACP, the New York Inequality Campaign and the Alliance for
Quality Education.
The other
public schools are of such poor
quality that any
parents who can afford to do so send their children to expensive private
schools.
Assessment is at the heart of education: Teachers and
parents use test scores to gauge a student's academic strengths and weaknesses, communities rely on these scores to judge the
quality of their educational system, and state and federal lawmakers use these same metrics to determine whether
public schools are up to scratch.
We have long known from polling data that the
public is concerned about the
quality of American education, but most
parents are satisfied with their own children's
school.
Attitudes: support for diversity (racial integration), a perception of inequity (that the
public schools provide a lower
quality education for low - income and minority kids), support for voluntary prayer in the
schools, support for greater
parent influence, desire for smaller
schools, belief in what I call the «
public school ideology» (which measures a normative attachment to
public schooling and its ideals), a belief in markets (that choice and competition are likely to make
schools more effective), and a concern that moral values are poorly taught in the
public schools.
Another problem is the sheer lack of high -
quality public school alternatives within reasonable driving distance of many a failing urban
school; given the choice between the low - performing
school in their own neighborhood and the mediocre
school ten miles away,
parents may stick to the path of least resistance.
If the skeptics are right, Wood writes, Common Core «will damage the
quality of K — 12 education for many students; strip
parents and local communities of meaningful influence over
school curricula; centralize a great deal of power in the hands of federal bureaucrats and private interests; push for the aggregation and use of large amounts of personal data on students without the consent of
parents; usher in an era of even more abundant and more intrusive standardized testing; and absorb enormous sums of
public funding that could be spent to better effect on other aspects of education.»
The conscience of a liberal should struggle with supporting a system in which the children of the poor are consigned to attend the
school that is assigned to them by
public officials, regardless of its
quality, whereas more affluent
parents can shop for the
school they want for their children by purchasing a home in the vicinity of the
public school they prefer or paying private
school tuition.
Perhaps most importantly, the
schools are blessed with overwhelming advocacy from alumni and the
parents of their students, many of whom feel that their children are receiving a private
school —
quality education at
public expense.
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).
Rockoff and Lockwood also examined survey data on New York City
parents whose children attended both types of
schools and found that
parents whose children attend K - 8
public schools rated their
schools higher on education
quality, academic rigor and
school safety compared to
parents whose children attend stand - alone middle
schools.
Moreover, in the
public system, the ability of
parents and students to ensure that they receive a high -
quality education is constrained by the enormous obstacles to leaving a bad
school.
Parents use test scores to gauge their children's academic strengths and weaknesses, communities rely on these scores to judge the
quality of their teachers and administrators, and state and federal lawmakers use these scores to hold
public schools accountable for providing the high -
quality education every child deserves.
The Every Student Succeeds Act requires states to give
parents and the
public a wealth of information on
school quality and performance.
NEA Leader Stresses Goal of Great
Public Schools for All Kids National Education Association president Dennis Van Roekel wants to give all students access to a quality education in part by working to close the achievement gap, seeking more funding for public schools, and increasing parent and community involv
Public Schools for All Kids National Education Association president Dennis Van Roekel wants to give all students access to a quality education in part by working to close the achievement gap, seeking more funding for public schools, and increasing parent and community invol
Schools for All Kids National Education Association president Dennis Van Roekel wants to give all students access to a
quality education in part by working to close the achievement gap, seeking more funding for
public schools, and increasing parent and community involv
public schools, and increasing parent and community invol
schools, and increasing
parent and community involvement.
Called Book Banter, administrators at Central Elementary
School in Wilmette Public Schools District 39 started the program four years ago and have seen improvement in the amount and quality of teacher - parent dialogue, staff members at the K - 4 school told an audience at the 2007 Association for School Curriculum Development (ASCD) confe
School in Wilmette
Public Schools District 39 started the program four years ago and have seen improvement in the amount and
quality of teacher -
parent dialogue, staff members at the K - 4
school told an audience at the 2007 Association for School Curriculum Development (ASCD) confe
school told an audience at the 2007 Association for
School Curriculum Development (ASCD) confe
School Curriculum Development (ASCD) conference.
It's time for the state's leaders to justify to Connecticut
parents why our education system limits the size and expansion of
quality public schools, while thousands of students languish on waitlists with no access to an adequate education.
Pay Teachers More and Reach All Students with Excellence — Aug 30, 2012 District RTTT — Meet the Absolute Priority for Great - Teacher Access — Aug 14, 2012 Pay Teachers More — Within Budget, Without Class - Size Increases — Jul 24, 2012 Building Support for Breakthrough
Schools — Jul 10, 2012 New Toolkit: Expand the Impact of Excellent Teachers — Selection, Development, and More — May 31, 2012 New Teacher Career Paths: Financially Sustainable Advancement — May 17, 2012 Charlotte, N.C.'s Project L.I.F.T. to be Initial Opportunity Culture Site — May 10, 2012 10 Financially Sustainable Models to Reach More Students with Excellence — May 01, 2012 Excellent Teaching Within Budget: New Infographic and Website — Apr 17, 2012 Incubating Great New
Schools — Mar 15, 2012
Public Impact Releases Models to Extend Reach of Top Teachers, Seeks Sites — Dec 14, 2011 New Report: Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction — Nov 17, 2011 City - Based Charter Strategies: New White Papers and Webinar from
Public Impact — Oct 25, 2011 How to Reach Every Child with Top Teachers (Really)-- Oct 11, 2011 Charter Philanthropy in Four Cities — Aug 04, 2011
School Turnaround Leaders: New Ideas about How to Find More of Them — Jul 21, 2011 Fixing Failing
Schools: Building Family and Community Demand for Dramatic Change — May 17, 2011 New Resources to Boost
School Turnaround Success — May 10, 2011 New Report on Making Teacher Tenure Meaningful — Mar 15, 2011 Going Exponential: Growing the Charter
School Sector's Best — Feb 17, 2011 New Reports and Upcoming Release Event — Feb 10, 2011 Picky
Parent Guide — Nov 17, 2010 Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance: Cross-Sector Lessons for Excellent Evaluations — Nov 02, 2010 New Teacher
Quality Publication from the Joyce Foundation — Sept 27, 2010 Charter
School Research from
Public Impact — Jul 13, 2010 Lessons from Singapore & Shooting for Stars — Jun 17, 2010 Opportunity at the Top — Jun 02, 2010
Public Impact's latest on Education Reform Topics — Dec 02, 2009 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best — Oct 23, 2009 New Research on Dramatically Improving Failing
Schools — Oct 06, 2009 Try, Try Again to Fix Failing
Schools — Sep 09, 2009 Innovation in Education and Charter Philanthropy — Jun 24, 2009 Reconnecting Youth and Designing PD That Works — May 29.
We believe that high
quality public charter
schools should provide options for
parents, but should not replace or destabilize traditional
public schools.
Public school advocate, engineer and parent David F. Welch founded Students Matter to defend children's fundamental right to have an equal opportunity to access quality public educ
Public school advocate, engineer and
parent David F. Welch founded Students Matter to defend children's fundamental right to have an equal opportunity to access
quality public educ
public education.
More than two - thirds of
parents see the following as reducing the
quality of
public education: teacher and staff layoffs; increased class sizes;
school closings; high turnover rates; and cutbacks in art, music, libraries and physical education.
That experience left an indelible mark, convincing me that giving every child a
quality public education starts with ensuring
parents have access to a high
quality public school in their neighborhood.
A New York City - based nonprofit organization working to improve teacher
quality, the commission conducted two polls late last year: one of 807 adults, including an oversampling of
public school parents, and one of 533
public school teachers.
A successful
school - accountability system contains three basic elements: It gauges education
quality and progress by measuring data that accurately reflect student achievement; it disseminates the results to
parents and the
public in a simple and transparent manner; and it rewards and incentivizes success and provides interventions to support low - performing
schools and reverse failure.
On the importance of government, for example, Brian Eschbacher, executive director of Planning and Enrollment Services in Denver
Public Schools, described policies and systems in Denver that help make choice work better in the real world: a streamlined enrollment system to make choosing easier for families, more flexible transportation options for families, a common performance framework and accountability system for traditional and charter schools to ensure all areas of a city have quality schools, and a system that gives parents the information they need to choose schools confi
Schools, described policies and systems in Denver that help make choice work better in the real world: a streamlined enrollment system to make choosing easier for families, more flexible transportation options for families, a common performance framework and accountability system for traditional and charter
schools to ensure all areas of a city have quality schools, and a system that gives parents the information they need to choose schools confi
schools to ensure all areas of a city have
quality schools, and a system that gives parents the information they need to choose schools confi
schools, and a system that gives
parents the information they need to choose
schools confi
schools confidently.
Imagine
Schools Mission Statement As a national family of public charter school campuses, Imagine Schools partners with parents and guardians in the education of their children by providing high quality schools that prepare students for lives of leadership, accomplishment, and exemplary cha
Schools Mission Statement As a national family of
public charter
school campuses, Imagine
Schools partners with parents and guardians in the education of their children by providing high quality schools that prepare students for lives of leadership, accomplishment, and exemplary cha
Schools partners with
parents and guardians in the education of their children by providing high
quality schools that prepare students for lives of leadership, accomplishment, and exemplary cha
schools that prepare students for lives of leadership, accomplishment, and exemplary character.
«This is the only way to restore the
public service ethos in education, guarantee a high -
quality education for all children and young people in England's
schools, and ensure the accountability and
public probity that
parents and communities are entitled to expect of their education service.»
It was Gwen Samuel, a mother from Connecticut bereft of shiny
public policy credentials, who led the passage of the nation's second
Parent Trigger law and has spurred the current efforts at reforming teacher
quality and expanding
school choice happening in the Nutmeg State.
This action by the NAACP is a slap in the face to 700,000 African American children currently benefiting from
public charter
schools and the millions of African American
parents struggling to give their children a
quality education.
Today,
Parents Across America (PAA), a grassroots organization representing public school parents from across the United States, released a position paper opposing HR 2218, the so - called «Empowering Parents through Quality Charter Schools Act.
Parents Across America (PAA), a grassroots organization representing
public school parents from across the United States, released a position paper opposing HR 2218, the so - called «Empowering Parents through Quality Charter Schools Act.
parents from across the United States, released a position paper opposing HR 2218, the so - called «Empowering
Parents through Quality Charter Schools Act.
Parents through
Quality Charter
Schools Act.»
Parents for
Public Schools advances the role of families and communities in securing a high quality public education for every
Public Schools advances the role of families and communities in securing a high
quality public education for every
public education for every child.
We can NOT allow
parents to continue to be «arrested and criminalized» for placing their children in out - of - district
public schools to ensure the
quality, high - performing education that their in - district
public schools are continually unable to provide.......