Sentences with phrase «participating in our public education»

It's simply no longer the case that LEAs own, operate, and oversee all schools participating in the public education system.

PELP LAU SD participated in the Public Education Leadership Program in 2012 and 2013.

As an organization, we are committed to ensuring that all students participating in our public education system — regardless of background — graduate prepared for college, careers, and life.

We are committed to ensuring that all students participating in our public education system — regardless of background — graduate prepared for college, careers, and life.

Student achievement is maximized when the broadest array of stakeholders have the opportunity to meaningfully participate in public education.

At CCSSO, we are committed to promoting financial accountability, transparency, and sound business practices to advance our mission to ensure that all students participating in our public education system — regardless of background — graduate prepared for college, careers, and life.

With these clubs, she has participated in public education groups and held offices from board member to president.

Participate in public education activities, including educational presentations and media and marketing events.

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The DASH for the STASH multi-state program is an investor education and protection poster contest that takes place as part of April's Financial Literacy Month in public libraries and other venues in participating States.

The DASH for the STASH multi-state program is an investor education and protection poster contest that takes place as part of April's Financial Literacy Month in public libraries and other venues in participating states.

Public libraries and other institutions in the District of Columbia and five states — Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, and Nebraska — will participate in the DASH for the STASH investor education / protection program and contest taking place April 15 - May 15, 2015 as part of Financial Literacy Month.

The B.C. New Democrat Women's Caucus, along with New Democrat advanced education critic David Eby, is calling on Premier Clark to show solidarity with women in B.C.'s advanced education institutions after it became public that students at UBC's Sauder School of Business were participating in pro-rape chanting during frosh week activities.

Yet the draft describes wide - ranging protections, saying, «Persons and organizations do not forfeit their religious freedom when providing social services, education, or healthcare; earning a living, seeking a job, or employing others; receiving government grants or contracts; or otherwise participating in the marketplace, the public square, or interfacing with federal, state, or local governments.»

It also requires the Department of Education to develop an educational fact sheet about sports - related concussions and other head injuries, and requires public and non-public schools that participate in interscholastic sports to distribute the information annually to parents and guardians of student athletes, along with a signature acknowledging receipt.

Permit teachers of physical education and school health professionals as well as paretns, students, and representatives of the school food authority, the school board, school administrators, and the public to participate in the development of wellness policies.

State law requires that all public schools offer a free meal to eligible students even if the schools do not participate in the federal lunch program, said Mark Haller, who supervises child nutrition programs at the Illinois State Board of Education.

Also at 11 a.m, Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa will participate in the Advocates and Organization Leaders» Panel at the Schott Foundation for Public Education 25TH Anniversary Forum: Accelerating Advocacy for Equity and Opportunity, Baruch College, William and Anita Newman Conference Center, 7th Floor, 151 East 25th St., Manhattan.

Tedisco, a former public school special education teacher, is the sponsor of the bi-partisan Common Core Parental Refusal Act (A. 6025 / S.4161), to require that school districts notify parents of their rights to refuse without penalty to have their children in grades 3 - 8 participate in the Common Core standardized tests.

Companies will be encouraged to apply for up to # 250 million of public money to participate in a new»em ployer ownership» pilot, giving them more influence over how apprenticeship education is carried out.

From 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m., Democratic NYC mayoral contenders Anthony Weiner, Bill de Blasio, Bill Thompson, John Liu, and Sal Albanese (but not Council Speaker Chris Quinn, who dropped out of this event) participate in the New Yorkers for Great Public Schools education debate.

The next problem is the lack of a comprehensive vocational education program for Buffalo Public Schools and the inability for Buffalo students to participate in BOCES programs located in the suburbs.

According to Gillibrand's office, the legislation would help improve nutrition and enhance learning in under - served areas by better integrating summer education and meals programs, making it easier for public - private partner organizations to participate in the summer meals program, and by providing a third meal for children who attend evening enrichment programs.

Through lobbying, advocacy, coalition building, citizen education and policy development, EPL / Environmental Advocates has been New York's environmental conscience - ensuring that environmental laws are enforced; that new measures are enacted when necessary; and that the public is informed of, and participates in, important environmental policy debates.

These included changing the format of Panel for Educational Policy meetings to allow for more public comment, revising the city's school closing and co-location processes to make it more difficult for the city to close or co-locate schools, adding parent training centers so that parents in groups like the Community Education Councils can participate knowledgeably in the structures of governance, and restoring a degree of authority to district superintendents vis - à - vis principals.

«In participating schools, ADAP is delivered as part of the standard health education curriculum, which facilitates its sustainability,» says Holly Wilcox, Ph.D., M.A., associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the researcher who oversaw the study on the effectiveness of the ADAP curriculum.

Participating organizations are based in either Washington, DC, San Francisco, CA, Ottawa or Toronto, Canada and include: American Library Association, Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, Center for Democracy and Technology, Citizen Lab, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Creative Commons, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Future of Music Coalition, Internet Education Foundation, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, Media Access Project, National Hispanic Media Coalition, New America Foundation, Progress and Freedom Foundation, Public Knowledge, TechFreedom, and Technology Policy Institute.

SMD encourages researchers to participate in education and public outreach (E / PO) in a meaningful way.

NASA Nationwide also provides NASA scientists who are interested in participating in education and public outreach (E / PO) efforts, or have a need to incorporate E / PO efforts into missions and projects, a means to learn more about these groups, get involved, and partner with member networks.

Non-poor, non-minority families love their kids and have every right to participate in the public debate about public education.

During his stay in Singapore, Professor Reimers will give the prestigious annual CJ Koh Public Lecture and will participate in a series of seminars and dialogues with faculty at the NIE, meet with senior education policy makers and other stakeholders interested in education reform.

She's one of nearly 200 girls participating in Techbridge, an innovative program born of a partnership between Oakland Public Schools, two area universities, and Chabot Space and Science Center, the city's state - of - the - art science and technology education facility.

Representatives from Boston Public Schools, Charlotte - Mecklenburg Schools, Chicago Public Schools, Cincinnati Public Schools, Los Angeles Unified School District, and the New York City Department of Education, are among those participating in this initial collaborative event, which is sponsored by the Spencer Foundation.

Among the reasons the chamber participated in Principal For A Day was to give business people a perspective on what the public schools are like today, said Paul Ouellette, the chamber's vice president of community development and education.

Former US Secretary of Education John King, National Alliance for Public Charter Schools Senior Policy Adviser Christy Wolfe, Chris Barbic of the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, and DC Public Charter School Board Executive Director Scott Pearson will participate in the discussion and AEI's Nat Malkus will moderate.

5) Procedural Due Process is the principle that students with disabilities and their parents have the right to be informed of changes to their educational plan, to participate in the decisionmaking process surrounding the design and updating of those plans, and to protest any decisions that are adverse to their right to a free, appropriate public education by going to an administrative hearing and then to appeal to a court any adverse judgment.

Evidence from the National Education Longitudinal Study further demonstrates that students in private schools are more likely to participate in community service than are their peers in public schools.

Footwear aside, McCartney, Lesser Professor of Early Childhood Development at HGSE, managed her honorary role well as one of 100 business, government, and education leaders who participated on November 1 in the third annual «Principal For A Day» event sponsored by the Boston Public Schools (BPS) and the Boston Plan for Excellence, an organization started by corporations and foundations in 1984 to benefit the city's school system.

Meanwhile, the Denver Public Schools and the Denver Teachers Association have captured attention for agreeing to a two - year pilot of a program that ties pay for all teachers in participating schools to student performance and to further teacher education.

Parents can influence school board members and public officials by participating in meetings, voting, and engaging in discussions of education matters and child advocacy issues.

In my role as a special education advocate working primarily in Miami - Dade — the fourth largest public school district in the country — I've participated in hundreds of school meetingIn my role as a special education advocate working primarily in Miami - Dade — the fourth largest public school district in the country — I've participated in hundreds of school meetingin Miami - Dade — the fourth largest public school district in the country — I've participated in hundreds of school meetingin the country — I've participated in hundreds of school meetingin hundreds of school meetings.

Both the affluent and teachers pay more attention to public education and participate more actively in school politics than the general public, making their views worthy of close scrutiny (see sidebar).

The Global Education Innovation Initiative aims to advance how public education systems can support students in developing the competencies needed to live, work, and participate civically in the 21stEducation Innovation Initiative aims to advance how public education systems can support students in developing the competencies needed to live, work, and participate civically in the 21steducation systems can support students in developing the competencies needed to live, work, and participate civically in the 21st century.

The state had already required FTC scholarship students to participate in standardized testing using a nationally normed exam chosen by each private school; a study commissioned by the Florida Department of Education found that, in 2007 — 08, their academic gains were similar to students nationally across all income levels and to similar Florida students who remained in public schools.

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.

Fellows will also participate in ongoing research apprenticeships with Harvard faculty mentors, an ongoing interdisciplinary seminar on education research, and a public, bi-weekly speaker series.

Some 5 percent of US children attended public charter schools in 2013 - 14, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, while less than 1 percent participate in private school choice programs.

To establish that the school was a «state actor,» he made five arguments: that Arizona law defines a charter school as a public school; that a charter school is a state actor for all purposes, including employment; that a charter school provides a public education, a function that is traditionally and exclusively the prerogative of the state; that a charter school is a state actor in Arizona because the state regulates the personnel matters of such schools; and that it is a state actor because charter schools, unlike traditional private schools, are permitted to participate in the state's retirement system.

Researchers and leaders for social justice, then, seek to define the theories and practices of leadership that are vital to creating greater freedom, opportunity, and justice for all citizens — citizens who, through public education, are better able to participate in and sustain a free, civil, multicultural, and democratic society.

The program will build on Harvard's existing leadership programs, including the Public Education Leadership Program (PELP)(a joint initiative of Harvard Business School and the Harvard Graduate School of Education), and the Superintendent Leadership Program at the Kennedy School, in which the Graduate School of Education also participates.

In the 2003 — 04 school year, only 19 percent of private schools were reported by the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) to participate in Title I, compared to 54 percent of public schoolIn the 2003 — 04 school year, only 19 percent of private schools were reported by the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) to participate in Title I, compared to 54 percent of public schoolin Title I, compared to 54 percent of public schools.