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By documenting and recognizing schools that invest in a range of ways to support each and every student, the Schools of Opportunity project provides concrete evidence that schools can pursue and achieve the promise of public education in a democracy.

The purpose of the demonstration, they said, is «to fight back corporate privatization and stand up for fully - funded public education; to reclaim the promise of public education in LA.»

Not exact matches

With youth sports concussion safety laws in place in all 50 states, increased public awareness about concussions, and growing concernabout the long - term effect of repetitive head impacts, the demand for concussion education, not just for parents, coaches, and athletes, but for health care professionals as well is at an all - time high, and promises to go even higher in the coming years.

He has some familiar and vague promises and catchphrases about improving education, public safety, and employment — in his words, turning the Bronx into «the Silicon Valley of the East» — but he said he sells himself to the voters as a populist hero and role model.

«One year ago, with the promise of Education Tax Credits on the horizon, thousands of tuition - paying families were left out in the cold — excluded from a state budget that provides the nation's highest level of spending per pupil in public schools,» he said.

Gove's more pugilistic side may have softened since his time as education secretary — you'll no longer find him using military metaphors and pledging to vanquish «the enemies of promise», in public, at least — but he clearly retains his impulse for confronting the inertia of the political establishment.

The NASUWT won the support of TUC Congress in Liverpool for its campaign to reclaim the promise of our public education service, with its entitlements for all children and young people, and to maintain our world class schools.

«What's striking in these numbers is that a few dozen Wall Street financiers and billionaire hedge fund managers are able to far outspend more than 600,000 educators who believe in the promise of public education and voluntarily give a few bucks out of each paycheck to ensure they have a voice,» said Carl Korn, NYSUT's spokesman.

«For many in The Bronx, and in fact across the country, the «America's College Promise» and the «American Technical Training Fund» proposals would be of great assistance for future college students saving money, especially as the cost of higher education continues to skyrocket — both at public institutions as well as private colleges and universities.

Supporters of public education in central New York wore blue as part of the event, meant to reclaim the promise of public education.

The objectives of the American Association for the Advancement of Science are to further the work of scientists, to facilitate cooperation among them, to foster scientific freedom and responsibility, to improve the effectiveness of science in the promotion of human welfare, to advance education in science, and to increase public understanding and appreciation of the importance and promise of the methods of science in human progress.

The objectives of the Pacific Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science are to further the work of scientists, to facilitate cooperation among them, to foster scientific freedom and responsibility, to improve the effectiveness of science in the promotion of human welfare, to increase public understanding and appreciation of the importance and promise of the methods of science in human progress, to foster science education, and to serve as a unifying and coordinating agency for scientific societies within the territory of the Division.

Since its founding in 1848, the AAAS has been committed to further the work of scientists, to facilitate cooperation among them, to foster scientific freedom and responsibility, to improve the effectiveness of science in the promotion of human welfare, to advance education in science, and to increase public understanding and appreciation of the importance and promise of the methods of science in human progress.

Gov. George E. Pataki promised an ambitious educational agenda last week in his final State of the State Address, but he didn't answer the $ 5.6 billion education question: Will the state put up the money to end the 13 - year - old lawsuit that led to a court ruling that the state is shortchanging New York City public schools?

He promised to be a more prominent backer of the 1993 law that provided $ 800 million in new education money for public schools, put forth a plan for higher standards and assessments, and moved to equalize school funding over...

In this forum, Robin Lake of the University of Washington's Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) and Charter School Growth Fund (CSGF) CEO Kevin Hall discuss what we know about the strengths and frailties of CMOs, what the future holds, and what promising alternatives might be.

They promise to strengthen public education by making it more accountable for student achievement, more attentive to the wishes of families, and more innovative in its use of scarce resources.

There has been a public outcry regarding the government's inability to meet some of the promised benefits, such as free education and increases in teacher salaries within a specified time frame.

Known popularly as the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act and passed with strong bipartisan support in Congress, this new legislation promises an important shift in efforts at all levels to improve the quality of public education.

George Weber of the Council for Basic Education wrote afterwards that when you consider that these innovative national curricula math and in the social studies «not only didn't deliver what was promised» but instead may well have «even left us worse off than we were before,» there is natural proclivity on the part of the public to say, «We've been conned.»

AFT president Randi Weingarten commented, «Not only do parents overwhelmingly believe in the promise of public education to help all children reach their dreams, their prescription for how to reclaim that promise matches what America's teachers want for their students and schools.»

Despite increased spending and politicians» promises, our buckling public education system, once the best in the world, routinely forsakes the education of millions of children.

She also believes that professionalism carries the responsibility to take action, individually and collectively, toward making the promise of public education a reality and preparing the whole and happy child to succeed in becoming a whole and happy adult.

«And this poll makes clear that not only do parents overwhelmingly believe in the promise of public education to help all children reach their dreams, their prescription for how to reclaim that promise matches what America's teachers want for their students and schools.

The Science of Summit is our effort to share what we believe about young people, about the promise of public education, and about principles for school design rooted in the science of learning.

We need to do that, brothers and sisters, because we are at a crucial moment when we must reclaim the promise of public education — not as it is today or as it was in the past, but as what public education can be to fulfill our collective obligation, our community's obligation, to help all children succeed.

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The poll was released as the AFT announced a major effort at the AFT TEACH conference in Washington, D.C., to partner with parents and community to reclaim the promise of public education.

Title I: Time to Get It Right In this brief Marguerite Roza and Robin Lake, Center on Reinventing Public Education, reflect on the goals of Title I and offer five key principles to guide changes to Title I to fulfill its promise to poor students.

2015 promises to be a pivotal year for several major reforms in public education, including the continuing rollout of the Common Core State Standards, the state's new school financing and accountability system, and the administration of the online Smarter Balanced assessments.

«Reclaiming the promise of public education is about fighting for neighborhood public schools that are safe, welcoming places for teaching and learning,» Weingarten said in her keynote speech at TEACH announcing the effort.

The public charter - school movement, in addressing both the supply and demand sides of this equation, has emerged as the most promising development in the broader attempt to save public education.

A new report looks at how public education is delivering on the promise of educational opportunity in 50 mid - to large - sized cities in the United States.

In the aforementioned Winter 2002 Harvard Educational Review article, entitled «Neoliberalism, Corporate Culture, and the Promise of Higher Education: The University as a Democratic Public Sphere,» Giroux discusses «the role the university should play as a site of critical thinking [and] democratic leadership» that «confronts the march of corporate power.»

In a recent report, we looked at how public education is delivering on the promise of educational opportunity in 50 mid - to large - sized cities in the United StateIn a recent report, we looked at how public education is delivering on the promise of educational opportunity in 50 mid - to large - sized cities in the United Statein 50 mid - to large - sized cities in the United Statein the United States.

«So when you talk about the promise charters can provide, we have families who want to send their kids to public schools in the city of St. Louis,» said Robbyn Wahby, the mayor's education aide.

The NJEA and their champions in the Legislature can not allow the one sector of the public education system that is showing achievement, promise, and hope for students and families to flourish if it can not be controlled by them, so they exert political pressure to stifle the success of charter public schools.

«The 2017 Charter Award honorees embody the promise of public charter schools and work tirelessly every day to improve education in schools and communities across Arizona,» said Eileen B. Sigmund, President and CEO of the Arizona Charter Schools Association.

«As he had promised, public education receives the lion's share of new dollars in the Governor's spending plan; K - 12 schools would see a welcome infusion of $ 400 million in the coming year.

The critics of modern school reform that I know are people who see enormous trouble in the public education system, but don't think it will be fixed by spending billions of dollars on questionable teacher assessment systems linked to standardized test scores, or expanding charter schools that are hardly the panacea their early supporters claimed they would be, or handing out federal education dollars based on promises to change schools according to the likes and dislikes of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, whose record as superintendent of Chicago public schools was hardly distieducation system, but don't think it will be fixed by spending billions of dollars on questionable teacher assessment systems linked to standardized test scores, or expanding charter schools that are hardly the panacea their early supporters claimed they would be, or handing out federal education dollars based on promises to change schools according to the likes and dislikes of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, whose record as superintendent of Chicago public schools was hardly distieducation dollars based on promises to change schools according to the likes and dislikes of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, whose record as superintendent of Chicago public schools was hardly distiEducation Secretary Arne Duncan, whose record as superintendent of Chicago public schools was hardly distinguished.

We applaud the great work happening in public education across America, and we believe in the promise of public education for every child.

We can't reclaim the promise of public education without investing in strong neighborhood public schools that are safe, collaborative and welcome environments for students, parents, educators and the broader community.

«For over a decade, I've known Marshall as a passionate leader who believes in the power and the promise of public education,» said Gary Borden, executive director, CCSA Advocates.

In January, during the fight over DeVos» nomination, Moskowitz released a statement saying the nominee had «the talent, commitment, and leadership capacity to revitalize our public schools and deliver the promise of opportunity that excellent education provides.»

April, 2014 — Program Day Four For the past four months, the 19 public and public charter school teachers in the CityBridge - NewSchools Education Innovation Fellowship have engaged in an in - depth study of the most promising practices in blended and personalized learning, traveling the country and hearing from the leaders in the field., Recently, the Fellows spent part of their...

Or will they look at the evidence and join educators, students and parents in fighting to reclaim the promise of public education?

The grand promise that he had once ascribed to charters and the prospect of an overhauled system of public education, Cuomo now saw in free tuition.

Say Yes to Education coordinates a citywide collaboration of government agencies, schools, nonprofits and others in Syracuse and Buffalo to make «wraparound» services available for all public school children K - to - 12, along with the promise of paid - for college education to those who graduate from higEducation coordinates a citywide collaboration of government agencies, schools, nonprofits and others in Syracuse and Buffalo to make «wraparound» services available for all public school children K - to - 12, along with the promise of paid - for college education to those who graduate from higeducation to those who graduate from high school.

For the past four months, the 19 public and public charter school teachers in the CityBridge - NewSchools Education Innovation Fellowship have engaged in an in - depth study of the most promising practices in blended and personalized learning, traveling the country and hearing from the leaders in the field., Recently, the Fellows spent part of their school - year spring break on a whirlwind tour of four public schools in Detroit that are budding laboratories in personalized learning.

The state and the unions argued that the laws help school districts attract and retain teachers while the plaintiffs countered that they keep in place ineffective teachers whose instructional skills deny students the promise of a quality public education.