Sentences with phrase «providing quality school options»

The New Schools team's mission is to provide quality school options for all students in Tennessee through:

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This grant is designed to help improve student access to high - quality, nutritious foods at school, and provides funds to help schools improve or expand their breakfast programs with an emphasis on sustainable, alternative breakfast options.

The Fuel Up Breakfast Grants program is designed to improve student access to high - quality, nutritious foods at school; specifically targeted to the morning meal, the breakfast grants provide funds to help schools improve or expand their breakfast program with an emphasis on alternative breakfast options that are sustainable.

Upper West Success Academy, part of the Success Charter Network group of schools founded by former City Councilwoman Eva Moskowitz, says it will provide high - quality public education options in an overcrowded district.

VOISE is part of Chicago's Renaissance 2010 effort to create innovative schools that provide high - quality educational options.

Inter-district magnet schools in Connecticut provide a current example outside the scope of traditional school districts as to the way charters might draw students across district boundary lines to create high - quality, integrated schooling options.

Instead, they provide statistics that divert attention away from the things that actually do matter, such as high - quality teaching, a good range of school options, and success in early elementary schools.

If traditional public schools refuse to provide a safe, orderly, academically enriching environment for young adolescents to prepare for college preparatory high schools or high - quality career and technical options, then we should encourage the development of charter schools, magnet schools, and other choice strategies that do.

With the rise of options for anywhere, anytime digital learning, statewide schools play an important role in providing equitable access to a variety of quality learning pathways.

We believe that high quality public charter schools should provide options for parents, but should not replace or destabilize traditional public schools.

The research indicates that, in spite of the controversy they generated in New York at the time, replacing large failing high schools, developing smaller schools in their place, and providing quality charter school options for families, have proved to be greatly beneficial strategies for hundreds of thousands of New York students, with implications for the nation.

Universal school choice that provides access to quality educational options, as Paul Hill of the University of Washington observes, will «depend on the supply - side, that is, on the success of arrangements that promote the creation of a wide variety of school options, expose all schools to performance pressures through competition, and permit constant replacement of weak schools by promising new ones.»

«Temporary staffing services for substitute teachers,» Max Longhurst an education specialist at the Substitute Teaching Institute at Utah State University noted, «may not be necessary in all areas, particularly in smaller school districts, but they do provide another option for larger systems struggling to provide quality education in the absence of the regular classroom teacher.»

«Not only are we taking the programs, we want to take the students too,» White says, adding «We want to compete for those kids because no other school district in the state of Indiana provides as many quality educational options as IPS.»

«California's charter school movement demonstrates a commitment to providing scholars and their families high - quality educational options, flexible and innovative academic approaches and meaningful results,» said J.J. Lewis, CCS President & CEO.

Attachment B to this memorandum shows the final fiscal year 2007 entitlements for each school division for the Standards of Quality (SOQ), school facilities, and incentive accounts that are based on actual March 31, 2007, ADM. Please note that, unlike previous Excel calculation files for fiscal year 2007 provided by the department, this file does not offer an option to change ADM for fiscal year 2007 since ADM is now final.

Harmony Science Academy - Austin is a PreK - 8th public charter school providing a high - quality education option for students in the surrounding areas.

States and districts can improve the odds that charter schools will provide high - quality options to all students by:

Requiring states and districts to provide information on the quality and extent of school choice options — including whether the districts have open enrollment policies and the number of seats actually available to families who are not teachers or school employees — would go a long way.

«Across Chicago, we are expanding quality school options, ensuring every student has access to a world - class academic experience and providing every family with a range of quality options for their children.»

«The approval of Brass City Charter School and Path Academy mark a significant step forward in providing more high - quality public school options to the families of ConnecSchool and Path Academy mark a significant step forward in providing more high - quality public school options to the families of Connecschool options to the families of Connecticut.

The Jubilee Catholic Schools were established to provide students with an option for a high quality education that would prepare them for a bright future, in both academics and character.

PEAPS - LA is encouraged by the District's efforts to provide clearer school quality information to families, and believes the new School Finder should be designed in a way that works for all families, provides easy comparisons between schools, and provides useful information on all public school opschool quality information to families, and believes the new School Finder should be designed in a way that works for all families, provides easy comparisons between schools, and provides useful information on all public school opSchool Finder should be designed in a way that works for all families, provides easy comparisons between schools, and provides useful information on all public school opschool options.

This District Charter Collaborative Compact (DCCC) provides an opportunity to recruit and select operators equipped to meet the district's identified gaps in service and to more strategically deliver high - quality school options.

We support providing options for a quality public education and make no mistake, we also support closing poor performing charter schools that do not meet the accountability and compliance standards set out in the law.

«During the period of time that the Quality Education Investment Act (QEIA) funds were available, schools used those funds to purchase addition [sic] teacher positions to lower class size (CSR positions — and have adjusted their course offerings to provide a greater variety of options to students, intervention classes, enrichment opportunities, etc..

In an education system as decentralized and fragmented as ours, accountability provides critical insights for communities into the quality of their schools and for parents into the options available to their children.

Discussion of school choice in Louisiana, and the opportunities and challenges associated with providing quality education options to families.

We know that the kids of South Carolina need high - quality options, and we're thrilled to be a part of a movement that is providing a portfolio of innovative charter schools for families.

They include evidence that the schools have demonstrated an ability to «provide all students with a high - quality education» and that because «multiple models» have succeeded, «Great Public Schools Now is considering how to invest in multiple types of public schools to expand the number of high - quality options for students throughout Greater Los Aschools have demonstrated an ability to «provide all students with a high - quality education» and that because «multiple models» have succeeded, «Great Public Schools Now is considering how to invest in multiple types of public schools to expand the number of high - quality options for students throughout Greater Los ASchools Now is considering how to invest in multiple types of public schools to expand the number of high - quality options for students throughout Greater Los Aschools to expand the number of high - quality options for students throughout Greater Los Angeles.

The resulting efficiency of school consolidation is, however, often determined to be the best option for providing a quality education to community members.

Democrats are also committed to providing parents with high - quality public school options and expanding these options for low - income youth.

The Alliance is to be commended for not only providing high quality public school options to thousands of low - income minority students in the Los Angeles community but for also being responsible stewards of public funds.

Both Bert Corona Charter School and Monseñor Oscar Romero Charter Middle School were developed to provide better quality options for parents as part of a comprehensive community strategy.

Both Bert Corona Charter School and Moñsenor Oscar Romero Charter Middle School were developed to provide better quality options for parents as part of a comprehensive community strategy.

«High quality virtual charter schools provide valuable options to families, particularly those who live in rural areas where brick - and - mortar schools might not have the capacity to provide the range of courses or other educational experiences for students,» she wrote.

Director, Bay Area Facilities 510-344-7263 [email protected] Aron leads CCSA's facilities policy and advocacy work in the San Francisco Bay Area, providing support and assistance to charter schools seeking high quality public and private facilities options, and working to secure equitable facilities funding for Bay Area charter schools.

The solutions would start with economically diverse housing options in all towns in CT, quality pre-natal care, quality pediatric care, high school courses on parenting, in - home parenting classes for teens, a robust curriculum rich in the arts, social sciences, science, math, and character education, lots of playtime in a safe literature rich environment for pre-schoolers, summer school and before and after school care provided by TFA or some other organization of young recent college graduates, small class size, teacher leaders instead of building administrators, and collaboration time built into the school day.

Providing access to social work support and integrating restorative justice practices into the school day, or offering high - quality after - school opportunities (like drama or sports) from primary through high school are not options that all students across Chicago are offered.

The rationale, according to the press release, is that «more than 100 charter schools already provide quality education in Chicago's underserved communities that otherwise have limited options.»

To ensure all children throughout the county are well served, regardless of where they live and which type of public school they attend, the compact establishes a local Advisory Committee to ensure that district and school leaders execute shared commitments and strategies, including supporting accountability, transparency, and adequate and appropriate access to services and resources; and providing parents and students access to high quality public school options.

Goal: Provide resources on the available funding and facilities options and update attendees of the ongoing work at the local and state level to ensure access to high quality, affordable, long term facilities options for all charter schools.

To increase student achievement and keep students engaged, Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation (EVSC) decided to tap into technology in order to provide students with quality options beyond the traditional classroom, empowering students to meet their individual learning goals.

DFER - LA remains committed to New Orleans schools and families, and we are committed to doing our part in providing high - quality options to every student, regardless of their zip code.»

Just as importantly, the waiver gambit reaffirms the role of states in structuring education without holding them accountable for how they spend federal dollars (or for providing them with high - quality teaching, curricula, and school options); this includes the administration's move through the waiver process to bless implementation of Plessy v. Ferguson - like proficiency targets that allow districts and other school operators to effectively ignore poor and minority students.

Deep commitment to NECSN's mission that public charter schools are a vital way to provide access to high - quality educational options to students

So we must continue to overhaul how we recruit, train, evaluate, and reward teachers; develop stronger, more - entrepreneurial school leaders; expand the number of high - quality school options for all kids; provide all kids with rigorous college preparatory curricula; make parents the lead decision - makers in education and given them the tools they need to make smart decisions for their kids; and build cultures of genius in which the potential of all kids can be nurtured.

8:30 am New Orleans Community Leaders Breakfast Discussion of school choice in Louisiana, and the opportunities and challenges associated with providing quality education options to families.

The organization, which was funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education, provided critical information to parents about quality school options and the availability of free after - school tutoring services.

MCSI hoped to create high - performing, diverse neighborhood schools that would provide high - quality options for the growing number of families who wanted to stay and raise their children in Midtown.