Sentences with phrase «public school boards across»

The organization representing more than 600 public school boards across the state says how science is taught in the classroom will influence how a generation of students think about climate change.

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These are essentially questions of public policy, and if real solutions are going to be found to the problems of disadvantaged children, these questions will need to be addressed, in a creative and committed way, by public officials at all levels — by school superintendents, school - board members, mayors, governors, and cabinet secretaries — as well as by individual citizens, community groups, and philanthropists across the country.

In line with this vision, the governor recently approved the recruitment of 2000 tutorial staff across the 291 public secondary schools in the state, under the Post Primary Schools Management Board (PPSMB) and one is glad to note that the jobs were advertised, accorschools in the state, under the Post Primary Schools Management Board (PPSMB) and one is glad to note that the jobs were advertised, accorSchools Management Board (PPSMB) and one is glad to note that the jobs were advertised, accordingly.

It needs to be a requirement in public schools across the board.»

However, there is little evidence that across - the - board increases in relative pay for all teachers are necessary to staff public schools with qualified teachers.

«It's clear that the British public have some strong opinions with regards to the UK school system, highlighting that there may still be plenty of room for growth across the board — and these improvements may need to start right from the top.»

Indeed, D.C.'s charter school sector, overseen by the independent D.C. Public Charter School Board, comes across as the purest form of this new sschool sector, overseen by the independent D.C. Public Charter School Board, comes across as the purest form of this new sSchool Board, comes across as the purest form of this new system.

At least since the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, this has been interpreted to give the federal government the power to intervene in cases of legally sanctioned discrimination, like the segregation of public schools across the country; to mandate equal access to education for students with disabilities; and, according to some arguments, to correct for persistently unequal access to resources across states and districts of different income levels.

Across the board, in every country studied, what they found was that women retain the literacy skills they learned as young girls in school — even when they attended lowquality schools only for a couple of years — and then use those skills later, as mothers, to understand and connect with public health information disseminated through the media and through healthcare workers.

Countries without such alternative systems, either because the public systems were acceptable to Catholic leadership (as in Italy, Spain, Austria, and most of Latin America) or because the Catholic share of the population was too small to create and sustain an alternative system competing across the board with public schools, have not experienced the benefits of such competition.

The Statewide Review of Educational Opportunities (SREO) will examine demographic and enrollment trends across every type of public school to create what State Board executive director Donna Johnson calls a «snapshot» of all the educational programs available in the state.

The District of Columbia's public schools, once considered among the worst in the nation, continued its trend of steady, across - the - board gains on the 2015 NAEP.

Among other reforms encouraged by Race to the Top, Washington, D.C., adopted a new teacher contract that raised salaries across the board while adding performance pay, and New York City increased its allotment of public charter schools, to cite just two notable examples.

That's a robust blend of private and public school choice, across the board, for all students, with limited regulations.

NSBA with Davenport and the full leadership team will continue its efforts, working with the state school board associations, to ensure that ESSA is implemented as intended, in collaboration with local school boards and other key education stakeholders, and returning the decision - making authority to state and local communities in support of academic success for every public school student across the country.

NSBA is committed to equity and excellence in public education through school board governance, and with the onset of a new administration and a new Congress, will amplify the voice of 90,000 school board members across the country, to maintain and strengthen the ability of local districts and school boards to act in the best interests of students, parents, and communities.

The President's budget would cut federal education programs across the board and use the money to spend about $ 400 million to expand charter schools and vouchers for private and religious schools, and offer another $ 1 billion to push public schools to favor charter and private schools.

This measure will help mitigate the impact of the automatic, across - the - board spending cuts known as sequestration and restore critical programs to public schools across the nation.

Hosted by NYC Collaborates, «Diverse Schools: Opportunities and Challenges in Integrating NYC's Public Schools» discussed the historical roots of school segregation; these continue to play out across New York — even over 60 years after Brown v Board of Education - as well as the current challenges our school system faces and actionable solutions to spur integration.

«We're encouraged that independent observers of public education share our support for legislative and school board candidates across California who support parental choice and who are working to provide high quality education to all children,» said Gary Borden, Executive Director of CCSA Advocates.

Said Johnson: «I want to improve student performance and the quality of public schools in Board District 1 and across the entire LAUSD.

One day after a split Matthews board endorsed a town charter school bill, the Charlotte Mecklenburg school board tried to persuade taxpayers, parents and voters that it's a selfish move that could undermine public education across North Carolina.

Under McQueen's leadership, Tennessee recently announced the state's highest graduation rate in its history at 89.1 %, best overall ACT at 20.1 — a number that represents all public school students in the state, across the board improvements in the 2nd year of the new state assessment, and a record high number of students taking and attaining credit for early college coursework.

Ball also reported that officials with the N.C. School Boards Association have identified private schools across the state that openly discriminate against students and families despite receiving public funding, putting gay parents in the position of having their tax dollars paying for schools that have a policy of refusing admission to their children.

A common argument of voucher school proponents is that these schools create competition for public schools, thereby increasing achievement across the board.

Tara Brancato: That's true, but schools and Networks like New Visions for Public Schools are really pushing for Performance Tasks and CCLS across theschools and Networks like New Visions for Public Schools are really pushing for Performance Tasks and CCLS across theSchools are really pushing for Performance Tasks and CCLS across the board.

To address this across - the - board grade inflation, StudentsFirstNY is calling for an independent audit of school coursework in NYC public schools to ensure that it is on grade level.

«While we obviously would have preferred a different decision from the National Board of the NAACP today, we are greatly encouraged to see how thousands of voices across this country representing the interests of historically underserved students have registered their clear support for charter schools continuing to grow and expand their positive impact on public education in communities across the United States.

Over the last week, 100 education advocates, families, educators, elected leaders, representatives from Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and the Illinois State Board of Education, gathered in locations across the city for problem - solving forums to discuss ways in which schools can support students impacted by violence, poverty, and Schools (CPS) and the Illinois State Board of Education, gathered in locations across the city for problem - solving forums to discuss ways in which schools can support students impacted by violence, poverty, and schools can support students impacted by violence, poverty, and trauma.

Art Rainwater, former superintendent of the Madison Public School system, says providing quality education with scarce resources is a challenge facing superintendents across the board.

As states across the country rapidly adopt their own requirements for student data privacy, the National School Boards Association supports the timely efforts of America's school districts to protect the privacy of students and families who entrust public schools with their child's personally identifiable informSchool Boards Association supports the timely efforts of America's school districts to protect the privacy of students and families who entrust public schools with their child's personally identifiable informschool districts to protect the privacy of students and families who entrust public schools with their child's personally identifiable information.

It is noteworthy, however, that Polk School Board member, Billy Townsend, keeps pointing toward an exhaustive report done by Stanford University that clearly tracks all students across multiple grades to build a robust picture of student growth (or lack thereof) on standardized tests, which, as anyone in public education knows, is the only metric deemed worthy of consideration by the Florida Legislature.

«In working together with the parents and the charter school operator to arrive at this decision,» said Desert Trails Parent Union lead coordinator Cynthia Ramirez in a press statement, «the school board has set an example for other parents and districts across the country on how to use Parent Trigger legislation to transform otherwise failing public schools.»

Each of these candidates supports an elected, representative school board, fair and adequate funding for public education across the state, and a progressive income tax that will end the financial burdens that have put so many Illinois residents on their heels.

At LPI Learning, we place and support students who attend Public, Private and Boarding schools across the United States.

Justice, a Republican, has promised to convene a task force as early as this week to figure out a way to resuscitate the insurance agency, whose severe funding shortfalls have resulted in rising co-pays and other health - care costs not only for public - school teachers but also for state employees across the board.

For most of her decadelong tenure as Hillsborough County School Board District superintendent, Elia enjoyed a glorious run, beloved by the local media and recognized by her peers across the nation as one of the top public school instructors in the coSchool Board District superintendent, Elia enjoyed a glorious run, beloved by the local media and recognized by her peers across the nation as one of the top public school instructors in the coschool instructors in the country.

Parents apply through a citywide lottery to scores of schools runs by dozens of boards; there are at least 15 different first days of public school across New Orleans.

COSA supports school attorneys and provides leadership in legal advocacy for public schools; its 22 - member Board of Directors oversees its continuing legal education programming and working groups for its more than 3,000 members across the United States and Canada.

The Supreme Court ruling of Brown v. Board of Education to desegregate U.S. public schools sparked protests across the country.

On behalf of parents of public school students across Connecticut, I am writing to request that you add an agenda item to the April 6, 2015 State Board of Education Committee meeting to review and address the actions taken by your Interim Commissioner of Education and other State Department of Education staff as they relate to the issue of a parent's fundamental and inalienable right to opt their children out of the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing program and how local school districts should deal with children whose parents have opted them out of the SBAC testing.

«Their leadership on the Local School Board Governance and Flexibility Act and the ESEA reauthorization amendment are extremely important to public school leaders across the country who deal daily with federal regulations that hinder their abilities to improve student achievSchool Board Governance and Flexibility Act and the ESEA reauthorization amendment are extremely important to public school leaders across the country who deal daily with federal regulations that hinder their abilities to improve student achievschool leaders across the country who deal daily with federal regulations that hinder their abilities to improve student achievement.

The D.C. Public Charter School Board said the student population, in 60 schools across 90 campuses, is 27,953, just shy of the projected 28,066.

One of the more enduring education - policy myths is that public - school teachers are «underpaid» on average, and therefore that raising teacher pay across the board would improve student achievement.

Behind the rhetoric of «transparency» and «inclusion,» CPS under the administrators appointed by Rahm Emanuel's Board of Education are going out of their way to deny the public access to key information and to make sure that reporters — especially those with cameras and video cameras — are denied access to the growing mass movement across the city that is demanding no cuts this school year.

Although the foundation implies that this market - based model will lead to the improvement of all schools in a system, a different endgame is clear through its philanthropic portfolio: The foundation endorses the eventual elimination of public education altogether, in favor of an across - the - board system of privately operated schools.

Traditional public schools with high erasure rates across the board — in addition to three charter schools — will be investigated by the state, and schools with high erasure rates in only one grade will be investigated by their districts.

Yet in national polls the vast majority of Americans have continually awarded high marks to their own schools, even while giving substantially lower marks to public schools across the board.

The State Board of Education today voted to allocate 1,062 additional seats to public charter schools across the state.

Sadly, extensive research efforts (many of them funded by WFF) on the academic impact of public charter schools have suggested that after 20 years there is little across - the - board improvement to show for it.