Sentences with phrase «public school resources provided»

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The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

Guidance Materials: The state Department of Public Instruction provides resources from its Moving Forward with School Wellness: Making Your District Policy Work for Healthy Children workshop.

These resources provide you with information on nutrition standards for schools and public buildings in B.C.

«And we're hearing that those proposals may end up containing significantly less than the $ 2.2 billion required to fully fund all of New York's public schools and provide our kids with the small class sizes, full curricula, and other resources they need to succeed.»

By providing resources to these students early, and continuing throughout middle school, we can ensure that every child in the New York City public school system has the same opportunity to learn, grow, and potentially enroll in these prestigious schools,» said Senator Klein.

The Rochester Education Foundation is an independent organization whose mission is to provide programs and resources to improve learning and success for all Rochester city public school students through partnerships with educators, business and the community.

Meatless Monday, a project of the Center for a Livable Future (CLF) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, provides many resources and ideas to try to get Americans to cut their meat consumption by at least 15 percent.

«Few may have noticed that after Hurricane Harvey, her foundation and the Laura Bush Foundation for America's Libraries provided a combined $ 2 million for resources, supplies and books at schools and public libraries disrupted by the storm disaster.

«Districts can be so hard to change,» said Dan Challener, president of the Public Education Foundation, an independent, nonprofit, community - based organization that provides training, research, and resources to teachers, principals, and schools in the Hamilton County area of Tennessee.

Students, teachers, and educators will face challenging decisions in the weeks and months ahead; hopefully this resource provides useful guidance and reminds everyone that youth political activity is fundamental to the purposes of public schooling.»

In fact, the resources provided to most public schools are adequate to recruit and retain a competent teaching workforce.

This, of course, begs the question: Why are private schools, despite having far fewer resources, able to provide significantly smaller classes than public schools?

Supporters argue that charter schools provide alternative solutions to the traditional public school system, in which many schools — especially those in low - income, predominantly minority school districts — find themselves with limited resources to offer their large student populations.

«Rather than using taxpayer dollars to provide vouchers to a few, we must focus our resources and efforts on concrete reforms that make our public schools better for all of the District's schoolchildren.»

The National Survey of Salaries and Wages in Public Schools provides a critically needed resource for public school lePublic Schools provides a critically needed resource for public school lepublic school leaders.

Before joining Public Impact, Mr. Field was a regional director for the KIPP Foundation, where he provided coaching support to KIPP executive directors, coordinated internal and external resources, and provided quality oversight to ensure that KIPP regions are prepared to open and sustain high - performing schools in their communities.

«I believe that it is a public duty to provide a good public school with adequate resources and a rich curriculum in every neighborhood.»

The money allocated to privately managed charters and vouchers represents a transfer of critical public resources to the private sector, causing the public schools to suffer budget cuts and loss of staffing and services as the private sector grows, without providing better education or better outcomes for the students who transfer to the private - sector schools.

PALO ALTO, Calif. — Three - quarters of public school teachers surveyed support the Common Core State Standards, yet just 27 percent said their district has provided them with the tools and resources necessary to teach the standards, according to the results of a poll released by the American Federation of Teachers today.

This page provides valuable information about State growth measures, including resources for understanding and interpreting growth scores by teachers, school and district administrators, BOCES district superintendents, network teams and NTEs, as well as the general public.

Following the election, Chicago Public Schools CEO Forrest Claypool and Chief Education Officer Janice Jackson said they are providing resources to principals, counselors and teachers to help students through the «strong feelings» they may have about the results.

Opponents argue that charter schools lead to increased racial or ethnic stratification of students, skim the best students from traditional public schools, reduce resources for such schools, and provide no real improvement in student outcomes.

• Overwhelming parental support for the following elements of an education agenda: Provide extra resources to turn around struggling neighborhood schools; hold charter schools accountable; provide more support / training for struggling teachers; expand / improve new - teacher mentoring; reduce class sizes, especially in the early grades; make public schools hubs of the neighborhood with longer hours, academic help and health services for families; provide extra pay for teachers in hard - to - staff schools; and ensure access to high - quality preschool for all 3 - and 4 - year Provide extra resources to turn around struggling neighborhood schools; hold charter schools accountable; provide more support / training for struggling teachers; expand / improve new - teacher mentoring; reduce class sizes, especially in the early grades; make public schools hubs of the neighborhood with longer hours, academic help and health services for families; provide extra pay for teachers in hard - to - staff schools; and ensure access to high - quality preschool for all 3 - and 4 - year provide more support / training for struggling teachers; expand / improve new - teacher mentoring; reduce class sizes, especially in the early grades; make public schools hubs of the neighborhood with longer hours, academic help and health services for families; provide extra pay for teachers in hard - to - staff schools; and ensure access to high - quality preschool for all 3 - and 4 - year provide extra pay for teachers in hard - to - staff schools; and ensure access to high - quality preschool for all 3 - and 4 - year - olds.

Public schools expend considerable resources identifying children eligible for special services, both because they are under an obligation to provide those services and because they receive additional funds from federal and state governments if a child is identified as having a disability that affects their learning.

(Ill.) A new plan to better prepare students in Chicago Public Schools for life after graduation has education experts concerned that the initiative, while well - meaning, may prove half - baked unless the district can provide support resources.

The statement concludes: «There is no reasonable rationale for using taxpayer funds to build more charter schools until and unless the federal government provides resources to build and renovate our traditional public schools, especially in underfunded and overcrowded urban districts, proportional to the number of students currently enrolled in them.»

Resource Available to Develop Local Bully - Prevention Policies The Model Policy to Address Bullying in Virginia's Public Schools, adopted by the Board of Education in October 2013, provides information to assist local school boards in formulating policies to help prevent bullying and procedures to report, investigate and intervene when bullying behavior occurs.

A decision by a rural family to withdraw a child from the public school and enroll them elsewhere doesn't mean that the family disconnects from the school — it simply means that the school has fewer resources to provide the non-educational benefits critical for community members.

By providing resources to attract and retain teachers in the 37 low - performing, high - turnover middle and high schools, the settlement renders the legal question raised in Reed «academic,» said Dale Larson, an attorney with the law firm Morrison & Foerster, which, with the ACLU and the nonprofit law firm Public Counsel, brought the lawsuit.

«I had the opportunity to send him to the same public school that my daughter went to because the law required that that school provide him resources that were never provided before that law was passed,» Hassan said.

Through short video overviews and supplemental resources, CPE analysts will provide exclusive insights for school boards that can be used at the board table, by district leadership teams, or with community groups to help citizens understand public education issues.

Together the board and leadership will work diligently to provide valuable resources to our members, secure federal policies that ensure public education continues to improve to meet students» needs today and into the future, create a better understanding of the importance and benefits of the role of school boards and local governance, and generate greater appreciation for our local public schools.»

Moreover, advocates should keep in mind that school districts in participating states access Medicaid dollars directly to pay for medically necessary services for students with disabilities.70 The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act requires that districts provide all necessary services and resources to afford every child a «free appropriate public education,» and some medically related supports qualify for Medicaid reimbursement.71 With less Medicaid funding statewide to meet that guarantee, states and districts would have to siphon money from other education funding streams to afford necessary medical services that support the learning of students with disabilities.

Within a CSO, the leaders of the individual schools continue to make all management decisions; CEI provides resources and tools that schools need to make the best decisions while also serving as a uniquely centralizing force for independent, public charter school educators.

We thank the Governor and Legislature for approving a budget that recognizes that public charter school students should be provided the same level of resources that are provided to all of California's public school students.

CEI provides resources and tools that schools need to make the best decisions while also serving as a uniquely centralizing force for independent, public charter school educators.

The nonprofit KIPP Foundation trains and develops outstanding educators to lead KIPP schools; provides tools, resources and training for excellent teaching and learning; promotes innovation; and facilitates the exchange of insights and ideas both within the KIPP network and with partners including other public schools, non-profit organizations, and institutions of higher learning.

For over five years, DCSRN has provided free information, resources and support throughout the DC public school choice application process to DC families like Nahomie Mwitaba with her daughter Anaya.

The aggregate resources available to provide services to students with disabilities in public schools is a function of both 1) funding available to public schools generally, and 2) funding designated to support special education and related services in particular.

Accountability should be enforced where the necessary resources are provided and the tools used to measure success or failure are well developed, appropriate to the task, and used to inform instructional decisions.School Choice School choice is appropriate within the public school system as long as equal opportunity and access are ensured without discrimination on the basis of race, gender, socioeconomic status, or disabSchool Choice School choice is appropriate within the public school system as long as equal opportunity and access are ensured without discrimination on the basis of race, gender, socioeconomic status, or disabSchool choice is appropriate within the public school system as long as equal opportunity and access are ensured without discrimination on the basis of race, gender, socioeconomic status, or disabschool system as long as equal opportunity and access are ensured without discrimination on the basis of race, gender, socioeconomic status, or disability.

The public education leaders of LAUSD should proactively support this urgent teaching moment, and provide academic, social - emotional, and security resources to our school communities.

NSBA Executive Director Thomas J. Gentzel said, «Voucher programs, including North Carolina's Opportunity Scholarship Program, rob public schools of the scarce resources available to provide an education to the majority of America's schoolchildren.»

NSBA's Stand Up 4 Public Schools at www.standup4publicschools.org provides resources to help defend against anti-public school forces.

The real questions in Arizona public education today involve how we will best utilize scarce resources in order to provide a quality education for EVERY student; the most effective ways to replicate successful, innovative schools; and the fastest means to develop these schools in the neighborhoods where they are needed most.

«It's very disheartening that we have a group of prominent businessmen in El Paso who feel it's more important to provide that amount of money to bring in charter schools rather than providing it to the public schools to help better improve the resources and what we provide to all of our children in El Paso,» De La Rosa said.

Ms. Spells feels that public charter schools have offered teachers and staff in - classroom flexibility, but struggle to provide resources to promote instruction.

«Only a full reauthorization of ESEA will provide each student in the public school system with the necessary support and resources they need to learn and prosper,» he says.

With an additional 141,000 students on a waiting list, there is much work ahead to ensure that public charter schools have the necessary resources to provide a quality public education to -LSB-...]

The Council largely endorsed the work of the Committee on Education that increased per student funding, invested in early childhood learning, and improved the resources of our public libraries, while also accelerating modernizations for many schools to provide a better learning environment.

This report provides a new resource for understanding the state of urban public schools in the U.S. Geared specifically toward city leaders who want to evaluate how well traditional district and charter schools are serving all their city's children and how their schools compare to those in other cities, the report measures outcomes for all public schools, based on test scores and non-test indicators, in 50 mid - and large - sized cities.