Sentences with phrase «quality color school»

Not exact matches

We go above and beyond what USDA requires in school meals by ensuring all our meals are free from artificial colors, flavors and sweeteners, ensuring that our food is delivered fresh to schools each day, and ensuring that the quality of the ingredients in everything we offer is of a high quality that we would (and do) serve to our own children.

She spoke at a press conference Monday organized by the Alliance for Quality Education, an activist group that pushes for more state funding for schools and has said that the current funding distribution favors wealthy, white districts over poor areas with people of color.

Because we know that when low - income children of color have access to high expectations, effective teachers, and quality schools, they can perform equally as well as their wealthy, white peers.

The color of the bubble reflects a metric composed of factors that taken together are warning signs that a district's alternative schools are of poor quality or that a district may be using alternative schools to improve accountability measures.

Consistent with the TeachStrong coalition's ESSA guidance for state actors, these states are leveraging ESSA's flexibility to support efforts around recruiting teachers of color; improving the teacher preparation experience; providing induction and mentoring to novice teachers; increasing teacher pay; and creating or encouraging career pathways, with the goal of ensuring that all students — and especially students in low - income schools — are taught by high - quality, prepared, meaningfully supported teachers.2 The author also notes what other initiatives and actions policymakers and advocates should watch for and consider as they work to modernize and elevate the teaching profession.

Just as Trump's flunkies exert political pressure to halt access to healthcare (or immigration or policies to address climate change), so NJEA exerts political pressure — as well as its deep pockets — to stave off the continued enrollment of children, mostly poor and of color, in high - quality alternative public schools.

A new report from The Alliance for Quality Education, Education Law Center and the Public Policy and Education Fund finds that the state's 2016 budget underfunds 81 percent of high needs schools in New York, including in 30 of the 33 districts serving high numbers of students of color.

As part of our community organizing efforts, we have talked to over 300,000 New Yorkers in predominately low - income communities and communities of color who are deeply concerned with the lack of quality schools and quality teachers available to their children.

Here's the challenge my community, other parents of color, and underserved communities around the country face: access to high - quality schools.

Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education ruled that separate was inherently unequal and put an end to dejure segregation, many students of color — particularly black, Hispanic, and some Asian American and Pacific Islander students — still have to fight for their constitutional right to a high - quality public education in what has emerged as a system of de facto school segregation.

Because NYC parents of color urgently need school quality information in a city that's ranked highly for school choice -LRB-

We care about all public school students receiving a high quality education in a diverse setting of students of all colors and socioeconomic backgrounds.

The charter school, serving mostly children of color and students from low - income families, received one of the city's highest ratings for preschool quality.

Unfortunately, adults can not get it right that every child deserves a free high quality education: society has contributed to expanding poverty, deferring dreams, under educating, over policing, over reliance of out - of - school suspensions, push - outs, extremely low graduation for student of color, and arrest and incarceration can be used interchangeable at schools.

A summative rating might be a number or a letter, or it could be a categorization of a school based on a color (green, yellow or red), or an assessment, such as low, improving, quality or excellent, Litt said.

It purposefully keeps important information about our students» knowledge, skills and academic progress out of the conversation about school quality and disproportionately hurts children of color, like the scholars I've had the privilege of teaching in urban schools across the country.

This session, we're standing in strong support of Senate Bill 455 in our push to streamline certification requirements for teachers and school leaders of color and create flexible pathways to ensure high - quality educators have the opportunity to impact our kids» lives.

In a 2010 «manifesto,» Klein and one of his protégés, Michelle Rhee, the former schools chancellor of Washington, D.C., summed up their campaign like this: «The single most important factor determining whether students succeed in school is not the color of their skin or their ZIP code or even their parents» income — it is the quality of their teacher.»

We offer programs and support services to help experienced charter leaders design, apply and incubate high - quality, innovative charter schools, work to empower communities by equipping them with the training and knowledge about the education process, and seeking to recruit and train new board leaders of color and to leverage a unique lens and perspective.

As the Star Tribune Editorial Board noted back in March, a LIFO - based layoff system that doesn't take teacher quality into consideration disproportionately hurts low - income students and students of color, because teachers with less experience tend to work in schools with higher concentrations of these students.

In the 20 years since starting its first school, KIPP Schools has demonstrated its ability to scale and to bring an increasingly high - quality education to thousands of low - income students and students of color who otherwise might not have had the opportunity.

«California charter schools are very diverse, have open - enrollment, and offer innovative programs that focus on providing high - quality education for all students — regardless of race, color, ethnicity, or language.

And the moratorium would make it even harder for students of color to get a spot in a quality charter school.

In addition, when asked during the hearing if he would intervene as Assistant Secretary if Black students in a school district were receiving lower quality teachers, fewer books, fewer AP classes and fewer educational resources than White students, Mr. Marcus would not commit to addressing this clear violation of civil rights laws that prohibit districts from providing students of color with inferior resources.

WHEREAS, the NAACP recognizes that at best, quality charter schools serve only a small percentage of children of color and disadvantaged students for whom the NAACP advocates relative to said population left behind in failing schools; and

Critics counter that the real problems students face — particularly low - income students of color — are not teacher job protections, but their under - resourced, highly segregated schools that fail to attract and retain high - quality educators.

Many hoped this online tool, which uses five colors to score the strengths and weaknesses of our local schools and districts, would provide families and policymakers with insight into the quality of schools and districts.

According to FairTest, «(H) igh - stakes testing is far more likely to lower the quality of curriculum, instruction and school climate in schools serving children of color: Facing high - stakes test - based accountability under NCLB and state laws, schools narrow curriculum by reducing or dropping untested subjects.

Influenced by the Hudson River School, these paintings capture the light and color qualities of this early impressionist movement in America.

However, Laget then pushes it further by incorporating the extremes of color juxtapositions explored by Op Artists, such as Julian Stanczak and Richard Anuszkiewicz, to create vibrational qualities to excite the eye and add a highly retinal experience, while also leveraging the interplay of color value shifts and shaped canvases from Downing and Reed of the Washington Color School to create the sense of vocolor juxtapositions explored by Op Artists, such as Julian Stanczak and Richard Anuszkiewicz, to create vibrational qualities to excite the eye and add a highly retinal experience, while also leveraging the interplay of color value shifts and shaped canvases from Downing and Reed of the Washington Color School to create the sense of vocolor value shifts and shaped canvases from Downing and Reed of the Washington Color School to create the sense of voColor School to create the sense of volume.

However, she then pushes it further by incorporating the extremes of color juxtapositions explored by Op Artists, such as Julian Stanczak and Richard Anuszkiewicz, to create vibrational qualities to excite the eye and add a retinal quality, while also utilizing the interplay of color value shifts and shaped canvases from Downing and Reed of the Washington Color School to create the illusion of volume and three - dimensional scolor juxtapositions explored by Op Artists, such as Julian Stanczak and Richard Anuszkiewicz, to create vibrational qualities to excite the eye and add a retinal quality, while also utilizing the interplay of color value shifts and shaped canvases from Downing and Reed of the Washington Color School to create the illusion of volume and three - dimensional scolor value shifts and shaped canvases from Downing and Reed of the Washington Color School to create the illusion of volume and three - dimensional sColor School to create the illusion of volume and three - dimensional space.

From the 1960s are Charles Green Shaw's Black on White against Yellow (1968), in which Shaw revived the polygon from his art of the 1930s to create a new minimalist statement, Leon Berkowitz's Cathedral, No. 11 (1968), a work by the Washington Color School artist in which imperceptible shifts of color and an emanating luminosity produce a meditational quality, and Betty Parsons's Miami (1966), which evokes the artist's enthusiasm for Native American art, while demonstrating the influences on her work of the leading abstract painters of the era, whose art she championed at her gallery on 57 th StColor School artist in which imperceptible shifts of color and an emanating luminosity produce a meditational quality, and Betty Parsons's Miami (1966), which evokes the artist's enthusiasm for Native American art, while demonstrating the influences on her work of the leading abstract painters of the era, whose art she championed at her gallery on 57 th Stcolor and an emanating luminosity produce a meditational quality, and Betty Parsons's Miami (1966), which evokes the artist's enthusiasm for Native American art, while demonstrating the influences on her work of the leading abstract painters of the era, whose art she championed at her gallery on 57 th Street.

California Driver Education Online Online Driving Schools... We offer a quality high school education to all Californians regardless of race, color or creed.

Findings from these preschool programs, coupled with findings from longitudinal studies conducted over the past several decades, have shown that high - quality preschool can improve school readiness, particularly for children of color and children who are non-native English speakers.

At the forefront of debates about early childhood education policy is a focus on raising the quality of learning environments in community - based centers and schools as a means of promoting child development, particularly for low - income children and children of color.