Sentences with phrase «quality education for their kids»

In Schuck's words, voucher advocates must build an «army of black and brown mothers who will march on the capitol steps to demand a quality education for their kids.»

PEJ is an affiliate of the national education nonprofit 50CAN: 50 - State Campaign for Achievement Now, which advocates at the local level for a high - quality education for all kids, regardless of their address.

Since the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) became law in 2015, states across the country have been using the flexibility and authority the law offers to design plans that ensure a quality education for all kids.

Since the Mississippi Charter Schools Act passed in 2013, charter operators have been able to apply to the Mississippi Charter Authorizer Board to run public schools billed as an alternative for parents seeking higher - quality education for their kids.

And it was the unflappable spirit of parents pushing for quality education for their kids.

Every parent wants the best, high quality education for their kids.

Not exact matches

We know that active kids do better — and by providing schools with resources to support quality physical education, we are laying the foundation for a lifetime of success.»

Kids Of Covenant Childcare And Development Center offers a positive beginning to a child's education with quality programs for infants, toddlers, pre-school and school aged children.

«It's easier to give one - on - one attention and be responsive when there are fewer kids in a room,» says Stephanie Glowacki, director of accreditation programs at the National Association for the Education of Young Children, a benchmark of quality.

«Secretary Duncan's report saying New York is on the watch - list for failure is yet another warning that the inability of school districts across the state and their unions to come together has jeopardized the quality of our kids» education,» Cuomo said.

In the fight back against the cuts, and to make sure our kids get the education they deserve, the New York State United Teachers and the Alliance for Quality Education have teamed up to urge legislators to restore the needededucation they deserve, the New York State United Teachers and the Alliance for Quality Education have teamed up to urge legislators to restore the neededEducation have teamed up to urge legislators to restore the needed funding.

The Alliance for Quality Education is firing back at Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who this morning accused school districts of playing politics when they say his proposed funding cuts would force teachers to lose their jobs, hurting kids in the process.

«The Chancellor's first priority is doing what's best for kids and we will ensure our next steps support students and families in receiving a high quality education,» Devora Kaye, a DOE spokeswoman, said in a statement.

We urge you to stand with the Alliance for Quality Education, Citizen Action of New York, savvy egalitarian groups like the Hedge Clippers, and others in demanding that all our kids get the fair shake they deserve.

«I credit my own Montana public school education for affording me the opportunity to go on to the Harvard Graduate School of Education, a place that reinforced the importance of giving all kids a quality education, no matter where they're froeducation for affording me the opportunity to go on to the Harvard Graduate School of Education, a place that reinforced the importance of giving all kids a quality education, no matter where they're froEducation, a place that reinforced the importance of giving all kids a quality education, no matter where they're froeducation, no matter where they're from.»

College might catapult prepared low - income kids into the middle class in one fell swoop, but using high - quality career and technical education to give low - income youngsters who are not ready for college a foothold on the ladder to success is a victory as well.

A national campaign is needed to highlight just how important quality early education is for kids, not only for helping parents to work.

A goal of Action for Healthy Kids is that all schools provide daily, quality physical education for all students from kindergarten to 12th grade.

High - quality career and technical education needs to be a viable option for many more kids, beginning in high school.

He addressed K - 12 education, too, but only on the «compulsory attendance» and «teacher quality» fronts — and while the latter hinted at merit pay and nodded at schools having the flexibility to «replace» instructors «who just aren't helping kids learn» — mostly what he did was urge more money for schools - as - we - know - them and those who teach in their classrooms.

Attitudes: support for diversity (racial integration), a perception of inequity (that the public schools provide a lower quality education for low - income and minority kids), support for voluntary prayer in the schools, support for greater parent influence, desire for smaller schools, belief in what I call the «public school ideology» (which measures a normative attachment to public schooling and its ideals), a belief in markets (that choice and competition are likely to make schools more effective), and a concern that moral values are poorly taught in the public schools.

So I hire a highly qualified online teacher, and my kids get the same opportunity for a quality education as kids in Eagle, an affluent suburb outside of Boise.»

01, Ed.D.» 05, vice president for national affairs at the Ounce of Prevention Fund, a nonprofit that gives kids living in poverty a chance to get a high - quality early education.

An «Income - Achievement» Gap Within Kids» Brain Structures Boston Globe, 5/4/15 «As educators explore ways to shrink the income - achievement gap, programs that improve the quality of education, particularly for low - income students, may help, says Martin West, associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Educatioeducation, particularly for low - income students, may help, says Martin West, associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Educatioeducation at the Harvard Graduate School of EducationEducation.»

NEA Leader Stresses Goal of Great Public Schools for All Kids National Education Association president Dennis Van Roekel wants to give all students access to a quality education in part by working to close the achievement gap, seeking more funding for public schools, and increasing parent and community invEducation Association president Dennis Van Roekel wants to give all students access to a quality education in part by working to close the achievement gap, seeking more funding for public schools, and increasing parent and community inveducation in part by working to close the achievement gap, seeking more funding for public schools, and increasing parent and community involvement.

A recent analysis of five decades of data shows that high - quality early childhood education has lasting benefits for kids.

High - quality early education programs can improve outcomes and narrow achievement gaps for all kids, particularly children from low - income families.

«Voucher programs largely help low - income middle - class kids — these are the kids that most need access» to quality education, Michelle Tigani, the communications director at the Center for Education Reform, previously told Businesseducation, Michelle Tigani, the communications director at the Center for Education Reform, previously told BusinessEducation Reform, previously told Business Insider.

Those roles taught me that targeted federal programs and smart state policies can have huge benefits for kids (especially the most disadvantaged) and that state governments are ultimately responsible for ensuring that all students receive a high - quality education.

And its using these false measures of proficiency to «prove» how bad public schools are so they can be replaced by for - profit charters that will reduce the quality of kids» educations to generate profits.

But for those families, especially single mothers and blue - collar households, choice sounds great in the abstract until one thinks about the high cost of transporting their kids out of their own neighborhoods just so they can get a high quality education.

In addition to playing the role of education decider for the black community, these groups are seemingly more motivated by the politics of the day than by the quality of black kids» learning environment.

Yet blaming charter schools for financial woes in the school district is unfair, and it drives a poisonous wedge between administrators, educators and the broader community, who should be working together to provide kids with access to high - quality education.

«Antonio has a strong record of supporting access to high - quality public education for all kids.

I am looking forward to continuing our work with the parent plaintiffs in PEJ's teacher quality cases, and to launching new initiatives with the 50CAN network that will expand the scope of legal strategies improving public education for kids all across the country.

«The event demonstrated there's a chance we'll find an early learning champion who will value the importance of high - quality early learning programs for all of California's kids with teachers who are compensated fairly,» said Patricia Lozano, executive director of Early Edge California, an advocacy organization promoting expanded early education programs.

While U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan did his best to spin the administration's efforts as a solution for No Child's supposedly «broken» accountability measures, which he proclaimed, was «misleading» in identifying schools and districts — especially in suburbia — failing to provide high - quality education to poor and minorEducation Arne Duncan did his best to spin the administration's efforts as a solution for No Child's supposedly «broken» accountability measures, which he proclaimed, was «misleading» in identifying schools and districts — especially in suburbia — failing to provide high - quality education to poor and minoreducation to poor and minority kids.

Helping these kids, many of whom are fleeing from violent and impoverished conditions in Latin America, gain the high - quality learning they need to succeed in this country is an opportunity for school reformers to humanely help these kids and transform American public education for all children at the same time.

The California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) has repeatedly gone on record debunking and factually proving that charters are public schools, kids in charters are achieving academically, charters are non-profits, comply with federal and state laws, are held to exceptionally high standards of accountability, and supports anyone from the community whose primary concern is advocating and creating high quality education opportunities for students.

Torlakson underscores the importance of high - quality math education when preparing kids for future college and career paths and believes that this guide is a valuable tool to help teachers link their mathematics lessons to everyday life as well as the Common Core standards.

He also finds it particularly interesting that Common Core foes say they want high - quality education for all children, yet fail to consider that their opposition to the standards hurts poor and minority kids as well as middle class white and Asian children in suburbia, both of which have few options — including vouchers and charter schools — to which they can avail in order to get high - quality education.

«For the first time, a group of parents is going to take back power of the educations of their own kids and select a high - quality nonprofit to transform their failing school,» said Ben Austin, executive director of Parent Revolution, the Los Angeles nonprofit that is bankrolling the parent union.

For example, we can't be judged on the GCSE measure because so many of our kids don't sit those exams, but from my point of view it's important that the government evaluates quality of all provision and not just mainstream education.»

Our mission is to ensure that educators are valued for the critical role they play in kids» lives, families have high - quality school choices and a real say in their child's education, and our tax dollars are spent wisely on what works for kids.

While Burk's school and Milwaukee still have a very long way to go to provide its students, particularly poor black and brown kids, a high quality education, I left the city feeling inspired that a community as large and diverse as Milwaukee is trying to band together and look out for what's best for all children.

It involves being willing to leverage any new solution for transforming education and providing all kids with high - quality education.

If yours is truly an organization that cares about the quality of life and education for ALL Connecticut students, I would think you'd want to see a balance in funding so no matter what district or school a child is in, they get the benefit of being able to succeed, not just the kids of the parents associated with your organization.

It's hard to fault individual parents who want a liberal wonderful education for their kids, but if all of us who can flee the fight for quality public education for all, what you get is sub par factory model a-democratic inequitable authoritarian test driven schools.

Research shows that providing impoverished kids with high - quality education at a young age pays off in shrinking the achievement gap, but there's little evidence that interventions for older kids make much difference.

It is important that we set expectations for the quality of education our kids receive in the schools that we pay for.