Sentences with phrase «quality of public»

«The quality of public schools is one of the most important factors to consider when buying a home, especially for families,» says Don Ganguly, CEO of HomeUnion.

Dr Coventry has worked closely with consumer and carer groups to improve safety and quality of our public mental health services.

Dr. Arbour is the improvement advisor for Un Buen Comienzo (UBC, A Good Start), an intervention to improve quality of public preschools in Chile, and for the Home Visiting Collaborative for Improvement and Innovation, USA (HV CoIIN).

Canada (Ottawa) About Blog the Public Policy Forum is a private, non-profit, independent research organization dedicated to enhancing the quality of public policy decision - making in southeast Wisconsin.

Professional Experience GA DFCS Clayton County (Jonesboro, GA) 2008 — 2010 Supervisor • Manage staff orientation and on - going training, including technology, reference materials, and other pertinent information, to ensure a high - quality of public service • Delegate important tasks and assignments to other staff members while providing guidance on relevant expectations and completion timetables as well as support and experience in job execution • Monitor and document associate performance through the use of monthly evaluation meetings to address any issues or areas of weakness through focused training efforts as well as resolve issues and complaints • Perform other important staff management functions, including time records / time off requests, career mentoring, and employee discipline / dismissal when necessary

Canada (Ottawa) About Blog the Public Policy Forum is a private, non-profit, independent research organization dedicated to enhancing the quality of public policy decision - making in southeast Wisconsin.

The brilliance of our students is a testament to the quality of our public schools.

The quality of the public discourse in the U.S. in recent years has not risen to very high levels.

The quality of public service provision has been an issue in the case of, for example, court interpretation.

On the level and quality of public discussions of Supreme Court decisions, she reports that the press and the media have not taken much more interest in their work since the court's high - profile move across Parliament Square, Despite recordings of hearings being available to the press, «they don't often ask».

Through advocacy and education, RTKNS encourages the use and development of freedom - of - information legislation to foster a better informed and more politically active electorate in Nova Scotia and to improve the quality of public and private decision making in the province.

Yet providing people with the means of accessing the latest research, for all of its contentiousness and tentativeness, holds some promise of raising the very quality of public reason and deliberation, much as Kant dreamed.

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There is no transformation; there is just a reduction in the quality of public goods, and increased costs, spun as «progress».

That's actually not the sort of science communication that is needed to improve the quality of public deliberations over climate in the US.

We use non-violent confrontation to raise the level and quality of public debate.

, then I look forward to collaborating with you to ensure such views / voices get rewarded for the simple value they bring to enriching and improving the quality of our public discourse.

In 1997, he founded the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), a New York City nonprofit organization that uses the power of design and art to improve the quality of public participation in urban planning and community design, where he was the Creative Director for 10 years.

States, cities, and other public entities issue debt to fund projects for essential infrastructure and to enhance the quality of public life.

(Caveat emptor, however: the formatting and editing quality of public - domain works may vary.)

Although Brookline is best known as the home of wealthy and upper - middle - class residents, it also has a long association with working - class Irish families and, more recently, with Asian families and with other immigrant groups drawn to the town for the high quality of its public schools.

We need to be accountable for the quality of public education, which also means we shouldn't over-test our children or devote excessive learning time to test prep.

He spotlights three organizations he claims are leading a movement to reform teachers unions and make them partners in an attempt to improve the quality of public education — NewTLA, a dissident faction in the United Teachers of Los Angeles, Educators for Excellence, a reform group in New York started by two young Teach For America graduates, and Teach Plus, an organization that has gained traction in several states, whose goal is to «engage early career teachers in rebuilding their profession to better meet the needs of students and the incoming generation of teachers.»

Presidents Obama, Bush, and their respective education secretaries believed the federal government had an important role in improving the quality of public education for our country's least advantaged children.

Parent leaders throughout the nation thank President Obama for recognizing the importance of class size in his weekly address, and for releasing a report that shows how the elimination of 60,000 teaching positions since 2009 is not only unprecedented in US postwar history, but has led to class size increases that are severely damaging the quality of our public schools.

In a city where the quality of public education varies wildly, the opportunity to switch schools is prized, particularly outside of a few areas west of Rock Creek Park and on Capitol Hill where residents are guaranteed access to high - performing neighborhood schools.

The Illinois Network of Charter Schools (INCS) is dedicated to improving the quality of public education by promoting and invigorating the charter school concept.

MASB was officially organized in 1949 to advance the quality of public education in our state, promote high standards in providing educational programs, help school board members keep informed about education issues, represent the interests of boards of education, and promote public understanding about school boards and citizen involvement in our schools.

We must work together so that all Rhode Islanders will be proud of the quality of our public schools.

Those concerned about the quality of public education — and of all public services — should understand that Wisconsin's Act 10 and associated budget cuts have not had the positive impact on education that its proponents claimed it would.

Beneath the surface of these obvious problems lies a more insidious threat to the quality of public education for all children.

If we outlaw profiteering in these two sectors, my bet is that it will increase the quality of public education and decrease the cost of health care.

These tests should not be used to reflect student capabilities, the effectiveness of teachers nor the quality of public schools.

The quality of public schools is always one of the top considerations in site selection.

When the quality of public jobs is lowered, it becomes more difficult for state and local governments to hire and keep high - quality and experienced employees.

In 2015, the Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA, replaced the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act, or NCLB, as the nation's major K - 12 education law, continuing that law's focus on increasing the quality of public education.

Supporters of NCLB agree with the mandate for accountability to educational standards, and believe emphasis on test results will improve the quality of public education for all students.

Weast is widely respected for his expertise in crafting coherent strategies to sequence change efforts and advises and collaborates with foundations and school district leaders to improve the quality of public education across the United States.

The nonprofit is dedicated to improving the quality of public charter schools by helping them build stronger boards of directors.

The charter school model holds great promise for developing education innovations and improving the quality of public education overall, but the current direction of the charter school sector toward a few narrow approaches cuts short this potential.

First, the hiring of new public school teachers would become more selective, thus increasing the quality of public school teachers.

Additionally, she is the founder of Sapientis, a nonprofit organization dedicated to mobilizing a diverse and informed network of change agents committed to improving the quality of public education in Puerto Rico, and was part of the founding team of DC School Reform Now, a non-profit organization committed to supporting education reform in Washington, D.C.

Although the quality of public schools are increasing, graduation rates across the metro remain low, indicating that more needs to be done to improve youth out - comes.

We support the charitable mission of our partner, the Illinois Network of Charter Schools, a 501 (c)(3) organization that brings together students, parents, educators, and administrators who all share a common goal: to improve the quality of public education by promoting and strengthening charter public schools throughout the State of Illinois.

Together, with your support we can ensure quality of public education by promoting and strengthening charter schools throughout the State of Illinois.

Asked which of three funding choices will significantly improve the quality of public schools, 41 percent of adults say we need to use state funds more wisely, 10 percent say we need to increase state funding, and the largest share — 46 percent — say we need to do both.

And he is working to demonstrate that the quality of a public education is about more than how many AP classes one takes, now many community college courses a high schooler enrolls in over the summers, and how many extra hours of math a fourth grader «earns» by getting a slot in a prized G&T program.

But in the same poll, only a quarter of respondents said that unionization had helped the quality of public school education; nearly half said it had hurt.

Like West Virginia's teachers, educators in Oklahoma are demanding higher pay and better benefits — but they're also similarly driven by an underlying mission to improve the quality of public education offered in their state.

Our city government needs to do all it can — use every available resource — to help children achieve and improve the quality of our public schools.