Sentences with phrase «quality public education system»

Indeed, providing a high - quality public education system is one of America's greatest responsibilities and wisest investments in the nation's future.

Download Ready to Learn, Empowered to Teach to learn more about NASP's policy recommendations necessary to maintaining a high - quality public education system.

WHEREAS, the nation's future, social well - being and economic competitiveness relies on a high - quality public education system that prepares all students for college, careers, citizenship, and lifelong learning; and

Our paper then turns to the topic at hand — the demand for a quality public education system and the willingness to pay for it — before presenting our seminal state - by - state analysis of the correlation between a strong middle class and spending on public education per pupil.

As organizations adjust to keep pace with 21st Century learning demands, Avis» Letters serve to re ignite in each of us our moral purpose as educators and inspire us to reaffirm our unwavering commitment to an inclusive, sustainable and high quality public education system.

The state teachers union, the Florida Education Association, is claiming that «the tax - credit scholarships divert state money away from a quality public education system the state is required, under the Florida Constitution, to provide.»

This campaign creates a platform for schools and communities to join together and express why we love public education and why Kentucky depends on a quality public education system to improve the lives of all Kentucky children.

I'm also highly concerned about maintaining a quality public education system.

The Pennsylvania Association of School Administrators promote high quality public education systems for all learners through the support and development of professional leaderships

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(2) to supplement and complement the efforts of States, the local school systems and other instrumentalities of the States, the private sector, public and private educational institutions, public and private nonprofit educational research institutions, community - based organizations, parents, and students to im - prove the quality of education;

«It is deeply debilitating and demoralising for teachers that any attempt to have a public debate about developing the teaching profession and the quality of teaching inevitably is hijacked by commentators and presented as a system to «root out incompetent teachers» and present our public education system as failing.

It's time to support public institutions like SUNY, to support affordability and quality in our public higher education system.

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, said: «Our public education system is a promise we make to the nation's children and young people that they will have opportunity, high quality, good outcomes and an expectation of success for all.

On Thursday, with the New York State Board of Regents hearing testimony regarding the newly approved teacher evaluation system, leading education reform organization StudentsFirstNY and public school parents offered recommendations and sent letters calling for a system that ensures all public school students have access to high - quality teachers.

Set to testify before Governor Cuomo's Education Reform Commission, NYC Public School Principal Anna Hall will deliver a crystal - clear message that any true reform of the state's education system needs to start with quality Education Reform Commission, NYC Public School Principal Anna Hall will deliver a crystal - clear message that any true reform of the state's education system needs to start with quality education system needs to start with quality teachers.

Unlike Governor Cuomo, who supports privatization in the form of charter schools, the Green Party ticket of Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones advocates a comprehensive «Quality Education for All» platform grounded in fully funding and strengthening our public school system.

«His proposed policies on public education will weaken, not strengthen our public education system, and they would represent a step away from the principle of high quality public education for all students.

... The report was commissioned by the Alliance for Quality Education, an education research and advocacy group that is calling the current public school system «a tale of two systems,» echoing Bill de Blasio's «tale of two cities» campaigEducation, an education research and advocacy group that is calling the current public school system «a tale of two systems,» echoing Bill de Blasio's «tale of two cities» campaigeducation research and advocacy group that is calling the current public school system «a tale of two systems,» echoing Bill de Blasio's «tale of two cities» campaign slogan.

Attacking new teacher evaluation systems that are, for the first time, enabling district public schools to make decisions based on teacher quality, does violence to the cause of improving the quality of education for the overwhelming majority of students who don't attend charter schools.

While these results support the contention that vouchers would improve the quality of education for the entire education system, it remains to be seen whether even the prospect of competition can provoke a public school response.

Assessment is at the heart of education: Teachers and parents use test scores to gauge a student's academic strengths and weaknesses, communities rely on these scores to judge the quality of their educational system, and state and federal lawmakers use these same metrics to determine whether public schools are up to scratch.

We need to continue to invest in our public education system so we can deliver a high - quality public education to every student.

Ironically, this misguided and shortsighted opposition has ensured that the fight for the future of quality educational access (and the production of future black leaders like Obama) will be between African Americans of one generation who found prosperity working in public education and who possess the lion's share of the political power, and the minority students whose futures are sacrificed on the altar of the nation's ossified urban education systems.

The Illinois Constitution, with one of the most demanding education clauses, says that the state must «provide for an efficient system of high quality public educational institutions and services.»

This year the list is topped by four major research pieces: an analysis of how U.S. students from highly educated families perform compare with similarly advantaged students from other countries; a study investigating what students gain when they are taken on field trips to see high - quality theater performances; a study of teacher evaluation systems in four urban school districts that identifies strengths and weaknesses of different evaluation systems; and the results of Education Next's annual survey of public opinion on eEducation Next's annual survey of public opinion on educationeducation.

«The extraordinary demands of educating disadvantaged students to higher standards, the challenges of attracting the talent required to do that work, the burden of finding and financing facilities, and often aggressive opposition from the traditional public education system have made the trifecta of scale, quality, and financial sustainability hard to hit,» concludes the report, «Growing Pains: Scaling Up the Nation's Best Charter Schools.»

In the piece, headlined «Alternative» Education: Using Charter Schools to Hide Dropouts and Game the System, ProPublica reporter Heather Vogell describes how traditional schools and districts are pushing kids into low - cost, low - quality alternative programs in order to hide dropouts from the public and boost test scores and graduation rates.

Given the enormous changes taking place in the world, the current education achievement gap between low - income and affluent students, and the logical nexus between a nation's economic strength and the quality of its public education system, it is incumbent on our country to put in place a national education strategy.

Moreover, in the public system, the ability of parents and students to ensure that they receive a high - quality education is constrained by the enormous obstacles to leaving a bad school.

«Providing high - quality education for every child is a moral imperative if we truly want to live up to the ideals of a public education system and a democratic society,» she says of her commitment to urban education.

«Tonight, I am calling on all Louisianans and all Americans to join an historic effort to build a world - class, quality system of public education in New Orleans.

It's time for the state's leaders to justify to Connecticut parents why our education system limits the size and expansion of quality public schools, while thousands of students languish on waitlists with no access to an adequate education.

All are qualities Paolo calls on daily as he works to support an education system of nearly 3,600 public schools and more than 1.8 million students.

The nation's primary K — 12 education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), requires states to provide richer information on outcomes for all students, produce high - quality public reports, and rethink their accountability systems to provide transparency and value to the public.

AB 2548, sponsored by Assemblymember Shirley Weber in response to California's overhaul of its public school accountability system, would have helped to ensure that our public schools are providing all students — regardless of zip code or background — with the quality education they need to succeed academically and in the future.

Despite the United States Constitution's guarantee of equal protection and due process, the State of Connecticut has created a public education system in which zip code and luck of the draw determine whether students have a shot at a quality public education.

The measures of teacher quality that are used by most public school systems to screen candidates and determine compensation — certification, experience, and education level — have been well researched, but there is little definitive empirical evidence that these characteristics, defined in general terms, are associated with higher student achievement.

A successful school - accountability system contains three basic elements: It gauges education quality and progress by measuring data that accurately reflect student achievement; it disseminates the results to parents and the public in a simple and transparent manner; and it rewards and incentivizes success and provides interventions to support low - performing schools and reverse failure.

Finance reform is necessary, along with full - day kindergarten and high quality early childhood education, if we are serious about having a world - class public education system.

In many states, education bureaucrats will use the results from the national tests to judge the quality of the public school system and those who learn and work in it.

As UrbEd works to give all Philadelphia public school students a strong, quality education in a system that is responsive and efficient, it will focus on four areas.

There is a great deal of contention in public education around vouchers, choice, accountability systems, teacher quality, equity, and quality of education.

Education policies to improve the quality of New York's public schools, with a focus on improving teacher quality, expanding school options for families and improving the way our school systems are governed and funds are spent.

To: Speaker Carl Heastie Assembly Majority Leader Joseph Morelle Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb Assembly Education Committee Chairwoman Catherine Nolan Majority Leader John Flanagan Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins Senate Education Committee Chair Carl L. Marcellino Governor Andrew Cuomo Educators for Excellence - New York (E4E - New York), a teacher - led organization of over 13,000 New York City public school educators, believes that a multi-measure system of student achievement and a fair system of teacher evaluation is essential to supporting, developing, and retaining high - quality educators.

The mission of the New Jersey Education Association is to advance and protect the rights, benefits, and interests of members, and promote a quality system of public education for all Education Association is to advance and protect the rights, benefits, and interests of members, and promote a quality system of public education for all education for all students.

Together, we can work to create a system where schools compete for top teachers, the achievement gap disappears, and all children — no matter their economic situations — have access to a quality public education.

[quote] I'm still not convinced that charter schools are delivering enough quality to justify trashing an entire system of public education that has long served this country well.

A lawsuit was filed and the court is currently weighing whether overturning Blaine is unconstitutional given the «Paramount Duty» clause found in Article IX, section 1 of the Florida Constitution which mandates a free, high - quality system of public education.

Indiscriminately targeting all charter schools, even the many great public charter schools that are offering students a bridge to college, while ignoring underperforming district schools, undermines the quality and integrity of our entire education system...

And in a public education world where the unions have typically been able to protect even the lowest - performing teachers, that kind of quality upgrade seemed doable only because the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation had offered the city a grant that required the union to cooperate in return for a huge injection of funds into the school system.