Sentences with phrase «quality public school system»

As far back as 2009, when Democrat Jim Doyle was governor, Julie Underwood wrote that «the real struggle in Wisconsin has been in maintaining the quality public school system created by previous generations.

We look forward to working alongside local stakeholders and community partners to ensure that our elected leaders are held accountable throughout this process to establish a unified, autonomous, high - quality public school system that supports all students in New Orleans.»

We believe building solidarity among parents, teachers and the teachers union and fighting racist school policies is key to building an equitable, just and quality public school system for all of Chicago.

«This is not the way for our nation's capital to run a high - quality public school system.»

Not exact matches

Georgia Health News surveyed the state's 20 largest public school systems about their lead testing policies and found many differences in how school systems evaluated their water quality.

(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;

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 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.

... 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» 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.

Justice Antonin Scalia was particularly vexed by the idea that well - heeled families might game the system to get reimbursed for private school tuition when they never had any intention of using a public school regardless of the quality of the program.

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.

And their revised strategy of operating public schools under contract with public school districts was flawed by an underestimation of the political resistance they would face and their inability to control costs or quality within the public system.

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 education.

After navigating the public school system in New York City as a caregiver and in Philadelphia as an afterschool program administrator, Melissa Diana Aguirre grew increasingly outraged at the poor quality teaching in urban schools.

The conscience of a liberal should struggle with supporting a system in which the children of the poor are consigned to attend the school that is assigned to them by public officials, regardless of its quality, whereas more affluent parents can shop for the school they want for their children by purchasing a home in the vicinity of the public school they prefer or paying private school tuition.

For much of the past few years, reflecting general concerns about the quality of public schooling, discussions of magnet schools have centered on their potential for providing intensive instruction in such subjects as science and mathematics, serving as models of effectiveness, and increasing family choice within the public system.

«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.»

Quality public schools are the wellspring of a democracy and a free enterprise economic system.

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 graduationSchools 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 graduationschools 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.

By contrast, the political forces that surround public schools - particularly schools in troubled urban systems - tend to promote excessive bureaucracy and to impede the development of the qualities that schools need to succeed.

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.

Instead of arguing whether charter schools should be included in No Child Left Behind, a more fruitful question is how to ensure that state accountability schemes allow enough flexibility for boutique programs within the public system while not opening up loopholes that low - quality schools can slip through.

When it came to state data systems, charter school laws, and teacher policy, winning states like Ohio, Hawaii, Maryland, and New York finished well back in the pack on rankings compiled by the Data Quality Campaign, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, and the National Council on Teacher Quality.

And today most Americans remain frustrated and confused about the quality of the public school systems.

As the nation continues to search for ways to upgrade the public school system, much attention has focused on how to improve the quality of K — 12 teachers.

Ms. Boast leads Public Impact's work evaluating educational quality metrics at the school, district and state levels and developing accountability systems to monitor school performance.

ECAA: States must establish «a system of annually identifying and meaningfully differentiating among all public schools in the State» that include student proficiency and graduation rates, in significant part, plus at least one other «valid and reliable indicator of school quality,» but states are free to weight factors as they choose and omit student growth.

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 watershed document on the quality of the nation's public school system was A Nation at Risk, published in 1983.

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.

With a focus on equity, innovation, and quality, Dr. William R. Hite, Jr. serves as Superintendent of the School District of Philadelphia, the largest public school system in the Commonwealth of PennsylSchool District of Philadelphia, the largest public school system in the Commonwealth of Pennsylschool system in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Establishes a system of meaningfully differentiating all public schools on an annual basis that is based on all indicators in the State's accountability system and that, with respect to achievement, growth or the other academic indicator for elementary and middle schools, graduation rate, and progress in achieving English language proficiency, affords: Substantial weight to each such indicator; and, in the aggregate, much greater weight than is afforded to the indicator or indicators of school quality or student success.

She is a passionate advocate for public school systems, student - centered educational policies, and strategic planning based on quality, standards - based goals.

And although Dreyer hopes the new support systems are effective, she says it's more important that the initiative helps reshape public discussion, and helps unearth what exactly contributes to the quality of a given virtual school.

Signaling a new phase in the reorganization of the country's largest school system, New York City Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein unveiled plans last week to grade all of the city's 1,400 public schools on student performance and the quality of instrSchools Chancellor Joel I. Klein unveiled plans last week to grade all of the city's 1,400 public schools on student performance and the quality of instrschools on student performance and the quality of instruction.

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.

After all, the reasons for promoting choice often rest on the fact that public school systems are strangled by politics, bureaucracy, byzantine contractual rules, and licensing procedures that aggravate a shortage of quality employees.

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.

All types of public school systems struggle with providing equitable access to quality schools, and the New Orleans system is no exception.

A new review of 25 school quality rating systems by Public Impact's Lyria Boast and Tim Field for the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools revealed clear trends that may help rating system designers and users move toward optimal system designs.

On the importance of government, for example, Brian Eschbacher, executive director of Planning and Enrollment Services in Denver Public Schools, described policies and systems in Denver that help make choice work better in the real world: a streamlined enrollment system to make choosing easier for families, more flexible transportation options for families, a common performance framework and accountability system for traditional and charter schools to ensure all areas of a city have quality schools, and a system that gives parents the information they need to choose schools confiSchools, described policies and systems in Denver that help make choice work better in the real world: a streamlined enrollment system to make choosing easier for families, more flexible transportation options for families, a common performance framework and accountability system for traditional and charter schools to ensure all areas of a city have quality schools, and a system that gives parents the information they need to choose schools confischools to ensure all areas of a city have quality schools, and a system that gives parents the information they need to choose schools confischools, and a system that gives parents the information they need to choose schools confischools confidently.

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.

The PAA position paper, released on July 5, said: «We are concerned that the overall effect of the bill will be to rapidly increase the quantity and not the quality of charter schools, without the necessary safeguards, and to weaken the public school system, which we believe is the very backbone of democracy.»

We look forward to strengthening our entire charter law, with an eye on flexibility and a better system for funding schools, so that more children in Connecticut can have access to quality choices, like public charters, in their communities.

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.