The rapid national expansion of Green Dot Public Schools and the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) highlights the great potential for such organizations to provide more high -
quality public schools by replicating successful charter schools.
Position Summary: The Colorado League of Charter Schools exists to improve student achievement and expand choice among high
quality public schools by serving and supporting Colorado's charter schools.
The Mission of the Idaho Charter School Network is to improve student achievement and expand choice among high
quality public schools by advancing and supporting Idaho's charter schools.
Not exact matches
Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations
by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted
by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations
by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor -
quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's
public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices
by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.
What may be more worrisome is the prospect that home
schooling will attract new recruits motivated mainly
by disenchantment with the
quality of their
public schools.
In some areas delinquent behavior
by blacks in the corridors, toilets and classrooms of the
public schools is approaching destructive proportions, with the result that the
quality of education is in jeopardy.
• increase
public funding for after -
school programs • serve suppers instead of (or in addition to) snacks • recruit more
school districts to provide after -
school suppers and snacks • support and expand year - round participation
by integrating the Afterschool Supper Program with the Summer Food Service Program • streamline and simplify the Afterschool Supper Program • serve meals during weekends, holidays and unanticipated
school closures; and • improve meal
quality
«We are excited to see Chicago
Public Schools continue to be a leader
by using procurement dollars to improve the freshness,
quality and nutrition in their meals for students while growing opportunities for local, sustainable and fair producers and processors,» stated Rodger Cooley, Executive Director of the Chicago Food Policy Action Council.
Selling poor
quality meat to
public schools (lower standards than those met
by fast food industry — where 3/4 of the meat is positive for things so heinous I shudder), as an example.
In February, 200
public school parents from communities across New York City traveled to the State Capital in Albany for a special panel co-sponsored
by State Senator Kevin Parker and StudentsFirstNY on the need for high -
quality school options in our communities.
The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point remains on warning
by its academic accrediting agency even as the
school has improved all but one of the five
quality benchmarks it failed last year, according to a status update made
public yesterday.
At 10 a.m., members of New York Communities for Change, Alliance for
Quality Education,
Public School Parents «call out Families for Excellent
Schools» reports and ads that promote racist discipline practices, and criminalize Black and Latino children
by playing fast and loose with facts,» City Hall steps, Manhattan.
Support $ 15 an hour minimum wage, single payer health care,
quality public schools, clean 100 % renewable energy
by 2030, and a
public jobs program.
«We are all products of
quality public schools and can compete anywhere in the world; we are beneficiaries of
quality education from
public schools and we have achieved a lot from the sacrifices made
by previous leaders.
Also included: new money for
public schools and water
quality and several tax changes intended to help New Yorkers negatively impacted
by the new federal tax law.
... 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.
Upper West Success Academy, part of the Success Charter Network group of
schools founded
by former City Councilwoman Eva Moskowitz, says it will provide high -
quality public education options in an overcrowded district.
In 2007, the New York Lawyers for the
Public Interest, acting on behalf of the Bronx Committee for Toxic Free
Schools, a coalition of parents, neighborhood residents and community organizations, successfully sued the
School Construction Authority and the Department of Education for violating the
Public Authorities Law and the State Environmental
Quality Review Act
by not disclosing a Site Management Plan.
«As parents, we are outraged that Success Academy charter
schools can enter a New York City public school building, and without any oversight or approval, rip out potentially dangerous PCB - containing fixtures without taking any environmental precautions,» says the formal complaint to the state by the parents, who are backed by two nonprofit organizations, New Yorkers for Great Public Schools and the Alliance for Quality Edu
schools can enter a New York City
public school building, and without any oversight or approval, rip out potentially dangerous PCB - containing fixtures without taking any environmental precautions,» says the formal complaint to the state by the parents, who are backed by two nonprofit organizations, New Yorkers for Great Public Schools and the Alliance for Quality Educ
public school building, and without any oversight or approval, rip out potentially dangerous PCB - containing fixtures without taking any environmental precautions,» says the formal complaint to the state
by the parents, who are backed
by two nonprofit organizations, New Yorkers for Great
Public Schools and the Alliance for Quality Educ
Public Schools and the Alliance for Quality Edu
Schools and the Alliance for
Quality Education.
Groups like Citizen Action and the Alliance for
Quality Education have long been fighting against tests used to determine if teachers and
schools are effective and are fighting the push
by members of the current
school board for more charter
schools and potentially conversion of some
public schools into charters.
Nixon has worked over the years with the Alliance for
Quality Education, a group heavily funded
by unions that has pushed for more equitable distribution of state aid to
public schools.
«My concern is that independent trials are on the decline and that means we have less high -
quality data to inform
public health that are not influenced
by commercial interests,» says study leader Stephan Ehrhardt, MD, MPH, an associate professor in the Bloomberg
School's Department of Epidemiology.
The
quality of the neighborhood where a child grows up has a significant impact on the number of problem behaviors they display during elementary and teenage years, a study led
by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
School of
Public Health researchers suggests.
Patients who had major surgery at high -
quality hospitals in the U.S. cost Medicare less than those who had surgery at low -
quality hospitals according to a new study led
by Harvard T.H. Chan
School of
Public Health.
Lead report author Kevin Cromar, PhD, director of the Air
Quality Program at the Marron Institute and associate professor of population health and environmental medicine at the NYU
School of Medicine, added, «Metropolitan areas and states with large populations and elevated concentrations of one or both air pollutants would realize the biggest improvements in
public health
by meeting the more protective standards.»
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.
In 2017, the New Mexico
Public Education Department responded to a legislative proposal to implement a charter
school moratorium
by noting, «The families of New Mexico continue to seek alternative,
quality choices for the education of their children.
On the third page of the study, the authors write: «Negative voucher effects are not explained
by the
quality of
public fallback options for LSP applicants: achievement levels at
public schools attended
by students lotteried out of the program are below the Louisiana average and comparable to scores in low - performing districts like New Orleans.»
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 education reform documentary, produced and directed
by Randy Murray and Andrew James Benson, follows twenty of the twenty - nine teachers at a Phoenix, Arizona
public school who set out on a journey toward improving the
quality of their teaching
by attempting to achieve National Board Certification.
Could «former President» Obama use his platform to effect the change so many of our minority students need
by embracing educational opportunity, and access to
quality public, private and charter
schools, over the politics - as - usual of the education establishment?
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.
President Reagan's criticisms of the nation's
schools and his proposals for improving the
quality of education are misleading the American
public and threatening to reverse 20 years of progress made possible
by federal support of education, according to a report
by 19 education and civil - rights leaders.
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.
Charter
schools have the potential to have broader effects on student achievement if traditional
public schools respond to the threat of losing students to charter
schools by improving the
quality of their own education programs.
A
public statement followed
by a series of activities to promote more high -
quality schools could drive improvement from the ground up if state leaders continue to fail to act.
This pattern provides strong evidence that the smaller gains made
by these charter
school students are indeed due to the
quality of the
schools they attend rather than to any unobserved differences between charter
school students and students in traditional
public schools.
The Project on the Next Generation of Teachers at the Harvard Graduate
School of Education is a multi-year research project addressing critical questions about the future of our nation's teaching force
by studying how best to attract, support, and retain
quality teachers in U.S.
public schools.
This research is part of the Project on the Next Generation of Teachers, a multi-year research project addressing critical questions about the future of our nation's teaching force
by studying how best to attract, support, and retain
quality teachers in U.S.
public schools.
The American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) highlighted AVID at a June 21st briefing on Capitol Hill with a presentation
by Rob Gira ~ Executive Vice President ~
Quality ~ Research and Communication ~ from AVID National Center and several panelists representing AVID districts and
schools in Fairfax County Public Schools (VA) ~ Fairfax City Public Schools (VA) and Pinellas Count
schools in Fairfax County
Public Schools (VA) ~ Fairfax City Public Schools (VA) and Pinellas Count
Schools (VA) ~ Fairfax City
Public Schools (VA) and Pinellas Count
Schools (VA) and Pinellas County (FL).
The Project, led
by Professor Susan Moore Johnson, examines issues related to attracting, supporting, and retaining
quality teachers in U.S.
public schools.
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.
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.
It also contains first - person analysis from commentary contributors, such as Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute, and Teaching Ahead: A Roundtable, an interactive project developed
by Education Week Teacher and the Center for Teaching
Quality and featuring teacher - led discussions on America's
public schools.
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 involv
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 invol
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 involv
public schools, and increasing parent and community invol
schools, and increasing parent and community involvement.
Make your voice heard
by tweeting, posting and sharing why you, your students, your teachers, your community and your
school district #LovePublicEducation and why every student in America deserves access to a high -
quality public school.
The 2018 Distance to
School Report analyzes how far students travel to attend
public charter
schools, including
by students» demographics and grade levels and
schools» locations, program offerings, and
quality.
School choice attempts to level the playing field between students of different backgrounds
by making it possible for all families to have access to a city's high -
quality public schools — whether students live near these
schools or not.
Free to students who are admitted
by random lottery, charter
schools offer a
quality public education to the children who otherwise have nowhere to turn.