Sentences with phrase «quality schools available»

Arizona was one of only eight states to receive the highly competitive $ 23.6 million federal grant to increase the number of high quality schools available to disadvantaged students.

NACSA's policy resources provide information that helps stakeholders overcome common authorizing issues and increase the number of high - quality schools available to their students.

Stronger Together, paired with ESSA's charter and magnet school investments, encourages increasing the supply of diverse, high - quality schools available to all students.

Faith and community leaders in New Haven came up with the idea of starting the school in 2008 after listening to scores of community members who were worried about the lack of high - quality schools available in their neighborhoods.

But if you want to address the real - world scenario, one in which millions of underserved youth don't meet those descriptions and don't have a high - quality school available, it's time for school choice advocates to dispense with ideology, engage regulators, and get serious about a policy environment that promotes measurable quality, scale, and access.

«How do we get to a point on this issue where both conservatives and liberals can drop the ideology and ask a simple question, which is what kind of rules, incentives, and programs, what kind of systems, do we need to make every possible quality school available to the most disadvantaged kids?»

For example, a vet assistant with young children may seek out employment in areas that have high quality schooling available for his or her children.

Not exact matches

The mission is to make quality, healthy, delicious food available for home cooks, restaurants, schools, and healthcare facilities.

The NCAA scholarship limitation that went into effect last year means that quality players are available to schools other than Division I juggernauts.

Jean Ronnei, director of school nutrition for the St. Paul Public Schools in Minnesota, said the school district purchased high - quality equipment in bulk to ensure that all designated equipment funds were used effectively when available.

Cuomo said where a person lives affects their quality of life since it can dictate the types of schools available to their children and the types of friends their children are exposed to.

«To the extent that quality seats are not available for students, and you have the opportunity to have a charter school come in and provide quality seats, I think it's incumbent upon us to embrace that.

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.

Since the No Child Left Behind Act went into effect in 2002, more data than ever have been made available on schools, the quality of their teachers, and their student achievement.

«While there is information available about counties in the United States that exceed EPA air pollution standards, there has not been a similar source of information about how that air pollution actually affects the health of people living in those areas,» said lead study author Kevin Cromar, PhD, director of the Air Quality Program at the Marron Institute of Urban Management and assistant professor of population health and environmental medicine at the NYU School of Medicine.

Chelsea Weston, Birmingham City Ladies FC Young Player of the Season 2012, cut the ribbon to the top - quality playing surface, which will be used for training and playing on, and available for students at King Charles I Secondary School, local football clubs and the community.

High quality sponsors will be needed to establish and lead successful schools, however some areas of the country are already struggling to find suitable sponsors, therefore work will need to be carried out to ensure that enough sponsors are available to provide the school places we need.

States should focus on improving the quality of school performance data, and then making that data available to third parties so they can work their magic and offer it to all parents.

These include: commissioning an independent evaluation of how CfE is being implemented «on the ground»; improving the quality of information available on the aspects of CfE that matter, not those that are most «readily measurable»; simplifying and clarifying core guidance on the CfE; giving local authorities a more central role in implementing the curriculum; and creating «stimulating and challenging learning environments» in secondary schools in areas of deprivation.

Despite these differences, the bulk of the available, high - quality evidence on school voucher programs suggests that they do yield positive achievement effects for participating students.

People have been very slow to accept the fact that test scores are only weakly correlated with later life outcomes because it would be so convenient if readily available and relatively inexpensive test scores could capture something as complex as school quality.

Achievement tests are a reasonable proxy for school quality that a regulator could use to decide which schools should be included or excluded from the set of options available to parents.

Long committed to afterschool programming but lacking the capacity to ensure consistency city - wide ~ the district had previously left this programming to individual schools ~ resulting in wide disparities in both the quantity and quality of experiences available to students.

In my view, the available choices should include private, charter, and virtual schools, and just about anything else with the potential to deliver a quality education to kids.

A productive response to that question would not contemplate the merits of «voucher programs» per se but would instead view vouchers as one vehicle among others for growing the number of high - quality individual school choices available to low - income families.

Plaintiffs could also contest the quality of instruction available in their schools generally.

The goal of Louisiana's private school choice policy is to expand over time the number of high quality, free or low - cost schooling options available to low - income families.

The findings, available here, also reveal that poor, minority and less educated citizens are just as informed about school quality as the public as a whole.

Put simply, a principal and leadership team that knows how to use the resources and expertise available to them in ways that maximise the outcomes students can achieve is a key determinant of the success of the school and, in particular, the extent to which teachers can deliver high quality teaching to each and every class.

A country that is serious about its education system and the civil rights of its people should be serious about making all quality school options available to low - income people.

This special report dives into the toolbox available to those looking to boost school quality, approaches that may show promise in specific schools and with particular populations, and the opportunities and challenges posed by the new Every Student Succeeds Act.

Even so, schools still vary greatly in terms of quality and use of technology available to students.

Since my focus is on life and learning at the intersections of the arts and education, there seems to always be considerable work ahead to ensure that high - quality arts learning experiences are available to all through our public schools and out - of - school settings.

I am continually amazed and the quality of workshops, both on - site and virtual, that are available to teachers and school leaders over the summer.

The critical question is whether inspectors visiting the school are able to gather and summarize information about school quality that is not already publicly available.

Maybe, if our corporations and corporate leaders gave our public schools the time, money, and respect they currently lavish on a very few private schools, they would find that a quality education is available to every child — no strings attached.

Making high - quality books and professional development available to schools — including but not limited to Core Knowledge Language Arts — could transform America's elementary schools, and without the controversy that follows most of today's reform efforts.

«One of the gaps that we saw is that there was a lot of attention on the supply side of school quality, making better options available, investing in teacher quality, and so forth, but not a lot of attention is paid to how to help parents navigate those new options or interpret all data that was given to them,» said David Keeling, a co-founder of EdNavigator and the nonprofit's communications chief.

The council's air quality monitoring officer will also be available to provide further information to schools and to lead assemblies.

Therefore, OCR assesses the types, quantity, and quality of programs available to students across a school district to determine whether students of all races have equal access to comparable programs both among schools and among students within the same school.

Technology is available now that can help to monitor the indoor air quality in schools and it is my hope that these small devices, that cost as little as # 200, will put the quality of air being breathed as high up the agenda as the electricity bill.

Since these standards have been introduced the quality of food available in schools has improved as has the nutritional value of the meals.

Recognising a lack of quality resources available to help his school - aged children, Gallen sought an at - home solution for K - 12 students who require additional learning support.

The quality of online assessments available to schools is highly variable.

It has led to a range of high - quality material now being available for schools and individuals.

To promote equity within and across schools, communities should think about how to make these kinds of experiences available to all children in high - quality ways — without undue or unrealistic expense to families.

For society to reap the benefit of quality physical education, the guidelines argue, planners must ensure that it is made available as readily to girls as it is to boys, to young people in school and to those who are not.

for a school designated as improvement / comprehensive, the plan shall, consistent with State law, also include all of the actions set forth in section 6316 (b)(3)(A)(i - x) of the NCLB, 20 U.S.C. section 6316 (b)(3)(A)(i - x)(United States Code, 2006 Edition, Volume 13; Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Stop SSOP, Washington, DC 20402 - 0001; 2008; available at the Office of Counsel, State Education Building, Room 148, Albany, NY 12234), in accordance with a written report by the school quality review team.

What kinds, and quality, of implementation supports and guidance do states, districts, and schools have available to them?

Particularly in urban communities that have few, if any, high - quality public school options, the demand for charters can be significantly higher than there are seats available.