Title V — to strengthen those state departments of education most in need of helping because the inequality that exists between states is a long - standing problem and funding improvements at that level helps move them closer to fulfilling their responsibility in providing
a quality system of public schools.
Not exact matches
(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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Pennsyl
School District
of Philadelphia, the largest
public school system in the Commonwealth of Pennsyl
school 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.
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 instr
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 instr
schools 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.
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 confi
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 confi
schools to ensure all areas
of a city have
quality schools, and a system that gives parents the information they need to choose schools confi
schools, and a
system that gives parents the information they need to choose
schools confi
schools 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.
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.»
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.
[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.
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.
Published in January 2001 by the Wake Task Force on Teacher Excellence, exploring issues
of quality teaching in the
public schools, this report influenced future work in teacher leadership by WakeEd and the Wake County Public School S
public schools, this report influenced future work in teacher leadership by WakeEd and the Wake County
Public School S
Public School System.
The
public school system has mostly failed to provide those urban minority communities with the same
quality of educational opportunities as their white peers, and in the early 90s policy leaders
of both parties said enough was enough and began to support the charter
school concept:
public schools that would be independent from
school district bureaucracies, free to innovate and more accountable for results.
Fund Education Now grades legislators on their efforts to provide and fund «a uniform, efficient, safe, secure, and high
quality system of free
public schools that allows students to obtain a high
quality education» as outlined in Article IX, section 1
of the Florida Constitution.
A 2012 state law prompted the overhaul
of the state's existing
quality rating
system and required a uniform rating
system for all early childhood programs that receive any
public funding, including private providers, federally funded Head Start centers and pre-K classrooms in
public and private
schools.
Charter
schools are not delivering enough
quality to justify trashing an entire
system of public education that has long served this country well.
Its basic claim was that the American standard
of living was threatened by the loss
of major manufacturing industries — such as automobiles, machine tools, and steel mills — to other nations, which the commission attributed to the mediocre
quality of our
public educational
system; this claim shifted the blame from shortsighted corporate leadership to the
public schools.
Lack
of official centralized information
system inclusive
of comparable information on all
public school quality and options available to families
So she teamed up with other education advocates to sue the state, arguing that Florida is violating its Constitutional obligation to provide «a uniform, efficient, safe, secure, and high
quality system of free
public schools.»