Sentences with phrase «school advocate pointed»

Diane Ravitch, the nation's leading public school advocate pointed out the harsh reality in her blog yesterday, Connecticut Governor Malloy Increases Funding for Charters, Cuts Funding for Public Schools;

Charter school advocates pointed to their schools» impressive results - many outperform neighboring public schools - and lashed out at United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew, who accused them of being «fixated» on raising the state cap.

Meanwhile, state officials reported dropout decreases in large school systems such as Charlotte - Mecklenburg Schools and Wake County Schools, although some public school advocates point out that may only indicate state funding shortfalls will have the least impact on school systems with the resources to blunt the damage.

Not exact matches

From his vantage point as president of Harvard, Bok analyzes the dilemmas of liberal education, showing how its coexistence with the demands of professional schools in times of change and uncertainty requires its advocates to set it on a sound course.

That said, advocates also need to work on their talking points about what school food should look like and how we realistically get there in a world where most people don't seem to care.

However, at a certain point, if your school food service top folks are taking the attitude that they can't afford to provide enough fresh fruits and veggies to meet student demand, parents and other advocates will need to push back.

* School food advocate Dana Woldow pointed out in a comment on TLT that the sugar in Jamie's school bus «represents the sugar available to the 650,000 kids in the LAUSD, a population large enough to fill 7 stadiums (stSchool food advocate Dana Woldow pointed out in a comment on TLT that the sugar in Jamie's school bus «represents the sugar available to the 650,000 kids in the LAUSD, a population large enough to fill 7 stadiums (stschool bus «represents the sugar available to the 650,000 kids in the LAUSD, a population large enough to fill 7 stadiums (stadia?)

Although school meal programs have long provided nourishment to children whose families couldn't afford much food, the meals provided by schools and grant programs are — as health advocates point out — not the healthiest approach to eating.

The fact that Bloomberg avoiding being critical of the Assembly Democrats on the charter school cap issue even as the pro-charter advocates have placed the blame squarely on that chamber and its cozy relationship with the teachers union, further proves the point.

Pointing to more than $ 40 million owed to local schools in the 43rd Council District, including $ 4 million owed to his own alma maters P.S. 185 and J.H.S. 259, Brannan has mounted an online social media campaign calling on parents and educators to see education dollars owed to individual schools using a new database created by advocates.

Advocates of the DeVos agenda point to polling showing «school choice» is popular with Americans in the abstract.

We joined together to build a broad coalition of public health, environmental and healthy schools advocates to successfully secure this critical foundation to protect children and point the way to future actions.

(Advocates for the bill, chiefly the Catholic Church, argued that there was no point of passing it in the Senate when it wouldn't succeed in the Democratic - led Assembly, where union - allied lawmakers argue the tax credit is a voucher that drains funds from public schools in favor of privates.)

Washington County Sheriff Jeff Murphy, who is a strong advocate for SROs in his county, pointed out: «Sadly, many times when law enforcement arrives at the scene of a school shooting, everything is over and all the police officers can do is help the survivors.

Advocates point to the 2003 Campaign For Fiscal Equity Lawsuit where an appellate court judge found the State allows public schools to go «chronically underfunded.»

If school systems are to build viable pathways that don't necessarily end with a bachelor's degree, all children must be informed, fully and early, about their options, some advocates point out.

Only empowered and informed parents, responsible and transparent government oversight, and vigilant and powerful advocates can keep schools pointed toward excellence.

Admitting that students with a 3.2 grade point average were not in the top half of their class at the high school — and that more than 140 students in the school had over a 4.0 average — a superintendent in our region recently advocated dropping class rank.

And the beauty of expanding school choice is that it generates its own advocates as families that benefit from these programs lobby to protect and expand their choices.We are almost at the point where ed reform organizations don't have to do very much other than to coordinate choice families pushing for more choices.

As scholar Bruce Fuller points out, charter school proponents need «a devil's advocate, a loyal opposition,» a role played by the RAND Corporation and by academics like Fuller himself.

Moe happily conceded the point, noting that schools occupy the bottom rung of «a democratic hierarchy,» reminding the audience why he has long advocated for choice - based reform.

Ms. Seebach does point out at least one change that AFT president Randi Weingarten is advocating — community schools.

In coursework from kindergarten through high school, students are pushed to understand others» experiences and points of view and to advocate for their own beliefs.

Some charter school advocates will surely point to the new study as yet more evidence that public school districts should be replaced by a more decentralized approach to education, with a greater emphasis on charter schools.

School choice opponents have seized on these findings as evidence that these programs are ineffective and even harmful while advocates point out that Louisiana is heavily regulated, the first few years of an evaluation tell only the worst part of a story (i.e. there are transition effects), and that we should be careful about a heavy - handed focus on test scores.

The New Orleans Advocate New Orleans school graduation rate slides nearly 6 points in five years; officials eye solutions as progress plateaus

Ball points to out - of - state school choice proponent Public School Options as an instigator in a campaign to advocate the state's controversial online charter school, operated by private for - profit company K12 Inc., that's been «troubled by high dropout rates and flagging academic numbers in its first two years of operation.&school choice proponent Public School Options as an instigator in a campaign to advocate the state's controversial online charter school, operated by private for - profit company K12 Inc., that's been «troubled by high dropout rates and flagging academic numbers in its first two years of operation.&School Options as an instigator in a campaign to advocate the state's controversial online charter school, operated by private for - profit company K12 Inc., that's been «troubled by high dropout rates and flagging academic numbers in its first two years of operation.&school, operated by private for - profit company K12 Inc., that's been «troubled by high dropout rates and flagging academic numbers in its first two years of operation.»

All advocates of data - based decision making and multi-tier systems of support (MTSS) emphasize the importance of having more than one data point when considering a student's school performance.

The same analysis for secondary schools shows grammar schools, academically selective at age 11, are by far the most biased towards more affluent pupils -LRB--98.8 percentage points)-- suggesting they aren't quite the «engines of social mobility» some grammar school advocates say they are.

«Education infrastructure on the K - 12 side tends to be in this sort of no - man's land,» says Filardo, who points out that many education advocates tend to focus on school personnel and in - school interventions but not the school itself.

Charter school supporters and advocates frequently point to the broad choices that families have when seeking a school in New Orleans, where most of the 82 public schools are charters and most accept applications from across the city.

But researchers and advocates for the poor have pointed to loopholes in Title I funding that effectively allow affluent schools to operate at higher levels of funding than low - income schools.

This web essay will focus on one branch of this complicated system, elementary magnet schools, because elementary education is a pivotal point in an individual's academic trajectory, and because magnet schools are a trademark of the school choice system and are greatly emphasized by many school choice advocates.

Advocates point to successes, such as the Montgomery County, Maryland, school district, which claims measurable, albeit modest, academic improvements, at least in the short term, in reading and math for low - income elementary - school students sent to predominantly middle - class schools through a program of dispersed low - income housing.

Advocates point to «zero tolerance» policies — which automatically impose predetermined punishments for certain types of student misconduct — as another major factor contributing to the school - to - prison pipeline.

TCTA pointed to the significant research based supporting the effectiveness of quality mentoring programs in retaining teachers and contributing to student success in advocating that state support of local school district quality mentoring programs be added as an additional strategy for state use of Title II funds.

In terms of concrete alternatives, advocates point to models that focus on improving relationships within the school building.

Each day of NCSW, schools, educators, advocates and thought leaders produced a combo of thousands of stories, data points and reflections about the role charters have played in transforming how public education works.

If «proficient» and «highly proficient» are achievement labels that should be reserved for students likely to go to a four year college or university, then education reform advocates have never effectively made that case to the public, preferring instead to point to the results on state testing that have been designed with this specific result in mind and declaring themselves correct about how poor a job our nation's schools are doing.

I replied to Alex Quigley's post on this very point just today... A few of us were advocating this years ago in school.

Several years ago, Wendy Lecker also pointed to what appeared to be «double standards» in evaluating charter and other public schools in her column at The Stamford Advocate.

These incentives might include additional per - pupil funding for each transfer student, construction funds to make more space available, funds to recruit and employ on - site advocates and mentors to ensure the social comfort and the pedagogic progress of these students, and funds to underwrite their transportation by the same convenient means that wealthy people use to transport their children to private schools — not by circuitous and exhausting bus routes, but rather by point - to - point travel, typically in small vans, from one specific urban neighborhood to one specific school or district.

Or even more to the point, here Perry explains that the controversial CREDO report on charter schools was put out by the teacher unions when in fact it was paid for by the charter school advocates including the ultra-conservative Walton Family Foundation.

Case in point: in the June 2016 school board elections in Riverside County, CCSA Advocates supported Barbara Hale, a former teacher who became a principal at Sycamore Academy, a TK - 8 charter school in Wildomar.

(The Advocate, Monday, May 9, 2016 p. 1B) He also commented about «union - created deadlock where only ineffective and possibly abusive teachers would benefit,» pointing to the infamous «rubber rooms» associated with New York public schools — «temporary reassignment centers where union - represented teachers accused of misconduct or incompetency have been sent while they await rulings from independent arbitrators.»

At one point during the meeting a district advocate said, «Charter schools are different from public schools,» and then she immediately self - corrected to say, «Well, charter schools are public schools, but they're different from district schools.»

Advocates of vocational schools point to the extensive on - paper benefits of vocational schools.

Meanwhile, advocates point out racial disparities in school discipline are not isolated to Wake County.

The Virginia Index of Performance (VIP) program awards points to schools and divisions based on the percentage of students achieving at the advanced level on Standards of Learning assessments and progress made toward educational goals advocated by Governor Kaine and adopted by the Board as part of its comprehensive plan for further strengthening public education in the Commonwealth.

Use NSBA's talking points to advocate your local school board's support for early childhood education.