Sentences with phrase «school advocates like»

Charter school advocates like Wallace and Melvoin may be trying to lower the heat after the contentious campaign, but other education experts also predicted there won't be a major rush to approve new charter schools in the district.

• Charter - school advocates like to cite their long waiting - list numbers to argue that more such schools are needed.

Charter - school advocates like Gassner - Snyder argue that the choice they provide to parents is worth the cost to local districts, adding that, if parents decide not to send their children to the charters, the schools don't see a dime.

Except, unlike other charter schools, traditional public school advocates like those supporting Nixon are not calling for its closure.

Irvin and Lettre launched CBP, Irvin says, after a fellow guest she'd met at a Washington dinner party asked her how a public - school advocate like himself could find out about charter - school boards that could use his help.

Not exact matches

Along with advocating for better education in schools regarding reading the news, Cook says that companies like Apple have to do their part to walk the line between preventing fake news and censoring free speech.

but if enough real food advocates step up and say «does it really make sense to serve candy and soda at an elementary school function» or «can we encourage parents to send non-food treats for bday celebrations» or better yet, «can you do what you do best and help my child learn to like fresh produce just like you taught him to read?»

Visit helpful sites like one set up by the Military Child Education Coalition, a nonprofit that advocates for military kids in the school system, and the American Academy of Pediatrics Military Child Support site.

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.

My nonprofit, Better School Food (www.betterschoolfood.org) is designed to support those who are advocating for a better food environment, so I get emails like the one from this Lunch Tray reader all the time.

Now advocates have a new tool to help achieve just such a lofty goal: It's called the Good Food Purchasing Policy and after its successful passage in 2012 by the Los Angeles Unified School District and the city of LA, school districts and cities across the country are exploring its possibilities for shaping how public food, like school lunch, is proSchool District and the city of LA, school districts and cities across the country are exploring its possibilities for shaping how public food, like school lunch, is proschool districts and cities across the country are exploring its possibilities for shaping how public food, like school lunch, is proschool lunch, is procured.

If you can't find quality after - school activities near you, contact your school district to advocate for programs you'd like to see.

School food advocates said they like the extra attention these efforts bring to the issue of school food, but they worry it's not eSchool food advocates said they like the extra attention these efforts bring to the issue of school food, but they worry it's not eschool food, but they worry it's not enough.

My reaction can be put no better than school nutrition advocate Ann Cooper: «Trying to get students to consume calcium by drinking chocolate milk is like getting them to eat apples by serving them apple pie.»

As for Diaz - Tello, who has graduated from law school since the birth of her child, she's now working in her own legal practice and with groups like the National Advocates for Pregnant Women to educate moms about what they're going into when they enter the delivery room.

When it comes to childhood nutrition and health, there is one thing school wellness advocates like you have on your side now more than ever: momentum.

While Bettina and I are not SNA members, we are long - time, vocal advocates of healthier school food, and have gotten to know like - minded school food professionals around the nation.

«Trying to get students to consume calcium by drinking chocolate milk is like getting them to eat apples by serving them apple pie,» said Ann Cooper, a leading advocate for healthy school lunches.

The work of school wellness requires only a few annoying advocates like me.

I'm sure that moving funds from one category to another will not be simple, and each school department will try to hold on to their funds like a dog with a pork chop, but I think it's important to see the big picture, and in my view, this big picture would mean that schools will eventually be able to provide FREE healthy food for all children, as Dr. Poppendieck advocates.

In it, writer Sarah Kliff attempts to calm the ruffled feathers of school food reform advocates like myself who are outraged by Congress's watering down of school nutrition standards last week under pressure from food industry lobbyists.

But what you see happening here is just the opposite of what school food experts like Jane Poppendieck have been advocating, which is to make school food free for all students.

I didn't doubt the sincerity of the speakers or the accuracy of the data they presented, but, like many school food advocates, I continue to be disappointed that SNA seeks a roll - back of healthier meal standards as the solution.

In the meantime, while the pending child nutrition legislation in Congress seeks to raise federal reimbursement for school meals by a mere six cents — rather than the one dollar advocated by reformers like Chef Ann — we need to exploit every opportunity to bring more funds to schools.

«This is like asking your kids to eat more apples by giving them apple pie,» said Ann Cooper, a leading advocate for healthy school lunches.

Philip Blonde takes an almost Democratic Republican ideology towards public service reform in advocating using social entreprises to manage schools, hospitals, sure start centres etc, which would be democratically connected to all other schools etc through out the country and collectively elect the central management who allocate budget spending to each and every school etc. http://www.respublica.org.uk/publications/ownership-state It sounds more like a radical libertarian socialist solution to public services than a free market conservative solution to public services.

Alongside immigration activists, Gonzalez and Schneiderman advocated that ICE consider courts «sensitive locations,» such as sanctuary spots like schools, hospitals and places of worship.

Experts have said it is critical for students who are bullied and their parents to have allies at their schools who they can talk to, which is why many advocates have been calling for more guidance counselors and social workers, while some principals have said they'd like to add more school aides to their rosters.

Parents were split on the decision to open city schools, which had drawn some ire from local leaders like Public Advocate Tish James and state Senator Jose Peralta.

Charter school advocates have entered the fray like never before.

Ideas like this are gaining support from advocates given the state's estimated $ 10 billion budget deficit, which could require billions in cuts to schools and health care.

He's an outspoken advocate for suburban interests like property relief — a big focus for his conference this year — and charter schools, which has put him at odds with some fellow Democrats.

This short of the $ 1.5 billion education advocates like the Alliance for Quality Education say is necessary to provide more equitable funding for poorer schools deemed to be in high - needs districts.

ALBANY — Education issues like charter schools and a proposal for an education tax credit could split the State Senate's Democrats, with advocates on both sides of the issues waiting to see whether a proposed reunion of regular and Independent Democrats will come to fruition.

The increase is well short of what education advocates like former Hannibal school teacher and Citizen Action of New York Board Member Bill Spreeter say is needed.

In September, he joined thousands of Bronx families and advocates like me at the #PathToPossible rally in Prospect Park, giving an inspiring speech about the power of a great public education and supporting our effort to grow New York City's public charter schools to 200,000 students by 2020.

Ms. Moskowitz, likening the influential educational network she founded, Success Academy Charter Schools, to revolutionary companies like Apple and Google, said she would rather be an education advocate than a mayoral candidate.

But he had largely refrained from offering charter schools as a key solution to those problems, instead advocating systemic changes like teacher evaluations in traditional public schools.

Charter school teachers need a union for the same reason as other teachers — to have a voice, to be able to advocate for students without fear of losing their jobs, and to be treated like the professionals they are.

Despite the united front of opposition, with studies like Carol Klein's 2006 Virtual Charter Schools and Home Schooling finding high levels of parent satisfaction and student achievement at virtual schools, it is highly unlikely that independent home schoolers and advocates for traditional public schools will be able to stoSchools and Home Schooling finding high levels of parent satisfaction and student achievement at virtual schools, it is highly unlikely that independent home schoolers and advocates for traditional public schools will be able to stoschools, it is highly unlikely that independent home schoolers and advocates for traditional public schools will be able to stoschools will be able to stop them.

Dalton said the Australian Parents Council will continue to advocate for greater parental engagement in schools, particularly regarding issues like NAPLAN and the Australian Curriculum.

The chief executive officer of EducationSuperHighway, a nonprofit group that advocates upgraded Internet access for schools, articulates what many educational technology leaders like to remind educators, policymakers, parents, and students: «Schools don't have the expertise they need to effectively design and implement a network,» says Evan C. Mschools, articulates what many educational technology leaders like to remind educators, policymakers, parents, and students: «Schools don't have the expertise they need to effectively design and implement a network,» says Evan C. MSchools don't have the expertise they need to effectively design and implement a network,» says Evan C. Marwell.

A solution I'd like to see would be a student advocate in every high school that students can come to when they feel they aren't receiving the help they need or feel their rights are in some way being violated.

Until recently, the movement advocating public single - sex education consisted mainly of people such as Ransome and DeBar — girls» advocates steeped in books like Mary Pipher's Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls and Failing at Fairness: How Our Schools Cheat Girls, by researchers Myra and David Sadker.

Senior Lecturer Deborah Jewell - Sherman — like many of the forum's speakers — advocated for a «whole child» approach where all service providers are housed within schools.

Some discussed what it was like, in Hayes» words, «to be the sole advocate for students of color at their school.

The price for having former public officials advocating for school reform is that we must every so often be subjected to a book like this one.

In anticipation of the conference, I spent some time pondering my best arguments for why education advocates should invest their time and political capital in pensions, as opposed to everything else they might want to work on (like Common Core, teacher prep, charter schools, school funding, etc).

ACHPER would like to advocate strongly for HPE as a learning area and other enrichment activities such as sport, dance, outdoor education and evidence - based health programs, to be a crucial element of your school.

Since Donald Trump's election and Betsy DeVos's selection as Secretary of Education put private - school - choice programs in the national spotlight — after years of slow - and - steady growth at the state level — advocates across Twitter and the blogosphere have been offering ideas on what a big push at the federal level might look like.