Sentences with phrase «school advocates very»

And that would make some charter school advocates very happy.

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Good News v. Milford is very good news indeed for advocates of school vouchers and faith - based organizations (FBOs).

I don't think there's a school food advocate out there who doesn't believe districts are sorely underfunded and under - equipped, the very obstacles which make compliance with the nutritional standards harder.

When our new Agriculture Commissioner, Sid Miller, chose as his very first act in office a bogus «lifting» of a non-existent ban on birthday cupcakes in Texas schools, parents and health advocates around the state were understandably alarmed.

This past January, I and two other food advocates, Barbara Kowalcyk and Nancy Huehnergarth, launched a Change.org petition seeking to keep Chinese - processed chicken out of school lunch programs and to prevent the eventual importation of Chinese - raised and slaughtered chicken into this country, due to our concerns over China's very poor food safety record.

Note: Among the many things I love about San Francisco school food advocate Dana Woldow is how generous she is with her advice and, more importantly, how very practical and straightforward that advice always is.

I graduated from a small high school, where the principal was very much interested in the poor and the hungry, and in public policy; he taught us how to be an advocate for the helpless people in our community and in our state.»

I think it will be a very valuable resource for healthy school advocates.

«Improving our schools, putting New Yorkers back to work, advocating for our city's veterans, fighting for tax equity for co-op and condo owners and preserving our quality of life are the issues that made me want to run for City Council from the very beginning,» Silverstein said in a statement.

But if he means the of right - of - center technocratic tinkering that has crippled school choice programs in Louisiana and Wisconsin, then school choice advocates should be very wary.

Ignoring the harsh realities of racial disparities outside of school is likely to hurt those very children advocates seek to protect.

The upshot, advocates say, is that a voucher system would have very positive effects on society: it would get kids into better schools, give all schools incentives to perform, and promote social equity.

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.

With the nomination of Betsy DeVos — the soon - to - be former chair of the American Federation for Children and a lifelong school - choice advocate — as the next secretary of education, many folks are now trying to understand for the very first time the role vouchers and private school choice play in the reform universe.

School choice advocates should be very wary of the kind of right - of - center technocratic tinkering that has crippled school choice programs in Louisiana and WiscSchool choice advocates should be very wary of the kind of right - of - center technocratic tinkering that has crippled school choice programs in Louisiana and Wiscschool choice programs in Louisiana and Wisconsin.

The original Wellington College has been a very strong advocate of the International Baccalaureate, introducing its programmes throughout its senior school in recent years.

The Advocate: Michael Faulk: Next 3 weeks to be «very, very busy» as pace picks up for new students registering at Central schools http://bit.ly/29WLEhI

To these advocates, the very idea of public oversight of private providers is redundant: market forces will ensure that schools will deliver high quality service because customers — parents just as much as outsourcing public agencies — will otherwise just take their money, and children, elsewhere.

The State Board of Education is proposing some controversial new rules, which some private school advocates say threaten the very existence of some of these schools.

But at the very moment that the children of the land face certain defeat, parents, teachers, the teacher's union (known as the Hartford Federation of Teachers) and other public education advocates rally together to speak out on behalf of their children, the school, the importance of public education and what is right.

Success looks like kids who are extremely well - prepared for secondary school with a very clear understanding of what it takes to go to college, and parents who understand what their children need to get to college and can be strong advocates for them.

Unlike other areas of authorizing practice, authorizers are very hands on (sometimes quite intensively) in the pre-opening process, including directing schools on areas for change, collaborating with school support organizations, providing explicit informational and step - by - step resources for schools, and advocating on behalf of schools when necessary.

This bond is a very minimum of what is needed in SAISD — a bandaid, really — and we should support it while also advocating for a fairer school finance system throughout Texas.

«I think school - choice advocates are going to be a very important player in this race — whether they do that in the (February) primary or later on in the election, I'm not sure.»

You've been an advocate for school choice going back, now, decades, and I think a lot of people would expect that you would be in a place like New Orleans cheering it on, and in fact, something very interesting is happening, You're actually leading what might be described as a little bit of an uprising.

She is very active at her daughter's school and an advocate for her community.

«We are encouraged and hopeful that we will be able to work more closely with the executive branch, whereas in the past that relationship was very strained,» said Scott Richard, executive director of the Louisiana School Boards Association and an advocate for traditional public schools.

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

However, instead of providing Connecticut's teachers, parents and public school advocates with appropriate policies that would support and strengthen public education, Tom Foley has proposed an education plan that appears to be designed by the very same corporate education reform industry groupies that are behind Malloy's ill - conceived education initiatives.

But SURPRISE — thanks to Governor Dannel Malloy's recent action, Achievement First, Inc. and Connecticut's Charter School owners, operators and advocates are celebrating the fact that one of their own has quietly been appointed to Connecticut's State Board of Education, the very state entity that remains responsible for overseeing and regulating charter schools.

Goldberg added, «I was an advocate of school choice from the very beginning, this was not a bad idea.

Five years ago Paul Tractenberg proposed several remedies, including developing «a system of very high - quality regional magnet schools that are good enough to attract students of all races and socioeconomic strata from multiple school districts» as well as creating county - wide districts, something I've advocated in the past.

Although many parents, teachers and public school advocates already know that Governor Dannel «Dan» Malloy is the most anti-teacher, anti-public education Democratic Governor in the nation, Malloy's proposed budget drives the message home in a very big way.

Daniel Fuller, Curator at Atlanta Contemporary says, «be it as an artist, an arts advocate, or at Georgia State University where he served as the School of Art and Design's director for 11 years, there are very, very few people that have meant more to the Atlanta art scene than Larry.

At the same time, however, I've been very concerned about how some advocates of SEL have been promoting it as the cure - all for everything that ails schools and society (see The Best Articles About The Study Showing Social Emotional Learning Isn't Enough and my Washington Post column, The manipulation of Social Emotional Learning).

While all three House candidates have made education a central part of their platforms, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona trusts Ms. Butler to advocate for a very important aspect of children's schooling: comprehensive sex education.

Many advocates consider online databases with easily accessible school rating numbers to be part of a «legal gray area,» one with very little oversight.