Sentences with phrase «school education champions»

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Education: Wake Forest, on a golf scholarship, where he was the school's first individual NCAA champion, in 1949, then the NCAA individual medalist again in 1950; first ACC champion in 1953

Endlessly dedicated to her involvement with the Slow Foods Miami Chapter, Frans champions initiatives that bring light to the farm - to - table community in Miami, and devotes herself to the education of school children in healthful nutrition and sustainable farming.

I shared blog posts that: offered a plaintive farewell to Michelle Obama, a champion of child nutrition; expressed my deep fears about the fate of hungry kids under President Trump; told you how the current House Freedom Caucus wants to gut school food; introduced you to Trump's Agriculture Secretary, Sonny Perdue; explained that Trump's Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, isn't ending the school lunch program (rumors to the contrary); and analyzed some recent rollbacks to the Obama school meal nutrition standards.

Despite promises by the Mahama administration to champion what he called a progressively free Senior High School initiative, no student received a scholarship for the 2016/2017 academic year, according to the Minister for Education, Matthew Opoku Prempeh.

«For more than 30 years, Robert Jackson has been fighting for New York City's public school children and has championed many causes that have improved education in this city,» UFT President Michael Mulgrew said.

Meanwhile, New York state's newly minted Education commissioner, MaryEllen Elia, champions licensing illegal immigrants to teach in New York's public schools, as well as to practice 52 other regulated professions.

Favored projects of both Democrats and Republicans were left out, including an education tax credit for donors to students at parochial schools (liked by Republicans) and the Dream Act, which would provide state tuition assistance to undocumented immigrants (championed by Democrats).

GOP mayoral candidate Paul Massey is unveiling an education plan that would champion school choice and bring back some Bloomberg - era policies — including reinstating A-to-F report cards to grade public schools.

«He has been a vocal champion for pre-k funding and for additional state aid for education, and a proponent of Community Schools, which put needed health and community services where they have the most impact — inside city school,» said Mr. Mulgrew.

The budget also includes money for several education innovations championed by the governor, among them $ 15 million for Community Learning Schools, an initiative led by the UFT that transforms schools into community hubs that integrate social, health and other seSchools, an initiative led by the UFT that transforms schools into community hubs that integrate social, health and other seschools into community hubs that integrate social, health and other services.

Ravitch has been a critic of education policies championed by Cuomo, including the expansion and protection of charter schools, which the governor says provides choice and opportunity to students in low - income areas.

I am pleased too that there will be additional support for education, bolstered by the  # 918 Pupil Deprivation Grant payment to schools for every child in receipt of free school meals, championed by the Welsh Liberal Democrats and forming part of the budget deal between the Government and two of the opposition parties.

No Child Left Behind was championed as a way for parents to hold schools accountable for the quality of education they deliver.

All the sites Scherr studied have at least one champion who is a member of the physics faculty, and about half have a champion with a partial appointment in the College or School of Education.

For two years running, the Dulux Smarter Spaces initiative has been championing a movement to improve education environments, supporting schools to achieve better learning outcomes through the power of effective use of colour and design.

That's the crux of the matter: IT professionals in schools need to act as champions for digital change, clearly communicating how technology can serve to enrich education practices and empower teachers to deliver more impactful lessons.

Thisyear, beleaguered champions of arts educationwill find their visions finally — if gradually — realized, as the growing conversationabout art education's intrinsic value playsout in partnerships between community artsorganizations and schools.

He is a National School Board Association «20 to Watch» for 2013, Center for Digital Edcuation «Top 40 Innovators in Education» for 2013, SMART Exemplary Educator, Discovery Star Educator, Classroom Champions Teacher, Ron Clark Academy Slide Certified, part of the Remind101 Teacher Advisory Board, and a Flipped Classroom Certification Instructor for Sophia.org.

One of the sorrows of supporting Common Core is that it has estranged many allies who have long championed Hirsch's work, yet do not see the connection, or who — for political, pedagogical, or other reasons — have opted to fight implementation, rather than to insist that schools make good on those words and Hirsch's deeply egalitarian vision of education.

Additionally, 69 % of teachers suggested that it would be helpful for each school to have a lead teacher for financial education who could champion the subject, while 65 % believe that schools need outside support to teach financial education well.

The Department for Education (DfE) has appointed the first ever mental health champion for schools to help raise awareness of young people's mental health.

Or, as Democrats for Education Reform President Shavar Jeffries told Richard Whitmire: «I can't think of anything more potentially harmful to the charter school movement, or anything more antithetical to its progressive roots, than having Donald Trump as its national champion.»

The Republicans who now control the South Carolina House chose a highly symbolic target last month in their quest to pay for local property - tax relief: They killed the cornerstones of a 1984 school - reform program championed by former Gov. Richard W. Riley, now the U.S. Secretary of Education.

In Arkansas, the main education policy initiative championed by the governor is a law that requires all public schools to offer computer science classes.

Its impressive «Schools That Work» series, in which Edutopia throws all of its multimedia resources into detailed coverage of an individual school, recently featured YES Prep, an urban charter - school network often mentioned in the same breath with KIPP, Achievement First, and other «no excuses» schools championed by advocates of test - driven education Schools That Work» series, in which Edutopia throws all of its multimedia resources into detailed coverage of an individual school, recently featured YES Prep, an urban charter - school network often mentioned in the same breath with KIPP, Achievement First, and other «no excuses» schools championed by advocates of test - driven education schools championed by advocates of test - driven education reform.

President Barack Obama and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan have been championing charter schools for months, creating what some advocates believe is the most forceful national momentum to expand the largely independent public schools since the first charter opened nearly 20 years ago.

DeVos has a long history of supporting the kinds of accountability and school - choice policies that a broad swath of the education - reform community has championed over the last two decades.

So, that also extends to I think a deliberate strategy that we have to have a really good cross-section of champions — which might also include champions with particular interests in schooling, such as Indigenous education or special ed.»

«Unfortunately, this is a lesson that needs to be relearned by some of my allies in the education reform movement who champion these independently run public schools.»

Natasha Devon, the government's mental health champion for UK schools, has been axed by the Department for Education (DfE).

A former high school teacher and administrator in a Denver school district, she is a champion of high quality induction programs for novice teachers, research - based professional development opportunities for practicing teachers, and the creation of mutually beneficial partnerships among higher education, K - 12 schools, and communities.

Much of this diaspora is associated with a handful of ideas: the championing of public education as «the civil rights movement of our time»; executive - style leadership; charter schools; and an emphasis on data, especially test scores.

America's outstanding urban charter schools shed light on the subject in a way both vexing and encouraging to Catholic education's biggest champions.

So it's worth noting the sharp left turn by Hillary Clinton and Democrats against education reform and the charter schools she and her husband championed in the 1990s.

Ever since our president - elect nominated school choice champion Betsy DeVos to be education secretary, there's been a vigorous debate amongst us education nerds about the proper way to think about school choice.

Eight proposals envisioned using the community as a classroom to break down barriers between school and society, an idea championed by John Dewey, the great patriarch of progressive education.

Charter schools have been traditionally been seen as an education reform effort championed by conservatives.

I like that DeVos hasn't spent her life in education bureaucracies, is an outspoken champion of all kinds of educational choice, strikes those who've driven Obama - era school reform as an «outsider,» and is a small government conservative.

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Writing in Education Week, school reform champion Robert Pondiscio recently offered a thoughtful and thought - provoking critique of the open letter on educational choice and accountability issued by scholars at the Cato Institute, the Heritage Foundation, the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, the Heartland Institute, and the Center for Education Reform.

The Education Equality Project champions accountability, pay reform, and school choice, while the Broader, Bolder coalition insists we must attend to health care, preschool, and parenting skills if students are to succeed in school.

Councilmember Grosso made an impassioned plea for the expansion of arts and humanities education in our public schools, and issue he firmly will champion this year.

Fast forward to 2017: President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos have championed a plan to provide federal funding for private school voucher systems nationwide, which would funnel millions of taxpayer dollars out of public schools and into unaccountable private schools — a school reform policy that they say would provide better options for low - income students trapped in failing schools.

Writes Ravitch: «For their courage, their integrity, and their intelligence, I add the faculty of Garfield High School to the honor roll as champions of public education.»

The Music Center is recognizing champions for arts education and is looking for nominations of teachers or schools that use art to inspiring learning by Oct. 15.

The NJEA and their champions in the Legislature can not allow the one sector of the public education system that is showing achievement, promise, and hope for students and families to flourish if it can not be controlled by them, so they exert political pressure to stifle the success of charter public schools.

Charter schools are the darling of the education reform movement — Governor Mitch Daniels and many state lawmakers champion charters as one solution to increase «educational opportunities.»

We accomplish our goals by working in hallways across the country — from Congress and the Department of Education to schools and district offices in your community — to improve school climate and champion LGBT issues in K - 12 eEducation to schools and district offices in your community — to improve school climate and champion LGBT issues in K - 12 educationeducation.

And while the overall numbers are somewhat muddled in the data, state officials still reported increasingly white charter schools this year, so much so that the state's Lt. Gov. Dan Forest, a GOP champion of school choice, asked to pull a demographics report from the State Board of Education's agenda in January because it was too negative.

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