Sentences with phrase «school expansion efforts»
The program proposed in my Executive Budget was targeted to the district to augment the district's summer school expansion efforts.
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The resolution would bring awareness to the efforts already underway in restaurants, schools, and cafeterias across the city to provide meat free meals on Mondays, and it would call on an expansion of those efforts city - wide.
Children's Hunger Alliance consults with local school districts to improve access to breakfast and can also provide financial grants to support expansion efforts.
Nonprofits and schools can embrace new provisions included in the 2010 child nutrition reauthorization law — the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act — that support summer food expansion and outreach efforts.
UFT President Michael Mulgrew said that efforts in the state Senate to tie mayoral control of the New York City school system to an expansion of charter schools is «a load of crap.»
The independent expenditure effort was heavily supported by charter school supporters like Paul Singer, a wealthy hedge - fund manager and investor who supports charter school expansion, as well Daniel Loeb, a director at Success Academy and Dan Senor, a former Bush administration official who is married to former CNN anchor Campbell Brown, a critic of teacher tenure.
«There is no more important effort than the protection and expansion of the rights and liberties of the people,» said Richard Brodsky, a political scientist at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and a former assemblyman who is working with other groups supporting a convention.
Prevention efforts in his proposal include expansion of a Staten Island school prevention program Citywide, creation of a «Synthetics Task Force» with federal, state and city law enforcement and «develop [ing] clearer standards for prescribing opioids.»
Mr. de Blasio argued that his expansion of universal prekindergarten and his efforts to fund struggling schools would not have been possible without mayoral control.
ALBANY — The head of the city teachers union dismissed as «a load of crap» state Senate GOP efforts to tie the renewal of a law granting Mayor de Blasio control over the city school system to an expansion of charter schools.
Millennium Principal Robert Rhodes is spearheading the effort to expand his school, and Community Board 1's Youth and Education Committee voted unanimously in support of the expansion last week.
The city's language access expansion efforts are a significant step that will help notably reduce language gaps in our schools.
Provided through the Education Funding Agency, CIF is designed to address health and safety issues in school buildings, as well as supporting expansion projects and efforts to improve energy efficiency.
These groundbreakers support innovative efforts so that schools and other educational institutions contribute to peace, progress, social development, developing opportunity, understanding and the expansion of all human capabilities and talents.
At least two well - recognized Bay Area management organizations have recently decided against further expansion for the time being, and are instead starting consulting efforts or creating structured professional - development workshops and materials for district - run schools.
In the final year of the project, we will use data from the experiments to scale - up the most cost - effective version of the READS program.The project has three phases: Phase 1 Validation, which includes testing READS in several districts including DPS and an effort to increase the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of the program; Phase 2 Validation, which involves expansion into more districts and many more schools and testing the cumulative impact of READS across summers; and Phase 3 Scale - Up, which involves expansion into 20 more districts.
Accountability systems have worked well with other reforms — such as effective choice policies, the expansion of early - childhood - education and other school - readiness programs, and efforts to improve the teaching force through evaluation and tenure reform — to improve education for children around the country.
Whatever the inadequacies of the engagement efforts, shouldn't we focus our criticism first and foremost on those elected officials, union leaders, and activists who were pursuing a strategy of deception and vitriol — who woke up every day seeking to thwart positive change for kids, seeking to prevent the expansion of schools that were getting outsized success for children, seeking to undermine policies designed to increase equitable access to the district's better schools, seeking to gum up efforts to empower parents with choice, and seeking to thwart all efforts aimed at fostering an honest conversation about which educators were truly superlative and which were badly underserving children?
But unlike the RSD in the Bayou State — which has over eighty schools statewide — the EAA is so far a more modest effort, responsible for just fifteen schools, all in Detroit, with further expansion stymied.
PAA opposes efforts to privatize public education through the expansion of charters, vouchers or other privately - run programs at the expense of regular public schools.
On tap for 2014: With the cap gone on the number of charter schools that can exist in the state, expect more charter operators to look toward North Carolina as fertile ground for expansion efforts.
Republican House lawmakers successfully banded together Tuesday morning in an effort to block a proposal put forward by school voucher champion Rep. Paul «Skip» Stam that would have set up the state's new school voucher program for expansion.
ProgressNow, by the way, was one of the key players in ousting school reform - minded Michigan legislator Paul Scott from his statehouse seat earlier this month and has decried Gov. Rick Snyder's efforts to allow for the expansion of charter schools and school choice....»
The group, Florida Federation for Children, spent $ 420,000 statewide in electioneering efforts seeking to defeat incumbents who opposed expansion of Florida school voucher program.
As I have noted, stronger standards alone aren't the only reason why student achievement has improved within this period; at the same time, the higher expectations for student success fostered by the standards (along with the accountability measures put in place by the No Child Left Behind Act, the expansion of school choice, reform efforts by districts such as New York City, and efforts by organizations such as the College Board and the National Science and Math Initiative to get more poor and minority students to take Advanced Placement and other college prep courses), has helped more students achieve success.
This is why movement conservatives not engaged in education discussions are naturally be more - supportive of measures such as the expansion of school choice (because they conform to their views that markets and private actions by families should be the deciding forces in education) than of other reform efforts that seem to involve what they may perceive more - robust federal or state government roles, or involve what they consider to be an abrogation of roles they think should be in the hands of families or local governments.
In her past and present roles she has been successful at developing strategic school - wide plans related to school improvement, assessment transformation, expansion of curriculum and turnaround school efforts.
Bobby Jindal's Push for Choice: While Dropout Nation has devoted plenty of space to reform efforts in other states, it hasn't taken as much notice as it should about what is happening in Louisiana outside of the Recovery School District effort in New Orleans, which has been the epicenter of the expansion of charter schools and school cSchool District effort in New Orleans, which has been the epicenter of the expansion of charter schools and school cschool choice.
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Apparently, Hess ignores the decade of research on other issues — from the expansion of school choice, to teacher quality reform efforts, to even the work on the academic prospects of high - achieving students being conducted by Fordham and other outfits — as well as the focus of state and federal policymaking on such matters as bullying and using schools to combat childhood obesity.
Instead of simply reflecting on the heroism of teachers and school leaders such as Sandy Hook Elementary School principal Dawn Hochsprung (who was slain while protecting a child from the murderous rampage of Adam Lanza), Ravitch decided to spend much of the piece defending tradtitionalist thinking, as well as arguing against Nutmeg State Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform efforts (including the expansion of charter schools, Ravitch's bogeyman of school leaders such as Sandy Hook Elementary School principal Dawn Hochsprung (who was slain while protecting a child from the murderous rampage of Adam Lanza), Ravitch decided to spend much of the piece defending tradtitionalist thinking, as well as arguing against Nutmeg State Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform efforts (including the expansion of charter schools, Ravitch's bogeyman of School principal Dawn Hochsprung (who was slain while protecting a child from the murderous rampage of Adam Lanza), Ravitch decided to spend much of the piece defending tradtitionalist thinking, as well as arguing against Nutmeg State Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform efforts (including the expansion of charter schools, Ravitch's bogeyman of school reform efforts (including the expansion of charter schools, Ravitch's bogeyman of late).
After all, Obama has until recently made a compelling case thanks to efforts such as Race to the Top, which has managed to force states to lift or modify restrictions on the expansion of charter schools, and allow for the use of student test score growth data in teacher evaluations.
Upon moving to Atlanta, Waynica worked with The Influence1 Foundation as Program Development Manager, leading the expansion efforts of the Tennessee based organization as they worked to replicate their dual charter school / community development model.
Those efforts appear to have had their intended impact: during the last four years, the DC PCSB approved the expansion of 31 high - performing schools.
Due to the tireless efforts of our young people and allies, Fresno Unified is investing millions of dollars in social emotional supports & counselors, an expansion of their safe & civil schools program and student mentoring programs.
In an effort toward conciliation, the Christie Administration appears to have signaled that it's prepared to limit charter school expansion to chronically failing urban districts.
We oppose efforts to privatize public education through the expansion of charters, vouchers or other privately - run programs at the expense of regular public schools.
(Ill.) The Chicago Public Schools board of education approved the expansion of a collaborative city effort last week that's been shown to reduce crime along the routes children regularly take to get to and from school.
In addition to making huge amount of money, TFA is about advocating and lobbying for «education reforms» that include a variety of anti-teacher positions including the excessive use of standardized testing, the expansion of charter schools and efforts to end tenure and seniority.
Any effort at any large - scale expansion of charter schools within LA Unified is a signal that whoever is behind that expansion is purposely and intentionally trying to bring about the end of this district.»
As you consider where to locate your new school site, we encourage you to let TCSA assist you in your expansion and new school development efforts.
«Ravitch decided to spend much of the piece defending traditionalist thinking, as well as arguing against Nutmeg State Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform efforts (including the expansion of charter schools, Ravitch» s bogeyman of late).»
The Empowerment Parents Want: A Real, Effective Voice in our Children's Education As corporate efforts to privatize and capitalize on public education are increasingly being exposed as ineffective and damaging, the wealthy sponsors of these controversial strategies — e.g. school closings, turnarounds, charter school expansion — have been attempting to re-brand them as «parent empowerment.»
As corporate efforts to privatize and capitalize on public education are increasingly being exposed as ineffective and damaging, the wealthy sponsors of these controversial strategies — e.g. school closings, turnarounds, charter school expansion — have been attempting to re-brand them as «parent empowerment.»
From opposing the expansion of high - quality charter schools and other school choice options, to its opposition to Parent Trigger laws and efforts of Parent Power activists in places such as Connecticut and California, to efforts to eviscerate accountability measures that hold districts and school operators to heel for serving Black and Brown children well, even to their historic disdain for Black families and condoning of Jim Crow discrimination against Black teachers, both unions have proven no better than outright White Supremacists when it comes to addressing the legacies of bigotry in which American public education is the nexus.
The rationale for the expansion effort is based on the report's assertions that charters do a better job of educating children than traditional public schools.
Same for the District of Columbia, where reform efforts, including the overhaul of the traditional district as well as the expansion of school choice, has also yielded fruit.
(Va.) Districts and charter schools should begin collaborating now on issues such as accountability and turnaround efforts, especially as school choice expansion quickly comes closer to becoming a reality, according to new guidance.
Students, parent activists and teachers took the stage to celebrate the defeat of Ballot Question 2, which called for a lift to the statewide cap on charter school expansion — a victory that Massachusetts Teachers Association President Barbara Madeloni said quashed efforts to privatize public education.
We'd rather see that money go back into the schools and support their expansion efforts.