Sentences with phrase «school seats we support»

In line with our vision, the new seats these schools create are intended for children of all backgrounds, as will any future new school seats we support.

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According to a new Washington Post - Schar School poll, 50 % of likely voters support Jones and 47 % support Moore in their race to fill a Senate seat most recently vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

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The race for Skelos» former state Senate seat in Nassau County has turned into a proxy war between charter - school advocates, who support Republican Chris McGrath, and teachers unions, which back Democrat Todd Kaminsky.

«They want to focus on Washington instead of the fact that she supported the use of taxpayer money to cover up sexual harassment and abuse in the State Assembly, she approved of seating Hiram Monserrate in the State Senate even though he slashed his girlfriend in the face and caused a wound so deep it required 20 stitches to close and she wrote the law that sent $ 373 million in Westchester's state school aid to New York City.»

Multimillionaire commodities trader Adam Haber, who's trying to buy a State Senate seat, raised school taxes, opposed the property tax cap, and supports holding legislation ensuring equal pay for women hostage so that non-doctors can perform late term / partial birth abortions.

A high school student with labor support is challenging former Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino for his seat on the fractious Buffalo school board, saying it desperately needs «some adult behavior.»

With control of the Buffalo School Board at stake — or perhaps no five - member majority emerging — candidates already are scrambling for support in the May 3 election in which the six district seats on the nine - member board will be up for grabs.

«During this process we will work individually with every student and family to ensure they have a seat at a higher - performing school where they will receive the instruction and support they need to succeed.»

«Parents want to let legislators know they support the governor's proposal to allow charters to provide high - quality pre-K seats,» he added, referring to Cuomo's recent proposal that much - needed city pre-K space could be found in charter schools.

A small group of Democratic Party leaders chose Alice Cancel Sunday as the Democratic candidate who will vie for Silver's seat in a special election on April 19 — but some are calling her candidacy a win for the same old - school power brokers that supported the disgraced Silver.

They supported NYSUT members who ran for school board seats, and they won.

And Carl Paladino, the former Republican gubernatorial candidate with whom the board's majority typically sides, narrowly held onto his seat by a margin of just 107 votes against union - supported high school student Austin Harig, according to preliminary numbers.

One of the candidates for her seat, veteran public school teacher Daniel Dromm, has already won the support of the United Federation of Teachers and says he will run no matter what.

Once again, the political winds on the Buffalo School Board are shifting, with Tuesday's election putting an end to the current majority and replacing it with a new one backed by the teachers union.Candidates supported by the Buffalo Teachers Federation nearly swept this year's races, unseating two incumbents and handily taking three of the other seats up for grabs.

On topic question topics included the mayor's proposed $ 20 million allocation for arts programs and whether this is all new spending, whether it's typical for elementary schools to have arts teachers, the mayor's proposed $ 4.4 billion capital spending to address classroom overcrowding, how many new classroom seats that spending would produce and where they would be located, whether all trailers used by schools would be eliminated, the definition of «problematic behavior» used in dealing with the Absent Teacher Reserve, what the state funding to be used for middle school after school programs would have otherwise been used for and DoE support for schools that will participate in the program providing increased school autonomy.

His resolution would support the Board's request to reserve 17 percent of seats for «traditional» Buffalo Public Schools applicants in an effort to «remedy imbalances.»

Questions asked included whether Cardinal Dolan supports the income tax surcharge that is part of the mayor's plan, what the 1,700 seats offered by the Archdiocese are currently used for, pending education tax credit bills, how the mayor expects to get his pre-K plan approved despite continuing disagreement with Governor Cuomo, guidelines governing church / state separation, how enough sufficiently - credentialed teachers can be in place for September and whether the pressure over his charter school actions is causing Mayor de Blasio to change his views.

The Democratic Party and California need your efforts as we work to take our country back, elect a Democratic Congress, and support Democratic candidates for City Council and School Board seats.

I am committed to devolving more powers and funding to schools, and empowering teachers and head teachers to ensure that they are in the driving seat of school improvement in Scotland, supported by parents and children and young people themselves.

Plenty of people disagree with Gauthier — the National PTA and the American Academy of Pediatrics support school seat belt laws — and Alan Ross, president of the National Coalition for School Bus Safety, says getting kids in the habit of buckling up every day can save their lives latschool seat belt laws — and Alan Ross, president of the National Coalition for School Bus Safety, says getting kids in the habit of buckling up every day can save their lives latSchool Bus Safety, says getting kids in the habit of buckling up every day can save their lives later on.

Visualize a classroom with long bench - like seats that are set up around work tables and where there is no teacher desk — a place where the teacher uses a process called Q U E S T and BYOD to support middle school students in understanding what topics in the curriculum are important to them.

Additional resources to support class size reduction acknowledge the deep - seated inequities at the core of Australian schooling, but would not be enough.

There are at least adaptations on the market for schools and the home if budgets are limited, so furniture can be adapted to encourage more productive happier studying, be it seat wedges for improved posture or sloping writing surfaces to support paper.

Philanthropic foundations that support education causes are interested in serving as many poor and minority children as possible; when 30 % to 40 % of a student body is made up of white or affluent students, the school is deemed suspect, as reform - minded foundations see such programs as «wasting» a third of their seats.

How can we support leaders who challenge providing schools with funding based on seat time, and seek to change that funding formula?

All told, these partner schools have committed themselves to providing over 5,975 new school seats, and as a collective have garnered commitments of about $ 12.75 million in direct grant support from the J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Family Foundation.

Bluum, with the support of the J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Family Foundation, is committed to helping create new, high - performing seats in schools that are ready, willing, and able to serve the state's growing and increasingly - diverse student demographic.

Now that we know where to find the quality seats — and the quality deserts — the Association is better positioned to develop a strategic plan that will support our state's efforts to increase access to quality charter schools, especially for children in underserved communities.

Policymakers can support and incentivize these types of evidence - based professional development models by providing more personalized models of professional development that move beyond teachers» «seat time» to models that promote active learning and that take place within teachers» classrooms, considering the context of one's students, classroom, and school.

Local decision makers can support and incentivize these types of evidence - based professional development models by providing more practice - based models of professional development that move beyond teachers» «seat time» to models that promote active learning and take place within teachers» schools, considering the context of their respective students, classrooms, and school site goals.

The four incumbents who lost, combined with Tuesday's election of Empower Mississippi supporter Joel Bomgar to a House seat in Madison County, could clear the way for broader legislation supporting charter schools and state aid to parents who want to send their children to private schools...

Austin, who has been working in education reform for two decades, said it is a unique time in LA Unified's history with the election of a pro-reform majority of the school board who won their seats without the support of an incumbent mayor.

Bluum, with the support of the J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Family Foundation, is committed to helping create 20,000 new, high - performing school seats, by 2024.

It goes on to say that school staff and the district choice office will attend to answer questions, «reserve your student's seat next year», and hear from you about your ideas and needs to support a positive transition for your child's success.»

Without a candidate who had overwhelming support and with three newly elected School Board members being seated this month, the board opted to close that search.

This new fund supports Fund I portfolio schools in continuing to raise their performance and aims to create 12,000 to 15,000 more seats in high - achieving schools.

It is far more important to provide adequate funding and support for local schools who promote community cohesion, than to remove a select few from their community during school hours, and assume that this will magically address the deep seated problems in less affluent communities.

E3 Rochester seeks to bring together and support Rochester (NY) charter schools in collaborative efforts aimed toward increasing the number of high - quality public school seats available for our community's children.

As Managing Director of School Support, Katie is responsible for coaching leaders and leadership teams in pursuit of increasing the number of high quality seats for students in New Orleans.

In the legislature, where term limits have opened many seats, we have the opportunity to create a legislature that supports school choice and high - performing charter schools.

Austin, TX, March 28, 2015 — Crowds of charter school students, teachers, parents and supporters rallied at the seat of the Texas legislature on Wednesday to demonstrate support for public charter schools in Texas.

With those three seats in play, foes and supporters of charter schools alike will be fighting to solidify their side's support on the board.

Sanchez, who worked in Villaraigosa's office and then for the L.A. Federation of Labor, has the mayor's support, but he's far from ready for a seat on the school board.

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«Our system, which forces thousands of kids and their families to fight year - after - year to secure state support for their existing seat in their public school, is fundamentally broken,» said Jeremiah Grace, Connecticut state director for the Northeast Charter Schools Network (NECSN).

The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation has a history of supporting charter schools, hoping to «increase the number of academically strong seats in charter networks that serve students of color and low - income populations» («Charter School Growth Fund»).

Because of this demand for education (and in response to decreased state financial support), many veterinary schools have increased the number of available seats in their programs.

As state support of veterinary schools has diminished, veterinary colleges are increasing the number of seats to increase revenue, and 50 % of current seats are for non-residents, and have higher tuition rates.

At the Freemen's School in Ashtead, the columns stay the same depth all the way down, becoming a wonderful louvre feature that is used to support seating.