Sentences with phrase «school space policy»

As with so many fights between the charter sector and City Hall, the current dispute appears to be largely philosophical, rather than specifically focused on school space policy.

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Del Rio is a leader in the fight against the Department of Education policy barring religious congregations from renting Sunday space in public schools.

The policy ---- which allows religious groups to continue accessing school space for non-worship activities ---- is currently under court challenge and not being enforced.

Moskowitz wrote that the city's Department of Education promised to find space for eight new Success schools by June 30, a deadline the Panel for Educational Policy will miss.

«Outstanding issues include under - investment in school technology infrastructure, significant inequities in allocation of Fair Student Funding dollars, disparities in gifted and talented education, resistance to training and support for new learning devices like tablets, inaction on liberalizing school space usage policy for community - based organizations, and poor community notification on significant changes to school utilization,» Adams said.

«Policies like this not only reflect the city's values of fairness and justice but they also underscore the importance of ensuring that our schools remain safe spaces for our children.»

The suit claimed also that the «outsider restriction policy» effectively is «entrenched segregation» that makes it hard for low income New Yorkers to move to neighborhoods with high quality schools, green space and better jobs.

No issue better crystallizes the unwillingness of progressive politicians in New York to confront religious bigotry squarely than the ongoing legal battle over the Department of Education's policy barring religious congregations from renting space in schools.

Cabrera, who is a longtime foe of marriage equality and a leader in the effort that recently overturned the public schools» policy against church congregations using their space for worship services, has for years worked with the Family Research Council, an organization condemned as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

That's the outlook from John Logsdon, a leading space policy expert and professor emeritus of political science and international affairs at the Space Policy Institute within George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affspace policy expert and professor emeritus of political science and international affairs at the Space Policy Institute within George Washington University's Elliott School of International Afpolicy expert and professor emeritus of political science and international affairs at the Space Policy Institute within George Washington University's Elliott School of International AffSpace Policy Institute within George Washington University's Elliott School of International AfPolicy Institute within George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs.

Director Dot Harris, Office of Economic Impact and Diversity at the Department of Energy, will be on the line with Dr. Rebecca Spyke - Keiser, Associate Deputy Administrator for Strategy and Policy at NASA; Jill Fuss, Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Stephanie Stilson, Engineer at Kennedy Space Center and NASA Headquarters, and a class at Andrew Jackson Middle School in Titusville, Florida, to discuss ways to find role models for young people in STEM fields and answer questions from students and the general public about STEM careers.

Educators can create the spaces for this youth - driven work in schools, communities, and even policy settings — helping to support young people as both knowledge creators and knowledge consumers.

John T. Benson did not lose his job as state schools chief in the recent shake - up of Wisconsin's education - policy structure, but he may soon be looking for new office space.

Though Proposition 39 compels districts to provide facilities for students within their boundaries who attend charter schools, districts can make the policy inconvenient for charter operators by offering short - term leases and multiple, separate spaces for a single school.

As a result of those hearings in 1992, former Massachusetts Governor William Weld created the first - in - the - nation Governor's Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth and released a groundbreaking report making policy recommendations for how to make Massachusetts schools safer educational spaces for LGBT youth.

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TIE was ideal — it equips you to take advantage of the enormous space for innovation in education; to engage with international leaders in the field; to gain a deep understanding of education policy, leadership practices, school cultures, and student and teacher needs; to build invaluable contacts.

For Glodie and Ny» lasia, that performance — and the public hearing space they created — was a chance to push for school discipline policies that were more culturally responsive.

The consensus appears to be that these higher levels of performance have less to do with policy than with everything else: the «ecosystem» of reform in a given place (usually a city) and its network of «human - capital providers,» expert charter - management organizations, leadership - development programs, school - incubator efforts, local funders and civic leaders, etc. — in other words, what conservatives like to call «civil society»: the space between the government and the individual (in this case, between government and individual schools).

introducing a policy that requires each school to have at least a prescribed minimum amount of physical activity equipment, facilities and outdoor spaces

Amongst the report's policy recommendations calling for action on play from the Department for Education, the API has asked for: «Children's health and wellbeing to be prioritised with suitable availability of outdoor play spaces for early year's children, schools and communities.»

Jimmy Casas, a high school principal from Bettendorf, Iowa, who attended the summit, predicts that meeting the #FutureReady challenge will require an expansion in «student - led initiatives that give students a voice in curriculum offerings, school policies, design of classroom and other learning spaces, lesson / unit design, student - led conferences and feedback on teacher effectiveness in the classroom.»

At the same time, he announced that some public charter schools would no longer get free space in public - school buildings — a policy change that charter - school advocates took as a declaration of war.

Its tight controls on entry into the charter space have come to typify the authorizing process in many states — and have given rise to a number of the country's best - performing schools and networks of any type, including Success Academy in New York City, Achievement First in Connecticut, Brooke Charter Schools in Boston, and the independent Capital City Public Charter School in D.C.. However, some of NACSA's policy positions could be considered unfriendly to sector schools and networks of any type, including Success Academy in New York City, Achievement First in Connecticut, Brooke Charter Schools in Boston, and the independent Capital City Public Charter School in D.C.. However, some of NACSA's policy positions could be considered unfriendly to sector Schools in Boston, and the independent Capital City Public Charter School in D.C.. However, some of NACSA's policy positions could be considered unfriendly to sector growth.

Summer school is just around the corner, and flexibilities in teacher contracts and program policies make it an ideal time and space to develop new methods and standards for parent communication.

One case before the Court is from Seattle, which has a policy of open choice for high - school attendance and uses race, along with other factors, as a tiebreaker when demand exceeds the number of spaces available.

Therefore, although the state put forth a new vision in its regulations, the 2005 policy and its subsequent revisions leave significant space for district and charter schools to define what competency - based education means for their students.

who framed the resolution, «charter schools have operated without sufficient transparency; intensified segregation; employed psychologically harmful disciplinary policies; and deprived neighborhood public schools of necessary space and resources through co-location in district buildings.»

Effective policies take the students» developmental capabilities into account in addition to school resources and physical space.

And Nina Rees, President and CEO of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, discussed the Walton Family Foundation's donation to support charter school facilities and Mayor de Blasio's antiquated policy of denying charters space.

In the opinion of delegates who framed the resolution, «charter schools have operated without sufficient transparency; intensified segregation; employed psychologically harmful disciplinary policies; and deprived neighborhood public schools of necessary space and resources through co-location in district buildings.»

As Policy Watch has detailed, local school districts would need to cough up millions or lay off scores of enhancement teachers to find space for the necessary new K - 3 classroom teachers.

An explicit UFT policy against school closings, the proliferation of charter schools, and forced co-locations of charters in public school spaces.

Few education policy battles have burned as hot as debate over the practice of requiring traditional public schools to share under - used space with charter schools.

More and more players in the education space — from policy makers to school reformers to teachers themselves — are on the verge of a critical realization: This profession is ripe for continuous improvement led by its own practitioners.

As Policy Watch reported in 2016, school districts warned they may have to lay off thousands of arts, music and physical education teachers to clear budget space for new K - 3, core subject teachers.

She spent her undergraduate years in various education reform spaces, in roles such as operations coordinator for KIPP LA Charter Schools, policy intern for Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's Office of Education, and Teach for America Rising Leaders Fellow.

It is too early to know how many will prove to be successful or transferable to other schools but the policy has created a space in which to innovate.

As a market - oriented reform, these policies promoted competition between schools for students, space, and funds.

The IBO attributes the full debt service load to charter schools in DoE space, however charter schools presently do not own that space and, as the IBO notes, are there as a matter of policy.

This article explores the case of the Winston Society, a wikispace launched by high school English teacher Ed Cator (a pseudonym) to provide teachers with their own space to share teaching ideas, construct knowledge collaboratively, and work against NCLB (the No Child Left Behind Act) and related educational policies.

In April 2017, In the Public Interest released a report revealing that a substantial portion of the more than $ 2.5 billion in tax dollars or taxpayer subsidized financing spent on California charter school facilities in the past 15 years has been misspent on: schools that underperformed nearby traditional public schools; schools built in districts that already had enough classroom space; schools that were found to have discriminatory enrollment policies; and in the worst cases, schools that engaged in unethical or corrupt practices.

Polls showed that his most unpopular issue was education, where only 22 - 26 % of voters approved his harsh and punitive reform policies of closing public schools, grading schools, rating teachers based on student test scores, opening hundreds of small schools, and favoring charter schools with free public space.

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He served as professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (1971 — 94); distinguished research professor at the Institute for Space Science and Technology, Gainesville, FL (1989 — 94); chief scientist, U.S. Department of Transportation (1987 — 89); vice chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Oceans and Atmosphere (NACOA)(1981 — 86); deputy assistant administrator for policy, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1970 — 71); deputy assistant secretary for water quality and research, U.S. Department of the Interior (1967 — 70); founding dean of the School of Environmental and Planetary Sciences, University of Miami (1964 — 67); first director of the National Weather Satellite Service (1962 — 64); and director of the Center for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Maryland (1953 — 62).

Jonathan Askin, the director of Brooklyn Law School's Brooklyn Law Incubator and Policy Clinic (BLIP) and one of the organizers of the hackathon, said, «When I look around at my peers, I see 40 - year - old lawyers who are still communicating via snail mail and fax machines and telephones and appearing in physical space for negotiations.»

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