Sentences with phrase «school system it would create»

Instead, this pamphlet - sized book offers brilliant political analysis, providing context for the nine days when Chicago teachers took on neoliberalism and the unequal school system it would create.

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The program was created to reduce rates of obesity and diabetes, but the school system hasn't yet collected any information showing students are healthier.

Not only does this system mean that kids can no longer make a lunch out of a bag of Cheetos (unless they bring it from home), it also reduces the very real social stigma created when kids with money in their pockets can buy enticing junk food while poorer kids have to eat the comparatively «uncool» school meal.

Vance created an online ordering system so that staff can choose their toppings and then have their salads delivered to the school kitchens for pick - up at lunch.

But the governor's plan would effectively give him ownership of the state's massive public school system, and would be among the most ambitious changes he's pursued in his governorship, a tenure that so far has included legalizing same - sex marriage, strengthening gun control, creating a statewide property - tax cap and reforming the state pension system.

Citing stances the Senators have taken detrimental to the cause of working people, the flyers highlight: Protecting a failed tax system that favors the privileged at the expense of working people; increasing the tax on health insurance; siding with big corporations and against teachers and students to pass a Charter School Bill - with no real reform; creating a new Tier V pension; and attacking education by supporting an irresponsible property tax cap.

Cuomo said lawmakers still haven't reached full agreement on the mechanics of raising the minimum wage, increasing school aid or creating a system of paid family leave for the state.

«What Michael wants to create is a first class, world class state system which means that in future years you will have more pupils from state schools, people like me, around the cabinet table, and in that I fully support Michael Gove,» the faith and communities minister said.

«We have a real shot to flip the State Senate this fall so we can build a New York that works for all of us: reforming our broken criminal justice system, fighting climate change and creating good jobs, expanding opportunities for immigrant New Yorkers, fully funding all of our schools and public universities, and taking on big money in politics to expand and protect our democracy.

«Students in New York schools should not be held hostage by legislators kowtowing to the special interests that have created our broken education system,» said Tenicka Boyd, the group's Director of Organizing.

«The reforms in this Budget build upon measures implemented last year to create an educational system that ensures every child has an opportunity to succeed, and holds schools and teachers accountable for the results they achieve.»

The city has estimated that, between new positions that would have to be created and the expense of holding community school board elections every three years, a return to a decentralized system would cost the city $ 125 million to $ 160 million a year.

The education secretary has unveiled a raft of school reforms which she claims will create a «fundamentally different education system» for England.

A report by Professor Allyson Pollock, from Barts hospital and the London School of Medicine, and David Price, senior research fellow at its Centre for Health Sciences, found the reforms would create a system where the government «finances but does not provide healthcare».

We have watched as politics that have decimated the black family, perpetuated poverty and created failing schools systems that we no longer want to send our children to.

«Ultimately it's become an unfunded mandate for our counties so this would really create a win - win - win by offering much better programs for the kids who need the special needs programming at that age and support our counties and allow the school system to do what the school system does, which is provide educational programs,» says Barrett.

«Now that Ms. Black and Mr. Polakow - Suransky have been approved by State Education Commissioner Steiner, I hope we can move forward on the many challenges the system faces, including creating a curriculum that will give students a well - rounded education, new and better interventions for struggling students, and early action to turn around failing schools,» he said in a statement.

But the mayor and Mulgrew have since found common ground fighting charter schools and standardized testing and creating a universal pre-K system.

Transforming failing schools, reforming tenure, expediting removal of underperforming teachers, providing performance bonuses, adding wraparound services to create Community Schools and reducing testing, are all reforms that have the potential to dramatically improve our schools, reforming tenure, expediting removal of underperforming teachers, providing performance bonuses, adding wraparound services to create Community Schools and reducing testing, are all reforms that have the potential to dramatically improve our Schools and reducing testing, are all reforms that have the potential to dramatically improve our system.

Joining de Blasio on a press call this afternoon, Duncan insisted that the mayoral control system has both led to improvements to local schools and created a rare kind of electoral accountability for educational performance.

The hard - left party has been bashing Mr. Cuomo since state lawmakers finalized a budget last weekend, labeling it «Cuomo's Inequality Budget» because it slashed some taxes, protected charter schools and did not create an expansive public financing system for statewide elections.

'' «Last in, first out» just would create chaos in the school system,» Bloomberg said.

Efforts to limit access to voting, compounded by election security concerns, have created a lack of confidence in the U.S. voting system, said Myrna Perez, professor of law and director of the Brennan Center for Justice Voting Rights and Elections Project at the New York University School of Law.

This SNSF - funded project clearly showed that ever since the Swiss school system was created in 1830 the importance and content of every subject in the curriculum, whether language, history, handicraft or physical education, has been in flux.

We created this remarkable program together, and the support from both the hospital and the medical school has been terrific,» said Maureen G. Phipps, MD, MPH, chair and Chace - Joukowsky Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and assistant dean for Teaching and Research in Women's Health at the Warren Alpert Medical School, professor of epidemiology at the Brown University School of Public Health, and chief of obstetrics and gynecology at Women & Infants Hospital and Care New England Health Sschool has been terrific,» said Maureen G. Phipps, MD, MPH, chair and Chace - Joukowsky Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and assistant dean for Teaching and Research in Women's Health at the Warren Alpert Medical School, professor of epidemiology at the Brown University School of Public Health, and chief of obstetrics and gynecology at Women & Infants Hospital and Care New England Health SSchool, professor of epidemiology at the Brown University School of Public Health, and chief of obstetrics and gynecology at Women & Infants Hospital and Care New England Health SSchool of Public Health, and chief of obstetrics and gynecology at Women & Infants Hospital and Care New England Health System.

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Are school systems creating expectations that change parenting styles of tech diligent families due to students being required to have technology?

But the bulk of the city's school reforms over the past decade have focused elsewhere, on building a pre-kindergarten system, creating new curriculum materials and instructional strategies and, above all, improving teacher quality — work that's largely unrelated to high school attendance.

In addition to preparing low - income students for college through a network of charter schools, KIPP has signed agreements with 39 colleges to create KIPP - to - college programs that include recruiting pipelines and campus support systems for low - income students who graduate from the charter schools.

Mitchell Chester: What the accountability system does, and what No Child Left Behind does, is create some transparency in the system and put those of us in the education profession in a position of having to confront the realities about the kind of achievement we're accomplishing with kids — especially kids from groups that traditionally have not been well - served by schools.

For a long time, I've dreamed of creating something different within our publicly funded school system, and I've recently been given the opportunity to realize these dreams by designing a new arts - based initiative for seventh - and eighth - grade students in an elementary school near Toronto.

Created by Adoption UK Cymru - «Getting it right for every child: A parent's guide to working with schools - sets out the top things parents of adopted children should look for when choosing a school, how to work with staff at the school and gives advice on how attachment issues can have an impact on a child's progress through the education system.

Even as school systems redrew their boundaries, fired black teachers and principals, and tore up foundational enrollment structures to comply with desegregation orders, they largely ignored Coleman's earlier research on motivation and academic achievement, which found that competition «has a magic ability to create a strong group goal.»

This would create not only a more equitable system, but also more effective schools.

This would, in turn, allow state leaders to give district - run schools charter - like autonomy and create a single citywide accountability system.

And because they operate multiple schools, they are in a position to develop a «farm system» and create opportunities for career advancement that would not be possible in «mom - and - pop» charters.

Options Management has created a unique recycling package to help schools address this particular problem with PET bottles and other drinks containers, with a system which guarantees that the materials are recovered and recycled.

State officials and courts have already grappled with many of these issues, and creating a federal right to education would destabilize policies and decisions that have shaped local school systems for generations,» they say, noting that unlike the federal Constitution, all 50 state constitutions contain provisions that explicitly address education.

What's notable about the collapse is the massive investment to the tune of over $ 100 million from the Gates and Carnegie Foundations that went into inBloom to create a safe and secure solution that would guard student privacy far better than the patchwork quilt of makeshift solutions that most school systems use currently.

I'm most proud of the ability the charter sector and our partners in the district have shown to put aside our differences and commit to the shared goal of creating a system of great schools.

Rather than telling Bright Vale exactly what to do, the education system had created an environment where the school would improve by adaptive, local decision making.

Lots of educators who decide to create small schools, often by negotiating special arrangements with the local school district, do so because they don't have any confidence that the system can be changed in any real way.

Both the charter school sector and the district have worked hard to put aside the «us vs. them» mentality that plagues many other systems and create a truly collaborative environment.

In response to a court order, Governor proposed a revolutionary change in state's school - finance system that would create regional school districts to oversee local property taxes.

Broader deregulation efforts to form charter schools and create accountability systems have been slowed by such barriers as state lawmakers» reliance on mandates, equity questions, and the lack of credible...

The statement includes a list of these developments: the US Supreme Court ruled scholarships constitutional; numerous studies showed these programs benefit needy kids; families empowered with this choice express great satisfaction; urban districts continue to struggle despite great effort; chartering hasn't created enough high - quality seats; and smart accountability systems can ensure only high - quality private schools participate in these programs.

In a one - on - one interview last week, Bill Gates, the chairman and CEO of the Microsoft Corp., talked with Staff Writer Andrew Trotter about the «Schools Interoperability Framework,» a plan by Microsoft and 18 other software companies to create technical standards that would help schools develop a «digital nervous system.Schools Interoperability Framework,» a plan by Microsoft and 18 other software companies to create technical standards that would help schools develop a «digital nervous system.schools develop a «digital nervous system.»

The coming debate will be over whether the solution is to create a more sweeping form of public school choice or to revive private school vouchers to create the alternative the public system has so far squelched.

Funders may need to be more deliberate by creating a robust entity that has the sole job of coordinating across the entire geographic cluster to make sure that system leaders, principals and other school leaders, blended learning directors, teachers, and education technology companies have frequent opportunities to network and spend time with each other learning and building in a deliberate way on each other's successes and setbacks.

For some reason, even though we've known for decades that different schools face different challenges, only a few states have embraced this insight by creating systems that judge schools based on things they control.