Sentences with phrase «schools and students deserve»

Parents, educators and community partners — the people who know our children's names, their strengths, their challenges and their dreams — are walking into their schools today to call for the public schools each and every student deserves.

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Endowed scholarships help remove or reduce financial barriers to business education while ensuring the school's accessibility to and appeal among all deserving students.

«Students deserve to learn in schools that are well maintained and operating the way they should.

By bringing these complaints into the open and allowing students to band together in asserting classwide claims, we expect school misconduct will be made public much earlier on — helping prospective students and the government to decide whether a school deserves their dollars.

Set in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, shortly after the massive changes ushered in by the modernizing Vatican II conference in Rome, the story quickly sets up a conflict between the old - school nun who serves as principal and runs the school like a prison (played by Meryl Streep) and the young, new priest (Philip Seymour Hoffman) who wants to shake things up by treating the students as fully rounded young people who deserve doses of freedom and respect as well.

We don't believe everyone deserves a trophy, but we have seen the problems associated with a ranking system, and have urged schools to consider other ways to honor their top students — ways that rely less on a grade point average and that are more similar to the MVP status on a sports team - where multiple skills and traits are valued.

SNA has partnered with author Jarrett J. Krosoczka, of the «Lunch Lady» book series, to remind everyone — directors, managers, parents, students, and school staff — that school nutrition employees are superheroes that deserve some recognition.

Look for people with a medical background, or those with youngish kids in the public schools, or those who have fought similar battles in the past, especially battles based on the idea of social justice, that low income students deserve the same respect and services as higher income students.

The student rallied round at the gate of the State University, with various inscriptions on their placards that read: «He who works deserved to be paid,» «Workers are dying of hunger,» and «NANS say no to taxation of school pupils in Ekiti» among others.

My dear friends, I have a dream that our Academy and our University will continue to grow and prosper, but in my dream, they are surrounded by thousandsof public and private schools and universitiesthat share our civic commitment, that emulate our thirst for knowledge, and that compete for the best and brightest students.Because those students they deserve to have a choice, and because there are too many problems for us to solve, and because we can't solve them and have a future unless our youth believe they can build one.

«In New York, we must act swiftly and decisively to implement additional measures in schools throughout our state to give students, parents, and teachers the resources and peace of mind that they deserve.»

«New York's students deserve the best education possible and our State Aid request and legislative proposals will ensure schools continue to improve and better prepare our children while also acknowledging the state's fiscal realities,» State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia said.

Senate Majority Coalition Co-Leader Dean G. Skelos said, «This agreement is a reasonable compromise that builds on the legislation we passed to enhance accountability in schools and give our students the first - class education they deserve.

One of her websites, the Partnership Educational Justice, says its goal is to help students, and their families «advocate for the great public schools they deserve,» with a particular focus on low income students.

After four years and half a billion dollars on a failed school turnaround program, NYC students need a leader who will work with urgency to give them the quality of schools they deserve,» said StudentsFirstNY Executive Director Jenny Sedlis.

«Graduating students should be proud of their hard work and public charter schools deserve special recognition for improving at a faster rate than the district.

Five of Carl Paladino's fellow Buffalo School Board members stopped short of calling for his removal from the board, but the five — all women — signed a statement admonishing him and saying Buffalo students «deserve to have representatives who will oppose those who maliciously degrade and demean groups of individuals.»

«Parents of students who depend on their school cafeterias for breakfast and lunch deserve to know the conditions of the facilities where their food is prepared.

«We must act swiftly and decisively to implement additional measures in schools throughout our state to give students, parents, and teachers the resources and peace of mind that they deserve.»

«All students deserve schools that support them and are safe and free from harassment and bullying.

I am hopeful to earn the support of the New York State United Teachers in the coming days and look forward to continuing the fightfor healthy and safe learning environments for students, securing the necessary resources our teachers deserve and advocating for a first - rate education in all of our schools as a representative in Congress.

I'd like to thank Governor Cuomo, our State Delegation, Yonkers City Council, the PTAs and all the students, parents, teachers and Yonkers residents who fought so hard for the resources our school children deserve.

«Teachers and school staff have worked hard to make the best out of a bad situation — at P.S. 19Q they do amazing work — but our students deserve more from us.

«Avonte's Law will make our educational facilities safer for students and give parents the peace of mind they deserve when they send their children to school for the day,» Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito (D - Manhattan) said in a statement.

Or will he continue his policies of underfunding schools and leaving many students with less than they deserve?»

Certainly if we are teaching to tests we won't have the kind of schools that we desire and that our students deserve.»

What originally surprised me was how much the school's and the students» opinions were in agreement - often they had both identified the same candidate to employ - which I think suggests that students often deserve more credit about teaching and learning than they are given.

President Angela Brady said: «Our students, teachers and local communities deserve great schools - environments that are beneficial to the best - quality teaching and learning.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

«Instead of going to a government official and saying all students deserve to be in school, what we normally say at UNICEF and what is true, we should also say that if we don't get refugee children in schools, those children (especially adolescents) will be competing for jobs with the Jordanian youth, who are suffering from unemployment, and so will negatively affect the country's economy.»

«Consistently putting the needs of her students and school community at the forefront, Elyse works to ensure each of her students receives the highest quality education they deserve.

In The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and «Tougher Standards,» he argues in favor of schools in which students are intellectually engaged and encouraged to grapple with rigorous problems: schools, in other words, in which correct answers matter, but so does reaching those answers through a complex process that may involve making errors and misunderstanding concepts along tSchools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and «Tougher Standards,» he argues in favor of schools in which students are intellectually engaged and encouraged to grapple with rigorous problems: schools, in other words, in which correct answers matter, but so does reaching those answers through a complex process that may involve making errors and misunderstanding concepts along tschools in which students are intellectually engaged and encouraged to grapple with rigorous problems: schools, in other words, in which correct answers matter, but so does reaching those answers through a complex process that may involve making errors and misunderstanding concepts along tschools, in other words, in which correct answers matter, but so does reaching those answers through a complex process that may involve making errors and misunderstanding concepts along the way.

Discovering thousands of high schools with graduation rates under 60 percent threw his beliefs about American education into sharp relief — our current system is failing to support all students to learn at the levels they need and deserve.

Thompson: The council was one of the few education organizations in Washington to support the No Child Left Behind Act and we believe the federal law deserves credit for focusing the attention of urban schools more sharply on student achievement, and increasing the national focus on educating our neediest children.

There are limits on what the public should be asked to support financially; schools that don't help students reach basic proficiency in math and reading, in particular, don't deserve public subsidies.

• Blurring the boundaries between secondary and postsecondary education has its pluses — such as acceleration opportunities for smart students — but some of what passes for «dual credit» in high school lacks any real collegiate quality control and some of what passes for corequisite courses on campus really is high school stuff and doesn't deserve college credit.

So are schools where teachers have 120 or more students to get to know (with this 120 shuffled at the end of each semester); where serious learning is broken up into snippets of 50 - minute «subject matter periods» arranged in no intellectually coherent order; where assessment keeps knowledge tightly packaged in separate intellectual domains; where short - term memory work is rated as deserving the highest value at the expense of original, long - term analytic work; and where the intellectual engine of the curriculum comes at most students and teachers as a list of subjects and skills, usually far too long for the careful savoring and devoted practice that leads to deep understanding and worthy habits.

Even on days when I've had to race to school after a chaotic morning at home and feel like less than my best self, my students deserve to feel welcomed and valued.

The team of six Melbourne College students believe mental health deserves much greater prominence in the Victorian school curriculum and is a major issue for young people not currently being addressed.

How might we leverage evaluation to build systems of support that not only help teachers reflect upon and improve their practice but also ensure that all students are leaving our schools with the knowledge and skills they need to live the lives they deserve?

As we consider the merits of private - school choice and what it would take to make it succeed, this initiative deserves particular attention: it is the nation's largest voucher program, accounting for nearly 20 percent of all voucher students nationwide, with 34,299 students receiving vouchers and 313 private schools participating during the 2016 — 17 academic year.

Given the compelling need of so many city students and the push to hold schools more accountable for achievement, some argue that urban schools deserve a greater share of public resources.

Make your voice heard by tweeting, posting and sharing why you, your students, your teachers, your community and your school district #LovePublicEducation and why every student in America deserves access to a high - quality public school.

We believe that all students deserve to attend sustainable schools that enhance their health and prepare them for 21st century careers.

Sign our petition today and demand that schools have the funding needed to keep teachers in the classroom, support staff in our schools and provide the quality education that our students deserve.

Burke argued that many students are being failed by traditional public schools, and they deserve new options for schooling.

It's about our shared belief that every family in the Commonwealth deserves a quality public school in their neighborhood — no matter their economic circumstance, ethnic background or zip code; it's about opening currently closed doors and giving more Massachusetts students a seat at the table.

Ironically, this will only make it harder for school districts in impoverished communities to attract and retain the excellent teachers that students need and deserve.»

All the news that's fit to link in Oakland and beyond — this week - The All City Council Youth Forum, Segregation in Oakland and it's effects, making sure your special needs child gets the summer services they deserve, an upcoming youth led event covering school quality, mental health, and the experiences of Black students, the widely... Continue reading The Oakland Education Week in Review - 5/4/18

«But students deserve to have their needs met and be challenged six hours of the day at school.»