Sentences with phrase «served by our school system»

«I went into this role with a lot of passion and a strong sense of urgency that I wanted to improve the education of all children, and in particular children who've historically been not well served by our school system,» she says in an interview recorded for the Harvard EdCast.

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The elementary and secondary school system (to name just one Catholic institution affected by the drop in vocations) serves approximately half the number of students it did in 1960, despite the greater presence of lay teachers and administrators.

While Fed Up With Lunch takes a stark and often critical look at the school food — in her case, served by a CPS caterer called Preferred Meal Systems — Wu offers generous props to lunchroom managers, cooks and others who must prepare thousands of hot meals for often - choosy customers each day.

Schakowsky's proposed database is modeled in part on a system used by the Agriculture Department, which purchases about 17 percent of the food served in schools.

She is a leading expert appearing in Race to Nowhere, a documentary film examining the achievement - obsessed culture permeating America's schools, and serves on the advisory board of Challenge Success, an organization that supports schools and families in reversing and preventing the unhealthy tolls assessed by our current educational system.

«It's all about making radical changes to the school meals system and challenging the junk food culture by showing school they can serve fresh nutrition meals that kids enjoy eating.»

Submitted and Written by Reana KovalcikNancy Easton and Chef Bill Telepan serve as the executive leadership for Wellness in the Schools, a New York City - based non-profit that inspires healthy eating, physical fitness, and environmental awareness as a way of life for kids in the public school system.

Serving healthful food to children should be central to the school system's mission and run by school officials, not by a for - profit company, she said.

«Rob Astorino is a product of public schools, a father of three children in the public education system and a former school board member who was recruited to serve by teachers,» spokeswoman Jessica Proud said in a statement.

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.

The advisory system is used by nearly all the charter schools that serve middle or high school grades.

Ms. Steirer says her decision to serve others must be based on personal values and should not be imposed upon her by the school system.

The system will adapt to the client's needs, which will be inconvenient for adults but much more likely to succeed, especially for those children who have historically been least well served by our schools.

Sir Michael Barber, an international education expert who served in multiple senior - level positions in the United Kingdom's government prior to his work at McKinsey and Pearson, was commissioned by the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education (MBAE) to develop a plan that would enable Massachusetts to have the best - performing school system in the world in 20 years.

«I had this drive to know that there's millions of kids out there like me who are not served well by the existing system,» says Hay, who over his career worked in a range of environments from affluent communities to a struggling district turnaround school.

American schools, and particularly schools serving our poorest kids, should be far better, freer of stupid bureaucracies and self - serving teacher unions, staffed by better people, and supported by systems that encourage quality instead of fighting it.

But the aspect I'm most concerned about relates to governance, whether the public — the adults in the geographic area served by the system of schools — is able to shape the contours of the system.

Today, more schools in each city are doing right by their students so that many kids are better served by today's restructured system than when there was no alternative to the traditional arrangement.

It also seems likely that different localities need different systems, and many might be best served by maintaining traditional public schools.

This report released by America's Promise Alliance and prepared by EPE Research Center, finds that approximately half of the students served by the principal school systems in the nation's 50 largest cities are graduating from high school.

The figure also shows how schools serving low - income students are punished by accountability systems based on average test scores.

Connections to data from other agencies that serve students, such as child welfare systems, help schools and educators better support students most in need of extra assistance by identifying their needs outside of the classroom.

While political realities may necessitate initially limiting eligibility to disadvantaged students, such as those with special needs or from low - income families, or those who were assigned to a low - performing district school, these students» interests will be best served in the long term by a universal system of choice.

These are facts I thought a task force charged with exploring the inequities of America's education system would be encouraged by, serving as an indication that the students the NAACP cares about most are being well - educated by the kind of schools the organization is so opposed to — they called for a moratorium on new charters last summer.I waited to speak for three hours before I had to leave.

Our schools were initially founded to serve Catholic families and students who had been neglected by a traditional school system openly hostile to their faith.

High - achieving students, especially those growing up in poverty, have not been well served by our traditional public school system, and I believe they deserve a place to go to school where they can learn to their full potential.

[6] There are more students in these 31 choice districts than are served by magnet and charter schools combined in all 13,000 + regular school districts in the U.S. [7] The best designed of these systems are fair to parents and maximize the likelihood that students will be matched with the school that their parents list as most preferred.

«And by allowing those charter schools to operate free of some of the mandates that might otherwise apply we provide an opportunity for educators and others to operate schools that try new approaches, or try different approaches that might work for various student populations whose needs might not be served that well in other school systems.

While this school is open to all students, it is specifically designed to meet the needs of at - risk students who are currently served by the child welfare system.

Districts should be key drivers within comprehensive accountability systems by supporting continuous improvement, tracking additional measures of school quality and student success, using these measures to inform local decisions about resources and supports, and serving as laboratories of innovation for the state;

Too often, opponents of turnaround schools (a system of accelerating growth of student achievement partly by changing the adults who serve the students and removing restrictions that impede student success - including any collective bargaining agreements that don't put students» interest in the forefront) remain steadfastly wed to the failing status quo that undermines families» efforts to improve their circumstances through education.

Getting a charter for your school idea was simply a vehicle to better serve the kids who were being failed by the system.

We must do far better for kids trapped in schools where policymakers have known for years that the systems serving them are not doing right by families and communities.

This is why the system is strategy - proof — and why students are best served by ranking schools according to their true choices.

The states party to this agreement, desiring by common action to improve their respective school systems by utilizing the teacher or other professional educational person wherever educated, declare that it is the policy of each of them, on the basis of cooperation with one another, to take advantage of the preparation and experience of such persons wherever gained, thereby serving the best interests of society, of education, and of the teaching profession.

Finally, charter schools can complement the public school system by supporting students not typically well - served in traditional public schools.

The school is designed for students who are disenfranchised and offers an alternative model for those that are not served by the current system.

If the A-F grading system remains as is, by and large high poverty - serving schools with fewer resources would continue to receive failing grades while schools that serve higher income populations would receive better marks.

As head of the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, he led a system of 17 urban public schools, serving over 15,000 students — and worked with parents and educators to raise graduation rates by 60 % and improve student achievement at a faster rate than any other school system in California with more than 10,000 stuSchools, he led a system of 17 urban public schools, serving over 15,000 students — and worked with parents and educators to raise graduation rates by 60 % and improve student achievement at a faster rate than any other school system in California with more than 10,000 stuschools, serving over 15,000 students — and worked with parents and educators to raise graduation rates by 60 % and improve student achievement at a faster rate than any other school system in California with more than 10,000 students..

Prior to her position with the Nashville Chamber, she was employed for the majority of her career by the Clarksville - Montgomery County School System, where she served as the foundation and community engagement director.

These goals serve as the primary tenants for advancing the high school renewal work to: 1) establish system coherence by aligning central office and site programs, and accelerating student learning by leveraging and expanding knowledge and skills among staff, parents, and community members; 2) improve the quality of instructional leadership by providing ongoing professional development for school leaders; 3) improve the quality of teaching throughout the district through embedded professional development; 4) increase student engagement in the learning process by personalizing learning environments to build on student interests; 5) increase community involvement in schools by giving principals ownership of the change process, expanding student voice, and bringing parents and students into the school renewal process.

As an alternative, competency - based systems support student advancement by awarding credit according to students» mastery of skills.1 At ROADS Charter School in the Bronx, a transfer school dedicated to serving students who are overage and under - credited, competency - based learning has helped students re-engage in their learning as each class is structured so that students focus on mastering 10 clear, meaningful, and targeted «outcomes,» or competeSchool in the Bronx, a transfer school dedicated to serving students who are overage and under - credited, competency - based learning has helped students re-engage in their learning as each class is structured so that students focus on mastering 10 clear, meaningful, and targeted «outcomes,» or competeschool dedicated to serving students who are overage and under - credited, competency - based learning has helped students re-engage in their learning as each class is structured so that students focus on mastering 10 clear, meaningful, and targeted «outcomes,» or competencies.

By moving away from the school district concept of education, it allows for states to serve a more - effective role as regulators — and thus, democratic control of public education as a system of funding the best school options for every child is maintained.

The Virginia Department of Health, Office of Drinking Water (VDH - ODW) indicates that school facilities that are served by a public water system are not required by state law or regulation to test water at an individual school, unless the school is served by a community waterworks that has identified the school as one of their test sites, or the school is served by its own independent water system (typically a well water system) that is regulated by the state as a waterworks.

«I don't think large is inherently bad,» CMS Superintendent Clayton Wilcox told Policy Watch Wednesday, hours after a legislative study committee dominated by Republicans convened to consider whether students in mammoth districts like CMS and Wake County Schools, the state's largest school system, would be better served by smaller districts piloted by local municipalities.

On May 2, 2018, Politico's Morning Education reported the following statements by the U.S. Department of Education spokeswoman: «Secretary DeVos has always said education is an investment in students, not in schools or school systems, and public education is any education that serves the public.

The number of non-teaching staff in the United States (those employed by school systems but not serving as classroom teachers) has grown by 130 percent since 1970.

While public schools are and will remain an important part of our educational system, it is time for «advocates» of government - run schools to recognize that they are better served by devoting their energies to education and not politics.

The report from the blue ribbon panel, jointly sponsored by state schools chief Tom Torlakson and the CTC, is intended to serve as a guide for developing a system that will lead to teachers who are consistently well - prepared and well - supported, and who continue to have opportunities to grow throughout their careers,» Torlakson said earlier this year when launching the effort.

The Regional Equity Assistance Centers — Fifty Years and Counting: Forging Civil - Rights - Based Technical Assistance to Serve All Students by Building Equity - Centered Capacity in Public Schools, Bradley Scott, Essential Approaches for Excellence & Sustainable School System Transformation, April 2016