Sentences with phrase «state have access to quality education»

Betsy Kippers, president of the Wisconsin Education Association Council, a statewide teachers union, said the state should support its public schools so students across the state have access to quality education.

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Rebecca works as an early education consultant at ICF International, where she supports federal and state programs that strive to ensure that our youngest children have access to quality early care and education.

She has become a leader on the issues important to our members — creating good jobs in New York State, strengthening the middle class, and ensuring access to quality education and health care.»

«While he is yet to formally announce, New Yorkers should know that whether it's ensuring our children have access to a quality education or protecting the rights of same - sex couples to marry, as Attorney General, John Cahill will enforce all the laws of the State of New York,» Catalfamo said.

Ensuring that all children in New York State have access to a high quality education has always a top priority for me, regardless of our state's budgetary situaState have access to a high quality education has always a top priority for me, regardless of our state's budgetary situastate's budgetary situation.

On Thursday, with the New York State Board of Regents hearing testimony regarding the newly approved teacher evaluation system, leading education reform organization StudentsFirstNY and public school parents offered recommendations and sent letters calling for a system that ensures all public school students have access to high - quality teachers.

He continued: «Ensuring that every child has access to high - quality public education, addressing the heroin and opioid epidemic, creating stable new jobs and protecting our environment all starts within our state government.»

«This solid foundation has to be advanced in a manner that our growth trajectory is accelerated, our social and welfare initiatives for ordinary citizens is expanded, the opportunities to provide access and quality education to ALL our children is achieved, and our nation is able to feed itself and reap the benefits in expanded trade of our diversified agricultural produce,» President Mahama stated.

As State Senator, Sara will fight to make sure that every New Yorker has access to quality public education, good jobs with benefits and a path to retirement, and elected representation that puts community ahead of outside corporate interests.

Statement from Assemblywoman Ellen Jaffee «I commend the students of East Ramapo for their non-violent demonstration to bring attention to their concerns and frustrations regarding the poor building conditions and severe spending cuts, which have negatively impacted their access to classes and programs essential to the quality education our state constitution guarantees them.

«The CUNY Board of Trustees has approved an operating budget request for FY2017 - 18 that seeks increased state and city investment in faculty hiring, new research, expanding college access and other initiatives necessary to provide our students with an affordable, high - quality education,» Arena said in an emailed statement.

Today far too many states don't offer students the full suite of educational choices that they could to ensure that all students have access to a high - quality education that meets their distinct needs.

Research shows that high - quality preschool education has a lasting impact on children's school success, and in recent years, cities and states have moved to increase access to preschool programs.

States must demonstrate that they appreciate that with greater flexibility comes greater responsibility, and the department must continue to hold their feet to the fire in terms of ensuring that all kids have access to a quality education.

State and local investments are increasing in many states for early care and education programs, but in others, states are not investing sufficient dollars to ensure all children have access to high quality programs.

I'm talking about things like teacher licensing mandates, which researchers have long found do not improve teacher quality and traffic in disproven education fads (but do provide easy - access cash cows for state departments of education and teacher colleges since teachers are required to keep buying their products to maintain certification); ever - increasing testing and data - entry mandates; centralized curriculum mandates like Common Core; centralized teacher evaluation and ratings systems; and the massive data entry required to document things like student behavior problems and special education services.

Below is the Quality Schools Action Framework ™ developed by IDRA (Robledo Montecel & Goodman, 2010) that may assist the Legislature in drafting future laws that could help the state achieve its public education mission of «ensuring that all Texas children have access to a quality education that enables them to achieve their potential and fully participate now and in the future in the social, economic, and educational opportunities of our state and nation» (Texas Education Code § Quality Schools Action Framework ™ developed by IDRA (Robledo Montecel & Goodman, 2010) that may assist the Legislature in drafting future laws that could help the state achieve its public education mission of «ensuring that all Texas children have access to a quality education that enables them to achieve their potential and fully participate now and in the future in the social, economic, and educational opportunities of our state and nation» (Texas Education Code education mission of «ensuring that all Texas children have access to a quality education that enables them to achieve their potential and fully participate now and in the future in the social, economic, and educational opportunities of our state and nation» (Texas Education Code § quality education that enables them to achieve their potential and fully participate now and in the future in the social, economic, and educational opportunities of our state and nation» (Texas Education Code education that enables them to achieve their potential and fully participate now and in the future in the social, economic, and educational opportunities of our state and nation» (Texas Education Code Education Code § 4.001).

Empower supported candidates all over the state, incumbents, challengers, Republicans, and Democrats, who are commitment to ensuring that every child in Mississippi has access to a quality education.

The 1st Annual Empower Mississippi Awards Luncheon will honor Lt. Governor Tate Reeves with our «Education Reformer of the Year» Award and recognize key members of the state legislature for their hard work in ensuring more Mississippi families have access to high quality educationEducation Reformer of the Year» Award and recognize key members of the state legislature for their hard work in ensuring more Mississippi families have access to high quality educationeducation options.

We look forward to working with the board, the school and the State Department of Education to ensure that more students have access to a quality public school education, regardless of race, wealth or zip codEducation to ensure that more students have access to a quality public school education, regardless of race, wealth or zip codeducation, regardless of race, wealth or zip code.»

Nonie Lesaux and Stephanie M. Jones — co-leads of Harvard's Saul Zaentz Early Education Initiative — write that under ESSA, states and districts have the opportunity to «expand access to early education, coordinate those efforts and hold themselves accountable for boosting children's early learning and development through high - quality early educatioEducation Initiative — write that under ESSA, states and districts have the opportunity to «expand access to early education, coordinate those efforts and hold themselves accountable for boosting children's early learning and development through high - quality early educatioeducation, coordinate those efforts and hold themselves accountable for boosting children's early learning and development through high - quality early educationeducation.»

November 20, 2013 — IDRA Calls on Texas State Board of Education to Ensure All Students Have Access to High Quality Curriculum

His passion for giving others a voice eventually brought him to the United States, where he has spent the better part of his career working to improve the quality of life for people in his community by expanding access to quality education.

The purpose of Title I is to ensure that every student has access to an equal, fair, and high - quality education that meets, at a minimum, proficiency on challenging state academic achievement standards and assessments.

But we know more work remains until every child in the state has access to a high quality education.

«It is crucial to the future of our nation that these students, and all students, have equal access to a high - quality education and the opportunity to achieve their full academic potential,» administration officials wrote in an open letter to the nation's state and local education officials.

«In order to address these problems, Bridgeport Superintendent of Schools Paul Vallas has been working vigilantly to ensure every child in the state's largest city will someday have access to a high quality public education regardless of race, wealth or zip code.

It stated that «it is vital that serving teachers have access to on - going, high - quality opportunities to update and refresh their skills and knowledge» and that «evidence - driven, career - long learning is the hallmark of top professions»; also identifying that «teachers report that far too much professional development is currently of poor quality and has little or no impact on improving the quality of their teaching» (Department for Education, 2014: 10).

The Vergara decision, striking down tenure and dismissal laws in California as depriving the state's most vulnerable students equal access to a quality education, was widely seen as a blow to the teachers union and has moved public opinion toward agreeing with change.

Under the bill, an independent oversight board would be created inside the state Department of Education to review new charters and monitor existing ones in a move to address growing questions about the quality and access of the alternative schools.

In a prepared statement, a spokeswoman for the state's education commissioner said, «The state is committed to making sure that all children have access to a quality education, regardless of their zip code... Public schools of choice have created high - quality options for thousands of Connecticut families.

In a perfect world, public schools would be state of the art learning centers, teachers would have six - figure salaries and all students would have equal access to a quality education.

States, along with local educators and parents, are the most critical actors working to ensure that every child has access to a quality education.

«Natasha has been engaged in the pursuit of excellence in public education her entire professional career, and is the right person at the right time to lead DFER's efforts in Tennessee to ensure that all the state's kids have access to a high - quality education,» said Joe Williams, DFER's executive director.

Both lawsuits had argued California's state constitution gives students not just a right to access education but also a right to a «quality» education.

In its consolidated state plan submitted to the U.S. Department of Education on September 18, New York State Department of Education (NYSED) formally requested a waiver of two statutory requirements of Title I, Part A of ESSA which are critical to ensuring all students have equal access to a quality educastate plan submitted to the U.S. Department of Education on September 18, New York State Department of Education (NYSED) formally requested a waiver of two statutory requirements of Title I, Part A of ESSA which are critical to ensuring all students have equal access to a quality eEducation on September 18, New York State Department of Education (NYSED) formally requested a waiver of two statutory requirements of Title I, Part A of ESSA which are critical to ensuring all students have equal access to a quality educaState Department of Education (NYSED) formally requested a waiver of two statutory requirements of Title I, Part A of ESSA which are critical to ensuring all students have equal access to a quality eEducation (NYSED) formally requested a waiver of two statutory requirements of Title I, Part A of ESSA which are critical to ensuring all students have equal access to a quality educationeducation.

Californians Together has as its mission to ensure that all children and specifically English Learners in our State have full access to a high quality 21st century education.

«The state should do everything in our power to ensure all students have easy access to quality education regardless of their housing situation,» said Assemblywoman Nily Rozic (D - Queens).

In accordance with three sections of Title I, Part A, of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), each state education agency (SEA) is required to submit a plan to the U.S. Department of Education (ED) to ensure that all students have equal access to a quality education, regardless of race, ethnicity, or familEducation Act (ESEA), each state education agency (SEA) is required to submit a plan to the U.S. Department of Education (ED) to ensure that all students have equal access to a quality education, regardless of race, ethnicity, or famileducation agency (SEA) is required to submit a plan to the U.S. Department of Education (ED) to ensure that all students have equal access to a quality education, regardless of race, ethnicity, or familEducation (ED) to ensure that all students have equal access to a quality education, regardless of race, ethnicity, or famileducation, regardless of race, ethnicity, or family income.

Similar to the K — 12 version, this program seeks to promote systemic reforms in higher education by awarding competitive grants to states that have shown a commitment to increasing college access, quality, and graduation rates.

The grant program — called the Early Learning Alignment and Improvement Grants — would provide funding for states to improve coordination, quality, and access to early education.

The recommendation by PEAC, the panel of education partners tasked with developing an educator evaluation system that works toward the goal of ensuring every child has access to a high quality education, now goes to the State Board of Education for consieducation partners tasked with developing an educator evaluation system that works toward the goal of ensuring every child has access to a high quality education, now goes to the State Board of Education for consieducation, now goes to the State Board of Education for consiEducation for consideration.

ConnCAN is leading an advocacy movement to ensure that all kids in The Constitution State have access to a high - quality education, regardless of their address.

DESIRED RESULT: Each state has an effective, comprehensive, incentivized system for early childhood workforce professional development to ensure every child has access to high - quality, developmentally appropriate education and support delivered by exceptional teachers and administrators.

This month, the state of Connecticut is in state court facing a lawsuit for failing to provide the financial support cities and towns need to ensure that all students have access to their constitutionally guaranteed right to a quality public school education.

PARSS began in 1983 as a group of public school superintendents who expressed concern that Pennsylvania students in rural and small school districts did not have access to the same quality of education afforded to students attending school in the more metropolitan areas of the state.

This summative school quality rating would sit side - by - side on the same page with the full dashboard currently being completed by the State Board of Education so that all families have access to both the comprehensive data dashboard and the guidance provided by a summative rating.

The report is a roadmap designed to ensure that all students throughout the state have access to the quality public education they deserve.

On behalf of the state's children, teachers, public schools and taxpayers, the plaintiffs argued that Connecticut's school funding formula failed to ensure that every child had access to a quality and productive education, as guaranteed by the state constitution.

, «Once again, public charter schools have proven that when given access to a high - quality education, all children - especially those in our state's most underserved communities - can learn and succeed.