Sentences with phrase «students had access to a quality education»

The governor is rightly focused on ways to make sure all students have access to a quality education,» the group said in a statement late yesterday.

A first - generation college student and public school graduate, James Kelly is passionate about improving schools and committed to making sure that all students have access to a quality education.

«Rather than working to pit one type of public school against another, now is the time to work toward solutions that ensure all Arizona schools are supported and every Arizona student has access to the quality education they need.»

Voinovich, former Cleveland mayor, Governor of Ohio and U.S. Senator, was a longtime champion of private school choice and worked tirelessly throughout his career to ensure the most disadvantaged students had access to a quality education through private school choice.

The Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools (PARSS) is an advocacy and service organization dedicated to ensuring that the Commonwealth's rural school students have access to a quality education.

The pro-charter side's argument centered on ensuring that all students have access to a quality education.

These accreditation standards are supposed to ensure that Oklahoma's students all have access to a quality education.

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We are committed to improving student performance and increasing access to quality education so that children and adolescents around the globe have improved opportunities for success.

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.

«This budget proposal represents the Assembly Majority's unwavering commitment to ensuring that our students have access to a high quality, affordable college education,» said Glick.

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.

The process of reform — known as the Bologna Process, which has since expanded to include the current 47 countries — has subsequently added to this agenda additional ideals such as equal access to higher education, student - centered learning, and student participation in quality assurance and governance within their institutions.

Thanks to the Science Buddies Kit Club program and companies who want to support STEM education in their local communities, more students have access to quality science and engineering kits.

This clinical research center has been able to train all types of students on clinical translational research in anxiety and at the same time has an extensive role in community education and outreach to improve access to quality mental health services.

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.

By focusing on the needs of students and the quality of education they receive rather than pointing fingers over where they are served, we will do more to ensure that our most vulnerable children have access to the education they need and deserve.

«The best schools in the country combine a high - quality cultural education with excellence in core academic subjects and we are committed to ensuring that England's students continue to have access to both.»

We stand for quality in terms of initial teacher education and we believe it's vitally important that students have access to high - quality teaching courses and that those courses provide them with the particular expertise they need to be classroom ready at the end of that study.

As preparations for the local elections in England gather pace, the National Association of School - Based Teacher Training (NASBTT) has joined forces with Universities» Council for the Education of Teachers, the Chartered College and the Teaching Schools Council to suggest solutions to the issues which students and teachers face, namely: dealing with funding cuts; struggling to find access to quality CPD; confusion over training routes; a «cumbersome» application process and skills tests which act as a barrier to teacher recruitment.

Even though a small percentage of America's students have access to high quality public education, the NEA wants to ensure that every child is afforded this opportunity so that they might be better equipped for the changing world and changing economy.

Since 1968, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), an office of the Department of Education, has collected data from public schools on student and school characteristics to ensure all students have equal access to a quality eEducation, has collected data from public schools on student and school characteristics to ensure all students have equal access to a quality educationeducation.

However, the Supreme Court's Brown mandate was to ensure access to a high quality public education to all students, and those ultimately responsible for developing and supporting a foundation for such opportunities — elected officials, policymakers, and the post-Brown courts — have fallen far short of the target.

When national resources are used to minimise student residualisation, to ensure that every school has access to high quality teaching and school leadership, and to promote the use of effective, evidence - based practices in every school, it is more likely that every student will receive a high quality education regardless of the school they attend.

This practice probably depresses the schools» test scores somewhat — students from district schools often have catching up to do — but it gives more students access to a high - quality education.

The Schott Foundation works to unite a growing coalition of advocates and organizers from across the country working to ensure that all students have access to a high quality public education.

With 70 percent of Boston Public Schools students coming from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, ensuring that all are both prepared for, and have access to, a quality postsecondary education is a critically important topic.

Public school advocate, engineer and parent David F. Welch founded Students Matter to defend children's fundamental right to have an equal opportunity to access quality public education.

«Governor Corbett remains committed to ensuring that all Pennsylvania public school students - regardless of zip code - have access to a quality education,» Eller said in an e-mail.

Our «I Love Public Education» campaign is a direct extension of our commitment to ensuring all students have access to a high quality public eEducation» campaign is a direct extension of our commitment to ensuring all students have access to a high quality public educationeducation.

And online courses have the potential to liberate the quality of education from a student's zip code by, for example, allowing rural and low - income urban students access to AP classes now clustered in suburban schools.

I haven't figured out what title I want, but my dream role will allow me to craft and influence policy that improves access to quality education for the most disadvantaged students in L.A.

Middle level and high school students deserve to have access to the same high quality education that they receive in the early grades, and the failure to meet students» needs in the latter years of their educational experience often translates into lower performance and higher drop - out rates.

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.

By locating special programs in under - resourced and underperforming schools, districts can ensure that existing students have access to a better quality education while also attracting families who may not have previously considered enrolling.

Parents and children across the nation would be fortunate indeed if the Administration and Congress were to adopt a federal tax credit because it would facilitate access to a quality education for another 1 million students — most of whom will graduate and go on to college as the body of research into these programs clearly demonstrates.

CSDC has proven that through collaboration and leveraging, its innovative programs positively impact low - income and low - wealth communities by increasing access to high quality public education and reducing the «achievement gap» for minority and at - risk students.

Responding to the excellent student outcomes being attained in Idaho Distance Education Academy (I - DEA), he created a plan which would give more Idaho students access to quality eEducation Academy (I - DEA), he created a plan which would give more Idaho students access to quality educationeducation.

«Any ESEA reauthorization bill must ensure that all students have access to quality early education, well - rounded instruction, a safe and supportive learning environment, and access to qualified, caring, and committed teachers.

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.»

Three recent publications highlight some of the key challenges the National Center for Special Education in Charter Schools faces as we work to ensure students with disabilities have ready access to charter schools prepared to provide quality special education and related Education in Charter Schools faces as we work to ensure students with disabilities have ready access to charter schools prepared to provide quality special education and related education and related services.

School leaders are key in ensuring that the students in their buildings have access to these multiple modes of learning as a part of high - quality arts education.

In a report drawn from a convening of school district superintendents, charter leaders, school finance experts, and other education experts in Houston earlier this year, CRPE recommends that urban districts and charter schools collaborate to solve the problems associated with declining enrollment so that all students can have access to a high - quality education.

It is this experience and commitment that lead her to YES Prep and the mission of ensuring all students, regardless of background or zip code, have access to quality education.

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

New York School Talk is eighteen months old and eager to expand our network of writers — parents, teachers, students, education leaders — who share our conviction that all New York City's children, regardless of income and ethnicity, must have access to high - quality schools.

Overview With the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), there is a renewed emphasis on making sure all young people have access to high - quality educational opportunities that prepare them for success in postsecondary education and the workforce.

«As the nation seeks to maintain our international competitiveness, ensure all students regardless of background have access to a high quality education, and prepare all students for college, work and citizenship,» said Duncan when the standards were released in June 2010, «these standards are an important foundation for our collective work.»

«ESSA will directly impact our students» outcomes and this policy gives us the opportunity to think critically about what it means to truly have a high - quality education, where we look beyond test scores to data on student growth, wellness, attendance, engagement and access to enrichment activities,» said Clare Foley, a fifth - grade teacher at Richard R. Green Central Park School in Minneapolis.

Families that Can educates, empowers and mobilizes parents to be the voice of public school students and hold our leaders accountable for ensuring every child has access to a high - quality public education.