«The Governor says people who
support quality public schools are playing politics, meanwhile he is robo calling voters homes and there is a committee of millionaires doing direct mail to force through school cuts and finance tax cuts for the wealthiest New Yorkers.»
The Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools is linking together parents, educators, students, school staff and community members in dozens of cities across the country on and around February 17 as they WALK - IN to
support the quality public schools that all our students deserve.
The Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools is linking together parents, educators, students, school staff and community members in dozens of cities across the country on February 17 as they WALK - IN to
support the quality public schools that all our students deserve.
Not exact matches
Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built
support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor -
quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's
public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.
• increase
public funding for after -
school programs • serve suppers instead of (or in addition to) snacks • recruit more
school districts to provide after -
school suppers and snacks •
support and expand year - round participation by integrating the Afterschool Supper Program with the Summer Food Service Program • streamline and simplify the Afterschool Supper Program • serve meals during weekends, holidays and unanticipated
school closures; and • improve meal
quality
At noon, Rep. Adriano Espaillat and Columbia University's Mailman
School of Public Health announce $ 25 million in federal grant funding to the school to support the implementation of quality malaria diagnosis and treatment services in Ethiopia, Hess Auditorium, 722 West 168th St., Manh
School of
Public Health announce $ 25 million in federal grant funding to the
school to support the implementation of quality malaria diagnosis and treatment services in Ethiopia, Hess Auditorium, 722 West 168th St., Manh
school to
support the implementation of
quality malaria diagnosis and treatment services in Ethiopia, Hess Auditorium, 722 West 168th St., Manhattan.
NYSUT spokesman Carl Korn said, «The Alliance for
Quality Education is a staunch ally of the union in
supporting public schools.»
Support $ 15 an hour minimum wage, single payer health care,
quality public schools, clean 100 % renewable energy by 2030, and a
public jobs program.
«While offering free college tuition to low - income families is laudable, the reality is that many students» paths to college are limited because their local K - 12
public schools lack the resources to
support them,» said Jasmine Gripper, Legislative and Policy Director of the Alliance for
Quality Education in a statement.
Unlike Governor Cuomo, who
supports privatization in the form of charter
schools, the Green Party ticket of Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones advocates a comprehensive «
Quality Education for All» platform grounded in fully funding and strengthening our
public school system.
Collaborating with the Alliance for
Quality Education and Citizen Action of New York in efforts to fairly fund
public schools, she sits on NYSUT's LGBTQ Task Force, which resolves to
support legislation banning conversion therapy and to protect intended parental rights.
«We're going to do everything we can to
support the governor in advancing a bold education reform agenda that improves the
quality of traditional
public schools and expands choice for families,» the group's executive director, Jenny Sedlis, said in an interview.
«The findings of both studies
support a growing body of research that suggests lifestyle interventions lower biomarkers associated with breast cancer recurrence and mortality, and improve
quality of life,» said Melinda Irwin, PhD, co-program leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at Yale Cancer Center, associate professor of Epidemiology at Yale
School of
Public Health, and principal investigator on both studies.
While these results
support the contention that vouchers would improve the
quality of education for the entire education system, it remains to be seen whether even the prospect of competition can provoke a
public school response.
But while we're seeing truly great progress in
supporting the
quality growth of the
public charter
school sector, there's still a lot of work to be done here in Newark.
The
quality of our
public schools has been measured in innumerable ways, and stakeholders may draw on any number of sources for rankings to
support a particular agenda.
Attitudes:
support for diversity (racial integration), a perception of inequity (that the
public schools provide a lower
quality education for low - income and minority kids),
support for voluntary prayer in the
schools,
support for greater parent influence, desire for smaller
schools, belief in what I call the «
public school ideology» (which measures a normative attachment to
public schooling and its ideals), a belief in markets (that choice and competition are likely to make
schools more effective), and a concern that moral values are poorly taught in the
public schools.
President Reagan's criticisms of the nation's
schools and his proposals for improving the
quality of education are misleading the American
public and threatening to reverse 20 years of progress made possible by federal
support of education, according to a report by 19 education and civil - rights leaders.
The conscience of a liberal should struggle with
supporting a system in which the children of the poor are consigned to attend the
school that is assigned to them by
public officials, regardless of its
quality, whereas more affluent parents can shop for the
school they want for their children by purchasing a home in the vicinity of the
public school they prefer or paying private
school tuition.
The Project on the Next Generation of Teachers at the Harvard Graduate
School of Education is a multi-year research project addressing critical questions about the future of our nation's teaching force by studying how best to attract,
support, and retain
quality teachers in U.S.
public schools.
This research is part of the Project on the Next Generation of Teachers, a multi-year research project addressing critical questions about the future of our nation's teaching force by studying how best to attract,
support, and retain
quality teachers in U.S.
public schools.
While the study suggests that
public support for
school reforms changes with added information about
school quality, in most instances, teacher opinion is unaffected.
The Project, led by Professor Susan Moore Johnson, examines issues related to attracting,
supporting, and retaining
quality teachers in U.S.
public schools.
Candidate Beyond Minimally Adequate: Building
Public Support for High -
Quality, Accessible Charter
Schools in South Carolina Tuesday, April 11, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m., Gutman Conference Center, Area 1
But as pundits and practitioners thrust and parry over these issues, they may be overlooking the potential impact of CCSS on
public perceptions of
school quality and
public support for
school reforms.
NAF cited Schwartz's long history of advocacy for high
quality school - to - career programs, especially in his current position cochairing Pathways to Prosperity, a foundation - funded initiative designed to increase
public support for the creation of multiple pathways linking work and learning to enable more young people to successfully complete high
school and go on to obtain a meaningful postsecondary credential.
Salaries paid to personnel in
public schools impact both the ability to attract high -
quality professionals to serve students and the budgets of the
school districts in which teachers, central office administrators,
school leaders, and
support personnel work.
Before joining
Public Impact, Mr. Field was a regional director for the KIPP Foundation, where he provided coaching
support to KIPP executive directors, coordinated internal and external resources, and provided
quality oversight to ensure that KIPP regions are prepared to open and sustain high - performing
schools in their communities.
Pay Teachers More and Reach All Students with Excellence — Aug 30, 2012 District RTTT — Meet the Absolute Priority for Great - Teacher Access — Aug 14, 2012 Pay Teachers More — Within Budget, Without Class - Size Increases — Jul 24, 2012 Building
Support for Breakthrough
Schools — Jul 10, 2012 New Toolkit: Expand the Impact of Excellent Teachers — Selection, Development, and More — May 31, 2012 New Teacher Career Paths: Financially Sustainable Advancement — May 17, 2012 Charlotte, N.C.'s Project L.I.F.T. to be Initial Opportunity Culture Site — May 10, 2012 10 Financially Sustainable Models to Reach More Students with Excellence — May 01, 2012 Excellent Teaching Within Budget: New Infographic and Website — Apr 17, 2012 Incubating Great New
Schools — Mar 15, 2012
Public Impact Releases Models to Extend Reach of Top Teachers, Seeks Sites — Dec 14, 2011 New Report: Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction — Nov 17, 2011 City - Based Charter Strategies: New White Papers and Webinar from
Public Impact — Oct 25, 2011 How to Reach Every Child with Top Teachers (Really)-- Oct 11, 2011 Charter Philanthropy in Four Cities — Aug 04, 2011
School Turnaround Leaders: New Ideas about How to Find More of Them — Jul 21, 2011 Fixing Failing
Schools: Building Family and Community Demand for Dramatic Change — May 17, 2011 New Resources to Boost
School Turnaround Success — May 10, 2011 New Report on Making Teacher Tenure Meaningful — Mar 15, 2011 Going Exponential: Growing the Charter
School Sector's Best — Feb 17, 2011 New Reports and Upcoming Release Event — Feb 10, 2011 Picky Parent Guide — Nov 17, 2010 Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance: Cross-Sector Lessons for Excellent Evaluations — Nov 02, 2010 New Teacher
Quality Publication from the Joyce Foundation — Sept 27, 2010 Charter
School Research from
Public Impact — Jul 13, 2010 Lessons from Singapore & Shooting for Stars — Jun 17, 2010 Opportunity at the Top — Jun 02, 2010
Public Impact's latest on Education Reform Topics — Dec 02, 2009 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best — Oct 23, 2009 New Research on Dramatically Improving Failing
Schools — Oct 06, 2009 Try, Try Again to Fix Failing
Schools — Sep 09, 2009 Innovation in Education and Charter Philanthropy — Jun 24, 2009 Reconnecting Youth and Designing PD That Works — May 29.
All are
qualities Paolo calls on daily as he works to
support an education system of nearly 3,600
public schools and more than 1.8 million students.
The Idaho Charter
School Network advocates, supports and gives voice to its members to ensure charter schools have the flexibility, public support, and funding to deliver high - quality education to their students and to the thousands of students on Idaho's charter school wait
School Network advocates,
supports and gives voice to its members to ensure charter
schools have the flexibility,
public support, and funding to deliver high -
quality education to their students and to the thousands of students on Idaho's charter
school wait
school wait lists.
Since 2009, Wallace has also
supported the Boston
Public Schools» Arts Expansion Initiative, a citywide public - private partnership to expand high - quality arts education in the clas
Public Schools» Arts Expansion Initiative, a citywide
public - private partnership to expand high - quality arts education in the clas
public - private partnership to expand high -
quality arts education in the classroom.
• Overwhelming parental
support for the following elements of an education agenda: Provide extra resources to turn around struggling neighborhood
schools; hold charter
schools accountable; provide more
support / training for struggling teachers; expand / improve new - teacher mentoring; reduce class sizes, especially in the early grades; make
public schools hubs of the neighborhood with longer hours, academic help and health services for families; provide extra pay for teachers in hard - to - staff
schools; and ensure access to high -
quality preschool for all 3 - and 4 - year - olds.
And although Dreyer hopes the new
support systems are effective, she says it's more important that the initiative helps reshape
public discussion, and helps unearth what exactly contributes to the
quality of a given virtual
school.
A successful
school - accountability system contains three basic elements: It gauges education
quality and progress by measuring data that accurately reflect student achievement; it disseminates the results to parents and the
public in a simple and transparent manner; and it rewards and incentivizes success and provides interventions to
support low - performing
schools and reverse failure.
While the Administration appreciates that H.R. 471 would provide Federal
support for improving
public schools in the District of Columbia (D.C.), including expanding and improving high -
quality D.C.
public charter
schools, the Administration opposes the creation or expansion of private
school voucher programs that are authorized by this bill.
Vision: New Hampshire
School Nurses Association (NHSNA) provides leadership and education to support New Hampshire school nurse standards of practice, care coordination, leadership, quality improvement, and community public h
School Nurses Association (NHSNA) provides leadership and education to
support New Hampshire
school nurse standards of practice, care coordination, leadership, quality improvement, and community public h
school nurse standards of practice, care coordination, leadership,
quality improvement, and community
public health.
The Association's mission is to improve student achievement by
supporting and expanding California's
quality charter
public school movement.
The 2013 Hart Vision Awards will recognize individuals that have made significant contributions to CCSA's mission to increase student achievement by
supporting and expanding California's
quality charter
public school movement.
To: Speaker Carl Heastie Assembly Majority Leader Joseph Morelle Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb Assembly Education Committee Chairwoman Catherine Nolan Majority Leader John Flanagan Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins Senate Education Committee Chair Carl L. Marcellino Governor Andrew Cuomo Educators for Excellence - New York (E4E - New York), a teacher - led organization of over 13,000 New York City
public school educators, believes that a multi-measure system of student achievement and a fair system of teacher evaluation is essential to
supporting, developing, and retaining high -
quality educators.
LFC
supports a wide range of educational choice initiatives, so that high
quality public, charter and private
schools flourish and parents will have the opportunity to select the
quality school that works best for their children, and so that teachers will have the flexibility to select the
school that best utilizes their strengths and interests.
Over the last three years, we have worked closely with the Albertson Foundation and partners like Building Hope, a national nonprofit dedicated to helping charter
schools develop high -
quality facilities, to
support the expansion of some of the best charter
public schools in the state.
And yet he has said that he
supports a moratorium — a repeal, if you will — on the approval and expansion of
public charter
schools, a sector that affords families zoned for long - struggling traditional
schools the opportunity to have access to high -
quality public education.
As Chairman of the Senate Education Committee and later as Senate Speaker Pro Tempore, Jamie was a key leader in efforts to identify and
support effective teaching, overhaul Tennessee's K - 12 education funding formula, raise academic standards for Tennessee students, turn around low - performing
schools, and expand high -
quality public charter
schools in Tennessee.
«These results demonstrate
support for vouchers among parents whose children are directly impacted by the
quality of Louisiana's
public schools.
«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.»
The purpose of the Charter
School Grants Program is to increase financial support for these public schools, build a better national understanding of the public charter school model, and increase the number of high - quality public charter schools across the n
School Grants Program is to increase financial
support for these
public schools, build a better national understanding of the
public charter
school model, and increase the number of high - quality public charter schools across the n
school model, and increase the number of high -
quality public charter
schools across the nation.
From 2006 to 2011, NSBA and its Center for
Public Education collaborated with Pre-K Now, a campaign of the Pew Center on the States, to engage
school boards in
support of high -
quality, voluntary prekindergarten education.
We advocate for
public policies that empower students, teachers and
schools, and
support leaders who share our belief that
quality education remains the surest path to the American Dream.
Committee members were clearly uneasy about how these
schools could ensure children, particularly in the early grades, receive a
quality education without any in - person interactions with teachers, peers, counselors, and other
support personnel that occur in traditional
public, charter, and private
schools.