Sentences with phrase «support school reform»

As seen with the tremendous growth of charter schools within urban communities and even in films such as The Lottery, these families will support school reform with their feet and with their voices.

Rothstein is a great choice for this one in that indeed he is an economist, but one of a few, really, who is deep into the research literature and who, accordingly, has a balanced set of research - based beliefs about value - added models (VAMs), their current uses in America's public schools, and what they can and can not do (theoretically) to support school reform.

Here at UrbEd, we support school reform, and we firmly believe this will be a major step towards advancements in urban education.

While artfully painting school reform as solely the product of corporate boogeymen, Burris and Co. strategically sidestep a more important point: people of color widely support school reform (see: here, here, here, here, here, and here).

• New, independent local institutions to support school reform.

Democratic senator Mary Landrieu, a cosponsor of the «Three R's» bill, worked tirelessly, and against considerable opposition from members of both political parties, to increase the targeting of federal education dollars to low - income communities and schools in an effort to better support their school reform efforts.

Last month, the department released «Supporting School Reform by Leveraging Federal Funds in a Schoolwide Program.»

This problem exists in Connecticut as well,» said Jennifer Alexander, chief executive officer of ConnCAN, an organization that supports school reform.»

Not exact matches

Survivors of the school shooting in Parkland organized the March for Our Lives in DC, on March 24 with the support of Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun law reform advocacy group.

Survivors of the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School organized the March for Our Lives in Washington, DC, on March 24, with the support of Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun law reform advocacy school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School organized the March for Our Lives in Washington, DC, on March 24, with the support of Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun law reform advocacy School organized the March for Our Lives in Washington, DC, on March 24, with the support of Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun law reform advocacy group.

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And to win the support of educators who do not share the neoconservative commitment to educational reform rooted largely, if not exclusively, in Western traditions, he argues that in pluralistic America, if schools do their job there can indeed be one cultural vocabulary.

They elected to break with the Plan of Union, to support only Presbyterian societies for missions and reform, and to cut off four large New School synods that they considered heretical.

PR insured that political parties would be represented according to their actual popular support, while the educational reforms guaranteed funding for all schools, even those with overt faith commitments.

After the first year of the partnership, schools often return to our conferences to receive further guidance and support and to plan for future reform efforts.

Additionally, she plans the bi-annual Challenge Success school conferences and supports coaches and school site teams to promote best practices and policy reform.

It's disheartening to realize that a leading school food reformer like Chef Ann faces the same problem, even in a place like Boulder, which has shown clear community - wide support for reform.

I would love to see some of the energy and activism around school lunch reform turn to broader topics of helping support parents to make better food choices at home.

The «teen athletes don't get enough food» angle has been one argument in support of further reform to school lunch, which would loosen the mandates on serving healthy food.

But of course I recognize that many people who don't share my political views might still support the current school food reform efforts, and I agree that I didn't acknowledge that at all in this post.

This proposal would provide the resources to help states implement those important reforms and support the expansion of access to quality child care programs staffed by early educators that can provide developmentally appropriate services that promote the healthy development and school readiness of young children

But now many powerful forces are aligned against school food reform: the processed food industry, which has a huge financial stake in the program and powerful lobbyists on Capitol Hill; the need of school districts to make their meal programs break even; First Lady Michelle Obama's vocal support of school food reform, which has politicized the issue for some conservatives hoping to score political points; and conservatives» general distrust of «big government.»

My team and I remain focused on school food reform because of the need to continue supporting long - term solutions.

She's the founder of the Food Family Farming Foundation (F3), the nonprofit behind The Lunch Box — a web portal that provides free and accessible tools, recipes and community connections to support school food reform.

«Shelley is a fighter who will stand up and champion our values: common - sense gun reform, protecting women's health and the environment and supporting our schools,» Biden says in the call.

Cuomo has had an at - times truculent relationship with teachers unions, especially when it comes to support for charter schools and other concerns of the education reform movement, such as stronger teacher evaluations.

A first time candidate for office, McGrath has benefited from an independent expenditure campaign supported by an education reform and pro-charter school organization, which has spent an additional $ 1.2 million knocking Kaminsky.

Another group, Catholics For Independent Action, transferred $ 250,000 on April 6 to New Yorkers For A Balanced Albany, the political action committee arm of StudentsFirstNY, a grassroots organization that has pushed for education reform policies and charter school support.

The political action committee is an arm of StudentsFirstNY, a group that has supported education reform and charter schools.

[EDUCATION: Promote innovation and reform in education, including support for choice and charter schools, so our children are prepared for college and to become active participants in the 21st century economy]

Education reform — loosely defined as support for charter school expansion and enhanced classroom standards and evaluations — had largely subsided as a major issue in 2016 for state lawmakers, but had bitterly divided the Capitol in 2015 as Gov. Andrew Cuomo sought to develop new standards for public school teachers.

The 2013 - 14 Executive Budget and Management Plan builds on two years of balanced, fiscally responsible budgeting and invests in economic development, education reform, rebuilding after Superstorm Sandy, provides support to local governments and school districts, and includes no new taxes or fees.

If elected, Mr. Altschuler pledges to repeal the Affordable Health Care Act, work for the Republican plan for Medicare and Social Security reform, reform teacher tenure requirements and support school voucher programs.

He is the only one who will raise taxes on the wealthy to fund universal pre-k and after - school programs that keep our kids safe; the only one who supports the full package of reforms to end a stop - and - frisk era defined by racial profiling; and he has the boldest plan to build or preserve nearly 200,000 units of affordable housing.

David Cameron today set the tone for his new style of politics when he began prime minister's questions by giving the government his full support on school reforms.

At 2 p.m., de Blasio delivers remarks at a health care rally where Cuomo will be making an announcement in support of Obamacare and against the U.S. Senate's reform bill, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai — Stern Auditorium, 1468 Madison Ave., Manhattan.

An aide to the schools minister has resigned after saying he could not support the government's education reforms.

Hawkins» platform includes tax reform that would create a city income tax, anti-poverty initiatives, state - supported worker co-ops for poor and working - class people, public ownership of utilities and desegregation of schools and housing.

«Robert Halfon MP: How a cross-party campaign for free school meals won the backing of Michael Gove and Nick Clegg Main Chris Grayling MP: Here are the reforms I'm announcing today to support and manage offenders»

The Greens have called for Foundation Aid to be fully funded immediately, for the school aid formula to be reformed so it is more need - based, and for the state to support school desegregation programs such as intra - and inter-district public school choice, consolidation, and incentives (such as magnet schools).

The prime minister will understand the dangers of relying on opposition support for a flagship measure after he personally ensured that Tony Blair's schools reforms survived with Tory support in 2006 three months after he became leader.

There have not been any angry public walkouts from the negotiating room to this point, but there have been the usual grumbling about the stickiest issues, which this week include talks on «Raise the Age,» workers compensation reform and support for charter schools.

Citing stances the Senators have taken detrimental to the cause of working people, the flyers highlight: Protecting a failed tax system that favors the privileged at the expense of working people; increasing the tax on health insurance; siding with big corporations and against teachers and students to pass a Charter School Bill - with no real reform; creating a new Tier V pension; and attacking education by supporting an irresponsible property tax cap.

Schools minister Nick Gibb expresses his support for pension reforms and their ability to provide a fair and sustainable pension for teachers.

«We'd get lower taxes, we'd get a more efficient welfare system [and] we'd get more support for our school reforms.»

Mr. Jeffries could face attacks on certain positions, such as his enthusiasm for charter schools, that might be less popular in a citywide Democratic primary than with political donors who support education reform.

The Department of Education announced a series of long - awaited reforms to the school discipline code on Friday, including new policies aimed at lowering suspension rates, and new funding to support restorative justices practices and students in the criminal justice system.

His education commissioner, Stefan Pryor, is unpopular with some rank - and - file teachers because of his support for charter schools and for the way that reforms were carried out in recent years.

Albany, New York — StudentsFirstNY, a statewide education reform advocacy organization, today was joined by public school parents and advocates in testifying before a New York State Joint Committee on Education in support of Governor Andrew Cuomo's Opportunity Agenda.

Students from Montgomery Blair High School march down Colesville Road in support of gun reform legislation on February 21 in Silver Spring, Maryland.