Sentences with phrase «systemic reform so»

But we need to step up on advancing systemic reform so that all families can provide their children with the high - quality education they need and deserve.

Not exact matches

Distinguishing the Cook for America ® approach from that of countless other school food reform projects is its emphasis on holistic, systemic change through the creation of a school foodservice work force that is both capable of preparing healthy scratch - cooked meals from whole, fresh foods, and empowered and motivated to do so.

So far, systemic reforms have remained a fantasy in Albany.

And help us with reform so that we can cure these systemic issues.»

Police corruption so systemic that real reform is only possible via tearing it down and starting over.

I had been working on supply - side reforms for a long time at that point so I was happy to participate in reform at a more systemic level since both kinds of reform (choice and systems) are very important to me.

Although the Wolverine State expects 85 percent of all students to be proficient in all subjects by 2022, the fact that the bar is so low means that districts may not take on the systemic reforms needed to actually aim higher.

So for these districts and their respective states, especially those in the Beltway where Hess and Petrilli live, there is greater motivation to eviscerate the accountability provisions (and go back to ignoring poor and minority kids) than to get rid of the compliance rules that actually get in the way of systemic reform.

As we learned from the 1990 - 2005 era of systemic state standards - based reform, when academic standards change, so do policies related to student assessment and school accountability.

By dismissing the lessons gleaned from No Child's success — and ditching the accountability tool that worked so well — the administration has weakened systemic reform on the ground.

All in all, counterproductive to advancing systemic reform that our children need and deserve so they can be connected to brighter futures.

What we should do instead is expand upon the accountability measures set in place a decade ago under No Child — and provide families with the data they need (including, contrary to the assertions of our friend, Andy Rotherham, value - added data on teacher performance) so they can make smart choices and spur systemic reform.

If you want to understand why a strong federal role is needed in advancing systemic reform of American public education — and why arguments for a so - called «energized retrenchment» or backsliding in that role from some conservative reformers like Andy Smarick of Bellwether Education are unconvincing — consider what happened in 1946 after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its ruling in Morgan v. Virginia.

So this may be the year that the state actually embarks on systemic reform.

When it comes to stopping systemic reform, the California affiliates of the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers will spend as much money as they can to do so.

That even those few NEA and AFT leaders who advocate for some modest version of systemic reform continually back other policies that do not help younger teachers — including the defense of defined - benefit pensions from which half of newly - hired teachers will never benefit — has also made them apathetic about even bothering with the unions that take so much of their take - home pay.