Sentences with phrase «than school reform»

Why would school change be more manageable than school reform?

SoundOut believes in more than school reform or school improvement; we promote school transformation.

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During his 45 - minute outline of the bold initiative, in which he repeated the phrase «pass this jobs bill» more than a dozen times, Obama described reforms to create new construction projects, restore American schools, and cut the payroll tax in half.

It's hard to find a policy with a more consistent track record of failure than government job - training programs, but throwing more money at government schools without any structural reform is one of them.

Less than a week after the tragic shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School, some of the surviving students — who are barely old enough to vote — have become some of the loudest and most prominent voices for gun control reform.

School food reform is about more than nourishing ingredients on a plate.

Bettina, to me this is the heart of it: «But when it comes to school food reform, it often feels that J.O. isn't playing fair with the viewer — and that failing was never more apparent than in this latest episode of Food Revolution.»

But when it comes to school food reform, it often feels that J.O. isn't playing fair with the viewer — and that failing was never more apparent than in this latest episode of Food Revolution.

ACEs Connection is a social network that accelerates the global movement toward recognizing the impact of adverse childhood experiences in shaping adult behavior and health, and reforming all communities and institutions — from schools to prisons to hospitals and churches — to help heal and develop resilience rather than to continue to traumatize already traumatized people.

Rather than preach reform in the way parents and schools prepare students for higher education, Stanford and its fellow institutions could quickly improve student well being by basing admissions on finding the appropriate students rather than on generating statistics the school can use to promote its brand.

Lunch Money is Adamick's effort to dispel «the myth that school food reform is cost prohibitive» by providing «effective money - saving and revenue - generating tools for use in any school kitchen or cafeteria... [including] examples, diagrams, charts, and worksheets that unlock the financial secrets to scratch - cooking in the school food environment and prove that a penny saved is much more than a penny earned.»

When it comes to school food reform, I try to stay grounded but optimistic (not easy) and am always open to hearing from people who've been at this a lot longer than I have.

Because as my school food reform colleague Dana Woldow once memorably wrote, cleaned - up junk food products «are «better for you» only in the sense that it is «better for you» to be hit in the head with a brick only twice, rather than three times.»

In a nation where kids are born with shorter estimated life expectancies than their parents due to diet - related disease, Chef Ann has been a constant champion of school food reform as an important avenue through which to improve childhood nutrition.

Shows like Jamie Oliver's «Food Revolution,» and school districts like Chef Ann Cooper's former district in Berkeley, CA and current district in Boulder, CO, are often held up as examples of what's possible in school food reform, yet it's seldom ever mentioned that in each of these cases, far more money is being spent on those meals than the current federal reimbursement rate — and far more than that rate plus six cents.

School food reform is a BIG, multi-faceted issue, and working with your district to create change can feel like biting off more than...

Philip Blonde takes an almost Democratic Republican ideology towards public service reform in advocating using social entreprises to manage schools, hospitals, sure start centres etc, which would be democratically connected to all other schools etc through out the country and collectively elect the central management who allocate budget spending to each and every school etc. http://www.respublica.org.uk/publications/ownership-state It sounds more like a radical libertarian socialist solution to public services than a free market conservative solution to public services.

As a professor at Fordham Law School, the author of important books on political and economic policy, a key figure in Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign, and a visionary organizer on behalf of banking and business reforms, she understands that the Democratic Party must move toward progressive populism in order to become more than a tepid alternative to Republican extremism.

This is the latest attack against the new, more rigorous school testing standards and goes further than other reforms offered to date.

In place of Labour's hopeless acceptance of mediocrity in education, which has seen Britain tumble down the world league tables just when we need our children to be doing better than those in other countries, we will offer the hope of a decent education for every child, with immediate action to raise standards and radical reform to end the state monopoly over new school places.

«The governor is fighting to reform a system that spends more money per student than any other state in the nation while condemning hundreds of thousands of children to failing schools over the last decade,» said Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi.

KINGSTON, N.Y. >> «More than 600 people have signed up to attend a town hall - style event Friday at a local elementary school, hoping to hear U.S. Rep. John Faso speak about the Affordable Care Act, immigration reform and other current issues.

Roll back Malloy education reform policies by not interfering in high - performing schools, which would be subjected to different standards than lower - performing schools.

Cuomo pointed to the failed effort to achieve juvenile justice reform, as well as a plan he proposed at the start of the year — providing free tuition to SUNY and CUNY schools for families earning less than $ 125,000.

A rural cemetery containing the remains of 14 boys who died while they were inmates at a state reform school in Rush will be returned to the state more than 20 years after being sold as part of a land deal.

And rank - and - file lawmakers were less - than - bullish on reaching a packaged deal like what was included in the budget, when they were forced to swallow a bitter pill on education reform in order to receive a boost in school aid.

That is an aim we're fulfilling through public service reform — as in schools, where parents are getting more control than ever before over their children's education.

Geoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, responded to the Queen's Speech: «Schools and colleges will be relieved that there are no immediate plans to introduce further reforms in a sector which has had more than its fair share of change and badly needs a breathing space.»

«The announcement by Michael Gove today on establishing a «formidable reform programme» for schools owes more to ideology than it does to a genuine attempt to further improve schools.

«I trust this elected (school) board to work with the community for real reform much more than I trust a two - person junta of mayor and superintendent, with no checks and balances,» said Charlie Dee, a 34 - year Milwaukee resident and parent of a former MPS student.

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.

Other announcements expected include reform of the system for diagnosing and helping children with special educational needs to give parents more choice in how they are schooled; reforms to the family justice system to speed up care proceedings so no cases take more than six months; and promised changes to the adoption system to make sure parents and children are matched more quickly.

Driven by anger at education reforms included in this year's state budget, there's a movement afoot in Albany to encourage parents to keep their children home from school, rather than sit for state tests.

««Worse than Maastricht» - Tory MPs warn that Lords reform could split the party Main One hundred Tory MPs turn out for grammar schools reception»

The money can be used, they say, to enact needed education reforms — different reforms than Cuomo has proposed, which include state takeovers of chronically failing schools and an expansion of charter schools.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

It also featured promises of more education reforms, with the «best headteachers» working in more than one school as trusts, academies and federations are expanded.

Peneston was one of seven New York teachers of the year who signed an open letter to Cuomo saying his education reform proposals would hurt rather than help public schools across the state.

«The governor is fighting to reform a system that spends more money per student than any other state in the nation while condemning hundreds of thousands of children to failing schools over the last decade,» Azzopardi said.

Hudson, who last performed Friday at Madison Square Garden for Pope Francis» Mass, will sing no fewer than four songs for the upcoming rally organized by education reform group Families for Excellent Schools.

And after 10 years of so - called school reforms and massive infusions of money, less than half the students in city public schools are considered proficient readers.

Cuomo has threatened to withhold more than $ 1 billion in additional state funding for public schools if the Legislature does not agree to his reforms in the upcoming state budget.

In addition, the Budget puts forward the state's largest investment in education to date, including an increase of more than 5 % in school aid; statewide, universal full - day Pre-k; a bond act to modernize classrooms; as well as signature reforms to fix Common Core implementation and protect students from unfair high stakes test results; and strengthen and support Charter Schools.

Excerpt: «Reforming the Common Core, increasing aid to local schools, and making sure that educational funding goes to the classroom and benefits our students, rather than being squandered on additional layers of unnecessary government bureaucracy.»

Since 1985, Project 2061 has led the way in science education reform by first defining adult science literacy in its influential publication Science for All Americans and then specifying what K - 12 students need to know in Benchmarks for Science Literacy, which helps educators implement science literacy goals in the classroom; the AAAS Science Assessment website with more than 700 middle school test items; and WeatherSchool @ AAAS, an online resource where students can use real - world data to learn about the fundamental principles of weather and climate.

STEM - focused high schools are important because they constitute the first U.S. science and mathematics reform that requires whole - school transformation rather than tinkering with peripheral components of an outmoded educational system or serving just a small, select segment of the public school population.

In my vision, medical schools and residency programs not only reform the traumatic way of educating doctors that more closely resembles the brainwashing of soldiers than the nurturing of healers.

In some cases, as in Florida, where educating students at the Florida Virtual School costs nearly $ 2,500 less than at traditional schools, such reform has been sold as a budget fix.

Accountability has been a central theme of education reform for almost two decades, driven by the unchallenged central finding of James Coleman's seminal 1966 study: Although some interventions are demonstrably more effective than others, there's no direct link between what goes into a school by way of resources and what comes out by way of student learning.

They give a higher evaluation to private schools than to public ones in their local community, but opposition to market - oriented school - reform proposals such as performance pay for teachers and school vouchers seems to be on the rise.