As ConnCAN summarizes in its November 2009 release of the report, The Tab «offers a detailed reform plan grounded in three fundamental changes: 1) Revamp the state's funding formula so that money follows children based on their needs, 2) Shine a bright light on education finance by creating a comprehensive and easily accessible data system on school funding, and 3) Remove fiscal barriers that stand in the way of
creating great schools for everyone.»
We conducted intensive strategic planning and came up with our name and vision, which is to «develop educated, engaged, and empowered parents and staff who are academic partners
in creating great schools in every neighborhood where every child succeeds.»
New schools allow strong principals the best chance
of creating a great school quickly: they can hire the right team of teachers, build an uncompromising culture of excellence for students, staff and parents, and fully implement best practices from day one.
A new School Food Plan initiative aims to share inspirational ideas and practical tips on how to
create a great school food culture.
He is author of Why Boys Fail: Saving Our Sons from an Education System That's Leaving Them Behind (Amacom, 2010); The Bee Eater: Michelle Rhee Takes on the Nation's Worst School District (Jossey - Bass, 2011); and The Achievable Dream: College Board Lessons
on Creating Great Schools with Gaston Caperton (The College Board, 2012).
Over the past 20 years of fighting to
create great schools for the children who need them most, an ideologically and politically broad and tenuous bipartisan coalition was forged around important issues such as vouchers, scholarships, charter schools, the need to end teacher tenure, the importance of introducing pay for teaching performance, and until recently, the Common Core State Standards.
At Denver Public Schools (DPS) and in every district in Rhode Island, family and community engagement empowers parents to be partners
in creating great schools.
What Works Well brings together the best ideas in school food and showcases what we can all do to
create a great school food culture.
Ensure that the work
of creating great schools — and transforming failing ones — is not impeded by politics: Make it easier for new schools to find building space and for failing schools to be transformed.
Each day, hundreds of thousands of educators fight the good fight, battling intractable bureaucracies with intellectual and technical innovation designed to
create great schools and inspired students.
Creating great schools is infinitely more messy and contextual than creating a performance measurement system.
In Cage - Busting Leadership, I argued that K — 12 leaders have much more power than they think to
create great schools and systems.
The mark of the cage - buster is not a particular stance on things like career ladders or differentiated pay but the belief that educators should have much more leeway to
create great schools and systems.
Creating the great schools all Massachusetts students deserve requires bold, innovative thinkers.
«America knows how to make great schools,» said Journey for Justice Director Jitu Brown, «America just chooses not to
create great schools in black and brown neighborhoods.»
Creating great schools is far more complicated than rocket science.
Great leaders are vital in
creating great schools.
Contact us today to see how we can help your middle school educators reach every student, grow professionally and
create great schools!
Providing a great education is at the foundation of
creating a great school, but you need to pull together a lot of other pieces to make that happen, says Hrag Hamalian, founder of Valor Academy in Arleta.
Once
you create a great school, how do you maintain at least a close approximation of that high quality for the long term?
State Commissioner of Education David Hespe said, «We know that school leadership is a critical component to
creating great schools, and I'm glad to see that Jersey City is taking this step to provide its leaders with high quality training.»
Guggenheim's film would have audiences believe that free - market competition, standardized tests, destroying teacher unions, and above all, the proliferation of charter schools are just what this country needs to
create great schools.
Today I published a report through IPPR, which argues that our knowledge of what it takes to
create great schools has outpaced our ability to train the expert teachers that great schools must have.
So many people here are fired up about AF attempting to
create a great school but none of the folks commenting here get fired up about for profit prisons making money off the failures of public education....
Crescent City Schools is looking for outstanding teachers and leaders to support our efforts to
create great schools for all students in New Orleans.
Halton quickly realized the benefits of
creating a greater school - to - home connection for their students.
It had always been his ambition to
create great schools and colleges to give all young people the very best opportunities - regardless of background, he said.
While fights and protests over a rough draft we disagree with may feel cathartic, it will not be as effective as working with diverse community, education and civil rights groups to answer this fundamental question and influence the vision for a plan to
create great schools for all students.