Sentences with phrase «urban schoolchildren»

Working through CUBE, you and your school board governance team can also influence the advocacy priorities of the NSBA to ensure that federal policymakers understand how they can help your school district successfully educate urban schoolchildren.

«They are an outstanding example of the impact that school leaders can and must have in providing access to quality educational opportunities that yield continuous and sustainable results in academic achievement for urban schoolchildren.»

«These school leaders have been at the forefront of efforts in their communities around the country to raise student achievement and provide urban schoolchildren the high - quality education they deserve,» added CUBE Chair Micah Ali, who serves on California's Compton Unified School District Board of Trustees.

«This year's CUBE Award winners have demonstrated strong leadership and measureable success in providing urban schoolchildren with the finest public education possible,» said NSBA Executive Director and CEO Thomas J. Gentzel.

According to the Boston Globe, Kozol said he will continue his partial fast until Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy (a sponsor of the original bill) agrees to overhaul what Kozol called a punitive law that relegates urban schoolchildren to an inferior, stripped - down education and demoralizes teachers, who he believes are forced to teach to the test.

Kozol's uniquely passionate take on urban schools and urban schoolchildren has been documented in such books as Death at an Early Age and, more recently, Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope.

Urban schoolchildren with asthma are less active than their peers, a tendency that persists regardless of the severity of their condition or whether medications are used to control the symptoms, an analysis has found.

To Paul Tractenberg, a longtime school - finance activist, it's a sellout of poor urban schoolchildren.

«I want to continue ensuring that the council remains an innovative, aggressive, and outspoken advocate for urban schoolchildren through legislation, research, and media relations.»

Not exact matches

The Conference is a membership organization advocating for New York's urban school systems, including Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Utica, Yonkers and New York City, which make up 45 percent of the state's public schoolchildren.

After becoming a successful lawyer, I felt a need to give something back to help advance the education of inner - city schoolchildren and address urban education issues.

For far too long, schoolchildren in D.C. and other urban areas have been subject to a «narrative of disinheritance» — the persistent inequities of experience, resources, and perceived worth, based on race, class, or story.

Even with 60 new schools, charters would make up a smaller proportion of all schools at CPS than they do at some other large urban districts — in New Orleans, for example, about 70 percent of schoolchildren attend charters.

The researchers utilized a dataset of elementary schoolchildren from a large - scale urban district where the rates of chronic absenteeism were expected to be higher compared to the national average.

KIPP, or the Knowledge Is Power Program, is known for its size — 162 schools and 59,000 students nationally and growing — as well as its track record of getting solid test scores out of underprivileged urban and rural schoolchildren.

Fewer than half of American schoolchildren are white, and the number is much lower in urban school systems like Philadelphia.

The evidence base suggests that while Responding in Peaceful and Positive Ways (RIPP) showed promising results with urban African American school children (see Study 1), the program showed inconsistent results with small effect sizes when administered to schools in a rural setting with majority white schoolchildren (see Study 2).