Sentences with phrase «with local public school systems»

When first established in the 1990s, the schools were billed as laboratories of innovation, where best practices could be developed and shared with local public school systems.

Camps are usually scheduled to coincide with the local public school system's spring break to give kids a fun alternative to staying home all week if your family isn't traveling.

Not exact matches

With the public school system, we donate a thousand pies a year to local K - 6 elementary schools.»

A family with a child who does not have an IEP but who might qualify for one should contact their local public school system about setting the IEP process in motion as soon as possible, since it takes time for the public school system to determine each student's eligibility.

Because our public school systems are local, one might assume that parents who want to school would take up their desire to homeschool with the same local organizations.

Modifying / Changing Polices - Formal change, proclamations, laws with written documentation (e.g. law enforcement, school policy, public policy actions, system change with local government, community and organizations when dealing with underage drinking and alcohol.

In keeping with his assault on local public schools in many towns, Malloy announced that most school systems would receive no state assistance on Oct. 1, if there is no budget.

Q) What ever happened to the Merit and Fitness Civil Service System where aspiring Public Information Officers competed for the job in a local high school with a number 2 pencil and a calculator for a PS&T (PEF represented) Grade 18 and / or 23 permanent (non-political) position against a room full of highly qualified competitors?

With the school year beginning, the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System reminds you that one of the simplest ways to support a child's academic success is by using your local library.

Today the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System along with local officials and students from the Jewish Community Center and Bennett Park Montessori School kicked off «Read Aloud 15», a new campaign which encourages adults to read aloud to a child for 15 minutes every day.

The harsh glare of state accountability systems has brought to public attention the expansive collective - bargaining agreements that local school boards negotiate with their employees.

A unitary accountability system enables the state to fairly and transparently monitor program compliance and inform the public about performance; make difficult decisions about withholding funds, intervening with local boards, and taking over schools and districts; and uniformly and thoroughly administer federal programs.

Performance Matters and Fairfax County Public Schools have become true partners in the process, and the district has worked closely with the Performance Matters project team to ensure the system satisfies all state and local requirements.

«NEA will continue to work with Congress on a comprehensive bill that works for students and reflects the important federal role of ensuring equity while working with states and local school districts to support the public education system,» said Van Roekel.

From an experience perspective, I thought it was important to bring experience growing up in public schools on Vandenberg Air Force Base in Lompoc, serving as a senior leader in the central office of a large, complex public school system in Chicago — with over 600 schools serving almost 400,000 students — and as an executive at a nationwide nonprofit working through state agencies and local districts to support public education.

As a product of the urban, local public school system in Atlanta, Georgia, Artesius has first hand experience with the academic disparities and challenges that affect our youth.

The report also provides an analysis of first - year Local Control and Accountability Plans, or LCAPs, with an eye towards how transparently and effectively districts share these plans with the public, along with how they propose to invest in the success of low - income, English learner, and foster care students and recommendations to create a more participatory and fair school finance system.

It's time to start focusing on these students now, to stop harming more students, and to focus back on our neighborhood schools, working with their local school councils, and strengthening the core of the Chicago Public School sschool councils, and strengthening the core of the Chicago Public School sSchool system.

Visitors included staff from the US Departments of Education and Labor, the District of Columbia public school system, youth programs that focus on issues such as juvenile justice, employment, and education, and representatives from intermediaries that work with cities and other local entities.

NEA will continue to work with Congress on a comprehensive bill that works for students and reflects the important federal role of ensuring equity while working with states and local school districts to support the public education system.

With small classes, individualized learning programs, strong teaching, and support from the local community, King / Chavez has more than tripled the student achievement gains made in the broader public school system.

In her role as Senior Program Officer of Education, Bonnie collaborates regularly with the public school system, early childhood educators, local colleges, and the education non-profit community, and she represents the Foundation's education interests on a multitude of local boards and work groups.

And while local officials acknowledge multiple factors may play into tonight's decision, Central Elementary's plight has become a rallying cry among public education advocates in North Carolina this month, with some castigating state lawmakers for handing down funding shortfalls that increasingly strain local school systems.

In December, the company partnered with the city's public school system and City Colleges of Chicago on a coding curriculum for thousands of local students.

Keith Poston, president of the Raleigh - based research and policy group, the Public School Forum of N.C., says the state's system of sharing operational costs with local districts has helped to partly blunt inequities in school acadSchool Forum of N.C., says the state's system of sharing operational costs with local districts has helped to partly blunt inequities in school acadschool academics.

With regard to the school board term limit proposal in Amendment 8, Speaker Corcoran neglects to mention that this is one of the «bundled» amendments that will also establish a state governed charter school authorization board that can circumvent the power of our own locally elected officials in addition to establishing a parallel «public» school system that will not answer to local school boards, which is only another ploy to redirect precious, scant taxpayer dollars to entities that have little oversight or accountability.

Building on a fifty year career in the education policy realm that has included roles in the U.S. Bureau of the Budget, at Stanford University, and in two stints with the SBE, Kirst will play a major role the upcoming year in guiding implementation of the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), a new system of resource allocation designed to more equitably allocate money to California public school districts.

As I have stated before, it is time for all Indiana public school systems to stand up and share with local taxpayers the real value of where their tax dollars should be going, and that is into INDIANA PUBLIC SCpublic school systems to stand up and share with local taxpayers the real value of where their tax dollars should be going, and that is into INDIANA PUBLIC SCPUBLIC SCHOOLS!

The Office of K - 12 School Choice has partnered with Public Consulting Group (PCG) to support charter schools as they transition to the Florida Standards and effectively use data from Local Instructional Improvement Systems.

Friedman argued that the nation needed to scrap its historic commitment to local public schools and replace these hallowed institutions with a system in which parents could use public funds to send their children to «private for - profit schools, private nonprofit schools, religious schools or even «government schools,»» a derogatory term corporate education reformers use to describe local public schools.

Among its provisions, Tillman's rewrite would require public school systems to share more pots of money with local charters, including sales tax revenues, gifts and grants and funds received for «indirect» costs.

With state funding for the school system declining — and the city facing the need to make up the shortfall — public calls increased for a return to local control.

The proposed FOCUS grants would provide supplemental awards to school districts that agree to adopt weighted student funding combined with open enrollment systems that allow Federal, State, and local funds to follow students to the public school of their choice.

The Axlund's feel strongly about community service as well, with the public school system, after school programs and the local Humane Societies receiving top attention.

To counter criticism of the business community from college campuses, business organizations such as the Chamber of Commerce should support scholars who will defend the free enterprise system, develop speakers and support speakers» bureaus that will counter the liberal rhetoric coming from college campuses, subject textbooks to ideological review, insist on equal time for speakers exposing the views of the business community for speakers on campuses, insist that college faculties be balanced by those who will defend the free enterprise system, request that graduate schools of business include courses that support the free enterprise system, encourage local chambers of commerce to provide the views of the business community in high schools, establish staff who work with the media to communicate to the general public the views of the business community, monitor and criticize television programs that unfairly criticize the free enterprise system and where appropriate file complaints with the Federal Communications Commission, monitor radio and other media and pressure them to cover the views of defenders of the free enterprise system, support scholars who support the free enterprise system to publish in scholarly journals, establish incentives for scholars to publish defenses of free enterprise in books, papers, and pamphlets, spend more money on advertising that expressly supports the free market system.

Major employers in Mesa include Banner Health System, the local hospital system, along with the public schools and theSystem, the local hospital system, along with the public schools and thesystem, along with the public schools and the city.

Kansas City Missouri Public Schools (Kansas City, MO) 1987 — 2002 Director of Grants and Special Projects (2001 — 2002) • Successfully author and submit grant proposals resulting $ 7 million dollars raised for educational initiatives • Re-establish grant office for the District, oversee hiring of grant office staff, and manage daily operations • Develop procedures to identify funding sources and offer monthly grant writing seminars to local school staff • Support district schools with the development and implementing site - based technology plans • Published monthly grant newsletter informing school system of grant awards and offering best prSchools (Kansas City, MO) 1987 — 2002 Director of Grants and Special Projects (2001 — 2002) • Successfully author and submit grant proposals resulting $ 7 million dollars raised for educational initiatives • Re-establish grant office for the District, oversee hiring of grant office staff, and manage daily operations • Develop procedures to identify funding sources and offer monthly grant writing seminars to local school staff • Support district schools with the development and implementing site - based technology plans • Published monthly grant newsletter informing school system of grant awards and offering best prschools with the development and implementing site - based technology plans • Published monthly grant newsletter informing school system of grant awards and offering best practices

The Chasm Group, LLC and Chasm Institute, LLC (San Bruno, CA) 1997 — 2008 Business Operations Manager • Managed all daily operational tasks for leading multi-million dollar high - tech market strategy consultancy, while providing executive administration to C - level executives and venture capital partners • Developed and managed the firm's annual budget, proposing and implementing expense cuts, producing monthly reports and financial statements, and coordinating with CPA firm for accurate and timely filings • Oversaw all client relationship management efforts while cultivating new business efforts from concept to implementation, providing high - quality service in sales efforts while utilizing new lead tracking system • Negotiated and managed all contracts, stock grants, and financing arrangements, working closely with outside counsel to draft legal documents and resolve LLC - and proprietary - related issues • Led three office space build - outs and two office relocations, managing all aspects of each process under aggressive timeline and budget expectations • Reduced firm telecom expenses by 22 % by streamlining IT objectives, including migration to VOIP phone system, software / hardware purchases, domain renewals, and outsourced technical support • Directed all phases of staff recruitment while creating and implementing all HR policies and programs, including comprehensive employee benefits plans • Supervised multiple administrative staff members, conducted performance appraisals and wage / salary surveys in comparison to incentive program guidelines, and maintained HR files in accordance with legal mandates • Produced all out - going client invoices in an accurate and timely fashion to increase, cash flow and reduce aging receivables, providing consistent attention to overhead costs and vendor arrangements • Administered all company insurance policies, including E&O, general liability, bonds, partner life and disability, conducting annual benefits reviews and employee / company insurance audits • Obtained necessary certificates for consulting contracts while processing federal, state, and local business reporting requirements to maintain licenses and incorporation status • Directed all marketing efforts and oversaw logistical aspects of national educational workshop series, utilizing sponsorship arrangements to offset production costs • Transformed «brochure» website into a dynamic tool to better illustrate company opportunities through relevant case studies, as well as maintaining all other promotional media, including press kits and video Association of California School Administrators (Burlingame, CA) 1993 — 1997 Issues and Planning Committee Coordinator • Executed all phases of event planning and implementation for a membership - driven organization including 23 state committees, 5 task forces, 6 strategic planning conferences, and a conference of 1,500 attendees • Focused on facility evaluations, bid requests, site visits, contract negotiations, and all pre - and post-conference planning processes • Produced statistical and financial reports, including budget projections and cost monitoring for developmental training efforts • Oversaw all participant - level responsibilities, including inquiries, eligibility, registration, correspondence, and billing statements • Managed all legal professional standards calls for Northern California regions, including the processing of attorney authorizations, the preparation of legal assistance letters, and liens on cause of action • Served as second point of contact for computer inquiries and troubleshooting efforts as well as provided back - up executive administrative support for Executive Director, Committee Chairs, and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction • Held responsibility for software installation and hardware configuration while performing weekly AS / 400 backup and report generation

Parents persuaded the public school system to set up an accelerated academic program within one of the local elementary schools and to staff it with quality teachers.