EDUCATION REFORM. The language of this Agreement shall be interpreted subject to and in conformity with the Education Reform Act of 1993 and any provision of this Agreement inconsistent with the Education Reform Act shall be deemed amended so as to be in compliance with such Act.
EDUCATION REFORM. The United Teachers of Richmond/CTA/NEA uphold that adequate and equitable school funding is the first step toward building school capacity that ensures equal education and economic opportunity for all students. To meet that end the United Teachers of Richmond/CTA/NEA and the West Contra Costa Unified School District shall create a Joint Committee to explore all aspects of Educational Reform. The Joint Committee shall be convened no later than 30 days from ratification of both parties. This Joint Committee shall convene during the duration of this Agreement to bring forward recommendations for implementation no later than April 1, 2015. These recommendations shall be brought back for negotiations between the parties. The Joint Committee shall be comprised of equal parts United Teachers of Richmond/CTA/NEA designated representatives and West Contra Costa Unified School District designated representatives. In addition the Joint Committee shall have the capability and support from both the United Teachers of Richmond/CTA/NEA and the West Contra Costa Unified School District to bring any and all required resources to assist the committee as mutually agreed upon.
EDUCATION REFORM. Education reform and shared decision-making may call for a variety of changing roles and responsibilities within the schools, including but not necessarily limited to:
EDUCATION REFORM. A. The Quincy Public Schools has a long tradition of committing itself to serious study, inquiry and research into all of the components and outcomes which may transpire when a school system undertakes the task of simultaneously trying to understand itself as an organization and, as the new understanding grows, changing its own organizational nature according to the ever-changing demands of the times. With the goals of improving education for the students of Xxxxxx and fostering participative decision making among the members of the staff, all the while maintaining the integrity of the collective bargaining process and Agreement, the Committee and the Association agree to create the Task Force on Education Reform (Task Force) as follows:
EDUCATION REFORM. 1. The educational system is one of the most important vehicles for the transmittal and development of cultural values and knowledge. It must be responsive to the cultural and linguistic diversity of Guatemala, recognizing and strengthening the cultural identity of indigenous peoples, the values and educational systems of the Maya and other indigenous peoples, and the need to afford access to formal and non-formal education and to include the educational concepts of indigenous peoples in national school curricula.
EDUCATION REFORM. Since 2012, the education system has received an important series of new inputs aimed at transforming and strengthening the system. The initiative is dubbed as a grand “education revolution” by both the government and the local press. Among the policy changes occurring is the enforcement of the law that dictates that 4% of the gross domestic product (GDP) should be invested in education. This is an important increase from the roughly 2% of the GDP previously spent on education. This increase in spending is for pre-university education only. A significant portion of this investment has been allocated to the construction of new schools that were badly needed in order to meet the demand and in order to improve existing infrastructures which in large areas of the country lacked the necessary areas and abilities to incorporate technology in classrooms as well as students with disabilities. The program Quisqueya Empieza Contigo (QEC) is one of the aforementioned initiatives, which aims to widen education services for young children. It aims to provide more preschool education. Other aspects of the program include specialized services for children from birth to age 4 for all children including those with disabilities as well as an early intervention program (DIGEPEP, 2015). Other initiatives include the program Quisqueya Aprende Contigo (QAC). QAC is an adult literacy program aimed at eradicating adult illiteracy. To date, the program reports to have exceeded their expectations in terms of people who were benefited by it. QAC had a final goal of 851,396 beneficiaries, but reached 938,945 within the Dominican territory (DIGEPEP, 2015). That represents a 110.3% of the final goal. Literacy acquisition in poverty contexts. Xxxxxxx brings additional challenges both in terms of reading instruction as well as reading acquisition. Children raised at or below the poverty line enter schools with a number of important cognitive deficits associated to poor nutrition and deprived environments. Working memory or the ability to retain and manipulate information is one of the cognitive skills affected by poverty. Working memory allows a person to sustain information for enough time so that it can be processed, manipulated, and stored, and so its importance for acquiring reading skills is extraordinary. Studies have shown that children who are raised in poverty contexts tend to have reduced activation in the areas of the brain that are in charge of working memory (Xxxxxx, 2012). ...
EDUCATION REFORM. A. School-Based Management/Shared Decision-Making (SBM / SDM) The Union and the Board agree that SBM / SDM is a process in which all members of the school community collaborate in identifying issues, defining goals, formulating policy and implementing programs. The uniqueness of each school community requires that the SBM / SDM process and the organizational and instructional issues discussed are determined by the staff, parents, administration and students (where appropriate) at individual schools through the SBM / SDM team. The Union and the Board agree that in order to achieve SBM / SDM at the school level significant restructuring of instruction must occur, and the parties agree to work cooperatively in an effort to bring about these changes.
EDUCATION REFORM. Upon ten (10) school days written notice by either party, unless otherwise mutually agreed, the Association and the Committee will meet to discuss changes in the collective bargaining agreement caused by the Education Reform Act of 1993.
EDUCATION REFORM. Language regarding educational reform to be determined pending passage of educational reform bills.
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