Quality Education. Access to quality education is a defining characteristic of a sustainable community. It includes access to preschools, high performing elementary, middle and high schools, and high quality after school programs. Quality education includes both quality instruction and quality facilities.
Quality Education. The Board and Union agree that while improving public education in the District of Columbia is a major concern to all citizens, policy decisions on quality education are the Board’s responsibility. The Board and the Union agree to work cooperatively on all phases of school improvement, including school reform, professional development, and developing high-quality teachers. School Reform means comprehensive strategies employed over time to redesign, restructure, or transform schools that are not effectively serving children and the community, into schools that support and facilitate increased student achievement. This reform will be accomplished through the implementation of research-based best practices, restructuring schools and improving facilities, resources and services. The Board shall provide written notice of potential school reform to all teachers in those schools that have been identified as soon as possible. In any case, within two weeks of the Board’s decision to reform a school, teachers in those schools shall be given written notice of that decision.
A. Full And Equal Partnership
Quality Education. To strengthen links between our education systems and to deepen the mutual understanding of each country’s educational policies and practices to improve outcomes, identified in our new Memorandum of Understanding delivering, at local and national levels; To affirm our joint vision for educational co-operation, promoting professional dialogue, and sharing practice and strategies for educational improvement based on co-operation around topics of common interest in the spheres of curriculum, leadership, quality, performance and scrutiny; To improve access and equity to Early Childhood Development (ECD) by promoting ECD active feeding and stimulation-learning activities at an early stage for all children; To improve the quality and relevance of primary and secondary education by reducing class sizes to facilitate more effective learning; To ensuring the availability of Teaching and Learning Materials (TLM) for all learners including those with special needs; To proggressively increase the number of qualified and trained teachers and equitably deploying them in schools; To provide targeted scholarships and loans to needy students in both accredited public and private universities; To Improve access and equity in skills development training by increasing training centres for skills development in the artisanal, technical and professional fields; and To ensure that there is equitable participation of women and other marginalised groups in the skills development training To ensure all our joint-working is consistent with global efforts to secure gender equality, and the empowerment of women and girls; To ensure the effective participation of children, youth and women in decision making processes and development initiatives; To increase equitable access, control and utilization of Social and Economic services by youth and women; To promote knowledge and information-sharing on gender equality and women empowerment to all sections of the society; To undertake leadership training of women, men, girls and boys in decision- making; and To formulate, enforce and implement laws and policies related to gender based violence. To build on the firm foundation of cooperation between our two governments in relation to water governance and management initiatives; To support the achievement of clean water and sanitation targets under the Global Goals relating to access to clean water; To increase access to water resources by improving water supply in rural and urban areas; To con...
Quality Education. The Board and the Association hereby reaffirm the mutual intent of the parties as expressed in the Preamble of this Agreement, to provide a quality education for the children of the School.
