Sentences with phrase «act for last school year»

An article in the Oct. 25, 2006, issue of Education Week on charter schools in the District of Columbia («At Age 10, Booming D.C. Charters Feel «Growing Pains»») should have said that 118 out of 146 regular public schools in the city did not make adequate yearly progress under the No Child Left Behind Act for last school year.

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These clubs are not new, of course, but they have grown in popularity over the last few years, and for some post-baby boomers, they might be acting as substitutes for the Bible studies and Sunday Schools they grew up with.

One significant victory in that battle was last year's passage of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act which, among other things, uses Medicaid data to directly certify children for free and reduced price meals; helps states improve the certification process for school meal aid; allows universal free meals for students in high poverty communities; and expands USDA authority to support meals served to at - risk children in after school programs.

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Between the cuts to New York City's universal meal program and last year's Congressional failure to adequately fund the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act, it's clear that we're a very long way away from school food expert Janet Poppendieck's utopian vision of school meals «free for all.»

There is a grant program for farm to school in the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act that passed last fall and that funding would become available next year.

In one of his last acts as commissioner, Bratton appeared with Carmen Fariña, the NYC schools chancellor, to announce that the 2015 - 16 school year was the safest on record for the city's public schools.

In New York City, the achievement gains of the last 15 years were possible only because there was room «for the leadership of the school system to act and to make change and to not be sort of negotiating those changes with dozens of local boards or even the central board,» he said.

In 2012, Emily played a young maiden and John her minstrel husband in a skit called Movie: The Movie, and last year, they starred as themselves in a sketch centred on The Kimmel School of Perfect Acting, in which comedian Jimmy instructed the two to act as if they were not married, a role playing exercise a «sad» Emily justified as a «sacrifice» for art.

At last year's «Kids Love a Mystery Night» at the store, the bookstore's owner arranged to have the local high school's drama class act out short mini mysteries for the students.

The federal No Child Left Behind Act, which President George W. Bush signed into law last year, represented a victory for the advocates of public school choice: the law rejected funding for private school vouchers, but did mandate that districts allow children in persistently failing schools to transfer to public schools that perform better.

Schools should be permitted to use multiple, locally created assessments instead of «one shot» tests to measure student progress for accountability purposes, according to a report released last week by a panel of experts convened by the Forum on Educational Accountability, a group that includes some of the most vocal critics of the 5 - year - old No Child Left Behind Act.

Emerson J. Elliott, acting director of the National Center for Education Statistics, said last year's Hawkins - Stafford School Improvement Amendments removed a requirement that naep be run by a...

Last year, Congress passed the Every Student Succeeds Act, supplanting No Child Left Behind and placing responsibility for public school improvement squarely upon each of the 50 states.

Last year, heeding calls for «local control» of education decisions and less invasive interventions in underperforming schools, Congress passed the Every Student Succeeds Act, granting states and local school boards, rather than the federal government, broad latitude in determining how to rate the performance of schools and how to intervene when performance lags.

The $ 4 billion in Race to the Top grants, which seek to reward states for their commitment to reforming teacher effectiveness, data systems, low - performing schools, and academic standards and assessments, are paid for through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act passed last year by Congress.

Spring Celebration overnight all - school field trip 5/23 -5 / 24 No school 5/28 - Memorial Day Last day of class Thursday, 6/7 June ACT 6/9 Optional summer math runs 10 - 11 am 6/11, 6/12, 6/14, 6/18, 6/19, 6/20, 6/21 (note, not 6/13) Graduation 6/13 @ 4 pm Last day for transcripts 6/29 This year, we traveled to Boston and dog - sledding in the boundary waters.

For the first time in state history, all public high school juniors had the opportunity to take the ACT last year, with the state picking up the tab.

The Charter High School of Arts — Multimedia and Performing, better known as CHAMPS, is at risk of losing its charter after school administrators failed to act aggressively last year when learning that an employee used a school credit card for her personaSchool of Arts — Multimedia and Performing, better known as CHAMPS, is at risk of losing its charter after school administrators failed to act aggressively last year when learning that an employee used a school credit card for her personaschool administrators failed to act aggressively last year when learning that an employee used a school credit card for her personaschool credit card for her personal use.

For example, they could implement an enhanced version of a «principal autonomy» pilot program Diaz crafted last year, under which principals act as schools» C.E.Os and are given more leeway in budgeting and staffing.

King noted in her informative meetings last school year that the generous health benefits package by the district along with employee numbers are a major cause for the financial drain on the district and there's a drastic need to act quickly to remain solvent.

«Over the last twenty years, charter schools have acted as a proven disruptive force for good in the public education system.

Last year, the schools minister Nick Gibb was criticised for failing to act to address concerns about the «postcode lottery» of summer - born admissions.

Last year the House passed the Student Success Act, a broad based reform of federal education policy that would maintain the high standards the President called for while giving state and local school districts back the money and authority they need to meet those standards.

Although four years have passed since Congress approved the last major rewrite of the Americans with Disabilities Act, federal education officials are continuing their efforts to further clarify the 2008 Amendments Act» legislation for local school districts.»

Many educators and scholars documented these perverse outcomes over the last decade and, as a result, the new Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which replaced NCLB, allows states to count English learners in the English learner group for up to 4 years after they are reclassified, so that the overall progress of English learners in schools and districts is more visible in the accountability system.

Here's the start of my new column at NJ Spotlight Last month, New Jersey's new acting Commissioner of Education Lamont Repollet described the state's sixth year in a row of increased high school graduation rates — now 90.5 percent — as «exciting,» because it «demonstrates we are on a path toward closing our achievement gaps and achieving excellent and equitable educational opportunities for our children.»

For example, last year, Congress passed the «Empowering Parents Through Quality Charter Schools Act» on a strong bipartisan vote despite the lackluster outcomes of most of the nation's charter sSchools Act» on a strong bipartisan vote despite the lackluster outcomes of most of the nation's charter schoolsschools.

Cameron Snyder, the school's assistant principal for the last four years, will fill in as acting principal through the end of the school year, APS announced Friday (April 27).