Sentences with phrase «comprehensive schools ended»

Comprehensive schools ended selective secondary education over most of the country.

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The setting of the story is in a Welsh comprehensive school during the long hot summer of 1976, and very keen drama teacher Vivienne (Minnie Driver) fights sweltering heat and general teenage apathy to put on an end of year rock and roll musical version of Shakespeare's The Tempest (that David Bowie would be proud of).

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

The Denver Public Schools, with the collaboration of the teacher union, launched a Pay for Performance pilot program in 1999 and, when it ended in 2003, started a more comprehensive Professional Compensation System for Teachers (ProComp).

Proposals for a $ 320 million fund for comprehensive assessment systems (two proposals to be funded) and a $ 30 million fund for high school end - of - course tests are due today.

In the end, the district decided to close down the small schools at Crawford and return it to a comprehensive high school.

At day's end, the multifaceted challenge of high - school reform seems to be a problem that needs to ripen before any comprehensive solution can drop from the policy tree.

I could never fully understand the logic of the argument about the first academies presenting the end of the comprehensive ideal; City Academies took over some of the most depressed, dysfunctional, dystopian schools in the country.

However, Melissa Benn, chair of Comprehensive Future, told Tes that grammar schools that have already changed their admissions policies to prioritise children entitled to the pupil premium have only ended up admitting «two or three» additional disadvantaged children.

The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center and the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), which recently teamed up to end LGBTQ youth suicide and reduce homophobia in the nation's second largest school district, hosted an historic summit June 29, 2011 to draft a comprehensive plan of aSchool District (LAUSD), which recently teamed up to end LGBTQ youth suicide and reduce homophobia in the nation's second largest school district, hosted an historic summit June 29, 2011 to draft a comprehensive plan of aschool district, hosted an historic summit June 29, 2011 to draft a comprehensive plan of action.

It was the end of term at Kirkkojarvi Comprehensive School in Espoo, a sprawling suburb west of Helsinki, when Kari Louhivuori, a veteran teacher and the school's principal, decided to try something extreme — by Finnish stanSchool in Espoo, a sprawling suburb west of Helsinki, when Kari Louhivuori, a veteran teacher and the school's principal, decided to try something extreme — by Finnish stanschool's principal, decided to try something extreme — by Finnish standards.

A report that takes a comprehensive look at the critical transition that students make from middle to high school in Philadelphia finds that fewer than half of 8th graders end up attending their top - choice high schools.

He said, «In the transition year, the operators are getting to know stakeholders, assets, and liabilities in the school; figuring out which staff they'll keep and which to let go; [looking at the schedule and curriculum]; and concurrently recruiting folks they might need... By the end of the transition year, they'll have a comprehensive plan for operational authority for the following years.»

To that end, school leaders in Wake County approved last year what they called a «Comprehensive Plan for Equitable Discipline Practices,» bundled with principal - established suspension goals, a district equity report card, cultural training and more.

At a time when head teachers across England and Wales are crying out for sufficient funds to run their schools, provide pupils with a broad and balanced curriculum and retain teachers and support staff, the Government is proposing to lavish scarce education funding on a policy which all the evidence confirms will undermine the high standards of education that comprehensive schools have been able to achieve in the decades since selective education was ended in most parts of the country.

The Stephen Gaynor School Website is built on Wordpress and has an extremely integrated and comprehensive back - end system.

Alexandria, Va. (July 15, 2015)- As the U.S. Senate approaches the end of debate on the nation's largest education law, the National School Boards Association (NSBA) continues to actively engage with our nation's lawmakers in support of a comprehensive, strategic modernization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).

To that end, the Quality Schools Program provides a three - year, comprehensive approach to charter school development and implementation that leverages continuous improvement efforts to positively affect students, teachers and leaders.Teams interested in the Quality Schools Program should contact Dr. Ildi Laczko - Kerr, [email protected] or 602-944-0644.

- the end of MCAS as a graduation requirement; - the redesign and streamlining of the existing test; - the use of MCAS for diagnostic purposes only; - review of MCAS and the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks by professional education associations; - an independent review of MCAS for validity and reliability; and - a comprehensive assessment system for schools.

Thus, schools in the district must submit their strategic plans and budgets to the superintendent by the end of February (at the latest) so that all requests can be analyzed, approved, and then integrated into the district's comprehensive plan and budget by April.

The end of the first day included a discussion of a comprehensive approach to schooling through the community schools model.

The comprehensive high school, on the other hand, had a curriculum designed to provide students with «end of formal education» sets of skills.

Reduce the impact of social inequality evident by the end of KS2 and comprehensive, all ability secondary schools will fly, and avoid the significant downside of selection at 11 by tests that lack validity, reliability, and are highly susceptible to pressure cooker tutoring.

The Education Department hopes to award two «comprehensive assessment systems» grants of $ 160 million each, as well as a $ 30 million grant for the creation of so - called end - of - course tests for high - schoolers.

Rumors had spread, in the absence of definitive information from the school district, that Strawberry Mansion, as a comprehensive high school, would be closing at the end of this school year.

This approach would leave more and more of Connecticut's public schools without the money needed to provide comprehensive education programs and would, in the end, threaten the quality of education in our public schools while leading to higher local property taxes as towns are forced to rely even more heavily on regressive property taxes.

Score Reports will be released earlier than has been done for previous RESA administrations so that Resident Educators have time to use the comprehensive feedback to work with their Mentors and improve their practice before the end of the school year.

To this end, and to advance the Department's non-regulatory guidance, we are pleased to submit these draft community school implementation standards as initial information and guidance to the Department as you continue working towards advancing a comprehensive approach to student success.

The matrix provides a comprehensive way to view key skills as they scaffold in a student's learning from Kindergarten through the end of high school.

It was meant as a transparent guide on school performance, not a comprehensive end - all - be all metric for school performance.

This page includes a comprehensive directory of district testing coordinators, who can aid home school parents in scheduling End - of - Course Examinations.

Amanda Foundation is the only rescue organization in California addressing all the reasons pets end up in sheltersby operating a rescue, veterinary hospital, spaymobile, wellness clinics and comprehensive school programs.

Comprehensive list of West End, North Carolina based driving schools and instructors offering driving lessons & courses.