Sentences with phrase «educating local school children»

Educating local school children about how to sustainably utilize their local marine resources is the best way to guarantee a thriving marine ecosystem in this threatened area in the future.

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In light of varying perspectives about this appointment, Christian leaders will need to think afresh about their relationship to local public schools, where more than 90 percent of America's children are educated.

These are really intended for secondary school children aged 11 - 14, but may well be suitable for a home educated child as young as eight or nine who enjoys and understands maths.There are many interesting and well - produced Key Stage 3 maths text - books available online and at local bookshops.

De-registering a child from school — what to do if your child is in school Getting started — what to expect in the first months of home educating Different styles — These will depend on your personality and preferences Mailing list information — links to home educators» online mailing lists General links — links to general sites about home education Local group sites — links to mailing lists or sites related to British home educators» groups GCSE guide — how can home educators take GCSEs if they wish to?

If a parent wishes to take a child out of school in order to home educate, there is a legal process which must be followed and which culminates in the school notifying the local authority.

Parents seeking to home educate children registered at a special school, however, must obtain the consent of the local authority to withdraw their child from the school or, if that authority refuse to give consent, without a direction of the Welsh Ministers.

There is no requirement for parents to obtain schools and local authorities agreement to educate their children at home.

Local authorities may have between 6 and 600 + home educated children «on their books», i.e. children who are known to the authority, usually because they have been taken out of school.

School and local authorities should not seek to prevent parents from educating their children outside the school sSchool and local authorities should not seek to prevent parents from educating their children outside the school sschool system.

The other half worked on helping local schools and child care centers educate young children about the importance of healthy choices, and they had lots of fun creating healthy snacks with preschool children.

Fundamental to this is the ability to have enough school places to educate our children and young people — a power which is vested in local authorities.

Or do bad schools only exist because the local population is under - educated in the first place and therefore no amount of schooling can help their children become better?

Lawmakers should move beyond Chapter 1's current focus on individual remediation and use the program as a tool to force state and local officials to upgrade the quality of schools that educate disadvantaged children, a panel of Chapter 1 experts has urged.

The return of many white, upper - middle - class, educated parents — and their young children — to city centers has caused some urban districts, like those in Philadelphia, Chicago, and Boston, to actively encourage these families to send their children to local district schools.

Despite this track record of modest success, many parties seem poised to throw the policy overboard and use the guise of «parental choice» or «local control» to return us to a time when we had little idea which schools were educating children well and which were not.

As with many of our initiatives, such as the «Safer Roads» campaign, we're continuously engaging with local schools to help educate on important matters that will influence children forever.

Julie Hyslop, Groundwork senior project officer, said: «Working with schools allows Groundwork to educate the local community as well as the children.

Announced by School Systems Minister Lord Agnew, the announcement will support the families of the estimated 45,500 children that are educated at home, providing parents and local councils with strengthened guidance so both understand their rights and responsibilities.

Academies are state schools funded by taxpayers to educate local children.

As part of its drive to educate children on recycling, the local business with the help of its ingenious Recycle - Trux automobiles, are giving school children in Cambridgeshire the chance to win # 1,000 for their school or the opportunity to earn themselves an Ipad mini.

Today, school reformers, state and local education officials, exemplary charter - school operators, and managers of philanthropic foundations make it very clear that they are primarily in the business of educating poor black and Hispanic children.

Our state associations represent more than 90,000 local school board members who are dedicated to educating every child to his or her fullest potential and committed to leadership for student achievement.

«Since this program saves taxpayers money and the legislature will need to appropriate more funding to return these students to the local public schools, which will lead to increase costs to the local district; the legislature should instead provide the funding for the scholarship program to allow parents to choose schools they believe will best educate their children,» Duplessis added.

The U.S. needs a long term policy that will enable states and local school districts to educate more children to higher levels of achievement.

«But parents in the neighborhood who were middle - class parents and were educated people banded together and decided, «Well, if we all send our child to the local public school, it will get better.»

State school boards associations are nonprofit organizations that represent more than 90,000 local school board members who are dedicated to educating every child to his or her fullest potential and committed to leadership for student achievement.

Here and now, with local control funding and increasing recognition of the importance of educating the «whole child», we have enormous opportunities to ensure every child comes to school ready and able to learn, with the whole range of supports and opportunities they need and deserve.

By working with parents to examine their privilege and understand that their impact matters more than their intentions, Integrated Schools prepares parents to support meaningfully integrated classrooms that reflect the diversity of their district as well as school communities that respect ALL families and are galvanized around supporting ALL children Through national organizing to promote local action, we support, educate, develop and mobilize families to «live their values,» disrupt segregation, and leverage their choices for the well - being and futures for their own children, for all children, and for our democracy.

This would make it a very attractive option for a local authority which might otherwise find itself having to fund the expansion of existing schools to provide the necessary places to satisfy its statutory duty to educate the children in its area.

It is important for local churches to become a part of the planning process with schools and offer support to their efforts in educating the whole child.

Instead, if truely gifted children can not be accommodated in local secondary schools, then as HR tax payers I would be more than pleased to educated them in the private sector with assisted places grants.

The State Charter Schools Commission was created by a 2012 constitutional amendment as an alternative to local districts for would - be charter schools seeking authority — and public funding — to educate chSchools Commission was created by a 2012 constitutional amendment as an alternative to local districts for would - be charter schools seeking authority — and public funding — to educate chschools seeking authority — and public funding — to educate children.

Your donation will contribute to statewide and local events highlighting the benefits of school choice, help fund scholarships for needy children, help parents with choice options, and educate legislators.

Benn questioned the government's commitment to expanding selective education, «despite clear evidence that grammar schools educate few children from poorer backgrounds, damage other local schools, and subject thousands of children to stressful, life - defining, tests when they are only 10».

Local school districts have no say in whether charter schools are created, where they are located, which children they educate or refuse to educate, nor do local boards of education have control over any other charter school policy or pracLocal school districts have no say in whether charter schools are created, where they are located, which children they educate or refuse to educate, nor do local boards of education have control over any other charter school policy or praclocal boards of education have control over any other charter school policy or practice.

But unlike the current system, student - based budgeting supports socioeconomic integration, as schools receive more local money to educate poor children, they say.

The GSBA has a long standing legislative position supporting,» the constitutional authority vesting exclusive control over public schools to local boards of education as the level of government closest and most responsive to the taxpayers and parents of the children being educated.

ConnCAN has relentlessly pushed a funding scheme called «money follows the child,» which funnels public state and local dollars from public schools to privately run charter schools, which educate only 8 percent of the state's public school students.

As explained by NAFIS and NMFA, «The proposal is a bad deal for military families — and a disaster for local public school districts charged with educating our nation's children.»

What this system would do would be to take the ostensible cost of educating a child, including both state and local allocation, and say each child should get this amount no matter which school they attend.

Jeffries says it costs roughly $ 6,600 to educate a child at New City, but few families are in a position to pay that amount, so the school raises money elsewhere, from local individuals who care about social justice to church meetings where a hat gets passed around.

Our staff regularly educates children and young adults about pet care and the veterinary field on «Reading Day» at local schools, at SPCA Kids Camps and Vet Camp at ARF.

The father wished for the children to be educated in a boarding school at some distance from the former family home while the mother wished for the younger child to move with the mother to her new residence and attend the local primary school.

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