Sentences with phrase «local head teachers»

Local head teachers have stated that they may have to cut school hours because of cash shortages and in response to this school governors have warned MPs that they will stop working.

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In wider public life, too, the plight of a local borough councillor, school governor, magistrate or head teacher who challenges the gender - agenda is likely to be a bleak one.

Recruiting good head teachers is even harder — some local authorities have resorted to establishing networked schools with a head in charge of two or three at once.

Submissions to the School Teachers» Review Body show that everyone else consulted — local authorities, head teacher associations, governor associations and all of the teacher unions — oppose the idea.

The Head teacher of Obanjom Memorial Primary School, Ugep, Yakurr Local Government Area of Cross River Mr. Obongho Linus Ikpi has been demoted to a classroom...

Although the appointees have local accountability to an elected board of outstanding head teachers, their existence points to a growing recognition that you can't run schools directly from Whitehall.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to award $ 20,000 bonuses to teachers who are rated «highly effective» in local school districts» teacher evaluation systems is at best a politically tone - deaf head scratcher.

Chants of «Local 3» and «Spectrum unfair labor practices» were by far the loudest in the room, as the rest of the assembled union members stood largely in silence through speeches by Lieutenant Gov. Kathy Hochul, National Organization for Women NYC President Sonia Ossorio, American Federation of Teachers head Randi Weingarten and actors John Leguizamo and Steve Buscemi.

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After he notifies the appropriate parties, community college teacher Harry Block (Orlando Jones)- the local rep for the US Geological Service - heads out to check out the wreckage, and he brings along friend and fellow professor Ira Kane (David Duchovny).

As schools move away from local authority control and the government gives them an increasing amount of autonomy to spend their budgets as they see fit the need for teachers, the reason for ICT heads and school leaders to visit Bett strengthens.

Nathan Atkinson, Head Teacher, Richmond Hill Primary School in Leeds, presented a case study describing his local work on the impact of hunger, academic achievement and food waste issues.

Thus head teachers will be encouraged to buy into the local hub's programmes — though this is not obligatory.

Head teacher Alan Gray said: «The funding for additional accommodation provided by Hertfordshire County Council has allowed the school to successfully admit students and meet local demographic pressures to the north of St Albans.

This makes clear that the support provided by governors, local education authorities and academy chains to head teachers is equally as important as that provided to a teacher by line manager or head of department.

Making older buildings safe Schools (local authorities, governing bodies and head teachers) have a moral, legal and financial duty to ensure that their premises are safe.

Local authorities are calling for a new policy that allows head teachers to be able to approve pupils taking family holidays in term time.

When the mother of child # 600 (out of 600) arrived at the school office to drop off the students meds before heading back to the local shelter, the schools assistant principal sprinted to cover the teachers classroom so she could meet face - to - face with the mother.

Head teachers, government advisers, local government officials all seemed to be rushing around with rising blood pressure, looking for some philosopher's stone that could turn the base metal of a Level 3 into the shining gold of a Level 4.

The report warned that national statistics disguised considerable local variations and did not truly reflect the experiences of head teachers in England trying to recruit staff.

At Nobel School in Stevenage, the head teacher, Alastair Craig, embedded his learning programme into the local neighbourhood, with an on - site community centre and strong connections to the parish church and adjacent primary school.

While progressive unions throughout the country are working with charter schools, having concluded that charter schools are bettering public education, local L.A. teachers union head A. J. Duffy told the L.A. Daily News, «We're never happy when a charter school opens up.»

«The important thing,» says Steiner, «was that you had there the chancellor of the Board of Regents, the chancellor of our biggest school district, the head of our biggest local [teachers union], and the two senior people from the department — that's what you need.»

With the move to push responsibility for school budgets down to head teachers and away from local authorities, there is an opportunity to introduce lots more schools across the state sector to the Firefly platform.

According to the BBC, head teachers in West Sussex, who are campaigning against spending cuts, wrote last week to all their local MPs asking what had happened to the extra # 500m for schools announced last year by the former Chancellor George Osborne.

We have extremely good links with St Bede's Interchurch School, an 11 - 16 local comprehensive, and their head teacher, Alistair Day.

• The Local Government Pension Scheme may be in deficit and a school's share of this deficit is passed over and will be required to be repaid • Owning the buildings and lands — bringing both freedoms and legal liabilities • The governing body will need to be reviewed and new additions potentially appointed with one third being members of staff including the head teacher.

Increased local autonomy, more complex operations and more rigorous direct accountability mean that all schools require highly skilled specialists to support head teachers and governors.

Adopt a whole life value approach The EFA should consult with all stakeholders, including central government, local authorities and head teachers.

Marilyn Stewart fairly unseated incumbent Deborah Lynch in the contest for president of the Chicago Teachers Union and should be recognized immediately as its new head, the local union's national parent announced Aug. 6.

Responding to Wilshaw's comments, Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said: «In order to guarantee that any improvements are sustainable and felt across the city, local school leaders need to be able to rely on the local authority, the DfE [Department for Education] and the Regional Schools Commissioner to back them up.

Target Audience: 10,330 copies distributed to head teachers, Academies, and Local Education Authorities, throughout the UK, six times a year.

«We trust head teachers to decide what is best for their pupils — including when and how to take part in work experience or work - related learning — and are providing valuable support for them through the Careers and Enterprise Company, which is working with secondary schools and colleges to support the development of relationships with local employers.»

We want to work with schools - with parents, pupils, teachers, head teachers, support staff, local education authorities and civil servants to run a number of studies to find out what the ideal starting time is, and how schools can manage this.»

The College Head Teacher, Teaching and Learning, also shares details of a collaborative partnership with a local university.

He is the head of one of the largest teacher union locals in the nation, and is an AFT vice president to boot.

Teachers Can Help With the U.S. Census The U.S. Census provides the federal government with key data that affects local communities, and the Census Bureau wants educators to spread the word about the 2010 head count through lesson plans and teaching materials it has prepared for tTeachers Can Help With the U.S. Census The U.S. Census provides the federal government with key data that affects local communities, and the Census Bureau wants educators to spread the word about the 2010 head count through lesson plans and teaching materials it has prepared for teachersteachers.

Very often these partnerships have little to do with their charitable status — they arise from good relationships between head teachers in a local area or because a school is an active part of a large group of schools, state and independent.»

Roy Perry, chairman of the Local Government Association's children and young people board, said: «Councils know their areas best, and currently work in partnership with head teachers and governors to set local funding formula which allows local needs and priorities to be addreLocal Government Association's children and young people board, said: «Councils know their areas best, and currently work in partnership with head teachers and governors to set local funding formula which allows local needs and priorities to be addrelocal funding formula which allows local needs and priorities to be addrelocal needs and priorities to be addressed.

Lack of cohesive local planning means new schools are not always opened where there is most need, says the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT).

EAST LANSING, Mich. — The new head of the Michigan Education Association says the union became involved in a recall effort against a sitting legislator because voters are frustrated with public school funding and taxes, while a teacher and former local union president says teachers are frustrated with union spending on recalls, according to separate media reports.

A Mathematics teacher who is also Head of Scholarship is a governor at this local state secondary school.

«Government needs to reassure mums, dads and head teachers that these plans will be put into place quickly and provide definitive time scales on the future of their local schools.»

Russell Hobby, leader of the National Association of Head Teachers, said there was a need for «unified local planning» to ensure that even with different types of state school there would be enough school places in each area.

Ofsted says that 91 % of head teachers in more challenging schools told them there was insufficient teacher training provision in their local area.

David Simmonds, head of the Children's Board at the Local Government Association said that phasing the school building announcements could be difficult - because authorities and head teachers needed to plan, and because the demand is high and urgent.

Head teachers may apply to the local authority to issue a penalty notice and may authorise their staff to do so.

Local councils and head teachers are getting increasingly frustrated with the delay and the lack of information from the DfE on the progress of projects.

The protest, ahead of next week's Budget, has been organised by regional groups of head teachers representing schools with 3.5 million pupils in 30 local authorities from Cornwall to Cumbria.

Governing bodies and head teachers of local authority maintained schools are required by law to comply with the STPCD's provisions.