Sentences with phrase «once schools close»

Once schools close, the newspaper found, districts struggle to retrieve public money not spent on students.

Once the schools close they can be replaced by «no - excuses» charter schools which enforce a kind of rigid discipline which for many feels more like preparation for being an obedient worker drone than the training needed to be innovative leader.

Children who benefit from free school breakfasts and lunches often miss meals and go hungry once their school closes for the holidays, while the lack of free play schemes and sports activities can have an impact on those from the most disadvantaged backgrounds.»

Not exact matches

Once the residential schools fell out of favour, the governments slowly began to close them and instead opted to take indigenous children from their families to place them to be fostered and adopted by non-indigenous families.

Close by, however, was the local synagogue — at once school and place of prayer — where every Sabbath he could worship God and hear the Law read, and come to know what he had to do and avoid doing in obedience to God.

My son (21) called to say he would like to come for supper and we discussed what we should have as he was on his way out to our home (we live just outside a major Canadian city and he just moved into the city to be closer to school but likes to come home once in awhile for a meal).

Once it is set have them practice opening and closing it many times to ensure that there will not be a problem at school.

Some people may have had that close friend in high school or college, with whom they once said, «we're both very compatible — if both of us hit a certain age and we're still single, we should have a child together.»

We were very fortunate as, once we had made our decision to home educate, a nursery school in a local town was closing down and selling off all their equipment and supplies.

This amazing, organically biodiverse farm is located so close to the school, preschoolers walk there once a year for a field trip!

Mulgrew called the attacks on pensions, the threat of teacher layoffs, the fight to change seniority layoff rules, the targeting of teachers in the Absent Teacher Reserve pool, and the record number of proposed school closings «part of the mayor's strategy to throw everything at us at once.»

Peter Cimino of Lloyd Taco said once the schools and universities announced they'd be closed, Lloyd decided they would, too.

Gun control, transparency over school funding and housing matters were among issues still being negotiated Wednesday in Albany as Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and lawmakers tried once again to close down a new state budget in advance of a self - imposed Friday deadline as religious holidays loom.

The state budget approved in April had good news for schools and low - wage workers, but once again it was done behind closed doors and includes a shift of money to public authorities, a review by Comptroller Tom DiNapoli contended.

A small group of parents and supporters turned out last night, trying to mobilize against the school board closing School 115, what was once Pinnacle Charter Sschool board closing School 115, what was once Pinnacle Charter SSchool 115, what was once Pinnacle Charter SchoolSchool.

It is about to get even busier once my son's nursery school closes for the summer at the end of this week!

And although school's out, kids» learning and curiosity shouldn't stop once the books are closed for the school year.

JE: Just finally on that gap and starting early, that's been backed up by lots of studies hasn't it, it's very difficult to close that gap once they start into school.

When I ask great high school principals what makes a great teacher and a great school — once their door is closed — they'll invariably say that it's all about love and high expectations.

David L. Shreve, a lobbyist for the National Conference of State Legislatures, who once accused Spellings of treating NCLB implementation like the game show Let's Make a Deal, contends that if the alternative paths get states closer to results, they should be available to more schools.

Two years into teaching, close to the last day of the school year, I was surprised by how firmly the city had grown on me, this once strange city now bursting at the seams with people I knew I could call home.

One is the lesser profile accorded to curriculum and instructional practice and to what happens once the teacher closes the classroom door; another is the view that random assignment is premature, given its dependence on expert school management and high - quality program implementation; and another is the view that quantitative techniques have only marginal usefulness for understanding schools, since a school's governance, culture, and management are best understood through intensive case studies.

The two classes were once much closer: in residence, in work, in schooling, in culture.

Your stories, the ones about years of working as teachers in China or as the creator of a tech start up, the ones about growing up in other countries and braving new worlds not once but over and over again, the ones about starting a family and a doctoral program at the same time, or the ones about opening a new school only to have it close the following year.

The American Enterprise Institute turns its lens on Mooresville, N.C., where a once - struggling school district righted itself and closed an enormous achievement gap in just a few years.

The way the diocese is choosing to close its schools is once again putting Memphis in the spotlight.

The foundation encouraged urban school districts to close large, dysfunctional high schools and replace them with smaller ones, either in alternative spaces or by placing several schools within the building that once housed the large one.

New York City opted to close schools through a «phase - out» process rather than shut the doors and send students elsewhere all at once.

Three of the closed schools are expected to reopen next week, once they have been declared safe, with another five set to reopen in June and a further nine after the summer holidays.

Parochial schools were once a huge presence on the local scene, but more close every year.

It will be overseen by two co-chairmen: Rudy Crew, a former New York City schools chancellor who is now the president of Medgar Evers College, and Jonathan Lippman, who was once the chief judge of New York State and last year ran a commission that recommended ways to close the city's jail complex at Rikers Island.

While many of the principals arrive at HGSE having just finished up busy school years, some having only closed their doors a few days before, everyone is enthusiastic to be there, says Mason, and their enthusiasm continues once the program ends.

Our Chief Academic Office, Dr. William Hughes, reflects on the closing of the once promising Jubilee Catholic Schools in Memphis, Tennessee in this blog post that was initially featured on EdChoice.

Examples of the schools students can «choose» include: a Milwaukee school that accepted $ 2.3 million of taxpayer funded vouchers but abruptly closed in the middle of the school year; a school in Florida where classes were held in public parks once the school was declared unfit by the fire marshall; or hundreds of schools that teach creationism in science classrooms.

But Raymond has had the support of his school board throughout his time, although the once sure 6 - 1 votes have edged closer to 4 - 3.

Our enrollment of EL's is not yet where we want it to be, but many of us have put great effort into changing that and, I believe that once we take a deeper look at the EL numbers we'll see that individual schools in our coalition are quite close to their districts.

Once the Oconee County School Board voted to close the school, the town of Salem reached out to Eikenberry through a contact at Clemson UniveSchool Board voted to close the school, the town of Salem reached out to Eikenberry through a contact at Clemson Univeschool, the town of Salem reached out to Eikenberry through a contact at Clemson University.

Ms. Rhee, who has stridently challenged Washington's educational status quo, has closed ineffective schools and has stood up to the unions that have made it nearly impossible to fire a teacher, no matter how incompetent, once tenure has been granted.

Most districts also hold half days on the first or last day of student attendance, and many schools close as early as 1:00 p.m. once per week.

Many New Orleans schools were closed for months, and once they began reopening, most did so as independent charter schools overseen by a state - run district.

Teacher Candidates can not be placed in a school where they were once students or where they have a close relative attending and / or working.

The ATR pool could grow this summer as the city moves to close more schools at once than ever before, and relocate many of their teachers.

The main building on the site was once the Ulysses Grant Elementary School, which the mayor's school board had closed three yearSchool, which the mayor's school board had closed three yearschool board had closed three years ago.

One charter school operator, Achievement First, which has come under state scrutiny in the past year for its disciplinary practices, once again topped the charts with a rate of close to 50 percent for its middle school students in Hartford and a rate of better than 40 percent at its high schools in Bridgeport and New Haven.

He and other practitioners of the new paternalism — once upon a time, schooling was understood as democracy's permissible, indeed obligatory, paternalism — are proving that cultural pessimists are mistaken: We know how to close the achievement gap that often separates minorities from whites before kindergarten and widens through high school.

Though Holtz once supported Evers, a central message to Holtz's campaign this year is that Evers has had eight years leading the Department of Public Instruction to make significant progress in closing the state's achievement gap, and schools» progress in that time has been too small.

Launched by artists Ambre Kelly and Andrew Gori, Spring / Break once again takes over four floors of a recently - closed elementary school on Mott Street, which is still filled with wooden desks, chalkboards, and even a lingering sense of play.

* Once we get close enough to the goal of universal tertiary education, we might as well finance it through the tax system as we do with schools, and develop some special policies for those who, for one reason or another, miss out.

Once one of the biggest producers of tanned leather in New England, the Peabody, MA leather tanneries have now closed their doors, though the city's high school mascot and school nickname, Tanners, provides a constant reminder of the industry the city was built on.