Sentences with phrase «public school officials use»

Public school officials use a variety of schemes to give the appearance of progress.

The policy will now be printed in the Louisiana Handbook for School Administrators, which public school officials use as a guide.

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Because tax revenues are expected to exceed school building needs, Colorado public officials are already thinking of additional ways to use the tax windfall.

When the judges ruled that the school officer's actions were protected under qualified immunity, which shields public officials from liability for civil damages, Gorsuch issued a colorful dissent arguing that the student should have been able to sue the officer for using excessive force.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

When the site is not being used for school events, it will be open for public use, city officials said.

The authority had planned to close the center, which lets the public use Stuyvesant High's athletic facilities when school is not in session, on Dec. 20 — much to the outrage of residents and officials — but the authority agreed to keep it open while they work with Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's office to find a new operator for the facility.

The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act, named for the high school where 19 - year - old Nikolas Cruz used an AR - 15 to kill 17 students and school officials, raises Florida's minimum age for purchasing guns to 21, requires a three - day waiting period for firearms purchases, bans the sale of bump stocks, and, controversially, sets aside $ 67 million to arm teaSchool Public Safety Act, named for the high school where 19 - year - old Nikolas Cruz used an AR - 15 to kill 17 students and school officials, raises Florida's minimum age for purchasing guns to 21, requires a three - day waiting period for firearms purchases, bans the sale of bump stocks, and, controversially, sets aside $ 67 million to arm teaschool where 19 - year - old Nikolas Cruz used an AR - 15 to kill 17 students and school officials, raises Florida's minimum age for purchasing guns to 21, requires a three - day waiting period for firearms purchases, bans the sale of bump stocks, and, controversially, sets aside $ 67 million to arm teaschool officials, raises Florida's minimum age for purchasing guns to 21, requires a three - day waiting period for firearms purchases, bans the sale of bump stocks, and, controversially, sets aside $ 67 million to arm teachers.

Robert Zimmerman, co-president of Zimmerman Edelson Inc., a public relations firm used by the school district, said the budget process is at such an early stage that any comments by district officials would be «speculative.»

Health officials are reminding the public to cover all sneezes and coughs using a tissue or the crook of the arm, avoid persons with flu - like illness, to stay home from work and school if you experience flu - like illness and to remain home for 24 - hours after a fever has subsided without the use of fever reducing medications.

You should know that the IDNYC Card is an official form of identification that can be used in City Agencies, the NYPD, for entry into public buildings like schools, to take the high school equivalency exam in New York City.

«Our study affirms and may help explain why people who regularly use cocaine are more willing to partake in risky sex when under the influence of cocaine, and underscores why public health officials and physicians should be ensuring that cocaine users are supplied with condoms to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted disease,» says Matthew Johnson, Ph.D., associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Former D.C. Public Schools chancellor Kaya Henderson has not denied that she used her power to place the children of government officials in high - demand schools, even though those schools had long waitSchools chancellor Kaya Henderson has not denied that she used her power to place the children of government officials in high - demand schools, even though those schools had long waitschools, even though those schools had long waitschools had long wait lists.

Federal prosecutors have charged that a $ 140 million project to bridge the «digital divide» in Arizona's public schools was used as a vehicle for accounting fraud in late 2001 by officials of the telecommunications giant Qwest Communications International Inc..

Ryan and other defenders of «benign» racial sorting, in contrast, insist that the use of remedies originally available only to judges charged with dismantling an entrenched racial caste system in the South should also be available to public officials presiding over school systems that have not violated the Fourteenth Amendment.

Some, for example, are incorporating parent / carer codes of conduct into school policies to set expectations around the use of social media.Others ask parents and carers to refrain from discussing the business of school or children attending school in any public forum, while many request that complaints are made via official school channels rather than social networking sites.

States are using weak state standards to mislead themselves, officials, and the public about school performance...

An industry has grown up around courting public - school decision makers, and tech companies are using a sophisticated playbook to reach them, The New York Times has found in a review of thousands of pages of Baltimore County school documents and in interviews with dozens of school officials, researchers, teachers, tech executives and parents.

Private schools can either accommodate the student themselves, using whatever resources they have, or negotiate with public school officials regarding the provision of special services to the student by the public school system with additional public funds (a process called «equitable services»).

High school registrars and counselors also have the ability to electronically create and send official student transcripts to Texas public colleges and universities using TREx.

Considering Connecticut's public officials made a profound mistake by mandating that schools use the SAT scores to evaluate students and teachers, Mr. Alfaro's information and warnings are particularly important.

With many state elected officials continuing to call for the takeover of Milwaukee Public Schools, the coalition is using the actions — and social media — to build a list of engaged parents and educators for future action and quick mobilization.

High school registrars and counselors also can electronically create and send official student transcripts to Texas public colleges and universities using TREx.

Gov. Larry Hogan could untangle Baltimore County Public Schools officials from their technology quagmire by simply eliminating the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers testing (PARCC) they use to justify their obsession with...

Yet it's worth noting non-public schools haven't fared as well as public schools under the model state officials have used to calculate A-F grades for the past two years — fewer private schools are earning A's than they once did.

Parents Allege Massive Enrollment Fraud at Carpenter Community Charter in Studio City Los Angeles Unified will let schools use public records to verify student addresses after a high - performing charter in Studio City complained that scores of parents from outside the neighborhood committed fraud to get their kids admitted, officials said Monday.

These charter public school supporters will be at the meeting to discuss the charter petitions for both schools, respond to intimidation tactics used by District officials and ask SJUSD Board members for a vote.

What: Parents, teachers and supporters of Perseverance Preparatory School and Promise Academy - two proposed charter public schools - will be at the SJUSD Board Meeting to discuss the charter school petitions and recent intimidation tactics used by District offiSchool and Promise Academy - two proposed charter public schools - will be at the SJUSD Board Meeting to discuss the charter school petitions and recent intimidation tactics used by District offischool petitions and recent intimidation tactics used by District officials.

The Corporate Education Reform Industry, with the help of elected officials likes of Dannel Malloy, Andrew Cuomo, Jeb Bush and others, have used the problems facing public schools in poorer communities to institute an agenda of more standardized testing, inappropriate teacher evaluation programs and the privatization of public education through the creation of privately owned, but publicly funded charter schools.

First, public officials and school administrators often use these scores as a basis for important decisions about school funding and access.

School business officials across the country use ActPoint KPI to manage the increasing demand for transparency and accountability in their use of public funds.

A veteran teacher suing New York state education officials over the controversial method they used to evaluate her as «ineffective» is expected to go to New York Supreme Court in Albany this week for oral arguments in a case that could affect all public school teachers in the state and even beyond.

28 % of districts use an official social media channel (such as Twitter) during school board meetings for public feedback on issues facing the board.

The deliberations have addressed various topics such as whether (a) parents should have to be state - certified teachers in order to home educate their children, (b) parents should have to have achieved a particular level of formal education in order to homeschool their children, (c) parents should have to pass teacher qualification examinations that states use for public school teachers, (d) homeschool students should be subjected to mandatory standardized achievement tests, (e) state officials should oversee the social activities of home - educated students (or homeschool socialization), and (f) parents should have to get approval from the state government in order to engage in home - based education with their children (see, e.g., Farris 2013; Yuracko, 2008).

In a keynote address to officials at the Council of Great City Schools conference in Cleveland Thursday, Gates said much of the funding will be to assist networks of public schools and districts that have demonstrated innovation and use data collection to improve student perfoSchools conference in Cleveland Thursday, Gates said much of the funding will be to assist networks of public schools and districts that have demonstrated innovation and use data collection to improve student perfoschools and districts that have demonstrated innovation and use data collection to improve student performance.

He said at the time the agreements raise «substantive questions» about whether school officials broke the law by using public money to advocate passage.

The United Federation of Teachers, joined by the NAACP and several public officials, filed suit against the New York City Department of Education on Wednesday in attempt to halt the city's closure of 22 schools and to prevent charter schools from using space in buildings that house public schools.

Indiana education officials currently pick one date each year (in September) to count the number of students attending public schools, using the number to determine how much state funding each district receives.

Highlighting the utter absurdity of the entire event was the presentation of a 27 slide PowerPoint presentation that these public servants used to «educate» local school officials about how to communicate with students, parents, teachers and their communities.

Trinity Lutheran's application had been rated 5th-most eligible before state officials ruled that the Missouri Constitution prohibited using public money to support religious schools.

Rather than use the event to congratulate each other on the destruction of our public schools, Connecticut's elected officials should be explaining to Duncan that the Common Core and Common Core Testing scheme is a fiasco that needs to be repealed and that Connecticut must be allowed to develop its own effective teacher evaluation system that doesn't rely on the use of unfair, inappropriate and faulty standardized test scores.

With the Malloy administration continues to use the State Department of Education to undermine Connecticut's students, parents and public schools, the lack of outrage on the part of many of Connecticut's elected officials is truly stunning!

Now, despite duplicitous official rhetoric that speaks of the importance of multiple measures to assess learning and teaching, high - stakes test scores are being used to quantify, rank, and judge everything in public schools.

The vital CCEJF v. Rell Connecticut school funding lawsuit is the mechanism state officials could be using to increase state support for our public schools and thereby shift some more of the burden off local property taxpayers.

The world's biggest producer of carbon emissions is seeking to boost the use of renewable fuels as smog has blanketed cities from Shanghai to Beijing, forcing factories and schools to close and intensifying pressure on public officials to cut pollution.

Joe has regularly conducted seminars for legal practitioners, law students, college students, high school students, school district and municipal officials and the general public concerning employment law, labor law and collective bargaining, municipal law and land use law.

-- schools, local councils, churches and other non-profit or benevolent community organisations, associations and groups which have occasion to display the flag from flag poles on their premises, or which display the flag on special public occasions, or in halls or meeting rooms; — community organisations, Australian exchange students and humanitarian aid workers undertaking official visits or duties overseas; and — a family member, or an ex-service organisation representative, for use at the funeral of an Australian war veteran; and — a limited number are available to private individuals each financial year.

HUD officials say CNI uses a comprehensive approach that involves local leaders, residents and other stakeholders, such as public housing authorities, cities, schools, police, business owners, nonprofits and private developers — who are required to come up with a Transformation Plan.