Sentences with phrase «about schools and academies»

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New Jersey recently created a School Safety Specialist Academy and Dr. McCormick says she is open to other states coming to learn about their program.

«We have about $ 250,000 that runs through a Criminal Justice Institute Grant and so the School Safety Academy has been going on since 1999.

The academies are forced to recruit similar kids as Stanford, Duke, Northwestern, and the Ivy League schools, yet none of those schools have to also worry about the additional filters of weight limits and mandatory military service.

Ask someone from outside the Netherlands about the ultimate finishing school for Dutch football talent, and they will almost certainly mention Ajax, and too often, the country's other great youth academy is forgotten.

About 10 percent of all school - age kids skip breakfast, and by the time kids enter adolescence, as many as 30 percent have completely given up the first meal of the day, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Clark Creek ES STEM Academy Principal Joey Moss, left, and Assistant Principal Susan Bruno speak with teachers and staff about the upcoming school year and present each with a school spirit wear cap.

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Read St James's consultation: http://www.stjames.tgacademy.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/finalconsultation.pdf Read the BHA's correspondence with the Academy and Diocese: http://humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/BHA-correspondence-with-Tudor-Grange-Academy-Solihull.pdf Read Tudor Grange's affiliation agreement with the Diocese of Birmingham: http://www.tudor-grange.solihull.sch.uk/images/docs/draftjul11.doc Read the relevant section of the Equality Act 2010: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/section/85 Visit the local campaign's Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/150736215077978/ View the petition against the plans: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/tudor-grange-admissions-policy Read more about the BHA's campaigns work on «faith» schools: http://humanism.org.uk/campaigns/schools-and-education/faith-schools/ Read the BHA's table of types of school with a religious character: http://www.humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/schools-with-a-religious-character.pdf The British Humanist Association is the national charity working on behalf of non-religious people who seek to live ethical and fulfilling lives on the basis of reason and humanity.

About 95 percent of the students in Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy network are black and Hispanic, yet their schools often rank among the very best in the state.

Dozens of charter schools were closed for the morning; parents and children, the vast majority from Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy network, were handed matching oversize T - shirts, granola bars and water bottles, and encouraged to chant and dance for about two hours in a show of strength and enthusiasm.

Mayor De Blasio and Cardinal Timothy Dolan toured a pre-K classroom at the Catherine Corry Academy at the Saint Francis of Assisi School in Wakefield on Thursday, where the Mayor spoke about a continued push to provide more prekindergarten to the city's children.

One year, I remember talking about oaks to children in years four and five at Edinburgh Academy Junior School just before the October break.

Exeter Academy Previously the BHA signed a letter published in the Observer expressing concerns about the group, following on from which the BHA met with the Free Schools team at the Department for Education and set out the concerns now being publicised.

At 10:20 a.m., Success Academy Charter Schools founder and CEO Eva Moskowitz makes an announcement about the middle school space proposal recently sent to Success Academy by the New York City Department of Education, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

«If academies are about creating the «big society», then evidence shows that such schools segregate and fragment communities.

Success Academy spokeswoman Ann Powell said that the charter school network has had no communication with the city about closing schools and that any decisions about building space would be made by the DOE, not by them.

One was about a mistake by one administrator at one Success Academy school 18 months ago — a mistake that was immediately discovered and corrected by Success Academy's top leadership.

I don't agree with his views on academies or free schools but the issue of apprenticeships and the lack of leadership shown by government departments on this is the type of issue that Labour shadow ministers should be shouting about wherever they can.

Success Academy CEO Eva Moskowitz, one of the nation's most influential charter school leaders who has been a vocal supporter of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and defender of President Donald Trump, recently told a group of faculty members concerned about her alliances to the new administration that she is limited in how much she can advocate politically.

De Blasio and Fariña are so blinded by their reflexive crusade against the charter school network that operates Success Academy 4 and its founder, Eva Moskowitz, that they are casting the kids into the desert without a care about doing real harm.

SUNY — which licenses charter schools — plans to demand more information from the high - performing Success Academy and other charter - school operators about their disciplinary and suspension policies before signing off on new charter applications or renewals.

He also talked about the generous, multi-year support Dr. Williams has given to the Dr. Walter Cooper Fund at REF to encourage the success and literacy of students at Dr. Walter Cooper Academy School Number 10.

Older, sadder and wiser, they were there to demonstrate that they get voter concerns about petrol prices and school standards (Basildon's troubled academies are front page news in the Echo), manufacturing and help for remote regions (Essex?).

From my point of view the main embarrassment has been and continues to be Liberal Democrat support for Osborne's economic policies: others may be concerned about other issues (support for the restructuring of the NHS, or the creation of «free» schools and extension of the academy programme, for example).

Technically, the authorizers in this case are the State University of New York trustees, who recognize the value of locking in renewals now and asked the Regents to OK them: Doing so will give the schools, Bronx Better Learning and eight Success Academy charters, certainty about their futures, particularly as they consider expansions.

2.57 pm: My colleague Paul Owen has just been to a fringe meeting where David Laws was explaining his worries about the coalition's expansion of the academies programme and introduction of free schools.

At the Mexico Academy High School, Assemblymember Bob Oaks, State Sen. Tom O'Mara, State Sen. Patty Ritchie and Assemblymember Will Barclay listen to testimony about the flooding along Lake Ontario this year.

The report by the House of Commons education select committee into Regional Schools Commissioners (RSCs) raises a number of concerns about the role and function of the people charged with overseeing the growing number of academy schools in ESchools Commissioners (RSCs) raises a number of concerns about the role and function of the people charged with overseeing the growing number of academy schools in Eschools in England.

How much can we really deduce about academies and free schools from the Organisation for Economic Development's (OECD) international education rankings?

Moskowitz answered about a dozen questions, with topics including whether there is any potential mayoral candidate who embodies what she wants in a candidate, whether she plans on being involved in the 2017 election, why she is «such a lightning rod» for criticism, obstacles ahead, the City's pre-K program, whether she'll run for office at another time, whether she reflexively criticizes all education - related actions of Mayor de Blasio, whether she's concerned that her influence on state government will diminish because of her decision, discipline and suspension polices at Success Academy schools, her plans for other projects and her view on potential mayoral candidacies of Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr..

Students at Buffalo Academy of Science Charter School are organizing a forum on school gun violence to be held at 2 p.m. May 22 at their school, located at 190 Franklin St.. The students have invited members of the Buffalo School Board along with elected officials to the «Stop the Killing» forum to answer questions about how to make their communities and schoolsSchool are organizing a forum on school gun violence to be held at 2 p.m. May 22 at their school, located at 190 Franklin St.. The students have invited members of the Buffalo School Board along with elected officials to the «Stop the Killing» forum to answer questions about how to make their communities and schoolsschool gun violence to be held at 2 p.m. May 22 at their school, located at 190 Franklin St.. The students have invited members of the Buffalo School Board along with elected officials to the «Stop the Killing» forum to answer questions about how to make their communities and schoolsschool, located at 190 Franklin St.. The students have invited members of the Buffalo School Board along with elected officials to the «Stop the Killing» forum to answer questions about how to make their communities and schoolsSchool Board along with elected officials to the «Stop the Killing» forum to answer questions about how to make their communities and schools safe.

While she had heard negative stories about Success Academy schools being «rigid and dogmatic» before her son attended, the school was nothing like that, she said, and her son has thrived there.

Space Academy is a hands - on, minds - on experience designed to engage and excite both middle school students and teachers about current NASA missions.

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We talk with Paul about Canada's vision, the role that the Promise Academy Charter school is playing, and the evidence about whether the Zone is working to transform Harlem and the children who live there.

Carpe Diem schools and the Flex Academies exemplify this — and neither seems to be complaining nearly as much about the technology.

The Church of England is already the largest single provider of schools and academies in England, educating about a million pupils in 4,700 schools.

To his credit, when I talked to him about three of his projects — WoWinSchool (WoW used with middle school children), Minecraft (used with elementary students), and SAGA (Story and Game Academy)-- Gillispie repeatedly deflected credit from himself to his professional peers and administration.

Tough presents particularly compelling narratives about the progress of one Promise Academy elementary school and the middle school, the former achieving dramatic increases in test scores, and the latter temporarily closing its doors to new students as a result of poor (albeit improving) performance.

The DfE has been reluctant to be too prescriptive about the optimum size of a multi-academy trust, but it is likely that over time we will see MATs grow from 3, 4, 5 schools, typically, to trusts operating at least a dozen and may be upwards of 20 — 25 schools, with there still being a place for academy chains of 50 + schools.

Over the past year, Education Secretary Justine Greening has suggested discussions about reforming SRE guidance, which currently allows free schools and academies to opt out of teaching the subject in class.

ABOUT THE SCHOOL The state - sponsored Idaho Digital Learning Academy (IDLA), an accredited, online virtual school has a rigorous system of teacher support and evaluation that emphasizes not only academic content but also student engagement, collaboration, and critical thiSCHOOL The state - sponsored Idaho Digital Learning Academy (IDLA), an accredited, online virtual school has a rigorous system of teacher support and evaluation that emphasizes not only academic content but also student engagement, collaboration, and critical thischool has a rigorous system of teacher support and evaluation that emphasizes not only academic content but also student engagement, collaboration, and critical thinking.

Schools and academies up and down the country are raving about the positive effect the Duke of Edinburgh Award has on pupils and teachers alike

Some exam schools — such as Stuyvesant, Boston Latin, Thomas Jefferson and Illinois Math and Science Academy — are well known, but the sector as a whole (enrolling 136,000 students, about 1 percent of the total high school population) is little understood.

Despite Britain's multi-faith society, schools are still required to include a collective act of worship of a Christian nature, while faith schools and religious academies have raised fears about community cohesion and covert selection.

His use of the word «paternalism» sparked a raucous debate among education reformers and reform critics about «No Excuses» schools like KIPP, Amistad Academy, and Cristo Rey.

To do this, we need to think about schools as places that teach students themselves to take on the civil rights struggle, not just as academies that prepare students passively to receive the benefits — equal educational opportunities, equal content knowledge and skills — that the struggle confers.