Sentences with phrase «allow schools flexibility»

It provides a clear framework for action but also allows schools flexibility so that they can tailor the suggested strategies and approaches to their own needs and circumstances.

Not exact matches

For example, the school system could build in some flexibility to reasonably accommodate the minority's religious needs by allowing exams to be written on alternative days, or permitting extensions on assignments if the due dates fall on holidays etc..

This move out of the actual papal palace will allow greater flexibility for the observatory headquarters to stage its regular events and summer schools, and to welcome visitors more easily.

About three thousand students are already benefiting from the latest wrinkle in five states, «education savings accounts,» which provide even more flexibility to families by allowing those who withdraw their children from public schools to receive a deposit of public funds into government - authorized savings accounts that can be used to pay for private school tuition, online learning programs, private tutoring, educational therapies, or college costs.

These standards will preserve the nutritional gains that have already been made in school food, while allowing greater flexibility.»

I love the flexibility that working from home allows; one minute helping a customer find just the right item for their project, bouncing over to the school lunchroom to help out, and back again.

Recommendation: To improve SFAs» ability to design menus that comply with the new lunch requirements, the Secretary of Agriculture should modify federal regulations or guidance to allow school districts flexibility in complying with the defined calorie ranges for schools with students in both the grades 6 - 8 and 9 - 12 groups.

They were designed to allow flexibility for state associations that collectively oversee the more than 15,000 high schools across the country that have football programs.

Based on this input, the 2015 Position Paper does not request a waiver, but rather increased funding paired with commonsense flexibility to restore the financial stability of school meal programs and allow for menu improvements that can entice students back to healthy school meals.

Having a nanny allows their children to have downtime and flexibility when school is out, while still engaging in fun and educational activities all summer long.

It retains the historic tax credit, which was used to restore the Hotel Syracuse, it no longer taxes the tuition waivers that some graduate students use to pay for school and it allows taxpayers some flexibility on whether they want to deduct their state income, sales or property taxes - capped at $ 10,000.

Cuomo made the announcement on the mayoral control extension as part of a broader agreement on a range of issues, including an extension of state control of the New York Racing Association, testing for lead in school drinking water and new flexibility for charter schools to allow them to switch to the Board of Trustees of State University of New York for oversight.

It will allow 200 schools to opt out of some contract provisions, if 65 percent of UFT members at the school agree — mimicking the «flexibility» touted in the city's mostly non-union charter schools.

«The video lectures allowed for flexibility, as students could repeat sections they didn't understand for clarification and prepare questions to send to section leaders ahead of time, although the video lectures did make it difficult for students to engage directly with the lecturers,» said Stephanie Shiau, PhD, a post-doctoral student in Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health, and co-first author.

«Allowing health plans the flexibility to voluntarily cover more services outside the deductible would enhance consumer choice,» says Fendrick, a professor in the U-M Medical School and School of Public Health who heads the Center for Value - Based Insurance Design (V - BID).

Gov. George W. Bush of Texas signed into law last week a bill that will streamline the state's education code and allow local school districts greater management flexibility.

The ideal setting, being adopted by many schools, is moving to Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) programs to allow for flexibility and for students to work on their own devices.

KI Europe, for example, is an education company that has always been mindful of including an element of flexibility in its products to schools via the «maker - centred learning environment», which its education sales director Kevin Geeves describes as «founded on interdisciplinary sharing and learning in an active form, allowing participants to express their curiosity and share their learnings across disciplines.»

In theory, the concept might appeal to those who think taxpayers who don't use public schools should get other benefits instead — and to proponents of allowing parents even greater flexibility and choice than vouchers offer them.

Whilst vending allows operators the flexibility to vary their vended offerings in accordance with what their customers want, where education vending is concerned, vending services can be stocked to provide students with the products that they should be consuming — the healthy options that meet school meal guidelines as per the government's recommendations — so operators can control what students» should / shouldn't be eating and drinking.

Ms Morgan has asked the STRB to consider whether teachers could «move down from the upper pay range to the main pay range» in order to allow schools more flexibility.

And although I've always been employed full time, I've had the good fortune over the years to work for employers who have allowed me the flexibility to adjust my hours or take time off to accommodate my volunteer activities at school.

• Allow for participating LEAs and schools to request flexibility from state requirements necessary for the success of their competency - based education efforts throughout the pilot or innovation program process, rather than limiting those requests only to the time of initial application.

ESSA removed NCLB's across - the - board school accountability system, allowing states the flexibility to identify and remedy low performing schools.

The same flexibility that allows states and school districts to use less - punitive restructuring approaches when they are appropriate could also allow them to avoid applying tough consequences to schools that really do merit them.

What's needed, he says, are policy changes, giving the best teachers incentives to go into the most demanding schools and allowing principals to have more control over hiring and evaluating teachers and more flexibility and control over their budgets.

Adapt allows clients to benefit from economies of scale from purchasing the same elements, whilst still having enough flexibility for each school to remain individual.

Cashless payments can have a positive effect on schools in reducing administration and paper work and removing the security risks involved with keeping money on the school premises, while allowing parents and students more flexibility.

Washington — The Education Department's top special - education policymaker has suggested that schools be allowed more flexibility in allocating resources to special - needs students.

And they will likely tweak the accountability regulations to better align with the flexibility provided by the law — to allow states not to publish summative ratings of schools, for instance.

Instead of arguing whether charter schools should be included in No Child Left Behind, a more fruitful question is how to ensure that state accountability schemes allow enough flexibility for boutique programs within the public system while not opening up loopholes that low - quality schools can slip through.

Cashless payments can have a positive effect on schools in reducing admin and paper work and removing the security risks involved with keeping money on the school premises, while allowing parents and students more flexibility.

Speaking at the Academy Ambassadors conference, Gibb praised the «Schools that work for everyone» consultation and said that plans to open new selective schools and allow existing schools to become selective would «widen choice» and bring «more flexibility» to England's education Schools that work for everyone» consultation and said that plans to open new selective schools and allow existing schools to become selective would «widen choice» and bring «more flexibility» to England's education schools and allow existing schools to become selective would «widen choice» and bring «more flexibility» to England's education schools to become selective would «widen choice» and bring «more flexibility» to England's education system.

This is a very broad definition, but it is the flexibility of Digital Leader schemes which allows schools to deploy students in roles that will best address issues of technology integration in their learning environments.

In 2012, then schools superintendent Cary Matsuoka asked principals at all district schools to come up with redesign plans that would integrate technology; use data to inform instruction; allow flexibility in space, time, and student grouping; and center on student learning.

The integrated system provides flexibility and reliability for parents, while also simplifying administration for care providers and schools and allowing them to access more customers.

Arizona, California, Florida, Louisiana, and Michigan have large numbers of charter schools and allow for flexibility regarding state plan participation.

High school reform should include making sure that we are measuring the relevant skills; allowing states the flexibility to design systems that produce results; using multiple measures to assess achievement; allowing the use of growth models; including commonsense flexibility for students with special needs; involving educators in planning; and effectively addressing dropout rates.

The charity will increase its flexibility with regard to accommodating for people who have already put roots down in a particular area, allowing career - changers to carry out their first two - year posting in schools which are nearby.

[6] A better strategy for reaching that goal would be to transform Title I by allowing states the flexibility to make Title I dollars «portable,» so that the dollars follow the child to the school or educational option of the parents» choosing.

Eliminate federally mandated interventions and allow states and school districts the flexibility to develop and implement appropriate school improvement strategies;

Federal officials should allow Arizona school leaders to decide the best way to measure student progress and make good on the federal commitment to give states more flexibility through ESSA.

Standards for grades K - 8 are broken down by grade, while high school standards are grouped into two bands (grades 9 - 10 and grades 11 - 12) to allow flexibility in their design.

The Standards use individual grade levels in kindergarten through grade 8 to provide useful specificity; the Standards use two - year bands in grades 9 - 12 to allow schools, districts, and states flexibility in high school course design.

The idea was to drive budget authority and decision - making power down to the school level, allowing those in the trenches to respond to local needs and promoting diversity and flexibility within the system.

The California state school board has agreed to continue allowing school districts flexibility in how they carry out a new state law that calls for limited - English - proficient students to be taught mostly in English.

As new state - created entities charged with running and turning around the state's worst schools, these districts are awarded certain authority and flexibility — such as the ability to turn schools into charters and to bypass collective bargaining agreements — that allow them to cut the red tape that has made so many schools dysfunctional in the first place.

Innovation schools are new to Idaho, the result of a law passed in March 2016 that allows up to ten public schools a year to receive flexibility from laws and policies that impede local autonomy, allowing them to be agile, innovative and empowered to adapt to local circumstances.

Community Magnet is an affiliated charter which allows flexibility in many areas of school management (budget, staff selection) as well as school site control over curriculum selections and school - based enrichment.

Innovation schools are new to Idaho, the result of a law passed in March 2016 that allows school districts to grant schools «flexibility from laws and policies that impede local autonomy, allowing them to be agile, innovative and empowered to adopt to local circumstances.»