Sentences with phrase «approach school officials»

Pinpoint other parents who don't want their kids to be rewarded with junk food — and approach school officials as a group.

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Blankmeyer, who according to the criminal complaint suffers from depression and attention deficit disorder, first approached Stonehill officials with a complaint about her roommate, Laura, violating the school's rules by having sex with her boyfriend without her permission.

Most school lunch programs, including the cafeteria programs in place in Lake County «s high schools, junior high schools and elementary schools, have undergone some revisions to reflect a more enlightened approach to nutrition, according to school officials and nutrition experts.

Former SNA President Dorothy Caldwell, who has been on the front lines of child nutrition for 37 years, said she is worried SNA leadership has been «naive» in its approach, allowing the National School Lunch Program to be unnecessarily politicized as it was during Newt Gingrich's effort to block the grant program during the Clinton administration, when she was a USDA official.

But some elected officials on both the city and state level have criticized this approach as a way to close public schools and open a charter school in its place.

However, officials note that «the current inspection framework is antithetical to the Steiner ethos / pedagogical approach» in terms of «Literacy in Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and Key Stage 1 (KS1)», where Ofsted required «more formal learning»; «KS2 tests», as «Last year, the Academy pupils did not sit the tests (the Academy provided the exam papers and rooms for pupils to sit the exams but parents chose not to allow their pupils to sit the tests)»; and «Teaching and learning», where it is noted that the schools consider that «any process which judges learning as the immediate outcome from teaching in a lesson is inappropriate.

Officials are in receipt of Steiner teacher training materials that imply a highly secretive approach to what takes place in class, stating teachers should ``... never allow anyone access to lesson notes or records» and «anything indicating what the class may have learnt, or covered in Morning Lesson should be «lost» before you leave the school.

After a Saturday morning meeting between charter officials and schools chancellor Carmen Fariña, the head of the New York Charter School Center, James Merriman, posed the only question that should matter about the mayor's approach:

Several state - level groups, including the Board of Regents and the New York State Association of School Business Officials, have recommended a different approach.

Principal Ellen Sherman of the Academy of American Studies High School in Queens said, «Governor Cuomo's initiative is an innovative approach to teaching government that will allow students to get their questions about government answered directly by elected officials via webcast.

Exam results are often posted on bulletin boards in schools and colleges in India When Debarghya Das» friends approached him to obtain their final grades from the education board before the official announcement, he gave it a try and got nowhere.

Ken Gross, a University of Vermont mathematician, chose the latter approach in 1998 when state school officials asked him to help improve the mathematical literacy of their largely rural workforce.

Sacramento school district officials met with parents, teachers, and students — as well as community members and business and industry leaders — for months to discuss the school - to - career approach for their high schools.

She recounts how the «zero tolerance» approach to school discipline of the 1990s was followed by the Obama administration's official guidance to schools on minimizing suspensions, issued in 2014, and notes

Moreover, the procedural approach makes no allowance for the possibility that public agencies may make decisions that are discriminatory, repressive, or otherwise fail to serve the public interest... It's not clear why we ought to be comforted by the fact that public officials are responsible, or why we ought not consider whether «nonpublic» schools may help redress such injuries.

And (thanks to compulsory - attendance laws and school - licensing criteria) they could apply to private schools, home schools, and more, though I acknowledge that state officials need to be judicious in how they approach this.

HR 2066, which was approved on a voice vote May 1 by the Economic and Educational Opportunities Committee, would allow school officials to use any «reasonable approach» to meeting the guidelines.

This approach is often justified on the grounds that it precludes favoritism on the part of principals, school board members, and other administrative officials.

Although the 40 - year - old statute appears to have been the only one of its kind in the nation, officials from nonprofit institutions across the board, including boarding schools and private colleges, had expressed fears that if Maine's approach were upheld, more states might seek to provide greater tax benefits to institutions that mostly serve in - state residents.

A long - awaited inspection of the federal Reading First program found today that federal education officials may have steered the grant - application process for the $ 1 billion - a-year initiative to ensure that particular reading programs and instructional approaches were widely used by participating schools, and that others were essentially shut out.

But he said one piece, the specific language describing what level of student growth would rate as a four versus a three versus a two, still is being fine - tuned among officials representing the Oregon Education Association, the Confederation of Oregon School Administrators, the state education agency and the Chalkboard Project, a Portland - based nonprofit that has helped many school districts pioneer new approaches to teacher evaluSchool Administrators, the state education agency and the Chalkboard Project, a Portland - based nonprofit that has helped many school districts pioneer new approaches to teacher evaluschool districts pioneer new approaches to teacher evaluation.

Specifically, Loveless says, teachers and school officials may cite it as justification for «questionable approaches to learning.»

In Tacoma (about 29,000 students), school officials and School Board members also are curious how charter schools could help them meet academic goals, but they are taking a more cautious appschool officials and School Board members also are curious how charter schools could help them meet academic goals, but they are taking a more cautious appSchool Board members also are curious how charter schools could help them meet academic goals, but they are taking a more cautious approach.

Officials GAO interviewed in all five school districts in the five states GAO visited reported various challenges with addressing student behavior, and said they were considering new approaches to school discipline.

But after hearing objections from teachers and school officials around the state, he backed away from that approach, the governor said Wednesday.

«The rapid advance of technology and the very different way teachers approach teaching today, along with the almost simultaneous [aging] of the nation's education infrastructure, is creating a tremendous need to rebuild schools — yet school officials have very little knowledge about what education will look like 10 or 20 years from now.»

These performance levels at KIPP Raíces, a K - 4th grade elementary school founded in 2008, raise two important policy questions for LA Unified at a time charter schools are poised to become a greater presence within the district: One, to what degree are district officials trying to replicate the successful approach at Raíces and other high - performing charters?

In the case of Minneapolis, for example, Hawkins shows that MFT's «bargaining for the common good» approach hasn't stopped them from making unfounded accusations against several school district officials.

«My hope is that she has a very open mind... and doesn't think the Michigan approach is the right one,» said Peter Cunningham, a former Obama Education Department official who is now executive director of the Education Post, a nonprofit group that supports charter schools.

But this time New Jersey education officials say they have struck the right balance between state - driven priorities and the development of approaches that mesh with each low - achieving school's needs.

Officials on his education team say they believe an individualized approach to students — a central component of the small - schools movement — is key to a school's success, but that those relationships can be built within a variety of school configurations.

But analysts and researchers caution that American elected officials and educators need to take a nuanced approach to interpreting test scores and lessons from abroad, one that considers the full basket of educational, societal, and cultural factors that shape school practices in top - performing nations, and in the United States.

Mississippi officials are overhauling their state's 20 year - old education formula to replace it with a weighted student formula — a «money follows the child» approach to school funding.

Findings will help inform school officials about the relative costs and benefits of shifting from a punitive system to a more positive approach to behavior change.

Simon says that in 2008 he approached Jason Kamras, the D.C. school official charged with developing a new teacher evaluation system, and suggested that the district craft a system similar to Montgomery County's.

This year's grades were the first to factor in student growth — an approach state officials say gives a more complete picture of which schools are on the right trajectory and gives credit to schools that make progress with students who are multiple grade - levels behind.

Heartland officials approached the principal because the school was already in the process of adopting a new reading curriculum.

But she also stressed that the bishops approach this with «their eyes open,» being sure to avoid school and government entanglement and federal and state officials «reaching into Catholic education.»

She also said school officials have not decided yet when parents will be approached based on the number of student absences.

The legislation would follow the House's approach, allowing students to qualify for the program after school officials investigate the incident or 15 days after parents report it, whichever happens first.

As states explore new approaches to school accountability, C - SAIL has interviewed dozens of state officials and found a popular new mantra in state departments of education: Accountability should now be «supportive, not punitive.»

Even as worries about Ebola have prompted school closings and other K - 12 precautions in recent weeks, medical experts are advising school officials to take a measured approach in response to the handful of U.S. cases of the virus.

By using the «Sit and Stare» approach to punish students who have been opted out, these local school officials are violating the Common Core SBAC testing policy and are engaging in a serious breach of security and duty.

The Educational Service Center coordinated these activities with officials from local police and fire departments that served the participating school districts; the Lucas County Sheriff; the Lucas County Emergency Management Agency; the Lucas County Mental Health and Recovery Services Board; the Toledo - Lucas County Health Health Department; and the Lucas County Board of Developmental Disabilities to ensure that crises — whether school or community - originated — could be addressed quickly and effectively through an integrated approach.

In the last year, he said, school officials have been exploring different approaches to school safety.

A bottom - up approach would make much more sense, with those closest to students, namely teachers, making pedagogical recommendations to school officials.

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.