Sentences with phrase «better about their local schools»

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«Attending school open houses, observing classrooms, and talking with other local parents are all good ways to learn about local schools,» Reardon added, stressing that numbers alone are never enough to judge a school.

All three of us are really passionate about supporting local businesses as well as giving back to local schools and organizations.

(132) The energy bursting from this story is admirable, but this is a long way from the problems of an averageCatholic family in Britain, who are more likely to be worrying about what the local primary school is teaching their children, rather than the best way to shoot a rat.

It provides in - depth programming that helps grow local food procurement capacity; educates the public about the importance and impact of Good Food; engages local school districts; and illuminates local, statewide and national food policy.

It feels good but I am still a bit nervous — although not as nervous as I was about the local schools.

Ostensibly, it is the story of a team of nine - year old hockey players in a Boston suburb, their coach, a former high school baseball coach and local sports hero, the all - male board of directors of the town's hockey club, a hockey mom concerned about her kids emotional well - being, and, at center ice, a set of adorable, identical, competitive, but sensitive twin boys who became, as is all too often the case in the adult - centered world of youth sports, the unintended but innocent victims of a real life power play.

If you really want to improve school meals, here are 10 effective ways to support the hard - working school nutrition HEROES who are reshaping local and national food systems, teaching kids about where food comes from, and feeding millions of children their best meals of the day — every day — in thousands of schools across our country.

McMillan's report offers a good, if somewhat depressing, snapshot of the state of local school food sourcing nationwide, finding that «only about 13 percent of the food budgets at schools serving local food actually went to stuff that was grown nearby.»

To obtain the best education for your child research into your local public school system as well as research about homeschooling will help you to make a decision that makes sense for your own family.

Hear about the new Local School Wellness Policy (LWP) requirements and the recently proposed regulation, as well as best practices that schools across the nation have successfully implemented, monitored and evaluated wellness policies.

Despite an increase in media attention, as well as national and local efforts to educate athletes on the potential dangers of traumatic brain injuries, a new study found that many high school football players are not concerned about the long - term effects of concussions and don't report their own concussion symptoms because they fear exclusion from play.

As a taxpayer I am sick of paying for the unchecked growth of charters.I even got a flyer today offering a $ 100 incentive for those referring students to enroll in a local charter school.The charter school industry seems well funded enough to pay for all these ads — how about donating the funds for these ads to reduce local taxes — listen to local taxpayers!.

Many of them hinged on local concerns — in particular why Bradford schools are so good at being poor — but then there were the questions about disability and austerity, investment in business and innovation, and tuition fees.

«If it is about choice for parents and the public, evidence shows that what parents and the public want are good local schools run by local councils, democratically accountable to local communities.

Most voters expect Labour to care about the NHS and other institutions — like local schools and Sure Start centres — that tend to (but not always) make the world better.

The Children's Worlds study, co-ordinated in England by the Social Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at York, asked children about all key aspects of their lives including their family and home life, friendships, money and possessions, school life, local area, time use, personal well - being, views on children's rights, and their overall happiness.

That's why when you have a discussion with your partner about what you want for your kids, even that alone is good because a lot of people would just send their kids to local school without asking this question.

New Zealand About Blog I'm Carol, I am an AMI trained 9 - 12 teacher at Wa Ora Montessori School in New Zealand as well as an enthusiastic craftsperson, president of my local fibre - craft guild, wife, and mother of two wonderful children.

New Zealand About Blog I'm Carol, I am an AMI trained 9 - 12 teacher at Wa Ora Montessori School in New Zealand as well as an enthusiastic craftsperson, president of my local fibre - craft guild, wife, and mother of two wonderful children.

It begins in a small town in Texas, where Grace (Selena Gomez) works as a waitress at a local diner with her best friend Emma (Katie Cassidy) and is about to graduate from high school.

The new proposals look to set up a specific point of contact at local councils for parents and teachers in order to raise concerns about a child, as well as introduce new measures to discover how many children are being home - schooled beyond the reach of inspectors.

The quality of student work speaks more eloquently about the good things going on at the local high school than anything else can.

States that want to help parents become more savvy education consumers should consider contracting with third - party validators who can provide parents better information about their children's schools, and also about other resources that are available to families through organizations like Communities in Schools, which works to develop partnerships between schools and other student service providers in the locaschools, and also about other resources that are available to families through organizations like Communities in Schools, which works to develop partnerships between schools and other student service providers in the locaSchools, which works to develop partnerships between schools and other student service providers in the locaschools and other student service providers in the local area.

Close to three - fourths of the public say their local schools are doing well at attending to the needs of more - talented students, but that percentage plummets to just 45 percent when asked about the effectiveness of local schools at meeting the needs of the less - talented (Fig. 3).

The local businesses are so good about supporting the schools, and they are always getting hit up.

Whilst it is early days, the trend is being encouraged by both local authorities and the EFA, perhaps recognising the need locally and nationally to develop capacity to deliver new build works and that schools are best placed to make decisions about where to focus investment to secure the right educational outcomes.

Gallatin Valley Farm to School, a local nonprofit that teaches kids about growing food and healthy eating, now runs BOB, and plans to extend its reach throughout the district, as well as incorporate math and English into the existing garden lessons.

According to a news release, «(Walker) will speak about the Wisconsin reforms he put in place, which empower local school districts to make the best decisions for their students, while effectively managing their budgets.»

During the group's annual meeting here, plans to create local speakers» bureaus nationwide to assist high schools in teaching about the war were unveiled, as well as a lobbying drive to convince more schools to adopt a highly regarded curriculum on the war.

«Parents care most about whether students at their local school are performing well.

And though charters have taken to putting a good face on things by comparing themselves to their local district schools, which is fair, the truth about quality is uncomfortable.

Ask your local newspaper to devote a full - page ad to publishing student comments about the things they like best about their schools.

And the unions and their local suburban school officials are doing a great job of scaring suburbanites about how a charter expansion might harm the relatively good arrangements they currently enjoy.

If the new information surprises respondents by indicating the district is doing less well than previously thought, the public, upon learning the truth of the matter, is likely to 1) lower its evaluation of local schools; 2) become more supportive of educational alternatives for families; 3) alter thinking about current policies affecting teacher compensation and retention; and 4) reassess its thinking about school and student accountability policies.

He said: «Our review is about ensuring schools deliver the best outcomes for children and young people, with teachers empowered to make decisions about learning within schools, supported by parents and the local community.

After analyzing the content of samples from local wells for a project about the quality of drinking water, fifth - and sixth - grade students at Shutesbury Elementary School display their information on a large map of the town and look for patterns in the data.

Three decades of experimentation with school choice demonstrate that making it work requires careful attention to such tasks as ensuring that parents have good information about school quality and suitable transportation — responsibilities that skeptical local bureaucrats may dodge.

«Australia is investing record funding in education that will continue to grow, all targeted based on need, and the Turnbull Government is focused on improving student outcomes through measures we know are effective — teacher quality, a better curriculum, greater parental engagement and support for principals to make local decisions about their local school,» he said.

In a typical high school civics class, students learn about local and federal government and media literacy, as well as citizenship and participation.

It can help people reach better informed decisions about individual children's school placements and formulate better informed evaluations of provision at local and national levels.

But if the secretary follows the spirit and letter of the law, then state and local school leaders will finally be able to run their schools the way they believe is best, without worrying about the federal government getting in the way.

«Our waiver submission is about our collective responsibility, teacher - to - teacher, principal - to - principal, district - to - district, and school - to - school to make something better; not who's going to get punished for not hitting a target set by someone outside our local environment,» said Fresno Unified's Hanson.

Governor Walker spoke about the reforms he put in place in Wisconsin which gave local school districts the ability to make better decisions for their students while effectively managing their budgets.

They must be able to engage multiple constituencies — all the way from President Obama through his education secretary down to the local mom thinking about which school would be the best for her kindergartner.

Write to your local newspaper, or blog, about what research says of the importance of a safe school climate for student well - being.

The evidence on these questions available to date comes from small - scale studies of specific school districts, making it difficult to reach general conclusions about the degree to which parents and the public at large are well informed about the performance of local schools.

She has published extensively about school reform and regularly consults with federal, state and local policy leaders as well as practitioners.

Federal compulsion will not bring about better schools in a country that has a two century history of local control.

However, by focusing on college and career readiness and including meaningful comparisons for schools, we hope that these new reports will inform conversations at the local level about where schools are doing well and where they can continue to improve.

States and local school districts can now make more decisions about how best to support student learning.