Sentences with phrase «between schools controlled»

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More emphasis needs to be placed upon the difference between the function of the purely voluntary group, such as one finds in a church, and the controlled and not so voluntary group found in the classes of a theological school.

If viewed as a struggle between school presidents and athletic directors for control of major college sports, the NCAA Convention in Dallas was a clean sweep.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that between 4 to 6 percent of children in the United States have one or more food allergies and that approximately 90 percent of schools have one or more students with a food allergy.4 The CDC developed voluntary guidelines to help staff, teachers and students create a healthy school environment for children with food allergies.

Last year, de Blasio sought a permanent extension of mayoral control of city schools, an ask that came amid ongoing tensions between the Senate GOP and the liberal New York City mayor.

It was one of the most colorful exchanges Monday besides the back and forth between Republican Senator Terrence Murphy and de Blasio over Mayoral control of City schools.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, between 4 percent and 6 percent of school age children have severe food allergies.

The relationship between Cuomo and de Blasio publicly had been one in which the two men carefully sought to avoid any on - the - record critiques, even as the governor was seen as purposefully undermining the mayor on key issues such as an Atlantic Yards land deal, the terms of extending the 421a tax abatement, mayoral control of New York City schools, universal pre-Kindergarten and a city - wide increase in the minimum wage.

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, between 2011 and 2016, the number of high school students who reported smoking tobacco in the last 30 days declined by more than 15 percent to about 8 percent.

Caught in the middle are a host of issues affecting 8.5 million residents of New York City such as mayoral control of schools, the expansion of charter schools and the most recent hot - button issue between the two men — the controversial 421 - a tax abatement program.

ALBANY — Mayor Bill de Blasio made a bid Wednesday for permanent mayoral control of New York City's public schools, pitting him against Gov. Andrew Cuomo in yet another high - profile issue that showcased the tensions between the two Democratic power brokers.

The hostilities between the mayor and the governor have only escalated in the last year over a variety of concerns, including mayoral control of New York City schools and proposed cuts in funding to the City University of New York, tumbling into public view with a rare intensity, even for two jobs that are often in conlfict.

«Given the strong interrelationship between the economic success of the city and the health of its real estate industry, and that REBNY is one of the city's leading trade associations, the organization historically has spoken out on matters of important public interest, like mayoral control of NYC public schools,» Chin - Lyn said in a statement.

An off - the - books charter school deal between de Blasio and State Senate Republicans paved the way for the mayor to win control over city schools for another two years.

Their duties include controlling outside traffic, patrolling the school, maintaining discipline, identifying problems and mentoring at - risk students, teaching law - related classes and serving as liaisons between schools and police.

Thursday night, word began circulating of a «framework» agreement reached between the so - called «three men in a room» — Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan — that would satisfy at least the minimum requirements for both: The Democratic - dominated Assembly would agree to the first passage of legislation paving the way for a constitutional amendment that would allow for the stripping of public pensions from elected officials and other top officials convicted of public corruption, and the Republican - led Senate would approve a one - year extension of mayoral control of New York City's schools.

As for mayoral control of New York City's public schools, it's shaping up to become a game of chicken between both chambers.

An online feud has erupted on the Hofstra University Facebook page between supporters of Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson, who are protesting his omission from the first presidential debate, and Hofstra students charging back that the school has no control over who qualifies for the debate stage.

Republican mayoral candidate Paul Massey supports mayoral control of the City school system, but doesn't have any preference between the one house bills currently floating on the opaque sea of Albany.

The new SUNY regs stemmed from a side - deal hashed out between the city and the charter school sector in June that helped pave the way for an extension of the law giving Mayor de Blasio control of the city schools.

The new 12 - page report reviewed purchase orders the school district made between July 1, 2011 to April 30, 2013 and found it had established «adequate controls over claims processing.»

The distinction between lying in a controlled experiment and the real world is an important one, says Owen Jones, a law professor at Vanderbilt University Law School in Nashville.

«We found that non-blind papers tended to exaggerate differences between the experimental group and the control group,» said lead researcher Dr Luke Holman, from the Research School of Biology at The Australian National University (ANU).

Exposure to verbal and physical aggression between parents may hurt a child's ability to identify and control emotions, according to a longitudinal study led by NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

Riley J. Steiner, M.P.H., of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, and coauthors compared condom use between sexually active high school girls using LARC and users of other contraceptive methods.

The team, led by Stephen Liberles, Harvard Medical School associate professor of cell biology, has effectively deconstructed the vagus nerve, a key connection between body and brain that is important because it controls not only breathing but also heart rate, feeding behavior and responses to illness.

An eight - year Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study found between 12 to 28 percent of LGBT students reported they had been threatened or injured at school the prior year.

In this study, led by Professor Zafar Bashir from Bristol's School of Physiology and Pharmacology, the researchers studied neurotransmitters, called glutamate and dopamine, which work together in controlling normal transmission between these brain regions by communicating chemical information throughout our brain and are disrupted in schizophrenics.

Using data from blood and brain tissue, a team led by researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that they could gain insights into mechanisms that might help explain autism by analyzing the interplay between genes and chemical tags that control whether genes are used to make a protein, called epigenetic marks.

Using modern functional MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), researchers at Emory University School of Medicine have shown that the neckâ $ ™ s motor control region in the brain is actually between the shoulders and trunk, a location that more closely matches the arrangement of the body itself.

Her 1974 book The Great School Wars describes how New York City has played educational three - card monte over its long public school history by moving apparent control over decisions up and down the system, between the central chancellor's office and the local superintendents, but never yielding any fraction of control to the scSchool Wars describes how New York City has played educational three - card monte over its long public school history by moving apparent control over decisions up and down the system, between the central chancellor's office and the local superintendents, but never yielding any fraction of control to the scschool history by moving apparent control over decisions up and down the system, between the central chancellor's office and the local superintendents, but never yielding any fraction of control to the schools.

We find no relationship between how long a charter school has been in operation and student achievement after controlling for school policies.

However, if we do not control for school policies and look at the simple correlation between a charter school's years in operation and student achievement, we find that older schools have more positive achievement effects.

The most important comparison to make is between the treatment group schools eligible for the bonus program (most of which actually participated in the program) and the schools in the control group.

If the treatment and control groups are similar at the beginning of the study, any differences between the two groups that emerge over time can be attributed to the programmatic intervention - in the case at hand, using a voucher to switch from a public to a private school.

Some school districts in Oklahoma may close the fiscal year next week with significant shortfalls because of a power struggle between Republican Gov. Frank Keating and the Democrat - controlled legislature.

For the two plays in which there was also a movie treatment, we found no difference between students who saw the movie and those who remained in school as the control.

Big - city school districts are bureaucracies that draw a bright line between what they control and what they do not.

But what made Levy's ascension so highly symbolic was its unique combination of all the elements of urban school drama: a mayor whose desire to wrest control from the city's elected school board was long voiced; a city fed up with failure on a grand scale and in the long term; a competition between city hall and school leadership to pass the blame; and the realization, finally, that a system the size of a Fortune 500 company might be better led by someone with the skills of a Fortune 500 executive.

Colorado educators and policymakers are grappling with the potential implications of a recent state supreme court ruling on charter schools that highlights tensions between state and local control.

Up to eight states would be authorized to conduct demonstration programs testing whether state control of Head Start actually leads to better coordination of preschool programs, greater emphasis on school readiness, improvement in poor children's preschool test scores, and progress in closing the achievement gap between poor and advantaged students.

If so, this could resolve some of the tension between the formal law of state control and the de facto autonomy of local school districts by aligning practice with the formal legal theory of state power.

Let's turn now to the preferred strategy, which controls for the fact that students performing at different levels may be sorted into smaller or larger classes both between and within schools.

... When these factors are statistically controlled... it appears that differences between schools account for only a small fraction of differences in pupil achievement.

With the link between schools and local authorities being further reduced, the DfE has suggested that councils will retain some control over funding for areas with «high - level special educational needs».

Because moving between schools is known to have a negative impact on student achievement, we also control for whether the student changed schools in the current year and whether that change was structural (for instance, the student moved to a junior high school from its feeder elementary school).

The key comparison is between students enrolled in schools that received a fail rating in the early part of the academic year, September to November (the treatment group) with those attending schools that received a fail rating late in the academic year, mid-May to mid-July (the control group).

First, I demonstrate that inspection ratings can aid in distinguishing between more - and less - effective schools, even after controlling for test scores and various other school characteristics.

Discussing School Direct, the government's new approach to initial teacher training, Taylor talked about developing relationships between schools and teacher training providers and school - centred initial teacher training (SCITT), encouraging schools to get more involved and take control of their own recruiSchool Direct, the government's new approach to initial teacher training, Taylor talked about developing relationships between schools and teacher training providers and school - centred initial teacher training (SCITT), encouraging schools to get more involved and take control of their own recruischool - centred initial teacher training (SCITT), encouraging schools to get more involved and take control of their own recruitment.

It is thought that these cameras give more control to teachers in difficult situations by limiting bad behaviour and instilling a sense of trust between the school and parents.

Using this data, we analyzed each school's math network to examine whether the physical proximity of pairs of staff, based on their reported room numbers, predicted an interaction between them about math, after controlling for factors prior research has shown predict such relationships.