Sentences with phrase «biggest school systems»

But as more educators and constituents are advocating smaller schools and smaller classes, the advantages of being one of the biggest school systems may be outweighed by the downside — headaches and crises caused by more layers of bureaucracy and a more impersonal culture.

While such dual - superintendency jobs used to be common in the state, many districts in the Chicago area rejected them because sharing one top administrator was too demanding in bigger school systems.

«This is the biggest school system in then country.

Leading a big school system is as much about politics as management; maybe the next set of cases should be written incollaboration with Harvard's political science department.

Now Bill Gates, who in recent years has turned his attention and considerable fortune to improving American education, is investing $ 335 million through his foundation to overhaul the personnel departments of several big school systems.

LOS ANGELES — A revolution is coming to the nation's second - biggest school system, with a pro-charter majority set to take over the governing board of the Los Angeles Unified School District.

The disaster stopped life in its tracks for many across the state, including Louisiana's second - biggest school system: East Baton Rouge Parish.

He contends that only random assignment of teachers and students — wholly impractical in big school systems — can eliminate enough bias and error to obtain a valid measure of how much teachers improve student performance.

Not exact matches

If you want to know more about how the big guys work out problems, check out Justice on the Job, by David W. Ewing (Harvard Business School Press, Boston, 1989), a lively chronicle of the creative complaint systems in place at corporations such as Federal Express, IBM, and Northrop.

Many such big names are building or leasing massive super-regional centers that stock a wide variety of products in close proximity to customers or stores in an effort to compete with the likes of Amazon, said Ravi Srinivasan, assistant professor of information systems and operations management at Loyola University Maryland's Sellinger School of Business & Management.

It matters when they get legislation passed at the state level to mandate illegitimate «science» be taught in schools, such that refutes big bang cosmology, evolutionary biology and an 11 billion year old universe / multiverse and 4.6 billion year old solar system.

Let's let the churches pay taxes if they want to put their big fat noses in our PUBLIC PAID school system.

Which is one very sensible reason why the majority of teachers in the big city systems do not send their own children to the public schools.

Big differences between school systems, you can see what schools really try to put efforts to make healthy, balanced menus that kids will actually eat.

I saw a system that is working, a reading scheme that excites and engages, a school that's like a big family.

Even for parents in relatively small suburban school districts, such as those in Evanston, the school food system can seem too big to change.

Like you, my focus now extends well beyond school food to include the bigger picture: our broken food system.

While I do not dismiss the recent grassroots efforts that have gained significant strength via a petition to get pink slime out of school cafeterias, I worry that the focus on it detracts from bigger and more important food system issues, and provides the meat industry with a convenient distraction and an easily fixable problem that can effortlessly be spun into a public - relations success.

While the French food culture in itself encourages eating local, there is another even bigger reason why the French school system can put locally grown foods on the school lunch menus: the monies for the school lunches are organized within local municipalities, not primarily on a federal level, as they are in America.

Systems big and small, including public schools in Montgomery and Fairfax counties, opted out.

Security and theft are big issues, and the dining room is just a big, scary place... If I could hope for one change it would be for smaller schools... it is just one solution for a system that needs a lot of solutions and a lot of change... longer lunch periods, teachers willing to eat with the students, nutrition education, getting rid of the soda and snack vending machines that fund the sports programs, and more money and support for school food service programs...

Changing an entire school food system is a big task.

I do not bemoan public interest in school lunch issues and sketchy additives, but it is crucial to not lose sight of the big picture — «pink slime» is one of many symptoms of a broken food system.

«From taxing the wealthy to fund universal pre-K and after - school programs to ending unnecessary subsidies to big corporations and investing in our CUNY system, Bill will be an ally for working families in City Hall.

Concealed by the wider process of «academisation» of state schools in England is the biggest surge of religious influence in our education system in a generation

This appears aimed at undermining what Mayor de Blasio points to as one of his biggest successes which is his stewardship of the New York City public school system.

Its not like the NYC school system is a big success story.

The biggest shares of foundation aid go to school systems in New York City and other urban and poor suburban areas.

But public financing of elections, a system designed to take the big money out of politics, would be «key» to any ethical reforms of state government, he said Wednesday at a daylong symposium on ethics and government at Albany Law School.

Alongside reforms that would allow schools to choose to use different methods of examination system and to set teachers» pay and conditions it will cause big clashes with the teachers» unions.

Citing stances the Senators have taken detrimental to the cause of working people, the flyers highlight: Protecting a failed tax system that favors the privileged at the expense of working people; increasing the tax on health insurance; siding with big corporations and against teachers and students to pass a Charter School Bill - with no real reform; creating a new Tier V pension; and attacking education by supporting an irresponsible property tax cap.

Focusing on a notion of accountability which is broader than just league tables and published measurement scores, the Big Education Inquiry argued for greater local control over schools and education and a democratic input into local school systems.

When teacher evaluations bear zero resemblance to student learning, which is the case in 4 out of the 5 big school districts, it makes a strong case for Governor Cuomo's improvements to the system.

Meanwhile, the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School plans to push for a system of public funds to match smaller donations as a way to limit the influence of big money donors in campaign fundraising.

«We have a real shot to flip the State Senate this fall so we can build a New York that works for all of us: reforming our broken criminal justice system, fighting climate change and creating good jobs, expanding opportunities for immigrant New Yorkers, fully funding all of our schools and public universities, and taking on big money in politics to expand and protect our democracy.

Fariña headed up the Big Apple's public school system — the largest in the US — for four years after coming out of retirement in 2013.

At least three Republican senators are demanding big 11th - hour changes to the plan, including prohibiting the University of Wisconsin System from spending on diversity training, greatly raising the income eligibility limit for the statewide school - voucher program and repealing the state's remaining prevailing - wage laws within months.

Two big fights loom this year in Albany that concern de Blasio considerably: Mayoral control of the NYC school system and the NYC rent laws, both of which are set to expire in June.

Charter school interests that was to see de Blasio's power over the school system weakened and real estate interests that want to see the status quo maintained in the rent laws spent big money to help the Senate Republicans and Cuomo in this election cycle.

Republicans in the NY Senate are every bit as interested in big spending as the Democrats, providing huge amounts of aid to their already prosperous school systems in the suburbs.

Bloomberg's fealty to the Senate Republicans brought him control of the NYC school system — a big ticket item on his early to - do list.

Fluent in Spanish and an accomplished mariachi musician, Carranza had been coveted by several big - city school systems.

Fluent in Spanish and an accomplished mariachi musician, Carranza has been a coveted target of big - city school systems in the past.

When referencing Flanagan, who has spent five years in the city school system, she allegedly asked, «Did you see his big lips quivering?»

The billionaire hedge fund managers who give million - dollar donations to elite private schools and privatized charter systems want new taxpayer - funded subsidies for their private donations — tax breaks even bigger than they get now.

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The Archdiocese of New York's school system faces a «big loss» because parents are struggling to meet tuition payments just as the state is proposing severe cuts, Edward Cardinal Egan...

At the size of a school bus, it was bigger than Voyager and outfitted with the most sophisticated scientific instruments ever carried into the outer solar system.

Leaving No Child Behind in Our Nation's Schools The No Child Left Behind Act is a blueprint for fundamental education reform, and it represents a huge step in the right direction for Americans who believe big government is not the solution to problems with our education system.

For 15 years, one of the biggest suppliers of alternatively certified science and math teachers to the Chicago Public Schools system was a program called NU - TEACH, run by Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.