Sentences with phrase «build than smaller schools»

It posed two questions: (1) are larger high schools less costly to build than smaller schools and (2) what contextual variables predict cost?

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Shepherd is a lot better than his small school would suggest, but he might end up this year's version of Tanoh Kpassagnon: a small school building project with a high upside.

«When Money Matters,» a report of a national study released in 1997 by the Educational Testing Service (ETS), determined that spending money on smaller classes has a greater impact on math achievement than spending on administration, school buildings, or hiring teachers with advanced degrees.

According to a survey conducted by RIBA, more than 90 per cent of teachers feel that school design is important, but nearly half were concerned that their schools were too small and one in five had considered quitting because of the condition of school buildings.

The report by the Washington - based organization said such schools offer lower energy costs, produce fewer pollutants, and use smaller amounts of water than traditional school buildings.

Shadow chief secretary to the Treasury Rachel Reeves said the «extra funding for new free schools will be smaller than the huge cuts he made two years ago to school and college buildings.»

The NAO report says that the free school programme had seen «much lower average construction costs than in previous programmes» - on average 45 % lower - by using «existing properties, reduced building specifications and smaller space standards».

For more than two decades, our legislature has refuses to pay more than a small fraction of the cost of building and repairing schools.

One of our intentions is to be a laboratory school for San Francisco and the Exploratorium and beyond, so that the work we're doing and what we're learning isn't done in a silo or on an island of privilege, serving just a small number of kids, but rather the curriculum we're developing, what we're learning about inquiry, the individualized learning plans, everything we're doing is open - source, so our impact can be broader than just the four walls of our building.»

We've built a solid reputation as one of the most exciting surf schools on the South coast, not just because of our breath - taking location or our experienced coaches but because we focus on fun lessons in smaller groups than you'd expect to find on some of Cornwall's busier beaches.

This is a small but real start on the more than 1,000 school buildings that are candidates for retrofits, and tangible testimony to the efforts of earthquake hazard engineer Yumei Wang and state Sen. Peter Courtney over many years.