Sentences with phrase «by the school system on»

Republican mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis demanded that the NYC Department of Investigation look into tens of millions in spending by the school system on leadership training.

Republican mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis on Tuesday demanded that the Department of Investigation look into tens of millions in spending by the school system on leadership training.

For the 1996 - 97 school year, more is being spent by school systems on transportation.

Not exact matches

Classrooms at Disselboom primary school are equipped with SchoolVision, a lighting system developed by Philips that changes the atmosphere and ambience of a classroom depending on the type of lesson being taught.

Look at STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)-- if we focused on finding early indicators of high performers in our education system, then treated them differently as they progressed through school as potential Canadian innovators, by the time they got to Grade 12 and were thinking about university, they would be wildly ahead of the innovation curve.»

On Monday, just hours before a scheduled press event about GE's move, the industrial giant pledged to invest $ 25 million in the city's underfunded public school system by creating a career lab and other resources.

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.

Automated response systems are okay, says Dewar, who teaches at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, but companies should facilitate access to live representatives by making direct contact the first option on a service menu.

NBC 6 went through the files, school by school, and found the school system is spending a majority of the bond money on renovating school buildings.

Liberal MLA Mary Polak (Langley) was instrumental as a Surrey School Board trustee in banning gay - positive books from Surrey Schools: The book ban was later struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada which said «instead of proceeding on the basis of respect for all types of families, the Board proceeded on an exclusionary philosophy, acting on the concern of certain parents about the morality of same - sex relationships, without considering the interest of same - sex parented families and the children who belong to them in receiving equal recognition and respect in the school system.&School Board trustee in banning gay - positive books from Surrey Schools: The book ban was later struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada which said «instead of proceeding on the basis of respect for all types of families, the Board proceeded on an exclusionary philosophy, acting on the concern of certain parents about the morality of same - sex relationships, without considering the interest of same - sex parented families and the children who belong to them in receiving equal recognition and respect in the school system.&school system.»

If a dozen different public school systems were to embark on a five - year experiment as part of a larger nation - wide experiment encouraged by federal dollars, local teams of educators, parents and community leaders would need to devise appropriate local models.

In her latest book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, she charges that the state reading and math tests mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act lower the bar, produce inconsistent results, lack content, promote cheating, and encourage teachers to waste time on test - taking strategies.

And will the system of public funding for Christian schools — centred on the fact that such schools existed long before those established by any other authority in Britain — cease if the schools insist on retaining their Christian identity?

Through circuitous routes, the idea caught on among conservative Christians worried about the militant secularism promoted by the public schools, and mainly among evangelical Christians who, unlike Catholics, did not have a school system of their own.

Educational Freedom in Eastern Europe By Charles Glenn Cato Institute, 338 pages, $ 25.95 cloth, $ 15.95 paper A valuable contribution by the author of The Myth of the Common School and perhaps our leading authority on comparative education systemBy Charles Glenn Cato Institute, 338 pages, $ 25.95 cloth, $ 15.95 paper A valuable contribution by the author of The Myth of the Common School and perhaps our leading authority on comparative education systemby the author of The Myth of the Common School and perhaps our leading authority on comparative education systems.

At the time Whitehead was writing Process and Reality idealist systems were under attack on methodological grounds, first by C. E. Moore as violating the prescriptions of common sense, then by the school of logical positivism represented chiefly by Schlick, Carnap, and Ayer.

For example, the school system could build in some flexibility to reasonably accommodate the minority's religious needs by allowing exams to be written on alternative days, or permitting extensions on assignments if the due dates fall on holidays etc..

I'd challenge Mr. Latif's viewpoints and suggest that NY Muslims become a peaceful and faithful people by worshipping on their holidays irrespective of what the public school system says.

It was an illusion of Horace Mann and the other reformers who shaped our educational system in conscious opposition to «sectarian» schools that a coherent «common» education could be provided by stressing only those convictions on which «men of good will» agreed.

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

Education was being placed under the control of the state and was becoming secularized, but on the frontiers of white settlement, especially in the United States, those moved by their Christian faith were founding most of the institutions of higher learning and were even responsible for much of the public school system.

Metaphysics has been a field of study on its deathbed since Kant, its few intellectual life - support systems having finally been unplugged by the very caretakers of the profession that gave it birth — philosophers of the positivist and linguistic schools.

The educational system that is supposed to provide the «human capital» needed by the market inevitably deteriorates despite increasing expenditures on schools.

Run by radicals for approximately twenty years, Berkeley has experienced the virtual ruin of its public school system, a vastly increased municipal bureaucracy, a greatly diminished housing stock (thanks to stringent rent controls and other restrictions on property rights), increased crime and drug abuse, widespread corruption, and wholesale waste of public funds.

San Ramon Softball prides its organization in fielding experienced and professional level coaches, who focus on developing each player by teaching skills to get each and every player throughout our system ready for high school softball and beyond, regardless of their age.

Taking the top five to 10 players out of the system wouldn't hurt the on - court product much, but it would reduce the number of college players who started getting paid by agents and shoe companies as high schoolers.

Would you help us by, you know, learning how to teach this course, going on the road, so - to - speak, and doing the parents and teachers allied program because parents need the school system to understand what's going on inside their homes, and they don't.

Unfortunately, she is typical of a breed of teenagers who have become so focused — by their parents, their schools, the culture, their peers and themselves on gaming the system, cheating when necessary and believing that money and material goods are the foundation of a life well - lived — that they have little opportunity to develop the kinds of ideas that used to be typical of teenagers.

I then made a huge parental mistake by moving my children out of that environment into another elementary school based on guidance from community members telling me that the school system I was entering was much better.

On the one hand, Chicago - area school systems are following the national trend of creating healthier menus, primarily by reducing the fat content of entrees; on the other, borderline junk food entrees - pizza and chicken patties - remain the most popular items among studentOn the one hand, Chicago - area school systems are following the national trend of creating healthier menus, primarily by reducing the fat content of entrees; on the other, borderline junk food entrees - pizza and chicken patties - remain the most popular items among studenton the other, borderline junk food entrees - pizza and chicken patties - remain the most popular items among students.

No, here in Texas, it's the muffled voice of the announcer on the high - school stadium's PA system, with the play - by - play action of the football game.

So, instead of pandering to the fast food culture, the French school lunch system further expounds on the importance of good, slow food (although in France children have at least 30 minutes to eat - unheard of in the U.S. - followed immediately by recess.

«Based on research and experience, more and more local districts are rejecting the use of ineffective strategies like corporal punishment as an acceptable form of school discipline in favor of effective techniques, like the Positive Behavioral Support system favored by most educators,» said Vitaglione.

Schakowsky's proposed database is modeled in part on a system used by the Agriculture Department, which purchases about 17 percent of the food served in schools.

Hands on learning: Waldorf system helps children's development, Kids Naturally An article written by Halton Waldorf School As early as infancy, as children suck on fingers and grasp objects of interest, their hands transmit important sensory information to boost brain development.

I hope we will be able to do that some day, but for right now, any school system can improve their food by just focusing on getting rid of the worst ingredients.

Unfortunately, Waldorf is beginning to modify and accommodate, little by little, and take on some of the dreadful errors of the public school system in order to survive.

America was built and prospered on a private school system, directly reflecting individual parental values; modern Americans, indoctrinated by many years in government schools, recoil at such history / ideas... mistakenly seeing it as beyond belief or reason.

The Rethinking School Lunch Oakland Feasibility Study, by a team of experts consultants commissioned by the Center, is based on CEL's Rethinking School Lunch planning framework, a whole - systems approach developed over more than 15 years of work on school food iSchool Lunch Oakland Feasibility Study, by a team of experts consultants commissioned by the Center, is based on CEL's Rethinking School Lunch planning framework, a whole - systems approach developed over more than 15 years of work on school food iSchool Lunch planning framework, a whole - systems approach developed over more than 15 years of work on school food ischool food issues.

She is a leading expert appearing in Race to Nowhere, a documentary film examining the achievement - obsessed culture permeating America's schools, and serves on the advisory board of Challenge Success, an organization that supports schools and families in reversing and preventing the unhealthy tolls assessed by our current educational system.

Jeffrey Mills, former Director of Food and Nutrition Services for D.C. Public Schools is photographed at his home on April 30, 2014 in Washington, D.C. Mills was fired from his job after he reported mismanagement, fraud, and overfilling by one of the school system's largest contractors.

He also referenced the fact that New York is now one of three states placed on a watch list for losing hundreds of millions of Race to the Top dollars by US Education Secretary Arne Duncan because it has «hit a roadblock» on significant policy provisions of qualifying for the aid, including establishment of the peformance evaluation system and creation of a database to track student records across school districts.

It was announced today that Kerrey, the former president of the New School in New York City, had signed on to the effort to tighten campaign finance laws by introducing a voluntary public matching system similar to New York City and lower contribution limits.

Shimon Waronker, the embattled superintendent of the Hempstead school district, was placed on administrative leave by the district's school board majority — an action, which if it holds up, will ban the former New York City educator from intervening in the operations of Long Island's most troubled school system.

Off topic questions included his speech tomorrow to Britain's Labour Party, Chirlane McCray's attendance at an NYPD CompStat meeting, whether ISIS and the recent U.S. military strikes will cause a ramped - up security / counter-terrorism effort by the City, Governor Cuomo's efforts at supporting a Democratic state senate, Congressional approval of military strikes ordered by President Obama, the City school system's policy on student cell phones and continuing problems at Rikers Island.

By creating one system, it also simplifies administrative processes, allowing schools, principals, and teachers to focus on teaching.

Before people filled the auditorium at Hoosick Falls Junior - Senior High School for a state Senate hearing chaired by Marchione on the Hoosick Falls and Petersburgh water crises and other water quality issues, Shaun Francis held a news conference to unveil a billboard critical of his opponent's response to the discovery of perfluorooctanoic acid, a suspected cancer - causing chemical, in both the village water system and wells in the village and surrounding town of Hoosick.

On the other hand, in another excerpt regarding their Valley Energy project in the Town of Wawayanda, CPV's press release declares: «The project will also provide more than $ 30 million in local tax revenue, with the majority going to the local school system, which has been hit hard, in recent years by budget cuts.»

The Governor signed a law last year requiring all school districts to implement an evaluation system based on the statewide system approved by the State Education Department or risk losing their increase in education aidresulting in 99 percent compliance (687 out of 691 school districts implemented a system).

Regarding mayoral control of the school system, Mr. Lander accepts direct appointment of the Chancellor by the mayor but thinks that education policy should be vetted by a separate board that is not controlled by mayoral appointees, in order to levy checks on the system.