Sentences with phrase «control of a school building»

Even district - employed teachers and principals with ideas for new schools face an uphill fight to get control of a school building.

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I said the christians want to impose their view on the rest of us — school curricula, displays on civic buildings, bells ringing for services, who can marry whom, who controls a woman's body, etc

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Our goal was simple: to make the healthy choice the easy one, and to help schools build a sense of self - determination, where they could control the quality of the food their students eat.»

Our goal was simple: to make the healthy choice the easy choice, and to help schools build a sense of self - determination, where they could control the quality of the food their students eat.»

The state Education Department said it would not take control of Hempstead School District on Long Island, which has been troubled for decades by abysmal graduation rates, crumbling school buildings, violence and corruSchool District on Long Island, which has been troubled for decades by abysmal graduation rates, crumbling school buildings, violence and corruschool buildings, violence and corruption.

The messy end of session also includes agreements on short extenders — one additional year for mayoral control of the New York City schools, and a six month extension of a tax break for real estate developers who build some affordable housing.

Shettima, who also said he can not but praise Tinubu for finding time to come over to Maiduguri on a two - day visit during which he inaugurated 432 houses, 13 primary and junior secondary schools and a fully furnished estate with 26 apartments of five sets of three - storey buildings for medical doctors, recalled that he succeeded in taking control of the Borno APC in 2015 largely because Tinubu refused to support the game plan of a wealthy tyrant.

And as he did last year in the debate over the renewal of mayoral school control, Felder is using as leverage several items that are important to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, including design - build authority for the rehabilitation of the Brooklyn - Queens Expressway and the authorization of more speed cameras near schools.

The governor also did not deny that he was the «top Cuomo administration official» quoted in the Daily News questioning de Blasio's strategy as he pushed to renew his control of the city's schools and restructure and reauthorize a real estate tax subsidy to help him build more affordable housing.

«We have violence, terrible violence and out - of - control behavior in our schools and it starts at a very young age,» said Carl Paladino, who asserted that school principals have been encouraged to downplay problems in their buildings.

Topics included his reaction to Governor Cuomo's statement that he is not planning to approve a specific amount of pre-K funding set forth in the state senate proposed budget, how confident he is of pre-K funding, the status of his administration's review of the city's Sandy relief programs, his reaction to Governor Cuomo's statements on mayoral control of the city school system and charter schools, the current status of site clearing and the investigation into the cause of the East Harlem building explosion, whether New Yorkers should be concerned about gas leaks, his reaction to a tweet yesterday by Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito critical of Governor Cuomo's reaction to the East Harlem building explosion, how the church services he attended this morning for victims affected him personally and the relief efforts being led by his wife, Chirlane McCray, and the Mayor's Fund for NYC.

But after Mr. Cuomo last year pushed through a law giving charter schools more power to obtain free space in city school buildings, Mr. de Blasio's administration appears wary of doing anything that could jeopardize its biggest priorities in Albany, which include getting mayoral control of schools renewed and securing more aid for prekindergarten, after - school programs and city schools in general.

The opposite happened in the legislative session that just concluded: de Blasio got just one year of mayoral school control (instead of the seven afforded his predecessors, or the three he said he'd accept) and had a major asterisk attached to an overhaul of the 421 - a real estate subsidy that he needs to build more affordable housing.

The five pledges are: secure the recovery; raise family living standards; build a hi - tech economy; protect frontline investment in policing, schools, childcare and the NHS — with a new guarantee of cancer test results within a week; and strengthen fairness in communities through controlled immigration, guarantees of education, apprenticeships and jobs for young people and a crackdown on antisocial behaviour.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said today it was «premature» to comment on the framework deal Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the leaders of State Legislature this week on the city's rent laws, the 421a building tax credit and mayoral control of schools — a deal that left Mr. de Blasio all but empty handed.

Recently, two researchers from School of Building Engineering at UPM have developed a ventilated façade with a double chamber and flow control device that significantly saves energy in buildings.

Convinced, however, that there was in fact «a hell of a field» to build around gerontological science, Finch has spent the past 3 decades at the University of Southern California's (USC's) Leonard Davis School of Gerontology in Los Angeles seeking to understand the genomic control of senescence in the brain.

Others involved are school stakeholders, facilities management organisations, builders, sub ‑ contractors, building control, fire safety officers, insurance companies, companies that provide fire safety equipment of a passive or active nature, clients and ultimately, if it goes wrong, fire - fighters.

Statutory Requirements In 2008, Partnership for Schools (PfS) and the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) set in motion a process to update Building Bulletin 93, the 2003 guidance document produced by the Department for Children Schools and Families (DCSF) to provide the acoustic performance standards for normal compliance with Requirement E4 of the Building Regulations, enforced by Building Control.

«Laws created by people who have never tried to teach a child, never seen how out - of - control behavior can disrupt learning, and never even been in a school building since their own school days make the principal's job harder every year,» said Harbin, principal at Duryea Elementary School in Hoschool building since their own school days make the principal's job harder every year,» said Harbin, principal at Duryea Elementary School in Hoschool days make the principal's job harder every year,» said Harbin, principal at Duryea Elementary School in HoSchool in Houston.

They spoke of raising standards, reducing class sizes, encouraging choices, building new schools, improving teacher quality, toughening accountability, and strengthening local control.

As noted above, this initial estimate of the variability in principal effectiveness may partly reflect differences in school characteristics that are not under the principal's control, such as the quality of the school building, or decisions made by district administrators as well as unmeasured parental influences.

-- attitude about physical exercise persists despite the evidence that, as the NCSL reports, «Thirty minutes of active physical activity during the school day can help control weight, build healthy bones, muscles, and joints, reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression, enhance feelings of well - being, and may even improve academic performance.»

Some of the most common building services introduced into schools during refurbishment projects included; control systems, security systems, cooling and air conditioning, fire protection (sprinklers), fire detection (alarms) and transportation and disabled access — lifts, escalators and ramps.

Longtime Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley had won control over the school system in 1995 and generally received accolades for rising scores on state tests; hard - charging superintendents, including Paul Vallas and Arne Duncan; tough accountability measures such as reduced social promotion; and a slew of new schools and shiny buildings.

An updated piece of building and safety legislation that aims to reduce accidents during construction projects is going to affect all schools in control of their own building management.

The group is unique in the wide range of services it provides to the educational sector: cleaning, catering, building and grounds maintenance, property services such as feasibility studies, design, planning and building control applications, project management and compliance, environmental services, recycling and waste management, security and school transport and vehicle maintenance.

The extent of private schooling stems in large part from the Catholic Church's decision in the 19th century to build an alternative system of education wherever they were unable to control the state - run system.

Local authorities, also expecting their massive investment to work «out of the box», are surprised to find that school and academy buildings are unfinished at occupation and full of technologies and controls that don't work very well and that no - one understands.

In other words, we may need to see more schools take what Andreessen Horowitz, a leading venture - capital firm, calls the «full - stack start - up» approach — the idea that a start - up builds a «complete, end - to - end product or service,» and controls even the nontechnology components of a solution if those will perform better when integrated with the technology.

Although Republican senators threatened a filibuster to keep the Senate from discussing the school building security measure — part of proposed legislation that deals largely with the higher - profile issue of gun control — compromises reached behind the scenes nudged the legislation onto the chamber's floor by the end of the week.

By putting staff and students at Phoenix High School in control of their new building project, Hammersmith & City now has one of the most iconic and functional sixth forms in the country

While initially only office and administrative staff were trained in the use of lockdown systems, as the system developed, all members of staff are now able to control access in individual school buildings.

And lastly, we believe there is a need to take a smarter approach to the use of building management equipment that controls the internal environment of modern school buildings.

One debate never fails to come up in our workshop discussions: should lighting and equipment within schools be automatically controlled through movement and light sensors, or should the users of these building be responsible for turning things off when they leave a room?

This funding gap, coupled with the fact that traditional districts often control access to public school buildings, means that many charter operators fall back on a «patchwork of solutions» to cover their operating costs, find adequate school facilities, and transport students.

As those children move through the school, the organization will take over control of an additional grade each year, sharing the building with the public school while gradually supplanting it.

During our final year of helping students build college and career readiness, we found associated improvements in their academic - related perceptions, beliefs, and strategies; positive personal achievement and goal orientation; rising perceptions of college; improving trends in academic performance; and stronger perseverance in high school when compared to a control group.

In the first we looked only at the association of the Positive State Policy Index and teachers «ratings of the principal «s instructional leadership, controlling for two key school characteristics (building level, coded as elementary or secondary; and the percentage of students in poverty, or eligible for free and reduced - price lunch).

With a robust trigger law, if enough parents at a struggling school were dissatisfied, they could convert the school into a charter and gain control of the school and building.

Armed with a mandate to foster excellence and equity, Klein prioritized four strategies: establish the Three C's (centralized control stripped of bureaucratic inefficiencies; a coherent citywide curriculum; and capacity - building for teachers), dramatically expand school choice, empower principals by coupling increased autonomy with strict accountability, and catalyze innovation.

Conservative and tea - party groups demand local control of schools, while the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce, like other business groups nationally, argues the standards will build a better workforce.

This regulation, commonly known as «AHERA,» requires schools to perform certain tasks in regards to the presence and control of asbestos - containing materials in the buildings under the jurisdiction of the school district.

But after Mr. Cuomo last year pushed through a law giving charter schools more power to obtain free space in city school buildings, Mr. de Blasio's administration appears wary of doing anything that could jeopardize its biggest priorities in Albany, which include getting mayoral control of schools renewed and securing more aid for prekindergarten, after - school programs and city schools in general.

Raise a glass The orientation of a school should always be used as a starting point for a building's redevelopment as this makes possible passive environmental control rather than relying on mechanical and electrical systems.

The California STEM Learning Network (CSLNet) has recently released a report and supplement toolkit with resources to help advocates built a strong foundation of STEM and science education in schools» Local Control Accountability Plans (LCAPs).

Asked about the role of independent public charter schools in K - 12 education in Georgia, Governor Deal said, «Innovation, flexibility and accountability are fundamental building blocks to driving student achievement in K - 12 education, and charter schools are catalysts for improvement and reform within a system that has long been burdened by bureaucracy and inflexibility due to top - down control.»

Thanks to the NAACP for stepping up to call out yet another racist scam meant to remake black and brown children in the image of white corporate millennials who know nothing about the damage they are inflicting on children to satisfy white philanthropists, ideologues, and hedge fund operators who are interested in expanding the territory of the «no excuses» hell schools like KIPP, Uncommon Schools, YES Prep, Mastery, and others that brutalize children in the interests of building business empires and fulfilling paternalistic social control aschools like KIPP, Uncommon Schools, YES Prep, Mastery, and others that brutalize children in the interests of building business empires and fulfilling paternalistic social control aSchools, YES Prep, Mastery, and others that brutalize children in the interests of building business empires and fulfilling paternalistic social control agendas.

Building on a fifty year career in the education policy realm that has included roles in the U.S. Bureau of the Budget, at Stanford University, and in two stints with the SBE, Kirst will play a major role the upcoming year in guiding implementation of the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), a new system of resource allocation designed to more equitably allocate money to California public school districts.