Sentences with phrase «control over the school did»

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While he doesn't believe MEC has any control over that debate, the organization can help advance the public conversation around the Feb. 14 shooting that resulted in 17 deaths at a high school in Parkland, Fla., he said.

How do we respond when schools seek greater control over even the most petty details of their students» daily lives?

I don't even really want to see your children in school next to mine, but since I have no control over that, keep your stone throwing, women hating views in the middle east where they belong.

So I'll make you a deal... stop trying to take over my goverment, control the bodies of women who don't share your extreme beliefs, force children to pray to your gods in schools, destroy scientific and medical advances that I depend upon, and I'll be more than happy to go back to ignoring you.

The administration was still doing damage control over a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services policy that forces religious schools and institutions that offer employee health insurance to cover FDA - approved contraceptives.

I think the schools have very little control over this, neither does the NCAA with the guidelines that are set for the players.

Nobody — not your child's doctor, not her gym teacher, not the director of the school lunch program, not even your child herself — has as much control over what she eats and how she spends her time as you do.

Getting input from your kids doesn't just help create the ideal environment, it also makes them feel like they have a bit more control over their after school time.

Dr. Rachel Klein, PhD, professor of psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine, and a group of colleagues did a 2 - year controlled study of more than 100 school - aged kids back in the late 1970s, and then followed up with them repeatedly over 33 School of Medicine, and a group of colleagues did a 2 - year controlled study of more than 100 school - aged kids back in the late 1970s, and then followed up with them repeatedly over 33 school - aged kids back in the late 1970s, and then followed up with them repeatedly over 33 years.

If you don't want other people to have that degree of control over your children, you should remove them from the government «schools».

Indeed, after the 1993 Oslo Accords, while Israel kept control of the borders and movements of Palestinians, the Palestinian Authority was established to take control over most civilian matters, like schools, transport and policing, doing what some term as the «dirty job» of the occupation.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says he plans to put serious heat on state legislators beginning Monday to renew his control over city schools, saying the ramifications of not doing so would be catastrophic.

There is only so much belt - tightening we can do when the majority of taxes you pay go to school and special districts we have no control over.

But David Bloomfield, a professor of education at C.U.N.Y. and Brooklyn College, says the new charter legislation doesn't mean de Blasio's control over the city's schools will necessarily be further diminished.

They should be ensuring school leavers are equipped with the skills they need for work, including the 50 % who don't choose to go to university; that employers are given more control over the funding for training and skills; and by ensuring that young people who have been unemployed for longer than a year are guaranteed a job - so that no young person is allowed to fall completely out of touch with the world of work.

But the session concluded in something of fizzle on Wednesday, as lawmakers remained at odds over extending mayoral control of New York City schools and a major legislative deal — sometimes referred to as a «big ugly» did not come to fruition.

And there was the discordant thud last Wednesday night, when Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, a Democrat, and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Republican, declared they were sending their members home without doing one of the few things that actually came with a deadline: extending mayoral control for New York City's schools, a system that both houses and parties view as a vast improvement over the old system of board control.

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.

When he did discuss the issue of mayoral control over city schools, de Blasio insisted he «could not express the urgency more,» but said the real work would begin, conveniently, next week.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday said an era of «corruption and chaos» awaits the city's public school system if state lawmakers do not renew a law by Wednesday that grants his office control over city schools.

You could argue the governor doesn't have any degree of control over these protests, but each group has a slate of demands, from school aid to pension security to a new contract.

Those leaders did as they were asked on Wednesday, releasing a statement in support of mayoral control on behalf of the Coalition of Community Charter Schools, a group that has had a complex relationship with City Hall over the last several months.

Mayor de Blasio says he's holding out hope that he can maintain his control over city schools before it expires at the end of this month — but he sure didn't look that confident Wednesday.

Writing in a linked Comment, Christopher Colvin from the University of Cape Town in South Africa, and Abigail Harrison from Brown University School of Public Health in the USA say, «Currently, the increasingly narrow and fierce debates over the HIV and depot medroxyprogesterone acetate link have focused on whether a large randomised controlled trial should be done to better understand this link.

It is uncertain whether other school districts can replicate these effects, because they depend on factors that many have little control over (including the local supply of high - performing teachers), as well as those they do control (for instance, the introduction of meaningful teacher evaluation).

In every experimental evaluation of private school voucher programs, the students who won the voucher lottery but did not consistently use their voucher to attend private schools have remained in the study over time as members of the treatment group, and the students who lost the voucher lottery but enrolled in private school have remained in the study as members of the control group.

Over the last 30 years, a large body of work has shown that children who are skilled at recognizing feelings, dealing with conflict, and exercising self - control are more likely than peers to succeed in school and to do well in life.

In doing this the teachers really have a significant amount of control over their professional learning in the school.

To fix our schools, states have to stop trying to fix them; the quickest way to raise performance is command and control, but over the long run martial law does not even work well for generals.

This does not eliminate democratic control over the schools; it rechannels — and strengthens — it.

My second method controls for all school - level characteristics that do not change over time.

Second, Washington's high court ruled that «charter schools are devoid of local control» over educational issues because an elected school board does not govern them.

According to a report by the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, the school district, which funded the campus, has more control over student enrollment than the charter management organization does.

Do I have any control over school grounds?»

They don't explain why administrators in an out - of - control school allow athletic coaches total control over their players.

One could reasonably argue that requiring school districts to provide some financial support to students attending private school does not directly interfere with the state constitution's mandate that local school boards have control over «instruction in the public schools» (emphasis added).

The relevant circumstances are that the participating public bodies co-operate to perform public services they must provide, meeting common objectives and that the public body exercises the same kind of control over the service provider as it does over its own schools.

While both treatment and control groups saw an increase in the average math and reading scores over the two - year period studied, the average scores of all the schools in the treatment group did not exceed those in the control group to a statistically significant degree.

Home - school advocates, however, do not have «animus toward government» but philosophically and politically oppose government control, based on what the classical liberal theorist Frédéric Bastiat called «legal plunder,» over the teaching, training, and indoctrination of children in a «free» nation.

Yes, America's schools are often outscored by other nations on international exams, but to what extent do those comparisons measure schools and to what extent are they reflections of cultural attitudes over which schools have little control?

According to Reiss, he did not push harder for local control because once he took office he learned how much power the teachers unions held over many local school boards.

Specifically, section 9506 of the ESEA states that nothing in the law shall be construed to (a) «affect any private school that does not receive funds or services under» ESEA; (b) «affect a home school»; or (c) «permit, allow, encourage, or authorize any Federal control over any aspect of any private, religious, or home school.»

To her credit, Chancellor Rhee has not deviated with the anticipated improvement of that plan and has used the leverage that she was given, with Mayoral control over the schools, to get things done faster.

And when we talk about improving public education, and the very real and increasing threat that is coming from the corporate «education reform» types, who want to layoff teachers, ban or reduce collective bargaining rights, take - over public schools and transfer the care and control of our public schools to various third parties... let's not forget that many districts do not fund enough IA positions and every district fails to fairly compensate IAs for the incredible work they do.

Control over admissions may well have been a factor but we don't have to guess whether bureaucratic burdens and testing requirements played a major part in the decision by private schools in FL and LA not to participate.

Magnolia's study revealed that Achieve3000 users did significantly better over the course of the school year and performed better than students in the control group on the GMRT - 4.

Amid all the debate over state control and the big expansion of charter schools, Camden schools administrators were busy doing their homework this week.

By having some control over online learning programs, schools can keep tabs on quality and completion, which may be hard to do for online programs — especially if schools are paying other providers for classes.

The fear of regulatory control over participating schools limited the private schools that were willing to risk entering the program, thus ensuring that the schools who did were likely to be the lower performing schools with little to lose.

Opinion polls over the last three years showed voters do not want mayoral control of schools, with a 2017 Quinnipiac University poll showing voters opposed 68 percent to 21 percent.