Sentences with phrase «controlled at the school level»

District - wide, the percentage of funds controlled at the school level increased to 67 percent in 2008 09, up from 60 percent a year earlier.

Not exact matches

«In terms of how much is present in water reservoirs that have been sprayed with pyriproxyfen to control mosquito larvae, a person would have to drink well over 1,000 liters of water a day, every day, to achieve the threshold toxicity levels seen in animals,» Ian Musgrave, a senior lecturer in the medical school at the University of Adelaide in Australia, said in a statement.

This November study from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business looked at how stress and levels of control affected 2,363 employees.

Kevin Wozniak, a sociologist at UMass Boston, reviewed polls after the Newtown school shooting in 2012 and found that the event coincided with a temporary spike in support for gun control, followed by a leveling off and return to pre-mass shooting opinion by the end of 2013.

But on the larger question of local control... You say:» If you believe that school food professionals at the district level a) know what they're doing and b) have the kids wellness at heart, then why do they need to be micromanaged through regulation?»

Since 2010, the excessive freedoms and flexibilities they have given to schools, and their obsessive focus on deregulation, has left the Government powerless to control spending at school level.

It's hard to have this kind of position on local spending in the US, as different politicians control spending at each of the five levels (federal, state, county, municipal, schools).

On Wednesday, members of the city council's Progressive Caucus, including Councilman Daniel Dromm, chair of the Education Committee, came to Albany asking state legislators to adopt a budget that provides funding mandated by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity court decision, excludes additional resources for charter schools, leaves the charter school cap at current levels and provides more local control over the city's schools.

While controlling blood pressure, blood sugar and LDL - cholesterol levels reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease in people with diabetes, only 7 percent of diabetic participants in three major heart studies had recommended levels of these three factors, according to research from the Heart Disease Prevention Program at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine.

Two existing drugs — one the active ingredient in an anti-fungal medication and the other now used to control iron levels in the blood — both show promise as potential treatments for cervical cancer, according to newly published research by scientists at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.

«Future studies on how PAF / PAFR signaling controls UCP1 levels through beta3 - AR production in the BAT of animals and humans may reveal new therapeutic targets to treat metabolic disorders associated with obesity,» said Junko Sugatani, Ph.D., a researcher involved in the work from the Department of Pharmaco - Biochemistry at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Shizuoka in Shizuoka, Japan.

«The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently classified these carbapenem - resistant organisms in their highest, most urgent antimicrobial resistance threat level,» said James Kirby, MD, Director of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory at BIDMC and an Associate Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School.

It will control your blood sugar levels to stop you craving sweet stuff later on, it'll help you to focus at work or school and it will help you to make healthier choices for the rest of the day.

Voters understood that passage of this proposition would mean more money in their classrooms, better pay for the teachers in their schools, more control at the local level, and more information for parents.

The control groups consisted of students at the same levels in the regular program from EC's schools in Manchester and LA.

It is not likely that the district - level folks are going to begin to hand over any more control to schools, but there is room for more authentic, ongoing talk at all levels of the organization about what is working in schools and classrooms.

Lessons Learned from Howard Gardner and the TV Remote Control This week, educator Max Fischer's first days in a middle school classroom — after years at the elementary level — were eye - openers.

The paradigm shift must include a new look at governance at all levels — school boards, mayoral control, etc. — looking at the best structure to support our agents of change.

America's deeply conservative public education system is striking back at this disruptive innovation, which shifts power from producers to consumers; demonstrates that more can be done with less at the school level; and moves control of resources from central bureaucracies to autonomous schools.

Specifically, in Missouri, a school - level two - step growth model that controls only for prior test scores at the student and school levels comes quite close to achieving proportionality.

In public schools, teachers claim their level of control over their teaching is 4.8 on a 6 - point scale, while charter and private school teachers rate their level of control at 5.6 on a 6 - point scale.

Let's turn now to the preferred strategy, which controls for the fact that students performing at different levels may be sorted into smaller or larger classes both between and within schools.

According to a longtime observer of the Florida education scene, rather than have the school control the educational experiences, as occurs in course access, a subset of parents, particularly at the elementary school level — both public and home - school — are opting to manage their children's education and customize a mix of public brick - and - mortar school, online school, home school, and even some private school (such as private music lessons) experiences.

Indeed, other changes have involved shifts in power at the local level or even decentralization below the school district level, rather than greater control by the state (or the federal government).

What's more, students who were eligible for free school meals and took part in a CREST Silver Award were 38 per cent more likely to take a STEM subject at AS Level than the matched control group.

We also confirm that we obtain similar results when we control for student characteristics measured at or before the PSAT / NMSQT, including sex, parental education, family income level, whether a student took the PSAT / NMSQT in 10th grade and his or her previous score, indicators for ethnic background (for example, Mexican, Cuban), and controls for the type of high school attended, including affiliation (public or private), urbanicity (that is, city, suburban, rural), size, and concentration of Hispanic students.

To the best of our knowledge, and based on all evidence that we're aware of, neither the signers of the Shanker Institute manifesto, nor leaders in the Obama / Duncan Education Department, advocate a «nationalized curriculum» that would «undermine control of public school curriculum and instruction at the local and state level» and «transfer control to an elephantine, inside - the - Beltway bureaucracy.»

Chris Barbic, founder and CEO of the stellar YES Prep network, says that «starting new schools and having control over hiring, length of day, student recruitment, and more gives us a pure opportunity to prove that low - income kids can achieve at the same levels as their more affluent peers.

While assuring a basic education for every child in the State, it permits and encourages a large measure of participation in and control of each district's schools at the local level.

Just to explain that a little bit further, what we found is that the students in the control group, their level of emotional problems stayed at round about stable or went up slightly during the 14 week study period, whereas those that we doing the Burn2Learn program in the intervention school, they saw a drop in their emotional problems.

Unlike most federal elementary and secondary education programs, most Title I funds are allocated to individual schools, although LEAs retain substantial discretion to control the use of a share of Title I grants at a central district level.

Using data from 252 economics students at 11 high schools and controlling for individual characteristics, most notably verbal ability, they found modest evidence that, in the aggregate, PBL increased learning of macroeconomics at the high school level as compared with traditional classes.

As discussed previously, however, the percentage of students scoring at the proficient level on state tests is an imperfect indicator of school quality, contaminated as it is by the fact that student achievement is influenced by a host of factors outside of a school's control.

For school - board leaders and others charged with implementing those man - dates at the district level, the legislative activism has renewed an old debate over the governance of public education and the degree to which the tradition of «local control» is being eroded.

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).

States have set up command - and - control frameworks, viewing districts rather than schools as public education's first responders, which is at odds with school - level efforts to address the particular needs of students and communities.

Accordingly, and also per the research, this is not getting much better in that, as per the authors of this article as well as many other scholars, (1) «the variance in value - added scores that can be attributed to teacher performance rarely exceeds 10 percent; (2) in many ways «gross» measurement errors that in many ways come, first, from the tests being used to calculate value - added; (3) the restricted ranges in teacher effectiveness scores also given these test scores and their limited stretch, and depth, and instructional insensitivity — this was also at the heart of a recent post whereas in what demonstrated that «the entire range from the 15th percentile of effectiveness to the 85th percentile of [teacher] effectiveness [using the EVAAS] cover [ed] approximately 3.5 raw score points [given the tests used to measure value - added];» (4) context or student, family, school, and community background effects that simply can not be controlled for, or factored out; (5) especially at the classroom / teacher level when students are not randomly assigned to classrooms (and teachers assigned to teach those classrooms)... although this will likely never happen for the sake of improving the sophistication and rigor of the value - added model over students» «best interests.»

Decades of research shows that all students can learn at high levels — and schools control the factors that make it possible.

For most districts, funding has been restored to pre-recession levels, and the Legislature adopted the Local Control Funding Formula, based on a paper that Liu co-wrote as a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, which provides extra money for low - income students and English learners.

Will the funders continue to support schools at similar levels if New Orleanians have more control?

American public education has a long tradition of local control, with many decisions made by schools or districts and the rest typically settled at the state level.

JCQ would arrive to inspect his coached cheating in MFL controlled assessments, the exam boards would check his scripts for plagiarism... and in creative, team based work such as A level drama, the audiences would be invisible... Pupils» voice isn't something to be trifled with; it sits at the heart of resilient, community based successful schools, where adults arrive du die cent children come to work together to serve each other.

Gov. Jerry Brown has argued that a major shift in education funding through the new Local Control Funding Formula, which offers school districts more control over spending and less regulation at the district level, will help remedy education inequities outlined in the lControl Funding Formula, which offers school districts more control over spending and less regulation at the district level, will help remedy education inequities outlined in the lcontrol over spending and less regulation at the district level, will help remedy education inequities outlined in the lawsuit.

refers to the level of control, autonomy, and power that learners have in their experience at school.

Student agency refers to the level of control, autonomy, and power that learners have in their experience at school.

With 90 % of funds remaining at the discretion of our local school board, our school is afforded greater flexibility and control of our resources, in comparison to traditional public schools where school - based budgets are set at the district level.

Nothing from our now substantial experience with DCSD evidences a true desire to allow meaningful autonomy or local control at the cluster or school level.

The state is limited to what it can do in states like Colorado with a constitution that keeps so much control at the school district level.

These observations showed significantly higher levels of overall classroom quality among classrooms in the 4Rs schools compared to classrooms in the control schools at the end of the first year.

They are not using factors beyond their control as limitations — every great coach or teacher has demonstrated that students who are economically deprived can achieve at the highest levels when they are placed in schools where teachers are effectively differentiating instruction and engaging their students in meaningful learning.