Sentences with phrase «cuts to school sports»

Students stood before the Chicago Board of Education on Wednesday and excoriated the members on the food served at lunch and cuts to school sports.

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Because of the well - documented benefits of interscholastic sports for both boys and girls, it is critical that everything possible be done to avoid cutting back or eliminating school sports.

it is true that some injuries in contact and collison sports are inevitable, but at the rate youth and high school ice hockey was going, it wouldn't have been too long before it was considered one of the «extreme sports» that are so popular on television these days; you know, the ones where, after the big crash or fall, the show cuts to a commercial and, when it comes back, the seriously injured participant has already been stretchered off to a waiting ambulance.

Does your child's middle school have a no - cut policy or does it limit the number of children who get a chance to participate in interscholastic sports?

When a Labour MP asked Robertson why in the last two years there had been a 40 % drop in sports schools sponsorship, a 60 % cut in hours dedicated to sport and the cut in funding, Robertson told the opposition to «stop whining.»

As with music and sport these are subjects that have been severely affected, if not entirely axed, as a direct result of cuts to schools and local authority budgets.

«If the Government is truly serious about a high quality education for all, they need to stop cutting school and local authority budgets, ensure our class sizes are reduced and stop selling off school sports fields and libraries.

As a result of the rules, many schools have opted to cut lesser men's sports (like volleyball, lacrosse, etc) in favor of major sports like American football, which is a profit center for most colleges that participate in Division 1 (where the events are often televised and the schools get a cut).

Calling it «an insult» to the estimated 2,525 coaches who face salary cuts starting this spring season, UFT Vice President Richard Farkas blasted the Department of Education's $ 615,000 budget cut to the Public Schools Athletic League, which oversees scholastic sports in New York City public sSchools Athletic League, which oversees scholastic sports in New York City public schoolsschools.

Rugby union player Kyran Bracken MBE joins St Albans School as Elite Sport Development Manager and 1st XV Head Coach as the School adopts Hudl sports software to provide cutting edge analysis St Albans School is bringing world class rugby expertise and technology to its pupils, with the appointment of Kyran Bracken MBE as Elite Sport Development Manager and 1st -LSB-...]

In addition ~ the budget cuts of the Great Recession caused schools to further pull back in areas like art ~ sports and extracurricular activities and ~ as a recent survey points out ~ the sequester has had an impact as well.

High school principals in Philadelphia voted last week to eliminate interscholastic sports and other extracurricular activities for next school year to meet budget cuts imposed on them.

The suggestion that the school system consider cutting high school sports and other activities to save money «immediately stirred anxiety, frustration and incredulity across the community,» notes Moriah Balingit in the Washington Post.

Unfortunately, learning outside the classroom activities were among the top suggestions for what would need to be cut: science experiments, music and performing arts events, technology workshops, sports activities, and of course school trips.

When he launched the School Games earlier this year, following an outcry over government cuts to the overall school sport budget, the culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, said he wanted them to bring «the magic of the Olympics» into every school in the coSchool Games earlier this year, following an outcry over government cuts to the overall school sport budget, the culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, said he wanted them to bring «the magic of the Olympics» into every school in the coschool sport budget, the culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, said he wanted them to bring «the magic of the Olympics» into every school in the coschool in the country.

Rugby union player Kyran Bracken MBE joins St Albans School as Elite Sport Development Manager and 1st XV Head Coach as the School adopts Hudl sports software to provide cutting edge analysis

A Kent headteacher has told parents they will need to pay for their child to be part of the school's sports team due to budget cuts.

I agree that poorly prepared teachers is one cause of the high dropout rate, but as with most problems, many causes exist, including an anti-intellectual culture that values over-paid athletes and celebrities w / no obvious talent (e.g. Kim Kardashian); parents who think all their male children will grow up to be Yankees so never put books in the kids» hands; pseudo education reformers who sell a narrative that a first year teacher is no different from a veteran with a grad degree and thirty years teaching experience, administrators who hire based on coaching rather than teaching, school boards that cut library programs rather than sports, etc..

«There's some core principles that all the leaders here believe in — making sure that we continue to provide resources to the poorest school districts and not creating a situation where we can suddenly shift dollars from... poorer districts to wealthy districts, or alternatively, that education aid suddenly can start going to sport stadiums or tax cuts at the state level,» Obama said in remarks to the media after the meeting.

Cut the state testing budget in half and use the money to lower class size and fund arts programs, sports programs and school counselors.

Parents, teachers and students object to spending millions of dollars on testing and computer infrastructure for online testing while schools suffer increased class size and cuts to arts, sports, and other engaging activities.»

After five years of landing on the state's list of low - performing schools, a tiny South Texas district that drew national headlines for cutting its sports program to ward off closure is now meeting state academic standards.

Owing to budget shortfalls, the district is cutting guidance counselors, intervention specialists, and other critical staff, art, sports, enrichment, SAT prep, textbooks, summer school, tutors and more.

I still think it would be great if there were a way to harness existing school sports networks — like football districts — to create inter-school energy competitions aimed at cutting heating and electricity bills, and related pollution.

Law schools are like Division 1 sports, but without the incentive to cut under - performing players.