Sentences with phrase «decisions about schools do»

It would be even better to reach a point where education is no longer quite such a game of numbers, where high - stakes testing is phased out and decisions about schools don't come down to a tension - filled annual release of test score data.

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«There's something very uncomfortable about distorting the decision to tax the house you live in versus the one you don't,» Todd Sinai, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business's real - estate department, told Business Insider.

It's like trusting your 28 - year - old fresh - from - MBA - school McKinsey consultant to make executive business decisions about your 128 year - old - business that they know nothing about just because they are wicked smart, have a blackbelt in Excel & Powerpoint and do better graphs than you.

As your child gets older, they make more decisions and about more complex things, a five year old can make five decisions in a day, what to wear to school (if they don't have a uniform), what to have in his sandwiches, which friend to have home after school, whether to wash or dry the dishes, for example.

People are very passionate about this neighborhood school and don't understand my decision but the charter school just lines up better with my daughter and her academic learning style.

You will need to have Parental Responsibility in order for the court to recognise you as the child's father, and they'll have to do this before you can be involved in court decisions about their future, such as which school they go to, which country they live in, what their surname is etc..

You will also probably want to do some of step 3, learning about home schooling, to help you with your decision.

And yes, I get it that we don't let kids make decisions about the most important things in life; on the other hand, we didn't have a whole lot of support from school admins, or even from parents (who relied on the sale of soda and junk at school events to fund enrichment programs) at that time to eliminate junk from schools.

So whether they crash by claiming downtime or squeezing downtime into school work, they are doing what is developmentally appropriate, which amounts to having to make decisions about their retracted time rather than managing it.

«As always, you have to make decisions about how much you can afford to do in school aid and how much money you have to put aside for the potential impact of federal cuts in Medicaid and in health care,» Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle (D - Irondequoit) said last week.

Guess what, if news begin to fly all over about the failure of this programme it definitely not be without mention of your «prestigious name» and well, if my brother was the one, I will advise he does a few things, paramount will be to visit some of the schools to ascertain the veracity or otherwise of the cases and if found to be true, politely communicate to the government his decision to «pull out» of this quagmire.

I.V.: When I was in high school, I had to make the decision about what I wanted to do for college, and I came from a family where you got your medical degree first, and then you can do whatever you want after.

I was also conscious that I needed to think about my family and be sure that my career decisions did not disrupt their lives or hinder my child's schooling.

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But with its flat presentation and dearth of any riveting moments, the film plays more like an after - school special about the pitfalls of teen decision - making than it does a documentary about young women struggling to make something more of their lives.

Paul E. Peterson talks with Anna Egalite of N.C. State about her new study looking at why some private schools do and others don't participate in North Carolina's means - tested voucher program and also at how families make the decision about whether or not to use a school voucher.

District decisions about how to distribute Title I funds across their schools do not change the total district allocation.

The demographic and political characteristics of a state and character of the state law authorizing charter schools undoubtedly matter in some way for the fate of charter schools in a state, but most decisions about charter school formation and attendance are made within school districts — by founders who decide to start a new school, by authorizers who empower them to do so, and, ultimately, by parents who decide to enroll their students.

Because all tenure deliberations are confidential, I can not speak publicly about the specific circumstances of any decision; however, I do wish to address an issue that some have raised concerning the school's broader interest in certain methods of inquiry or areas of study.

Many parents made decisions about schooling that had little or nothing to do with academic quality.

This approach is certainly not for the faint of heart; if a district makes bad decisions about when to intervene, it could be dangerous for good schools that are doing well on their own.

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is to inform parents, voters, taxpayers, and educators about the performance of their kids and schools, then let them make their own decisions as to whether anything needs to be done.

My main recommendation, therefore, is to maintain the law's current annual testing requirements, while restoring to states virtually all decisions about the design of their accountability systems, including how schools and teachers are identified as under - performing and what should be done to improve their performance.

It has been used to share papers about professional organisations, interviews done with administrators, decisions made when facing difficult school scenarios and various other short papers required for courses.

What do students think about the impact they can have on school decision making?

While allowing for a range of NNRs to satisfy the ESA testing requirement provides information about student performance, NNRs do not drive school - level content decisions the way criterion - referenced statewide assessments can, which research suggests can dissuade private school leaders from participating in education choice programs.

Does this school have formal and informal policies and structures in place to engage parents and communities in school decisions about programs, curriculum or budgets?

«You have to wrestle with ideas about what it takes to» do school «and be academically successful and then you have to make concrete decisions about what and how to teach students to achieve academically.»

The latest draft of proposed common academic standards offers more - detailed expectations of what students should know and be able to do by the end of high school in math and language arts, but also notes that some decisions about curricula should be left to individual states and schools.

This will give the operators a free hand with regard to personnel decisions, and will challenge IPS to make tough calls about how it will handle educators who don't make the cut at the contract schools.

The EEP has called for an effective teacher for every child (paying teachers as professionals, giving them the tools and training to do their work effectively, and making tough decisions about ineffective teachers); empowering parents by allowing them to choose the best schools for their children; holding grown - ups at all levels accountable for the education of our children; and, very important, having enough strength in our convictions to stand up to anyone who seeks to preserve a failed system.

Items in Factor 1 are about setting a tone of continual professional growth in the school, where the work culture embraces inclusive decision making and the belief that we can always do better.

Q: How do we implement changes to give more flexibility to schools to make decisions about the education of their students, in partnership with their communities, parents, and students?

Then, through day trips and a four - day residential Easter School, held at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, we provide first - hand experience of higher education to help pupils make informed decisions about what they want to do next.

And those are all decisions that are made in school board meetings and district offices about what's convenient for adults, what adults need, whatever the folks feel like is the way they've always done things.

District leaders must seek out and engage diverse parents, guardians, students, and community as they examine and make decisions about the future mix of schools, which they appear to be doing through their Blueprint for Quality process.

Simon Knight, the director of WHOLE School SEND, said the sector must prevent schools from making «conservative decisions» about which pupils do subject - specific learning «because they're fearful of entering data that does them a disadvantage in inspections».

Asked about the decision to campaign here, Trump spokesman Jason Miller wrote in an email: «Mr. Trump believes that all children deserve the opportunity to receive a first - class education, and his school choice reform proposals will help do just that.

The portfolio strategy is not about creating new schools as long as it doesn't disrupt other schools; it's about insisting that performance and options drive all decisions, disrupting chronically low - performing schools, because families and students deserve better.

My friends, family and neighbors did not question my decision to enroll her and there weren't any preconceived notions or myths about charter schools.

Somewhat overshadowed by the growing controversy over Mayor - elect Rahm's schools pick, this Tribune story shows the intention of the privatizers not to listen to the research about charters or to the reasonable concerns of interim CPS CEO Terry Mazany, who said about his decision to postpone consideration of new charter contracts at his first board meeting last January: «We simply do not have any budget flexibility to allocate dollars that will not lead directly to improved educational outcomes for all of our students.»

«Of course, it's funny only if those tests aren't being used to make actual decisions about students, teachers, and schools — if those decisions are being made based on the work I used to do, that seems pretty insane to me.»

In short, this change in policy merely gives schools more flexibility with respect to how the funds can be used and leaves the decision about the best way to do so — be it for expanded learning time or out - of - school time programming — up to them.

«It's going to force the managers in our schools to make hard decisions about how to retain our best teachers, and in that rare case, when someone can not get their job done, whether to let them go,» White said.

Do not be discouraged and do not stop writing about the bogus budget, the clear link between the state administrators and charter schools, and the complete governmental disregard for transparency in money decisions and appointmentDo not be discouraged and do not stop writing about the bogus budget, the clear link between the state administrators and charter schools, and the complete governmental disregard for transparency in money decisions and appointmentdo not stop writing about the bogus budget, the clear link between the state administrators and charter schools, and the complete governmental disregard for transparency in money decisions and appointments.

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But there are exceptions that show families don't make decisions about schools just on the basis of test scores.

In that same hearing, DeVos avoided a question about a religious school in Indiana that gets voucher funds but will not admit children of same sex couples, saying only «The bottom line is we believe that parents are the best equipped to make choices for their children's schooling and education decisions... Too many children today are trapped in schools that don't work for them.

Therefore, what we did was to offer school staffs a framework for making their own decisions about how they might redesign their reading program.