Sentences with phrase «decisions at the school level»

MR: You work at a LAUSD Pilot School, can you share your experience in being a teacher who is part of making decisions at the school level?

In 2001, at the urging of then Mayor Bart Peterson, Indiana lawmakers enacted legislation making Indianapolis the first U.S. city where the mayor can authorize charter schools, which are public schools that are independent from school districts, allowing them more freedom to make key decisions at the school level.

In some cities, there are school based councils made up of parents and teachers that drive important decisions at the school level.

Even as New Orleans handed power back to educators — increasing their autonomy and ability to make decisions at the school level — we lacked a clear strategy to empower them to invent, test, and scale their ideas on how to boost academic performance.

Not exact matches

In the end, it all comes back to education: In the ideal world, a parent's decision about whether to allow a child to start playing or continue playing collision sports before high school under current rules of play (which are evolving in the direction of safety, fortunately, as seen, for instance, in USA Hockey's ban on body checking at the Pee Wee hockey level and below, and limits on full - contact practices instituted at every level of football, from Pop Warner, to high school, college, and the NFL), will be a conscious one; a decision in which the risks of participating in a particular sport - provided it is based on the most up - to - date information about those risks and a consideration of other risk factors that might come into play for their child, such as pre-existing learning disabilities (e.g. ADHD), chronic health conditions (e.g., a history of history of multiple concussions or seizures, history of migraines), or a reckless and overly aggressive style of play - are balanced against the benefits to the child of participating.

School districts are typically responsible for top - level decision - making when it comes to food: they oversee the food services group that determines breakfast and lunch menus; they set the district - wide wellness policy, which usually covers the food that may be sold or distributed during the school day; and they decide whether vending machines may or may not be placed in schools (although in some cases this is decided at the level of the state board of educaSchool districts are typically responsible for top - level decision - making when it comes to food: they oversee the food services group that determines breakfast and lunch menus; they set the district - wide wellness policy, which usually covers the food that may be sold or distributed during the school day; and they decide whether vending machines may or may not be placed in schools (although in some cases this is decided at the level of the state board of educaschool day; and they decide whether vending machines may or may not be placed in schools (although in some cases this is decided at the level of the state board of education).

Many people believe education is best run at the local level because school boards and school officials better serve the public when they are able to be held accountable by the local community they serve; when the decision - makers have local roots, many believe they do a better job than a monolithic federal bureaucracy hundreds or thousands of miles away.

We need our young people to leave school with an understanding of how our political system works, and how they can be active citizens and influence decision - making at different levels.

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.

He said the council looked critically at the decisions of stakeholders at the last education summit and resolved that the government would continue to fund education at the primary and post primary school levels.

Collins: While we acknowledge the need for improved science instruction at all grade levels, as our resources are limited, KSTF has made the conscious decision to focus on high - school teaching.

That is why the School Governance Review I launched in September starts with the presumption that decisions about the way schools are run should be taken at school School Governance Review I launched in September starts with the presumption that decisions about the way schools are run should be taken at school school level.

Greening also declined to confirm the number of new selective schools that could be introduced, citing that decisions would be made at a local level.

In recent years, Finland has made a significant shift in transferring the decision making and assessment to schools at the local level.

Leadership and management reside at the school level, with decisions about curriculum and assessment residing with the faculty.

Driven by changes already happening at the higher education levels and the need to prepare students for the 21st century workplace, blended learning provides the school with a variety of ways to address student needs, differentiate instruction, and provide teachers with data for instructional decision - making.

But decision makers at all levels — from students and parents to school leaders to system managers and governments — require dependable information about current levels of achievement to guide future action.

Nearly two - thirds of survey respondents indicated that teacher - hiring decisions are made at the school level or jointly by school and district.

The multi-layer decision - making structure, while faithful in its way to American federalism, mainly serves nowadays to pull schools apart in response to funding and regulatory streams emanating from different levels of government, to foster bureaucracy, confusion, and tension and, maybe most importantly, to give every level a functional veto over reforms initiated at any other level.

As well as highlighting the issue of asbestos in schools, the decision of the Supreme Court confirms that employers and others who have wrongfully exposed mesothelioma claimants to asbestos fibres, other than at a minimal level, will be wholly liable for the damage even if there was another source of exposure.

And the situation is even worse because most regulators making decisions about what choice schools should be opened, expanded, or closed are not relying on rigorously identified gains in test scores — they just look primarily at the levels of test scores and call those with low scores bad.

This includes: the role of MATs in the context of other intermediate structures operating between Whitehall and individual schools, including Regional Schools Commissioners; the current MATs landscape, including in terms of the number, size, and geographical coverage of MATs; the balance of decision - making at the individual school level and at the chain level, and the appropriateness of formal governance structures employed; and how the expansion of MATs should be monitored and mschools, including Regional Schools Commissioners; the current MATs landscape, including in terms of the number, size, and geographical coverage of MATs; the balance of decision - making at the individual school level and at the chain level, and the appropriateness of formal governance structures employed; and how the expansion of MATs should be monitored and mSchools Commissioners; the current MATs landscape, including in terms of the number, size, and geographical coverage of MATs; the balance of decision - making at the individual school level and at the chain level, and the appropriateness of formal governance structures employed; and how the expansion of MATs should be monitored and managed.

At least since the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, this has been interpreted to give the federal government the power to intervene in cases of legally sanctioned discrimination, like the segregation of public schools across the country; to mandate equal access to education for students with disabilities; and, according to some arguments, to correct for persistently unequal access to resources across states and districts of different income levels.

Whilst we recognise that some decisions are best made at the state and school level, ACHPER also believes that it is necessary for schools to provide opportunities for physical activity participation throughout the year.

Split Decision: Two Incumbents Losing in Denver School Board Elections, Two Supporters of District Policies Prevail (Chalkbeat) Quotes Martin West: «There are signs in the national election results this week that Democrats may make significant headway at the state and local level next year when many more seats are in play, and that typically makes it harder to pursue the traditional reform agenda.

Also, several of the resource and institutional variables, such as the school's decision - making responsibility and the existence of national examinations, are measured at the school or country level, further decreasing the independence of individual observations and reducing the number of independent observations on these variables.

where most key decisions are made at the school board or central office levels.

Other school systems are highly decentralized; most decisions are made at the local level.

Nearly two - thirds of survey respondents indicated that teacher - hiring decisions are made at the school level.

This anxiety might be found in any public school, but in a socioeconomically disadvantaged school like Paul Cuffee, with a population that includes 89 % racial minorities, 77 % students qualifying for free or reduced lunch, and 46 % from families living in deep poverty (with household incomes at less than half the federal poverty level), the stakes are exceptionally high when spending decisions are made.

At the high school level, P.K. Yonge continues to use Student Success Teams (SST) to make all decisions about tiered instruction.

To make accurate decisions about the quality of teaching and the impact of school programs, Willett and Singer urge policymakers to examine not what different classes of children know at each grade level, but how the knowledge and skills of specific groups change over time.

In a challenging period for the education built environment industry, the sixth Building Schools Exhibition and Conference (BSEC) at London's ExCeL proved successful and a major destination for education and industry leaders, attracting delegations and decision makers from across the globe, with 49 per cent at director level and above.

It can help people reach better informed decisions about individual children's school placements and formulate better informed evaluations of provision at local and national levels.

Use data to set strategy, assess progress, and drive decision - making at the classroom and school levels

Provide resources to states to assist and support development of appropriate and effective assessment systems that provide accurate information to guide decision making at the school, district, state, and federal levels.

Improving school performance requires data - driven decision making at all levels, from the classroom through local and state education agencies; from early childhood through higher education.

Districts and BOCES are encouraged to reflect upon decisions made within Grades K - 2 to ensure testing is the minimum necessary for effective decision making at the classroom, school and district level.

Shared decision - making in school improvement must take place at both the district - level as well in the schools themselves.

Professor Simon, in his thoughtful analysis of the political ramifications of this case, states that one of the most likely consequences of the District Court's decision would be an increase in the centralization of school finance and an increase in the extent of collective bargaining by teacher unions at the state level.

Each KIPP school is managed locally, and hiring decisions are made at the level of the individual school.

For one, parents make decisions about schooling at the pre-kindergarten and kindergarten levels; if their children are already happy in a private elementary school, they're not likely to move them.

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.

Future educational leaders — principals and superintendents — need to be able to make these decisions at the district or school level.

We ca n`t say a priori whether shifting the weight of emphasis from informal to formal evidence for decision making will improve schools; it is an empirical question.226 The current emphasis on using student performance data to guide improvement efforts also calls for greater attention by those in schools to measurable patterns of student performance at the school level, or by student sub-groups, in addition to the conventional interest in individual student needs and progress.

(Although some schools refer to their site councils as «building leadership teams», for purposes of clarity, we will use the term «site council» to refer to all such groups of people who participate together to provide guidance and occasional decisions as a means of local leadership at the building level.)

Here we examined what district administrators (e.g., superintendents, assistant superintendents, curriculum and assessment directors) from the 18 site - visit districts had to say about data use for decision making at the district and school levels.

Input and flexible decision - making at the local level is encouraged to fulfill each state's obligations to the law which goes into full effect in the 2017 - 18 school year.

The committee uses CO ASCD's newsletter, blogs, and tweets to provide members with information about education legislation at the state and national levels, guidance on how to advocate for students and the profession, and ways to participate in decision - making at the school, district and state levels.

Our forthcoming results from a series of school level studies at the middle school level produced similar results and raise questions about the appropriateness of using state test results to rank or evaluate teachers or make any potentially life - impacting decisions about educators or children.