Sentences with phrase «elsewhere than in a school»

Services that could also be used elsewhere than in a school i.e. building maintenance and ICT, do not come under the light touch regime and attract the lower threshold.

Not exact matches

No one loves school food success stories more than I do, but I agree with Dana that they need to be taken in context so we can learn which miracles can be reproduced elsewhere and which can not.

Shelter officers say New York City treats kids caught with marijuana in homeless shelters more harshly than those caught with pot in city schools or elsewhere: handcuffed, taken to a police precinct and locked in a holding cell.

The data also showed that instances of victimization were less common at school than elsewhere; in other words, teenagers were safer at school.

Are they aware that charters in Detroit, Indianapolis, and elsewhere already receive at least 40 percent less funding than traditional district schools?

Among 11,000 ninth grade students who would have enrolled in the large schools but enrolled elsewhere because the schools had been replaced, the graduation rate was 15 percentage points higher than it would have been had the large, failing schools remained in operation.

More than a decade of research, at Harvard and elsewhere, on accountability, school improvement, and school organization has become «increasingly specific,» he said, «about the conditions that promote high - level learning and performance in educational institutions,» within classrooms and in systems as a whole.

Interestingly, these new schools, supported by grants from philanthropist Bill Gates (see Colvin, «The New Philanthropists»), have attracted considerably more controversy than the charter schools, in large part because they played a role in overcrowding and friction at high schools that were not small elsewhere in the city.

When African Americans in Minnesota (as elsewhere) are significantly more likely than white students to be growing up in poverty, to be living in single - parent families, to be coming into school with all manner of disadvantages?

Where local school choice plans are in effect, fewer students enroll in neighboring school districts than in comparable areas elsewhere in Michigan.

Money for staff training also is more plentiful at the school than elsewhere in the 45,000 - student district.

And a key aspect of the success of London's schools has been that poorer youngsters, such as those eligible for free school meals, do much better in the capital than elsewhere.

Thirty - seven percent of teachers in the state's public schools are graduates of the UNC system, and they generally have better evaluations and higher pupil achievement than teachers who come from elsewhere.

The NCLB law gives parents the choice to withdraw their students and send them elsewhere, rather than address the concentration of low - performing minority students — typically poor ones — that did not have the resources to get find their way to more distant schools in their own districts.

I would also add, as I've written elsewhere, that school performance should be thought of in broader terms than standardized tests.

That's a much larger drop than seen elsewhere in the state where 15 percent of the Katrina cohort was still employed by schools in other parishes.

Federal Way Superintendent Tom Murphy, whose School Board passed a resolution in favor of charter - school legislation, said anyone applying to start a charter - school would have to show that their schools elsewhere had performed better than traditional public scSchool Board passed a resolution in favor of charter - school legislation, said anyone applying to start a charter - school would have to show that their schools elsewhere had performed better than traditional public scschool legislation, said anyone applying to start a charter - school would have to show that their schools elsewhere had performed better than traditional public scschool would have to show that their schools elsewhere had performed better than traditional public schools.

The children in Kenilworth - Parkside who go to school elsewhere may be getting a better education than those who remain, but they're not immune from the effects of poverty - related trauma.

Its «campus» address is a PO Box; its offices are co-located in a partner charter school; its faculty are unnamed and not required to hold degrees comparable to teacher educators elsewhere; and its nationwide curriculum has been critiqued for emphasizing methods that are reductive and control - oriented, rather than research - based and conducive to critical thinking.

Every educational initiative — from academies, to the London Challenge and Teach First — focused on transforming schools in the capital, where there are a far higher percentage of ethnic minorities than elsewhere in the country.

Brinig: As we discuss in our book, the loss of Catholic schools is a «triple whammy» for our cities: When Catholic schools close, (1) poor kids lose schools with a track record of educating disadvantaged children at a time when they need them more desperately than ever; (2) poor neighborhoods that are already overwhelmed by disorder and crime lose critical and stabilizing community institutions — institutions that our research suggests suppress crime and disorder; and, (3) middle - class families must look elsewhere for educational options for their kids, leading many to migrate to suburbs with high - performing public schools.

As reported in the New York Times, the Washington Post, 60 minutes, the New Yorker, the New Republic and elsewhere, by successfully maximizing state charter school laws around the country, there are at least 135 schools, operating in 26 states and enrolling more than 45,000 students that are associated or affiliated, in one way or another, with the controversial Turkish Cleric Fethullah Gulen.

In part this is due to more funding going to schools with pupils that have low prior attainment, but poor pupils in London often have slightly higher prior attainment than elsewhere, meaning their funding will be lesseneIn part this is due to more funding going to schools with pupils that have low prior attainment, but poor pupils in London often have slightly higher prior attainment than elsewhere, meaning their funding will be lessenein London often have slightly higher prior attainment than elsewhere, meaning their funding will be lessened.

But it's increasingly clear to many educators and officials, in Louisiana and elsewhere, that Race to the Top represents more than a one - time competition; that, directly or indirectly, the program's focus on charter schools, relentless use of data, and common standards reflect the Obama administration's education priorities.

As noted, GTA schools are typically far more diverse than schools elsewhere in Canada.

NEW YORK — Students from the Florida high school where 17 people were fatally shot last month expect more than 1 million participants in upcoming marches in Washington and elsewhere calling for gun regulations, students said Monday.