Sentences with phrase «even in school systems»

«Even in the school systems that get the most support from their local government, resources are stretched and overall the state's per pupil spending still lags compared to the national average.»

That's true even in school systems that have worked hard to improve their evaluation systems in recent years, like the districts we studied.

Not exact matches

The American system of education makes it possible for a poor boy living in a great city to carry himself through college and even through certain professional schools free, whereas a similar boy living in a rural community will be Stopped alter high school by the costs of transportation to the state - college town and by the cost of board and food away from home.

In this school of thought it states that an economy is a complex system that can be affected by a lot of different things that may not even be thought of as part of the system.

gays are still despised today as they were in the 1960; s. maybe even more since they are pushing the public school system to teach that being gay is morally acceptable and an alrnative lifesyle.

They might try to teach it in the statest school systems but it is not even close to being a dead issue.

«The inequitable distribution of the national revenue; the disparity in the scale of salaries (some dispose of emoluments which are an insult to the poverty of the country, while the immense majority receives a miserable pittance); the fact that a bare two per cent of the active population owns seventy per cent of the arable land; the system of recruiting our agricultural laborers, who do not even enjoy legal status; the fact that hundreds of thousands of school - age children lack basic education; the disintegration of the family; the growing immorality everywhere — all this demands bold and definitive change.»

A perfect counter-example is Hinduism, which by construction is more spiritual than religious — it's adherents do not have strict rules or norms, and there is incredible diversity of norms within one umbrella (some who believe in caste system, even though a large majority of urbanites study in Christian missionary schools; some who believe cows are sacred though 2/3 of Indians are actually non-vegetarian).

Education was being placed under the control of the state and was becoming secularized, but on the frontiers of white settlement, especially in the United States, those moved by their Christian faith were founding most of the institutions of higher learning and were even responsible for much of the public school system.

I read all the time about mal - practice in hospitals, incect cases in churches or schools, not even speaking about how our education system fails in a basic thing like teaching all of our children to read (you do your research and find out the number or illiteracy in this country).

Some particularly pro-active school systems are going even further in their efforts to prevent the spread of MRSA, including:

And there are also many, many things we could be doing to encourage children's acceptance of healthier school meals: imposing meaningful restrictions on children's junk food advertising; requiring food education in schools — not just nutrition education, but offering kids a real understanding of our food system, and overtly inoculating them against the allure of hyper - processed and fast food; teaching all children basic cooking skills; getting more gardens into schools; encouraging restaurants to ditch the standard breaded - and - fried children's menu; imposing taxes on soda (and even junk food); improving food access; and so much more.

Even for parents in relatively small suburban school districts, such as those in Evanston, the school food system can seem too big to change.

In fact, most homeschool parents pay even more on average for their student's education than those subsidized within the public school system.

Talk to the teachers in your school system, even other parents.

While the French food culture in itself encourages eating local, there is another even bigger reason why the French school system can put locally grown foods on the school lunch menus: the monies for the school lunches are organized within local municipalities, not primarily on a federal level, as they are in America.

Each of them started in this system in Kindergarten, so they don't even understand 5 day a week school!

When school boards and whole cities are refusing to even consider putting in gardens, much less aquaponic systems because of LIABILITY issues, do we stand a chance?

An analysis conducted by the pro-charter school lobbying group Families for Excellent Schools shows NYC's Special Commissioner of Investigation charged with policing the school system opened the fewest cases in at least five years in 2016, even as complaints of school worker's misdeeds reached record levels.

Hardly seems worth the money to tie ourselves to a system that, at best, may help already college - bound kids attend marginally better colleges but will likely cause at - risk youths, English language learners and students with disabilities to fail in school in even greater numbers.

But most humiliating, he was granted mayoral control of the city's school system for a mere year — meaning he's going to have to beg Albany yet again to let him stay in charge of city schools, even though no rational person really believes New York City would be better off with the old Board of Education.

An even - tempered 38 - year - old, King is a product of the New York City public school system who grew up in trying circumstances.

Your friend Tristram Hunt of course is guilty of the same Neo-Liberal agenda, he supported free schools right up to the point where they started to fail in Sweden, then rapidly reversed to just supporting the Academies which the teaching profession reject and only work with it from imposition, even that now has turned into mass protest forcing the numskull Tories to publicly retreat, although they will secretly use the inspectors to rig the system, where good schools are deemed poor by their diktat.

«It's time to end a system where low - income New Yorkers have to skip meals, beg for swipes or even jump turnstiles in order to get to work or school,» executive director John Raskin said in a statement.

«If we do not have a school system that is adapting to and preparing for these challenges — a school system that is not only adapting to the amazing revolution of iTunes, whereby Harvard and Oxbridge publish their most valuable content free, but is also able to adapt to the unknown revolutions ahead - then we will face even worse crises in the years ahead.

The most effective security system in any school is you have an environment where students feel safe, they feel secure that if the see something - even on social media, they say something,» he said.

The mayor has long criticized using standardized testing as a metric for school performance, even as he has cited rising results in his appeals to Albany for a continuation of mayoral control of the system.

In New York City, the achievement gains of the last 15 years were possible only because there was room «for the leadership of the school system to act and to make change and to not be sort of negotiating those changes with dozens of local boards or even the central board,» he said.

«We must be vigilant in watching out for the public school system, even if our own ER [East Ramapo] administration and board lack the moral fortitude to do so,»

Albeit on a small scale, free schools have increased social segregation, even in the context of the relatively egalitarian education system.

Aware that even the most talented students failed to receive Ph.D. s and find employment in science and engineering, Hrabowski created a system in 1988 to mold high - achieving minority high school students into elite researchers.

«Kids will be exposed to germs and inevitably get colds, even with the best preventive measures, and that's OK,» said Jessica McIntyre, MD, family physician at Loyola University Health System and assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.

«Even if companies have all the best intentions and if the code of ethics works excellent in our part of the World, different systems and laws in combination with procurements and language barriers cause erosions into the code rendering it rather counterproductive in countries with greatly varying circumstances,» says Maira Babri, doctoral student at the Umeå School of Business and Economics (USBE) at Umeå University in Sweden.

Because the Lymphatic System was minimally studied before, even in the Medical Schools, we know that there is so much more hidden at plain sight.

But when her concentration is bobbled by an incident beyond her control, who can blame the father for trying to fix the situation — even if that means interfering in the school's testing system?

Even in a country whose progressive public education system dispenses with tests and grades until middle school and provides every high school student with a laptop, Nordahl Grieg stands out for its commitment to innovation.

In a fully academised system, a council can not make a school accept a child unless they have a formal statement of special needs, even where it can offer them the best support.

Luckily we are able to enjoy her performances because, even though the school has a very old theater, it invested in a good sound system with wireless mikes for the main performers.

In the poll of 935 heads, deputies and assistant heads, 12 per cent of those surveyed said that their school would be continuing to use the levels system even though it does not match the new national curriculum.

Grassroots organizations like ACORN, which have supported charter schools — even started their own — have led vigorous campaigns against Edison Schools» involvement in troubled public systems like those of Philadelphia, New York, and San Fraschools — even started their own — have led vigorous campaigns against Edison Schools» involvement in troubled public systems like those of Philadelphia, New York, and San FraSchools» involvement in troubled public systems like those of Philadelphia, New York, and San Francisco.

In any school system, even if we're the superintendent we have people above us giving directions, people we consider colleagues working by our side, and people who look to us for leadership.

We have installed systems in remotely located schools for example, ensuring the user is safe when working alone early in the morning or late into the evening.

Payroll is also a significant concern, as any flaw in the security system could lead to the leaking of bank account details from all staff, and even the school's accounts.

True, middle and upper income schools in the US do significantly better than low income schools, but even the average suburben upper income school has still a long way to go to catch up with the average school of the world's best performing education systems.

Avis Glaze, former superintendent of the Ontario education system, correctly observed that Canada does not have charter schools, but others mentioned that the large number of religious schools that are both government - funded and subject to state regulation give Canadians even more choice than exists in the United States.

Between 2002 and 2008, the number of high schools in New York increased from just over 250 to nearly 450, even as the number of high school students in the system remained the same.

And with many school systems sacrificing phys - ed time to squeeze in more classroom time, students are getting even less exercise.

The key to this new emphasis on achievement was the TRIAND data - management system, developed in partnership with a local software vendor to capture, analyze, and share specific student achievement data among administrators, school leaders, teachers, and even parents.

Even voucher advocates would agree that, because private school choice is costly under the current system, parents who go private are likely to be more socially advantaged than parents who remain in the public schools.

The high - performing charter schools, like KIPP and others, have figured out the system that works for kids in even the toughest neighborhoods.»