Sentences with phrase «existing system of schools»

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And will the system of public funding for Christian schools — centred on the fact that such schools existed long before those established by any other authority in Britain — cease if the schools insist on retaining their Christian identity?

In other recognizably democratic nations besides our own there exist systems of aid for religious day schools, their faculties and pupils — systems that have not resulted in the consequences the court fears and presumes to be inescapable.

We identify strengths and challenges within the existing system to craft strategies to meet the goals of the school district and community.

Basically, a parent / guardian registers their student and their food allergy restrictions and based on that unique combination of food allergies, the system securely logs the parents on to a «parent portal,» where they can view safe options for their child from the school's existing menu.

In Humanists UK's view, any attempt to boost integration in the education system is likely to be a non-starter if new and existing faith schools can still religiously discriminate in admitting all of their places.

The plans were announced at a meeting of the Church's General Synod on Sunday, at which the chair of the Anglican Board of Education, the Bishop of Ely, set out the «radically new» approach that the Church would take as part of its commitment to maintain its position within the education system and ensure the «distinctive Christian character» of existing and future Church schools.

Dedicating a single press conference to the issue for the first time, Mr. de Blasio laid out in dire terms what would happen if New York City reverted to the old system of education that existed before his predecessor, Michael Bloomberg, won mayoral control of public schools in 2002.

The majority of school districts, 606 of them, are using that existing teacher and principal evaluation system, having gotten a waiver letting them to push back implementing the new, Cuomo - backed system — under which teachers are scored on a matrix — until September 2016.

In education, this means an end to the expansion of faith schools and for the assimilation of those that currently exist into a system of inclusive and accommodating community schools.

Here in the Ctiy of Buffalo this year a report from the Council on Great City Schools on Improving the Academic Achievement of English Language Learners in the Buffalo Public Schools System cited that only 21 % of these students graduate from high school and the academic achievement programs ignored them as a group as though they don't exist with as many as 100 never recieving their mandated language instruction.

ATL believes that the cost of setting up these schools is diverting money that is desperately needed by existing schools - the DfE overspent its free schools budget by # 1bn and has had to claw that money back from elsewhere in the education system.

The data underscore the piercing inequities that exist across New York's education system - inequities that are particularly pronounced in Erie County, which one study found has some of the most segregated schools in the country.

Site upgrades to the existing property include general site work to the structures of the house,; thermal, plumbing and electrical work; improved road access for school buses attending the site; and upgrades to the home's electrical systems.

Gove is understood to have settled the method of paying the premium: in the short term, it will use the existing system of allocating extra money to children receiving free school meals.

In a stunning discovery that overturns decades of textbook teaching, researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have determined that the brain is directly connected to the immune system by vessels previously thought not to exist.

«The link between metabolism and cancer has been proposed or inferred to exist for a long time, but what is more scarce is evidence for a direct connection — genetic mutations in metabolic enzymes,» said senior author Ricardo C.T. Aguiar, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of hematology - oncology in the School of Medicine and a faculty scientist with the Cancer Therapy & Research Center (CTRC) at the UT Health Science Center and the South Texas Veterans Health Care System, Audie L. Murphy Division.

Meanwhile, the game's magic system does away with the concepts of mana pools or the old - school spell tiers, instead existing as a finite resource whose relationship to the party's combat stats introduces a risk - reward question to every battle: Do you cast magic and risk weakening your team, or tough it out?

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadschools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

Stand for Children exists to challenge the conventional power arrangements of the K - 12 public education system, organizing parents at the grassroots level to advance a school reform agenda.

When we look back to the nuns [and teachers] we want to remember that they were working with an «advantage» that doesn't exist now that could get us through a few decades of this schooling system.

The beauty of loose - parts play is that it works well alongside existing school play structures, enhancing the flexibility of the systems and available space within a playground.

Instead we need to be doing what an increasing number of schools like another Arizona - based school, the Carpe Diem Collegiate High School and Middle School, are doing and disrupting that flawed paradigm by implementing online learning to create a student - centric system — not to increase costs for the community through bond measures or otherwise, as the article reports — but to use existing resources to prioritize student learning and achieve great reschool, the Carpe Diem Collegiate High School and Middle School, are doing and disrupting that flawed paradigm by implementing online learning to create a student - centric system — not to increase costs for the community through bond measures or otherwise, as the article reports — but to use existing resources to prioritize student learning and achieve great reSchool and Middle School, are doing and disrupting that flawed paradigm by implementing online learning to create a student - centric system — not to increase costs for the community through bond measures or otherwise, as the article reports — but to use existing resources to prioritize student learning and achieve great reSchool, are doing and disrupting that flawed paradigm by implementing online learning to create a student - centric system — not to increase costs for the community through bond measures or otherwise, as the article reports — but to use existing resources to prioritize student learning and achieve great results.

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.

Public schools as we know them today didn't exist at the time, and the historical record makes clear that most of the founders would not have supported a government - owned and government - run school system.

students who wish to pursue an entrepreneurial career, whether nonprofit or for - profit, by providing important tools and services to schools and districts, will develop a much deeper understanding of the systems and processes that exist in K — 12 education that they want to improve or replace, and are better at finding points of leverage that will make a big difference for educators and students.

Long before the first cohort of 25 students left their full - time jobs and arrived on campus, the idea was ambitious and clear: The Ed School was not going to develop leaders for the education system as it currently exists.

Like most established organizations in other sectors, the education system's inclination when it sees a potentially disruptive technology is to cram it into its existing model to sustain what it is already doing, but not fundamentally transform that model into a student - centric one (the importance of making this transformation should be clearer in light of the ACT's announcement today that 60 percent of 2012 high school graduates are at risk of not succeeding in college and career).

The pattern of test scores in Texas and the nation suggest that consequential accountability — adopted early by Texas, then by more states, and finally by the nation as a whole — was a shock to the U.S. school system that altered the ecosystem and led to a different outcome than had existed before.

A similar system of principal rotation exists: «In 2013, the city deployed nine skilled principals from central districts to schools in the rural districts to serve as mentors and offer management advice for two years.»

While the existing system of licensure for public school teachers is more rigorous than simply rubber - stamping someone's self - report on competence, most thoughtful people agree that the system is in need of a major overhaul.

If peer effects exist at school, a school - finance system that encourages an efficient distribution of peers among all schools will make society's investments in student learning more productive.

The federal government has a critical investment role to play in 1) supporting the replication and scale - up of the best providers through its grant programs; 2) improving access to low - cost public facilities for charter schools through its own funds and by leveraging existing public - school space; 3) pushing states and local districts toward more equitable funding systems for all public school students, including those in charter schools; and 4) supporting efforts to create early - stage, innovative, and scalable models that incorporate greater uses of learning technology.

This decision references several previous California cases related to money, including the Serrano decision, which found that «the then - existing school finance system to be a violation of the equal protection clause of the California Constitution.»

The inertia is large, however, and beyond the habits of existing school - lunch systems is the classic problem of any school - based effort to reform the larger society — junk food that can not be obtained in school can be brought from home or purchased nearby.

States could also create entirely separate accountability systems for alternative schools, weighting existing measures differently (e.g. placing less emphasis on proficiency and placing more emphasis on academic growth) and using different indicators, such as high school completion rates instead of cohort graduation rates.

That means that more than 1 million private dollars have gone into each of the existing CMO schools so far (though some of that money is likely intended to fund central office systems to support future growth).

«I had this drive to know that there's millions of kids out there like me who are not served well by the existing system,» says Hay, who over his career worked in a range of environments from affluent communities to a struggling district turnaround school.

The financial data that exists is (sic) unreliable, there has not been a clean audit since FY 2001 - 2002, there is no inventory of assets, the payroll system is in shambles, school buildings are in deplorable condition and, up to now, there has been little accountability.»

By Schools for Schools has a very clear underlying strategy for school improvement, which is that all of the challenges that arise in the system already have solutions that exist within the system somewhere.

At the same time, new populations exist in cities, in urban school systems — primarily African American and Latino students, and large numbers of immigrants.

Although Payzant was open to stretching the boundaries of the established order (as his push for Pilot Schools demonstrates), he was primarily concerned with getting the most out of the existing system.

Precisely because technology promises to transform the core components of schooling, it is inevitably disruptive to the jobs, routines, and resources of the people whose livelihoods derive from the existing system.

The government at the time restructured the system — the existing eight - year primary school followed by early vocational tracking was replaced by six years of primary education and three years of lower general secondary education.

Online learning alternatives do exist and the education system continues to be disrupted by new technologies, but there is as yet no evidence to suggest online learning can act as an adequate substitute for the physical place of learning: the school.

Local Authorities and Further Education Institutions have proposed # 2.3 billion of projects, which meet the investment objectives of Band B of the Programme including: addressing growth in demand for Welsh medium education; reductions of surplus capacity and inefficiency in the system; expansion of schools and colleges in areas of increased demand for educational services; and making assets available for community use where demand exists.

Under this model, the school's funding is based on students» successful completion of their courses, a step that places far more pressure on FLVS to ensure its students» success than exists in traditional public school systems.

Many of those asked claimed the tests, which are to be brought into all schools from September, were unreliable, duplicated work and did not marry with existing assessment systems.

But there's a problem with simply funneling those dollars into existing arrangements because school systems spend a lot of money in ways that don't make a lot of sense.

Even if most of the private schools participating in a voucher program are religious, as long as some viable options exist within the public school system, the genuine choice requirement should be satisfied.

At HGSE, I wanted to be a part of a group of students who had some of those same understandings of the many problems that exist in urban school systems and who also wanted to be leaders in the sector to start fixing those problems.»