Sentences with phrase «expand school places»

«There is very little money in the system to expand school places and I hope we don't have to revert to mobile classrooms and temporary accommodation,» he said.

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«With a viable storage plan, the ability to work together as farmers, and allowing schools to become a piece of the supply chain — with those pieces in place, we can really expand farm - to - school in Alaska.»

I'm not saying that normal school lunches are all that great - but atleast the tacos are made with meat that day and placed on a tortilla for the kids to eat then not filled with so much preservatives to expand shelf life.

«The model we have in place in the Whitesboro Central School District has proved successful and it should be expanded throughout the county.

We used that decision - making power to deliver on promises we had made to the electors: rapid demographic change had led to a shortage of local primary school places, so in the last four years we used the Council's resources to expand local primary schools to create twice as many; concerns about a scruffy and run down high street were addressed by comprehensive neighbourhood renewal; and pressure on household budgets was relieved by freezing the council tax and the cost of resident's parking permits.

Expanding outreach to schools, finding new places to publicise the profession and developing new routes to entry are all areas we should be considering.»

CROWN HEIGHTS — A vague but hopeful Mayor - elect Bill de Blasio promised Thursday that his signature plan of universal pre-K and expanded afterschool programs would be in place by next fall, adding «a lot» of new slots in the city schools, he said.

There are also «rumors from several places that in the faculty meetings... one of the very first suggestions is that the schools should look to expand graduate enrollment» based on thinking that «we're going to end up having fewer postdocs, so now we need more grad students» — thus implicitly defining postdocs mainly as labor rather than trainees.

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Although the fashion education sector has already expanded significantly to meet demand, by creating courses and enlarging the number of places on them, non-private schools — which include many of the industry's most renowned institutions — remain constrained by funding limitations and government - dictated quotas.

The Local Government Association, which represents more than 370 councils in England and Wales, is highlighting that under proposals in the Educational Excellence Everywhere White Paper, councils will retain their responsibility to make sure all children get a school place, but from 2022, when all schools are academies and free schools, will have no powers to force schools to expand — even where there is demand and capacity within the school.

«The proposals we are putting forward go considerably further than some of the ideas the green paper suggested and by helping create more good school places, both in state and independent schools, we would be helping to expand real social mobility in this country.»

So Mr. Hite is placing a controversial bet: Although scores of schools opened here this month without regular guidance counselors, nurses, or basic supplies, the superintendent is pouring millions of dollars into expanding what he considers to be three of the city's most innovative schools.

Regulations and guidance can create a «safe place» for forward - leaning state and local leaders that want to align their federal funds with their own decisions — and dollars — by which to expand school choice.

The Cincinnati, Upper Arlington, and Orange City school districts are building on new approaches already in place to expand 21st Century assessments, technology use, and learning time and places, precisely the «edges of innovation» I discuss in Education Nation.

With increasing demand for places at the school, the decision was made to expand from single to two ‑ form entry, and the «bendy» design which was found to be problematic in a teaching environment is to be done away with.

Even though they would have fewer than 100 places when the two schools opened in September 2002 (with just two grades, K — 1, and plans to expand through grade 5), the schools received a thousand applications.

Because of rising demand for school places, many existing schools are expanding.

Some advocates have raised concerns about whether expanding school choice will help disadvantaged families, especially in rural areas and other places where there may not be many schools from which to choose.

But 71,000 — one in five — of the new places created by expanding primary schools in the last five years has been in a school judged to be Requires Improvement or Inadequate by Ofsted.

Roy Perry, chairman of the Local Government Association's children and young people board, said: «While councils have a statutory duty to ensure every child has a school place available to them, they find themselves in the difficult position of not being able to ensure schools, including academies, expand.»

Richards added: «School business managers are already working excessive hours to cope with the ever expanding demands being placed on them.

The prime minister's proposals also included expanded selection for faith schools and new conditions placed on universities and independent schools.

Lighthouse Academies, which opened a charter school in the city in 2005, has selected it as the next place to expand its operations.

The Constitutional Rights Foundation's Expanding Horizons Internships (EHI) is a rigorous program that places high school students as paid interns in professional environments.

We've worked with the local authority to meet this growing demand, by expanding Year 5 at Chantry Middle School by 30 places from the beginning of the next academic year, and if demand remains high, Newminster will also take on an extra 30 pupils in Year 5 from September 2019.»

In providing a green environment appropriate to the learning needs of the students, landscape architects are expanding schools» learning resource whilst creating healthy places where children's health and wellbeing is also addressed.

This funding will transform the condition of school buildings and help our best schools to expand, creating more good school places for families and raising standards for pupils.

In the past four years, 42,000 — half — of the 79,000 places created in expanding schools were in schools where GCSE results have worsened, it claims.

A principal evaluation pilot is also taking place this year and will expand to all schools this fall.

Finally, in discussing the OSP's impact on expanding school choice for parents, Professor Wolf relates that approximately 81 percent of parents placed their child in a private or public school of choice three years after winning the scholarship lottery, as did 46 percent of those who lost the lottery.

«Some families applying today will go straight on to a waiting list with no offer of any school places, and soaring numbers of children will continue to be crammed into ever - expanding classes,» she said.

It said some councils struggled to find sponsors for new schools, while academies, independent of council control, could be reluctant to expand to meet demand for school places.

Those include the extent to which they can improve over time, or whether the academic strategies and other policies they put in place out of the gate determine their success as they reach maturity; as well as whether charters can expand beyond their original, flagship schools to form networks of successful charters.

This would not only relieve the pressure on local philanthropists and foundations, Rico said, but could help expand the networks to meet the demand for places in charter schools.

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The rising number of pupils needing primary places has seen many schools having to expand and add extra classes, particularly in London and some of England's major cities including Manchester and Bristol.

Education Secretary Michael Gove argues that allowing good schools to expand will create more good school places, and so increase choice.

«London boroughs are working with schools to expand the number of places they can offer, but the higher cost of land and construction in the capital means this is often difficult and expensive.»

One of the greatest potential benefits of expanding the time and place for learning is the chance to experiment with the kinds of «out - of - the box» approaches to high school education which are sorely needed if we are to reach our goals for raising student achievement and eliminating inequities in achievement and graduation rates.

This expanded use of time and place exposes students to real - world performance contexts and expectations at college and work, and breaks down the barriers that separate high school - age students from the world outside of schools.

We launched the inaugural program, expanded to a K - 12 school, cemented our program's place in Hoboken through a real estate investment on Washington Street, survived a 4 - alarm fire, created a community of families, educated thousands of children, and changed the lives of thousands through our service learning partnerships.

Why are we continuing to expand a voucher program that still has not policy in place to hold partner schools accountable?

A previously announced plan to expand the boundaries of four South Side neighborhood high schools to take in students displaced by the proposed closings remains in place.

How will the government accommodate the estimated 300,000 additional school places if the MAT's do not absorb and expand to meet the need?

«In the face of such overwhelming evidence, it therefore beggars belief that the Government has announced it will plough # 50 million to expand the number of places at existing selective grammar schools.

The decision to expand existing schools in urban areas, where land is scarce and expensive, is often the most practical way of creating more places, he says.

The planned prohibition on councils from creating any new places in schools that have been rated either «inadequate» or «requires improvement» by Ofsted could see local place shortages reach crisis point — and if we agree that new places should only be created in good schools, then that should apply to expanding academies too.

Some councils must expand their school capacity by 12 per cent in the next 18 months to meet demand for places, new figures suggest.

A spokesman for Croydon Council said the borough currently had no plans for grammar schools and would meet increased demand for school places by expanding existing schools and opening new comprehensives.