Sentences with phrase «favor of changing school»

NORMAL — The McLean County Unit 5 board of education voted unanimously in favor of changing school times at Wednesday's meeting.

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your video (apparently done by some high school kid) is self refuting, it's premise is that — mutations exist in a population, — drastic environmental change dramatically favors one set of mutations — this natural selection is then what results in «rapid change»

St Paul has also been able to change its school food bidding process to favor regionally and locally sourced produce, resulting in about 40 % of its produce now coming from local farms, and it created educational materials for the lunch room to introduce kids to the local farmers growing their food.

The poll found that attitudes are changing; three of every four Americans favor fixing up the nation's schools instead of spending public money for vouchers.

But it is possible to examine whether the mix of schools attended by FTC students has changed, and whether those changes have favored groups of schools that have been more or less successful in the past.

Although the volume does not attempt to analyze the causes of our relative decline or how it might be overcome, it shows a preference for some explanations and solutions: the book asserts, for example, that «the school work force — teachers, principals, superintendents, other administrators, and ancillary personnel — too often favor only those changes to the status quo that enhance their income and lighten their workload.»

To the extent that it persuades people to avoid reforms that change school incentives in favor of ever - increasing school spending, Jonathan Kozol's work is an impediment to the very thing that he claims to desire most: a day when urban minority children receive an acceptable education.

I actually deprecated that approach to philanthropy in favor of much more ambitious end - runs of the entrenched K - 12 system: all sorts of great charter schools, policy changes (e.g. for special ed), unconventional human - capital development programs, better information for kids regarding their progress (or lack thereof) in school, personalized learning via sophisticated technology, and much more.

The other key word Sutton changed was in the ballot measure summary - dropping the word «certain» in favor of «qualifying» to describe the organizations authorized to operate public charter schools.

Even as a commission spent the past two years planning for the largest school district merger in the nation's history — the former Memphis city district and an adjacent suburban system became the unified 140,000 - student, 222 - school Shelby County district on July 1 — the landscape of governance within the legacy city school system was changing rapidly to favor parental choice and more autonomous schools.

Both Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney and new Richmond Schools Superintendent Jason Kamras have said they were in favor of changing the name of the school.

The Council of Chief State School Officers did not return messages seeking comment, though school chiefs from Massachusetts and Tennessee spoke in favor of the change during the conferenceSchool Officers did not return messages seeking comment, though school chiefs from Massachusetts and Tennessee spoke in favor of the change during the conferenceschool chiefs from Massachusetts and Tennessee spoke in favor of the change during the conference call.

Parents, Students Want to Rename Cortines Campus Parents, students and staff have voted in favor of changing the name of the downtown Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts, setting up an unprecedented conflict within the nation's second - largest school sSchool of Visual and Performing Arts, setting up an unprecedented conflict within the nation's second - largest school sschool system.

Elected officials and advocates routinely cite the United States» mediocre standing, and what they know of the educational practices of high - performing nations, to gird their arguments for their favored changes to American education — from encouraging greater parental involvement to revamping school curricula and standards to paying teachers more.

The problem here is poverty, not schools, teachers or students — we know that, and yet ignore addressing poverty in favor of making illogical, ill - advised changes to the curriculum, and insisting on more and more tests, as though that will change anything.

And I'm kinda of the old school which, rather unimaginatively favors strategic, long - range planning in the form of a multiplicity of potential futures — to include a world of possible, cold climate change along with a possible, warm climate change — especially when the planning horizon is more than 80 years out.