Sentences with phrase «fewer staff in school»

Parents have been warned by governors of fewer staff in school, the inability to replace equipment and cuts to hours with counsellors.

Not exact matches

Our Breakthrough Staff has trained some of the best players in the world that have gone on to become Olympic Gold Medalists, NBA All - Stars, WNBA All - Stars, Elite College Players (Michigan State, Duke, Kentucky ««to name a few), and Numerous Player of the Year Awards at the high school level.

Those cuts, in fact, come at a time when there are 15,000 fewer teachers and support staff in New York state public schools than two years ago, and as districts statewide expect to lay off at least 10,000 more employees in 2011 - 12.

Courses are taught and research projects are advised by international experts — who stay a few weeks at the school — in addition to the resident expert research staff.

J and I tried a few the night we made them, then we quickly packaged up the rest and shared with a few staff members at the school in the morning.

Davis, meanwhile, plays Nona, one of the school's few remaining conscientious members of staff, a ground - down teacher who still wants to take pride in her role as an educator, which in the reductive world of this movie makes her the teaching drama equivalent of the «Good German» in an old - school war movie.

Edutopia.org recently checked in with a few staff members and students to record the first semester's successes and to identify some lingering challenges in building a secondary school whose academics and culture rely largely on technology.

«It is also important for students at the beginning of secondary school to arrive a few days prior to other students to enable them to get to know the school, staff, find their way around, and engage in activities that have high levels of social architecture so they get to know the other new students.

Fewer than 40 of the district's 194 schools volunteered to participate in the program, in which teachers and other staff members, parents, and community members form school - community councils to provide oversight for school policy in consultation with the school principal, according to Rodney Davis, director of information services.

Here's what some of the exhibitors who will be at The Education Show next week are anticipating: «Bigger classes, fewer teachers and teaching staff, and less money — all potentially resulting in a fall in standards,» says Nina Simon of School Library Services.

Simply put, we might have enough of these teachers to staff a few hundred more No Excuses schools, but not a few thousand more, and certainly not enough to reach every disadvantaged child in America.

Just a few weeks in, a cadre of parents staff a Wednesday - morning homework center (school starts late one morning a week to allow for staff development) and a new lunchtime salad bar.

When Project Zero started at the Ed School in 1967, it had limited funds and only a few staff members, most part time or volunteer.

In accepting the assumption that each classroom should include a generic «teacher» and as few children as possible, these schools are entirely dependent on their ability to attract talented, high - energy staff, dramatically limiting the likelihood that these admired programs will be able to achieve the hoped - for scale.

Although the overall incidence of criminal activity in schools has dropped in the past few years — thanks to increased awareness amongst staff and parents, as well as the introduction of sturdier security measures — acts of theft, vandalism and especially arson are still a reality.

Whilst there may be a few advocates in the schools, there has inevitably been cynicism and doubt from other members of staff and often parents.

The other issue staff members will face in a few years is helping students make the transition to a more - traditional school setting when they complete classes at UHMS.

A few schools have a dedicated cyber safety blog as part of their website where parents can read weekly updates on new issues in regard to online safety, this is usually staffed by a cyber-savvy teacher.

«We started off having a coach a few years ago because maths wasn't a strong area in the school, and then when staff had a coach and saw how much it changed the way they taught, that's what they wanted to keep.

Because few charter schools are unionized, they hire and fire teachers and administrative staff without regard to the collectively bargained seniority and tenure provisions that constrain such decisions in many public schools.

If a school district fails to make adjustments in the face of rising charter school enrollment, and it keeps the same number of staff and facilities despite having fewer students, it will pay a double penalty: Because charter school tuition payments are pegged to a district's average spending per student, a school district's charter payments rise when costs per student rise.

Still, she said she was shocked when the principal called a few days later to say Lucas could not enroll because staff had determined that he wasn't academically or developmentally ready for third - grade - even though he was enrolled in the third grade at his local public school, where he remains.

«Finding appropriately qualified staff is more difficult in secondary schools, with fewer English, maths and science teachers holding relevant post A-level qualifications for the subjects they teach.

Second, few educators of the gifted would argue with the core tenets set forth in Turning Points (Carnegie Task Force on the Education of Young Adolescents, 1989) that middle school programs should: (1) create small communities of learning within larger school settings, (2) teach a solid academic core, (3) ensure success for all students, (4) enable educators closest to students to make important decisions about teaching and learning, (5) staff middle schools with teachers trained to work effectively with early adolescents, (6) promote health and fitness, (7) involve families in the education of learners, and (8) connect schools with communities.

Many highly gifted children attend small schools with few specialized staff members, live in communities which are often resistant to chance, and are not necessarily acculturated according to urban standards (Spicker, Southern & Davis, 1987).

It is impossible to always do the «right» thing and in education, there are few instances where school system staff, parents, students, and taxpayers will all agree on what the «right» thing is.

They include about 26 staff from elementary schools, 10 from middle schools and 14 from high schools, as well as fewer special education staff as a result of declining numbers of students in need of services, according to a list supplied to the board.

Despite the disproportionate concentration of PTA donations in affluent schools, we found that few of the districts with the 50 richest PTAs have policies in place to respond to outsized donations to the wealthiest schools.30 A couple of districts place restrictions on how parent - raised funds can be spent, such as banning their use to pay for school staff.

«Decisions have not been made, but what you may well find is there are fewer support staff within schools and therefore teachers are standing at a photocopier rather than in the classroom,» said Cunning.

The preliminary decision addresses a ground - breaking court challenge to layoffs that devastated the staffs of three middle schools during job cuts over the last few years in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Most of the pupils will have started school a few years before taking the tests or exams and there may have been changes of staff or policy at the school in the interim.

In fact, compared to MMSD elementary and middle schools, Isthmus Montessori would have 40 percent fewer staff per student, and the highest student - to - staff ratio in the district, by a long shoIn fact, compared to MMSD elementary and middle schools, Isthmus Montessori would have 40 percent fewer staff per student, and the highest student - to - staff ratio in the district, by a long shoin the district, by a long shot.

Too few schools have symbols that will evoke the spirit of education in the future for students, staff, and parents.

The most obvious pattern we have discovered in the data is that the lowest performing school districts in the state employ the fewest number of teachers as a percentage of their staff and the highest performing school districts employ the greatest number of teachers as a percentage of their staff.

Gist, whose reform efforts led to the firings of all teachers and staff at one of the state's worst - performing schools, said test scores in the state need vast improvement, the graduation rate must grow and too few high school graduates — just more than half — are heading directly to college.

Charter parents frequently have a role in developing school policies, and even in hiring and evaluating staff — something few district schools would consider allowing.

Six Things Principals Can Do To Support Their English Language Learners June 9, 2015 Because the influx of ELL students is a comparatively new and growing trend in Northwest schools, there are quite a few things principals can do to help their staffs ensure ELLs get the support they need to reach their highest potential.

Believe it or not, school starts next week for some kids in the Milwaukee area — and MPS students, parents and staff have a few notable changes on the horizon as kids head back to class.

A few knowledgeable parents brought in advocates who went after the school staff for not providing services.

Brown, in his state budget message, also has complained that the process for getting school construction projects approved is too complex, that the first - come, first - served basis for getting matching state money favors large districts with sizable facilities staffs, and that standard building requirements may not encourage non-traditional ways to educate students using less space and fewer facilities.

As a teacher educator and former classroom teacher, I have become increasingly concerned about the tenuous situation of the most vulnerable students in U.S. public schools — students who attend urban schools with crumbling infrastructures, few resources, and a highly mobile staff.

Many reports over the past few years have signalled that schools are finding it harder to recruit — for example, in a 2015 survey by the National Governors Association, 43 per cent of respondents reported it was difficult to find good candidates when recruiting senior staff.

Green Dot Public Schools California is one of few non-district public school operators in California that has unionized teachers and unionized classified staff.

In 2013 — 14, the School District of Philadelphia had 6,321 fewer staff than it did at the end of 2011, according to district figures — a decrease of nearly 27 percent.

It is resulting in cuts to the curriculum, increased class sizes and fewer teaching and school support staff.

Pupils and staff will be required to work exactly the same number of days in the year as in any other school, but we have made a few minor adjustments to the County suggested model in order to make the most efficient use possible of both teaching and training time.

Although the AFT has scheduled a «labor action» during the convention (Sunday afternoon), instead of protesting against the Chicago attack on the teachers in six schools (and a few others not as complete or dramatic), the nation's teacher union will be protesting at a hospital (St. Joseph's) on the lakefront in support of the nurses and other hospital staff trying to organize medical workers at Resurrection hospitals in Chicago.

In some cases pressure or resistance from community politics or from parents, students, and staff make school closure decisions contentious.27 Further, in some communities, there may be no, or too few, better options available for students of the closed schooIn some cases pressure or resistance from community politics or from parents, students, and staff make school closure decisions contentious.27 Further, in some communities, there may be no, or too few, better options available for students of the closed schooin some communities, there may be no, or too few, better options available for students of the closed school.

In the first six weeks of the 2016 school year, DISD teachers and staff conducted 1,576 relationship - building home visits, which led to increased empathy and compassion, increased communication, fewer discipline referrals, more engaged students, stronger feelings of connection between teachers and students, and increased trust all around.

Congratulations to all the staff and pupils at East Borough Primary School in Kent, St Georges Primary School in Bristol, Bursted Green Primary School in West Sussex and Temple Sutton Primary School in Southend - on - Sea who have all received Good judgements from Ofsted in the past few weeks.