Sentences with phrase «fixing aging school»

In Rhode Island, Gov. Gina Raimondo would spend $ 1 billion to fixing aging school facilities, and Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam would add $ 200 million to the school budget that has increased $ 1.3 million under his watch.

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Additionally, I will advocate for a solution to fix the systemic problems associated with a district in which a majority of school - aged children do not attend public schools.

«Even something as crude as a regulation that requires a kid stay in school to a fixed age, whether he wants to or not, has a considerable effect on criminal activity,» Cook said.

Now at age 21, Goyal has published a second book, Schools on Trial: How Freedom and Creativity Can Fix Our Educational Malpractice.

But standing in the way of such a transformation is the fixed structure of the school, the age - determined set of classes, slotted into a curriculum where one learns certain things at a certain age and must move on to the topics determined as suitable for the next year.

Around 63 million adolescents between the ages of 12 and 15 years are denied their right to an education, according to a new joint report from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics and UNICEF, Fixing the Broken Promise of Education for All: Findings from the Global Initiative on Out - of - School Children, released today during the Education World Forum.

In Breakthrough Leadership in the Digital Age, Frederick M. Hess and Bror Saxberg argue that educators have tended to think of adopting technology as a way to «reform» or «fix» schools.

Having interviewed 300 young people aged 16 to 25, the charity Fixers, who undertook the study, found that 27 per cent of young people said they had felt pressured into sexting, sexual activity, drinking alcohol or taking drugs while in or around school; 34 per cent did not feel safe walking to and from school; and 12 per cent had been sexually assaulted.

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Speaking to 300 people between the ages of 16 and 25, Fixers found 27 per cent had felt pressured into sexting and having sex, or drinking or taking drugs, and 18 per cent said they had been sexually harassed on at least one occasion in school.

The Childcare and Adult Food Program establishes a fixed reimbursement amount per meal for eligible students from 3 to 12 years of age who participate in after - school programs.

Atavistic memories like these help explain the enduring nature of schooling's administrative arrangements — fixed class times, fixed starting and ending dates, and age grouping of students.

The importance of regional impartiality is recognised in the anonymity of the contributor's school, age, and nationality during the selection process and by the annual exhibition having no fixed location.

Give your mom the gift of doing by checking something off her list that she's wanted done for ages but never gets around to: fix that squeaky hinge, organize all the digital photos of the grandkids, or offer to purge the basement (which is probably filled with your high school castoffs anyway!).