Sentences with phrase «free schools debate»
Neither side is completely right or wrong in the free schools debate, explains Natalie Perera, but what is clear is that there is no quick fix to improving outcomes
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Ultimately, children and young people will go on to make their own decisions about what they eat, but as long as schools offer students the opportunity to think, discuss and debate the issues as well as to cook and eat good vegetarian food, a weekly meat free day provides them with the knowledge and experience with which to make informed, responsible and compassionate choices.
In a Holyrood debate this afternoon, Alex Salmond, the Scottish First Minister, has tabled a motion recognising «that free school meals help tackle child poverty and promote child welfare and educational attainment; further recognises that free school meals save families at least # 330 per child per year; confirms its commitment to increasing the number of primary school pupils eligible for free school meals».
According to media reports, he will be meeting free school meals campaigners before the debate and then will be making the announcement in the chamber.
Twelve schools from across the UK will meet at the British Library for the Institute of Ideas» Debating Matters competition, a weekend of tough yet open debate on difficult contemporary topics where, most importantly, free speech is encouraged.
The government's flagship Free Schools are under greater scrutiny than most because their very existence is part of a huge political debate about the direction of education policy.
As part of their campaign, the Welsh Liberal Democrats are holding a debate in the National Assembly today calling for the introduction of free school meals for all children of infant school age in Wales.
As the National Audit Office reports on the cost of the free schools programme, Natalie Evans and Avis Gilmour debate the value of the free schools project.
Mr. President, I have noticed that you are very unhappy with the recent debate over the FREE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
Gross illuminates the Catholic struggle to create an alternative school system in sober, academic language free of the hysteria surrounding much of the contemporary debate over school choice.
The added introduction of the «grammar school» debate raises additional concerns, as does the push to create «free schools», which many believe is draining funding from existing schools.
Protests by Duncan, S.C., students who displayed Confederate flags at their high school in defiance of school policy resulted this month in dozens of suspensions and a debate over free speech and racially charged expression.
A debate on free schools proved lively in the conference on 24 February, with Mark Lehain, campaign director for the Bedford and Kempston free school sharing his experiences and vision with those working in the sector, alongside the Partnerships for Schools director of education and planning, Russell Aschools proved lively in the conference on 24 February, with Mark Lehain, campaign director for the Bedford and Kempston free school sharing his experiences and vision with those working in the sector, alongside the Partnerships for Schools director of education and planning, Russell ASchools director of education and planning, Russell Andrews.
Free schools, new academies and the James Review were all popular topics of conversation and the subject of much debate throughout BSEC 2011, whilst the industry still awaits Michael Gove's capital spending plans now expected in June.
Somewhere in the middle of this policy debate, an estimated 600,000 students nationwide, at least this school year, are taking advantage of free tutoring from providers of their choice because they go to schools...
And while there is an ideological cast to the debate — charter schools are a favored cause of many high - profile free - marketeers, while labor unions provide much of the oomph for the opposition — the picture there, too, is fuzzy.
The scheme will involve a free resource of creative science activities available to all primary school teachers, designed with the aim of encouraging discussion and debate and helping to make science education at primary level «exciting, inspiring and relevant».
During the debate, senior government ministers including Damian Hinds, the education secretary and Esther McVey, the work and pensions secretary, claimed that no child would lose out on free school meals as a result of the scheme.
The drop has prompted a flurry of debate in the country about what led to the decline and whether the growth of free schools is to blame.
The debates rage on about grammar schools, free schools and funding, but without dealing with teacher recruitment and retention, those policy debates are largely irrelevant.
North West Durham Labour MP Pat Glass told a debate she had repeatedly raised concerns about Durham Free School.
The political debate often centres around competing claims on the quality and cost of free schools.
So although these rows about statistics make good headlines, they risk obscuring the more important debate about the principles that govern free schools and the likely impact if this were to become the foundation for all schools.
NSN Director Natalie Evans has written an article on how away from the political debate, Free Schools are proving popular with parents and delivering a high quality of education to pupils.
Dozens of teachers packed the House gallery and lined the chambers» windows as lawmakers debated a bill aimed at expanding charter schools, which are public schools free of certain regulations and, often, union contracts.
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The following year we debated the future of the legal profession in light of Richard Susskind's book The End of Lawyers, and despite being teamed up with the inestimable intellect of UVic law school dean Donna Greschner, and the two of us giving away free dinosaur toys to all the attendees in an attempt to bribe them, we were trounced by University of British Columbia law dean Mary Anne Bobinski and her partner in crime, litigator, rock star and Paul McCartney's good friend, Michal Bain (who tires of being described as the «Bain» of my existence).