Sentences with phrase «funded out of school time»

Prior to joining TXPOST, Alison worked with numerous youth development organizations, including the Department of Human Services funded Out of School Time system in Philadelphia, PA..

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Those who speak out against abortion and family practice and at the same time support cuts in education, school lunch funding, decry reasonable control of weapons and other programs that help children can not call themselves Christians.

In addition, in a time when so many school districts are hurting for funding, it seems myopic and self - defeating to cut off the revenue stream of renting facilities out when they are otherwise unoccupied.

Summer is an opportunity for all of us to take a well - deserved break, but it's also the perfect time to seek out funding for your school nutrition program.

Maybe you are in the process of rewriting your school's wellness policy, and have found that a new physical activity or nutrition program will require additional funds; if so, now is the time to start seeking out, and applying for, funding opportunities.

Smith's remarks on this start at about the 5:30 - minute mark, when Mika Brzezinski notes a recent Times editorial that pointed out how low - income school districts are disproportionately hurt by Cuomo's $ 1.5 billion education funding cut — all but $ 270 million of which is included in the framework agreement announced yesterday.

Kevin Courtney, NUT general secretary, said: «That sums of this magnitude have been thrown away at a time when schools across the country are crying out for funding for staff, to provide a broad and balanced curriculum and to ensure essential resources and equipment are available, is criminal.

Talk of the Sound has been reporting for more than a year on the out - of - control spending by the New Rochelle School District and warning that totally unrealistic assumptions about property assessments, state aid and one - time injections of stimulus funding.

► In this week's issue of STM, Arthur Levine, senior vice chancellor for the health sciences and dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pennsylvania, and 18 other U.S. academic medical center leaders wrote that «[u] nstable funding for biomedical research has created a hostile working environment that erodes the time available for investigators to conduct their research, discourages innovative high - risk science, threatens to drive established investigators out of U.S. academic biomedical research, and creates uncertainty for trainees and early - career investigators.

I've struggled with the fact that I could implement ads with the click of a button and make much more money that would help support my family and help fund a charity I've wanted to start for a long time (to provide sustainable food and clean water worldwide and to help distribute leftover food from farmers markets to soup kitchens, schools and food banks), but I've never made the jump because I personally hate ads and feel this would be «selling out.»

Add to this daunting requirement the complete lack of ring fenced funding for staff training, the varying skill levels, the always present lack of time and the cost of taking days out of the classroom for training courses, and we have a state of crisis in many schools.

But each time enrollment falls, district leaders seem to be caught off guard, forced to dip into reserves, pare down extracurriculars, and make out - of - cycle pleas for rescue funding in order to avert salary freezes, seniority - based layoffs, or school closures.

Kevin Courtney, general secretary of the NUT, the largest teachers» union, said: «The announcement that there is to be an extra # 320 million to fund up to 140 new free schools demonstrates an extraordinary lack of judgement at a time when state schools across the country are tipping out their piggy banks to search for the loose change to run their schools, let alone engaging in any capital upgrading.

The key points from each strand are highlighted as follows: Early Identification and support • Early identification of need: health and development review at 2/2.5 years • Support in early years from health professionals: greater capacity from health visiting services • Accessible and high quality early years provision: DfE and DfH joint policy statement on the early years; tickell review of EYFS; free entitlement of 15 hours for disadvantaged two year olds • A new approach to statutory assessment: education, health and care plan to replace statement • A more efficient statutory assessment process: DoH to improve the provision and timeliness of health advice; to reduce time limit for current statutory assessment process to 20 weeks Giving parent's control • Supporting families through the system: a continuation of early support resources • Clearer information for parents: local authorities to set out a local offer of support; slim down requirements on schools to publish SEN information • Giving parents more control over support and funding for their child: individual budget by 2014 for all those with EHC plan • A clear choice of school: parents will have rights to express a preference for a state - funded school • Short breaks for carers and children: a continuation in investment in short breaks • Mediation to resolve disagreements: use of mediation before a parent can register an appeal with the Tribunal

In addition to this, the Cystic Fibrosis Holiday Fund, a group which raises money for children with the life - limiting illness, has said that parents who take their sick children out of school during term time have also been prosecuted.

Over time, competent private schools have grown their base of public funding while patently low - grade schools have shrunk or been ushered out of the choice programs.

Her agency manages the city - funded network of out - of - school - time programs.

Since many out - of - school programs face limited funding and their staff members tend to be young, part - time workers who rarely commit to the job for long, providing high - quality, cost - effective professional development can be a challenge.

In a media release around afterschool funding, Mayor Fischer said that «out - of - school time is a critical time for our young people, for their safety, and their academic and employment success.»

At a time when head teachers across England and Wales are crying out for sufficient funds to run their schools, provide pupils with a broad and balanced curriculum and retain teachers and support staff, the Government is proposing to lavish scarce education funding on a policy which all the evidence confirms will undermine the high standards of education that comprehensive schools have been able to achieve in the decades since selective education was ended in most parts of the country.

That sums of this magnitude have been thrown away at a time when schools across the country are crying out for funding for staff, to provide a broad and balanced curriculum and to ensure essential resources and equipment are available, is criminal.

In addition to cutting supports to teachers and after - school programs, this budget doubles down on its attack on teachers and working families by eliminating funding for the Corporation for National and Community Service, or CNCS, which provides volunteer support and educational awards for teachers in training and out - of - school time programming.

Add in the tens of million spent by local school districts on computers and internet expansion so that students can take the on - line tests, along with the substitute teachers who were brought in so that full - time teachers could be pulled out to «learn about the Common Core,» and well over $ 150 — $ 200 million dollars (or more) in public funds have been diverted from instruction to the Common Core and Common Core testing disaster.

Out - of - school time organizations have specific needs and funding requirements.

«As we approach a new parliament, the next government must commit to fully fund the creation of all new school places and give councils the powers to open new schools once again, before time runs out and we are faced with a national crisis,» said Mr Simmonds.

Applicants must sign an agreement to continue teaching Mathematics or Science (including Technology / Engineering) full time in a Massachusetts public school for a term of service after completion of courses or program (no longer teaching out - of - field) or repay funds as defined by the scholarship terms and conditions.

Overview Over the last decade, there has been a shift in the way many cities are approaching out of school time — moving from independent, isolated programming and funding to coordinated, citywide systems.

Funding to set up the Office and Commission of Out Of School Time Grants, which was established in legislation introduced by Councilmember Grossof Out Of School Time Grants, which was established in legislation introduced by Councilmember GrossOf School Time Grants, which was established in legislation introduced by Councilmember Grosso.

At a time when funding for teachers and schools is under threat, Chaffee embodies the dedication it takes to ensure that her students succeed in and out of the classroom every day.

It is time for a real, serious and honest look at Connecticut's school funding crisis, not the cop - out version that has been recently proposed as part of Connecticut's budget plan.

• To identify a direct and thus causational relationship between teachers and students, all other factors impacting student achievement, including out - of - school factors, would have to be controlled, resulting in a process that would cost more money and time than the state can fund.

In short, this change in policy merely gives schools more flexibility with respect to how the funds can be used and leaves the decision about the best way to do so — be it for expanded learning time or out - of - school time programming — up to them.

«Whenever we've talked with school districts to find out how are they're funding full - day pre-K, what we have found is that, a lot of times they have to draw resources from somewhere else in the budget, from another space, in order to make the math work.»

The Texas Partnership for Out of School Time is the 40th statewide network funded by the C.S. Mott Foundation to pursue the development of statewide OST systems that will serve youth, families, and communities across the state.

R. Out of this appropriation, $ 613,312 the first year and $ 613,312 the second year from the general fund is provided for planning or start - up grants for extended learning time models, grants for preschool, and grants for alternative instructional delivery or school governance models.

This is a huge win for community schools as this is the single source of funding for after school and out of time programs and is a huge source of funding for community schools.

The charlatans can smell the easy money; they readily understand that it is just a matter of playing out a role — you only have to say that you believe in «choice for all children» and that «bad teachers» are the problem, and that charter schools are pathways to success, and, in good time, the public money will come rolling in, as Stefan Pryor and his gang of reformers at the State Department of Education are only too happy to fund private initiatives, just so long as the required rhetoric.

To the contrary, as I hope to show in detail soon, a law school's relative prestige appears to be well correlated with greater numbers of full - time legal jobs nine months after graduation, especially after factoring out the school - funded, short - term and nonlegal jobs as US News currently fails to do in calculating its rankings.

Evaluated and manages Out of School Time Sports» funding.

Chicago, IL About Blog The Chicago STEM Pathways Cooperative began in 2011 as a community - based effort in which stakeholders from across Chicago's youth development and funder communities wrestled with critical questions about access and equity in STEM out - of - school time (OST) programming.

Finding Funding: Supporting Making Connections Core Result That Children Are Healthy and Prepared to Succeed in School (PDF - 1,240 KB) Lind, Crocker, Stewart, Torrico, Bhat, & Schmid (2009) Reviews strategies for accessing Federal, State, local, and private funding sources to support early learning, health services, literacy and tutoring programs, out - of - school time programs, parent outreach and engagement, and supports for schools and child care proFunding: Supporting Making Connections Core Result That Children Are Healthy and Prepared to Succeed in School (PDF - 1,240 KB) Lind, Crocker, Stewart, Torrico, Bhat, & Schmid (2009) Reviews strategies for accessing Federal, State, local, and private funding sources to support early learning, health services, literacy and tutoring programs, out - of - school time programs, parent outreach and engagement, and supports for schools and child care provSchool (PDF - 1,240 KB) Lind, Crocker, Stewart, Torrico, Bhat, & Schmid (2009) Reviews strategies for accessing Federal, State, local, and private funding sources to support early learning, health services, literacy and tutoring programs, out - of - school time programs, parent outreach and engagement, and supports for schools and child care profunding sources to support early learning, health services, literacy and tutoring programs, out - of - school time programs, parent outreach and engagement, and supports for schools and child care provschool time programs, parent outreach and engagement, and supports for schools and child care providers.

Principals see a lack of time, inadequate teacher training, and funding as barriers to carrying out social - emotional learning in their schools, a nationally representative survey found.

The Work, Families & Children research group (WFC) at the Wellesley Centers for Women serves as a research partner to James Bell Associates in an evaluation of the Children's Investment Fund's Early Education and Out - of - School Time (EEOST) Capital Grant Program in Massachusetts.

She can not work full - time, be off my taxes and go to school full time, and I know we are not the first family to deal with out of state tuition costs which help fund the in state residents.