This website provides links to campaigns beneficial to those who advocate
good school facilities.
There have been a lot of studies that say a good environment -
a good school facility - improves test scores, and improves student behavior and teacher morale.
«I heartily recommend you utilize ATS&R's talent, expertise and experience as you embark on providing
the best school facilities for the young people of your community.»
For other schools, we help find
the best school facilities possible and structure the financing package to bring the vision to reality.
Not exact matches
Four years after an overhaul of Desautels's
facilities as
well as its curriculum, the
school is embracing its model of «integrated learning.»
As
well, the
school is renewing itself physically: the first phase of a new $ 100 — million
facility will be completed in March 2011.
The first project is the Pimbiniet community in Kenya where the company is building
schooling facilities, digging
wells, eliminating child labor and creating volunteering opportunities.
To spice things up, they'd include promises of a new pipeline training
facility, a new
school curriculum, a new relationship with Ottawa, new greenhouse gas emissions targets and
better bitumen sands environmental performance.
«The PCs continue to make big promises —
schools, seniors
facilities, changes to health care, but we deserve
better.
or
better yet, not allow them into
schools and colleges unless they build a special gay dorm /
facility.
At the very least, therefore,
schools for poor and minority children should have as much funding per student, as many qualified teachers and as
good physical
facilities as other
schools.
Schools with the
best facilities and the highest «paid teachers often fail because they are ultimately accountable to bureaucrats for regulatory compliance, instead of to parents for results.
In North Dakota a tri-county coalition of churches from eight denominations is sharing
facilities, equipment, filmstrips and other resources to provide each of the church
schools involved with the
best available methods in Christian education.
A just society will levy appropriate taxes for this purpose, to support the
best possible public systems, public parks, and playgrounds,
schools, and health
facilities.
Our Grown For
Good Programs have built thousands of housing units, and dozens of
schools, kitchens, medical / dental
facilities, water treatment plants, etc..
From sourcing organic products, to obtaining fair trade certification, to greening our
facilities and operations, to funding tree planting at
schools in our local community, we are constantly seeking ways to
better protect our environment and ensure a
better quality of life for employees, customers, and the communities we serve.
The
facilities would discredit the average high
school: the track is often as hard and baked as a sandlot infield: the locker rooms, built in the 1920s, have been condemned several times; the permanent stands consist of a half dozen rows of splintery, sun - bleached wood, plus a few
well - warmed and precarious seats on the tin roof of the locker rooms.
Having taught for some years in the public
school system of MS, I can say that in many of the rural
schools in this state (likely the same in nearby states as
well for rural
schools) have many football players on free or reduced price
school lunch programs and very poor training and weight room
facilities.
In total the foundation has worked with nearly 50 New Orleans
schools and organizations, providing $ 300,000 to New Orleans Outreach for after -
school assistance; $ 127,550 to the New Orleans Recreation Department to help with initial costs in the restoration of Pontchartrain Park; $ 78,000 to
Best Buddies Louisiana, which facilitates one - to - one friendships for adults with intellectual disabilities; and $ 74,000 to the Greater New Orleans Rebuild Child Care Collaborative, to restore child - care
facilities lost to Katrina.
Among the 3,450 students are more than 500 black youngsters, most of them attracted by stronger curricula or
better facilities than those available at
schools in their own neighborhoods.
better training
facilities for amateurs in the
schools and clubs down there.
While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned
facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high
school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the
best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.
While the
facility may be
well - suited for after -
school care activities such as snack, homework, and playground time, it may not have resources to keep your child occupied all day.
While we believe that scratch - cooked dressings are the
best option, we also recognize that many
schools don't have the
facilities, staff, resources, or budget to... Read more
My feeling right now is that we might
well have success on a pilot basis in a
school with a kitchen, but what about the many, many
schools in HISD that don't have such
facilities?
One district might have a gleaming,
well - equipped central food preparation
facility like Houston's (at the cost of $ 51 million to taxpayers) and another might have
school «kitchens» that look a lot more like a janitor's closet.
But to the extent some districts (because of labor costs, size of the free / reduced population, lack of
facilities, etc.) can't match those exemplary meals, I'd love to get parents more up in arms over
school meal funding as
well.
Daycare centers specialize in care of infants through pre-schoolers, although some daycare
facilities also offer before - and after -
school care for
school - age children as
well.
Childcare centers and elementary
schools also use the Haba furniture line of Wehrfritz for after -
school care programs and therapy and special needs
facilities as
well.
The Clarendon Hills Park District is hoping a new deal in the works with Hinsdale - Clarendon Hills
School District 181 will
better ensure it gets priority to hold park district programs and classes in the gym and other
facilities it shares with Clarendon Hills Middle
School.
Scheltens said the park and
school districts have worked
well together over the years, and the
facility is important to the park district.
Based in Lithonia, Georgia, Donna's Loving Care Child Care and Learning Center is a
well - established childcare
facility that takes care of infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and
school - age youngsters.
Officials at
schools — as
well as hospitals, nursing homes and child - care
facilities — would be able to access the data from a Web site run by the federal Department of Health and Human Services in consultation with the Agriculture Department.
Title III of the ADAAA requires that private, non-religious
schools take necessary steps to make sure that no child, due to his disability, is «excluded, denied services, segregated or otherwise treated differently than other individuals because of the absence of auxiliary aids and services, unless the entity can demonstrate that taking such steps would fundamentally alter the nature of the
good, service,
facility, privilege, advantage, or accommodation being offered or would result in an undue burden.
For cases of very mild croup, your child may continue attending a child care
facility or
school if she feels
well enough to take part in the activities.
Keeping in mind the stringent requirements that
school food service personnel must adhere to, as
well as the unique limitations of
school facilities and budgets, Boot Camp offered practical techniques and production methods for bringing scratch cooking to
schools in a cost - and labor - efficient manner.
As I've written about before (most recently in a Houston Chronicle op - ed), here in Houston ISD we have one of the nation's most advanced central kitchens for the preparation of
school food: a state - of - the - art, $ 51 million
facility that takes up 15 - acres, with 95,000 square feet devoted to baking, «cook / chill» and cold food preparation, as
well as football - field - sized freezer and dry storage areas.
One district might have a gleaming,
well - equipped central food preparation
facility like Houston's (at the cost of $ 51 million to taxpayers) and another might have
school «kitchens» that -LSB-...]
After eight years of work to «fix
school food», I am convinced that while on paper it may be possible to draw up a budget to operate a
school meal program, including all of the expenses — food, labor, overhead, kitchen
facilities, equipment, staff training, office expenses, everything it takes to run a meal program — with nutritious scratch cooked lunches for $ 2.72 apiece, no district of any size is, in fact, doing it, despite the
best efforts of many capable people like Ann Cooper.
While an Illinois boarding
school might seem ideal, the location of a potential
facility is less important than making sure it is a
good fit for your son.
While the therapeutic boarding
schools for boys in Georgia will keep your son close by, we urge you to place the highest priority on making sure that the
facility you decide on is a
good fit for your son and offers you peace of mind.
Capacity: The new two - story
facility, with a capacity of 1,600 students (an increase of 400 from the former campus), allows for the standard middle
school configuration of Grades 6 - 8 on one campus... which provides sixth - graders with greater opportunity for academic rigor, fine arts and career electives and athletic and extra-curricular activities, as
well as 30 additional minutes of instructional time each day, compared to an elementary schedule.
So, if you have decided your teen would be
best served by being withdrawn from public
school, to be placed in a residential treatment center or another private
schooling facility, we want to make the transition as easy as possible for your family.
When parents, teachers and
school counselors can not make a difference, no matter how
well - intentioned, it's definitely time for a full - time
facility to intervene.
LeeAnn B:
Well... I think it all comes down to budget constraints and whether a
school could afford either water delivery or the labor needed to wash cups, provided they even have the
facilities to do the washing.
They're also frequently used in
schools and child care
facilities to motivate kids and encourage
good behavior.
Furthermore, many public
schools lack the
facilities for cooking and food storage that Chef Boundas has at his disposal, and while I didn't find out exactly what Chef Boundas pays his labor, it may
well be less than labor costs would be in a highly unionized district.
Howe was a paid adviser to the SUNY Polytechnic Institute as
well as COR and LPCiminelli — both of which won contracts to build multi-million dollar high - tech
facilities for the
school — but only recently registered as a state lobbyist.
Questions during the off - topic portion of the press conference included his opinion of the expected Democratic candidate in the 11th Congressional District special election and whether he'll campaign for Gentile, the prospect of Department of Homeland Security losing funding, religious organizations renting City
school facilities for prayer / worship services and the related lawsuit, a NY Post report criticizing a newly - created NYPD training program, reported terror threats against shopping malls, the absence of a Lunar New Year message from the mayor and his non-attendance at the Lunar New Year parade, his reaction to Governor Cuomo's comment that their relationship will be «the
best relationship between a mayor and governor in modern political history,» his scheduled trip to Albany on Wednesday and delays in federal funding of Sandy rebuilding.
«There will be more student aid for charter
schools and they will get
facilities aid as
well,» he said.