Sentences with phrase «helps schools control»

For those who aren't familiar, BOCES is a shared - service provider that helps schools control costs by providing programs and services districts can't afford on their own, including nutrition services.

Not exact matches

While he doesn't believe MEC has any control over that debate, the organization can help advance the public conversation around the Feb. 14 shooting that resulted in 17 deaths at a high school in Parkland, Fla., he said.

Republican lawmakers, who are in control of both legislative chambers, said the program would help local sheriffs and police chiefs who do not have enough deputies or officers to assign to schools.

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.

If you are absolutely convinced a fetus is truly the full moral equivalent of an extant human baby, then any political or ideological qualms you have about helping out with things like birth control and child care, or including se - x education in school classrooms.

Arsenal do have a good team except for few mistakes after being in control they lost their cohesion and created school errors and just after they score they loose it again but honestly they tried and tried hard but the olympiakos goal keeper kept his team afloat with the help of the referee and from the match statistics we had 62 % position with 8 on target and 8 corners while olympiakos had 38 % with 5 on targets with 4 corners from the statistics we can say we won the game so in a sense two mistakes and we lost the game Still looking forward for Sunday come on Arsenal

From Harvard, a recent study by Dr. Elizabeth Hoge, a psychiatrist at the Center for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Disorders at Massachusetts General Hospital and an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, found that «a mindfulness - based stress reduction program helped quell anxiety symptoms in people with generalized anxiety disorder, a condition marked by hard - to - control worries, poor sleep, and irritability.»

And so in these schools, where students are most in need of help internalizing extrinsic motivations, classroom environments often push them in the opposite direction: toward more external control, fewer feelings of competence, and less positive connection with teachers.

Strategies such as making school lunches the night before or establishing a comfortable homework area can help make kids feel more in control and relieve some of their anxious feelings.

The National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) announced recently that more than one million coaches and other individuals has taken the online course it developed with the help of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that between 4 to 6 percent of children in the United States have one or more food allergies and that approximately 90 percent of schools have one or more students with a food allergy.4 The CDC developed voluntary guidelines to help staff, teachers and students create a healthy school environment for children with food allergies.

Grade schoolers usually need a little help dealing with uncomfortable emotions, like frustration and anxiety, and it's common for them to lack verbal impulse control.

Although the food service director likely has no control over the cafeteria time allotment, he / she might be able to point to other barriers that make lengthening the lunch difficult (ratio of students: cafeteria size etc., budget for labor) 6) Schedule a meeting with the school principal and share your concerns and ask how you might help to arrive at a solution.

In his most recent book, Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why, Tough attempts to find out how schools, teachers, and parents can help children best develop the necessary non-academic skills — like grit and self - control — to thrive.

Our goal was simple: to make the healthy choice the easy one, and to help schools build a sense of self - determination, where they could control the quality of the food their students eat.»

She additionally credits evidence - based resources from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Association of School Nurses for helping schools to manage food allergies.

Getting input from your kids doesn't just help create the ideal environment, it also makes them feel like they have a bit more control over their after school time.

Our goal was simple: to make the healthy choice the easy choice, and to help schools build a sense of self - determination, where they could control the quality of the food their students eat.»

No group in NYC has amassed more political clout than the teachers union, which has scored a new contract for its members, helped block charter schools from expanding, pushed for the renewal of mayoral control of city schools, and ensured the city education budget continues to soar.

Mayoral control of city schools was implemented in 2002 with the help and support of the Partnership for New York City.

Have to wonder how Dirty John Flanagan can continue to justify only a one year extension of Mayoral control... oh yeah, that ploy helps get Dirty John a lot of hedge fund Cheater School money for his cabal of upstate TEAPubs who want to mess with NYC!

A group supportive of charter schools and education reform that backed Republicans in key state Senate races spent $ 4.2 million on advertising, mail and GOTV to help give the GOP conference full control of the chamber.

In his first session as majority leader, he helped ensure that Mr. de Blasio, no friend of Senate Republicans, will need to go to Albany next year to grovel again for the renewal of mayoral control of public schools.

Cuomo appears poised to help renew control, but with changes that win him points in the charter schools sphere.

Cuomo officials said the governor remains a champion of charter schools, and they noted that the governor has boosted funding and flexibility for charters and that he helped negotiate some charter wins during this year's mayoral control debate.

This must surely be an embarrassment to the churches in question, though it certainly helps explain why they are so desperate to keep control of these state schools.

After Cuomo, the second - largest recipient of hedge fund - contributions was New Yorkers for a Balanced Albany — an independent expenditure committee created by the pro-charter school group StudentsFirstNY — that spent $ 4.2 million to help Republicans take control of the state Senate.

Speaking at his monthly press conference, Mr Brown said the government would need to improve legislation if necessary, but would also target violence through schools and family intervention to help parents who have lost control of their children.

(Flanagan advanced three bills that extended mayoral control and helped charter schools; Heastie yoked a straight extension of mayoral control to renewing local taxes that are critical for upstate and suburban members.)

The governor also did not deny that he was the «top Cuomo administration official» quoted in the Daily News questioning de Blasio's strategy as he pushed to renew his control of the city's schools and restructure and reauthorize a real estate tax subsidy to help him build more affordable housing.

A campaign arm of the rebranded, left - wing group ACORN is spending hundreds of thousands to help Democrats win control of the state Senate and protect traditional, union - controlled public schools.

The new SUNY regs stemmed from a side - deal hashed out between the city and the charter school sector in June that helped pave the way for an extension of the law giving Mayor de Blasio control of the city schools.

Bradley Tusk, a political consultant and former campaign manager for Michael Bloomberg, helped organize REBNY's past alliance with the charter school group known as StudentsFirst, which also wanted the GOP in control of the Senate.

De Blasio, Cuomo and their emmissaries have been throwing barbs of late, and it is unclear if the governor will help with any of the issues important to de Blasio, who wants to see extensions or altered extensions of mayoral control of schools, rent regulations, and the 421 - a housing developer tax abatement program.

Earlier in the day, Senate Independent Democratic Leader Jeff Klein, following a closed door meeting with Governor Cuomo and legislative leaders, said he hoped for a «grand bargain» that would include the mayoral control extension, the sales tax continuation and some provisions to help charter schools.

West Seneca School Superintendent Dr. Mark Crawford says schools can control what happens within their walls, but off school grounds they need help from paSchool Superintendent Dr. Mark Crawford says schools can control what happens within their walls, but off school grounds they need help from paschool grounds they need help from parents.

«Cigarette smokers are at far greater risk than the general public for developing lung cancer, and helping smokers quit should be our top cancer prevention priority in these people,» said Jian - Min Yuan, M.D., Ph.D., associate director of the UPCI's Division of Cancer Control and Population Science and an epidemiologist with Pitt's Graduate School of Public Health.

«This study looked at more than 2.3 million ED visits among children with asthma, and we identified some interesting trends that give a baseline to find better ways to help children with asthma control this very treatable disease,» said Aparna Roy, MD, MPH, lead author of the study and resident at UH Rainbow and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

A study by Murray Hill Middle School in Maryland investigates the effects of microgravity on microencapsulation, a process that could be used to help control the rate at which a drug is released in the body.

The study's authors recommend that educators, administrators, and parents work to strengthen students» positive emotions and minimize negative emotions related to school subjects, for example, by helping students gain a greater sense of control over their performance.

Later, as a student at Harvard Medical School, he helped conduct some of the first controlled human experiments with marijuana.

Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers have discovered that a particular type of protein (hormone) found in fat cells helps regulate how glucose (blood sugar) is controlled and metabolized (used for energy) in the liver.

Critics have charged that the agreement gives the donor, the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation in Mainz, too much control over publishing decisions and faculty appointments at the school's Institute of Molecular Biology, which the foundation helped create in 2009.

Dr David Wilkinson, of the University's School of Psychology, helped lead the randomised, double - blinded, placebo - controlled trial.

Professor Robin Williams, from the School of Biological Sciences at Royal Holloway, said: «This discovery is vital in helping us to understand how polycystic kidney disease may be controlled and ultimately treated.

One of my professors, Michael Kremer, had just started conducting randomized controlled trials to learn what programs work to help kids stay in school and improve the education they receive.

Using data from blood and brain tissue, a team led by researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that they could gain insights into mechanisms that might help explain autism by analyzing the interplay between genes and chemical tags that control whether genes are used to make a protein, called epigenetic marks.

University of California San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine researchers have identified an enzyme that plays a key role in controlling these metabolic changes, suggesting we could tweak this pathway artificially to help our bodies burn fat more efficiently.

While he was still in graduate school, Zarnstorff and physicist Stewart Prager, a former PPPL director who was then his thesis advisor, discovered a phenomenon called the «bootstrap current» that helps to control the plasma in fusion experiments.

«Reducing smoking in movies probably helped to reduce rates of smoking in kids,» says study author James D. Sargent, MD, a professor of pediatrics at Dartmouth Medical School and the codirector of the Cancer Control Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center, both in Lebanon, N.H. «We are on the right track aiming at movies, yet half of movies still contain smoking and more work needs to be done.»