Sentences with phrase «how decisions about our schools»

«The Secretary of State must publish the minutes of regional schools commissioner board meetings and a register of interests, so the public can see how decisions about our schools are being made and why,» she said.

The secretary of state must publish the minutes of regional schools commissioner board meetings and a register of interests, so the public can see how decisions about our schools are being made and why.»

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«You can almost see it emerging in people's minds,» says Davis, «how they've made decisions and the way they were in high school, what that means about them and their connection to the opportunity.»

Nor is the problem that he went so far as to argue that the Court should «ignore» both the fact that the voucher program was initiated in response to a severe educational crisis in the Cleveland public schools and the fact that parental decisions about how to spend their vouchers were voluntary.

At bottom, changes in a school's concrete identity come by decisions it makes, deliberately or inadvertently, about three factors we noted in chapter 2 that distinguish schools from one another: Whether to construe what the Christian thing is all about in some one way, and if so, how; what sort of community a theological school ought to be; how best to go about understanding God.

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Drawing an emotional response from the audience, more than a dozen Chicago Public School parents voiced complaints at Wednesday's school board meeting over how the district questioned their children about their decision to not to take the Illinois Standards Achievement Test when it was administered earlier this School parents voiced complaints at Wednesday's school board meeting over how the district questioned their children about their decision to not to take the Illinois Standards Achievement Test when it was administered earlier this school board meeting over how the district questioned their children about their decision to not to take the Illinois Standards Achievement Test when it was administered earlier this month.

The federal government lays down the dietary guidelines, but decisions about what specific foods to serve and how they are prepared are made by local school food authorities.

School lunches must meet Federal nutrition requirements, but decisions about what specific foods to serve and how they are prepared are made by local school food authorSchool lunches must meet Federal nutrition requirements, but decisions about what specific foods to serve and how they are prepared are made by local school food authorschool food authorities.

«As always, you have to make decisions about how much you can afford to do in school aid and how much money you have to put aside for the potential impact of federal cuts in Medicaid and in health care,» Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle (D - Irondequoit) said last week.

Both legislative leaders said yesterday that her proposals are a template from which to re-start negotiations, although there is a school of thought — one particularly of concern to black and Latino leaders in the Bronx and Upper Manhattan — that Mann's lines will end up standing, since they allow the majorities in both the Senate and Assembly to punt on hard decisions about whose district to eliminate and how.

The attorney hired by the School Board to review the case has been debriefing members about their possible options, and the board could make a decision how to move forward this week.

During a meeting with The Buffalo News Editorial Board on Tuesday, Cuomo said that decisions about school turnaround plans and how teachers will be evaluated should be made locally.

«Many of the plans talk a lot about social - equity goals, but these goals are not translated into clearly specified objectives — and it's not at all clear how the goals are incorporated into decision - making,» says Kevin Manaugh, lead author of the paper and an assistant professor in McGill's Department of Geography and School of Environment.

According to Crawford - Brown and Ken Reckhow, a colleague at the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University, thinking about how a model might be used, and its overall utility, is a critical difference between a decision scientist and an environmental modeler.

For the study, Gabriella Hobbs, MD, and Nancy Keating, MD, MPH, of Harvard Medical School, and their colleagues surveyed 5284 patients with a new diagnosis of lung or colon cancer, and asked participants how they involved their families in decisions about their care.

I was interested how the brain processes the information about normative concepts in healthy people to extend our understanding of the neural basis of decision making in social conditions,» said study author Oksana Zinchenko, a PhD student at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow.

Central to this is our work to empower teachers to make more decisions about how their schools are run; ensure schools are funded more fairly; address workload concerns and de-clutter guidance so teachers have more time in the classroom to teach.

Paul E. Peterson talks with Anna Egalite of N.C. State about her new study looking at why some private schools do and others don't participate in North Carolina's means - tested voucher program and also at how families make the decision about whether or not to use a school voucher.

Clearly, if you want to make decisions about quality of teaching and the impact of school programs, you must examine not what children know on one occasion, like today, but how their knowledge and skills change over the course of their entire exposure to the teacher or the program.

This is just one example of how school leaders are forced into tough decisions every year about how, and what, subjects will be made available in each school.

Financial pressures force schools to make difficult decisions about how to allocate scarce resources, and field trips are increasingly seen as an unnecessary frill.

Beyond inflammatory rhetoric about teacher unions, pay - for - performance, and other hot - button school policies, we need to be thoughtful about how our decisions affect teachers — and, ultimately, our children.

District decisions about how to distribute Title I funds across their schools do not change the total district allocation.

She asked me how I had used data to make decisions about curriculum and instruction; she referenced techniques from Teach Like a Champion, Dr. Robert Marzano's «What Works in Schools» series, and Paul Tough's book about grit; and she quizzed me on formative and summative assessments, SMART goals, token economies, differentiated instruction and adaptive technology.

If they are to succeed in boosting that performance, they must be free to make essential decisions about how their schools will operate.

Figure 1b shows the changes in standardized test scores, across the full range of student performance, that can be attributed reasonably to teacher and school performance and to decisions about how the school allocates resources among students.

You make decisions about closing schools, in normal circumstances, with city hall, with the police and transportation department — as part of a team that is thinking about how the city functions.

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Most of the crucial decisions about how U.S. schools run and who teaches what to whom in which classrooms are still made in 14,000 semi-autonomous school districts, nearly all of them run by locally elected school boards, often with campaign dollars supplied by those with whom they negotiate collectively, and managed by professional superintendents, trained in colleges of education and socialized over the years into the prevailing culture of public education.

Converting to an academy will require important decisions about how the schools operates to be made.

My main recommendation, therefore, is to maintain the law's current annual testing requirements, while restoring to states virtually all decisions about the design of their accountability systems, including how schools and teachers are identified as under - performing and what should be done to improve their performance.

As an example of how ESR operates, it recommends that students and teachers make decisions together about classroom norms at the beginning of the school year and that teachers give early instruction in problem solving and decision making so the skills can be used and reinforced throughout the year.

Perhaps most schools across the country are making wise decisions about how to use personalized learning to enhance the educational experience, rather than squeeze all of the joy and inspiration out of it.

The new training aims to put teachers «at the forefront of knowledge for this important area» and will support schools in making effective decisions about how to manage incidents of sexting and when to refer them to external agencies like the police or social care.

How Dress Codes Make Things Worse for High School Girls Boston.com, 5/14/15» «They're old enough to engage in decisions about what the boundaries should be,» [Visiting Professor Helen] Haste said.

Leaders in the schools that we studied began their remarkable turnarounds by making tough calls — and many of those decisions were about how to use resources.

Once parents make the decision about where the $ 500 will be spent, the principal and teachers in that school or program decide how it will be spent.

To make accurate decisions about the quality of teaching and the impact of school programs, Willett and Singer urge policymakers to examine not what different classes of children know at each grade level, but how the knowledge and skills of specific groups change over time.

How can we make all these decisions about school scheduling without knowing what using that schedule from a consumer's point of view is like?

Only 46 per cent were involved in peer support programs and one - third said they had helped make decisions about how their school is run.

While administrators may not make the right decision every time, the more people know about how decisions are made, the less likely they are to second - guess school officials when flurries turn into drifts, or blizzards into dustings.

Decisions about how to measure student progress in K - 2 are made by local school districts and BOCES.

Cerf said decisions about how many students are allowed in a school are separate from the universal enrollment system.

This system would empower and motivate educators to make better, more cost - effective decisions about how to run their schools, ultimately leading to improved student performance.

«You have to wrestle with ideas about what it takes to» do school «and be academically successful and then you have to make concrete decisions about what and how to teach students to achieve academically.»

This will give the operators a free hand with regard to personnel decisions, and will challenge IPS to make tough calls about how it will handle educators who don't make the cut at the contract schools.

The standards are not curricula; they spell out the skills and knowledge students should have by grade, but decisions about how to teach those skills and what classroom materials to use are left to states and local school districts.

The committee uses CO ASCD's newsletter, blogs, and tweets to provide members with information about education legislation at the state and national levels, guidance on how to advocate for students and the profession, and ways to participate in decision - making at the school, district and state levels.

Q: How do we implement changes to give more flexibility to schools to make decisions about the education of their students, in partnership with their communities, parents, and students?