Sentences with phrase «hurdle for schools»

Many of these issues can be deemed as «societal issues» which can be a nearly impossible hurdle for schools to overcome.

At the same time, the adoption of chronic absence as an indicator can present a hurdle for schools, because it requires daily data collection and many data collectors.

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To learn about the state of financing for women - owned ventures, I spoke with Vonda White, serial entrepreneur and founder of Camp Pillsbury, a Minnesota - based boarding school that White acquired after overcoming all the hurdles associated with securing business funding.

This statement comes from one of my ninth graders in response to yet another lecture of mine on how important it is for students to bring their literature books to class — a particular hurdle in my case because I teach at a military school....

The amount of anger I developed as a teen was too much for my family to handle, and the root of it is not what you would think, suffice to say society has some major hurdles that I personally was introduced to at school.

Ian Hatada was a Big Sky 110 - meter hurdles champion for Boise State in 1996, but the family connection to the school was not the biggest factor in Hatada's commitment.

Imagine that your first day on the job was in 1957 in Little Rock, where you're assigned to search lockers for bombs while busloads of white people prevent nine black children from walking through the doors of your high school, requiring the 101st Airborne to occupy the school for the rest of the year to prevent violence... and to burn your high hurdles at night to stay warm.

The aspiring screenwriter penned a thrilling finish to the second act of her high school track and field career, winning her second CIF State Track & Field Championships medal with a second - place finish in the 300 - meter hurdles and being named SportStars Female Athlete of the Year for spring.

This is a 16 week progression, and just the beginning for a high school athlete, as the athlete gets stronger we continually progress to higher boxes and hurdles starting over with the same 16 week progression as long as the athlete continues to show proficiency.

This is not to say that we should throw up our hands in defeat and accept highly processed foods for our kids, but it's important to remember that even the most well - meaning food services director may be facing insurmountable hurdles in the effort to improve school meals.

Fundraising can appear to be a tough first hurdle when trying to get salad bars for your school district.

Plans for two new state - funded Catholic schools with discriminatory admissions policies have cleared a further hurdle today, after Mr Justice Sales in the High Court dismissed a judicial review of Richmond - upon - Thames council's decision to approve them.

A major hurdle is how to pay for Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal for free tuition at state schools for families making under $ 125,000 annually.

Such personalised tuition is vital for all young people who face real hurdles throughout their school lives, and therefore this can only be a first step.

The $ 90.5 million conversion of the former Trico Products Corp. windshield wiper plant into a complex with a hotel, cooking school and apartments cleared one of its final hurdles on Wednesday when the Erie County Industrial Development Agency approved $ 3.6 million in tax breaks for the long - awaited project.

Questions during the Q&A portion of the press conference included his plans during his scheduled visit to Albany on March 4th, why he expects to convince legislators who he has not convinced, whether he's concerned that the middle school program will be pushed aside if there is a pre-K funding mechanism other than his proposed tax, where the money to fund the middle school program will come from, how he counters the argument that his tax proposal is unfair to cities that do not have a high earner tax base, how he will measure the success of the program absent additional standardized testing, whether he expects to meet with Governor Cuomo or Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos during his March 4th trip, what he would say to a parent whose child planned on attending one of the charter schools that his administration refused to allow, whether he doubts Governor Cuomo's commitment or ability to deliver on the funding the governor has promised, what are the major hurdles in trying to convince the state senate to approve his tax proposal, whether there's an absolute deadline for getting his tax proposal approved, whether he can promise parents pre-K spots should Governor Cuomo's proposal gointo effect, and why he has not met with Congressman Michael Grimm since taking office.

Another hurdle med schools face when trying to delve into sequencing technology is the immense cost for the sequencing machines, especially when many of them become obsolete in just a few years.

One of the biggest hurdles I encountered when we started packing lunches for field trips and school days was finding something to pack the lunches in.

«We've created a program that overcomes all those volunteer hurdles, such as taking time out of work, to ensure we've always got a mentor to share their story with the students and arm them for success when they leave school,» Harris said.

IAAS has developed a free service for schools that helps them bring an idea to market by removing some of the more difficult hurdles.

Along the way, Dr. Hurdle created an engaging math curriculum for a start - up school in Austin before moving to Costa Rica to maintain a recently - accredited IB school and run the mathematics department while analyzing a Montessori mathematics program transitioning into direct instruction.

School can be a daunting experience for many students without also adding the additional hurdle of learning in a language not your own.

It remains to be seen what these methods will be, but it is a possibility that the uncertainty caused by Brexit and the additional hurdles — like more stringent visa entry regimes - needed to be overcome could lead families to look elsewhere for private schooling, seeking countries that appear to be the easier and more reliable choice.

As part of a two - day national summit here on revitalizing native languages, three founders of immersion schools that are teaching children Cherokee, Ojibwe, and Native Hawaiian contended that some No Child Left Behind provisions present huge hurdles for language - immersion programs or schools and conflict with schooling rights spelled out in another federal law, the Native American Languages...

Having worked with more than 60 per cent of open and pre-open free schools, the New Schools Network's Delivery Programme — a comprehensive suite of free resources and paid - for services — can help groups overcome these hschools, the New Schools Network's Delivery Programme — a comprehensive suite of free resources and paid - for services — can help groups overcome these hSchools Network's Delivery Programme — a comprehensive suite of free resources and paid - for services — can help groups overcome these hurdles.

While open access supposedly equalizes students» access to education, according to a study by MIT education researcher Justin Reich and Harvard Graduate School of Education's John Hansen, even for online learning, the same socioeconomic hurdles exist.

• The «highly qualified teachers» mandate resulted in a vast paperwork - compliance exercise, while creating new hurdles for alternate route programs (like Teach For America) and charter schoofor alternate route programs (like Teach For America) and charter schooFor America) and charter schools.

The graduation rate is included in calculations by the federal government to determine if a high school, district or the state clears the performance hurdle set under the No Child Left Behind law, the sweeping education reform that imposes increasingly severe penalties for coming up short.

When I hear the appreciation in the voices of parents, or when I see teary - eyed parents bragging about our school, I know that the struggles, hurdles, obstacles, ridicule, and opposition we face are worth it for us to realize the change we're making in our students.

Another major hurdle in bringing vouchers to rural communities is that the public schools are more than just places for children to learn: they serve a critical social and economic function by serving as the primary employer of small communities, offering healthcare for children and adults alike and frequently offering food pantries, breakfast or lunch programs and night classes.

Chronic absence is especially challenging for students from low - income communities whose families face greater hurdles to getting to school and have fewer resources to make up for lost learning time.

The paper begins with an outline of the obstacles impeding the high school to college transition, which is rife with academic and non-academic hurdles for students and inefficiencies for local and state governments.

Fixing these items will take legislative action and they have an opportunity in 2018 to remove the final hurdles to creating a school performance reporting system that is easy for non-educators to understand, provides relevant data, and presents a useful snapshot of the overall health and effectiveness of individual schools.

Talk about jumping through hurdles for anyone (particularly families) who want to use this tool to figure out how a school is doing.

With a little reframing, roadblocks become hurdles, and the schools that we imagine for our communities can become reality.

Aren't there some fine lawyers who would, preferably with pro-bono work, support families who have children with disabilities, all kinds of disabilities, or children who have second language hurdles, or the really really poor children, to sue the charter operators and their rich donors for denying these students a slot in their elite charter schools?

The law has «erected hurdles» for school districts, «splitting school leaders over the repercussions from changes that can put less financially well - off districts at a disadvantage.»

Though Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, offered up $ 1.1 billion in new school aid, he attached strings that could kill the deal for allies of the teachers» unions in the Assembly: a much more rigorous teacher evaluation system to replace the current one, new hurdles for teachers on the path to tenure, and an expansion by 100 of the limit on the number of charter schools statewide.

At issue was a dispute over DRL (District Rules Language) that the charter school operators felt was unfair and unnecessarily caused more bureaucratic hurdles for renewal.

Two Orange County charter schools said they will make changes to their websites, and other campuses are reviewing their policies in light of a recently released report from the American Civil Liberties Union that claims hundreds of California charter schools create unfair hurdles for underprivileged students.

Political and other hurdles can get in the way of charter schools» growth and development, and we work hard to help clear the path for success.

Similarly, those who have struggled to successfully create effective structured English immersion programs and / or who believe that bilingualism is an important skill for schools to support will be able to develop and implement bilingual education programs without the onerous hurdle of having to get annual parental waivers.

For many Phoenix students, the 10th grade MCAS is a particularly significant hurdle: earning a passing score in both Math and English Language Arts are required to receive a Massachusetts high school diploma.

Public policy committee members have been discussing the legislative hurdles to creation of a school for highly gifted students and the impact of the various proposals.

The legislation also deals with the issue of land for academies and free schools, which has been recognised as a hurdle to the schemes.

How — and if — schools can overcome this hurdle will be a key measure of success for the Common Core.

However, for that to happen, textbook publishers, ebook reader manufacturers, and schools must first address some of the major hurdles that are making students wary of electronic books.

Life in the wilderness — exiled from civilization as a punishment for his violent behavior — had its own set of hurdles, but for fifteen - year - old Cole Matthews, it's returning home and facing high school that he's not sure he can handle.

Or maybe you've been out of school for some time now, but still can't seem to overcome the hurdle of your student loan debt.

Read on for a summary of the main points by Nate Gilbraith, the lead author, and Paulina Jaramillo, who directs the school's RenewElec Project, which works to identify and overcome hurdles to integrating renewable energy sources like wind and solar panels into electricity grids: