Sentences with phrase «if school staffing»

If our school staffing patterns provide a window into what we truly value, then data from the U.S. Department of Education (see pp. 40 - 41) suggest that we're much more invested in our non-instructional staff today than we were a half - century ago, though the recent record is mixed.

And if school staffing operates differently in different districts or screening assessments capture different information about applicants, then maybe we should expect results to vary across settings.

Not exact matches

Similarly, if teachers employed by the public are assigned to teach on parochial school premises, they tend to come under the administrative aegis of the parochial rather than the public school (not that they teach religion, but that they otherwise function to some degree as adjunct faculty, increasing with tax funds the staffing resources of the parochial school — a consideration apparently underlying two 1985 decisions but not well articulated by the Supreme Court)

If there are changes that you feel would be beneficial, are they possible right now and if not, what would it take to make those changes (for example, you mention the creation of recipes, but perhaps there is already someone on staff very capable of creating the recipes, but the school kitchen doesn't have the equipment or staffing hours to cook the foodIf there are changes that you feel would be beneficial, are they possible right now and if not, what would it take to make those changes (for example, you mention the creation of recipes, but perhaps there is already someone on staff very capable of creating the recipes, but the school kitchen doesn't have the equipment or staffing hours to cook the foodif not, what would it take to make those changes (for example, you mention the creation of recipes, but perhaps there is already someone on staff very capable of creating the recipes, but the school kitchen doesn't have the equipment or staffing hours to cook the food).

«There's a school of thought that says special elections can be costly if they're on their own day as opposed to a day when there are other elections going on,» he said, due to the costs of opening and staffing polling places.

It appears that education policies related to both compensation and working conditions must evolve further if school systems are to address the challenge of staffing math and science classrooms with teachers of strong academic caliber.

Frustrated over how much work it took to find substitute teachers, the superintendent of schools in Gulfport, Miss., asked the local manager of a temporary - staffing agency if she had ever considered getting into the business of supplying them.

While increasing numbers of school districts offer pay incentives to address math and science staff shortages, the authors conclude that «compensation and working conditions must evolve further if school systems are to address the challenge of staffing math and science classrooms with teachers of strong academic caliber.»

At the current free lunch reimbursement rate of $ 2.72 per meal, many school providers say it is tough, if not impossible, to deliver healthy nutritious food while covering all other food services costs, including staffing and equipment, while staying within budget.

But if school leaders adopt blended learning merely to increase out - of - district enrollments, increase course offerings, boost credit completion rates, lower staffing costs, or decrease the demands placed on teachers, then blended - learning technologies will become increasingly cheap, convenient, engaging, and easy to use without necessarily improving students» academic or life outcomes.

In addition, contracted security also means that you are guaranteed cover, even if an officer is absent or sick, as the school can call upon the private security firm to provide replacements and sort out any staffing issues.

If we can wrap our minds around this core proposition — that accountability is about outcomes, not inputs, practices, curriculum, staffing arrangements, budgets, uses of time, etc. — and the related proposition that families have the right to choose the schools they think best for their daughters and sons, we can save ourselves an awful lot of grief, not to mention many regulations and much bureaucracy.

Charter school staffing ratios vary widely, but even if we assume an average of 20 employees per school, that's more than 7,600 charter school staffers added in a single year — mostly non-union.

The DCPS funding formula does differentiate public funding based on the number of students at each grade level and in different special needs categories, including special education, English language learners, and those «at risk» for academic failure.38 DCPS would not disclose how or if it factors in parental donations when determining school budgets or allocations.39 However, it did report not having a policy to equitably redistribute parent donations or to prohibit these additional dollars from being put toward staffing.40

«If the recommendations of the STRB proposed a larger pay award to some teachers than to others, this may result in some schools seeing disproportionate increases in their staffing budgets.

If schools were to action a small increase in their staffing budgets beyond the amount specified, they could employ more staff, deploy other staff to share the workload and release many teachers from the constraints that we are all so accustomed to.

Those fears crescendoed when the school board voted one month before the May 16 election to support State Bill 808, which would have allowed school districts to close or reject charter schools if they could be considered a financial burden to the district, which has yet to decrease its staffing levels despite declining enrollment and is facing billions of dollars in unfunded pension liabilities and projected budget deficits.

It said Caputo - Pearl and his new team of officers are «hitting the ground running» on policy initiatives, which include «organizing members school - by - school, neighborhood - by - neighborhood, and area - by - area to a place where we can strike if we feel it is necessary» to achieve other gains, such as smaller classes, pay increases, additional school staffing and elimination of «gotcha» evaluations and «teacher jail.»

The battle lines have been drawn for a fight over funding in 2016, with the Department for Education (DfE) insisting schools can be more efficient and schools asserting that, with 80 per cent of their spend going on staffing, the curriculum is at risk if staffing is cut.

However, as the government agrees, there can be good practical reasons why two neighbouring schools might spend very different amounts of money, even if their pupil intake, staffing levels, and class sizes are similar.

Constraints on capacity and staffing mean some students are not advanced simply because schools do not have room for them, even if they are ready.

According to Back to the Staffing Surge, if non-teacher hiring had simply matched student growth, taxpayers would have saved more than $ 800 billion — enough to give a roughly $ 11,000 permanent raise to every public school teacher in America.

Rather than serve as a conduit for flowing district policy to school principals, who are then expected to act on those centralized decisions, Ms. Allen and her team in the 20,000 - student district help principals learn how to best exercise autonomy in their schools, from making staffing decisions to figuring out instructional priorities to determining if there's enough money in the school's budget to buy a van for after - school activities.

Staffing changes, however, can be made along the way, and Mr. de Blasio said that if schools did not show meaningful improvement, they might still be shut down.

This report concludes that teacher recruitment programs — traditionally dominant in the policy realm — will not solve the staffing problems of such schools if they do not also address the organizational sources of low teacher retention.

Its report includes a series of smaller recommendations for reviewing, if not repealing, specific administrative code that dictates everything from the staffing of custodians to the kinds of paper that schools may use.

If true for Illinois» students, wouldn't we want to consider a funding mechanism that encourages this staffing behavior in our schools?

Superintendent William R. Hite Jr. had been threatening to delay opening schools if the city did not come through with the $ 50 million, which he said was necessary to provide the minimum staffing needed for the basic safety of the district's 136,000 students.

A school can achieve excellent outcomes, but if it is doing so with unaffordable levels of staffing and small class sizes, the performance is unlikely to be sustained in the long term.

Schools are complaining that staffing agencies can levy thousands of pounds whenever a supply teacher is offered a permanent contract, even if the full recruitment process is followed...

The Commissioner of Education may, upon application by a board of education, waive the staffing requirements established pursuant to subsection a. of this section for up to one school year if the application demonstrates that the school was unable to find a certified school library media specialist and that an offer of employment was made to a certified school library media specialist.

For example, «if you're looking to move into Web or database development, volunteer [your] time... creating a website or database for schools, churches, non-profits,» and then highlight your role on your resume, suggests Mike McBrierty, chief operating officer of the technology staffing division of Eliassen Group, an IT recruiting firm based in Wakefield, Mass..