Sentences with phrase «imposed on school»

Up to now, the parent perspective has been almost entirely missing in the policy proposals being imposed on school districts across the nation.

Indeed, the cost study commissioned by CCJEF puts the number above $ 1.5 billion (and this, I believe, used 2004 numbers, did not account for the economic crisis, nor the additional mandates now imposed on school districts).

The charter school theory of action trades autonomy for accountability — allowing schools freedom from regulations imposed on school districts in exchange for meeting established performance goals.

Failing to comply with the Data Protection Act could result in large financial penalties being imposed on the school by the Information Commissioner, huge reputational damage and even prison sentences for those found culpable.

It is not something that can or should simply be imposed on any school in a vacuum,» they wrote.

This team, made up of representatives of the Legislature, local government, education and private industry, will conduct a rigorous and comprehensive review of mandates imposed on school districts and other local taxing districts to identify mandates that are ineffective, unnecessary, outdated and duplicative in order to develop the best and most cost - effective ways to deliver mandated programs and services.

And, as I learned in my investigation, items from private vendors may contain Chinese - processed chicken, up to 49 % of the total product, without violating the «Buy American» rule imposed on school districts.

HISD Food Services has voluntarily adopted for its a la carte foods the nutritional standards imposed on schools meeting the Healthier U.S. Schools Challenge.

Hopefully, future editions of CER's scorecard will take a closer look at the effect of the regulations that some STC laws impose on schools, as well as clean up some minor scoring issues [*].

The CEP's central thesis is that while exit exams may appear to be inexpensive, they actually create the need for new spending by imposing on schools the burden of educating students to pass the test.

The market - and choice - oriented policies, which were imposed on schools «in need of improvement,» have consumed resources and local administrative time but have small impacts and are not being seriously evaluated.

If these new tests could detect whether schools and educators were changing their practices in the ways desired by Common Core and if rewards and punishments could be imposed on schools and educators for their compliance with the new standards, then perhaps the empty words of standards could be transformed into a real change in the education system.

Other states have laws that protect parents» right to opt their children out or refuse high - stakes standardized testing and no federal financial penalties of any sort have been imposed on schools in those states as a result of these laws.

In an email to members, William Richardson, general secretary of the Headmasters» and Headmistresses» Conference (HMC), which represents 250 leading private schools, said: «Overall, we are concerned that there is, indeed, an attempt to impose on schools inspected by ISI aspects of the Ofsted inspection framework for maintained schools (and, perhaps, in time, the complete framework).

I wouldn't want to impose on all schools in a state or the nation a single, mechanistic system for evaluating teachers since that is likely to be a one size fits none solution.

«Gove frequently fought against Clegg's ludicrous whims being imposed on schools,» he added.

The central idea of the school - reform community, Perry said, is that improving public education will lead to an overall improvement in New Orleans social conditions, and that this goal justifies the radical changes they have imposed on schools here — firing teachers, closing schools, moving students every few years.

Specifically, instead of the rigid menu imposed on schools needing improvement, including punitive school closings, privatization, or other set policies imposed from above with no track record of success, solutions should be devised through stakeholder input from the ground up, including parents.

It's a societal problem imposed on schools, in effect increasing the likelihood of failure — or at best sporadic success — for most high poverty schools.

«Notably, in today's unanimous decision the Court does not rely on the Spending Clause, but instead holds that the government could directly impose on schools the requirement of military access.

Not exact matches

Gorsuch's commitments to interpreting the law as «the words on the paper say» and not over-criminalizing innocent conduct were on full display in a 2015 decision in which he used «plain old grade school grammar» to determine the legal penalties imposed on defendants accused of using a firearm «during and in relation to any crime of violence of drug trafficking crime.»

Last year, Ontario imposed a contract on public - school teachers that eliminated bankable sick days, while back in June, Treasury Board president Tony Clement vowed to fight federal employee absenteeism, which he said was costing taxpayers millions.

The law imposes new restrictions on firearm purchases and the possession of «bump stocks,» funds more school police officers and mental health services, broadens law enforcement's power to seize weapons, and allows certain staff members to carry guns in schools.

Connecticut expanded a ban on assault weapons, prohibited the sale of high - capacity ammunition magazines and imposed stricter background checks on gun purchases after 20 children and six educators were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown in 2012.

In regard to primary and secondary education, initiatives include imposing caps on class sizes; ensuring schools have the necessary support staff; funding full - day kindergarten and half - day junior kindergarten for vulnerable children; eliminating fees and fundraising for learning essentials, such as computers; phasing out private schools and bringing charter schools under the jurisdiction of school boards; and providing breakfast and lunch programs.

The University of Calgary's School of Public Policy released Fiscal Policy Trends Thursday morning which suggests the provincial debt will impose substantial burdens on future taxpayers.

Tariffs imposed on China would have the same effect as a tax on suppliers, increasing suppliers» costs and leading to higher prices, suppressed demand, lower production and decreased efficiency, said Roger Kashlak, a professor of international business at Loyola University Maryland's Sellinger School of Business.

Ravitch devotes much of her book to recounting how policy theorists and corporate executives imposed ineffective, top - down mandates on schools.

Yes, they will argue if given the opportunity, but the only time you see them become agitated is when religious people try to impose their beliefs on them via public works: government, schools, etc..

There are reports of OFSTED inspectors demanding that schools impose a weird agenda on children, teaching that it is possible for a boy to become a girl and vice versa, that sexual identity is not something specific, that all our knowledge of biology on this subject has been wrong.

The ban, imposed by U.S. District Court Judge Fred Biery, caught the attention of Gov. Rick Perry and state Attorney General Greg Abbott, who supported an emergency appeal filed by the Medina Valley Independent School District on Thursday.

At a certain point the disputes became so acrimonious that the Pope had to impose silence on the two schools, forbidding them to speak of each other.

Matters came to crisis point a year ago when the last government's Children, Schools & Family Bill sought to impose a statutory sex and relationship education (SRE) curriculum on all schools from the primary stage (currently SRE is only compulsory in secondary schools and the content can be determined by each school) and to remove the right of parents to withdraw their children from inappropriate SRE lessons from the ageSchools & Family Bill sought to impose a statutory sex and relationship education (SRE) curriculum on all schools from the primary stage (currently SRE is only compulsory in secondary schools and the content can be determined by each school) and to remove the right of parents to withdraw their children from inappropriate SRE lessons from the ageschools from the primary stage (currently SRE is only compulsory in secondary schools and the content can be determined by each school) and to remove the right of parents to withdraw their children from inappropriate SRE lessons from the ageschools and the content can be determined by each school) and to remove the right of parents to withdraw their children from inappropriate SRE lessons from the age of 15.

I am anti people that want to impose their beliefs on others through law and school curricula.

Schools were run «in a severe, regimented manner that imposed unreasonable and oppressive discipline on children and even on staff»...

One school system after another on which busing was imposed resegregated itself through white flight.

I said the christians want to impose their view on the rest of us — school curricula, displays on civic buildings, bells ringing for services, who can marry whom, who controls a woman's body, etc

This Lobby had brought about the closure of Faith - based Adoption agencies, aggravating the crisis in placing children for adoption, and was poised to put on the Statute Book laws which would have imposed its own opinions on Faith - based schools and anyone else who disagreed.

«displaying a cross or crucifix is not imposing ones beliefs on another» It sure is, and by doing it in a school you're telling the kids from families who don't believe that «we're smarter then you, we're trying to educate you, you must be wrong,» and by putting it in government buildings says the government supports THAT religion.

By that reasoning, shouldn't the tiny Atheist minority fund THEIR own schools rather than being allowed to impose their will on the majority?

A church - state conflict arises when government adopts a policy that has the effect of restricting freedom of conscience or of imposing on all a policy essentially based on the ethos of a particular religious tradition (example: a law outlawing contraception or mandating devotion to Mary in a public school).

And its not like Santorum wouldn't impose his Christian ideals on the nation and its public schools, like Creationism, for example.

[5] Pius XI made clear in his encyclical on education, «when the faithful demand Catholic schools for their children, they are not raising a question of party politics, but simply performing a religious duty which their conscience rigidly imposes upon them.»

Student plans are often association plans and the school does not have a legal basis to appeal Obama mandates that are imposed on these plans.

It has largely decided that it can not impose a single set of values on its public schools.

Even counseling failed to reconcile her to her foster parents» values; she ran away and eventually had to be committed to a state girls» school, though the only «crime» she had committed was running away from a life style imposed on her by the courts.

In terms of self - imposed industry regulation, the industry does not market regular kilojoule products to children under 12, has reformulated products to offer low and no - sugar varieties, has voluntarily displayed kilojoule information on the front of labels and has restricted sales of regular kilojoule soft drinks in schools.

My routine is filled with so many self - imposed rules (no going out on school nights, no eating past 8 pm, no staying up late on the weekend) that I feel like I'm smothering myself with monotony.

The Rebels have already self - imposed a one - year bowl ban, and if the NCAA adds on an additional year, Ole Miss» players would be free to transfer from the school without penalty.

When children run into trouble in school, either academically or in the realm of behavior, most schools respond by imposing more control on them, not less, further diminishing their fragile sense of autonomy.