Sentences with phrase «improve schools and school systems»

The American Enterprise Institute hosted a special forum on Feb. 12, 2012, on Cage - Busting Leadership, the new book by Rick Hess that looks at the constraints education leaders face (and imagine) as they try to improve schools and school systems.

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They donated $ 25 million in the fight against Ebola last year, and they gave $ 100 million worth of Facebook shares toward improving a New Jersey public - school system.

Many of the highest return infrastructure investments — such as improving roads, repairing 60,000 structurally deficient bridges, upgrading schools or modernising the air traffic control system — do not generate a commercial return and so are excluded from his plan.

It also provides money to improve school security, strengthens the system of background checks on gun buyers, and provides some funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct research on gun violence.

Schools will improve if the system allows competition and closes schools that parents do not Schools will improve if the system allows competition and closes schools that parents do not schools that parents do not choose.

Boosted Fuel Efficiency Standards Coordinated International Response to Financial Crisis Passed Mini Stimuli Began Asia «Pivot Increased Support for Veterans Tightened Sanctions on Iran Created Conditions to Begin Closing Dirtiest Power Plants Passed Credit Card Reforms Eliminated Catch - 22 in Pay Equality Laws Improved Food Safety System Expanded National Service Expanded Wilderness and Watershed Protection Gave the FDA Power to Regulate Tobacco Pushed Federal Agencies to Be Green Leaders Let Space Shuttle Die and Killed Planned Moon Mission Improved School Nutrition Expanded Hate Crimes Protections Brokered Agreement for Speedy Compensation to Victims of Gulf Oil Spill Pushed Broadband Coverage Expanded Health Coverage for Children Helped South Sudan Declare Independence Killed the F - 22

Our players have been schooled to play a certain way, we need a manager with the same ethos, to carry on and improve on our system.

The study noted that the request by the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) to request inclusion of spirit / cheerleading in the High School Reporting Information Online (RIO), an Internet - based high school sports injury surveillance system, the NFHS Spirit Rules Book, a valuable resource for high school coaches updated annually, and the Cheerleading Safety Manual and Spirit Safety Certifications for coaches offered by the Association of Cheerleading Coaches and Administrators in collaboration with the NFHS were all «positive steps... to improve cheerleading safety.&School Associations (NFHS) to request inclusion of spirit / cheerleading in the High School Reporting Information Online (RIO), an Internet - based high school sports injury surveillance system, the NFHS Spirit Rules Book, a valuable resource for high school coaches updated annually, and the Cheerleading Safety Manual and Spirit Safety Certifications for coaches offered by the Association of Cheerleading Coaches and Administrators in collaboration with the NFHS were all «positive steps... to improve cheerleading safety.&School Reporting Information Online (RIO), an Internet - based high school sports injury surveillance system, the NFHS Spirit Rules Book, a valuable resource for high school coaches updated annually, and the Cheerleading Safety Manual and Spirit Safety Certifications for coaches offered by the Association of Cheerleading Coaches and Administrators in collaboration with the NFHS were all «positive steps... to improve cheerleading safety.&school sports injury surveillance system, the NFHS Spirit Rules Book, a valuable resource for high school coaches updated annually, and the Cheerleading Safety Manual and Spirit Safety Certifications for coaches offered by the Association of Cheerleading Coaches and Administrators in collaboration with the NFHS were all «positive steps... to improve cheerleading safety.&school coaches updated annually, and the Cheerleading Safety Manual and Spirit Safety Certifications for coaches offered by the Association of Cheerleading Coaches and Administrators in collaboration with the NFHS were all «positive steps... to improve cheerleading safety.»

And Dr Jonathan Scourfield at the Cardiff School of Social Sciences is undertaking a feasibility study for a randomised controlled trial of a training intervention to improve the engagement of fathers in the child protection system.

And there are also many, many things we could be doing to encourage children's acceptance of healthier school meals: imposing meaningful restrictions on children's junk food advertising; requiring food education in schools — not just nutrition education, but offering kids a real understanding of our food system, and overtly inoculating them against the allure of hyper - processed and fast food; teaching all children basic cooking skills; getting more gardens into schools; encouraging restaurants to ditch the standard breaded - and - fried children's menu; imposing taxes on soda (and even junk food); improving food access; and so much moAnd there are also many, many things we could be doing to encourage children's acceptance of healthier school meals: imposing meaningful restrictions on children's junk food advertising; requiring food education in schools — not just nutrition education, but offering kids a real understanding of our food system, and overtly inoculating them against the allure of hyper - processed and fast food; teaching all children basic cooking skills; getting more gardens into schools; encouraging restaurants to ditch the standard breaded - and - fried children's menu; imposing taxes on soda (and even junk food); improving food access; and so much moand overtly inoculating them against the allure of hyper - processed and fast food; teaching all children basic cooking skills; getting more gardens into schools; encouraging restaurants to ditch the standard breaded - and - fried children's menu; imposing taxes on soda (and even junk food); improving food access; and so much moand fast food; teaching all children basic cooking skills; getting more gardens into schools; encouraging restaurants to ditch the standard breaded - and - fried children's menu; imposing taxes on soda (and even junk food); improving food access; and so much moand - fried children's menu; imposing taxes on soda (and even junk food); improving food access; and so much moand even junk food); improving food access; and so much moand so much more.

If you really want to improve school meals, here are 10 effective ways to support the hard - working school nutrition HEROES who are reshaping local and national food systems, teaching kids about where food comes from, and feeding millions of children their best meals of the day — every day — in thousands of schools across our country.

The D.C. School Food Project's mission is to support and accelerate the school system's progress toward ensuring quality, improving access, and inspiring demand for healthy food in and out of schools in our nation's caSchool Food Project's mission is to support and accelerate the school system's progress toward ensuring quality, improving access, and inspiring demand for healthy food in and out of schools in our nation's caschool system's progress toward ensuring quality, improving access, and inspiring demand for healthy food in and out of schools in our nation's capital.

Cherokee Nation has developed parent - and caregiver - driven action teams that seek to improve, coordinate, and collaborate with child - serving systems, such as schools and clinics.

A reverse 911 system proposed in Glen Ellyn could alert residents during storms and freight collisions and perhaps improve response time if there was a threat of violence at a local school, local officials say.

«Senator Marcellino and the members of the education committee will seek information about what is being done to fix underperforming schools and other specific plans to improve and strengthen the city school system so that the state's examination of mayoral control is as comprehensive as possible.»

This year, we are for the first time asking how we can successfully address and fix a broken education bureaucracy that has relegated tens of thousands of New York's children to failing schools every year and how to improve the overall performance of our education system.»

Cami Anderson, the head of the Newark, N.J. school system, has received national recognition for her efforts to improve schools there and is also considered a contender.

To improve mobility and traffic patterns, the project will include: · Improved access to Woodbury Common Premium Outlets · Replacing the Route 32 bridge over Route 17, which will include standard Interstate height clearance over Route 17 · Reconstruction and expansion of Park and Ride facilities which will include a bus stop and solar - powered bus station to promote public transit · Reconfiguring the Route 17, Exit 131 eastbound ramp leading to the Thruway · A new interconnected and adaptive traffic signal system along Route 32 to minimize delays and enhance access to local businesses and schools · Intelligent Transportation Systems to adapt to changing traffic conditions and optimize signal responses

Critics have carped that the Bloomberg - led system fails to give parents sufficient voice — whatever that means — but the current arrangement is a night - and - day improvement over the old Board of Education, which was not only less accountable to the public, but failed at its most basic mission: improving our schools and teaching our kids.

«By investing in our education system and providing free school meals for every primary school child, we will remove the stigma attached to free school meals, and improve health and attainment for all children.»

The new libraries have already been opened for use in the respective schools with facilities such as new furniture, books, computer systems and internet facilities to improve the learning experience of the students, as well as solar powered inverters for consistent power.

The version of Clinton's stump speech that she delivered at Cohoes High School last night was touched with references for the regional and state audience — including a promise to work to improve water infrastructure so that communities like Hoosick Falls have systems that are «clean and pure.»

Larson, whose brother is U.S. Rep. John B. Larson, said he would focus on growing jobs and improving the public school system, two issues that he said are linked.

Liu says the system used to decide school closings «leaves teachers and students confused about what they need to improve.»

Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown said, «By providing tax credits that support scholarships, after school programs, and teachers that buy supplies for their classrooms, we can make a significant investment in our school system — and one that leads to an improved learning environment for our students.

The current secretary of state for education, Nicky Morgan, has spoken recently of her commitment to the «self - improving, school - led system», characterised by bottom - up innovations coming from «networks of schools and teachers collaborating with one another to drive up standards».

We'll learn how she plans to act to improve relationships, mind - sets, build trust and enforce change in the city school system.

He described the expanded after school programs as, together with universal pre-K and the community schools program, part of his efforts at broadly improving the school system.

Voters were also torn on whether the union was playing a positive or negative role in improving the school system, with 47 percent in favor and 39 percent opposed.

Here in the Ctiy of Buffalo this year a report from the Council on Great City Schools on Improving the Academic Achievement of English Language Learners in the Buffalo Public Schools System cited that only 21 % of these students graduate from high school and the academic achievement programs ignored them as a group as though they don't exist with as many as 100 never recieving their mandated language instruction.

Donohue pointed out that eliminating 400 beds in the mental health system, turning violent youth over to non existent programs in New York City, shortchanging localities and some hocus - pocus with the school funding formula will not improve the quality of life for all New Yorkers.

«A teacher evaluation system that provides a mechanism for all teachers to improve is critical for our schools and our students,» he said.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The White House on Sunday pledged to help states pay for firearms training for teachers and reiterated its call to improve the background check system as part of a new plan to prevent school shootings.

Developing a new teacher evaluation system, one of ten recommendations brought forth by StudentsFirstNY in the report, could improve the number and distribution of quality teachers in New York City schools.

Labour have accused the government of ripping up a «world class system», which they say channelled money directly to schools to fund quality coaching and improved planning.

Here's what we do know: Syracuse and the surrounding area did get some help in fixing roads, addressing discipline problems in city schools, job training for current openings at area manufacturers and improving city hall's computer system.

Earlier in the day, religious leaders and politicians welcomed new Schools Chancellor Cathie Black during the Convent Avenue Baptist Church's annual Martin Luther King Day service, urging her to improve the city's education system.

«I want more accountability for our school district, and I want systems that help us improve outcomes.

Site upgrades to the existing property include general site work to the structures of the house,; thermal, plumbing and electrical work; improved road access for school buses attending the site; and upgrades to the home's electrical systems.

She will advocate for strong local control of schools; improved teacher, student and parent accountability; and renewed pre-eminence for Iowa's educational system.»

«Since her first child entered the City's public school system ten years ago, Ann Kittredge has immersed herself in learning about the many different facets of educational policy and has dedicated a great deal of her time and effort to volunteer projects aimed at improving the education experience of our children,» Borough President Katz said.

Cuomo noted the effort to create an objective evaluation system that could be used to improve faculty and schools statewide as well as for layoffs is being watched closely by unions representing other types of workers.

Transforming failing schools, reforming tenure, expediting removal of underperforming teachers, providing performance bonuses, adding wraparound services to create Community Schools and reducing testing, are all reforms that have the potential to dramatically improve our schools, reforming tenure, expediting removal of underperforming teachers, providing performance bonuses, adding wraparound services to create Community Schools and reducing testing, are all reforms that have the potential to dramatically improve our Schools and reducing testing, are all reforms that have the potential to dramatically improve our system.

A new report by the Foundation for Education Reform and Accountability (FERA) argues that Governor Andrew Cuomo can use public school choice to significantly improve New York's public education system.

First introduced under Labour and then extended under the Coalition, the «50 % cap» on religious selection in free schools was seen as a significant, though not sufficient, step towards improving integration and inclusion in what has long been a segregated education system.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew said, «A new teacher evaluation system that provides a mechanism for teachers to improve is critical for our schools and our kids.

«Tweed's measurement system depends almost completely on standardized tests, and its «engagement» process does little or nothing to help struggling schools improve.

Those new initiatives range from fighting a fresh war on cancer and developing cleaner energy and transportation systems to doubling spending on competitive agricultural research and improving the computer literacy of U.S. school children.

«The treatment of multiple myeloma has improved significantly in recent years with the introduction of therapies such as proteasome inhibitors [which interfere with tumor cells» protein - disposal system] and potent immuno - modulatory agents,» said the paper's senior author and lead investigator, Paul Richardson, MD, clinical program leader and director of clinical research at Dana - Farber's Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center, and the R.J. Corman professor at Harvard Medical School.

The use of simulation techniques in medical education, such as lifelike mannequins and computer systems, results in improved patient care, better outcomes and other benefits, according to a study led by a Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine researcher.