Sentences with phrase «individual school control»

Yet, district officials continue to ask whether they should require schools to comply with their centralized decisions and mandates, or let an individual school control its own fate.

Not exact matches

The National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) announced recently that more than one million coaches and other individuals has taken the online course it developed with the help of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Steiner agreed but set four conditions, each of which went against common practice of the day: 1) that the school be open to all children; 2) that it be coeducational; 3) that it be a unified twelve - year school; 4) that the teachers, those individuals actually in contact with the children, have primary control of the school, with minimum interference from the state or from economic sources.

This may appear to be a cheaper method of dealing with a food service provider, but in fact the school district would have much less control over the individual meal items Aramark is serving.

From these statements three principles emerge about self - administration: Schools must be free of state control as part of a free cultural life, teachers must be centrally involved in the running of the school and in decision making, and the school should be organized along republican principles in which teachers are equal but delegate specific responsibilities to individuals and committees.

Later this month the Republican - dominated U.S. House likely will approve a cost - cutting bill that would dismantle the 48 - year - old National School Lunch Program, giving control of school - based feeding programs to individual sSchool Lunch Program, giving control of school - based feeding programs to individual sschool - based feeding programs to individual states.

How does a capitalist government focus on these when it brings to direct control such schools in the hands of private and profit oriented individuals?».

More important, it would also give individual school districts local control over the implementation.

There's procurement reform, mayoral control of New York City Schools, and of course each conference's individual priorities.

«Despite having good treatments available, current reports suggest that fewer than half of individuals who need therapy are actually getting appropriate HIV medicine to control their virus, leading to more transmission of disease,» says lead study author Maunank Shah, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

«Previous efforts to create sequential shape changing components involved placing multiple heaters at specific regions in a component and then controlling the on - and - off time of individual heaters,» explained Jerry Qi, a professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech.

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The two - year study, including 1,000 villages and approximately 650,000 individuals, aims to determine whether combining school - and community - based deworming is more effective at controlling and eliminating intestinal worms called soil - transmitted helminths than school - based deworming.

«In a randomized controlled trial we have demonstrated that healthy individuals consuming reclaimed wastewater - irrigated produce excreted carbamazepine and its metabolites in their urine, while subjects consuming fresh water - irrigated produce excreted undetectable or significantly lower levels of carbamazepine,» said Prof. Ora Paltiel, Director of the Hebrew University - Hadassah Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, who led the research.

It goes beyond gun control and keeping guns off our school campuses — if these individuals are still mentally unstable they'll release their anger and hatred in other venues.

These systems vary greatly in the degree of budgetary control possessed by individual school principals.

In a similar vein, middle - class and more - educated parents tend to shape Christian schools toward less tension with the outside world, greater emphasis on academic excellence, less rigid social control of students, greater room for individual creativity and expression, and less denominationally distinctive ways of integrating religion into school life.

All three effect estimates — treatment vs. control, effect of voucher use, and impact of private schooling — are provided in the longer version of this article (see «Summary of the OSP Evaluation» at www.educationnext.org), so that individual readers can view those outcomes that are most relevant to their considerations.

Set up visitors» access control systems around all entrances to a school, so that every individual is checked and identified before they are allowed into the establishment.

RV: In one of the reports from this study (Johnson & Sullivan, 2016), the researchers write «the challenge for schools is to enact polices that do not aim simply to control students but rather aim to treat students with respect and enable them to develop as individuals...» (Johnson., Sullivan 2016).

As regular readers know, I'm a big proponent of individual - level growth measures because they can largely control for factors that schools can not influence (prior student achievement, the challenges of poverty, etc.).

Cultural or regional particularities do not come from outside, they are created by the people and are therefore in the first place dependent on the identity (individual and collective) of people, which's main state controlled part of creation takes place in school.

It means agreeing to try out a new program and allowing individual students, classes, or even whole schools to be randomly assigned to either the experimental program or the control group (usually, the existing program).

For example, districts have provided money, but they have kept so much control over its use that individual schools have very little budgetary discretion.

Meier's is a radical local control argument, local down to the individual school.

The key points from each strand are highlighted as follows: Early Identification and support • Early identification of need: health and development review at 2/2.5 years • Support in early years from health professionals: greater capacity from health visiting services • Accessible and high quality early years provision: DfE and DfH joint policy statement on the early years; tickell review of EYFS; free entitlement of 15 hours for disadvantaged two year olds • A new approach to statutory assessment: education, health and care plan to replace statement • A more efficient statutory assessment process: DoH to improve the provision and timeliness of health advice; to reduce time limit for current statutory assessment process to 20 weeks Giving parent's control • Supporting families through the system: a continuation of early support resources • Clearer information for parents: local authorities to set out a local offer of support; slim down requirements on schools to publish SEN information • Giving parents more control over support and funding for their child: individual budget by 2014 for all those with EHC plan • A clear choice of school: parents will have rights to express a preference for a state - funded school • Short breaks for carers and children: a continuation in investment in short breaks • Mediation to resolve disagreements: use of mediation before a parent can register an appeal with the Tribunal

You can choose to have automated alerts to any suspicious online searches, providing you with full DfE compliance; and for multi-site schools you can now control individual school filtering policies from one central site.

Once through the school gates, access to the internal buildings can be controlled using access control systems, providing automated entry to authorised individuals and denying access to any unauthorised visitors.

Researchers at California State University, East Bay; the Buck Institute for Education; and the College of Marin analyzed data from 252 economics students at 11 high schools, while controlling for individual characteristics, such as verbal ability.

The regulation will strengthen and unify the safety and security of the information held by schools, replacing the Data Protection Act of 1998 which gives individuals control over what information is held on them by organisations.

They can't control who walks into their classroom, how prepared that individual is for school, if that person has had a hot meal, or even if that person has a home.

And while Microsoft's research is targeted to the bottom line ($ 8.6 billion is on cloud computing, the profit center of the future), IES spends almost nothing examining the most important aspect of schools: the decisions and actions that individual teachers control or make.

States can now focus most of their analysis on individual student progress over time — the fairest way to assess the value that schools add to student learning and the best way to disentangle school grades from demographics over which they have scant control.

Various fundamental reform proposals put forward since the publication in 1989 of Politics, Markets, and America's Schools by John Chubb and Terry Moe would replace regulatory compliance with student - performance standards, make schools» existence and staff members» jobs contingent on performance, give families choices among public schools, and transfer control of public funds from centralized bureaucracies to individual sSchools by John Chubb and Terry Moe would replace regulatory compliance with student - performance standards, make schools» existence and staff members» jobs contingent on performance, give families choices among public schools, and transfer control of public funds from centralized bureaucracies to individual sschools» existence and staff members» jobs contingent on performance, give families choices among public schools, and transfer control of public funds from centralized bureaucracies to individual sschools, and transfer control of public funds from centralized bureaucracies to individual schoolsschools.

So, just reiterating what Tham was saying - so we were looking at the influence the school can have when you control for those individual student characteristics, when we're looking at both cognitive and an emotional engagement.

While initially only office and administrative staff were trained in the use of lockdown systems, as the system developed, all members of staff are now able to control access in individual school buildings.

Following an existing literature on teacher and school value - added, this recent charter school research controls for student demographics and baseline academic achievement in order to estimate the effectiveness of individual schools.

Unlike most federal elementary and secondary education programs, most Title I funds are allocated to individual schools, although LEAs retain substantial discretion to control the use of a share of Title I grants at a central district level.

Using data from 252 economics students at 11 high schools and controlling for individual characteristics, most notably verbal ability, they found modest evidence that, in the aggregate, PBL increased learning of macroeconomics at the high school level as compared with traditional classes.

In addition, we also control for whether the individual student had been retained in a grade, whether the student had ever been retained, and whether the student attends a charter school (which in Florida are more likely than traditional public schools to have K — 8 configurations).

While various agencies and individuals were fighting for control over the D.C. school system, market forces slipped in through the back door.

In testing whether adolescents attending schools with a strong civic climate were more likely to envision themselves as active citizens, I control for differences in a wide variety of individual and contextual factors that could also affect anticipated engagement.

Unless assessments are sensitive to important differences in instructional content coverage, student achievement gaps can be misattributed to individual background factors that are not within schools» control.

letting teachers teach, treating each student as an unique individual, limiting standardized testing, banning those with profit motives from our schools, addressing poverty as a roadblock to learning, and maintaining local, community control of schools.

Using an individual panel data set to control for student fixed effects, we estimate the impact of charter schools on students in charter schools and in nearby traditional public schools.

In response to the publication by head teachers of the moderation reports, a spokeswoman for the AQA exam board said: «Ofqual found that while individual schools marked their controlled assessment work accurately according to the marking criteria, the national picture showed that some marking had been optimistic.

Even still, school districts within an individual state often offer key differences from their neighboring counterparts as local control also plays a critical role in shaping school policy and implementing educational programs.

The one - year Idaho School Finance fellowship will prepare an individual for planning, implementing, managing and controlling all of the financial - related activities of a charter public school in School Finance fellowship will prepare an individual for planning, implementing, managing and controlling all of the financial - related activities of a charter public school in school in Idaho.

A few high - rated public schools run by the local board also participated for the first time but dropped out after the first round, returning to a selection process controlled by individual principals.

In a 1941 ruling in Chance v. Mississippi State Textbook Rating & Purchasing Board, the Mississippi Supreme Court held that loaning public textbooks to private school pupils does not violate Mississippi's Blaine Amendment because «the books belong to, and are controlled by, the state; they are merely loaned to the individual pupil therein designated.