Sentences with phrase «introduced last school year»

New changes to the tenure - granting process were introduced last school year.

Not exact matches

In April of 2016, the House of Representatives introduced a bill that would scale back the number of free meals offered at schools in the U.S.. However, poverty has not reduced the last number of years.

Last year, Republicans pushed to introduce a bill that could have stopped thousands of schools from offering free lunch to all public school students.

WASHINGTON — The Agriculture Department says 524 schools — out of about 100,000 — have dropped out of the federally subsidized national school lunch program since the government introduced new standards for healthier foods last year.

Bills to ensure school districts do not lose money have been introduced in the state Senate and Assembly, but they did not get out of committees last year.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats surveyed 1,630 schools in Wales to seek their views and experiences so far in implementing the grant that was introduced last year.

A measure introduced late last night by Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan would extend mayoral control of New York City schools for one year.

At present schools can receive # 488 for each pupil who is eligible for free school meals, under a measure introduced by the coalition government last year.

State officials have argued that it was important to introduce the tests in the last school year.

Commenting on the primary school performance tables released today by the DfE, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «The NASUWT has consistently highlighted to Government the serious problems with the reforms to primary assessment, particularly the impossibility of comparing data for last year with previous years due to changes introduced to the testing system.

The program, introduced in November of last year, created school resource centers for families that remain open past the regular school day.

A bill providing for universal background checks on gun purchases, that was introduced following the Newtown School Shooting, failed to pass the Senate last year.

The President continued, «The Free Senior High School Policy, introduced for the first time by my Government in September last year, has put ninety thousand (90,000) more students into Senior High School in 2017, than in 2016.

HGSE Grads Talk About Why Today's Kids Need Full - Service Education Last year, when Maryland Congressman Steny Hoyer introduced landmark legislation to provide funding for full - service community schools, he became part of a nationwide movement aimed at making children's school days longer, more numerous, and filled with services once provided solely through other industries.

The National Endowment for the Humanities last week announced a $ 66.1 - million grants program for the coming year that will not only extend the agency's summer institutes for teachers (see Education Week, Aug. 24, 1983), but will also introduce summer programs for secondary - school principals and students.

Fitzroy High School Principal Pauline Rice introduced the program last year.

Another point in the support of teachers: Primary school teachers are now implementing new curriculum in all areas which have been introduced over the last 4 years (ACARA).

Further, Hiebert said that the unique words introduced at the beginning of grade one in 2007 are equivalent to the type of words children were introduced to in their last units of the school year in 1962.

JS: Last year 36 states and Congress introduced private - school choice bills, including 18 for education savings accounts.

«Last summer's results showed thousands more students taking GCSEs in arts or music subjects compared to the previous year and the percentage of pupils in state - funded school with at least one arts GCSE has increased since the EBacc was introduced.

Over the last few years, hundreds of school districts have introduced new programs designed to help struggling adolescent readers.

Last year, NAESP endorsed the SAFE KIDS Act (S. 1788) introduced by Senator Daines (R - MT) and Senator Blumenthal (D - CT), which would place greater controls over third party entities that work with schools and consequently have access to personally identifiable and other student data.

A bill passed introduced last year by Rep. William Brawley (R - Mecklenburg) would allow two communities outside Charlotte to create a system of separate public charter schools for their residents.

Chris Keates, general secretary, added: «New exam syllabuses have already been introduced for several subjects in the last two years and the prospect of further change will cause massive turbulence for schools and pupils.»

But as a result of changes introduced last year, the decision on the specific pay of individual teachers is intended to be left to the schools themselves.

The new legislation, introduced by Republican Sen. Mark Wyland of Escondido but likely to enjoy the support of many Democrats, could signal a showdown with Gov. Jerry Brown, who vetoed similar legislation last year because it infringed on a key premise of his Local Control Funding Formula — allowing local educational agencies the bulk of authority over school spending decisions.

Last year, new high school equivalency exams were introduced nationwide in an effort to update the decade - old General Educational Development (GED) test and align it with new high school standards, known as the Common Core, adopted by a majority of states.

Higgins Middle School introduced the new standards for just one semester last year before returning to the old in preparation for the state test.

A spokesman for the Department for Education said the free schools were all inspected under Ofsted's new «tougher» inspection framework, introduced in September last year.

Introduced last year, the index takes all scores from all students in a school (and district) over a three year period and turns it into a single number.

I hope you continue to add the ideas you mentioned, they seem like a perfect addition to our graphic organizers that we introduced last year school - wide.

At the same time, a bill introduced last year would allow two communities outside Charlotte to create a system of separate public charter schools for their residents.

One school group, The King Edward VI Foundation in Birmingham, which runs five grammars in the city, introduced a similar admissions system in September last year.

, a bill introduced last year would allow two communities outside Charlotte to create a system of separate public charter schools for their residents.

Theresa May has been a long - standing supporter of «fairer funding» for schools, and welcomed an announcement last year that a national funding formula would be introduced.

Gamers without a doubt both are into the new school gaming and the old school properties that they have been introduced to over the last 10 years.