Sentences with phrase «issues confronting school»

It also means that principal supervisors assist with the full spectrum of issues confronting school leaders.

The lawyers of the firm have more collective experience dealing with the legal issues confronting school districts than any other firm in the State and presently provide legal advice to more than two - thirds of the State's public school districts.

One of the biggest issues confronting schools today is how to provide continuous, high - quality professional development to teachers and staff.

Not exact matches

The town hall, moderated by Jake Tapper, gave survivors and family of the murdered victims the chance to confront lawmakers on the issue of school safety, gun control, and mental health.

It seems clear on the face of it that both of these first two issues do genuinely confront North American theological schooling today.

It is unlikely that the basic issues raised in theological schooling by the pluralism of pluralisms that confronts it will be addressed at their root if the end of theological schooling is defined in so essentialist or formalist a way.

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Confronted with a long - running food fight over whether to serve children flavored milk — chocolate, strawberry, banana, vanilla — in homes and in schools, parents may instinctively want to duck the issue.

But as State House Reporter Zack Fink explains, there is still no resolution to one of the biggest issues confronting the city — mayoral control of schools, set to expire this month.

No issue better crystallizes the unwillingness of progressive politicians in New York to confront religious bigotry squarely than the ongoing legal battle over the Department of Education's policy barring religious congregations from renting space in schools.

``... there is evidence there is a slight increase in achievement in these schools in the short term, but the long - term effects lead to no differences... within a year or so the «different» school becomes just another school, with all the usual issues that confront all schools.»

Her research demonstrates that in order to confront issues of race, a school needs a comprehensive model that addresses race in the curriculum, pedagogy, school culture, and practices.

Like the higher - education group, the K - 12 forum will meet periodically and will draft three to four reports a year on the issues confronting the nation's schools, said Robert B. Schwartz, Pew's program director for education.

Five years after forming its influential Higher Education Roundtable, the Pew Charitable Trusts this month announced that it would bring together some of the biggest names in precollegiate education to hash out the issues confronting primary and secondary schools.

Parents in Detroit confronted more barriers to choice than those in any other city in our sample: they cite safety issues, lack of transportation, and lack of information as serious barriers to finding a good school.

As an Urban Scholar, Reckman feels more motivated to focus on his studies and the issues confronting urban schools.

In a big way, solving the current education crisis means confronting issues in urban schools.

«I believe many schools avoid Protective Behaviours and don't want to confront the issues,» Gorton says.

He has represented clients before the Commissioner of Education, Public Employment Relations Commission and the courts in a variety of matters including tenure, seniority, pensions, special education, grievances, employee benefits and the myriad of other issues which confront school districts and administrators.

Admittedly, the critical pedagogues have squarely confronted two of the most enduring issues surrounding the work of education: 1) To what extent should the mission of public schools be focused on character development, societal reform, and other such affective goals, as opposed to cognitive development and academic preparation?

Says education leader and advocate Jonathan Kozal: «The Education Digest continues to be of tremendous value... balanced, reliable, and consistently on top of the hard issues that confront us in schools.»

In these roles, she leads and grows a national network of charter school attorneys known as «The Alliance of Public Charter School Attorneys»; provides technical assistance and training to charter school operators, authorizers, attorneys and advocates seeking to improve school - level civil rights policies and practices; addresses fiscal equity and labor issues confronting charter schools; provides litigation and strategic assistance to state partners considering litigation; and supports charter school advocates and operators seeking to improve their regulatory and authorizing environschool attorneys known as «The Alliance of Public Charter School Attorneys»; provides technical assistance and training to charter school operators, authorizers, attorneys and advocates seeking to improve school - level civil rights policies and practices; addresses fiscal equity and labor issues confronting charter schools; provides litigation and strategic assistance to state partners considering litigation; and supports charter school advocates and operators seeking to improve their regulatory and authorizing environSchool Attorneys»; provides technical assistance and training to charter school operators, authorizers, attorneys and advocates seeking to improve school - level civil rights policies and practices; addresses fiscal equity and labor issues confronting charter schools; provides litigation and strategic assistance to state partners considering litigation; and supports charter school advocates and operators seeking to improve their regulatory and authorizing environschool operators, authorizers, attorneys and advocates seeking to improve school - level civil rights policies and practices; addresses fiscal equity and labor issues confronting charter schools; provides litigation and strategic assistance to state partners considering litigation; and supports charter school advocates and operators seeking to improve their regulatory and authorizing environschool - level civil rights policies and practices; addresses fiscal equity and labor issues confronting charter schools; provides litigation and strategic assistance to state partners considering litigation; and supports charter school advocates and operators seeking to improve their regulatory and authorizing environschool advocates and operators seeking to improve their regulatory and authorizing environments.

Aftershock Glenn Cook Fallout from divisive election leaves schools confronting a host of issues.

Once predominantly white and affluent suburban school systems, for example, are increasingly confronted with a host of demographic issues formerly associated primarily with urban districts.

This time, Alliance Districts are losing direct access to the very experts and services they need to improve academic achievement in districts that are confronting the greatest impact from language barriers, diverse populations and school climate issues.

Founding members of Parents Across America (PAA) also spoke about the issues confronting their local schools, which reflect larger challenges nationwide.

The report, issued earlier this spring by the federal Institute of Education Sciences, provides little insight into the social - political context that the participating school districts confronted in bringing the evaluation systems forward.

Individual teachers must make the important effort to break the silence and confront these issues in the school.

Envision's Community Apprentice competition for schools aims to help develop skills and confront issues

Furthermore, despite Duncan's letter, it appears that their myopic outlook focuses primarily on teaching and data again and not on a host of other serious issues confronting children in poor schools today.

They say their school environments allow them to work out many of the issues of race they will confront them later in the larger society — even when those issues are complicated.

Wednesday's letter opens by noting that the school is in regular contact with the Louisiana Department of Education and the school board's own attorneys to ensure compliance with state charter law, then goes on to confront the admissions issue directly:

There are other issues in the offing which admonish us of the difficulties and complexities that confront states in the duty of administering their local school systems.

States must now turn their plans into reality, and that means partnering with districts and schools to confront issues of access, professional development, and alignment of pathways across K - 12 and postsecondary education.

«We thought it strange that the world's governments, churches, mosques and schools are all confronting the issue of Islamist fervor, but the world's artists aren't touching it,» says George Passmore.

Children are encouraged to talk to school counselors and sometimes even professional therapists if there are some deep - rooted issues to confront.

Many Aboriginal students (and therefore schools) are confronted with complex mental health issues.

But schools still regularly confront the issues Elias et al. lay out, conveniently divided into two categories: attitudinal roadblocks and logistical roadblocks.

Boys Issues Looking at the evidence which confronts us of so many young men attempting suicide, being suspended from school, in trouble on the streets and struggling to achieve at school, any sensible person would have to conclude that young males are in considerable difficulties.