Sentences with phrase «known as the community schools»

There is hereby created in the state treasury a special nonreverting fund to be known as the Community Schools Planning Fund, referred to in this section as «the Fund.»

Thursday's press conference was coordinated with a national effort to draw attention to the needs at traditional public schools, and pressure legislators to increase funding for providing those services — an approach known as the community schools model.

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«I knew I wanted to go to business school when... I experienced the strong community at Columbia as a member of the Columbia Business School Better Halves Club (while my wife attended Columbia's full - time MBA program).&school when... I experienced the strong community at Columbia as a member of the Columbia Business School Better Halves Club (while my wife attended Columbia's full - time MBA program).&School Better Halves Club (while my wife attended Columbia's full - time MBA program).»

Finally, in homes, schools, and community affairs a new emphasis should be placed on patriotism, no longer as exclusive loyalty to the sovereign nation, but as devotion to country as the organized agency of articulate relationship with all mankind.

Instead, our role as Christian leaders within the community can be to actively engage in conversations around education equity issues like accountability, state vision, and transparency and accessibility in reporting so parents and community leaders alike have the needed information to know how to best support strengthening local schools.

I know and appreciate that Fair Trade has done many worthwhile and wonderful things for coffee growing cooperative communities, including invaluable projects such as schools and clinics.

In addition to the full schedule of sessions on farm production, marketing, business, and finance, conference - goers will have multiple opportunities to learn from nationally - known leaders on topics encompassing current political, ethical, and social issues, such as fixing school food, GMOs (genetically modified organisms), and the fast - growing CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) movement.

Gabe Jennings was born inside a teacherage — a house connected to a school — in a community known as Forks of Salmon, in the wilderness of Northern California's Klamath National Forest.

Through a program known as Project Unify ®, Special Olympics assists schools in initiating Unified Sports and whole - school involvement activities, where general education and special education students create climates of inclusion, acceptance and respect on campuses and in communities.

I know one thing, the school district is as rigid as can be and it might be the case that changing our school lunch issues might have to be something that is done indirectly in our community and not directly through the school district itself.

«We can turn to her whenever we have questions about health issues affecting schools and communities at the national or state level and know she will provide well - researched data and medical opinions, as well as her own perspective.»

Healthy schools — also known as health - promoting schools — work with partners from the health and education sectors, and with those from the broader community, to support students to develop healthy habits that will last a lifetime.

«As a former New York City Police Officer, I know firsthand that the presence of gangs on the streets of New York have, and continue to, destroy communities, destroy schools, and destroy families,» Golden said.

«I had children in the schools, so I really knew my community and when I stepped up to say I want to fight for Hamburg, they knew I meant it,» Hochul said of her first political campaign for Hamburg Town Board as a young lawyer and activist.

As you know, we're into our second full year of the New Education Bargain, with an emphasis on community schools, parental engagement, teacher support - and her responses to the questions that the Board asked indicated that she would be someone that would be very supportive of all of the tenets of the New Education Bargain.»

As a school administrator, attorney, community activist and all around nice guy, Nader knows the needs of his community and will sparkle representing us in Albany!

He said,» It makes good sense to know that community based approach to school management is the best approach anywhere in the world as it is effective in the management of our schools»

Self - described «policy wonk» Laura Walls served one term as Gardiner town supervisor from 2000 to 2002 as well as several terms on the New Paltz School Board, and was long known in the community as co-owner of the municipal grantwriting firm Shingebiss Associates.

Perhaps as a response to community concerns on the issue, School Superintendent Seth Turner is expected to soon unveil a drug prevention program called «Know More.»

His scholarly contributions were known throughout the field and led directly to his appointment in 2015 as the W. K. Kellogg Associate Professor of Community Information at the University of Michigan School of Information.

«Temperature is widely recognized as a key environmental driver of reefs and temperature extremes are known to be one of the key stressors to coral reef communities around the world,» Ryan Lowe from the University of Western Australia Oceans Institute and School of Earth and Environment who led the research, said in a statement.

People tend to marry later in life than previous generations, so when they decide to settle down, they may no longer have access to the social communities of their younger years, such as college, universities, night - clubs, raves and evenings on the town with school friends.

The predominant feeling among the school and the surrounding community would be to discontinue the football program, as they no longer had the players to field a competitive team, and playing the games would only remind them of the tragedy week after week.

You don't have to be an aficionado of the art form known as stepping to find the crowd - pleasing appeal in this documentary about the female step team at an inner - city Baltimore charter school that becomes a safe haven for teenagers amid volatility in their families and community.

In his final chapter, Putnam recommends a variety of well - known school - based reforms, such as moving poor children into better schools, compensatory financing for schools in poor neighborhoods to enable them to attract the best teachers and counselors, more school - based extracurricular activities and social services, and more effort to engage the whole community in the education process.

For more than a decade, the school — known as escuela amistosa, or the «friendly school» — has been central to the tight - knit immigrant community.

«The school needs someone who knows the programs, the community, and students as well as I do,» Prall told Education World.

Bullying is no longer seen as the norm in the school or the community at large, and prevention has become the name of the game.

As a result, the School Board adopted the FCPS Portrait of a Graduate (PDF) in the fall of 2014, which outlines what the Fairfax community believes is important for graduates to know and be able to do when they leave FCPS.

Some of the schools that we went in and researched were described as what's commonly known in Australia as quite «challenging» sites, students with quite complex needs, and those schools really rejected deficit views of students and their communities.

That being said, if I do my job well, my hope is that I can leave DCPS as a district where students are achieving at high levels no matter their backgrounds, families are choosing DCPS schools because of the world - class education we provide, and parents and community members feel like they've contributed to DCPS» amazing successes.

IS 218, «home» to nearly 1,700 middle schoolers in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City, is what's known as a full - service community school.

I didn't know that Horace Mann, as he worked to magnify the reach of public education, was intolerant of introducing controversial subjects in the classroom: «If the day ever arrives when the school room shall become a cauldron for the fermentation of all the hot and virulent opinions, in politics and religion, that now agitate our community, that day the fate of our glorious public school system will be sealed, and speedy ruin will overwhelm it.»

Known as «the school on the hill,» UTEP remained aloof from the problems of the community — and the public schools — below.

Furthermore, he has committed to supporting his new teachers by staying in touch with their needs and making sure they know what's expected of them as they begin their work in the school community.

Breaking down schools into smaller learning communities, such as teams or «houses,» is one such strategy that allows students and adults to more readily get to know and care about each other.

Canada knows firsthand both the challenge and love of education, having spent the past 30 years as the founder and president of the Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ), a full - service community organization comprising charter schools, preschools, afterschool programs,...

We know young people are faced with a huge range of activities or distractions competing for their time, and we need to make sure that we make the move from the structured environment of school sport into community sport as easy as possible.

He writes: «I don't know if it's because we're a minority as a community or maybe because of our location, but I really feel that school supplies such as computers, classrooms, even pencils and paper should be equally distributed to all schools no matter the district or location.

You'll come to know the world and human nature in a unique way by visiting schools and communities in your recruiting; talking with educators, parents, and policymakers; hearing thousands of life stories each year as you read applications and take part in admission committee deliberations, and then following the students you admitted throughout their college years and beyond.

The report makes 12 recommendations for schools including ensuring schools» Christian ethos statements offer «an inclusive vision for education» where «every child should be revered and respected as members of a community where all are known and loved by God.

As most of the Ed School community knows, Gerry was one of the creators of Sesame Street, and when he was kind enough to invite me to talk, I would always relate the shows I was making to lessons I learned from him and the Children's Television Workshop.

She knew it might be a long shot, but the work that was being done at the Cesar Chavez Public Charter Schools for Public Policy in Washington, D.C., where she serves as CEO, was already in line with the goals of the initiative: creating educational opportunities for children in distressed communities by offering «cradle - to - college» services.

My first priority is always to get to know people, and at a smaller school like Toorak College I've had the opportunity to not only become familiar with all the students and teachers, but after just a year or so I've managed to get to know many of the parents and wider community associated with the school as well.

As Dr. Joyce Epstein (Director of the Center on School, Family and Community Partnerships at Johns Hopkins University, who spoke at the Celebration in a different session), pointed out, while we all know that home, school and community partnerships are important, and most of us even know what quality home, school and community partnerships look like, we often fall flat in one key area: how to getSchool, Family and Community Partnerships at Johns Hopkins University, who spoke at the Celebration in a different session), pointed out, while we all know that home, school and community partnerships are important, and most of us even know what quality home, school and community partnerships look like, we often fall flat in one key area: how to Community Partnerships at Johns Hopkins University, who spoke at the Celebration in a different session), pointed out, while we all know that home, school and community partnerships are important, and most of us even know what quality home, school and community partnerships look like, we often fall flat in one key area: how to getschool and community partnerships are important, and most of us even know what quality home, school and community partnerships look like, we often fall flat in one key area: how to community partnerships are important, and most of us even know what quality home, school and community partnerships look like, we often fall flat in one key area: how to getschool and community partnerships look like, we often fall flat in one key area: how to community partnerships look like, we often fall flat in one key area: how to get them.

Though the community was strapped financially, Berry went to residents to ask for help, gaining support for a nickel tax measure to fund a new $ 6 million, 30,000 - square - foot school building known as the EDhub.

Clemett and Pearce (1989) state that pastoral care is effective «when everyone in the school community knows, and feels secure in the knowledge that as valued members of that community, they can participate in giving and receiving encouragement, guidance and support».

Hayball was also appointed architect of the new Richmond High School, which comprises a four - storey academic precinct known as the Griffiths Street Campus and an adjacent Gleadell Street Campus which, when opened in 2019, will comprise of general purpose teaching spaces and community facilities.

«Because I started my career at the school and knew the community, I believed that the student population was essentially the same as when I had been principal in 1987 and 1988, and the school had suffered because of lack of leadership with vision and commitment, not poor students and teachers,» explained Yeager.

We don't know a lot about what kind of school will work for which kids under which circumstances — there are all these different kinds of community schools out there — so these research challenges are very important as well.