Sentences with phrase «label more schools»

And every year, states label more schools as falling short and impose sanctions on them, including shakeups and shutdowns.

«It doesn't make sense to label more schools as failure simply because of an unrealistic federal goal and stretch the money even thinner,» she said.

The nonsensical approach of using cut scores to identify the percentage of students likely to seek a 4 year degree and labeling them our only students who are «ready» is based more on a desire to label more schools and students as failures than any other consideration.

Not exact matches

Many more use its white - label products every day in restaurants, hotels, schools and office buildings.

The group said its members had been voluntarily trying to reduce sugar consumption by making calorie content information more visible on labels, as well as discontinuing sales of full - calorie sodas to schools nationwide, and replacing them with more lower - calorie or no - calorie beverages, along with smaller portion size options.

The Anglo - American label may however, be put to a legitimate, if rather specific, use — namely, in the context of a selective reading of Deleuze's works from the late sixties (D&R and LS), and taking the logico - mathematical model of structuralism (developed by the Bourbaki school and taken up by Piaget) as the reference point, rather than the more familiar, but rather different, model derived from Saussurean linguistics.

The industry has taken significant measures to provide consumers with more options and information to allow informed dietary choices through developing reformulated products to offer low and no - sugar varieties, voluntarily displaying kilojoule information on the front of labels and restricting sales of regular kilojoule soft drinks in schools.

More important than the labels of «play - based» or «academic - focused,» though, is what actually happens in the classroom and how teachers respond to emotional situations, so ask about specific scenarios when you're considering a school.

Given the Trump administration's zealous quest to roll back many other food policy advances achieved under President Obama — restaurant menu labeling, improved Nutrition Facts boxes, food safety measures and more — it's understandable why Perdue's announcement has caused a lot of consternation among those who support healthier school meals.

«This year we'd like to see ten - thousand schools put fruit in nice bowls and add descriptive labels for healthy foods,» says Wansink, who in the short time since he got started has already had more than 1,400 American schools express interest in the program.

If you want all organic, GMO - free, clean - label, local, scratch - cooked meals, you are going to have to help schools lobby local, state and federal decisions makers to provide more money for school meals.

They are ideal for labeling baby bottles, lunch boxes, food containers, water bottles, school supplies and more.

And if it's offered in schools, it's all the more important that my child be able to be taught to recognize it without having to learn to read labels.

Do we really want these additives appearing more frequently in the milk offered in school cafeterias around the country, without adequate labeling?

Yet now the dairy industry is getting a hearing on its 2009 citizen's petition (PDF linked here) asking FDA for permission to abandon those front label disclosures for artificially dairy sweetened products — and not just on flavored milk but also on seventeen other dairy products having nothing to do with schools, including whipping cream, sour cream, nonfat dry mik and more.

These non-adhesive and reusable labels are a must - have for any kiddo going to daycare or school; these labels are easily washable and go on sippy cups, bottles, thermoses, and more — and because your child's name is engraved in the label, their name can never be washed off.

«Despite tight budgets and persistent challenges, school nutrition professionals are making efforts to incorporate more clean label foods and expand menus to encourage children to make healthier choices.»

As more people recognize how food companies influence government policies about agricultural support, food safety, dietary advice, school foods, marketing to children, and food labeling, they are inspired to become involved in food movement action.

You'll find all kinds of products and gifts you can have personalized with ANY name, gifts for any occasion (including holiday collection), bentos, labels for back to school and summer camp, duffel bags, birth announcements, baby onesies, bibs, muslin wraps, pajamas (their pajamas are fantastic, everything in this line beautifully made and fantastic top quality), name blocks, water bottles and so much more!

managed to accomplish some important gains: healthier school meals, more informative food and menu labels, the White House garden, and — most important — getting food issues on the national agenda.

It is difficult to bring to mind a more divisive policy, or one more deleterious to social cohesion and respect, than one which allows schools to label children at the start of their lives with certain beliefs and then divide them up on that basis.

The Department of Education's proposal to amend ESSA would label most Westchester public schools as «in need of improvement» and would cut federal funding for any school where 5 percent of students or more opt out of Common Core testing.

Betty Rosa, the Regents chancellor, said in answer to a reporter's question that the board is more concerned with getting federal financial assistance for the state's schools than in how schools may be labeled under the new federal guidelines.

The regulation — proposed by the U.S. Department of Education — would label most Westchester public schools as «in need of improvement» for any school where 5 percent of students or more opt out of Common Core testing.

«The point behind the label is really to get people to aspire... It's to try to encourage schools to think that it's a good thing to have more children go through these subjects.»

Examples include: tighter supervision and international regulation of the food supply; an international code of food marketing to protect children's health; regulating food nutritional quality in schools along with programmes to encourage healthy food preferences; taxes on unhealthy products such as sweetened drinks and subsidies on healthier foods for low - income families such as vouchers for fruit and vegetable boxes; and mandatory food labelling as an incentive for industry to produce more nutritional products.

Affluent, white citizens who were already more likely to vote do so in significantly greater numbers after their local schools are labeled «failing.»

However it's very common for the media to label and treat Muslims as one entity, and a more recent social media phenomenon has been for muslims themselves to judge and call each other out for not being Muslim enough despite the well known facts that there are differences in the various school of thoughts.

Younger labels, including Monse, Public School and Adam Selman, purposefully wove American - ness — or sometimes, more specifically, New York - ness — into their narrative.»

But note that doesn't necessarily mean more schools being labeled «failing» or targeted for interventions.

This lovely free resource pack includes; a welcome to our school sign, labels for classroom equipment badges for different roles and simple register sheet and reading diary plus much more.

Looking at school uniform policies, there's a middle ground where schools do allow normal clothing, but maintain restrictions over, say, certain brand labels or styles of dress; BYOD could achieve a similar balance between opening the door to more diverse devices and limiting certain features to prevent them from setting some students apart from their peers.

Their schools are labeled «public,» but this is a name hijacked from more democratic state enterprises to which all have access.

So we have an accountability system that can't be sustained politically because it labels too many schools as failing, and the solution is to replace it with a new system that will surely produce even more bad news?

In upper primary school, discussions about the contrasting language that is used to describe the behaviour of females and males can also be explored, for example girls who show leadership or are assertive are called «bossy» and boys «strong leaders» or boys who like more domestic activities are labelled «prissy», «girly» or even worse «gay».

Having your school white - labeled can help you personalize it and make it even more custom - made especially for your potential learners.

The Department of Education just released its first - ever report on what it labels a «hidden educational crisis» — chronic absenteeism, defined as missing more than 15 days of school in a year — in American schools, and the statistics are sobering: In the 2013 — 2014 school year, more than 6.5 million kids fell into this category.

This plan labeled «racially imbalanced» any school at which the percentage of black students exceeded by more than 20 % the minority population of the school district as a whole.

More than half of the Washoe County public schools had been labeled «in need of improvement» for failing to get enough students to proficiency on the state standardized tests required by the No Child Left Behind Law.

They are much more than a «label» for schools or kids.

Educrats all over the country have begun to persuade federal education officials to grant waivers from NCLB, adopting the position that it is unfair to label schools as failing when the performance gaps between ethnic groups are so wide and when minority children lag so far behind their White, more affluent peers.

One final headline from the Louisiana report: Students who switched to private schools were less likely to be later identified as having special needs, and, if they arrived with the disability label, they were more likely to shed it in a voucher school.

Schools labeled failing for two or more years face increasingly stringent penalties, which states must impose.

«Put simply, what this study says is that if we take a group of otherwise similar teachers and randomly label some as «OK» and tell others they suck and their jobs are on the line, the latter group is more likely to seek employment elsewhere,» wrote Bruce D. Baker, a professor in the graduate school of education at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., on his blog.

This finding has a significant impact on teachers and schools as policy makers put more emphasis on the labels for performance funding, teacher evaluations and other accountability measures.

By contrast, if No Child Left Behind rules had remained in place, more than 250 Oregon schools were projected to be labeled inadequate next month and required to offer transfers or tutoring in the coming year.

The state labels a student as truant if they have more than three unexcused absences in one school year on their record.

Meanwhile, more and more schools and districts — including Madison this year — are labeled as failing and are required to make changes.

More reliable and detailed results then current systems that label students, educators and schools with a number.

Invariably, what is labeled «teacher bashing» is nothing more than anger at the teachers unions for blocking every type of education reform imaginable, as well as the unions doing their level best to block school districts» attempts to fire bad and even criminal teachers.