Sentences with phrase «lack of school facilities»

Poor conditions or lack of school facilities, low - quality teachers, teacher shortages, poor student - teacher interactions, geographic access to school, less challenging courses and student boredom

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Not because I don't want to believe that such «miracles» can happen, but because I've spent enough time immersed in this issue in my own district to know that there are many real world obstacles — notably labor costs, the lack of facilities and the cost of buying and storing fresh food — which make such miracles very hard to replicate in many school districts in America.

But to the extent some districts (because of labor costs, size of the free / reduced population, lack of facilities, etc.) can't match those exemplary meals, I'd love to get parents more up in arms over school meal funding as well.

Instead, the program is intended to serve the millions of impoverished American children whose parents can not send them to school with a home - packed lunch for a whole host of possible reasons that never seem to cross Parker's mind: the family's SNAP benefits fail to cover a month's worth of healthful food, in light of today's rising food costs; there is only one parent in the household and he or she works one or more jobs and is not home to pack a lunch; one or both caretakers are drug - addicted, mentally ill, physically disabled or otherwise unable to adequately provide for their children; the family lives in a homeless shelter and lacks access to kitchen facilities; the family lives in a food desert where healthful groceries are scarce, etc. etc..

Parent demand for charter schools has grown, but the schools continue to face such obstacles as a lack of start - up funds and inadequate facilities, a report from the U.S. Department of Education says.

Independent schools often have excellent facilities, such as labs, computers, sports fields, and theaters that public schools lack due to underinvestment, and strong faculty interested in teaching a more diverse group of students.

Pupil places It is no secret that the majority of UK schools are struggling with high demand for school places with a lack of additional facilities available in most areas.

With reports that some small schools struggle to provide free infant meals due to a lack of space or facilities, CESA's Keith Warren shares some of the latest space - saving equipment to help small kitchens to still deliver a quality food service.

Given that substantial funding is needed to hire teachers and staff, purchase instructional materials, and maintain facilities, the lack of a positive relationship between school spending and student outcomes is surprising.

In the face of limited education facilities and a lack of non-biodegradable waste recycling in poverty - hit communities, Hug It Forward is building Bottle Schools.

A report seen by The Gazette from Stockton Council's Education Admissions Appeal Panel, outlines concerns over «lack of space» within the school - including dining facilities that can only accommodate 250 pupils when there are more than 1,000 per day requiring them.

Unfortunately, the lack of facilities for charter schools often undermines operators» potential for leverage because they must make compromises they might not otherwise choose in order to secure buildings for their schools.

Is that so surprising, given the fact that many of 17,000 primary schools lack the facilities or staff to deliver competitive sport for their pupils, even with some government help?

This paper, written for the Rural Opportunities Consortium of Idaho, offers policymakers and philanthropic leaders a set of recommendations to capitalize on the potential of technology to serve students: expand broadband access to schools lacking it, create an elite corps of proven teachers who would be made available to students across the state, and provide districts and schools with the flexibility to develop new models of staffing and technology and to achieve the most strategic combination of personnel, facilities, and technology.

Because it lacks space, the school will make use of the facilities in the surrounding community.

And with the lack of school district facilities for new schools, it is unlikely there will be new schools placements.

And just this year, the New York City Independent Budget Office (no friend of charters) used a different analysis, but found an even greater inequity facing the city's existing charter schools: the lack of funding for facilities.

Because of lack of resources classrooms are overcrowded, school facilities unsanitary and run down, and students lack clean drinking water.

Building Inequality: How the Lack of Facility Funding Hurts New York's Public Charter School Students

The lack of capital for building or renovating school facilities in low - income communities is a common problem.

This may be for example sports facilities for schools who are undergoing building work or lack outdoor space, academic support for staff in departments with new colleagues or where resource development is needed, or gaining support from students or teachers in a key area of the schools choice such as maths tutoring, language lessons or developing a school orchestra.

Accusation: Some charters, especially in the startup phase, lack the facilities of a traditional school and hold classes in churches and other non-traditional settings.

School - level data were downloaded from the California Department of Education, California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System (CALPADS) website.6 The following were dropped: schools with total enrollment of fewer than 50 students, special education schools, continuation high schools, schools in juvenile delinquency facilities, alternative schools, community day schools, and schools lacking a full panel of data for 2013 - 2015.

The Credit Enhancement for Charter School Facilities Program was established in 2001 to address a critical problem faced by many charter schools — lack of suitable facilities and difficulty obtaining financing to secure suitable facilities.

In order to meet this parental demand for choice and the public's desire for more high quality public educational options for families, three key things must be addressed in California: the funding inequity which results in charter school students being funded at lower levels than their traditional public school counterparts, the lack of equitable facilities for charter school students, and restrictive and hostile authorizing environments such as LAUSD Board Member Steve Zimmer's recent resolution limiting parent choice.

The Commission denied five petitions for reasons ranging from a lack of capacity to properly govern a school; weak operational plans; poorly articulated plans for community partnerships, to an incomplete strategy for obtaining a facility in an achievable timeframe.

Charter schools frequently face lack of facility options and modular construction helps to alleviate these challenges.

In Williams v. California, for example, teachers, parents, and students from low - income communities described overcrowded schools that had to run multiple shifts each day and multiple shifts during the school year, alternating on - months and off - months for different cohorts of students cycling in and out of the building; classrooms with more than 40 students without enough desks, chairs, and textbooks for each student to have one; lack of curriculum materials, science equipment, computers, and libraries; and crumbling facilities featuring leaky ceilings and falling ceiling tiles, sometimes overrun with rodents, and lacking heat and air conditioning.

Despite intense discussion about saving charter schools, the newly - enacted state budget provides no relief to Buffalo charters — which lack any form of reliable facilities funding and received a net $ 1.4 M cut to their per pupil funding.

Hawaii charter schools face a number of hurdles, including a lack of facility funding that many charter school leaders say is crippling.

The tourism school, however, lacks funds and is crippled by the lack of dedicated facilities.

They will grow up stunted in stature and damaged in their brains, all because they lack access to cheap electricity, running clean water and sewer facilities and clothes washing and refrigeration and schools and houses and adequate supplies of fertilizer - grown food that electricity enables.

Some of the most crucial problems included severe shortages of trained professionals and qualified personnel (lack of career judges), lack of essential facilities in institutions of justice and the inability of law schools to produce competent lawyers in the desired numbers.

Not only does the school lack in funding for many of its programs (especially the arts and sports facility) it still advertises for programs it does not or no longer has such as an online library a swimming pool ect.