Sentences with phrase «leaving schools less»

Often the affluent urban citizens don't send their children to public schools, leaving schools less diverse and less supported.

338 (E.D. La. 1975), to prohibit children in affected schools from participating in the voucher program on the purported grounds that they left the schools less integrated.

Not exact matches

Trump's move comes less than a week after a shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, left 17 people dead.

The CEIBS MBA typically takes 18 months, but the school added this year an accelerated 12 - month MBA that front - loads electives but leaves less time for career development and extracurriculars.

The schools and universities are top - notch, the towns are quaint and quiet, the leaves still change in the fall and the rolling hills are no less lovely.

This idea originated with Bernard B. Kerik, a former NYC police commissioner, who tweeted his theory on February 15 — two days earlier, and less than 24 hours after the school shooting that left 17 people dead.

It seems to me they have much bigger fish to fry like: The Taliban treating women as less than human, stoning people to death, 60 year old men marrying teenage girls, cutting off an 18 year old girl's nose because she left her abusive husband (see TIME magazine a month ago), destroying over 125 schools because girls attend, suicidal Islamic fanatical cowards on every continent killing thousands of INNOCENT people, and these clowns are worried about their precious Koran being burned by a nutjob.

Without such a means of assessing Catholic practice the Vaughan school has been left with a less than perfect system of giving extra credits to families based on the participation in the life of the parish.

One does not have to abhor homosexuality in order to understand that the recent change in law has opened a wide door that will leave the school system, and children in general, vulnerable to further legal changes that will always go towards greater licentiousness, and less protection for the vulnerable.

This line of separation has become less acute than it was fifty years ago when the famous Dayton trial over the right to teach evolution in the public schools took place, and in the same year of 1925 Harry Emerson Fosdick had to leave the pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church of New York City because of his theological views.

I learned quickly at the Divinity School that full respect was reserved chiefly for the mainline Protestant churches of the old New England kind, including Congregationalists, Anglicans, Unitarians, and Presbyterians, with considerable respect also for the mainstream Lutherans (less so for the Missouri Synod) and some Methodists, but very little for the Baptists and those others from «the left wing of the Reformation.»

In addition, the smaller schools are less likely to have access to lighted fields, and during January, will have to start games at 3 p.m. — which means players will have to leave school as early as 1 p.m. to get to games, and that really doesn't help anyone's academics.

(or a class of «behavior challenged» Middle Schoolers who could care less about taking a test) Sad that this is what education has come to in an effort to make sure that no child is «left behind»... This is the underlying issue right here ~ too much emphasis on penciling in the correct letter circle and not enough student driven cirriculum.

When Taylor left SMMUSD, he was eager to apply his salad bar model to a school district that was three times larger and far less affluent.

Breastfed children had higher mean scores on tests of cognitive ability; performed better on standardized tests of reading, mathematics, and scholastic ability; were rated as performing better in reading and mathematics by their class teachers; had higher levels of achievement in school - leaving examinations; and less often left school without educational qualifications.

On average, children who were breastfed for ≥ 8 months 1) scored between 0.35 and 0.59 SD units higher on standardized tests of ability or achievement and teacher ratings of school performance than children who were not breastfed, and 2) were considerably less likely than nonbreastfed children to leave school without qualifications (relative risk = 0.38; 95 % CI: 0.25, 0.59).

New York should not spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a process that could leave New York with less environmental protections, less funding for our schools, etc..

Susan Schnebel, superintendent of Islip schools, said that next year's downward fluctuation in the cap could leave her district with $ 1.1 million less in operating funds than it has this year.

Syracuse athletic director Mark Coyle stunned members of the Syracuse athletic department by leaving the school after less than a year in charge.

The fear is that it could be the tipping point for relatively mobile wealthier people to move their primary residence elsewhere, leaving the state with less revenue to fund schools.

Families moving into the town because of the award winning school district, district wide Universal Pre-Kindergarten, organic diversity, a mix of urban and suburban life, coupled with a big inventory of affordable homes has flooded the schools and left the district scrambling to make ends meet with less money.

The fortunes of Boys and Girls High School, a venerable but long - struggling school that the de Blasio administration pledged to revive, took another turn this week, when its principal said he was considering leaving for a different job after less than two School, a venerable but long - struggling school that the de Blasio administration pledged to revive, took another turn this week, when its principal said he was considering leaving for a different job after less than two school that the de Blasio administration pledged to revive, took another turn this week, when its principal said he was considering leaving for a different job after less than two years.

The new version would leave the state with the same result as did its predecessor: Charter school students would find themselves in classes taught by teachers whose training was far less rigorous than that demanded of regular public school teachers.

Or will he continue his policies of underfunding schools and leaving many students with less than they deserve?»

But since students used the space until the second - to - last day of the school year, the DOE was left with less than 36 hours to clear the area — costing the department tens of thousands of dollars in overtime from contracted workers scrambling to meet the onerous deadline.

Mulgrew contended that less successful students often leave charter schools, but that their empty seats remain unfilled.

Children are happy at home and with friends but less happy at school where there seems to be an issue around bullying and being left out.»

The survey found that teenagers who leave school early to join work training schemes have sex earlier and are less likely to use a condom than those who stay on at school.

After obtaining a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Georgia, Britt opened up shop as an abstract painter — a talent she discovered with less than a year and a half left at the Lamar Dodd School of Art.

Gone are the days when kids could safely amble a neighborhood for the vague hours between the school and dinner bells — both because our neighborhoods can be less safe, and because as a society we're not really leaving it up to parents to determine what «safe enough» means.

But in general, Chinese students leave high school with a lot less romantic experience than their American counterparts.

Knowing those chunks of information help explain the Creeper's need to feed in Jeepers Creepers 2, a pretty decent thriller, whose streamlined narrative picks up where the first left off, as the Creeper assaults a stranded busload of stupid high school jocks with less than 24 hours before the 23 - year meatfest must end.

What makes the older games harder though is the fact that the monsters deal massive damage, even with proper equipment which leaves you less room for mistakes because one mistake can already be fatal (if you've experienced event Ivory / Stygian / Brachy's damage, that's pretty much the everyday life of an old school hunter).

No less important are the main factors that generate the gap: students entering charters may differ from those entering district schools (with respect to their special education needs), and students leaving charters may differ from those leaving district schools.

The more the public learns about the No Child Left Behind Act, the less it agrees with the annual testing requirements and other strategies used to implement it, an annual opinion survey on public schools suggests.

A lack of focus on the marginalized has left the poorest five times less likely to complete a full cycle of primary education than the richest and over a third of out of school children living in conflict affected zones.

Teaching lower - achieving students — whether because teachers find it more difficult or less rewarding — is a strong factor in decisions to leave Texas public schools, and the magnitude of the effect holds across the full range of teachers» experience levels.

In their 2004 action brief on the parent - involvement provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act, the Public Education Network and the National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education cite several reasons for the low level of parental involvement in many schools, including a less - than - welcoming atmosphere, language and cultural barriers, insufficient training for teachers, and lack of parent education or parenting skills.

Less than 5 percent (and by some estimates, as low as 1 percent) of eligible students choose to leave their «failing» school to transfer to a school that made AYP.

But all other groups of teachers acted as if nothing had changed; after all that money, they were no more or less likely to leave St. Louis schools.

While the No Child Left Behind Act has a detailed formula for bringing students to proficiency on state reading and mathematics tests by the 2013 - 14 school year, it's much less precise on states» goals for English - language learners.

Kids are much less likely to leave the phone at home, at school, or somewhere else than they are a notebook.

But despite all the anecdotes about teachers being lured away from public schools to lucrative private - sector work, the available evidence shows that, if anything, teachers earn less when they leave teaching for another job.

The best I could come up with at the end of last semester for my students, whom I absolutely adored, was that I felt like a bit less of a sellout for having left teaching in the Boston Public Schools in favor of the indulgences of Appian Way.

Disare goes on to look closely at the pros and cons of a system that sorts students into schools this way, including the concern that it might «widen racial achievement gaps and leave lower - achieving students in less demanding classrooms with fewer resources.»

«A lot of people in special education have a mindset that it's all about compliance, but if you take a step back and understand the purposes of the law, I think you'll see this is less about complying and filling out IEPs left and right, and more thinking about, «Well, how do I problem solve to ensure my school is better meeting the needs of kids with disabilities?»»

A lot of people in special education have a mindset that it's all about compliance, but if you take a step back and understand the purposes of the law, I think you'll see this less as compliance and filling out IEPs left and right, and more thinking about, «Well, how do I problem solve to ensure my school is better meeting the needs of kids with disabilities?»

A study of 300 schools which increased their EBacc entry rates between 2010 and 2013 found that pupils» average attainment in GCSE English and maths increased following the curriculum changes and that pupils at these schools were also less likely to have left education after the age of 16, than peers at other schools.

They point, for example, to President Bush's No Child Left Behind law (enacted in 2002), mayoral governance of schools recently instituted in some cities, and the creation of a small number (4,638) of charter schools that serve less than 3 % of the U.S. school - age population.

At both KIPP schools and comparison schools, students who leave early are significantly more likely to be black males and significantly less likely to have limited English proficiency than students who remain.