Sentences with phrase «local school systems»

There must be collaboration with our many partners in local school systems, state organizations and national groups.

Our program enables teachers and school administrators to involve the entire school community in outdoor learning experiences that are aligned with local school system standards.

My wife put in 33 years for local school system.

If approved, the bond vote could partly address more than $ 8 billion in reported needs by local school systems.

The bill could also allow charters to collect damages from local school systems in the event they won a court fight with the system over funding.

The report notes rates declined in 44 local school systems last year.

It's a simple revision to a system that today requires local school systems to write checks to area charters equal to the per pupil share of local current expenses.

During this time, he had the chance to explore the different local school systems through the lenses of many of ethnic studies courses and volunteer projects with the neighboring schools.

If we can't gain control of our own local school systems, what hope do we have of solving our other more complex problems?

All of our work is grounded in leadership standards and mapped to local school system priorities.

The grants are available to assist and improve safety infrastructure in local school systems.

He swoops into local school systems in places like Detroit, using his celebrity to provide political cover to those he sees as «raising the bar.»

Worked closely with community resources and local school systems as part of community outreach efforts for amelioration of difficulties within the program.

Managed 14 AmeriCorps members that included 4 attorneys, 2 paralegals in charge of the domestic violence caseload for Legal Aid and 8 field members focused on local school system conflict resolution for at - risk populations.

Duncan has broad control over the Race to the Top fund and the $ 650 million to spur innovation through local school systems and nonprofit groups.

But the General Assembly also provided local school systems with the flexibility to move that money — which is largely sitting in a pot for teachers — back into funding for teacher assistants if they so choose.

Local school systems said the federal reimbursements don't cover production expenses.

State officials and courts have already grappled with many of these issues, and creating a federal right to education would destabilize policies and decisions that have shaped local school systems for generations,» they say, noting that unlike the federal Constitution, all 50 state constitutions contain provisions that explicitly address education.

In its submission to the Treasury ahead of the Autumn Statement, the LGA has called on the Government to take advantage of councils» unique position in the community and give them a clear and strategic role in overseeing local schools systems, accompanied by appropriate resources, powers and flexibilities, so that they can support local school improvement and hold schools to account for education standards.

Partly it's because local school systems, themselves shielded from competition, haven't been fussy customers.

A preliminary review by the Office of the Attorney General revealed that Mylan Pharmaceuticals may have inserted potentially anticompetitive terms into its EpiPen sales contracts with numerous local school systems.

edurelief works with local school systems across Mongolia to provide these textbooks to the neediest families ensuring that every child receives their right to education and a brighter future.

Or they could view it as one more entitlement that unjustifiably burdens local school systems.

Yes, Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau and others made fun of the trend, but the self - esteem movement had legs, and not just in California (where, reportedly, more than 80 percent of local school systems launched programs to promote it after the report's release).

Washington — The new education block grants are a «political football» that state departments of education and local school systems risk fumbling to state legislators and governors around the country unless they act quickly.

AEI's Rick Hess and Results for America's Bethany Little recently released a set of recommendations for a bipartisan «moneyball» approach to education, one that would help state and local school systems use data and evidence to improve student outcomes.

Funds and property seized by the state from convicted drug dealers must go to local school systems rather than law - enforcement agencies, the North Carolina Supreme Court has ruled.

Participants also had opportunities to visit local school systems, allowing them to observe how education is managed and delivered in the United States and how U.S. educators are addressing the demand for quality schools — the approaches they are taking, what is working best for them, and why.

Officials in Compton, Calif., have asked a federal court to give the city control over the 30,000 - student local school system, which has been run by the California education department since 1993.

Most local school systems are very small operations.

Making fundamental changes in systems as complex as state and local school systems raises a number of questions for which there are no pat answers.

There's a good chance that the high school chemistry teacher has more students this year than last, as lawmakers slashed funding for teacher positions and told local school systems they could make up the difference by increasing class sizes.

And while local officials acknowledge multiple factors may play into tonight's decision, Central Elementary's plight has become a rallying cry among public education advocates in North Carolina this month, with some castigating state lawmakers for handing down funding shortfalls that increasingly strain local school systems.

This has been accomplished through several state, county and local school systems adopting the ANSI standard as a requirement for new and renovated public school projects.

As they currently operate in Maryland, only local school systems can approve the opening of a charter school.

Assist in the coordination and delivery of a train - the - trainer model of professional development for local school system representatives to in building capacity in dropout prevention, reentry, and high school completion for SWDs.

In the weeks after the Valentine's Day shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, local school systems saw an uptick in unfounded threats.

This increase has been supported through strong partnerships between local Infants and Toddlers Programs (LITP), local school system preschool special education services, community - based preschool programs, child care providers, and local Head Start programs.

The mission of the Georgia School Boards Association is to ensure excellence in the governance of local school systems by providing leadership, advocacy and services, and by representing the collective resolve of Georgia's elected boards of education.