Sentences with phrase «looked at local schools»

I looked at local schools but their prices were absurd.

Holbein looked at local school board races from 2004 - 2012 in North Carolina communities where schools failed to make adequate yearly progress (AYP) as defined by the 2001 federal No Child Left Behind legislation.

The Student Performance and Efficiency Commission will look at local school district operations including the potential for shared resources, administrative costs and variations for student performance and spending.

In the meantime though, I will return to looking at my local schools and thinking about the choices my family need to make and my little three - year old case study of school choice.

It is irksome to have to cite so much evidence to support what teachers and parents know just from looking at local schools: that a depletion of financial resources can take a serious toll.

Not exact matches

One need only look at President Jimmy Carter, who went so far as to teach Sunday school at his local Baptist church, to see how a sitting president can make room for faith, said Balmer of Dartmouth, who counts among his many books «God in the White House: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush.»

Looking back, as soon as school finished, we'd go to the local pitch and play until our mothers would drag us away late at night.»

I hope we see strong interest from local wrestlers for our new program at LPC, and I hope this provides a good indicator for other schools looking to follow our lead and start wrestling programs.

Looking for something that would allow her to spend nights, weekends, and holidays with her young daughter, Wells applied for a cashier position at her local elementary school, but it wasn't long — just a couple of weeks — before she found herself in the position of cafeteria manager.

Whether you host it at your kids» school or meet up at a local coffee shop once a month, you'll be surprised how many single moms and dads in your town have been looking for a group to join!

I suspect this is another example of looking at very complex issues (i.e. child obesity) by breaking them down into component pieces (e.g. the menu in the school cafeteria, or the amount of exercise conducted per day, or the local socio - economic conditions, or what phase of the moon it is) and trying to reach some sort of valid conclusion.

We considered alternative local schools then looked at home schooling, which posed questions around socialisation and guidance of learning and teaching.

When you see mothers exchanging information on the playground, for instance, it may look casual — but they're often earnestly collecting information that will ensure the well - being of their offspring, such as the name of the best teacher at the local school and whether strep throat is going around.

The Cherokee County School Board on Thursday, April 21, 2016 took its first look at tentative plans for Cherokee County School District construction projects and other Education SPLOST (Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax) expenses for the next five years.

If he wants to force another type of governance on NYC schools he owns the outcomes... if you look back at the history of NY State meddling into local school operation it is not a positive one.

«I think we should look at putting police officers who have training, who have the responsibility of having a weapon in our schools this is something voted on by our local school board.

The Cuomo Administration report has angered business groups, who say the study is skewed, and does not look at impacts a two thirds wage hike would have on small business owners, small farms, and local governments and school districts.

A study led by Professor Nick Gallent of the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, looked at how communities in Kent have sought to influence the policies of local authorities and service providers and how, in the recent past, they have engaged with planning professionals around the production of «parish plans».

«Although some [schools and local governments] can rely on available reserve funds to bridge the gap,» he explained in a statement, «others may need to take a hard look at operations to find ways to cut costs to stay under the cap.»

The governor, who wants to cap property taxes at 2 percent or the rate of inflation, said that putting a ceiling on local and school taxes would result in a hard look, and ultimately a reduction, in spending.

His choices widened when he looked at the work of his graduate school mentor, who had made important contributions to society by founding a Cord Blood Bank, and of a professor at a local 2 - year college, who advanced student training in scientific research by involving them in the lab production of monoclonal antibodies.

Look around for local sporting events at high schools or community centers.

With his halting French and bashful ways, the emigré at the film's centre, Antek Liebmann (Godehard Giese), seems quite far from a parading peacock: simple in look and affect, he, a school teacher, does not seem overly complicated or needy in his dealings with the friendly and curious locals.

The new proposals look to set up a specific point of contact at local councils for parents and teachers in order to raise concerns about a child, as well as introduce new measures to discover how many children are being home - schooled beyond the reach of inspectors.

Looking at the Digital Family Summit session schedule below, we see there's a great deal schools could do to reciprocate the experience back in a local setting.

Tutors on the online local services site have revealed that the recent change in marking criteria and the number of parents looking at grammar schools has fuelled the increase.

An interactive timeline looking at federal, regional, and local efforts to establish dropout - intervention programs to help keep students in school.

We also looked at hunger and homelessness in our local community and then shared lunch with the guests at a local soup kitchen and participated in a school - wide fundraiser for the local food pantry, shelter, and soup kitchen.

They take responsibility for what happens and the decisions are theirs — enabling schools to communicate the importance of sustainably - produced local food and providing a context for looking at food chain issues and understanding where food comes from.

«In my role as head of catering and school facilities at Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council, I could see that local authorities and schools were looking to provide not only healthy school meals, but also a convenient and safe way for parents to pay.»

The assets available to the Henry Ford Academy are not available in every community, yet this model can inspire other school districts to look at local institutions with new eyes and imagine classrooms in settings where they've never been before, as was done recently in New Orleans, which will incorporate a new school on the grounds of the Louisiana SuperDome.

Looking forward, the 2010 — 11 and 2011 — 12 school years pack a one - two punch, with school district leaders facing the end of ARRA dollars and answering tough questions about programs and personnel that have been (and will be) cut, while trying to figure out what, if any, economic recovery is in store at the state and local levels.

Think tank 2020health's latest report on obesity, which looks at prevention measures around the world, has shown that school - based measures must be complimented by other local policies to be most effective.

We included administrative data from teacher, parent, and student ratings of local schools; we considered the potential relationship between vote share and test - score changes over the previous two or three years; we examined the deviation of precinct test scores from district means; we looked at changes in the percentage of students who received failing scores on the PACT; we evaluated the relationship between vote share and the percentage change in the percentile scores rather than the raw percentile point changes; and we turned to alternative measures of student achievement, such as SAT scores, exit exams, and graduation rates.

Hungry folks in the small town of Filer, Idaho, need to look no further than their local high school for a good meal at a great price.

Hopefully, prompting from the guidance to look at the variation in disciplinary responses by schools within the district would encourage the local school board to voluntarily eliminate suspensions for attendance violations and adopt (district - wide) those responses already working well in its less racially isolated schools.

After analyzing the content of samples from local wells for a project about the quality of drinking water, fifth - and sixth - grade students at Shutesbury Elementary School display their information on a large map of the town and look for patterns in the data.

Stay tuned: Teacher will be looking at how schools are addressing issues raised in their local AEDC results.

In the first of two follow - up articles looking at how individual schools have responded to local data, Editor Jo Earp speaks to Canberra Principal Anne Simpson.

I would be really appreciative if you could pass on some journal articles or resources that are looking at implementing this approach in local schools and plausible ways of introducing it at a national / school level.

For instance, before school leaders move to eliminate relatively high - cost art or music classes, they may look to see whether local providers (community centers, local colleges, etc.) can or already do provide similar services at better prices.

Waddesdon Manor, in Buckinghamshire recently won the VisitEngland Best Large Attraction award and for secondary school pupils you can actually learn how it functions as a major tourist attraction looking at how visitors use the facilities, what promotional materials and techniques are used, and how the local community are employed.

«When you look at the annals of state intervention in local school districts across the country... there's virtually no track record, nor extant examples of states effectively turning around academic performance in local school districts until Lawrence arrived on the scene,» says Paul Reville, a professor of education at Harvard University's Graduate School of Educschool districts across the country... there's virtually no track record, nor extant examples of states effectively turning around academic performance in local school districts until Lawrence arrived on the scene,» says Paul Reville, a professor of education at Harvard University's Graduate School of Educschool districts until Lawrence arrived on the scene,» says Paul Reville, a professor of education at Harvard University's Graduate School of EducSchool of Education.

The report looked at the difference between the proportion of disadvantaged pupils in a school's intake and that of its local neighbourhood to establish how socially selective it is.

For information about the costs of each programme, please look at our What we offer schools page or speak to your local Teach First team.

Anyone curious about how local schools were doing could look at pass rates on annual exams in math and reading, the foundation of federally mandated, test - based accountability.

Schools may need to borrow ray boxes / lasers fro a local Secondary school Friction - looking at how the surface you run a trainer across affects the force needed to start it moving.

The other thing that we're really looking at, and this is coming from our state and local school district affiliates, as people have now started to see charter schools as: Wow, there are studies that say they are really no better, depending on which charter schools and how selective they are, and they're not really improving the public schools the way the original concept had hoped.

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In writing the Local Control Funding Formula, the Legislature wanted schools and districts to take a comprehensive look at school life and achievement.