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 Educ
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 Educ
school districts until Lawrence arrived on the scene,» says Paul Reville, a professor of education
at Harvard University's Graduate
School of Educ
School 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.
Many children
look forward to
school outings to the local zoo or science museum, but at Commodore John Rodgers Elementary / Middle School in Baltimore, children prize a field trip to a college c
school outings to the
local zoo or science museum, but
at Commodore John Rodgers Elementary / Middle
School in Baltimore, children prize a field trip to a college c
School in Baltimore, children prize a field trip to a college campus.
In writing the
Local Control Funding Formula, the Legislature wanted
schools and districts to take a comprehensive
look at school life and achievement.