Sentences with phrase «made by schools»

The Department acknowledges the very significant progress made by schools in developing inclusive practices and provision whereby the vast majority of students with special educational needs now attend mainstream schools.

The Department acknowledges the very significant progress made by schools in developing inclusive practices and provision whereby the vast majority of pupils with special educational needs now attend mainstream schools.

In many ways the central issue here is not what decisions are being made by schools, but the fact that there is no space for local intervention, local accountability and local democracy.

American public education has a long tradition of local control, with many decisions made by schools or districts and the rest typically settled at the state level.

«Our worry is that instead they reflect decisions made by schools and are based on calculations as to how schools can appear better on league tables by encouraging children to avoid taking on more challenging subjects.

There is also a lot of practical advice on goal setting, behaviour management and motivation that often challenges assumptions made by schools.

«This situation puts in jeopardy the huge progress that has been made by schools and undermines the drive to further raise standards.»

It found that 123,713 referrals were made by schools seeking professional mental health help between 2014/15 and 2017/181.

The patterns were similar in reading, though the relative gains made by schools facing voucher competition were smaller and sometimes statistically insignificant.

Another potential explanation for the exceptional gains made by schools facing voucher competition is that their extremely low initial scores are affected by a statistical tendency called «regression to the mean.»

Each of these results is statistically significant at a very high level, meaning that we can be highly confident that the test - score gains made by schools facing the actuality or prospect of voucher competition were larger than the gains made by other public schools.

While these relative gains made by schools using the literacy hour are suggestive, it is important to consider whether they may have reflected other differences between the two groups of schools.

We are already seeing more challenges to appraisal decisions made by schools because increasing numbers of women teachers in their 50s are suddenly being told their teaching is not up to scratch and are being replaced by younger, cheaper teachers.

However, once a student is identified as twice - exceptional, a decision must be made by schools as to the best way to educate the child.

Once value - added assessments are put in place, it will be possible to isolate the contributions made by the schools, teachers, and programs in raising achievement from external factors also affecting achievement and to act accordingly by following a model of continuous improvement.

Visiting Group Preparation It is important that informed decisions can be made by schools, parents and pupils.

The prospect of measuring the contribution made by schools and teachers to their students» progress is winning a growing number of converts to value - added assessment.

One indication comes from the information in our results about the gains in performance made by schools where the student - faculty ratio decreased over this same period.

The larger gains made by schools facing the threat of vouchers can not be explained by spending increases.

Though efforts are made by some schools to improve, it is really up to us, parents, to get involved and understand the process.

«It has been clear that the driver of the hasty decisions made by some schools to apply for academy status has been the belief that they will get more money as academies.

That they are many in number is clear from the statements of purpose made by schools when they define to what end they are training ministers, and by other church organizations — denominations, councils, conferences, et cetera — when they justify their activities.

This represents a reduction of only 2.9 percent of the total operating expenditures projected to be made by school districts statewide during the 2010 - 11 school year, and 7.3 percent in State support.

«In every corner of the state, New Yorkers, after carefully examining the difficult choices made by their school boards, voted «yes» in near record numbers on school budgets to ensure students and education programs did not suffer further harm,» NYSUT President Dick Iannuzzi said.

After concessions made by the school district for work that needed to be performed, the adjusted sales price was $ 5,332,563.

Under the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975, P.L. 94 - 142, students must remain in a placement made by school officials until all due - process procedures have been exhausted, David Berman, a lawyer for the Burlington, Mass.,...

The court also stressed that judges «should refrain from second - guessing the disciplinary decisions made by school administrators.»

The evidence from developing countries might challenge the claim, made by school choice opponents, that the poor in America can not make sensible and informed choices if school choice is offered to them.

Most importantly, OCR's 2011 and 2014 guidelines contained page after page devoted to «second - guessing the disciplinary decisions made by school administrators.»

According to a report from Herald Scotland, Education Scotland said good progress had been made by the school in developing staff skills and putting systems in place to make sure children were kept safe, but added that «insufficient progress» had been made in relation to the leadership team and the management of the school.

But if the two subjects are given equal weight in evaluating a school, our results provide no support for the decisions made by the school district with respect to renewing for - profit and nonprofit management contracts.

This is the most important decision made by a school board, so they need to get it right.

An evaluation will be made by the school to determine proper placement.

The resolution, initiated by School Board Members Richard Vladovic, Bennett Kayser, and Marguerite LaMotte, aims to give the school board veto power over grant applications made by the school superintendent in amounts over $ 750,000.

On occasion, students and parents will challenge disciplinary decisions made by school leaders and school boards.

If you are using the ClassFlow for Schools Service that is integrated with a school SIS, any request to access or make changes to or delete Personal Information including Student Data must be made by the School within the SIS.

Glendale's Assistant Principal Jennifer Mayer - Glenn holds up the uniform made by the school's sewing club for Muslim female students.

In July 2015, the White House convened a «Rethink Discipline» conference, highlighting progress made by the school districts of Oakland, Los Angeles, Broward County (Florida), and others.

Decisions on requests to place the student in a distributed learning program should be made by the school district according to established criteria and processes.

Grier affirmed that no money had been taken from other schools in the district and that funding for the project came from state grants, contract renegotiations made by the school board, and private contributions.

Honoring the progress made by our school network, as well as the many programs that our supporters and partners make possible.

Such investments, however, are made by school districts characterized by a wide distribution of credit profiles and quality of existing infrastructure, attributes that vary widely by district urbanicity and student socioeconomic traits.

Adding to a growing body of evidence of overall progress made by Newark's public schools and life outcomes for Newark students, two studies released this month by Harvard University and MarGrady Research reveal significant gains made by the school district.

«Given the reemergence of poor governance practices coupled with new evidence of troubling decisions made by the school's board of trustees, placing the school on probation signals my deep concerns about the viability of the school under its current governing board,» Wulfson wrote.

Local elections, comments made by school board members, summer floods and a heinous murder made headlines in the Elgin area in 2017.

One of the greatest mistakes made by school districts attempting to deliver programming to their gifted and talented students is that they look for unidimensional approaches.

Complaints about unfair charter funding are frequently made by school choice advocates, although a report by the progressive N.C. Justice Center this year claimed local charter allocations are, in most schools, comparable to their traditional school counterparts.

This article examines existing literature on the impact made by school libraries on student achievement, as well as the effect of this literature on school - library advocacy.

Most qualified expenses can not exceed the cost estimates made by the school that the 529 beneficiary will be attending.

All reasonable effort is made by the School of Art Admissions Committee to review these applications in a fair and timely fashion.