Sentences with phrase «major areas of school»

This priority includes the major areas of school construction; safe and drug - free schools; and charter schools.

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From birth through high school through college through a 12 - year major - league career, he got to stay in the same area of the country, a luxury that most Americans never have, much less baseball players.

Pro and major - college sports, with their cheering throngs in big - time stadiums, were not to be played anywhere in the U.S. Away from the New York metropolitan area, it was deemed acceptable to play most small - college and high school sports, which went on as scheduled, accompanied usually by a pregame prayer, moment of silence and patriotic salute by the school band.

Major City Directors Section Meeting CEP: Making It Work in Major City Districts (3310) Key Area 3 - Administration 7/14/2015, 2:15 pm - 3:15 pm Ballroom ACE Speakers: Nadine Mann, PhD, RD, Zoe Neuberger, Stacy Koppen and Susan Ehrhart, SNS The national roll - out of the new Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) has exceeded all expectations among small and mid-size school districts.

The building of several basic schools, construction of the Community Secondary School, numerous health facilities, and the improvement of the road network, are some of the major projects of the NDC in the area The Volta Region would not be a comfortable zone, for the leaders and the supporters of the NPP, if government and party attempt to take for granted the peaceful nature of the NDC.

Among the major areas of disagreement are the Senate's insistence — despite the huge deficit — on a politically popular property - tax rebate and a new Senate plan to lift the cap on the number of charter schools, which is strongly opposed by the teachers - union - friendly Assembly.

The only major common market was barricaded, the dilapidated primary and secondary schools are no go areas, and the only bad road linking the communities to the two States has been blocked by the» merchants of war».

Report calls for # 300m in extra funding for the most deprived areas, after highlighting a major divide between North and South with a quarter of secondary schools said to be inadequate or needing improvement

Eachus's major issues include pushing for the area's «fair share» of school aid in Albany and lowering the tax burden in the area.

Representatives of the state's major teacher's union, New York State United Teachers said, as of Thursday afternoon, they heard of problems in schools from the Rochester area as well as Saranac Lake in the Adirondacks.

Also included is a $ 200 million small business plan; acceptance of Cuomo's proposal to raise the state's charter school cap; a five - year, $ 1.5 billion highway and bridge capital fund; and the creation of five local transportation cooperatives to help farmers bring their products to major metropolitan areas.

With the plan in court, Borough President Katz said it is time to review additional options for the area that could include the construction of a hockey arena or soccer stadium, along with other facilities like a new school, an eco-recreation center, and more parking to accommodate the major events often take place simultaneously in the Flushing Meadows vicinity.

Borough of Opportunity: Tackling poverty and the widening social divide by giving a «hand up» instead of a «hand out» by transforming our state schools, providing a housing ladder of opportunity with home ownership at its core and regenerating our most deprived areas by using the public sector to pump prime major investment by the private sector.

There are four main areas where molecular imaging can have a major impact, according to the study's lead author David A. Mankoff, MD, PhD, the Gerd Muehllehner Professor of Radiology and director of the PET Center at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

She recommended that educational leaders should consider redrawing boundaries to reduce the number and fragmentation of school districts in major metropolitan areas.

«Childhood obesity is a major focus area on both USC campuses,» Keck School of Medicine Dean Rohit Varma said, referring to the University Park and Health Sciences campuses.

This half - life existence of graduate students can be minimized in a number of ways; pick a school and department that has a socially active graduate student body; bring a significant other with you to graduate school; attend a school in a major metropolitan area; live in a graduate dorm; find friends in more socially active departments; join a gym or go to the gym on campus; become involved in the surrounding community; suck it up and plan social events yourself for the uninitiated in your department; and finally desperately seek someone — anyone — who will halfway understand your life, i.e., make real friends rather than acquaintances.

Spotlight follows a special investigative department of the same name of The Boston Globe, my area's major metropolitan paper, and honestly, the last bastion of real, old school news reporting in New England.

In principle though, it will be down to schools to decide whether ICT remains a major area for investment in the curriculum, and at the heart of the school improvement plan.

This, together with the major problem of recruiting teachers, which has been particularly bad in areas where housing costs are high, is forcing schools to look at different models for teaching and learning.

The purpose of this grant is to build a community of scholars, based at Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) but reaching out across the broader Harvard community, that will support the development of a highly select group of Early Career Scholars, stimulate significant work in the field of civic learning and action, and establish a major site for developing and disseminating empirical and theoretical work in these areas to the worldwide research community.

A teacher in an area with a high degree of private school choice is 10 percent more likely to have majored in math or science than a teacher in an area with minimal private school choice.

I would, therefore, ask Hanushek and Lindseth to stop tilting at windmills and to join with me in instituting a dialogue in major areas in which we do agree, like the fact that courts can and should hold states and school districts accountable for better performance, and that «school funding policies must recognize the underlying heterogeneity of students and their educational challenges and ensure that all schools have the means to succeed» (Hanushek and Lindseth, Schoolhouses, Courthouses, and Statehouses, page 218).

A separate program that carries a $ 20,000 school award exists for areas surrounding National Semiconductor's three major U.S. communities — Santa Clara, San Mateo, and Alameda Counties in California; the state of Maine; and Tarrant County, Texas.

While the overall number of teachers has kept pace with changing pupil numbers, the NAO reported that 54 per cent of school leaders in areas with large proportions of disadvantaged pupils find attracting and keeping good teachers is «a major problem».

In private schools, math or science majors earn 14 percent more if they work in an area with a high degree of private - school choice.

Nationally, the average number of high school credits earned in career and technical education dropped notably between 1990 and 2009, while those earned in almost every other major subject area increased.

We are just finishing our research and evaluation for the programs from our 2013/14 school year and in two of our major initiatives, we are seeing statistically significant gains in Mathematics - it's in Math that these two schools have focused their blended methods on (often we pick a specific subject area to do a small scale pilot).

The major problem areas for schools to look out for are likely to be «junk food» manufacturers, companies that exploit child labour in other parts of the world and companies involved in the promotion of pornography, alcohol or tobacco.

A few major areas I hope will receive attention during reauthorization are college / workplace readiness, including the promotion of more rigorous standards; greater accountability at the secondary level; more sophisticated policy and greater accountability for improving teacher effectiveness, particularly at the late elementary and secondary levels; a broadening of attention to math and science as well as to history; and refinements in AYP to focus greater attention and improvement on the persistently failing schools by offering real choices to parents of students stuck in such schools.

The Study will monitor the pulse of the charter school movement, addressing research and policy questions in three major areas:

«The strategy of a quick tour in high school through all the major areas covered by college physics courses bears little relation to future success,» Sadler noted.

The huge drive to equip state schools with interactive whiteboards (IWB) resulted in huge market saturation for the technology but many IWBs are now nearing the end of their natural lives, and one of the major areas of change I'm seeing in schools is their decision to think about next generation technology.

In terms of scheduling, major construction works are best undertaken during school holidays when the obvious issues arising from the contractor's vehicle movements, delivery of materials, workers in proximity to children, dust, noise, restricted access to existing play areas and a host of other logistics, health, safety and child protection considerations are less likely to impact on the school's daily life.

We intend to build our own Outdoor Centre, run Bushcraft Clubs in all of our schools, equip our Sixth Formers with the skills to run their own private fieldwork expeditions when they are at university, expand the teaching of subjects that happens in specialist outdoor areas on ‑ site, and continue our university ‑ level research to understand how we can best improve learning through the outdoors and on major expeditions.

A major class - action settlement that gives LAUSD teachers layoff protection at several dozen schools in high - poverty areas has been invalidated by the California 2nd District Court of Appeal.

Our growing network of 31 schools uniquely encompasses 24 open - enrollment public charter schools in Arizona, Texas, and Washington, D.C., with new schools in Arizona and Texas, plus our first campus in Louisiana, opening in autumn 2018; five domestic private schools in major metropolitan areas including New York City, Silicon Valley, and Northern Virginia / metro D.C.; and two private international schools in China, with two more schools in China plus a school for early learners in the Czech Republic opening in fall 2018, and a new school in Bangkok, Thailand in autumn 2019.

The bill gives high school students the option of naming a «major area of interest,» choosing a «minor area of interest,» or taking whatever...

Independent private schools compete for students; they represent about 15 percent of enrollments nationally and more than 25 percent in major metropolitan areas.

While particularly painful for the families of Truxton and Mount Vernon, barring charter school growth into new areas is a major problem for ALL charter schools, regardless of authorizer.

Given its location in a major metropolitan area, I suggest seeking learning experiences via partnerships with educational programs at one of the many nearby colleges of education while remaining critical of pedagogical choices in their school.

The head teacher said that a major area for school improvement was in the area of reading for meaning among the children and this was an area where the Harrow boys could make a major contribution, and would certainly have a huge impact.

The report analyzes and tests the correlation between school - level data, and perceptions of the school community as to the impact of CDM in its major priority areas.

Specifically, their mission is to protest the proposed Greater Public Schools Now (GPS Now), which plans a major expansion of school funding and an increase in charter schools for thSchools Now (GPS Now), which plans a major expansion of school funding and an increase in charter schools for thschools for the area.

While student safety should always be of top priority, school districts should ensure that their decisions on weather - related closings and delays are aligned with major employers in the area and local government offices, which often is not the case.

Not only does she have a deep passion for education advocacy and long experience in this area, but as a charter school parent herself, she has a personal connection that will allow her to have a major impact on our work,» said Jed Wallace, President and CEO of the California Charter Schools Association.

The major goals are to increase the school's effectiveness in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) and to increase academic language by particularly integrating the linguistic demands of the STEM areas into the curriculum.

The appeal around SEL is significant enough that now California's CORE districts, which serve over a million students in major urban areas like Los Angeles and San Francisco, now require social - emotional skills to make up 8 % of a school's evaluation.

Basically, its provisions are as follows: If a prospective teacher who has a baccalaureate or advanced degree in an academic major other than education passes the appropriate certification exams and background checks and is hired by a school district to teach in the subject area of preparation in grades 8 - 12, the candidate will be granted a probationary certificate for a maximum of two years, at the end of which time the school district decides, based on the teacher's performance, whether or not to recommend the issuance of full standard certification.

The paper then reviews major reform efforts in the areas of accountability, the middle school concept, and cooperative learning.