Sentences with phrase «majority of school buildings»

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At the time, a movement was building to rein in zero - tolerance policies that had resulted in severe consequences for in - school infractions, the vast majority of which were only misdemeanors.

NBC 6 went through the files, school by school, and found the school system is spending a majority of the bond money on renovating school buildings.

The majority of schools were equipped with either impact - resistant windows or built - in storm shutters, and sandbags were placed around vulnerable areas.

The majority of schools in Brevard were built more than 50 years ago, Theodore explained, meaning they won't be as strong as newer facilities that can withstand upwards of 150 mph winds.

As Catholics we contribute to the cost of the school building and maintenance and in return we have a majority on the governing body of the school.

He says, «As Catholics we contribute to the cost of school building and maintenance and in return we have a majority on the governing body of the school.

More than 65,000 school children annually visit Old Sturbridge Village on field trips, and a majority of school groups augment their visits with hands - on learning in the Village's education building, now named The Country Bank Education Center in honor of the contribution.

(Above bottom): More than 65,000 school children annually visit Old Sturbridge Village on field trips, and a majority of school groups augment their visits with hands - on learning in the Village's education building.

«I am running to build a real Democratic State Senate majority that finally fully funds our public schools, protects tenants from being thrown out of their homes and strengthens our loophole ridden rent laws, passes badly needed ethics reforms, election reforms and real criminal justice reforms and makes Andrea Stewart - Cousins the first woman Senate Majority Leader, breaking up the so - called «three men in a roommajority that finally fully funds our public schools, protects tenants from being thrown out of their homes and strengthens our loophole ridden rent laws, passes badly needed ethics reforms, election reforms and real criminal justice reforms and makes Andrea Stewart - Cousins the first woman Senate Majority Leader, breaking up the so - called «three men in a roomMajority Leader, breaking up the so - called «three men in a room.»

In his letter, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R - Suffolk County) accused the school system of failing to comply with state education law by not submitting the required forms showing a building - by - building breakdown of how it spends local, state and federal funds.

Building muscle is something I've been obsessed with since high school (okay, not obsessed, but it's where the majority of my fitness research and experience has taken me).

The vast majority of schools taking part in the trial of Family Skills said that they would recommend it to other schools, highlighting that it provided a good opportunity to build home — school links and engage parents in their children's learning.

Given the limited amount of space available in the majority of existing schools, modular buildings provide an instant advantage to those who desperately need a cost effective and bespoke solution to utilise all the space available.

As online learning marches upmarket, we can't ignore the basic unmet infrastructure needs inside the vast majority of America's school buildings.

Flexibility, design and build Given the limited amount of space available in the majority of existing schools, modular buildings provide an instant advantage to those who desperately need a cost effective and bespoke solution to utilise all the space available.

They would have been built in a handful of urban communities, where 32,000 children, a majority black and Latino, were sitting on waiting lists of existing charters as they languished in underperforming district schools.

It seems, if our P - Files team is an indicator, that the majority of schools start building bridges to parents and students long before the first day of school.

«This investment is improving education: we have more teachers in Scottish classrooms, better quality school buildings and the vast majority of children in S3 achieving the minimum attainment level expected of them or better.

The great majority of students in U.S. schools want their classrooms, lunchrooms, hallways, and athletic fields to be safer, and their peers and the adults in the building to be more caring, supportive, and accepting.

Behind it, however, like the Wizard of Oz» s curtain and Potemkin» s building facades, there is much weakness, a weakness that probably afflicts the vast majority of today» s private schools and colleges.

At the time, he said the majority of free schools were, «a real success story we should build on as a country».

The concept of blended learning was fairly new to the majority of teachers, so a key element of Gwinnett County Public Schools» implementation strategy was support to build teachers» knowledge and confidence and to establish effective practices.

The majority of teacher teams submitted plans that built on the district's trend toward breaking down large struggling schools into smaller, more manageable learning communities.

For example, the majority of charters typically must pay for facilities out of general operating funds, and have limited access to public buildings — unlike school districts, which can access bonds for school construction and modernization.

But the majority of buildings will switch to a new «early start calendar» this year — all MPS high schools and middle schools, and a handful of elementary schools.

The majority of families identified «building relationships» and «maintaining open lines of communication with school staff» as the top two most important things they do for their children.

Despite growing critical of the charter movement, Shanker (1988) believed that his proposal for charter schools could drive widespread reform, leading to, as he put it, «thousands and thousands of schools in this country where people are building a new type of school that reaches the overwhelming majority of our students» (p. 21).

Last week Hartford Superintendent of Schools, Christina Kishimoto, announced plans that she wants to close Hartford's Clark School and hand the building over to Achievement First, Inc., the larger charter school management company that already has one school in Hartford but was promised another by Mayor Pedro Segarra and the majority on the Hartford Board of EducSchool and hand the building over to Achievement First, Inc., the larger charter school management company that already has one school in Hartford but was promised another by Mayor Pedro Segarra and the majority on the Hartford Board of Educschool management company that already has one school in Hartford but was promised another by Mayor Pedro Segarra and the majority on the Hartford Board of Educschool in Hartford but was promised another by Mayor Pedro Segarra and the majority on the Hartford Board of Education.

2 - 2:50 p.m. SESSION 5: Keys to Building Instructional Leadership Teams Despite best efforts, the majority of initiatives in schools today fail — 70 % on average — and don't result in the intended outcomes.

Other than announcing that «We've built better schools, raised test scores, made college more affordable, and put Connecticut on a path toward universal pre-kindergarten,» Malloy made no mention of the massive Common Core testing scheme that will be swamping Connecticut's public schools this year, neither did he explain why his administration supported the Common Core «cut scores» that are designed to ensure that the vast majority of public school students and teachers are deemed failures.

Although the majority of Puerto Rico's schools have reopened, enrollment is down and there are concerns about conditions at some of the buildings, Education Week reported.

While the vast majority of school employees indicate that their district has implemented a bullying prevention policy, only about half had received training related to how they can make that policy work in their building.

An overwhelming majority of schools and administrators indicate a desire to build digital libraries rather than experiment with book rental and subscription models, but the market is still in its early stages.

The majority of the museum «s presentations take place on its main campus, located in the heart of Houston «s museum district, which comprises the Caroline Wiess Law Building, the Audrey Jones Beck Building, the Glassell School of Art and the Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden.

Although a previous post says that we are all at more at risk during the majority of time we spend in our homes, the larger scale and sheer weight of commercial buildings and schools will cause more fatalities and more difficulty reaching victims still alive but buried.

It is unclear whether school buildings contributed to radio communication issues at Stoneman Douglas because the Sheriff's Office has not released the majority of the audio transmissions requested by the South Florida Sun Sentinel under Florida's public records law.

A recent survey from NBC's Parent Toolkit using the Princeton Survey Research Associates International found that the majority of U.S. parents interviewed ranked social and communication skills as the most important to build success for school and life even beyond academic grades.