Sentences with phrase «majority of schools»

Yes, a vast majority of school districts in the country are run by elected boards.

Public neighborhood schools — the vast majority of schools in this country — were hardly present in the billionaire's childhood or adult life.

But little has been written about the fact that the proposal misses the mark when it comes to the real challenges facing the vast majority of school districts across the country.

At the same time, a state aid increase and use of reserve funds helped the vast majority of school boards stay within the property tax cap.

But the overwhelming majority of schools start at about 8 a.m. and end around 2 p.m. Moreover, they are in session for only half the days in the year.

The survey found that a large majority of schools do have a new assessment system in place with the most popular solution proving to be buying in systems from external organisations.

So, for two years in a row spending in a large majority of school districts has gone down.

Finding 1: The vast majority of school food authorities (88 percent) needed one or more pieces of equipment to help them meet the current lunch standards.

In the vast majority of schools today, the culture plainly denies students the opportunity to be meaningfully involved.

The vast majority of school funding comes through state and local sources.

Yet the vast majority of schools lack a technology coordinator to implement digital learning and oversee technology.

But there's a catch: traditional public - school districts still own the great majority of school buildings, and with rare exceptions, public charter schools have no legal claim to them.

The vast majority of our school staff do the work out of love and view this as a profession.

This funding is used by the significant majority of school districts nationwide and is a critical support for schools.

The vast majority of school discipline procedures are forms of punishment that work best with the students who need them the least.

Eventually this idea of «offer vs. serve» was expanded so that today it applies to the vast majority of school meals served at all grade levels.

We know the vast majority of school nutrition and food service professionals want our kids to be served healthy, nourishing food at school.

The vast majority of my school friends, as we got older, did the same.

Despite this, inside the vast majority of our school walls, social media tools are blocked and filtered.

In the past, the allocation of the vast majority of school places was overseen by local authorities, based on school admissions criteria.

That goal matches what the clear majority of school districts already have in their sites for students.

A slight majority of schools were estimated to have positive effects, but a few schools were estimated to have large negative effects on student achievement.

In the face of the strong opposition from parents, the mayoral - controlled majority of the school board backed down.

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.

In addition, the vast majority of school funding (about 90 percent) comes from state and local sources.

A: I would say that the vast majority of school districts who offer credit recovery are doing it through some form of digital content.

The vast majority of school discipline procedures are forms of punishment that work best with the students who need them the least.

Although the term «choice» is often associated with privately governed charter schools or private school voucher proposals, the vast majority of schools of choice are operated by public school districts.

The vast majority of school leaders who are opening their first school significantly underestimate the amount of time and number of tasks which will need to be completed in order to open successfully.

The vast majority of schools still supported by councils are primary schools, and their size and location often makes it more difficult to integrate them into multi-academy trusts.

«Vouchers in any form divert tax money to private schools or homeschoolers and take it from under - funded public schools, where the vast majority of school children will continue to be educated,» said Clay Robison, a spokesman for the Texas State Teachers Association.

Teacher degree and experience levels: Teachers» education (degree) and experience levels are probably the most widely studied teacher attributes, both because they are easy to measure and because they are, in the vast majority of school systems, the sole determinants of teachers» salaries.

The vast majority of schools use some form of social - emotional and behavioral screening data to identify students in need of individual or small group interventions (at either Tier 2 or 3).

Ominous as it sounds, the assessment centre, which forms a crucial recruitment stage for a large majority of school leaver and graduate business and finance roles, really shouldn't have you quaking in your shiny little interview - best shoes.

It is very sad to note that, in our country as we speak, majority of our school pupils do not benefit from lessons taught at school because they do not understand English.

«The vast majority of schools provide the option of wearing pants or shorts for female students, but some don't.»

Washington — If the House - approved tax - reform bill becomes law with its rule on contributory pensions intact, the measure would change the tax status of the vast majority of school employees who retire in the next few years.

The New York State School Boards Association is celebrating the passage of the overwhelming majority of school budgets across the state yesterday, even as local districts contend for the first time with a limit on property tax increases.

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.

Cross-Curricular Learning The cost of school trips is a topic often discussed in the media (often in an inflammatory way, which doesn't reflect the fact that the vast majority of school trips take place in the UK and Northern France).

For example, in Baltimore City, the vast majority of schools get Title I funds — and are highly disadvantaged.

Newly formed teacher groups won the vast majority of school contracts after they formed an alliance with UTLA.

The vast majority of schools however have no such system — even though it would be inexpensive to install such a system and be very helpful for dealing with anyone who entered the school without first reporting fully to reception.

However, the vast majority of schools whose students took IGCSE First Language English last summer saw results similar to the previous year.

With the support of the vast majority of the school community, and the unanimous support of the staff, the School Council agreed to recruit our first trained Montessori teacher in 2003 to commence in 2004.

The vast majority of schools chartered in order to gain autonomy are pre-existing public schools.

Our annual «Impact of New Technologies» survey into the views of English Maintained Schools on a range of new technologies used by teachers and students carried out in conjunction with the National Education Research Panel (NERP) shows that an increasing majority of schools (56 per cent primary, 65 per cent secondary schools) feel they are now definitely unable, or unlikely to be able, to maintain planned new technologies investments for 2011/12.

We quickly realised that the vast majority of school halls, pitches, classrooms and theatres were lying empty and unused on evenings and weekends, while at the same time grassroots sports and community groups were crying out for affordable, accessible venues to host their activities.