Sentences with phrase «means school control»

The decision, recommended by state education Superintendent Paul Pastorek, generated lively debate in the city, with some groups contending that diminished OPSB means school control is less local or less democratic.

Not exact matches

, and by working to lower the occurrence of unwanted pregnancies in the first place — which means better sexual health education in schools, funding for birth control measures and education about using that birth control, promoting research into methods of safe male birth control, and creating an environment where the women in your life can come to you to discuss safe sexual choices.

He spoke from a culture in which caring meant controlling, directing, making decisions for children of far older than nursery - school age.

Most of these schools refer to themselves as «independent,» meaning free from any direct control by church, diocese, synod or parochial board.

And like many other teachers at high - poverty schools, those at M.S. 45 had come to believe that with students as potentially disruptive as theirs, strong, dominant teacher control was the only way to keep the classroom calm and orderly; handing over the reins would mean chaos.

Hey Bettina: I meant to send you a message for a long time — I wanted to let you know that we formed a group of parents to control the unhealthy food given to students for celebrations, fundraisers and rewards at our school.

Second, do you mean to say that your school age kid can't manage the control that my friend's Rottweiler can, and further, that you, with a JD, can't manage to parent as effectively as my brother, who has never finished his Associate degree?

Like Iain, I noted the role of ideas, but for me, the key ones were Manchester School Liberalism (as propagated by the pamphlets, letters and speeches of the Anti-Corn Law League); the appeals to class conflict and religiosity (again, as exploited by the League); and Peel's own redefinition of Conservative ideology as a means to preserve traditional aristocratic control over Parliament.

De Blasio has said a return to decentralized control could mean that some districts keep signature initiatives like pre-K for all and after - school and others don't.

But most humiliating, he was granted mayoral control of the city's school system for a mere year — meaning he's going to have to beg Albany yet again to let him stay in charge of city schools, even though no rational person really believes New York City would be better off with the old Board of Education.

But David Bloomfield, a professor of education at C.U.N.Y. and Brooklyn College, says the new charter legislation doesn't mean de Blasio's control over the city's schools will necessarily be further diminished.

And the lack of oversight created by «freedom» means that, as with academies, groups with a non-educational agenda could gain control of free schools for their own purposes.

De Blasio had pushed Albany to approved a permanent extension of mayoral control of New York City schools, only to have the Legislature and Gov. Andrew Cuomo agree to a 12 - month extension, meaning the mayor will be back at the Capitol once again to call for the program's renewal.

The governor has linked the extension of rent control laws to the creation of a tax credit meant to spur donations to public schools and scholarship programs benefiting private and parochial schools.

De Blasio pushed for permanent mayoral control during a string of visits to Renewal schools earlier this year as a means of rebuffing Cuomo's proposal for state takeover of failing schools.

«Governors are well meaning volunteers who now have control over millions of pounds of taxpayers» money and public assets, the school workforce and the life chances of children and young people.

During a radio appearance Tuesday, Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña touted mayoral control as a means of seeing initiatives all the way through to their end.

Extending mayoral control of New York City schools was not included in the budget on Sunday night, meaning that, barring further action, Mayor de Blasio's authority could now end in June, as previously planned.

«The mayor of the City of New York has to understand the closing of schools means a failed policy,» said City Councilwoman Letitia James, who called on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to declare a «state of emergency» and revoke mayoral control.

«The governor is linking everything,» he said, meaning upstate - downstate issues like tax caps and rent control, charter schools and education reform and ethics.

Fortunately, we found that the characteristics of this disease were nearly identical to those of previously circulating influenza viruses, meaning that policies and models based on those assumptions could be applied to the control of 2009 H1N1,» said Justin Lessler, lead author of the study and research associate with the Bloomberg School's Department of Epidemiology.»

Moderation meaning they can have a controlled portion of candy on the days surrounding Easter if they have collected it from school or an egg hunt.

But when her concentration is bobbled by an incident beyond her control, who can blame the father for trying to fix the situation — even if that means interfering in the school's testing system?

And since avoiding academic risks means avoiding learning, praising students» intelligence eventually impaired their success in school (and life happiness as well, since they felt intelligence was out of their own control).

Voters understood that passage of this proposition would mean more money in their classrooms, better pay for the teachers in their schools, more control at the local level, and more information for parents.

They mean that the students in the control group would need to remain in school an extra 3.7 months on average to catch up to the level of reading achievement attained by those who used the scholarship opportunity to attend a private school for any period of time.

Third, many control group children may already have been attending a school other than one in their neighborhood as a result of expanded school choice policies, which also meant that children in the experimental group could stay in their original schools after their families moved.

It means agreeing to try out a new program and allowing individual students, classes, or even whole schools to be randomly assigned to either the experimental program or the control group (usually, the existing program).

In years past, school reform meant bigger schools, more «comprehensive» systems, and more tightly centralized control.

Many of the problems that plague American education are beyond the control of the schools and will have to be addressed by other means.

Schools however with the exception of the public school sector, have had to rely mainly on what is termed within the security industry as «physical security» gates, fences, and turnstiles usually supported by some means of electronic security equipment such as access control and intruder alarm systems.

Opponents of the state's post-Katrina intervention rallied to the cry of «local control,» which usually meant restoring power to the school board or something like it.

Pell Grants for Kids would provide more federal dollars for schools while also encouraging more local control - I mean more control by parents and teachers - over how that money is spent.

The impact of instructional time on learning means that one factor determining the ability of schools to meet performance goals is not under the control of administrators and teachers.

The expectation that schools can achieve complete proficiency under conditions that are by no means under the state's control is unrealistic.

In this video gallery, Memphis educators and community leaders sound off on how its public schools are coping with a wave of changes that challenge how the schools are run and managed — and what that all means for local control.

This funding gap, coupled with the fact that traditional districts often control access to public school buildings, means that many charter operators fall back on a «patchwork of solutions» to cover their operating costs, find adequate school facilities, and transport students.

This funding gap, coupled with the fact that traditional districts often control access to public school buildings, means that many charter operators fall back on a

Providing the highest - quality education means creating rich opportunities to learn by addressing the educational factors that are under the control of schools.

These studies also are weak with regards to external validity because the research design does not permit a determination of whether the pre-k program improves performance in elementary school — the control group begins to receive the pre-k program just after the children are initially tested, which means there is no untreated control group with which to benchmark performance in kindergarten and thereafter.

If such quality - control measures can be adopted in other communities, charter schools should be supported as a means to increase the supply of good schools available to poor children.

However, an insistence on the secular control of public funds meant that Catholic and other church - based schools could not receive publicly funded vouchers, even in academically failing school districts where other private schools are unavailable to poor students.

For instance, although most of the studies cited above do include statistical controls for peer effects (the mean characteristics of other student in a class or school), very few states or districts do so when generating value - added estimates.

As research has suggested, the system has the potential to distort results, meaning that some pupils who significantly under perform, many of which could be as a consequence of extenuating circumstances outside of a schools control, could have a «disproportionate impact» and «cause a considerable drop in results» for schools.

In response to Gardner and Goleman, the Lesson One intervention trains teachers to implement strategies that help children not only learn the meaning of skills such as self - control and persistence, but internalize them for use in and out of school.

The Tacoma School Board's original objection to charters focused on the loss of control, but Santorno agreed with Redinger that not becoming an authorizer may mean giving up whatever local control the district could maintain.

What local control used to mean is sort of what charter schools mean today.

The decision not to cede control of 10 failing schools means the Texas Education Agency could assume control of the Houston district.

This means, when things such as poverty, race, and English language learners are taken into account and properly controlled for, we are finding that student outcomes on test scores are simply better in the private and charter sector as opposed to traditional public schools.

The control of the curriculum, qualifications, accountability and inspection means that while in some ways schools have considerably more freedom than they did 30 years ago, it may not feel that way.