Sentences with phrase «more of the alternative schools»

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Bitcoin has become a popular alternative option that brings more safety and less cost to people and businesses, according to a new white paper by the Chamber of Digital Commerce and the Georgetwon Center for Financial Markets and Policy at the McDonough School of Business.

«While our whole school is seemingly captivated by basketball, we are proposing an alternative to bring more peace to March,» said Regine Jean - Baptiste, one of the organizers of the Duke Christian events, wrote in an e-mail message.

Regardless of what each of you has come to law school to do, allow me to suggest a complementary or perhaps an alternative aspiration: take these three years to learn how to do law well; even more, learn that the point of doing law well is to do good; still more, learn that doing good through law....

Harris and Campbell will travel together to San Antonio for ANC 2016, and they both say learning more about alternative delivery models for school breakfast is an area of particular interest.

In a statement calling for more restrictions on the sale of competitive alternative foods, the American School Food Service Association, a national organization of school food - service workers, says «students are being put in a position of deciding between nutritious and non-nutritious foods while the financial and nutritional integrity of the child nutrition programs are being jeopardized.&School Food Service Association, a national organization of school food - service workers, says «students are being put in a position of deciding between nutritious and non-nutritious foods while the financial and nutritional integrity of the child nutrition programs are being jeopardized.&school food - service workers, says «students are being put in a position of deciding between nutritious and non-nutritious foods while the financial and nutritional integrity of the child nutrition programs are being jeopardized.»

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos was more supportive of the effort to strengthen charter schools statewide as the governor wants to lift the cap on the alternative public schools by 100.

Although the amendment wouldn't directly affect funding (and such) for public schools, in the long term anything that makes alternative education feasible for more people could lead to a reduction in the status of public schooling.

As a professor at Fordham Law School, the author of important books on political and economic policy, a key figure in Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign, and a visionary organizer on behalf of banking and business reforms, she understands that the Democratic Party must move toward progressive populism in order to become more than a tepid alternative to Republican extremism.

The selection of a more «old school» left - wing leader is seen as regressive by some, but many Corbyn supporters feel they were offered no real alternative.

To this end, I offer the resources of my office to the administration to find alternative, more fitting locations for all facilities that need to be sited, including schools.»

BHA Faith Schools Campaigner Richy Thompson commented, «It is disappointing to see a further diversification of the «faith» schools sector: with not only more evangelical schools and more pseudoscientific schools, but also the first special needs and alternative provision sSchools Campaigner Richy Thompson commented, «It is disappointing to see a further diversification of the «faith» schools sector: with not only more evangelical schools and more pseudoscientific schools, but also the first special needs and alternative provision sschools sector: with not only more evangelical schools and more pseudoscientific schools, but also the first special needs and alternative provision sschools and more pseudoscientific schools, but also the first special needs and alternative provision sschools, but also the first special needs and alternative provision schoolsschools.

«If more residents knew their building was burning dirty fuel that was bad for the health of their families and their neighbors, they might be more likely to push their landlord to switch to a clean alternative,» says Diana Hernández, the study's senior author and assistant professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health.

In a 2001 study sociologist Ronald C. Kessler of Harvard Medical School and his associates found that more than half of people with panic attacks or severe depression used some form of alternative therapy, including herbs, during the previous year, usually without medical supervision.

«School choice is enhanced when voucher schools or other alternatives supported on the public dime report more rather than less information,» said Cowen, associate professor of education policy and teacher education.

I've left behind the days of themed backpacks and loads of school supplies, and opt for a much more low - key and lightweight alternative for my college student lifestyle.

There is also an alternative school of thought shared among women that men feel entitled to at least a good night kiss if not something more in exchange for a free meal, depending on the expense.

Add to this trend that, more and more, schools are finding it difficult to refuse credit to students who have learned, for example, French or statistics in an alternative way and can produce evidence of competence.

Teachers told me that most NovaNET courses are comparable to textbook - based courses in length and content — a comeback to critics who talk of watered - down curricula at alternative schools — but that many students move through them more quickly, and often finish high school a semester early.

More likely, the school is viewed as the appropriate vehicle in light of a child's needs, his personality, his experience at public schools, and available alternatives.

The Income Collection Survey received responses from more E than 800 schools and showed that 48 per cent of parents now pay online or via an alternative method.

As the progression of school design gets further and further away from the scope of BB93, more alternative performance standards are applied to school buildings.

But in states and school districts with strong unions and charter laws of similar strength, more families have sought out alternatives for their children in charter schools.

David L. Shreve, a lobbyist for the National Conference of State Legislatures, who once accused Spellings of treating NCLB implementation like the game show Let's Make a Deal, contends that if the alternative paths get states closer to results, they should be available to more schools.

However, others expressed skepticism about what I shall call the Overregulation Theory, and proposed alternative explanations for the LSP's poor results, while a few more raised concerns about the impact of a more free - market school choice system on equity.

The coming debate will be over whether the solution is to create a more sweeping form of public school choice or to revive private school vouchers to create the alternative the public system has so far squelched.

Charlie Cobb was only 20 years old when he designed the Freedom Schools curriculum to enable students, as he put it, «to stand up in classrooms around the state and ask their teachers a real question» and «make it possible for them to challenge the myths of our society, to perceive more clearly its realities and to find alternatives and ultimately, new directions for action.»

Perhaps more telling were the results of a Gallup poll of students in the county's alternative school programs.

For example, Montgomery County Public Schools is one of the largest school districts in the country with more than 100,000 students, but its alternative school programs serve only about 125 students at a time.

With the more cost effective alternatives to enterprise Learning Management System software, such as WordPress web development tools and availability of free resources for setting up an education website, it is becoming easier for local schools and individual tutors to build a great site with minimum investments.

The foundation has already committed some $ 135 million to overhauling fundamental aspects of urban school districts: identifying new sources of talent for positions of authority; developing alternative training methods for managers, principals, and teachers union leaders; creating new tools for analyzing performance data; and working with school boards to help those sometimes obstructionist bodies become more focused on student learning than on petty power plays.

These actions ranged from simpler ones such as finding a safe place to stow student records, to more complex contingency planning, such as mapping of most vulnerable structures, planning for evacuation of children and their families, and provision of temporary schooling alternatives.

This is sometimes because music programs provide an alternative to more traditional forms of school participation, other times it's because the students feel music is more relevant to their everyday lives than other subjects (Karkou & Glasman, 2004).

More than 60 percent of teachers who started jobs in low - income schools via the alternative - preparation program Teach For America were still teaching two years later, a report says.

This alternative approach, which now educates more than 30 percent of public - school kids in 19 cities, requires a new structure in order to work.

In Virginia and North Carolina, for example, more than two - thirds of the high schools use alternative schedules.

Ninety - seven percent of young adults from families with high incomes completed high school; more than 90 percent of them earned a regular diploma and 4 percent followed an equivalency test alternative.

But this claim needs to be tested, for there is clearly a plausible alternative: that teachers are not only better educated and more middle class than the average citizen, but also more public spirited, more committed to public education, and thus more likely to vote in school - board elections regardless of their personal stakes.

Of course I was predisposed in that direction because I'm a huge admirer of Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy charter schools — more than 40 of them now, in four boroughs of New York City — which are knocking the top off state test scores and providing terrific educational alternatives for thousands of youngsters, mostly poor and minority, who would otherwise be stuck in some of the country's worst urban schoolOf course I was predisposed in that direction because I'm a huge admirer of Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy charter schools — more than 40 of them now, in four boroughs of New York City — which are knocking the top off state test scores and providing terrific educational alternatives for thousands of youngsters, mostly poor and minority, who would otherwise be stuck in some of the country's worst urban schoolof Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy charter schools — more than 40 of them now, in four boroughs of New York City — which are knocking the top off state test scores and providing terrific educational alternatives for thousands of youngsters, mostly poor and minority, who would otherwise be stuck in some of the country's worst urban schoolof them now, in four boroughs of New York City — which are knocking the top off state test scores and providing terrific educational alternatives for thousands of youngsters, mostly poor and minority, who would otherwise be stuck in some of the country's worst urban schoolof New York City — which are knocking the top off state test scores and providing terrific educational alternatives for thousands of youngsters, mostly poor and minority, who would otherwise be stuck in some of the country's worst urban schoolof youngsters, mostly poor and minority, who would otherwise be stuck in some of the country's worst urban schoolof the country's worst urban schools.

States could also create entirely separate accountability systems for alternative schools, weighting existing measures differently (e.g. placing less emphasis on proficiency and placing more emphasis on academic growth) and using different indicators, such as high school completion rates instead of cohort graduation rates.

The Handbook of Alternative Education lists more than 7,000 public and private school alternatives for preschoolers through college students.

It might have been the accountability system, or the state's reading program, or its decision to expect more from students, or its alternative certification program, or its plethora of school choice innovations, or some combination of all of them.

Take for example, the call for extending the school day; the development of a more demanding curriculum that better prepares students for a global, information - driven economy; building K - 12 and higher education collaboration such as in a K - 16 model, and providing alternative educational opportunities for high school students who feel they must go to work.

If the new information surprises respondents by indicating the district is doing less well than previously thought, the public, upon learning the truth of the matter, is likely to 1) lower its evaluation of local schools; 2) become more supportive of educational alternatives for families; 3) alter thinking about current policies affecting teacher compensation and retention; and 4) reassess its thinking about school and student accountability policies.

The Urban Academy and more than 30 other alternative high schools that are part of the New York Performance Standards Consortium have adopted these rigorous performance assessments as an alternative to the Regents Exams, which high school students throughout New York State are required to pass in English, math, history, and science in order to earn a diploma.

Students attending schools in states with genuine alternative certification gained more on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) between 2003 and 2007 than did students in the other states.

The distinction, essentially, is between the more radical provision of individual programs to individual students — as a deschooling alternative to universalism — and the provision of personally tailored and responsive programs to students — within schools.

While opponents said that vouchers had no track record of improving student performance, supporters countered that no alternative could be worse than Washington's public schools, which in any case were in line to receive more federal aid.

The numbers of parents paying by cash are similar across both stages of education, which suggests that all schools are moving away from it at the same rate - more than half of parents appear to have moved past cash, but only secondary schools have dedicated software as a clear alternative, perhaps suggesting that some primary schools do not fully understand the benefits of parental payment software.

One in four school children in the United States no longer attends his neighborhood school; fully 15 percent of all kids (more than 7 million) now participate in a public alternative school.

The Income Collection Survey had responses from more than 800 schools and showed that 48 per cent of parents now pay online or via an alternative method, with 46 of parents saying they pay for meals solely online.