Sentences with phrase «move school systems»

Without professional development to enhance their skills, those already teaching are not likely to move school systems forward on a reform agenda that calls for excellence in teaching and learning.

«If we are going to move our school system forward, we need a policy where parents have a voice, where there are real checks and balances, where everybody has to prove their points and convince others before policy is made or changed.»

The message that PROSE teachers delivered, he said, was: «We are moving our school system forward, and we would like your support.»

This is part of our strategic plan to move the school system forward.

Not exact matches

The shaky logic behind this move is that since seniors don't have kids in the school system, they shouldn't have to contribute to its upkeep.

On Monday, just hours before a scheduled press event about GE's move, the industrial giant pledged to invest $ 25 million in the city's underfunded public school system by creating a career lab and other resources.

For instance, in Weston, Mass., most homes lost value during the downturn, but a select few lower - priced homes maintained their value because the town has a very good school system and there's always demand at the low end of the market from families looking to move in, Weiss said.

On the other hand, I think completing the move to the metric system is probably far more important right now in making us competi.tive, not to mention increasing magnet schools, de-emphasizing sports and ensuring that only those who want and are ready for children have them.

One parent told CBS News that she moved her child from the Mercer County school system because of the intensity of the bullying: «They taunted her about it.

Education was being placed under the control of the state and was becoming secularized, but on the frontiers of white settlement, especially in the United States, those moved by their Christian faith were founding most of the institutions of higher learning and were even responsible for much of the public school system.

She taught school in the Texas school system before moving to Nashville, TN in 1980, where she became a Leader with La Leche League International, an educational and support organization for breastfeeding mothers.

I then made a huge parental mistake by moving my children out of that environment into another elementary school based on guidance from community members telling me that the school system I was entering was much better.

After moving from university foodservice to school foodservice, the Purdue University graduate worked her way up through the APS system starting as an area manager.

The Los Angeles school system has voted to remove soda from its machines; Philadelphia officials plan a similar move.

Is the Montessori school part of their public school system (if so, I'd love to move up there!)?

However, moving may be in the best interest if the move allows a child to attend a better school, provides access to child care or a support system, or would benefit the child in some other way that can be demonstrated in court.

We heartily agree, but for all our talent and determination, my school community's been unable to move the system itself.

Without waiting around for any top - down permission, my school has already instituted many of the bill's guidelines, but we know first hand that it's going to take some real political muscle to move the current system.

Here's the back story: when it comes to health and wellness initiatives, Nettelhorst, my neighborhood public elementary school, has moved mountains: we successfully lobbied to become a Healthy Choice Pilot School, giving us one of the system's coveted salad bars, honored by the Healthy Schools Campaign and U.S. Senator Dick Dschool, has moved mountains: we successfully lobbied to become a Healthy Choice Pilot School, giving us one of the system's coveted salad bars, honored by the Healthy Schools Campaign and U.S. Senator Dick DSchool, giving us one of the system's coveted salad bars, honored by the Healthy Schools Campaign and U.S. Senator Dick Durbin.

Stefani spent her high school years moving from family to family in the Phoenix, Arizona foster care system, and Luis» family was in Mexico.

Nevertheless, Cuomo was successful this year in forming a new teacher evaluation system as well as making it harder for teachers to obtain tenure — a move that state lawmakers felt they had no choice but to accept given the policy's linkage to an increase in school aid.

Miller Place is the first Long Island district to publicly acknowledge the posting of armed security personnel since the Feb. 14 shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that killed 17 students and teachers but other local systems are moving in that direction.

Finally, I move onto the government's plans to increase the number of academies in the system by turning outstanding schools into academies.

The politicians seem to be unable to move away from grand gestures which they think will impress the electorate rather than consider the fundamentals of what makes the kind of education system that the public wants - good local schools in every neighbourhood.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia on Thursday appointed veteran administrator Jack Bierwirth as a «distinguished educator» for the Hempstead school district, a highly unusual move to bolster efforts to turn around the chronically troubled system.

«The expansion of the academies and Free Schools programme, regardless of any evidence to show that it is the solution to raising attainment in schools, is a wrong move and will lead to a two tier education Schools programme, regardless of any evidence to show that it is the solution to raising attainment in schools, is a wrong move and will lead to a two tier education schools, is a wrong move and will lead to a two tier education system.

Pendleton said this was a «political move of the majority going from security in the school system to changing polling places and redistricting which is clearly a violation of laws.»

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia, in a highly unusual move, appointed veteran educator Jack Bierwirth as a «distinguished educator» for the Hempstead school district to bolster efforts to turn around the chronically troubled system.

But that same message led to the Tuesday shutdown of the Los Angeles school system — a move de Blasio suggested was inappropriate, and Bratton said was «a significant overreaction.»

This law would set up a more flexible and functional system to allow the state to move in and appoint a caretaker school board if the NYS Schools Chancellor determines that the current one is not acting in the district's best interest, and a caretaker fiscal director to correct budgetary issues.

Bloomberg has repeatedly argued that failing to repeal the law and establish a system based on merit immediately would be devastating to schools as the city moves forward with a plan to lay off 4,666 teachers, which is set to begin as early as this spring.

«Now that Ms. Black and Mr. Polakow - Suransky have been approved by State Education Commissioner Steiner, I hope we can move forward on the many challenges the system faces, including creating a curriculum that will give students a well - rounded education, new and better interventions for struggling students, and early action to turn around failing schools,» he said in a statement.

White stated that the move was made to address an education system in Ramapo which he says is failing, specifically mentioning a 50 percent graduation rate for Hispanic students and private school placements which the organization stated was discriminatory and illegal.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew said the governor's move will ensure that the DOE will implement a new teacher evaluation and support system by this September and New York City schools will not risk further loss of state money.

«Sharing services has been a very logical, positive move for our school system,» Osborne said.

When the family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and couldn't afford to buy a home in suburban Shaker Heights, which boasted one of the country's best school systems, Robert Black decided it would be better to rent than to own until his younger son graduated from high school.

«The team will further evaluate the long - term biocompatibility of the modified insulin system in an animal model before determining whether to move to clinical trials,» says co-author Dr. John Buse, professor of medicine at the UNC School of Medicine and director of the UNC Diabetes Care Center and the NC Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute.

He soon moved to the private Moses Brown School, but if he had remained in the public school system he would next have taken coursework in education at a nearby state coSchool, but if he had remained in the public school system he would next have taken coursework in education at a nearby state coschool system he would next have taken coursework in education at a nearby state college.

After the family moved to Orlando, he entered a segregated school system which seemed to further nurture his intellectual ability.

For an understanding of how nuclear plant safety is assessed and will likely be evaluated moving forward, Scientific American spoke with Najmedin Meshkati, a professor of civil, environmental, industrial and systems engineering at the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering in Los Angeles.

About me: Hi my name is Douglas but ppl just call me Doug or Dougie i am a senier at the westport high school and it looks like i am going to graduate and move on to college i want to go to BCC for computer information systems game dev / game creation program i

I just retired from the Navy and moved back out to AZ, Im attending school for Computer Information Systems and working as a computer tech #NERD!

Watching Nathalie go through the motions of losing touch with modern school system, letting go of her husband and kids who have moved on, trying to connect with today's youth, and hopelessly falling in love with a cat ended up being the very best cinematic experience I've had at the festival, and indeed, the year so far.

Her 1974 book The Great School Wars describes how New York City has played educational three - card monte over its long public school history by moving apparent control over decisions up and down the system, between the central chancellor's office and the local superintendents, but never yielding any fraction of control to the scSchool Wars describes how New York City has played educational three - card monte over its long public school history by moving apparent control over decisions up and down the system, between the central chancellor's office and the local superintendents, but never yielding any fraction of control to the scschool history by moving apparent control over decisions up and down the system, between the central chancellor's office and the local superintendents, but never yielding any fraction of control to the schools.

In an ideal world, transparency would suffice in prompting families to move their students to better schools and encourage the school system to make needed improvements to keep more families from exiting.

Specifically, it would move American higher education from a voucher - funded market to a system with a free public option much like traditional K 12 public schools.

With a population of approximately 1,500 students, 60 percent of whom are of color and 71 percent of whom are low - income, RHS is a national example of the type of programmatic systems change needed to move our schools forward.

Nearly half of teachers working in British international schools say their move was influenced by «dissatisfaction» with the education system at home, new survey findings reveal.

Well, we knew the school system wasn't moving to Mexico, so we just said, «No, we're not doing that.

Two Seattle parents could move onto the national stage this week when a Presidential candidate endorses their proposed overhaul of Washington State's school system.