Sentences with phrase «n't holding schools»

What Times readers were not told, however, was that before NCLB, North Carolina, like almost every state, did not hold schools accountable for the performance of various subgroups, like minorities and special - needs students.

Some believe the data used in the SPF isn't comprehensive enough and does not hold schools accountable for their work in early childhood education.

The state has agreed to not hold schools accountable for the first year's results.

«We couldn't hold school, and the servers were all down,» said Lani Rounds, the charter school's principal.

We couldn't hold the school accountable.

But don't hold schools hostage to your Machiavellian budget gamesmanship.

They undercut the progress of the past few decades by requiring parents to sign away hard - sought rights and do not hold schools accountable for students» progress.

Not exact matches

It's not unusual for business school students to hold views that are on the left end of the political spectrum.

Actually, I was held after school, my parents were brought in, and I was reprimanded for not caring enough about microbiology.

It also means that morality provisions can not prevent employees from supporting a political party or practicing a specific religion, for example (although some employers, such as denominational school boards, have argued successfully that their religious beliefs allow them to hold employees to a different moral standards).

Two gangs, the Black Panthers — not the better - known political organization of the same name — and the Young Lords, seemed to hold sway at the school.

There's an old school of thought which holds that women of a certain age shouldn't have long hair.

The Supreme Court has held that students at public schools have a First Amendment right to express their political views but schools also have a right to ensure that learning isn't disrupted.

Also, MEFA's eligibility requirements for student loan refinancing do not include having completed a degree, so borrowers who have put school on hold and are repaying their loans may be able to refinance into lower rates with MEFA — or at the very least, into a longer loan term and therefore lower monthly payments.

Someone who was not held accountable for their actions when they were expelled from school.

They held up their poster boards — «It is a school zone, not a war zone,» read one — and looked straight ahead.

These managers range from those whose time horizon is measured in minutes to those who hold positions for years; from those who knew they wanted to invest when they were back in grade school to those who still aren't sure investing is their calling; and from those with impeccable academic credentials to those without any degrees.

A group of students from Littleton High School held a protest Wednesday morning demanding action — with dozens saying they shouldn't have to fear going to sSchool held a protest Wednesday morning demanding action — with dozens saying they shouldn't have to fear going to schoolschool.

Health officials have not yet pinpointed the source of what sickened students from St. Clement School in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood, following their April 17 visit to the aquarium, or what prompted more than 100 Andrew students to fall ill following their April 27 prom held at the Shedd.

She didn't shrink from questions Sunday about a new sexual education curriculum for elementary schools, saying she intends to revamp it nearly three years after some controversial changes forced Premier Dalton McGuinty to put it on hold.

I would have thought it was obvious this is not about mixing religion with public schooling, simply using school building's for holding church services when the buildings are closed for normal schooling.

Furthermore, they are not holding church services during school hours, so the religious teaching and school teaching are not mixing in any way.

@Really?!?!?, the «making crap up» was directed at the idea that christian's are somehow being turned into second - class citizens because they will not be allowed to rent gym space at the Elementary School to hold a revival.

Seriously, no drinks with caffeine, «secret» private wedding ceremonies (if you aren't mormon or married, you aren't allowed in their temple), seminary classes held on school campuses, anti-gay (Prop 8...), and encouraging their kids to marry early and have tons of kids (not all... but it's pretty stereotypical... just look at BYU.

When, as ample evidence demonstrates, «most of our high - school and college students... consistently score poorly in virtually every measure of civic knowledge,» this can not occur — our citizens have to know what the truths are before they can consider whether they should hold to them.

Just under half (44 percent) of evangelicals told LifeWay Research recently that student groups at public schools should not be allowed to require their leaders to hold specific beliefs.

Though this ringing silence on the subject would have been typically Lutheran — as Luther saw it, the works of humankind appear attractive and good, but they are likely to be mortal sins — I suspect that my Sunday school teachers weren't holding back out of any Reformation - based fear of «works righteousness.»

Writing for the court in Abington v. Schempp (1963), Justice Tom Clark held that public schools can not establish a «religion of secularism,» preferring «those who believe in no religion over those who do believe.»

At some point it is not affordable to hold school because it is a religious holiday and many would be absent.

It's all happening — what next — prayer times set aside for Muslim students during school, wash basins like at University of Minnesota so they don't try to wash their feet before praying in the school basins for washing hands, demands for special cafeteria food, demands that girls cover their heads, then faces, then disappear from school altogether, wake up New York and hold on to our great city before they knock down the rest of the buildings!

The ones listening have not been the «establishment», or the intellectuals but, by and large, the humble and grateful people of God — loyal priests desperately trying to hold the line in their parishes, seminarians despised by their professors, Anglican converts seeking the clear truth, devout teachers in our schools, prayerful parishioners, and members of the new movements have been enthusiastic for this teaching.

The public school that my son JaiMichael attends doesn't hold classes on the third Monday in January.

Finally, a vertical group composed of two trustees, administrators, teachers, parents, excellent students, and failing or dropout students is held on the theme: «Our schools: What I like and don't like about them, and what I want them to be.

Courts have said that religious schools can not be forced to recognize or fund groups that oppose their teachings, but the District insists that such religious freedom does not extend to the use of the school's facilities, for example, rooms to hold meetings or permits for rallies.

One school of thought holds that the possibility of disarmament is predicated upon the preceding or at least simultaneous settlement of outstanding political issues that have given rise to the armaments race in the first place, and that the threat of nuclear war has not materially affected this perennial functional dependence of disarmament upon a political settlement.

Philosophical schools were nearly unanimous in holding that wrath was not a characteristic of the divine being.

It's not much of a leap, then, to think of Jesus holding a shepherd's staff, especially since many of us grew up with that picture framed on the wall in our Sunday school rooms.

In penitential services, especially those held in schools, it is not uncommon to find non-Catholics, even non-Christians, approaching the priest.

The fact that different schools of thought have come to different conclusions after reading the same bible does nt seem to register with many christians who effectively hold to the position «My doctrine is what the bible teaches so the other view is wrong».

Elizabeth felt the sting of the latter when she tried to set up a boarding school for boys, with the help of a kind Episcopalian pastor — who didn't hold her Catholicism against her — only to have parents angrily withdraw their sons, once they discovered Elizabeth was a Catholic.

Instead, why not continue to have thousands of Muslims miss school for the religious observances they hold so dear?

Since that time we were allowed to hold our services at a warehouse held by the local high school and though its not so much the building that matters for a religious body, the dilapidated premises were certainly having a notable impact on the strength of our community.

What they are not considering is that these are young people and while some may hold tight to the chasti.ty issue, you can't expect all to but it goes beyond that, this school is failing to take in to consideration the basic health issues here... why would they not want a female to take the pill to potentially prevent cancer or help with numerous other issues?

Many of the students are homeschooled and threaten you and throw a fit that you are not good enough when you tell them that you see they can not study or do not have school or people skills or can not hold a job due to their lack of real education.

This new ethic — that abortion is more moral than interrupting schooling or employment — is held not only by writers for New York fashion magazines and Californians infused with New Age spiritualism, but also by an aging feminist movement.

All schools have a legal requirement to offer religious education at all ages but those in the RE community claim the decline suggests the schools aren't being held to account and ae flouting their obligations.

The «we - they» theme runs through much of his writing on Islam, coming perhaps into clearest focus in a paper read to the Conference on Near East History held at the School of Oriental and African Studies London University, 1968, not yet published.

Hedonists do not operate any Sunday schools, nor do they hold revival meetings.

By a vote of 9 - 8, the court held that Spain did not violate the European Convention on Human Rights when it declined to renew the contract of a public school teacher who had been offering classes in Catholicism.

They know I went to Catholic school, but they can't hold their tongues (pun intended).