Sentences with phrase «number of the school system»

Since then, the number of school systems closing has ballooned to 42.

As a central office administrator in two Arizona districts and a former senior consultant for Mid-Continent Regional Educational Laboratory (McREL), Aurora, Colorado, Schmoker worked with teachers and administrators to successfully facilitate improvements in a number of school systems.

3 — Number of school systems in Halifax County (Halifax County Schools, Roanoke Rapids City Schools, Weldon City Schools)

Regarding strategic relationships, a number of school systems are taking on broader efforts to partner with principals in areas such as talent management, fiscal leadership, curriculum, and teacher professional development.

A number of school systems are complementing — not minimizing — the principal supervisor role with adult learning best practices that include principals self - assessing to determine their own learning needs, engaging in cycles of inquiry, and working in professional learning communities with their peers.

Nationwide, a growing number of school systems and states have begun to include student data in teacher evaluations.

Not exact matches

In fact, our school system, as I already pointed out, rents space to a huge number of very diverse private concerns, including homeowner associations, clubs, and so on.

Recently it has been divided into two departments with the general department continuing the old system and a special department which is composed of faculties of theology, jurisprudence, and the Arabic language, to each of which is attached a number of primary and secondary schools.

Why doesn't the school system come up with a list of officially sanctioned holiday dates and allow kids to pick a fixed number of them.

The city's and school system's Muslim population has mushroomed to a level that is similar to the Jewish population, and it's unfair to make such a large number of Muslim students take a «sick day» on these important holidays.

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

The elementary and secondary school system (to name just one Catholic institution affected by the drop in vocations) serves approximately half the number of students it did in 1960, despite the greater presence of lay teachers and administrators.

He added: «There was a system of administration in that school over a long number of years which allowed a paedophile to flourish, gave him authority, not only over all of the pupils, but gave him authority over the staff as well and put him in a position where he could abuse people and that needs to be explored, it needs to be investigated, it needs to be enquired into.

Taking the top five to 10 players out of the system wouldn't hurt the on - court product much, but it would reduce the number of college players who started getting paid by agents and shoe companies as high schoolers.

Sometimes high school coaches decide to adopt the flavor of the month (whether it be the triangle, flex, or any number of successful systems) without fully understanding it.

I read all the time about mal - practice in hospitals, incect cases in churches or schools, not even speaking about how our education system fails in a basic thing like teaching all of our children to read (you do your research and find out the number or illiteracy in this country).

What the small but growing number of successful schools demonstrate is that the public - school system accomplishes that result because we have built it that way.»

• Shake up the parental leave system so fathers can spend more time with kids under two years - old • 25,000 more dads per year to sign their child's birth certificate, to reach international standards and halve the number of those who don't • Dads able to stay overnight in hospital with their partner when their baby is born • Modern and relevant antenatal education for both parents • Dads reading with their children in all primary schools • Family professionals — midwives, teachers, health visitors, nursery workers, social workers — confidently engaging with dads as well as mums, and supporting all family types.

When you include those who play sports outside of the school system, that number increases to around 60 percent of all children...

They are cheap and easy to prepare, which is important in school systems with dwindling numbers of working kitchens, minimally trained labor and only about $ 1 to spend per meal.

WASHINGTON — American schools are experiencing increasing numbers of food - borne illness outbreaks, but complex federal laws and bureaucratic turf battles hamper the government system designed to protect children from harm, a congressional watchdog agency reported Tuesday.

The number of students who qualify for a free or discounted meal based on income levels also matters because schools and entire school systems may qualify for grants and other federal funding based on the reported level of need among students.

American schools are experiencing increasing numbers of food - borne illness outbreaks, but complex federal laws and bureaucratic turf battles hamper the government system designed to protect children from harm, a congressional watchdog agency reported Tuesday.

Many school systems only allow students to miss a certain number of days a year, or risk the possibility of being held back.

Specifically, the SNA is asking to: keep the level of whole grains in the total number of grain foods served at 25 %; avoid further reductions in sodium; eliminate the requirement that kids take fruit or a vegetable with their meal (returning to the old system in which kids could — and often did — pass up those healthful foods); and allow schools to sell on a daily basis a la carte items like pizza and fries, as opposed to the current plan which would allow these items to be sold only on the same day they appeared on the main lunch line.

In 2015 to 2016, information on the high needs funding system was available across a number of sources, including the school revenue funding: operational guide and 16 to 25 additional high needs guidance.

Dr. Opoku Prempeh, who took his turn at the «Meet the Press» series in Accra, indicated that a number of students had been placed by the Computerized School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) but could not enroll in Senior High Schools due to the lack of finances.

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

«There is no evidence that large numbers of parents are either dissatisfied with the current system or want to run schools themselves

The number of state school students entering the university system is at record levels, and the vast majority of universities are very grateful for this.

It's unclear how a board system would work once students return to school, considering the number of decisions on massive contracts, contentious space - sharing agreements and other school governance matters that have to be taken up during the academic year.

«Earlier this year, my office held a number of community forums throughout New York City to discuss the future of public schools and it became clear that New Yorkers will no longer allow their voices to be drowned out of our schools system.»

The high school programs that faced the highest number of complaints — five each — were Rockland Boces in West Nyack, in Rockland County, which had one verified, two unverified and two open allegations; Susan E. Wagner High School on Staten Island, with three verified and two open allegations; and Fayetteville - Manlius High School near Syracuse, where all five allegations related to the same incident, in which several students were arrested in 2007 for allegedly hacking into computer systems to change gschool programs that faced the highest number of complaints — five each — were Rockland Boces in West Nyack, in Rockland County, which had one verified, two unverified and two open allegations; Susan E. Wagner High School on Staten Island, with three verified and two open allegations; and Fayetteville - Manlius High School near Syracuse, where all five allegations related to the same incident, in which several students were arrested in 2007 for allegedly hacking into computer systems to change gSchool on Staten Island, with three verified and two open allegations; and Fayetteville - Manlius High School near Syracuse, where all five allegations related to the same incident, in which several students were arrested in 2007 for allegedly hacking into computer systems to change gSchool near Syracuse, where all five allegations related to the same incident, in which several students were arrested in 2007 for allegedly hacking into computer systems to change grades.

The North - East sub-region harbours one of the largest concentrations of Almajri, numbering over two and a half million, who are outside the conventional school system.

«The same issue that affected other states caused the system in New York to experience sporadic technical issues at a small number of schools on Tuesday morning,» Emily DeSantis, spokeswoman for the state Education Department, said in a statement.

In Albany, where a number of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's policy priorities have succumbed to resistance from Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state Senate Republicans, documents suggest that de Blasio has turned to the real estate industry's chief lobbying group in New York as an intermediary to press politicians on a matter beyond its traditional scope: the city's public school system.

«There is much to welcome in this Bill which will hopefully lead to significant improvements across a number of areas within the school system.

«The important point here is, if you look at the trend of improvements in schools, the numbers now succeeding at GCSE and accessing A-levels has been a success story of our education system,» he said.

Garcia reached the runoff mostly because of an anti-Emanuel vote, fueled by irritations ranging from an increase in the number of tickets being generated by Chicago's red light cameras * to the tumult in the school system to Emanuel's abrasive personality.

When he officially took the helm as leader of the city school system he certainly inherited a number of challenges: poor graduation rates, gaps in special education services, burned bridges between his predecessor, Jean Claude Brizard, and the teachers union and the school board, among a host of others things.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

The number of homeless students in the New York City public school system rose again last year, according to state data.

A Department of Education spokesperson spun the numbers in the school system's favor, saying, «This report finds that every middle school already has high - speed Internet connections and that the majority of middle schools are satisfied with their Internet.»

Q) What ever happened to the Merit and Fitness Civil Service System where aspiring Public Information Officers competed for the job in a local high school with a number 2 pencil and a calculator for a PS&T (PEF represented) Grade 18 and / or 23 permanent (non-political) position against a room full of highly qualified competitors?

Developing a new teacher evaluation system, one of ten recommendations brought forth by StudentsFirstNY in the report, could improve the number and distribution of quality teachers in New York City schools.

That number equals nearly 10 percent of the students enrolled in our City's public school system.

Bloomberg made clear earlier Monday that Black will be the boss of the city's school system despite her high - powered number two.

It's why I led the fight for mandatory kindergarten city - wide, it's why I increased the number of pre-K slots available in New York City, it's why I have been a staunch advocate for ensuring that children get access to breakfast at school, and it's why I have made reforming our public education system one of the cornerstones of my campaign.

If the propositions fail, the governor said he will have to make cuts to schooling and health care and would likely need to release a large number of inmates from the state's prison system.

What was once one of the best school systems in New York State is now facing declining enrollment as the number of young families with school - age children declines.