Sentences with phrase «of a given school»

They both reflect the Conservative philosophy of giving schools more freedom and allowing them to be separate from local authority control.

Notably, the content is much less restrictive, with the intention of giving schools increased flexibility in how buildings are designed.

It accounts for students who transfer in or out of a given school.

In reality, students comprise up to 94 % of any given school building's population.

It shows the value of giving school leaders a resource and then letting them decide how best to use it for the benefit of the children in their care.

The test scores of a given school may be above average simply because it has a high percentage of talented and advantaged students.

Agriculture Department officials also said they are working on ways of giving schools more information about seizures and recalls of contaminated food.

One of the basic critiques of using test scores for accountability purposes has always been that simple averages, except in rare circumstances, don't tell us much about the quality of a given school or teacher.

Here's what's different from last year's take: instead of giving schools ratings, this year NCTQ ranked them both locally and nationally, arguing that doing so makes it easier for users to compare various teacher - prep programs.

I have always been critical of annual state tests that are high stake, that are too narrow, that are administered too early and that produce data that is dated by the end of any given school year.

Even still, courts have a history of giving schools a lot of leeway when dealing with issues that relate to school and much more hands off than a lot of people would like them to be.

Whether you're an enthusiastic lunch - packer or a weary warrior, there's a big difference between the way most of us approach lunches in the beginning of any given school year, and the way we approach them once we've got a few weeks or months under our belts and there is OH DEAR GOD NO END IN SIGHT.

With so many things to organise and put into place before the new term begins the mammoth task of giving the school itself some tlc often gets pushed to the bottom of the seemingly endless to - do list.

The balance of opinion seemed to be in favor of giving each school a single summary grade on grounds that if it wasn't done by the DCSF it would be done in 10 minutes by the nation's many newspapers, and not necessarily done well or accurately.

Eide also notes that de Blasio rejected the idea of giving schools letter grades as a way to motivate improvement.

Enrollment in the WPCP voucher program in 2016 - 17 remains limited to 1 percent of a given school district's student population.

I strongly support the community school model, as does the great majority of Americans — in the latest PDK poll, 74 % of respondents said they would approve of giving their schools additional public money to provide wrap - around services focusing on mental health, nutrition, college counseling, and other needs.

My solution is for parents who choose to send their children to nonpublic schools, instead of giving them school vouchers, have their property taxes exempt from funding public schools since by doing this they help reduce the size of public school class sizes.

It read: «We were therefore mindful of the importance of supporting retention at this stage and of giving schools meaningful scope for differentiated, performance - based awards for those on the maxima of the main pay range.

«Councils want to intervene more quickly, but decades of giving schools «greater freedom» and «protecting» them from council interference means that local authorities now have very indirect and bureaucratic ways to tackle poor performance,» he said.

The auto - lithographs will be used in schools as a means of giving school children an understanding of contemporary art.»

Here's the takeaway: prospective students do not just have a right — they have a full - fledged need — to know how successful graduates of a given school are at landing a job.

«We wanted to use the celebrations as a way of giving the school a fresh start and looking ahead to the next 50 years.»

I will discuss three problems: 1) current methods of testing don't measure gains very accurately; 2) some of the gains may be attributable to factors other than the quality of a given school or teacher; and 3) we lack a firm basis for comparing gains of students of different levels of ability.

There are two requirements, both of which must be met for participation: family income must be at or below 200 percent of the Federal Poverty Line, AND the children must be age 4 by September 30 of a given school year to participate.

Most notably, more of them give the schools a D or an F than assign an A or a B. Only 20 percent of survey respondents give the schools in the nation as a whole one of the two top grades, over 50 percent give them a C, and no less than 25 percent grade them with a D or an F. African Americans and Hispanics are even more likely than whites to give the nation's schools low marks.

To be eligible for Kindergarten entry, young students in Utah must have turned 5 before September 2 of the given school year.