Sentences with phrase «of a number of school governing»

The anonymous letter, which was sent to the local council, referred to an alleged plot by hard - line Muslims to seize control of a number of school governing boards in the city.

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The variety ranges from cases in which faculty elect some members of the board of trustees from among their number, to cases in which faculty as a group is formally charged with certain responsibilities (say, nominating new faculty, or establishing policies governing the academic program of the school), to cases in which faculty effectively have neither responsibility, authority, nor power in the school's polity.

All of us involved in youth sports - from parents, to coaches, from athletic trainers to school athletic directors to the athletes themselves - have a responsibility to do what we can to make contact and collision sports safer, whether it by reducing the number of hits to the head a player receives over the course of a season (such as N.F.L. and the Ivy League are doing in limiting full - contact practices, and the Sports Legacy Institute recently proposed be considered at the youth and high school level in its Hit Count program), teaching football players how to tackle without using their head (as former pro football player Bobby Hosea has long advocated), changing the rules (as the governing body for high school hockey in Minnesota did in the aftermath of the Jack Jablonski injury or USA Hockey did in banning body checks at the Pee Wee level), or giving serious consideration to whether athletes below a certain age should be playing tackle football at all (as the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend).

County and town opposition has been so strong that the county joined Rockland's five towns, a number of villages and the Nyack School District to form the Municipal Consortium, a coalition arguing against the plant on behalf of local governing bodies.

NGA has devised four model SoDs, which represent a range of approaches: with academy governing committees; with academy councils; with cluster governing committees (reporting on a number of academies); and with so - called «earned autonomy» (variable levels of responsibility for academy committees, often depending on the school's performance).

Rhode Island's charter - school law allows multiple schools and an unlimited number of students to be governed by a single charter and a single school board.

So, schools have a number of responsibilities in providing a swimming programme and the ASA — the governing body for swimming in England — offers guidance and advice on delivering these programmes in the best and safest way.

Emma Knights, chief executive of the NGA, said: «Those governing our schools are generally unhappy with the direction of government education policy: with more than six times the number of respondents negative about the government's policies than positive.

The burgeoning growth in the number of schools converting to academy status will mean that a large number of new individuals — from business and from the community at large — will be drawn into these schools» governing bodies.

When we group the 22 high schools by governing agency (three groups) and by governing agency and school type (five groups), we find in both cases that the clusters differ on the number of sports offered.

In accordance with ARS § 15.183, the School Board / governing body is responsible for school policy and a number of specific tasks enumerated in ARS § 1School Board / governing body is responsible for school policy and a number of specific tasks enumerated in ARS § 1school policy and a number of specific tasks enumerated in ARS § 15.183.

A state must encourage educational innovation by not imposing a cap on the number of charter public schools — schools commonly organized and self - governed by teachers and parents.

Taunton School provides members of staff to sit on the Trust and Governing Boards of the Trust with the aim of working collaboratively across a number of areas which include training and sharing of skills and resources.

Following the decision of Eton's Governing Body to sponsor Holyport College in December 2012, a number of senior Eton staff were appointed as Governors in early 2013 and, with the founders, took responsibility for steering the school to opening.

As the number of public charter schools in Georgia continues to grow, so does the need for governing board members with the critical skills required to steer charter schools from mission development, through petition submission, to opening day.

The Tribune's own investigation into Arizona's long - running tuition tax credit program found that an untold number of STOs, schools and parents are using the tax credits in ways that violate federal tax laws governing charitable donations.

The number — and proportion — of academies within a formal group is growing as governing boards realise the risks of remaining isolated, particularly for smaller schools such as the primaries that are converting now.

«As a consequence of the declining roll, the school is experiencing financial difficulties which the governing body wishes to address by a number of means, including restructuring the staffing organisation, for example, by reducing the number of deputy headteachers from four to three.»

However, governing groups of schools can be a profound change with not just the transferring of functions to one board over a number of schools, but possibly with some former overnance functions taken on by the executive management.

Atlanta, GA — As the number of public charter schools in Georgia continues to grow, so does the need for governing board members with the critical skills required to steer charter schools from mission development, through petition submission, to opening day.

His report sets out compelling evidence of a determined effort by people with a shared ideology to gain control of the governing bodies of a small number of schools in Birmingham.

A number of details still need to be worked out in the lease, Head of Schools Sean Wilson reported to the International School's governing board Wednesday night.

• There was no terrorism, radicalisation or violent extremism in the schools of concern, but there was clear evidence of a number of people, associated with each other and in positions of influence in schools and governing bodies, who espouse, endorse or fail to challenge extremist views.

That topic is the make - up of the NSBS's Council (again, its governing body): The amendment in question seeks to eliminate the representative of the Attorney General of Nova Scotia and the Dean of Schulich School of Law from the Council, and to replace them by two additional appointed members to the Council, bringing the total number of appointed (as opposed to elected) members to five.

«Once cell phones were considered luxuries and now they are must - have personal items, which an overwhelming number of students and staff bring into our schools each and everyday... we have no policy that would govern when a cellphone may be seized by a staff member and what if any searches of the contents of the cellphone would be permissible by our staff.»

Even the most minimal of agreements provide for the basics, such as days and time of operation and the fees charged, but an agreement can and should be a comprehensive document that governs the relationship between the school and parents in a number of common scenarios.Full Description