Sentences with phrase «of school efficiency»

«The government's recent review of school efficiency showed that, when properly trained and deployed, teaching assistants play an important role in helping to improve learning,» the spokeswoman said.

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For decades, the principles of efficiency were taught in business schools, and businesses thrived because of it, McChrystal said.

«School districts are currently being forced to cut money from classrooms to pay for the Liberals» failure to take action on improving the energy efficiency of public school builSchool districts are currently being forced to cut money from classrooms to pay for the Liberals» failure to take action on improving the energy efficiency of public school builschool buildings.

Tariffs imposed on China would have the same effect as a tax on suppliers, increasing suppliers» costs and leading to higher prices, suppressed demand, lower production and decreased efficiency, said Roger Kashlak, a professor of international business at Loyola University Maryland's Sellinger School of Business.

Cook, a business school graduate and an executive known for his attention to operational efficiency, is more respectful of the mainstream financial world.

Boosted Fuel Efficiency Standards Coordinated International Response to Financial Crisis Passed Mini Stimuli Began Asia «Pivot Increased Support for Veterans Tightened Sanctions on Iran Created Conditions to Begin Closing Dirtiest Power Plants Passed Credit Card Reforms Eliminated Catch - 22 in Pay Equality Laws Improved Food Safety System Expanded National Service Expanded Wilderness and Watershed Protection Gave the FDA Power to Regulate Tobacco Pushed Federal Agencies to Be Green Leaders Let Space Shuttle Die and Killed Planned Moon Mission Improved School Nutrition Expanded Hate Crimes Protections Brokered Agreement for Speedy Compensation to Victims of Gulf Oil Spill Pushed Broadband Coverage Expanded Health Coverage for Children Helped South Sudan Declare Independence Killed the F - 22

He uses the term «response» as including genuine responsibility, listening as well as speaking, and an element of possible surprise — all in clear contrast to «the general interest in salesmanship, the worship of efficiency for its own sake,» and «the emphasis of psychological schools on stimuli, conditioned responses and the manipulation of emotions.»

Such homogeneous ability grouping in schools is urged on behalf of increased learning efficiency.

It is precisely measures of efficiency, success, and local esteem — that is, measures of competence in fulfilling certain functions in persons» lives — that prove the importance of academically demanding theological schooling:

I was doing some kitchen cabinet rearranging (for higher efficiency of course... my Type A brain is stupid sometimes) during my winter break from school a couple weeks back, and I totally came across my spiralizer.

According to Rocky Top Insider, what Bama sent was a collection of «efficiency ratings» of 87 head coaching stints at Power 5 schools since the turn of the millennium.

What he does point out at the top of the article is something foundational to our and our children's health and well - being: «Because of poor diets, many school children and adults have immune systems that don't operate at peak efficiency.

Every day I need to touch Women Online (as creative director), Boston Mamas (as founder / editor), Edit Your Life (as co-host), Brave New World Designs (as designer / co-owner) + Christine Koh LLC (as principal... this includes various freelance projects, including one major managing editor contract) so efficiency and focus really are key, given that I need to cycle through projects during the day and also given that Laurel and Violet are not in after school programs (Jon and I really 50/50 it in terms of covering the after school window... I am so grateful for this)!

I was impressed by the efficiency of the school nutrition staff in serving hundreds of hungry children — giving them plenty of time to enjoy their meals while chatting with friends and family members.

I work at a school that has a split lunch schedule more due to efficiency than anything else — the cafeteria can't hold all students of one grade at a time.

But that may be changing — if you didn't read about School Food FOCUS the first time around on TLT, be sure to check out this post which discusses how that group is helping to set up «regional food hubs» to improve efficiencies and lower the costs of local procurement.

Advance Your Nursing Career While You Work Full Time Spring Arbor University's online nursing school teaches you to improve treatment quality, safety and efficiency from a perspective of integrity and grace.

Up and down the country there are many good examples of hospitals, schools, roads, housing and administrative services being successfully and efficiently delivered at less cost and with greater efficiency than the public sector was able to do.

In April my administration released our comprehensive report on countywide school district expenses, «Examining School District Expenses and Potential for Consolidation in Erie County», which builds on Erie County's leadership in bringing municipalities together to participate in New York State's efficiency and shared services initiatives, saving millions of dollars annually for county taxpayers, and calls for the inclusion of school districts in future shared services discusschool district expenses, «Examining School District Expenses and Potential for Consolidation in Erie County», which builds on Erie County's leadership in bringing municipalities together to participate in New York State's efficiency and shared services initiatives, saving millions of dollars annually for county taxpayers, and calls for the inclusion of school districts in future shared services discusSchool District Expenses and Potential for Consolidation in Erie County», which builds on Erie County's leadership in bringing municipalities together to participate in New York State's efficiency and shared services initiatives, saving millions of dollars annually for county taxpayers, and calls for the inclusion of school districts in future shared services discusschool districts in future shared services discussions.

To help achieve the Governor's goal of encouraging efficiency and results, the Executive Budget allocates $ 250 million to be awarded on a competitive basis to school districts that demonstrate significant improvement in their student performance outcomes and another $ 250 million to be awarded on a competitive basis to school districts that undertake long - term structural changes which reduce costs and improve efficiency.

• Redesigning Education: Noting that New York is first in spending but 34th in results, Governor Cuomo proposed restructuring a portion of our education aid to create incentives that reward school districts for improving student performance and implementing management efficiency policies.

Oneida County Executive Anthony Picente, Jr. and Rome Mayor James Brown announced today that Oneida County and the city of Rome have been asked to be co-applicants for a NYS Department of State Local Government Efficiency Grant that is being applied for by the City of Rome School District.

Also, which administrative model or school of thought preaches that upsizing management and downsizing workers is optimal for efficiency as this government is trying to preach?

After a decade as a newspaper reporter and editor in Kingston and Poughkeepsie, Pat began working as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Energy in 1998, charged with supporting a group of businesses that were early proponents of solar, wind and energy efficiency in K - 12 schools and universities.

«I'm basically saying you have to find efficiencies and economies of scale,» said Cuomo who said the local governments and schools «use the taxpayers as a piggy bank.»

He added: «These savings are robust, and with efficiency gains now of around # 15 billion, we continue to show substantial progress towards our target.these savings free up resources to invest in schools, hospitals and other vital frontline services.»

«Municipalities throughout New York State, including school districts which are the biggest driver of property taxes, have by and large responded to the cap with prudent budgeting, more efficiency and restrained spending.»

Empowering schools and hospitals, and extending user choice, would maximise public - service efficiency and help prevent the incursion of profit - driven alternatives.

Morris Peters, a spokesman for the Budget Division, acknowledged that poorer districts rely on state aid for a larger share of their operating budgets, but said the cuts were structured «progressively, accounting for each school district's wealth, student need, administrative efficiency and tax burden.

Three years after California voters passed a ballot measure to raise taxes on corporations and generate clean - energy jobs by funding energy - efficiency projects in schools, barely one - tenth of the promised jobs have been created, and the state has no...

George Osborne has announced 3bn worth of new efficiency savings this year, with the big losers being the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, the Ministry of Defence and the Department for Education (non schools).

Are school district reserves high enough to cover state cuts, and efficiencies in management available that would make teacher cuts unnecessary, as Cuomo administration staffers maintain, or are these areas so thin that the scale of reduced state aid made teacher layoffs unavoidable, as school advocates claim?

An independent academic, Prof Colin Talbot, of Manchester Business School, claimed today the impact of the Tory efficiency savings could lead to a loss of 100,000 public and private sector jobs.

Mr. Cuomo says that the city shouldn't be complaining, that the Medicaid and CUNY plans were part of an efficiency drive that in the end «won't cost New York City a penny,» and that it's not as if Mr. de Blasio is a total loser — with the budget anyway, given the state's pledges on affordable housing and homelessness, on funding for universal prekindergarten, community schools and other things.

«Many of our students in meteorology and oceanography find it both challenging and satisfying to apply their interest in earth sciences to improve safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of military operations,» says Professor Phil Durkee, interim dean of the Graduate School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at NPS.

Thanks to media coverage of criminal hacking, you probably won't think of someone perched across a table from a politician trying to improve public transport, government efficiency, or the availability of school places in deprived areas.

The data analysed in the study was processed using an advanced life - cycle assessment tool — SCEnAT — developed by Professor Lenny Koh, Director of the Advanced Resource Efficiency Centre at the University's Management School and co-author of the paper.

«These results reinforce our previous findings suggesting that interventions that affect replicative capacity can not only impact disease progression, but also the efficiency of transmission to other people,» says senior author Eric Hunter, co-director of the Emory Center for AIDS Research, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar and a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at Emory University School of Medicine.

Designing wind farms with close packing of turbines, based on schooling fish, could greatly increase efficiency, say researchers at a meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics of the American Physical Society.

The Universitat Politècnica de València, the Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria (INCLIVA) of the Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia, the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona and the Polytechnic School of the Universitat de Girona (UdG) have started a clinical trial being pioneered in Spain, in order to study the efficiency of an artificial pancreas, one of the latest advances in healthcare technology.

Professor Ken Naitoh of Waseda University's Faculty of Science and Engineering (Department of Applied Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, School of Fundamental Science and Engineering) and his associates have discovered a revolutionary energy conversion principle (new compressive combustion principle) able to yield stand - alone engines with double or higher the thermal efficiency potential of conventional engines, independent of their size.

The Guided Care model was developed by a team of researchers at the Bloomberg School, the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and is designed to improve patients» quality of life and care, while improving the efficiency of treating the sickest and most complex patients.

A team led by Donald Ingber, Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and Founding Director of Harvard's Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering, now reports a solution to this challenge in Nature Biomedical Engineering, which enables the differentiation of human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells into mature podocytes with more than 90 percent efficiency.

They are considered the epitome of the old school and have confirmed its efficiency by building their perfect physiques.

Dr. Rogers, who also is an assistant professor at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, and other scientists suspect that these hormones and their fluctuations may subtly alter the efficiency with which the neurons communicate with the muscles, ligaments and other tissues that make the body move.

Just as repeated practice of Sun Salutations builds strength and stamina, so regular meditation enhances the brain's capacity for perception, awareness, and efficiency in processing, says Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, assistant professor of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School.

Prompted by the challenge to improve the quality and efficiency of massage education, Brandon Raynor's School of Natural Therapies was born.

In addition to the responses described above, we find evidence of three other constructive competitive responses: expanding or improving district schools, programs or offerings (6 locations); improving district efficiency (5 locations); and supporting semiautonomous charter - like schools (5 locations).

At the same time, schools are increasingly looking to employ more sustainable processes as part of their commitment to the environment and to help improve efficiency and reduce costs.

He then gave a presentation of his own for theclass about energy efficiency and left us with resources we can use to make our school more energy efficient.»