Sentences with phrase «of school exclusion»

This Policy Brief discusses the negative impact of school exclusion in Virginia and makes recommendations for making our schools safer, stronger, and more conducive to learning for all students.

In contrast, the incredibly high numbers of students barred from school, often for the most minor infractions, defies common sense and reveals patterns of school exclusion along the lines of race and disability status that must be rejected by all members of the public school community.»

The number of school exclusions involving weapon attacks in Scotland has soared to a five - year high.

For example, Coram's Child Law Advice Service (CLAS) believes schools may have acted unlawfully in a quarter of school exclusions by not complying with procedures or not adequately considering special educational needs.

They include an externally led review of school exclusions, originally announced by the Prime Minister in response to the Race Disparity Audit, which will look at why some children are more likely to be excluded than others.

Not exact matches

Focusing on elite schools to the exclusion of other factors like extracurricular participation is an especially bad idea for a technology company that needs a steady supply of cutting - edge ideas.

The Prince's Trust supports 13 to 30 year olds who are unemployed and those struggling at school and at risk of exclusion.

My 7 year old daughter (non-christian) felt the same way going to her public school in Texas where all she would see in December were christmas trees and veiled holy symbols, at the exclusion of any other belief (or non-belief).

The school of Hanafi came to dominate the whole province of Sind to the exclusion of all other systems of jurisprudence.

The announcement of a new Government review into school exclusions has been welcomed by a Christian charity which fears children with behavioural issues are not always receiving the support they need to stay in classes.

After the rise of Hitler, Buber was appointed as director of the Central Office for Jewish Adult Education in Germany, where «he was responsible for the training of teachers for the new schools which had to be established as a result of the exclusion of Jewish students from all German educational institutions.»

The extent to which the Bible is imbedded in our artistic and literary heritage would, even if no other factor were present, make a knowledge of the Bible imperative and highlight the cultural loss resulting from its exclusion from the public schools.

Those choosing a religious school will invoke the Free Exercise clause of the First Amendment to challenge the exclusion imposed by the state constitution.

Young people met ridicule and exclusion in the schools because they acknowledged membership in the Junge Gemeinde (the youth fellowship) of the church.

Banning all signs of religion from schools and public property (neither of which is called for by the Constitution or the Supreme Court) is exclusion posturing as inclusiveness.

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

But the total exclusion of religion from schools is not the only possible alternative.

By contrast, advocates of the total exclusion of all religion from the public - school curriculum speak from a post-Enlightenment perspective.

A total of 16 pupils were affected by the school's policy of «grade exclusion» because they didn't achieve at least three B - grades in their first year tests.

If there is to be Bible reading in the schools, it is difficult to imagine that conservative Christians would accept the exclusion of the New Testament.

And to suggest the full exclusion of fruit juice from a child's diet is going to in anyway be a fix to the problem is contrary to the science, the Dietary Guidelines and school canteens guidelines.»

She writes: In order to prevent co-marketing of junk foods in schools, the USDA can include in its rule for local school wellness policy implementation a definition of marketing that includes product packaging and an express exclusion of copycat snacks.

-LSB-...] The Lunch Tray celebrates the exclusion of Chinese - processed chicken in school food and other child nutrition programs.

, school cafeterias tend to rely on them rather too heavily, to the exclusion of other vegetables.

My feeling about milk in schools, as shared by many TLT readers (judging from this morning's discussion on the Facebook page and in comments on the blog), is that milk does have a place on lunch trays, but not to the exclusion of other beverages like water (which, as it turns out, is not so easy to get into cafeterias) and plant - based milks for those who drink them.

Despite an increase in media attention, as well as national and local efforts to educate athletes on the potential dangers of traumatic brain injuries, a new study found that many high school football players are not concerned about the long - term effects of concussions and don't report their own concussion symptoms because they fear exclusion from play.

He is a PhD student in the Department of Social Policy and Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) at the London School of Economics, and was recently a visiting democracy fellow at the Harvard's Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation.

A key component of the merger that many voiced concerns about is the exclusion of the school districts in the plan.

Each proposed exclusion to the tax cap could potentially allow a one - time tax surge as each local government or school district's property cap was hiked to accommodate an entire category of governmental expenses.

«Exclusion of schools from the Hutton fair pay review is a calculated strategy to woo heads» support for free schools» says the NASUWT

Commenting on the DEMOS Report, which calls for school exclusions to be scrapped, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said:

Like Masterpole, Davis described the exclusion of the city school district from the plan as a «non-starter.»

Exclusions, mainly related to pension costs, give schools the flexibility to increase the district tax levy by upwards of 4 percent in a given year.

Ofsted said some schools do not have the «capacity» to deal with the psychological problems of their pupils and, without the right support, the growing rate of exclusions is unlikely to diminish.

Commenting on the data released today by the Department for Education on permanent and fixed - period exclusions of pupils during 2013 - 14, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «The increase in the number of pupils suspended due to assaulting adults in schools is extremely worrying.

Investigating an increase in exclusions from primary schools, school inspectors unearthed high incidences of children touching other children inappropriately and using sexually explicit language as well as swearing, attacking staff and damaging property.

«Exclusion of children from schools on the basis of faith or ethnicity is now becoming more and more prevalent.

Anne Kiem, head of external affairs at financial education charity IFS School of Finance, said the industry must take more action to tackle exclusion but warned individual customers must be properly informed.

of appeals against permanent exclusions, reinstatement was upheld so that pupils could return to the scene of their offences with impunity, most of them having nothing to do with SEN. Does the Minister think it right that a pupil who has been excluded for violent crime, racist or sexual abuse should be readmitted to schools under any circumstances against the better judgment of the head or the governors?

Dec. 29: A state audit finds the district awarded $ 1.3 million in contracts without going through the bidding process, overpaid Superintendent Susan Johnson by $ 32,769 for the 2012 - 13 school year, routinely held closed - door meetings to the exclusion of the public and failed to screen and provide services for some special - needs children.

Questions on other topics include: the NYS Attorney General's investigation of the Puerto Rican Day Parade committee, whether de Blasio's pre-K initiative will include private and parochial schools, the «absent teacher reserve», a protest by Girls Prep supporters against de Blasio's expected charter school policies, performance of Administration for Children's Services and whether de Blasio plans to contact the St. Patrick's Day Parade committee to urge them to lift their exclusion of LGBT groups and organizations.

Children with special educational needs are nine times more likely to be permanently excluded from school, and the Government are rightly committed to reducing the incidents of such exclusions.

Arriving at school already far behind, and the frustrations of illiteracy or maybe dyslexia leading to bravado, misbehaviour and exclusion.

That outcome was stunning given the speaker's long identification with the LGBT community — as the 1991 campaign manager and later chief of staff to Tom Duane, the Council's first out gay member; as head of the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project; as a demonstrator arrested year after year in protests against the exclusion of openly gay participants in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day Parade; and as a Council member who pursued a range of initiatives in support of the community, including a school anti-bullying law, a requirement that the city only do businesses with contractors with anti-discrimination policies in place, and funding for LGBT homeless youth services, senior services, and the capital needs of the LGBT Community Center.

Teachers may also feel pressure from policymakers and school administrators to focus on literacy — to the possible exclusion of science.

At least five patients would need to be screened to enroll just one patient meeting the typical inclusion and exclusion criteria for antidepressant registration trials (ARTs), suggests the new research by Drs. Sheldon Preskorn and Matthew Macaluso of University of Kansas School of Medicine - Wichita and Dr. Madhukar Trivedi of Southwestern Medical School, Dallas.

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One reason for ineffective school reform is the relative exclusion of teachers from the process, but another is our failure to ask students what they see as the weaknesses in our schools and what changes they'd like to see.

They are designed to cater for all alternative curriculum students — those within the pupil premium category, in exclusion or inclusion, home education or isolation, school refusers, target groups, or those with low literacy / numeracy levels, to mention just a few — and meet the needs of their teaching assistants, senior leadership and parents.