Sentences with phrase «only holding schools»

In fact, exit exams are only holding schools accountable for teaching basic skills, always assumed to be their primary responsibility.

NCLB only holds schools accountable for basic skills like math and reading rather than important skills like citizenship, responsibility, developing character, science, history, and appreciation for the arts to name a few.

Not exact matches

The only authority the court could come up with as ground for its emphasis on bodies was its own 1972 decision holding a school's policy on hair length to be unconstitutional.

Among the many notable decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court in the area of religion was the 1963 case Abington Township School District v. Schempp, which held that tax - supported schools were only allowed to teach about religion.

Elizabeth felt the sting of the latter when she tried to set up a boarding school for boys, with the help of a kind Episcopalian pastor — who didn't hold her Catholicism against her — only to have parents angrily withdraw their sons, once they discovered Elizabeth was a Catholic.

Suitably reformed theological teaching will be able to hold together schooling in critical, disciplined research and schooling for professional ministry, but only indirectly.

The extreme opposites of the bi-nationalist school, the hard - line protagonists of violence and armed power as the only way to establish and maintain a Zionist settlement in Palestine (or over all of it), held that the Arabs were intransigently opposed to this venture and regarded the immigrating European Jews as racial outsiders, as intruders in their own ancestral living - space, and would harass and murder them and strangle their venture unless they were beaten back by superior fire - power.

This new ethic — that abortion is more moral than interrupting schooling or employment — is held not only by writers for New York fashion magazines and Californians infused with New Age spiritualism, but also by an aging feminist movement.

So I am deeply concerned about the impact the Supreme Court's ruling might have on faith - based or other educational institutions — including schools from grades K - 12, colleges, universities, theological seminaries and graduate schools — that hold to natural or conjugal marriage, which has only come into question within the past decade.

I have hit a spot of stagnation due to moving (something I didn't foresee between a giveaway and school), but realizing that this milkshake was just too good not to share, I developed the super human «gift» tonight to tell you not only who won the Bob's Red Mill gluten free cookbook + the goodie pack giveaway, but also to share with you a recipe that I have admittedly held out on for some time.

It was only a couple months ago when MSU was being held out as a shining beacon in the way it handled things compared to schools like Baylor and Penn State.

Proposal 48 holds that entering athletes can be eligible as freshmen only if they have a minimum score of 700 on the combined college board SAT test (or a 15 of 36 score on the American College Test) and a 2.0 high school grade - point average in 11 core courses.

Research has shown that the kind of stretching routine most of us have been doing since we were in grade school (holding a stretch for 20 or 30 seconds, supposedly to prepare muscles for exercise, or static stretching) not only fails to do what it is supposed to do but may actually weaken muscles and hurt athletic performance.

When I was in graduate school my counselor told me something (actually many things) that has helped me these past 20 or so years... «The only way to get out from under the crap that's holding you back and making you miserable... is to go right through the heart of it.»

Our 2017 Heroes will be honored during SNA's Legislative Action Conference; our Celebration of Heroes is the only fundraising event the School Nutrition Foundation holds, which means this evening is essential for securing funding for scholarships that the Foundation provides to SNA members annually.

There are only so many hours to snuggle with your baby, laugh with your toddler, hold your preschooler's hand, stroke your preteen's hair, or share jokes with your high schooler.

My state has strong homebirth laws and accredited LM's who hold their own credentials and go to school only for L&D issues not generalized med surg.

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

It seems the ridiculously short lunch is a problem in many schools, mostly because there are so many kids and the lunchroom can only hold 1/5 of them at a time.

This is the only fundraising event that the School Nutrition Foundation holds, and the evening is essential to securing funding for the scholarships the Foundation provides to SNA members.

The Celebration is the only fundraising event that the School Nutrition Foundation holds and the evening is essential to securing funding for the scholarships that the Foundation provides to SNA members annually.

Parents only are invited to join us for school and classroom Tours held on the following Thursdays and at our two campuses from 8:30 - 9:30 am:

Most parents hold a mixed or negative opinion of the nutritional quality of snack foods and beverages traditionally sold in schools and consider them to be only somewhat or not at all healthy.

The SNA has announced it plans to hold a «webinar» on the study Aug. 25 to examine findings from a sample of schools that purport to show that milk consumption dropped an average 35 percent when chocolate and other flavored milks were removed and students were offered only plain milk.

Election officials contend that local governmental bodies, such as school districts, townships, park districts and municipalities, can only hold binding referendums.

Michael's mother, middle school principal and single parent Debbie Phelps, certainly didn't let ADHD hold back her parenting potential, either — as her son's success not only in the pool, but in life as well, can attest.

I shall now provide below, a tabular guide of project locations under the various phases including the World Bank funded projects which do not and can not support the assertion by the Hon. Sarah Adwoa Safo that the Community Senior High Schools were constructed in only NDC strong holds.

Over the past four years, school aid has grown at an average annual rate of 4.4 percent, while the Department of Health's Medicaid program has increased 3.3 percent annually on average.5 To maintain overall growth of about 2 percent per year in total state spending, all other spending growth has been held to only 1.0 percent per year on average.

Meanwhile, Success Academy Charter Schools decided to hold its own rally the same day, only they got the prime spot — Albany's gilded outdoor steps in the front of the state Capitol.

We are proud that the final agreement not only includes these longstanding priorities of our conference but also makes significant investments in our public education system, community schools, and struggling schools while holding the line on tuition increases at our SUNY and CUNY institutions.

The Rose Library held a public information session on Tuesday, October 17 on its proposal from East Main Street into the vacant high school on East Main Street, but only The Rockland County Times showed up for it.

By Kathy Kahn The Rose Library held a public information session on Tuesday, October 17 on its proposal from East Main Street into the vacant high school on East Main Street, but only The Rockland County Times showed up for it.

Hofstra University was chosen to hold a 2012 presidential debate, making it one of only two schools to host back - to - back debates since the modern debate system was created more than two decades ago.

Mr. Adajagsa, who looked overjoyed for his school being the only secondary school in the region to host the president throughout that tour, appeared to be equally over the moon as he was also privileged to sit next to the president on a red - carpeted dais that held about 15 people.

The state significantly expanded its testing and funding for installation of private systems only after students from the Hoosick Falls school district held a press conference to ask Gov. Andrew Cuomo for help.

State Senator Jeff Klein (D - Bronx / Westchester) joined by Assemblyman Luis Sepulveda (D - Bronx), Assemblyman Marcos Crespo (D - Bronx) at Holy Cross School in Soundview on Sunday held a fundraiser aimed at saving the only no - kill animal shelter in Bronx County.

A real - time electronic poll of members attending the Conference found that: A third said their school or college was not a safe space for LGBTI teachers; More than four in ten (43 %) say they have experienced some form of discrimination, bullying or harassment because of their LGBTI identity during the last year; Only 4 % said their school has a programme of activities to mark LGBT History Month; 85 % do not think schools and colleges are being held to account sufficiently in relation to LGBTI equality.

86 % of teachers at the NASUWT's LGBT Teachers» Consultation Conference, held today (Saturday) in Birmingham, have said they do not think the Government is doing enough to communicate the importance of LGBTI equality to schools and colleges Only 7 % of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) teachers say their school or college provides training to staff to identify and deal with incidents of homophobia, biphobia and transphobia.

Spruce can hold only two classes per grade but this fall will take in four kindergartens because of the swelling population downtown, which parents fear could put the middle school in jeopardy down the road.

«If I am holding onto my constituencies and I only have 4 percent voter turnout, then I don't really have to pay attention to whether I'm improving school performance or not,» Professor Wong said.

As the campaign to find Gordon Brown's successor gains momentum, the former schools secretary said he is the only candidate to hold on to the «New Labour understanding».

But now the power that Osborne holds in Whitehall threatens independent institutions (BBC, universities), as localism in education has come to paradoxically mean schools being run from the Department of Education and local government securing extra powers only on Osborne's terms.

Only when progressives hold the gavel can we actually deliver on the progressive agenda working families demand: fair funding for public schools and universities, stronger rent laws, real criminal justice reform and so much more.»

«Universal free school meal provision was only a recommendation,» Dimbleby says now, «because Gove had told us that it would take too long to secure the money and that would hold up the whole report.»

Cuomo has now said he wants to prevent mayors from interfering with the operations of charter schools, which directly threatens the mayoral control of schools that only de Blasio holds, among all of the state's mayors.

Speaking at Leeds School of Music yesterday, Mr Miliband said his pledge to cut tuition fees was «cast - iron», adding: «The scourge of debt from tuition fees is not only holding back our young people, it is a burden on our country.

In only two weeks of driving, the district coordinator of science for the Port Chester, N.Y., public school system has driven at least 600 miles (965 kilometers) on the car and her fuel cell Equinox has gotten as much as 191 miles (307 kilometers) on its three full tanks (each holding slightly more than four kilograms, or 8.8 pounds, of compressed hydrogen gas).

We agree with the findings of Judge William Overton that the Arkansas creationism law represents an unconstitutional intrusion of religion doctrine into the public schools, that «creation science» is not science, and that its advocates have followed the unscientific procedure of starting from a dogmatically held conclusion and looking only for evidence to support that conclusion.

For Splatoon, Nintendo will hold a special tournament only for elementary school students (which will be streamed live).

In one key scene between the two, Milo talks about how their father (who not - coincidentally ended his own life by jumping off a bridge many years ago) once told him when he was a boy that the kids who were popular in high school were only going to see their lives go downhill from there while Milo would flourish once he was able to step out into the real world — the heartbreak comes when Milo, holding back tears, states that he was the one it never got better for.