Sentences with phrase «operated schools because»

The district said it was cutting $ 85 million from school budgets but that the effect of the cuts totaled about $ 26 million to district - operated schools because of an infusion of state and federal money that is often directed toward schools with low - income students.

In fact if you truly love kids you will be honest with yourself about your capacity to operate a school because the movement's purpose is to educate kids and if you can't do it the fact that you love kids is admirable but does not measure up to the purpose of this movement.

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I do so with some regret, in part because I will lose regular access to information about HISD that has informed my general understanding of how large urban school food programs operate.

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.

In addition, because it is operated by the school district, the center may be open on high - need days or during special evening activities.

The issue of mayoral control was deadlocked because the Republican - led Senate wanted to tie it to an increase in the number of charter schools allowed to operate in New York City.

Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, said his administration shut no fewer than 1,886 schools because they were operating without government's approval.

Newsday's calculations focus on operating funds, because those are widely considered a more meaningful measure of what a district receives than aid for school construction and renovation, which may or may not go to a district in a given year, depending on whether the work is completed then.

She said that because of the cuts the state began making in school aid after the economic downturn, the net amount of operating aid the district would get next year under Cuomo's budget — $ 217.1 million — would be less than the $ 217.3 million in aid it received in 2008 - 09.

In 1979, the U.S. Supreme Court determined that unionization at religious schools could not be compelled because it could constitute «a significant risk of infringement of the Religion Clauses of the First Amendment if the act conferred jurisdiction over church - operated schools.»

We found a lot of concern among government actors about unregulated, possibly ideologically motivated, schools operating under the radar, while local communities found these schools more open and accessible because they were close and taught lessons in Arabic, rather than in English and French, which are used in public Lebanese schools.

He said: «My concern is that the change will lead to a poorer education system operating across Kent, and more broadly England, because the value that local authorities generally provide to schools will be removed.»

And because they operate multiple schools, they are in a position to develop a «farm system» and create opportunities for career advancement that would not be possible in «mom - and - pop» charters.

The reason we have operated only «A» rated schools every year since 2006 is primarily because 60 percent of that grade has been based on individual student growth, a metric on which our scholars and teachers post some of the most dramatic improvements year - over-year.

Some traditionalists would be unsatisfied because the elected board wouldn't own and operate every single public school.

And it is because everybody below the top level is operating as though they're still just working for a traditional school district.»

Similarly, the AFT claims that for - profit management companies «do not contribute to innovation because they offer a single, «cookie - cutter» school design, curriculum, and technology package to all the schools they operate.»

Tom Torkelson, CEO of the high - performing IDEA network agrees: «I don't do turnarounds because a turnaround usually means operating within a school system that couldn't stomach the radical steps we'd take to get the school back on track.

She suspects it is because those living in poor families today have «poor health, limited access to home environments with rich language and experiences, low birth weight, limited access to high - quality pre-school opportunities, less participation in many activities in the summer and after school that middle class families take for granted, and more movement in and out of schools because of the way that the housing market operates.»

The demand for charters in rural communities is limited, because rural Americans regard their district - operated schools as valuable institutions for reasons that go beyond their academic worth.

Unfortunately, we were not able to control for changes in the number of students who spoke limited English or in the school's operating cost per pupil, because at the time of the study such information was available only up to the 2001 - 02 school year.

As a public school, Aviation High School receives basic state education funding, but, because the school is so small, that funding does not adequately cover all the necessary operating costs and capital improveschool, Aviation High School receives basic state education funding, but, because the school is so small, that funding does not adequately cover all the necessary operating costs and capital improveSchool receives basic state education funding, but, because the school is so small, that funding does not adequately cover all the necessary operating costs and capital improveschool is so small, that funding does not adequately cover all the necessary operating costs and capital improvements.

I would also suggest that if schools currently have an offline peer - to - peer mentoring solution, they look at bringing that into their online strategy too, because if children are behaving badly online, they need to be challenged in exactly the same way as they would be in an offline context — the bystander principle needs to operate in the online world too!

Finally, the three OPSB district elementary schools, which might be expected to be the most similar because they are the only New Orleans schools operated by a government bureaucracy, also appear in multiple clusters.

Large amounts of power is needed to operate ovens and hobs because a large secondary school typically uses this equipment for more than 10 hours a week.

A unique feature of our work is our practice base — we understand the joys and challenges of implementing the community schools strategy because we actually operate community schools in New York City, in partnership with our Department of Education.

Because of a simple but profound policy innovation, our understanding of how public schools can be operated, enrolled in, and overseen has been transformed.

«I think the school that is receiving in any of these situations has some special rights and special considerations because there is a history and an operating reality in that school that's going to be changed by bringing a new school into it, and we have to make sure that the formula does not result in the receiving school constantly being on the short end of the stick, which has often been the case in the previous administartion,» he said.

LSMSA has operated one of the best brick - and mortar public schools in the state for almost three decades, but because many interested students are unable to enroll at LSMSA's physical campus, the school has been providing high - quality distance learning courses since 1989.

Ahead was a year's study at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, «a really high platform, a place of respect,» she said — all the more so because it would help her grand plan to change how schools operate in Kenya.»

With so many unmanageable and unpredictable variables, whole - school reform will always be tenuous, because it attempts to simply glide by many of the institutional constraints — the variety of programs operating within a school, all with different goals; the requirements of the administrators» and teacher unions» contracts — that make large - scale change so tortuous.

To those who say that we don't have the capacity to grow enough new schools, I say that's because we have a system that was mistakenly built a century ago to populate schools by geography, to keep schools open in perpetuity, to homogenize offerings, and to own and operate all public schools in a designated area.

This is because schools still operate in a manner that primarily promotes individualism over altruism.

And school district administrators frequently oppose charter schools because the charter schools use public dollars but operate independently and out of the direct control of the local school board.

«You get one shot and that's it, because once that charter is formed, that charter dictates how it will operate,» John Rogers, associate professor of urban schooling at UCLA, told NBC's Education Nation.

Like magnets, charters have the ability to promote integration because they do not operate like a typical neighborhood school, but that was never really their purpose.

The successful innovations I know about are relatively complex (because they provide a lot of PD) and mostly operate in ordinary Title I schools.

But it comes at a cost for other students, both in terms of dollars and opportunities because schools are operating with limited resources.

Because Oscar's school district operates under an inclusive education model, his education team's goal is to get him back into his neighborhood school and to include him in the general education classroom.

They have more freedom to follow their own curriculum because they operate independently from the state's preexisting school system Wisconsin charter schools are held at a higher standard in order to maintain funding.

We need to have conversations with whomever we need to have conversations with in the community, because our schools do not operate on their own.

Pearson said he and his colleagues see a «tremendous need» for good schools across the city and that charters can help meet that need because they operate outside of the city's bureaucracy.

Parents choose Charter Schools for their children because these schools have the freedom to operate away from some regulations that are mandated upon district sSchools for their children because these schools have the freedom to operate away from some regulations that are mandated upon district sschools have the freedom to operate away from some regulations that are mandated upon district schoolsschools.

The improvement network's initial project is focusing on finding better ways to teach 9th - grade Algebra because middle and high school students struggle more with math than younger students, said Leyda Garcia, principal of the UCLA Community School, a district school that operates in partnership with UCLA and is part of the neschool students struggle more with math than younger students, said Leyda Garcia, principal of the UCLA Community School, a district school that operates in partnership with UCLA and is part of the neSchool, a district school that operates in partnership with UCLA and is part of the neschool that operates in partnership with UCLA and is part of the network.

«Day One» is challenging for any charter school leader, and SCSC - approved State charter school leaders have a number of additional responsibilities because State charter schools also operate as school systems.

AFT is holding the press conference at Woodland Hills Academy because back in 2006 it was the first school to operate under the Expanded School - Based Management Model (ESBMM), one of three different school autonomy models that teachers can opt into becoming when writing school improvement school to operate under the Expanded School - Based Management Model (ESBMM), one of three different school autonomy models that teachers can opt into becoming when writing school improvement School - Based Management Model (ESBMM), one of three different school autonomy models that teachers can opt into becoming when writing school improvement school autonomy models that teachers can opt into becoming when writing school improvement school improvement plans.

Von Hayek's take was that it's difficult, and in many cases futile, for policymakers to operate as engineers because they simply don't have the degree of control or as much information as they need to design effective solutions — in the case of K — 12 schooling in the United States, solutions that are going to work for 50 million kids scattered across 90,000 schools.

We operate our schools in some of San Diego's most distressed neighborhoods because we believe that ALL students should receive a high quality, free education.

The latter statistic is significant because all schools within a given district operate under the same leave policies, and teacher absence levels well above a district average may be a symptom of a dysfunctional professional culture at the building level.

Yet to this day, I've never heard anyone say that these schools drain funds from Texas A&M; take the best students from the University of Texas; operate without accountability; or that students at the schools shouldn't receive public funds because of the schools» religious affiliations.