Sentences with phrase «other priority schools»

The forum also provides participants a unique opportunity to learn about classroom - applied strategies showing promise in other priority schools.

NEA's Priority Schools Campaign is working with Roberts and other priority schools to provide tips and techniques on how the community can work together in struggling schools, increase graduation rates, and close gaps in academic achievement for all students.

Not exact matches

According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), the U.S. is presently facing a funding gap of $ 1.7 trillion on roads, bridges and transit alone — to say nothing of electricity, schools, airports and other needs.

In Broward County, they are listed on the third tier of priorities, along with blood banks, assisted living facilities, schools, dialysis centers, mortuaries, gas stations, retirement village and several other facilities.

For some homebuyers access to good public schools is crucial, while for others safety is the top priority.

Schools must realize that some other priority or time commitment will have to give way for this new learning to take place.

As a senior I decided to try out again because two or three projected starters were not going to play (injuries, other priorities) and our school that year had the honor of being selected to play a game in the Meadow - lands on the Nets court.

Proposals that include a creative way to share the learning and outcomes achieved with other Alliance member schools will be given priority.

The Clarendon Hills Park District is hoping a new deal in the works with Hinsdale - Clarendon Hills School District 181 will better ensure it gets priority to hold park district programs and classes in the gym and other facilities it shares with Clarendon Hills Middle School.

I have had repeated conversations and pleaded with our mayor in Salem (who is a mother herself) where I live to help volunteer, write grants, and work on upgrading the school lunch program, and even though she cares, it is not a priority — especially when budgets are tight for good teachers and other necessary school supplies.

For me, it was just the right balance of time - saving tips, techniques for figuring out your own priorities, and specific advice about schools, holidays and birthdays, vacations, chores, allowance, and all the other minutae of parenting.

Alhaji Benne, who is also the former Chairman of the National Hajj Committee, said developmental projects such as construction of roads, schools, health facilities, drainages, water among others are the priorities of the NDC government.

«We want to prevent mass shootings from happening and while this could have happened with other types of weapons, NeverAgain believes school safety should be priority right now, not just background checks,» said Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Kali Clougherty, 18, referring to a campaign for gun coschool safety should be priority right now, not just background checks,» said Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Kali Clougherty, 18, referring to a campaign for gun coSchool student Kali Clougherty, 18, referring to a campaign for gun control.

After completing a consultation, Tudor Grange Academy, a secondary Academy without a religious character in Solihull, has decided to adopt an admissions policy that priorities pupils who attend a religiously selective Church of England primary school — potentially excluding others who live closer to the Academy.

While there are two Long Island races still being counted that could change things, it appears that Republicans will continue their hold on the state Senate, putting a dent in de Blasio's hopes for voting reform and other priorities, like a lengthy extension of mayoral control of city schools.

But the governor is not supported among the more activist side of the WFP, which includes chairs like Karen Scharff of Citizen Action who remain restive over his stances on taxes, charter schools and other middle - of - the - road priorities.

Heastie said the higher taxes on millionaires would generate sufficient revenue for the state to increase funding for schools, the aging, infrastructure and other public priorities.

Tudor Grange Academy, a secondary school in Solihull without a religious character, is consulting on changing its admissions criteria to give priority to children attending two religiously selective Church of England primary schools, to the detriment of others who live nearer to the Academy.

Leon County School Superintendent Rocky Hanna says that will leave the district with little flexibility to put money toward other priorities.

He said community learning schools, Teacher Centers and the Positive Learning Collaborative are among the union's other top funding priorities for the upcoming year.

The UFT's other legislative priorities this year include new curriculum and teacher training aligned with the education standards that are being developed; restored funding for Teacher Centers statewide; additional funding for community schools and the Positive Learning Collaborative; closing tax loopholes to ensure the wealthy pay their fair share; and increased investment in technology and career and technical education programs.

Other priorities include restoring state aid for UFT Teacher Centers and increasing the transparency and accountability of charter schools.

Still, other educators say solutions lie in setting priorities, both within schools and across systems.

Negotiations over an extension of soon - to - expire mayoral control of New York City schools have sucked most of the oxygen from the proverbial room — though not the room, of «three men» fame, which sat empty for months, until Monday — leaving little time and attention for de Blasio's other top priorities needing state action.

She «sets priorities and agendas for the school,» which is a dean - ish way of saying that she controls the Magic Money Valve, opening it for certain purposes and keeping it closed for others.

When he was recruited to Clemson University to chair the human - centered computing division in the school of computing, he also made it a priority to hire other minority faculty.

Thus, reordering school priorities to focus on achievement - as Risk tried to do - was much more difficult with teachers and administrators who assumed their professional identities in an era when other priorities for schooling were in effect.

Interestingly, even the average Christian schooler is not much less likely than other churchgoers to think that a top priority in education is teaching children about diverse races, religions, and cultures (67 percent versus 73 percent).

While Christian schoolers are commonly thought to choose Christian schooling so that their children may learn discipline and respect for authority, they are no more likely than other churchgoing Protestants to see this as a top priority in education (84 percent of both groups).

When asked what would help them at school, students identified technology (including to help with typing and their school work), being able to have a break, and having time away from others as the three top priorities.

But it's not just developing great teachers and leaders — our offer extends to other programmes that we know are priorities for schools, including our highly successful Futures programme which helps students from disadvantaged backgrounds get into top universities.

And I think it needs to be an important priority of the schools to have ways of helping kids recognize that globalization is something they have to understand and respect and become one with, not just because of the economy but also because there are all these different cultures and different peoples of the world, and if we're all going to make it together, we've got to understand each other.

Competition from charters and other schools of choice is one proven way to do that, so continuing to grow alternatives to traditional public schools should remain at the top of our priority list.

With Stephanie Jones, he directs the Making Caring Common Project, a national effort to make moral and social development priorities in child - raising and to provide strategies to schools and parents for promoting in children caring, a commitment to justice and other key moral and social capacities.

The plan is to turn control of Head Start over to the states, as long as they commit to making school readiness the program's chief priority and to meet several other requirements.

By turning schedule, then turning it some more, McNeely has made time at Hayden R. Lawrence Middle School in Deville, Louisiana, to create special tutoring programs for students who need extra help or enrichment and to achieve many other priorities.

In fact, in a multivariate analysis Schneider et al. find that black parents, as well as less - educated parents, place a higher priority on the test scores in a school than do other groups of parents.

I choose to invest in this and for other schools weighing up the balance of where to invest, I'd say it's about priorities.

Strengthening the family's ability to support their children's academic achievement and other forms of success in school is a priority in HP / HP schools.

For example, some states prohibited districts from spending Title I on school climate supports, counselors, science, or other costs other than reading and math, even though that wasn't required by federal law and didn't reflect state policy priorities.

Ultimately, however, if this is the best school can offer, many students will hire other solutions to solve the problems that arise in their lives, and school will descend to a lower and lower priority.

According to a recent survey of 10,000 middle and high school students published by the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Making Caring Common Project, caring for others isn't seen as a top prischool students published by the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Making Caring Common Project, caring for others isn't seen as a top priSchool of Education's Making Caring Common Project, caring for others isn't seen as a top priority.

How does a straight line graph equation get higher priority of recollection and retention over all the other info they have outside of schools that's tailored to make them want it more and presses the right buttons in their brain to get engagement?

Charters can offer a lottery preference to their pre-K students but must give higher priority to children with siblings enrolled in other grades of the school — whether or not they attended pre-K there.

There are other schools with a research focus but this is often in areas that are not an identified priority for Clarendon.

In a landmark report to the Australian Federal Government (2000), based on data from interviews with over 500 parents, the authors reported that «Parents place a higher priority on receiving information about their children's progress than any other type of information they receive from schools.»

And I think it needs to be an important priority of the schools to have ways of helping kids recognize that globalization is something they have to understand and respect and become one with — not just because of the economy, but also because there are all these different cultures and different peoples of the world, and if we're all going to make it together, we've got to understand each other.

Information destruction in the education sector can often fall by the wayside in favour of other security priorities in schools, such as the protection of valuable on - site equipment and the security of the staff and students themselves.

With record gains being made in providing students with access to computers and the Internet, more schools are shifting their priorities toward other areas that have been simmering on the back burner — namely, figuring out how to integrate technology into the curriculum in meaningful ways.

«Getting students engaged with learning is a top priority to combat rising issues with drug abuse, school dropouts, and many other issues,» said Gabriel Enrique Diago Méndez, director of technology and innovation at Gimnasio Los Caobos and a conference organizer.