Sentences with phrase «other school blocks»

The Ga West MCE also noted that standard in education at the basic level has improved drastically following the provision of eleven 30 - unit Millenium City Schools and several other school blocks built.

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(CNN)- Four student athletes were suspended after encouraging several others to do the «Tebow» prayer pose, blocking a hallway in school.

Despite power being restored in most areas, schools reopening and life beginning to go on as usual, there are many homes in need of repair from flood damage — and entire blocks reduced to rubble - leaving a strong demand for the good will of others.

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Why didn't they block me from Michigan or Indiana or any other Big Ten school?

Just one day before the scheduled markup of the House Education and the Workforce Committee «s «Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016» (an Orwellian name if there ever was one, given how the bill would gut child nutrition), Congressman Todd Rokita (IN - R), chair of the subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education, introduced a substitute amendment which, among other things, proposes a three - state block grant pilot for school breakfasts and lunches.

We're not that hard on the thing - walking about ten blocks to school three - ish times a week, and maybe two other outings in the neighborhood in between.

But the challengers note a range of issues, from the Dream Act, to criminal justice reform, public school aid and others were blocked by a Senate effectively controlled by Republicans with the IDC as a key block.

Yet Skelos joined with the eight other members of the Long Island Republican delegation to announce that they would block school cuts as proposed by Cuomo.

Other forms of support he said he gave to the constituency in the educational sector include the provision of 1,100 teachers» note 3 lesson notes books for schools, 10 packets of roofing sheets for schools, disbursement of Gh cents 10,000 as scholarship packages for students, construction of 4 classroom blocks in four communities (Bugri, Bugpiigu, Gagbiri Natinga and Kugur), roofing of a classroom block at Bulpielise and rehabilitation of a kindergarten block at Bugri Natinga.

Other school - reform advocates accused bureaucrats of caving to political pressure as union - aligned Assembly Democrats vowed to block efforts to raise or repeal the cap on the number of charters the state allows.

«The Ghana Education Service must also step up its monitoring activities and ensure that enrollment data captured by schools and district directorates are consistent with each other as a measure to block possible leakages and engender effective and efficient planning and budgeting,» it said.

While the annual spending document has long produced disagreements over taxes, school aid and hospital reimbursement rates, fights about other public policies — often with minimal fiscal impacts — have now become flash points and stumbling blocks.

Squadron, along with other local officials including Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, and a host of concerned parents and residents, have been pushing the DOT to improve pedestrian safety on the block, which is home to the Spruce Street School.

Two Bronx high schools — High School for American Studies at Lehman College and Bronx Science (the two are literally blocks away from each other as part of the northwest Bronx's education mile)-- have been named to U.S. World and Report's top 100 American high schools.

The final deal reached between the de Blasio administration and local City Council Members Vanessa Gibson and Fernando Cabrera is projected to bring 4,600 new homes to the 95 - block rezoned area, according to the mayor's office, and includes two new schools, about $ 56 million in parks investments, and other community benefits.

This suggests that the action of selectively and deliberately blocking the autophagy process may have therapeutic benefit for non-small-cell lung cancer and other Ras - driven cancers,» notes Dr. White, who is also a distinguished professor of molecular biology and biochemistry at Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences.

A recent study by researchers at the University of Missouri School of Medicine has shown that a protein inhibitor drug prevents these blockages, and could be a new therapeutic approach to prevent heart attack, stroke and other diseases caused by blocked blood vessels.

Geschwind, a professor in the Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and its Kimmel Cancer Center, and others at Johns Hopkins have been studying the experimental drug as a cancer treatment for over a decade because of its ability to block a key metabolic pathway of cancer cells.

We discovered we went to the same high school only two years apart, went to the same university and live only a few blocks away from each other.

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In the interest of child safety, individual schools and entire school districts often install content filters that aggressively block these Web 2.0 tools — not only social - networking sites but also blogs, wikis, and other Web pages that allow educators and students to create and access content.

Strong American Schoolswill not endorse specific presidential candidates, but will instead focuson three components the group believes form the building blocks ofbetter schooling: a call for stronger, more consistent curriculum standards; lengthening the school day and year; and improving teacherquality through merit pay and other measures.

Some educators may be concerned that Facebook notifications and other notices from sites blocked by the school's firewall can get onto an iGoogle page.

Some of those schools sit within blocks of the scenes that made our area a symbol of American dysfunction and discord, while others are so distant and isolated that children may not even feel the connection.

Positive self - esteem, on the other hand, is one of the building blocks of school success; it provides a firm foundation for learning.

It will raise costs; undermine efficiency; block rich instructional options; restrict school choice and parental influence; and strengthen the hand of other interest groups, including but not limited to already too - powerful teachers unions.

Maryland would have been the first state in the country to take over schools for NCLB restructuring, but Grasmick's efforts met with intense political opposition from Baltimore's mayor and other political leaders, and the state legislature passed a bill blocking the takeover.

Grants for Chapter 1 compensatory education, Chapter 2 block grants, drug - free schools and communities, vocational education, education of the handicapped, and math and science teaching, among a host of other programs, all rely on funding formulas that use census data.

Blended learning, in other words, offers a method for schools to deliver building blocks toward these higher order skills.

The first proposal would reinstitute provisions of the Emergency School Aid Act (esaa), which the Reagan Administration last year combined with other federal education programs into block grants to the states.

Prior to their own study, the authors of the EPAA report «Effects on Students of a 4 x 4 Junior High School Block Scheduling Program» found only three other studies of the effects of block scheduling with middle - school students, two of them conducted in the early School Block Scheduling Program» found only three other studies of the effects of block scheduling with middle - school students, two of them conducted in the early 1Block Scheduling Program» found only three other studies of the effects of block scheduling with middle - school students, two of them conducted in the early 1block scheduling with middle - school students, two of them conducted in the early school students, two of them conducted in the early 1980s!

The senior school has a one period «access period» to accommodate the 36th period — while all other blocks are a standard five periods.

One block is the form of computation; the other is the strategy to approach each problem,» said Cathe Merschat, who teaches at St. Joseph's Catholic School in Macon, Georgia.

This posed a problem for the school, as RE+PE periods didn't fit neatly under all the other blocks, which are five periods in duration.

The Emergency School Aid Act, a $ 149 million federal desegregation program that provided funding to Montclair, was wiped out along with 25 other federal programs when Congress passed a package of education block grants in the summer of 1981.

Schools vary in size with some small sites contained in a single building whilst others are stretched across multiple blocks and campuses.

Some elementary schools in District 1 on the Lower East Side serve mostly low - income families while others, just a few blocks away, serve many more middle class families.

«It is time for schools to stop blocking Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other social networks that students love and already use daily outside of school.»

The small number of specially qualified teachers — and the fact that they must work their schedules around literacy blocks, lunchtimes, and other set schedules — forces many schools to group special - needs students rather than to spread them out evenly among all the classrooms.

In excruciating detail, Rebell and Block show how OCR's effort to apply disparate impact analysis to schools in New York and four other large cities produced an «eclectic package of standards and methods» that «did not prove viable in practice.»

Aside from criminal records bureau (CRB) checks, the costs of exchange trips was also a «block» on school budgets, said other speakers.

To demonstrate, they opened their doors to visitors from other schools last year, pointing out how time spent playing with blocks and Play - Doh helped the school's youngest students learn and develop.

Her bill would allow schools to Title IV - A block grants to collect data to better identify the causes of absenteeism and monitor if any progress is being made, and would give districts the ability to tap into other funding sources to implement programs to reduce absenteeism through school - based mentoring programs.

In addition to her normal 40 - minute social studies block, Jenny worked with other teachers to adjust the schedule so that she would have an additional hour with the students for social studies each day which amounted to more than one quarter of the entire school day and, according to Jenny, required a huge modification.

But they will have to balance this with fears that if they agree to give extra funding to West Sussex schools, there will be a queue around the block from head teachers in other local authorities.

We think these schools, and likely hundreds of others, will be important to follow since there remains so little true innovation in high schools across the country where most kids are still just herded from one 50 - minute lecture block to the next for four years.

In others, it could mean creating a special English language block in the school day that gets all students talking — English learners and native English speakers — through structured, oral language activities.

Some students travel hours, from as far as DeSoto County, Tupelo, and Hattiesburg; others had only a few blocks to drive from their school.

In this workshop, participants will learn about and get examples of the key building blocks Eskolta has helped transfer schools put in place to become outcomes - based, including grading policies, rubrics, competency - alignment grids, and other schoolwide systems and structures.