Sentences with phrase «over school systems»

Different levels of government — local, intermediate, and national — have varying degrees of control over school systems worldwide.

Ryan and other defenders of «benign» racial sorting, in contrast, insist that the use of remedies originally available only to judges charged with dismantling an entrenched racial caste system in the South should also be available to public officials presiding over school systems that have not violated the Fourteenth Amendment.

The EPA does not have jurisdiction over school systems except those few that maintain their own independent water supply.

The school board was reconvened and met, just once, to reappoint Mr. Bloomberg's schools chancellor, Joel I. Klein, and give him full authority over the school system.

Charter school interests that was to see de Blasio's power over the school system weakened and real estate interests that want to see the status quo maintained in the rent laws spent big money to help the Senate Republicans and Cuomo in this election cycle.

Then on Friday, his attorneys continued that tack, examining the influence Buffalo Teachers Federation President Philip Rumore has over the school system and pressing one board member on how much union support she received during the last election.

And they extended the New York City Mayor's control over the school system for just one year.

And - New York City Mayor Bill deBlasio is seeking renewal of a law that gives the mayor more control over the school system.

Longtime Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley had won control over the school system in 1995 and generally received accolades for rising scores on state tests; hard - charging superintendents, including Paul Vallas and Arne Duncan; tough accountability measures such as reduced social promotion; and a slew of new schools and shiny buildings.

The control board then dealt a series of blows to the elected school board, beginning with its firing of Franklin Smith, normally a board prerogative, and ending with the transfer of control over the school system to a new, nine - member board of trustees.

In many cities, Progressive reformers had long ago succeeded in stripping mayors of their authority over the school system.

This is the most dramatic change in school management since Tom Boasberg took over the school system in 2009.

However, Villaraigosa still may have significant influence over the school system.

Governor Malloy's original «education reform» bill included language that mandated that when the State of Connecticut takes over a school system, the education commissioner will have the authority to approve or reject the local board's choice for superintendent.

DeKalb County Schools Superintendent R. Stephen Green has responded to an outcry over the school system's testing schedule and has rearranged it to accommodate Jewish holy days.

RESPONSE: The Governor proposes to spend $ 25 million dollars over two years to help 25 school districts once the state has «taken over the school system».

McQueen, formerly the senior vice president and dean of the college of education at Lipscomb University, took over the school system last year upon the departure of Kevin Huffman, the divisive education reformer who oversaw significant changes to the state's K - 12 system.

The focus shifted when the State of California took over the school system in the 90s, and schools with sub par test results were identified.

Not exact matches

It is no coincidence that the school system in Finland, the darling of the international educational community for its superior test scores, is built on an experience - based model, where science and math are taught through doing, and labs take precedence over textbooks.

Garden City Booragoon has gone high - tech to attract and retain more shoppers over the school holidays, launching an interactive augmented reality system using technology developed in Europe.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on Tuesday launched an investigation into the pharma giant's contracts with local school systems in New York over potentially anticompetitive language in the arrangements.

But over the last decade, it's added a new, $ 70 million hosptial, has rebuilt 11 of its 15 destroyed schools, and it's now protected by a defensive floodwall system.

She was a substitute teacher for over 20 years, she volunteered at the local library, she helped raise grants for the public school system, and was a key contributor to Keep Dickinson Beautiful.

Apple, as part of its response, on Tuesday announced improvements in its iWork suite at an event in Chicago, where school bells and announcements over a public address system directed press and more than 300 teachers into an auditorium at Lane Tech College Prep High Sschool bells and announcements over a public address system directed press and more than 300 teachers into an auditorium at Lane Tech College Prep High SchoolSchool.

NBK Capital Partners Mezzanine Fund II has already invested in two companies: Qimam El Hayat, a private K - 12 school in Riyadh that provides quality education to over 2,500 students and Perkon, the market leader in the Turkish payment systems / automatic identification and data capture («AIDC») industry.

Details of the Cyberattack On April 14th, suspected hackers took over the computer system of the Leominster Public Schools District in Massachusetts, shutting it down.

Yeah, the conditioned brain you were brainwashed all your years growing up in the school system the Pharisees took over..

The Archdiocese of Philadelphia once boasted one of the United States» largest and most culturally embedded Catholic school systems, with a peak enrolment of well over 200,000 students in the early 1970s.

News broke over the weekend that all twenty - three schools within the California State University system have taken steps to «derecognize» InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF), a para-church Christian ministry organization that's had a longstanding presence within university life religious settings.

While it's probably acceptable that public schools should go out of their way to blacklist MAJOR religious holy days from exams or deadlines (some kind of authoritative national list would be required, but I'll bet even with community involvement it won't please everyone, sheesh) I don't buy having our public school system bend over backwards for religion.

There are smaller steps that could be taken to accomodate the prayer needs of those students rather than rescheduling a whole school system over the needs of a small minority.

They have also established schools and made a significant contribution to the development of the educational system, although in several countries in recent years church schools have been taken over by the state.

Regardless, it is not the teachers unions that are wreaking our education system, it is the top heavy school boards (e.g. those that make over 500K).

He added: «There was a system of administration in that school over a long number of years which allowed a paedophile to flourish, gave him authority, not only over all of the pupils, but gave him authority over the staff as well and put him in a position where he could abuse people and that needs to be explored, it needs to be investigated, it needs to be enquired into.

Other ideas: Schools can announce the names of the birthday kids over the school's P.A. system, or schools can invite birthday kids to pick out a special book from a stash purchased by tSchools can announce the names of the birthday kids over the school's P.A. system, or schools can invite birthday kids to pick out a special book from a stash purchased by tschools can invite birthday kids to pick out a special book from a stash purchased by the PTA.

NIAMEY HARRIS Mission - S.F. — Football / Basketball — Senior This Harris, who is not related to Najee, gets the slight nod over the Antioch standout due to the fact that he may go down as one of San Francisco's most - decorated athletes to come out of the city's public school system.

«We are trying to instill the team concept and develop a camaraderie and team spirit,» Iverson said of taking the program over for longtime coach Carl Massey, who retired after teaching and coaching in the El Dorado County School System for 37 years, including at Oak Ridge since it first opened in 1980.

His unique system is in place in over 130 martial arts schools throughout the world.

The school system in England gave up on competitive sport but now professional clubs have taken over the coaching of schoolchildren and the dividends are paying off.

But what a crazy system we have, if the people closest to the day - to - day reality of school are essentially excluded from the public debate over how we educate our kids.

Not only are we up against a school district food system that is set in it's ways, we're battling a larger food culture that values high calorie, highly processed convenience food AND huge food lobbies that have great influence over Congress and the legislation that is passed.

Some fear that turning their playground over to the school system will crowd out pre-school children.

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We are educating young people to make sure they understand that high standards are not the problem — school cafeterias where no cooking takes place, the power of processed food industries, and lack of control over our food systems are the real problems.

9) A lot of really awesome, incredible, motivated, inspiring teachers become burned out, dispirited, discouraged, and less enthusiastic over the years because their effort and hard work is not noticed or seems to be unappreciated, and the undone work, the staggering weight of the unmet needs of students and the problems in a school system become overwhelming.

The Board also took the first step toward expanding its social worker program to meet the explosive student enrollment growth experienced by CCSD over the last two decades by hiring a third social worker: Dr. Tara Quinn - Schuldt, who has worked as a social worker in Carroll County's school system for 13 years.

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I have worked for a school system in Johnson City, Tennessee for a little over 2 1/2 years.

We spoke for over an hour about school food (lunch and breakfast) and issues like nutritional content, food and nutrition education, and the issue of universal food («free for all») versus the current three - tier system in school meals.

I would love to see her help over haul the school lunch system!