Sentences with phrase «over the school calendar»

Last year, the caucus helped 85 of its members get elected to the 350 - member union House of Representatives and promoted the election a union president who appears to be amenable to reforms; the union has since agreed to grant individual schools flexibility over the school calendar, hiring and assignment of teachers.

Soon after, the union agreed to grant individual schools flexibility over the school calendar, hiring, and assignment of teachers.

Not exact matches

In this planner, I have over 35 printables for you (menu calendars, cleaning schedules, school schedules, chore lists, budget printables, finance sheets & so much more).

When the calendar turned over to 2014, the School Nutrition Foundation had more than just another new year to celebrate — we had a fifty year anniversary to celebrate!

Results demonstrate important changes in students» drinking during the calendar year, including expected large increases during the month of a one - day festival, large decreases over the summer, and resumption of relatively high quantities upon return to school.

Yet still chic what a weird school system calendar - I'd always take some extra days of summer over random winter!

«NAPLAN tests are constructed to give students an opportunity to demonstrate skills they have learned over time through the school curriculum, and NAPLAN test days should be treated as just another routine event on the school calendar,» he says.

We are pleased to see the summary state that school leaders ought to have: «Sufficient flexibility and autonomy over such factors as school schedules and calendars, school staffing models, roles and responsibilities for educators and noneducators, and school - level budgets.»

Last year, the state board returned control over budget and the school calendar to the local board.

That is, each school should have significant control over its curriculum, methods, budget, staff, and calendar.

Twenty schools in Jacksonville, Florida, switched to calendars that eliminated the long summer vacation over the past five years, according to an editorial in the Florida Times - Union.

The optimism that school technology leaders expressed last month about sidestepping the «Y2K bug» was justified when the calendar rolled over to 2000 and school computers kept humming.

World Book Day has been a staple in the school calendar for two decades and has seen children all over the country step into the worlds of some of their favourite books.

The district also retained control over many aspects of school management, including the school calendar and the code of conduct for teachers and students.

The $ 27 Billion project added schools all over the city and added 170,000 seats to relieve overcrowding and take schools off of multitrack calendars.

They are unique in the nation in that they have autonomy over budget, staffing, governance, curriculum and assessment, and the school calendar to provide increased flexibility to organize schools and staffing to best meet students» needs, while operating within the economy of scale of a large urban public school district.

Experts say many of these new charters haven't changed much about their day - to - day operations after making the switch: for instance, by making use of the autonomy over calendar and curriculum that charter schools are afforded.

Meanwhile, with many district leaders requesting greater flexibility over curriculum, calendars and spending, local schools have been largely rebuffed by state lawmakers, board members said, although Hall's district includes allowances for an «Innovation Zone» or «I - Zone» opening up charter - like flexibilities for certain low - performing schools.

At the elementary and middle school levels, students will start the new calendar year in January with a new marking period instead of carrying over work from a two - week vacation.

Opponents continuously argued state budget cuts over several years forced local districts to furlough teachers and trim school days from the calendar.

Public schools in Colorado that have greater control over hiring teachers, setting the school calendar and budgeting show slightly higher levels of student academic growth and high levels of teacher empowerment, according to a CU Denver report...

Democracy Prep will have full autonomy over the academic programming of its schools, including the curriculum, length and structure of the day, academic calendar, class size, and professional development of staff.

State law can help create the conditions under which leaders at low - performing schools have the flexibility they need over finances, staffing, use of time, the school calendar, and other aspects of school operations, to craft tailored, productive interventions that address the needs of their school communities.

Or why over 90 Arizona schools and districts have adopted Beyond Textbooks, which provides a strict calendar to keep teachers on track to ensure everybody is teaching exactly the same standard at the same time?

That changed after Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican - controlled Legislature prohibited municipalities and school districts from negotiating with employees over things like health insurance and the school year calendar.

Although summer isn't officially over for another couple of weeks, going back to school and flipping the calendar to September kind of unofficially announce that fall is here!