Sentences with phrase «overseeing schools»

A principal has been successful in increasing student achievement so the superintendent hires her as the assistant superintendent overseeing schools and tells her to make all the schools do the same thing.

But the government's apparent failure to find a suitable sponsor means local authorities will have to continue overseeing schools until one is found.

In which they said «state governments and local districts need to do a much better job overseeing these schools, which now educate more than two million students.

State governments and local districts need to do a much better job overseeing these schools, which now educate more than two million students.

The district now is managing relationships with the traditional school board, with the dozens of charter boards overseeing schools and with other authorizing agencies.

And in 2014 when Sir Michael Wilshaw, the Chief Inspector of Schools in England and Head of Ofsted (Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills), announced «there's a need for professional governance to move beyond the current «amateurish» approach to overseeing schools».

Q: The Recovery School District and the Orleans Parish School board are two separate districts, both overseeing schools in the city.

Just look at maybe one of the most important sections of the law: Section 1116 (b)(7)-- it provides for districts overseeing schools who don't make AYP two years straight to «replace the school staff who are relevant to the failure to make adequate yearly progress,» overhaul curriculum, or let parents send their kids to another school in the district.

«I will restore a local role in overseeing schools, rejecting the growing market of free schools and academies.»

The fact that these agencies operate separately from education departments charged with overseeing schools is one more consequence of the mess that is education governance in most states; state education departments should oversee and regulate all aspects of elementary and secondary education systems.

Their inherent micro-managing, compliance - oriented tendencies come out, and they are put in the senseless position of overseeing schools that compete with their own.

• accountability and oversight provisions are not well suited to the challenges of overseeing schools that operate with dramatically different roles for teachers and students.

Just as importantly, he oversaw the school's rise to first place in the BusinessWeek rankings.

«It isn't a goal for Harvard Business School to graduate more entrepreneurs, but this will be a side benefit,» says Alan MacCormack, a Harvard professor who recently oversaw the school's startup initiative, which assigned an entire class of 900 students to launch micro-businesses as part of six - person teams, with seed capital from the business school.

According to a 2009 study called Factors Influencing the Implementation of School Wellness Policies in the United States, it's important to have a school district wellness committee or other group to create, implement and oversee the school district wellness policy.

Currently, Lindsey works as the State Agency Director of Child Nutrition Programs and Food Distribution for the Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) in Washington, DC, overseeing school breakfast and lunch, CACFP, summer meals and other various local level laws, including the DC Healthy Schools Act and Healthy Tots Act.

... Indeed, SNA was the leader in child nutrition, a position I do not believe we can claim today,» added Wynn, who used to oversee school meals in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., for one of the largest school districts in the country.

Here in Houston ISD, Aramark ended its 20 - year stint overseeing our school food program, which unexpectedly opened the door to new possibilities.

The SNA is fresh off a victory in getting the US Department of Agriculture, which oversees school meals, to permanently remove the limits on grain and meat imposed by the 2010 Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act (HHFKA).

Gwen Chambers, who serves as CCSD's senior lead nurse overseeing its school nurse program, is the Georgia Association of School Nurses» 2017 Georgia School Nurse Administrative of the Year.

«The Tories have overseen a school places crisis, the highest rate of teachers leaving the profession in a decade and over half a million pupils in super-sized classes.

Education, Close the education gap that exist in Towns and Villages with support for a referendum on creation and development of a County Department of Education to oversee school districts budget distribution and outcome.

The monitors overseeing the school's finances will also remain in place.

A state - appointed fiscal monitor of the East Ramapo school district in Rockland County wants the state to oversee the school board.

Gilbane Building Co., based in Providence, R.I., has a Syracuse operation because it was selected in 2007 as the program manager overseeing school renovations undertaken by the city's Joint Schools Construction Board.

Ellen Jaffee, a Democratic Assembly member from Rockland County who is one of the bill's lead sponsors, said that installing a monitor to oversee the school board «has nothing to do with who they are in terms of their culture or religious background.»

The city said that the contract was necessary to ensure consistent quality across prekindergarten programs, while Success said that the contract violated state law, which it argued gave a charter school's authorizer the sole right to oversee the school's operations.

The reason, as the film wisely shows instead of tells, is that Kate is a bit difficult, with a particular rivalry with Melanie, who serves as a «proud parent volunteer» overseeing the school parking lot.

In turn, Gov. Tommy G. Thompson, a Republican, would be able to appoint a Cabinet secretary to oversee school - improvement efforts.

DCPS would not be asked to oversee schools run by others or manage the city's entire portfolio of public schools.

The Washington - based center is a nonprofit organization that conducts research, runs academic standards projects, and oversees school leadership and workforce development programs.

In A Democratic Constitution for Public Education, Hill and Jochim propose doing away with school boards and replacing them with «civic education councils» — democratic bodies with clear but limited responsibilities — which oversee schools with much more freedom than most enjoy today.

She spent about a decade working at Columbia's Center for Core Curriculum — the office that oversees the school's undergraduate liberal arts program.

It's simply no longer the case that LEAs own, operate, and oversee all schools participating in the public education system.

School Turnaround Leaders June 11 - 15, 2018» K - 12 educators and change agents directly responsible for leading or overseeing school turnaround efforts.

How a community oversees its schools is very important.

Violence perpetrated by teachers and other school staff, with or without the overt or tacit approval of education ministries and other authorities that oversee schools, includes corporal punishment, cruel and humiliating forms of psychological punishment, sexual and gender - based violence, and bullying.

In early 2016, spurred by a seemingly perpetual bankruptcy crisis at Detroit Public Schools (DPS)-- by this point, counting unfunded pension liabilities, the district was almost $ 1.7 billion in the red — the state senate narrowly passed a bill that would bail out the district and split it into two separate entities: the old DPS, which would exist to collect taxes and pay down debt, and a proposed new Detroit Education Commission (DEC) to oversee schooling in the city, including regulating the openings and closings of traditional public schools and charter schools.

Sponsors oversee school boards (called «governing authorities»).

Governors are unpaid, but contribute to how schools are run by appointing staff and overseeing school finances and the potential standstill could cause administrative problems.

For example, by allowing a district to simultaneously operate schools and oversee schools run by others, Denver, Indianapolis, and Camden are violating the steer - row principle.

Within DoDEA, the Department of Defense Domestic Dependents Elementary and Secondary Schools (DDESS) oversees school in the U.S. and the Department of Defense Dependents Schools (DoDDS) monitors those abroad.

The Maryland General Assembly will consider legislation that would create a task force to oversee schools» spending of an estimated $ 60 million in additional state aid proposed by the governor for school - improvement efforts.

In an oral opinion last week, New York State Supreme Court Judge John S. Lockman found «viable and appropriate» the plan to make the once - exclusive school, the Cathedral School of St. Mary and St. Paul in Garden City, financially feasible, said Donald MacLeod, a member of the board of directors of the Cathedral Corporation, which oversees the school...

It provides instructions for training peer mediators and overseeing a school - based mediation program.

An LGA report has said that Regional Schools Commissioners (RSCs) lack the «capability and capacity» to oversee school improvement on a wide scale.

In addition to increased contact with SMEs, the report also recommends that each school should have a trained «careers leader» responsible for overseeing a school wide careers and employability strategy.

Being able to oversee his schooling is a major benefit of working as a virtual teacher.

Instructional coordinators oversee school curriculums and teaching standards.

Dr. Linda Darling - Hammond is currently Charles E. Ducommun professor of education at Stanford University, where she founded and oversees the School Redesign Network.