Sentences with phrase «plans by school systems»

The union is fighting plans by school systems to shutter schools in struggling Chicago, Philadelphia and D.C. neighborhoods.

Not exact matches

The Education Super Centre, like all currently owned and planned rental units, will be located directly by local transit systems in the core of Vancouver, allowing students to travel with ease for both school and recreation.

I was so appalled by a system (called the «nutrient standard» method of meal planning) that would lead to this bizarre result that I began to learn as much as I could about the federal school meal program.

The Rethinking School Lunch Oakland Feasibility Study, by a team of experts consultants commissioned by the Center, is based on CEL's Rethinking School Lunch planning framework, a whole - systems approach developed over more than 15 years of work on school food iSchool Lunch Oakland Feasibility Study, by a team of experts consultants commissioned by the Center, is based on CEL's Rethinking School Lunch planning framework, a whole - systems approach developed over more than 15 years of work on school food iSchool Lunch planning framework, a whole - systems approach developed over more than 15 years of work on school food ischool food issues.

Finally, I move onto the government's plans to increase the number of academies in the system by turning outstanding schools into academies.

School districts would need to finalize any locally negotiated aspects of their ratings system and submit their plans for state approval by November.

The $ 530 million includes $ 254 million that the city has to contribute to an $ 836 million short - term emergency plan unveiled by MTA chairman Joe Lhota to fix the city's beleaguered subway system — which has been plagued by delays and service problems over the last several months — and $ 140 million less than the city had expected to receive in state aid for city schools.

The first year of the three - year growth plan was unanimously approved by the Board of Governors as a system - wide priority last year, and school officials said Monday they are hopeful the second year of funding will be a system - wide priority this year.

An ambitious plan put forward by the Rochester City School District hopes to transform the educational system for students in the area.

It is particularly noteworthy that his proposal will ensure a permanent evaluation system for New York City, and that the specifics will be decided by June, with plenty of time to plan and implement for the 2013 - 2014 school year.

Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza, who joined the city school system this month, fanned the flames Friday by retweeting a news story on the meeting headlined: «Watch: Wealthy white Manhattan parents angrily rant against plan to bring more black kids to their schools.Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza, who joined the city school system this month, fanned the flames Friday by retweeting a news story on the meeting headlined: «Watch: Wealthy white Manhattan parents angrily rant against plan to bring more black kids to their schools.schools.»

The document was created by a team from the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning's Food Systems Planning and Healthy Communities Lab, led by Dr. Samina Raja.

A controversial proposal to change how local governments and school districts are compensated for state - owned lands in the Adirondacks and Catskills by utilizing a payment - in - lieu - of - taxes system was not included in the final spending plan, a decision roundly praised by local stakeholders.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration sent the state's top education officials a letter Thursday warning that he plans to use his influence over the budget to pursue an aggressive legislative agenda to fix what he calls an underperforming school system hobbled by bureaucracy.

Topics included his reaction to Governor Cuomo's statement that he is not planning to approve a specific amount of pre-K funding set forth in the state senate proposed budget, how confident he is of pre-K funding, the status of his administration's review of the city's Sandy relief programs, his reaction to Governor Cuomo's statements on mayoral control of the city school system and charter schools, the current status of site clearing and the investigation into the cause of the East Harlem building explosion, whether New Yorkers should be concerned about gas leaks, his reaction to a tweet yesterday by Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito critical of Governor Cuomo's reaction to the East Harlem building explosion, how the church services he attended this morning for victims affected him personally and the relief efforts being led by his wife, Chirlane McCray, and the Mayor's Fund for NYC.

But he said Assembly Dems are resisting the governor's plan to delay a boost in school funding until the panel comes up with a more rigorous teacher - accountability system by June.

ALBANY — Members of the Assembly's Democratic majority were angered Tuesday night over a plan they said was developed by Governor Andrew Cuomo and Senate Republicans to hold back a school funding increase until June, when an appointed commission would recommend a new teacher - evaluation system.

This study was supported, in part, by research funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81325003, 81520108003 and 81670716), Chang Jiang Scholars Program, the Shanghai Commission of Science and Technology (16JC1405800), Shanghai Municipal Education Commission Gaofeng Clinical Medicine Grant Support (20152206 and 20152208), Clinical Research Plan of SHDC (16CR2017A), Multicenter Clinical Research Project by Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine (DLY201601), Collaborative Innovation Center of Systems Biomedicine and the Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation.

Class Rank (Unrated) Romantic comedy about a couple of couple of college - bound teens (Olivia Holt and Skyler Gisondo) who hatch a plan to improve their admissions chances by having their high school abolish its student ranking system.

«We do not believe there is capacity within the system to withdraw funding and powers for councils to support school improvement and hold schools to account in August 2017 as currently planned by the government.

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Dzintra I. Janavs wrote in a 20 - page decision that the mayor's plan violates several provisions of the state constitution by shifting, in part, «management and control of the 708,000 - student Los Angeles Unified School District to entities and authorities... that are not part of the public school system.&School District to entities and authorities... that are not part of the public school system.&school system.»

Just providing time is not enough, the time needs to well planned and facilitated by leaders — system, school and teacher.

Sheldon Silver, the speaker of the legislature's lower house, announced on Feb. 15 the proposed elimination of the current board structure by 2000 as part of an overall plan to reorganize the governance of the nation's largest school system.

In a one - on - one interview last week, Bill Gates, the chairman and CEO of the Microsoft Corp., talked with Staff Writer Andrew Trotter about the «Schools Interoperability Framework,» a plan by Microsoft and 18 other software companies to create technical standards that would help schools develop a «digital nervous system.Schools Interoperability Framework,» a plan by Microsoft and 18 other software companies to create technical standards that would help schools develop a «digital nervous system.schools develop a «digital nervous system.»

After 1974, however, school integration efforts outside the South were stymied by the Supreme Court's 5 - 4 decision in Milliken v. Bradley, which prohibited heavily minority urban systems from including nearby suburbs in desegregation plans.

Footwear aside, McCartney, Lesser Professor of Early Childhood Development at HGSE, managed her honorary role well as one of 100 business, government, and education leaders who participated on November 1 in the third annual «Principal For A Day» event sponsored by the Boston Public Schools (BPS) and the Boston Plan for Excellence, an organization started by corporations and foundations in 1984 to benefit the city's school system.

Among the approaches planned by that organization are working with teacher education programs, developing professional development programs to help teachers deal with issues in urban school systems, and establishing a clearinghouse for organizations that are «home - growing» teachers, Community Teachers Institute executive director Segun Eubanks told Education World.

The key points from each strand are highlighted as follows: Early Identification and support • Early identification of need: health and development review at 2/2.5 years • Support in early years from health professionals: greater capacity from health visiting services • Accessible and high quality early years provision: DfE and DfH joint policy statement on the early years; tickell review of EYFS; free entitlement of 15 hours for disadvantaged two year olds • A new approach to statutory assessment: education, health and care plan to replace statement • A more efficient statutory assessment process: DoH to improve the provision and timeliness of health advice; to reduce time limit for current statutory assessment process to 20 weeks Giving parent's control • Supporting families through the system: a continuation of early support resources • Clearer information for parents: local authorities to set out a local offer of support; slim down requirements on schools to publish SEN information • Giving parents more control over support and funding for their child: individual budget by 2014 for all those with EHC plan • A clear choice of school: parents will have rights to express a preference for a state - funded school • Short breaks for carers and children: a continuation in investment in short breaks • Mediation to resolve disagreements: use of mediation before a parent can register an appeal with the Tribunal

Funding Source: James Irvine Foundation to support school districts participating in the ConnectEd - directed California Linked Learning District Initiative Amount: About $ 12 million Number of Programs: 9 school districts received $ 125,000 planning grants followed by $ 1 million implementation grants to develop systems of 6 - 8 pathway options; and 2 districts received planning grants of $ 125,000 each.

Taking a new tack toward resolving Michigan's long - running dispute over school - finance equity, Gov. John M. Engler has announced a plan to help close the gap between rich and poor districts by making better - off systems bear more of the burden of school - employee retirement costs.

Ruling in the Oklahoma City school desegregation case, a divided U.S. Supreme Court holds that districts that were once racially segregated by law may be freed from court - ordered desegregation plans if they have done their best to eradicate the vestiges of their discriminatory systems and have met court orders.

Sir Michael Barber, an international education expert who served in multiple senior - level positions in the United Kingdom's government prior to his work at McKinsey and Pearson, was commissioned by the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education (MBAE) to develop a plan that would enable Massachusetts to have the best - performing school system in the world in 20 years.

In education policy circles, the «charter schools are a plan by ultra-conservatives to privatize the public school system» is a conspiracy theory that is quite popular.

Our consultants are trained to help both schools and school systems with every aspect of the school improvement process (with or without a school review conducted by ACER) in line with relevant strategic planning documents.

Following similar action in the House of Representatives, the United States Senate voted today to pass a resolution under the Congressional Review Act to repeal the final regulations issued by the previous administration regarding implementation of school accountability and improvement systems, data reporting, and consolidated state plans required by the Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA.

Obama has proposed a «Success in the Middle Act,» which would provide federal support to improve the education of middle school students in low - performing schools by requiring states to develop detailed plans to improve student achievement, develop and utilize early identification data systems to identify those students most at - risk of dropping out, and invest in proven strategies that reduce the number of drop outs.

Falsehood 3 Anderson's «One Newark» plan is a conspiracy to «privatize» public schools by replacing the traditional system with charters.

The emergency plans developed by school systems that have had to face the possibility — however remote — that they might be enveloped in a communitywide nuclear crisis, vary from locality to locality depending principally upon the site of the reactor and the geography of the community.

This document compiles all ten sets of questions from the Deep Dives into CCSSO's Principles of Effective School Improvement Systems to help state education agency leaders and other stakeholders make practical use of the questions as they work to identify who will do what by when in their school improvement implementation and planning procSchool Improvement Systems to help state education agency leaders and other stakeholders make practical use of the questions as they work to identify who will do what by when in their school improvement implementation and planning procschool improvement implementation and planning processes.

But she also alienated many parents with her reorganization plan, known as One Newark, which replaced the city's tradition of neighborhood schools with a universal enrollment system that assigned students by lottery to traditional as well as charter schools.

Putting that plan into action, Common Ground routinely plants trees with its students, teaches them about sustainability by gardening and farming right on the school grounds, and recently unveiled their new sustainable building which uses geothermal, solar, and a rainwater treatment system.

Just last week, the governor of New York sent the state's top education officials a letter warning that he plans to use his influence over the budget by pursuing an aggressive legislative agenda to fix an ailing school system hobbled by bureaucracy.

Reign of Error begins where The Death and Life of the Great American School System left off, providing a deeper argument against privatization and for public education, and in a chapter - by - chapter breakdown, putting forth a plan for what can be done to preserve and improve it.

The Continuous Improvement Management System (CIMS) was developed by BSI to provide districts and schools with an online platform for collaborative planning and problem solving.

FairTest supports the authentic accountability plan proposed by the Coalition for Authentic Reform in Education (CARE) proposed a comprehensive accountability system that uses a balance of local and state assessments to describe school improvement and student progress.

No matter how you measure it, the Renewal Program isn't helping kids, despite de Blasio's promise of a «bold» plan with «profound impact» backed by a «major investment» — almost a billion dollars by 2019 — that will «shake the foundations» of NYC's school system and «turn every Renewal school into a successful school» within three years or he would shut it down.

But the plan would also alter the politics of the city's education system by pulling the independently operated schools under the direct influence of a powerful labor group that has sought to limit charter expansion.

Carmen Avalos, city clerk for the South Gate community of Los Angeles and a mother of six children, four of whom attend charter schools, said the Great Public Schools Now plan has been greatly anticipated by parents of color like herself who have endured what she called a «two - tiered system.schools, said the Great Public Schools Now plan has been greatly anticipated by parents of color like herself who have endured what she called a «two - tiered system.Schools Now plan has been greatly anticipated by parents of color like herself who have endured what she called a «two - tiered system.»

Miami - Dade County Public Schools hopes to build its own success over time by taking it slowly, renegotiating the system each year with the teachers union, which helped create the initial plan.

The plan was spelled out by Robert Simmons, an urban education professor whom Henderson hired last year to become the school system's chief of innovation and research.