Sentences with phrase «points in each school system»

The proposal was to connect fiber points in each school system, linking them to the network to offer a wide array of educational services.

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«Sure, we can't pick up the German system and transplant it to Canada — that would be ridiculous,» the employment minister said in a telephone interview, adding it was a «lazy point of view» to be dismissive of the long - established German partnership among government, schools and business.
The newly implemented system in Crown Point gives officers access to all doors at every school in the district.
In fact, our school system, as I already pointed out, rents space to a huge number of very diverse private concerns, including homeowner associations, clubs, and so on.
I think we have come to a point and time where we shouldn't recognize any religious holiday's in our school systems, federal facilities, state facilities, etc..
Students and staff in the Yankton School District may pre-pay for school meals utilizing our point - of - sale lunch account sSchool District may pre-pay for school meals utilizing our point - of - sale lunch account sschool meals utilizing our point - of - sale lunch account system.
Further proof of my assertion not long ago that education is developing into a serious sticking point between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver came in the form of a statement from the governor that blames «Assembly - led» legislation passed in 2010 for the current fight between the teachers unions and school districts over the creation of teacher evaluation systems.
Carranza pointed out that the city recently allocated $ 125 million in «Fair Student Funding» to bolster school budgets, but said that Albany needs to provide more funding for the education system.
That's the promise from the Buffalo school system which helped the college admission rate jump nine points, from 57 percent of graduates in 2012 to 66 percent last year.
The point in all this, about which I am sure we agree, is that if Labour was serious about a one - nation education system it would be discussing these different legal routes to bringing all state funded schools under democratic control.
Speaking at the London School of Economics, the home secretary set out how the points - based immigration system will take effect in 100 days time.
«The important point here is, if you look at the trend of improvements in schools, the numbers now succeeding at GCSE and accessing A-levels has been a success story of our education system,» he said.
Your friend Tristram Hunt of course is guilty of the same Neo-Liberal agenda, he supported free schools right up to the point where they started to fail in Sweden, then rapidly reversed to just supporting the Academies which the teaching profession reject and only work with it from imposition, even that now has turned into mass protest forcing the numskull Tories to publicly retreat, although they will secretly use the inspectors to rig the system, where good schools are deemed poor by their diktat.
Speaking from a packed high school auditorium in the South Bronx, Mark - Viverito proposed a far - reaching overhaul of Rikers Island to bring it to the point of closing down and a plan to scrap old warrants from New Yorker's records — policies that could put her ahead of Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration on justice reform and in direct conflict with the city's powerful correction officers» union, the court system and the police department.
SEED schools are boarding schools and nationally they have provided an answer, other than finger pointing at the failure of parents who in most cases are victims of the same dysfunctional society and school systems that their children are in.
Donohue pointed out that eliminating 400 beds in the mental health system, turning violent youth over to non existent programs in New York City, shortchanging localities and some hocus - pocus with the school funding formula will not improve the quality of life for all New Yorkers.
The Labour leadership election has been a case - in - point: the commonest piece of abuse thrown at Liz Kendall for daring to suggest, for instance, we should not be knee - jerk hostile to parents who want to improve the outcome of the state education system by setting up challenger schools, is that she is a Tory.
Bensnes points out that it may be possible to reduce the impact of hay fever in the school system by properly diagnosing and medicating more pupils who have pollen allergies.
The locals residing in POF Germany should actually have an unfair advantage understanding you since the education system there requires five school years with some degree of teaching pointed at the English language.
There are plenty of evidence - based recommendations for how to quickly optimize student achievement in low - performing schools, but an entry point for a broader, deeper systems change at RHS was to redesign its educational system and adopt blended learning.
One of the teenagers, listening to the pitch for Deeper Learning Collaborative — a consultant group that brings instructional leaders together to spread deeper learning through their school via coaching and teacher collaboration — pointed out that many systems have teachers with little interest in getting better.
By pointing at the fat in the education system, GOP candidates could argue, as Governor Pawlenty did in 2007, that American schools are «costing us a lot of money and it's costing them their future.»
The researchers compared disadvantaged Texas students from successive cohorts within the same school between 1995 and 2000 in order to identify effects when a school encountered a risk point in mathematics under the accountability system.
School leaders can enter the move towards a Deeper Learning Student Assessment System at any of these entry points but in order to successfully move students to deeper learning outcomes all levels of the system will need to be modSystem at any of these entry points but in order to successfully move students to deeper learning outcomes all levels of the system will need to be modsystem will need to be modified.
students who wish to pursue an entrepreneurial career, whether nonprofit or for - profit, by providing important tools and services to schools and districts, will develop a much deeper understanding of the systems and processes that exist in K — 12 education that they want to improve or replace, and are better at finding points of leverage that will make a big difference for educators and students.
But I'm convinced that, at this point in time, the way to create lots more «high - quality seats» for lots more kids is to make sure that charter schools and private school scholarships receive funding parity with «the system
In the Austin independent School District in Texas, all lunch menus in the city's 124 K — 12 schools have adopted the Weight Watchers Points SysteIn the Austin independent School District in Texas, all lunch menus in the city's 124 K — 12 schools have adopted the Weight Watchers Points Systein Texas, all lunch menus in the city's 124 K — 12 schools have adopted the Weight Watchers Points Systein the city's 124 K — 12 schools have adopted the Weight Watchers Points System.
To get to the point, there is no sequential program of language development that can be assumed in the New York City public - school system.
On this point, the Rodriguez court observed that the school - funding systems in Texas and «virtually every other state [would] not pass muster» under strict federal judicial scrutiny.
The authors point out that the Cincinnati system of evaluation is different from the standard practice in place in most American school districts, where perfunctory evaluations assign the vast majority of teachers «satisfactory» ratings, leading many to «characterize classroom observation as a hopelessly flawed approach to assessing teacher effectiveness.»
«The Accountability Plateau,» by Mark Schneider, just published by Education Next and the Fordham Institute, makes a big point: that «consequential accountability,» à la No Child Left Behind and the high - stakes state testing systems that preceded it, corresponded with a significant one - time boost in student achievement, particularly in primary and middle school math.
New York grades schools on a four - point scale, which, if not as good as the traditional grading system, would be satisfactory were it not for the fact that, in New York, 4 is good, 1 is bad.
Relationships: A starting point for success lies in establishing respectful and trusting relationships with Indigenous leaders and communities, both at a system governance level and at an individual school level.
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
Fifth, in the past, Korea's school principals were chosen based on a point system among school administrators.
And on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS)- the state's standardized test, first administered in the spring of 1998 - Worcester public school students in different grade levels were 8 to 20 percentage points less likely to score at or above proficiency than were students statewide.
The report's authors, the Consortium on Productivity in the Schools — a three - year effort to find weak points in how school systems are organized — sidestepped one of the group's original goals: identifying points where school - reform policy is not translated into classroom practice.
It would make matters more difficult because the most important flaw of the No Child Left Behind accountability system is its reliance on the level of student achievement at a single point in time as a measure of school performance.
In fact, at one point during testimony before the referees, in the fall of 2004, lawyers for the city requested that the panel include a recommendation for the legislature to remove a statutory cap limiting the number of charter schools in the state, arguing that charter schools were one part of its strategy for overhauling the city's school systeIn fact, at one point during testimony before the referees, in the fall of 2004, lawyers for the city requested that the panel include a recommendation for the legislature to remove a statutory cap limiting the number of charter schools in the state, arguing that charter schools were one part of its strategy for overhauling the city's school systein the fall of 2004, lawyers for the city requested that the panel include a recommendation for the legislature to remove a statutory cap limiting the number of charter schools in the state, arguing that charter schools were one part of its strategy for overhauling the city's school systein the state, arguing that charter schools were one part of its strategy for overhauling the city's school system.
In the last State of the Union address of this century, President Clinton proposed a five - point plan to improve the nation's public school system.
McCartney pointed out that the demographic shift changes our societal structures and education systems, but also noted that schools play an important role in establishing immigrant's status in America.
Though some observers, including multiple - intelligences guru Howard Gardner, point to schools as the «conservators» of our culture, and therefore instinctively conservative in what they do, the resistance comes more from the fact that our public school system has evolved an extremely delicate balance between many sets of pressures — political, parental, social, organizational, supervisory, and financial — that any technological change is bound to disrupt.
In addition, the school now has team points system across the school to reward good behaviour, effort and achievement.
Often requiring multiple logins, many different points of contact, different levels of access to the school's MIS and several bills, a school's multiple and diverse systems can become a whole new level of administration in themselves.
With this in mind, schools may wish to participate in online inter-school language championships which use a real - time points and scoreboard system to track student progress at a glance and motivate them to improve their score.
The overall goal of this extension of our existing work in partnership with TFF and Achievement First Bridgeport Academy (AFBA) is to continue and expand our work in Bridgeport focusing in several keys areas: (1) building knowledge about (a) children's emerging skills and areas of challenge in the social - emotional domain and why these skills are critical to school success, and (b) the ways in which adult stress and skills in the social - emotional domain can impede or foster children's social - emotional skill development; (2) identifying, deploying, and evaluating strategies to build adult and child skills in social - emotional learning with an emphasis on the Tauck Family Foundation's (TFF) five essential SEL skills; and (3) developing and testing a performance management system for SEL that (a) guides the identification of strategies, (b) provides a mechanism for ongoing progress monitoring, feedback, and changes to practice, and (c) serves as an anchor point for ongoing coaching and support in using SEL strategies.
In last year's class, students pinpointed various leverage points throughout the system of bullying, from school cultural factors to counseling services offered.
Newarkers can point to two signal events, both in 2010, that ushered in the era of major reform: Chris Christie's rise to governor and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's $ 100 million donation to reform the Newark school system.
«In England's system, not only can you go to a web site and pull up any report over time, they are very precise and very frank and to the point about what is good and what can be improved at any particular school
IEL is partnering with FWI to implement a strategy for using MITM and the Seven Essential Skills (a research - based approach to improving children's Life Skills and success) as a focal point for building bridges between early childhood systems and schools while promoting educational innovation in community schools.
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