Sentences with phrase «priority schools need»

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According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), the U.S. is presently facing a funding gap of $ 1.7 trillion on roads, bridges and transit alone — to say nothing of electricity, schools, airports and other needs.

It will require that we turn more of our attention homeward, away from raging national controversies and toward the everyday lives of our living moral communities — toward family, school, and congregation; toward civic priorities and local commitments; toward neighbors in need and friends in crisis.

Carondelet has been seeking additional land for its athletic teams for over a year as this was identified as a critical need and, therefore, became a top priority in the school's strategic plan.

Explore how you can set your school apart and meet the needs of your parent community by making food education a priority.

We should be funding school food as if it's a priority, not as if it need to be in competition with education dollars.

Although I have been told many times by many people, that it's possible and that people just need to set their priorities, and I know many families who are happily home schooling, but for most families it still means sacrifice, and trading some nice things for the benefits of home schooling.

School districts are thinking about school foods in a new way that places a priority on health, but they also need to find innovative financing strategies to pay for the equipment and infrastructure changes they need to put healthy foods on the lunchSchool districts are thinking about school foods in a new way that places a priority on health, but they also need to find innovative financing strategies to pay for the equipment and infrastructure changes they need to put healthy foods on the lunchschool foods in a new way that places a priority on health, but they also need to find innovative financing strategies to pay for the equipment and infrastructure changes they need to put healthy foods on the lunch tray.

«The priorities should be the schools that need the most help in this state.

Since then, all but $ 434 million has been returned to schools, with the priority of returning it to high - needs districts.

Nixon has criticized Cuomo for what she said is allowing Republicans, bolstered by the Independent Democratic Conference, to remain in power, leading to a block on liberal priorities like early voting and more money for high - needs schools.

«Making our communities more affordable and preventing the insolvency of local governments and school districts needs to be our top priority.

The plan recommends an investment in the first year of $ 225 million statewide with priority to 4 - year - olds in high - needs school districts, including those in New York City.

Kim says he no longer thinks it's the right priority, and that there needs to be more focus on fully funding public schools first.

With the perceived confusion over funding for the government's free Senior High School education policy dominating the news cycle, the New Patriotic Party government needs to outline to citizens its priority areas for development, the Operations Director of the Progressive People's Party (PPP), Nana Ofori Owusu said.

All funding decisions are guided by the investment values of United Way of the Southern Tier, and program alignment with its strategic priorities in early childhood development, school readiness and success, basic needs, and senior independence.

As the state focuses on fiscal and budgetary matters in Rockland County's troubled East Ramapo school district, former monitor Monica George - Fields said the teaching and learning initiatives laid out last school year also need to be a priority.

«Class size is a major issue, for example at School # 6 they have class sizes in elementary level of over 30 - students with students that have a high amount of students with special education needs, ELL - English Language Learners, and so lowering class size is something that has been priority and that's been a part of those plans.»

«I told all the school superintendents that lobby me that foundation aid was the No. 1 priority, that we needed to finish that,» said Steck on Monday.

Upper West Side City Councilwoman Gale Brewer, who emphasized the need to combat overcrowding in public schools, also said building libraries and parks needs to be a priority.

Negotiations over an extension of soon - to - expire mayoral control of New York City schools have sucked most of the oxygen from the proverbial room — though not the room, of «three men» fame, which sat empty for months, until Monday — leaving little time and attention for de Blasio's other top priorities needing state action.

Since before taking office as County Executive, one of my most heartfelt priorities has been to secure much - needed help for the children of the troubled East Ramapo Central School District.

Duprey, too, noted the importance of broadband and highlighted an ambitious set of priorities, including education reform: the Common Core is flawed, she said, while state schools need a bump in funding.

Further, the authors found that many high school students hold the same misconceptions as students in middle school, making the need for high - quality, diagnostic assessments a top priority for energy education.

The program, which got under way in 10 schools last week, is aimed at improving student achievement by enabling schools to assess their own needs and priorities and implement changes of their own design, officials said.

94, a teacher librarian for the Santa Clara United School District, while this kind of training in critical thinking is more needed than ever for students, it's not always a priority everywhere.

As a school leader, how are you supporting staff to access subject - specific learning that may be an individual rather than a whole staff need or whole school priority?

«It is also important to look at your budget and check that what you can afford will match your school's needs, putting items of priority in order,» explains Dave Smith, Naace board member from Havering Education Services.

Recipients are selected by lottery, with priority given to students applying to the program from public schools deemed in need of improvement (SINI) under No Child Left Behind.

When did our priorities shift away from making sure our schools were supplied with all the needed tools to grow a child's mind?

And I think it needs to be an important priority of the schools to have ways of helping kids recognize that globalization is something they have to understand and respect and become one with, not just because of the economy but also because there are all these different cultures and different peoples of the world, and if we're all going to make it together, we've got to understand each other.

When the roof over East High School's gymnasium collapsed here last fall, renovating and repairing the crumbling building moved from a short list of priorities to among the Ohio school system's most critical School's gymnasium collapsed here last fall, renovating and repairing the crumbling building moved from a short list of priorities to among the Ohio school system's most critical school system's most critical needs.

States would've been required to identify «schools in need of support» and «high - priority schools,» and the interventions for both would've been prescribed.

And, indeed, there's research evidence that a school's priorities do tend to align with its most pressing and widespread student needs.

The second area of priority is the need for strengthened technical assistance — and funding — to develop appropriate Technical and Vocational Training (TVET) programmes across the Caribbean, in recognition that some 27 % of young men drop out of the mainstream schooling system in our countries, becoming disenfranchised and unemployable.

Beyond just limiting priorities to what matters most, schools need to have a very clear sense of where to start and focus their energies on what the management literature calls «putting first things first».

Line managers and staff need to be able to revisit and assess what they are doing, how effective it is and what needs to be done in terms of timely interventions linked to the priorities of that school and that individual.

School leaders recognize the need for literacy instruction to become a schoolwide priority — in all courses, not just English and the humanities.

By turning schedule, then turning it some more, McNeely has made time at Hayden R. Lawrence Middle School in Deville, Louisiana, to create special tutoring programs for students who need extra help or enrichment and to achieve many other priorities.

What is needed is standardisation of the quality assurance process across all schools and a focus on priorities that are critical to staff development and the targets set by senior leadership teams.

Schools need to make it a priority to help educators use the «stuff» that they buy for the sSchools need to make it a priority to help educators use the «stuff» that they buy for the schoolsschools.

It needs to be made a priority and given the necessary resources so that every child can succeed at school.»

The challenge for schools then is to ensure that all their stakeholders, be they parents, governors, staff or students, all develop a shared understanding of conflict and identify the priority actions needed to develop a culture where people are not afraid to speak out if they have concerns.

A good school timetable should balance factors such as student needs, teacher requirements and resource availability, without losing sight of school priorities.

So, one of the keys things that I stress is that being a leader of learning and teaching you need to understand the research evidence on that, so that leaders can work with staff in schools to identify priorities, plan for professional learning, put into place various changes and so forth.

Whether we deploy many more «whole schools» of this kind or opt mainly for specialized courses and programs within ordinary schools, the kinds of rigorous and advanced education that selective - admission schools seek to provide, and the youngsters that they serve, need to rise higher in our national consciousness and our policy priorities.

Schools that see their job as preparing young people to meet the demands of a technology - driven world merely embrace and advance the idea that human needs are no longer our highest priority, that we must adapt to meet the demands of our machines.

Attainment targets In addition to the increased financial intricacies that many schools can face, both South Axholme and Greengate Lane cite the need to ensure greater attainment and achievement as the priorities for any school considering conversion.

And I think it needs to be an important priority of the schools to have ways of helping kids recognize that globalization is something they have to understand and respect and become one with — not just because of the economy, but also because there are all these different cultures and different peoples of the world, and if we're all going to make it together, we've got to understand each other.

Educators need indicators that tell them whether the basic design and operation of their high schools direct resources in ways that sustain and enhance the district's academic strategies and priorities.

Unless we want to be known as the United States of Hollywood, we need to get our priorities straight and get more obsessed with the quality of our schools.