Sentences with phrase «public about the progress»

We can only guess but there is a good chance the reports will reveal his department were misleading the public about the progress of the programme.

The reports would also confirm whether the department deliberately misled the public about the progress of the scheme.

Results from these tests — which most students take online — are used by the commonwealth to identify schools in need of assistance and to inform parents and the public about the progress of schools through the awarding of annual accreditation ratings.

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Panera has offered the public some incremental updates about the progress it has made to clean up the menu.

A spokeswoman for the provincial regulator says it sometimes warns the public about possible harmful activity in progress but doesn't disclose when or if it's actively investigating a subject.

But in public Mr Xi stuck to his script about the virtues of co-operation while Mr Trump insisted they'd formed an outstanding relationship and made great progress.

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Alphabet chief financial officer Ruth Porat said on the company's fourth - quarter earnings call on Feb. 1 that Waymo was excited about its progress in Phoenix, and working toward a public ride - hailing program.

When Dorothee Sölle wrote in 1971 of the indivisible salvation of the whole world, she and her readers assumed without reflection that the whole world is the world of human beings.1 But as the seventies progressed and the environmental crisis forced itself on public attention, more and more Christians became troubled about the separation of humanity from the rest of nature.

Two conference - symposia held in the anniversary year attempted to appraise the progress made in teaching about religion in public education.

In any event, Rainforest Alliance deserves a lot of credit for the great progress they've made bringing certified coffee (and many other products) into the mainstream, and their successful efforts at educating the public about coffee sustainability.

Week by week there was progress: he'd latch on with a nipple shield; we learned to feed with the nipple shield in public; he started latching without the shield (and was touchingly enthusiastic about it).

Eventually a program was started based on that experience that if law enforcement has information about a kidnapping in progress, they then contact the media who shares that information with the public so they can become first responders, eyes and ears, looking for a particular vehicle darting away with a particular child.

Over the past decade, the idea of a gay man choosing to be a father seems to have progressed from somewhat of a curiosity into a more familiar scenario, as concepts about family and parenting skills evolve.These days, there are a number of resources and a body of parenting advice available to support gay dads, as well as some public figures making... read more

Just about one year ago, we were checking in with some of our Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom districts to see how their first year of breakfast - in - the - classroom was progressing; check out what Sandy Huisman, Director of Food & Nutrition Management in Des Moines, Iowa and with Amy Dennes, Regional Assistant Superintendent of Jefferson County Public Schools, had to say about the value of BIC.

«While the members of the public will be updated on progress of investigation into this case, they are advised to go about their normal activities and resist any temptation to capitalize on the incident to threaten national security as any such attempt will be firmly dealt with.

Newsday is «guardedly optimistic about progress on legislation that would strip state pensions from public officials convicted of corruption,» but urges lawmakers to «cast a wide net.»

«The proposed delegation would make it crystal clear the Port Authority is serious about creating the condition for rapid progress with respect to labor relations and about opening a real window of opportunity, during which progress can culminate, if at all possible, through committed good - faith bargaining and executed labor agreements that benefit our workers, this agency and the public,» Cotton said before the vote.

Cuomo spoke to local officials and members of the public Tuesday at the fairground's Empire Room about progress that's been made over the past year.

So we are guardedly optimistic about progress on legislation that would strip state pensions from public officials convicted of corruption.

New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo spoke to local officials and members of the public at the New York State Fairgrounds about the progress of the upstate region on Tuesday.

The UFT set out its 2011 legislative priorities [http://files.uft.org/priorities.pdf] in a document that sought to bust the myths about generous public employee pensions and pointed out how any progress that schools have made will be erased by more cuts.

Environmental groups have long raised questions about this track record, and the U.S. Government Accountability Office recently joined the chorus, releasing a report that charges the agency with taking actions that have «impeded... progress in helping assure the public of safe drinking water.»

Currently, Ph.D. students at public universities for the first 2 years of study receive a stipend of about $ 257 a month; that's raised to $ 289 a month after their progress is evaluated by a committee.

And having testified since the 1970s about the threat of global warming, he had seen plenty of progress on public acceptance of the issue.

The program continues to scan progress once public heath agencies declare an outbreak or epidemic to keep both researchers and consumersin the loop and on top of the latest news about any particular event.

«For many years, the only «information» or images that the public could access about animal research were provided by organizations opposed to the use of animals in scientific progress.

The leading genetic scientist involved in the cloning of Dolly the Sheep has called on his colleagues to take note of public concerns about the progress of genetic science.

Given the rancor which has previously marked public exchanges about climate change in the United States, that's remarkable progress all by itself.

In addition, the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine will launch a comprehensive outreach program intended to not only train the next generation of collaborative, multi-disciplinary scientists but also to engage the community in a dialogue about the ethics of research and endeavor to inform and educate the public about our scientific and medical progress and aspirations.

The report, released by the American Council on Education last week, expresses optimism about the progress made by minority students, but argues that challenges to affirmative action and public skepticism about such policies «make it imperative» that colleges articulate the importance of racial and ethnic diversity...

A near majority (47 percent) of the American public favors paying teachers, in part, based on the academic progress of their students on state tests, about the same percentage as in 2007.

A goal for the latter part of the book is to try to reconstruct a thicker view of how to connect knowledge to public action, one that recognizes the importance of values, welcomes democratic decisionmaking, is aware of the limits of different forms of knowledge, and is not utopian in its aims but is still hopeful about how we can make public progress on a range of social problems.

The content in data rooms varies; some schools go as far as listing students» names and tracking individual progress — these data rooms are not open to the public — while others are more general; they show information about schools and grades, and they are accessible to staff and the public.

Currently, about one - third of all public schools in the nation — more than 30,000 — have been stigmatized as failing because they did not make what the law calls «adequate yearly progress.»

Over the past two weeks, four national education polls — Education Next, Center for American Progress / Public Policy Poling, The Seventy - Four and PDK / Gallup poll of America's Attitudes toward the Public Schools — provided new information about public attitudes towards high standards and annual assessPublic Policy Poling, The Seventy - Four and PDK / Gallup poll of America's Attitudes toward the Public Schools — provided new information about public attitudes towards high standards and annual assessPublic Schools — provided new information about public attitudes towards high standards and annual assesspublic attitudes towards high standards and annual assessments.

D.C. public schools chancellor Kaya Henderson talked about signs of progress in her third annual State of the Schools event Wednesday night, including a recently released uptick in graduation rates, new investments in electives and college - level classes in the city's high schools, and more engaging courses system wide.

Any doubt about the progress being made by the public school system — and the efficacy of its hard - won reforms — was erased last week by new data showing D.C. Public School (DCPS) to be the system with the greatest improvement of any urban district in the npublic school system — and the efficacy of its hard - won reforms — was erased last week by new data showing D.C. Public School (DCPS) to be the system with the greatest improvement of any urban district in the nPublic School (DCPS) to be the system with the greatest improvement of any urban district in the nation.

The article notes the 2013 report «Sustained Progress: New Findings About the Effectiveness and Operation of Small Public High Schools of Choice in New York City» by the group MDRC, which studies the causes of high graduation rates at small high schools in New York City.

In Reign of Error, Ravitch makes clear that, contrary to the statements being made about disastrous public school test scores and graduation rates, these figures are the highest they've ever been in history — and that dropout rates are at their lowest, this according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a no - stakes test for children of all races.

To get a sense of how many students could become newly «invisible,» consider public elementary schools in Washington, D.C. Applying the same minimum group size currently used for entire schools to the fifth grade only, about half of the city's 119 elementary schools with fifth graders taking math tests would not be held accountable for the progress of low - income or African - American students, because there aren't enough of them in that grade to constitute a reliable sample size.

Yesterday, the Center for American Progress and American Federation of Teachers fumbled the ball at their event yesterday attempting to misinform the public about the history of segregation in this country.

• Use of multiple forms of evidence of student learning, not just test scores; • Extensive professional development that enables teachers to better assess and assist their students; • Incorporation of ongoing feedback to students about their performance to improve learning outcomes; • Public reporting on school progress in academic and non-academic areas, using a variety of information sources and including improvement plans; and • Sparing use of external interventions, such as school reorganization, to give reform programs the opportunity to succeed.

This process can only begin with complete candor about the current status of public education in Texas, the progress of our reform efforts to date, the prognosis for achieving the essential universal educational proficiency of our children, and the daunting challenges that we face in doing so.

Reporter and Public Policy Forum fellow Molly Rippinger spoke with Lake Effect's Mitch Teich about the Commitment Schools initiative and how the progress will be measured.

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Under the National Assessment of Educational Progress Authorization Act (Public Law 107 - 279 III, section 303), the Commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is charged with ensuring that NAEP tests do not question test - takers about personal or family beliefs or make information about their personal identity publicly available.

There is a chance to deliver something teachers, parents, students, and the public have been clamoring for: a more nuanced conversation about student progress and school quality.

Good Morning Yesterday, the Center for American Progress and American Federation of Teachers fumbled the ball at their event yesterday attempting to misinform the public about the history of segregation in this country.

«Members of the working group [said they] are concerned about how test results will be messaged to ensure that the public understands that the SBAC program is still a work in progress.»