Sentences with phrase «replace aging school»

FEBRUARY 2011... from The New York Daily News: After a monthslong stalemate between New York City and parents concerned about safe school facilities, the city's Education Department has agreed to replace aging school light fixtures that may contain PCBs.

OAKLAND — Although California school districts have largely focused on building new schools to accommodate growing student populations, districts should concentrate more on renovating and replacing aging schools, according to a new report.

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In schools, norms of modesty, comportment, and academic honesty are replaced by widespread activities of lawlessness and cheating (along with the rise of forms of surveillance of youth), while in the fraught realm of coming - of - age, courtship norms are replaced by hookups and utilitarian sexual encounters.

If you have aging equipment that needs to be replaced, you are welcome to apply for a salad bar from Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools.

Wooden blocks are slowly replacing our large mega blocks and we are moving to small lego pieces with J as he heads towards school age which open up all sorts of problem solving and fun for us at home.

A $ 450,000 remodeling and expansion project for Spring Valley Nature Center and a plan to replace aging playground equipment at three school playgrounds are being reviewed by the Schaumburg Park District Joint Advisory Committee.

According to the Albany school district website, the plans call for improving features like wireless access, replacing backup batteries to protect against power surges, and replacing aging net books.

«This is the first human trial of this novel stem cell - based implant, which is designed to replace a single - cell layer that degenerates in patients with dry age - related macular degeneration,» says lead author and surgeon for the study Dr. Amir H. Kashani, assistant professor of clinical ophthalmology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.

Felix H. Chow has suggested that the city's 21,000 - student district eventually replace its 54 aging school buildings with three large facilities built mostly underground.

In the 16th century schools have replaced the fieldwork and factory work; with the agrarian, industrial and information age education has been becoming gradually a tool to create better workers.

This month, voters must decide whether they will help the 76,000 - student district pay the $ 1.4 billion bill to replace aging roofs, faulty wiring, rotted windows, malfunctioning boilers, and a host of other chronic building problems facing the Cleveland public schools.

African Americans were not replacing whites — their share of the school - age population edged upward by less than 1 percentage point over the entire 44 - year time period.

Edith Borthwick School, an all ‑ age school in Braintree, is the beneficiary of # 9.1 million worth of PSBP funding, which has seen the school's old buildings replaced with a new two - storey facility which includes break - out rooms, spacious hall space and external areas for each of the ground floor classSchool, an all ‑ age school in Braintree, is the beneficiary of # 9.1 million worth of PSBP funding, which has seen the school's old buildings replaced with a new two - storey facility which includes break - out rooms, spacious hall space and external areas for each of the ground floor classschool in Braintree, is the beneficiary of # 9.1 million worth of PSBP funding, which has seen the school's old buildings replaced with a new two - storey facility which includes break - out rooms, spacious hall space and external areas for each of the ground floor classschool's old buildings replaced with a new two - storey facility which includes break - out rooms, spacious hall space and external areas for each of the ground floor classrooms.

The school, due to open in March 2012, is being built to replace an ageing facility on the same site and is the first WMCF project to target the prestigious award for excellence in sustainable construction.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation (NTHP) compiled a 52 - page report, Historic Neighborhood Schools in the Age of Sprawl: Why Johnny Can't Walk to School (see sidebar), that underscores what communities lose when they raze historic schools and replace them with new state - of - the - art comSchools in the Age of Sprawl: Why Johnny Can't Walk to School (see sidebar), that underscores what communities lose when they raze historic schools and replace them with new state - of - the - art comschools and replace them with new state - of - the - art complexes.

The Royal Society's report recommends radically overhauling ICT in the English National Curriculum, replacing it with a programme of digital literacy3 for all from age 5 to 14, alongside opportunities for all pupils to experience the creative side of Computer Science from primary school age onwards.

The second is a bond measure that would raise $ 360 million over 10 years to replace or rebuild aging and obsolete elementary and middle schools.

Many states have begun to channel money to districts to help them repair and replace school buildings that have aged and fallen into disrepair.

Booker did criticize Christie for not spending enough money, and taking too long, to replace or repair aging urban public school buildings.

Age 11: Key Stage 2 national tests in English (Welsh *), maths and science have been replaced by statutory teacher assessments bolstered by local moderation (checking what the teachers are doing), with optional test materials available, schools» results available locally

Shirley Ford, a Los Angeles mother who co-founded Parent Revolution, the organization that helped pass California's landmark «parent trigger» law — legislation that gives parents of students at low - performing schools the right to replace a school's leadership or switch it to charter status — died Sunday at the age of 69.

But as the charter school movement comes of age, school leaders are realizing that stability and consistency matter, and that good teachers aren't widgets that can easily be replaced.

As the charter school movement comes of age, school leaders are realizing that good teachers aren't widgets that can easily be replaced.

We're still waiting for America to replace an agrarian 19th century school calendar with an information age calendar that increases learning time on a par with other countries.

Supporters of such a plan estimate (PDF) that each $ 1 billion in school - construction work would generate up to 10,000 jobs while helping to replace or refurbish aging school facilities and protect students and school staff from poor air quality, mold, energy inefficiencies, and more.

By the late 19th century, however, with the growth of tax - supported public schools in New England and the middle Atlantic states, one - room schools, although still common in rural America, were slowly being replaced in cities by an imported innovation called the age - graded school (Angus, Mirel, & Vinovskis, 1988; Tyack, 1974).

Two of his most pressing concerns now are stemming the revolving door of teachers — Clarksdale is a Teach For America hotspot that struggles to keep young teachers from the program beyond their two - year commitment — and finding ways to raise revenue to renovate and replace the city's aging school buildings.

After examining the various measures available to replace FRPL as a proxy for student poverty, our analysis shows the best policy option for Connecticut to measure low - income students, for purposes of a statewide school funding formula, is to add HUSKY A (Connecticut's children's Medicaid program, which includes children from birth to age 19 and their caregivers) to the measures currently used to directly certify students for school meals.

These training sessions are the school district's first concrete steps toward replacing its age - old teacher evaluation system, which is widely regarded as a failure.

Alternatively, you would need to teach at an accredited nursing school where they are short - staffed when it comes to faculty, due to the inadequate replace of aging and retiring faculty in these schools.

This calculates how much income needs to be replaced given the fact that Social Security will pay benefits when there is more than one child under age 16, or under age 18 and still in High School.