Sentences with phrase «run a school system which»

But Labour's Ian Mearns questioned how she could run a school system which could have 10,000 separate academy trusts.

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However, since we have chosen to have a public school system (which from a practical standpoint has to be run by a government entity), «government» involvement in lunchtime activities is a necessity (unless we send the students off - campus during lunch hour, which is not always doable.)
Here in New York, vibrant movements opposing fracking and the growing corporate attacks on our public school system helped spur the Green Party gubernatorial campaign of Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones, which received almost 5 percent of the vote running against incumbent Democrat Andrew Cuomo, the best any independent third party campaign has done statewide in more than 80 years.
Being back at school can also mean there are more opportunities for illness — which in the long run does strengthen their immune systems — but can be tough to deal with in the short term.
The system also tracks the shuttle bus service which runs between the Upper School and Lower School for swimming lessons, and after school School and Lower School for swimming lessons, and after school School for swimming lessons, and after school school clubs.
The RO, whose responsibility it is to sample transactions to ensure that correct procedures are being followed, would be in a position of strength and able to lead the governors through the SFVS self assessment process, being confident that the evidence which has been gathered is a true reflection of the systems and processes which are embedded in the day - to - day running of the school.
Since the first cashless system was introduced in 2003, there have been many changes to the way schools run in terms of money, which can benefit the school, the local authority, and the pupils.
It's about recognising which of your systems are «core» (you can not run a school without them) and which are less important.
There are now 15 such «district - charter collaboration compacts» in place, many of which promise to accelerate the development of «portfolio» school systems, with a mix of district - run and charter schools.
In fact, only nine of the superintendents in the nation's largest urban school systems have ever been superintendents in another major city (which is less than the number of nontraditional superintendents now running major school systems, of which there are 11).
Until recently, schools have mostly purchased either Apple devices, which use Apple's OS X operating system, or so - called PCs that run the Windows operating system.
The government must engage with this valid concern, which runs to the heart of the reliability of their primary - and secondary - school accountability system.
In addition, students at Belle Vue participated in a school - wide economic system, in which they earned «salaries» for positive attitudes and behaviors and for running enterprises such as a school store, post office, and bank.
If states are truly to be re-empowered to shape and run their K — 12 education systems, transparency and comparability seem (at least to me) to argue for more reliable external data by which state leaders can see how their schools are faring.
Coincidentally, the Archdiocese of Chicago, which ran the nation's largest parochial school system with more than 130,000 students, was in the midst of a demographic and financial crisis.
These education experts have forsaken the reform consensus; they now argue instead for an improved version of the «one best system» of American public schoolswhich harks back to the Horace Mann - era conviction that a single, uniform public - education system, run by professional educators, is the surest path to both literacy and civic unity.
The stars of the film are Geoffrey Canada, the CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone, which provides a broad variety of social services to families and children and runs two charter schools; Michelle Rhee, chancellor of the Washington, D.C., public school system, who closed schools, fired teachers and principals, and gained a national reputation for her tough policies; David Levin and Michael Feinberg, who have built a network of nearly one hundred high - performing KIPP charter schools over the past sixteen years; and Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, who is cast in the role of chief villain.
Officials in Compton, Calif., have asked a federal court to give the city control over the 30,000 - student local school system, which has been run by the California education department since 1993.
As in well - run, large, public - school systems, Edison's central costs have improved significantly, in percentages, over time, which is a key reason Edison is now profitable.
Vander Ark envisions a system in which public authorities oversee schools but do not run them, and Gates Foundation money is directed toward projects that fit that vision.
It isn't, at least, to anybody paying attention to the past decade of school «reform,» which has attempted to run America's public education system as a business.
The OECD, which runs the global Pisa tests, examined migration between 2000 and 2012 and concluded that there were no links to lower performance in school systems.
The retirement system was a large part of many a veteran teacher's decision to return to the schools — only the remaining few school board run schools, not the charters, allowed teachers to participate, and if you were already invested in the system, it was hard to retire or to continue to contribute, which was a problem for teachers who had already invested many years in the retirement system.
The spokeswoman maintained that the strict system of oversight and accountability under which trusts operate is «more robust than in council - run schools, which has enabled us to identify these issues and take swift action to address them.»
We have since devolved into a zip - code monopoly, a government - run, technocratic and often unionized school system which frequently delivers a substandard product.
A business in which she collects a significantly larger salary to run a «school system» that manages 11,000 hand - selected students than the amount that is paid to the Chancellor of New York City's Public Schools.
In February, Northumberland Council launched a seven - week consultation which set out plans to completely overhaul the education system in the west of the county, where there is a 30 - per - cent surplus of places, and many schools still run on a three - tier system.
School Systems Minister Lord Agnew, announced the initiative, which will help schools save money and run more efficiently.
Further, the NOLA system means that if you don't like your child's school you're less likely to have a way to do something about it, because the charters are often run by private boards and management companies, many of which aren't based in New Orleans or even based in Louisiana.
While all of the details are still being decided, the district will run the enrollment system, meaning charters (and those district schools, like Ann Street School in the Ironbound, which can't meet demand) would give up individual control over the application, deadlines and lottery program.
Bennett says his department ran into problems when initial calculations indicated the school would receive a C under the statewide accountability system, which didn't sit well with the then - superintendent.
One school group, The King Edward VI Foundation in Birmingham, which runs five grammars in the city, introduced a similar admissions system in September last year.
Maloy's original bill included a system in which his Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, could unilaterally take over up to 25 schools around the state and turn them over to some other entity to run.
Ohio's system for starting and running driving schoolswhich are owned by driver training enterprise — is highly regulated, but the state makes the regulations and forms relatively simple to complete.
Ohio's system for starting and running driving schoolswhich are owned by driver training enterprise
Over the last three years, Apple's iPads and Mac notebooks — which accounted for about half of the mobile devices shipped to schools in the United States in 2013 — have steadily lost ground to Chromebooks, inexpensive laptops that run on Google's Chrome operating system and are produced by Samsung, Acer and other computer makers.
Microsoft's new operating system Windows 10 S which is aimed for students and schools and allows only Windows Store apps to run on it.
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