Sentences with phrase «run school systems with»

And even if by some political miracle the new PARCC test could be used to impose tough sanctions on schools and educators who failed to comply with Common Core, it's a really bad idea to try to run school systems with a test.

Imagine that you run a school system with pupil demographics that reflect national averages.

Not exact matches

Not only that: crime is running amok, abortion and out - of - wedlock births skyrocket, parasitic urban males are permanently at war with the culture by age fifteen, and city school systems seem incapable of delivering anything but multicultural trashings of societal values, and condoms.

The lunch ladies he worked with here — they didn't have the power either, but he got a system up and running for fresh and healthy school food before he went to the British government.

He also said the mayor's office should communicate more with lawmakers about how the school system is run.

«There is no evidence that large numbers of parents are either dissatisfied with the current system or want to run schools themselves

Some members of the District Parent Coordinating Council are ready to force the issue of failing schools in Buffalo by filing complaints this week with the state and federal governments asking for a federal receiver or special master to run the school system.

She spoke with host Gary Axelbank about her abstention in the vote on mayoral control, the concept of mayoral control, charter schools, how the system mgiht be run to maximum effiency, lessons learned from her tenure as president at Hostos CC, and numerous other topics.

Back in 2001, the Partnership for New York City worked closely with legislative leaders to design the laws that replaced a dysfunctional and highly politicized system of central and community school boards with a governance system that holds the Mayor accountable for running the city schools.

A year later, Taubenberger's team, along with John Kash and Michael Katze of the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, reported evidence that the virus killed its victims by making their immune systems run amok (ScienceNOW, 29 September 2006).

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.

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.

Not only does the DOE have robocalls dialing our land - line, urging me to run (obviously, not me specifically; they're calling everyone with a child in the public school system), but my friends have also gotten into the act.

The government must engage with this valid concern, which runs to the heart of the reliability of their primary - and secondary - school accountability system.

A majority are affiliated with school districts, but some are university - run or otherwise exist outside the regular system.

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.

Schools will be running a dual system with the expectation that they will scrutinise and report back on their outcomes.

Concerned Women for America held a conference outside Kansas City, Mo., this weekend that opened with denunciations of Common Core and built to an address by state Sen. Ed Emery, a voucher proponent who has compared the current public education system with slavery because it traps students in government - run schools.

If MA is a good sport, they would fight left handed - what chance does a majority - minority school system with half the spending per pupil have against the highest performing state education system in the nation many years running?

The new board is vested with full responsibility for running the school system.

Given WG's sterling reputation (it was already running a successful data system for the city's schools) and the exigencies of Race to the Top deadlines to get the performance tracking system going, the contract might have overcome the appearance of conflict in the Murdoch / Klein shotgun wedding (News Corp says Klein had nothing to do with the purchase of WG), but it couldn't survive the smell of the hacking scandal.

In fact, politicians and those running our school systems often seem to think that the only voices that matter in education are those that come with big dollar signs!

«We should question the relevance of comparing so - called U.S. national student performance with average scores in other countries, when U.S. students attend schools in 51 separate education systems run by states and the District of Columbia, not the federal government,» said Carnoy.

It focuses on the relevance of comparing U.S. national student performance with average scores in other countries when U.S. students attend schools in 51 separate education systems run not by the federal government, but by states (plus the District of Columbia).

«The Tories have no plan to deal with falling budgets, chronic teacher shortages and not enough good school places - this is no way to run a schools system.»

Education Secretary Arne Duncan and all of his acolytes who are rushing to implement performance - based compensation for teachers might want to take a close look at the preliminary results from a Chicago program with this focus that was initially started when Duncan ran the city school system.

The OSOL team has years of continued hard work ahead, designing and redesigning different aspects of the school to create a healthy climate, a robust and well - rounded education program, and operational systems that run smoothly, with student needs front and center.

According to Politico Pro, Murray and Scott agree with certain provisions, like the «requirement that states come up with concrete evaluations or scores for schools,» but want to see changes like «including the timeline for states to get their new accountability systems up and running, transportation for students in foster care, calculating graduation rates, n - sizes, resource equity and more.»

Any person with business or management experience can make a building run smoothly... however, it should be a major objective of the public school system to set an appropriate example of instruction through leadership.

If Betsy DeVos becomes Secretary of Education, the department will be run by someone who not only lacks any meaningful experience with public schools, but is fundamentally opposed to the mission and scope of the nation's traditional public education system.

The biggest complication for those running England's schools is that it is a system with a built - in vulnerability to energetic entryism.

America must choose either a patchwork of online schools and charters with profiteers on the prowl, or a transparent community public school system run by citizens elected by their neighbors.

Of course, Obama appointee Arne Duncan was familiar with how government agencies work, having run the Chicago school system.

Ramon Cortines, a former schools chief in New York City, frequently threatened to quit before he finally resigned in 1995, leaving us with his oft - quoted observation that even Jesus Christ couldn't run the city's public - school system.

The confusion of people even fairly familiar with the unique situation of New Orleans public schools further illustrates the complex system of dozens of independently run charter schools and the handful of traditional schools — and who has control of them.

Given she was so impressed with a school that had no principle how about the American education system run without any Secretary of Education or ANY federal involvement whatsoever.

The first of those schools, run by the KIPP charter school network, is slated to be built in the next year in partnership with Cooper Health Systems and its chairman, South Jersey businessman and political leader George Norcross III.

But the education secretary argued that a «dual system», with academy and local authority schools, would be less efficient than a single, compulsory model for running the country's schools.

A dual system with academies running alongside local authority schools would be less efficient, she said.

After Lewis finished explaining that under the new system, the charter boards will run the schools and the Orleans Parish School Board will set standards for them, he opened the meeting up for questions — including several from a group of more than a dozen parents and children wearing shirts with the «Our Voice / Nuestra Voz» logo.

For education, technology and charter school companies and the Wall Streeters who back them, it lets them cite troubled public schools to argue that the current public education system is flawed, and to then argue that education can be improved if taxpayer money is funneled away from the public school system's priorities (hiring teachers, training teachers, reducing class size, etc.) and into the private sector (replacing teachers with computers, replacing public schools with privately run charter schools, etc.).

That's often the case with successful businessmen who give up lucrative careers for elected office but not necessarily for someone such as Durant, 63, who founded and runs the Cornerstone Schools, a system of independent nonprofit schools in DSchools, a system of independent nonprofit schools in Dschools in Detroit.

Especially in this system of many charter schools individually run, teachers who don't like their experience can show that with their feet.

An experienced senior leader, Andy has line - managed curriculum areas and managed school systems for quality assurance, assessment and reporting, along with the day - to - day running of a large Sixth Form.

The Achievement School District: Lessons from Tennessee reports on the ASD model, including the viability of charter schools within a community - based enrollment system, developing a sustainable teacher and leader pipeline, and collaboration with the Shelby County district - run turnaround effort, called iZone.

Unlike with the public school system or charter schools, private schools do not run on public funds.

The idea that the English education system, with more than 25,000 schools, can be run directly from the Department for Education with no local intermediary seems to be a miscalculation.

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.

I know of one middle class school system where the second tier system is run by an individual with experience as a correctional officer.

«You will not succeed anymore with a good old boy system, no matter how talented and dedicated, running the school system.