Sentences with phrase «said school systems»

He said school systems in Maryland may begin sharing their curricula to help improve instruction.

He said school systems must enable people to become lifelong learners who can manage complex ways of thinking and working.

Wednesday, Schools Superintendent Kriner Cash said the school system is taking a hard look at data, admitting some might not be accurate.

John Tillman, chief executive officer of the Illinois Policy Institute, a think tank that says it promotes free markets, said the school system could increase the ranks of charter schools, which are largely staffed by non-union teachers.

But Ms. Mortimer, whose district is in the innovation coalition, defended the new rules, saying school systems like hers face difficult odds in recruiting teachers with degrees in highly employable subjects like science and math.

Henderson said the school system is more confident in its savings estimates now.

Officials said the school system has also «streamlined» its data collection requirements.

The plaintiffs said the school system did not follow teacher tenure law in the layoffs, and that they should have been systematically rehired as schools reopened, either in the Orleans system, in the state Recovery School District or as charters.

He said the school system's lawyers have advised him that «there are limits to what we can hand off, because the liability of what happens in that school comes back to the superintendent of the county school district and to the board.»

Stephen Cowles, a lawyer for BCPS, said the school system is making more of an effort to identify students with dyslexia.

In a letter from a district lawyer to former state Sen. Gloria Romero obtained by The Times on Thursday, officials said the school system is not subject to the «parent trigger» law because it obtained a waiver last year from federal educational requirements that are linked to it.

«Tom Loveless, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, said the school system in Shanghai is not equitable and the students tested are children of the elite because they are the ones allowed to attend municipal schools [due to] restrictions such as those that keep many migrant children out.

Not exact matches

«A business plan is important because it communicates to everyone involved in the organization what the goals are, and how management plans to get there,» says Drew Starbird, a professor of operations management and information systems at Santa Clara University's Leavey School of Business.

Four years after Mark Zuckerberg made his $ 100 million donation to help the Newark, New Jersey, school system, most of the money is gone and critics say the city has not turned into the «symbol of educational excellence» he had hoped for.

Parents and students should first determine their earliest deadlines for filing for aid and whether their school or state uses a first - come, first - served system for any of its aid, Chany said.

«Using machine learning to find a needle in a haystack is where computers can help us transcend our limitations,» says Professor Adam Pah from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and Northwestern's Institute on Complex Systems (NICO).

«It's [that] you genuinely know about their programs,» says Pirkul, who led the creation of an alternative rankings system based on schools» research output.

«Sure, we can't pick up the German system and transplant it to Canada — that would be ridiculous,» the employment minister said in a telephone interview, adding it was a «lazy point of view» to be dismissive of the long - established German partnership among government, schools and business.

A child of Czechoslovakian immigrants, Cherny says he watched his mom and dad — who worked as a school counselor and a teamster, respectively — struggle with a banking system that largely catered to the wealthy.

«I've concluded that we need to start these after - school clubs and weekend activities until the education system catches up,» says Alexandra Greenhill, co-founder and CEO of HTML500 sponsor myBestHelper, a digital service that matches caregivers and families.

Automated response systems are okay, says Dewar, who teaches at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, but companies should facilitate access to live representatives by making direct contact the first option on a service menu.

«The state and city used Katrina to wipe away the dysfunction and corruption in the school system,» Medberry says, referring to the city's charter school initiative, which largely replaced public schools with privately operated institutions after 2005.

Changing entrenched views about girls and education is a long - term process, she says, but so far her organization's efforts have helped to educate 1.3 million children, including more than 80,000 girls that it has brought into the school system.

For instance, in Weston, Mass., most homes lost value during the downturn, but a select few lower - priced homes maintained their value because the town has a very good school system and there's always demand at the low end of the market from families looking to move in, Weiss said.

In addition to the Metro rail system, he said, Prince George's is sandwiched between major airports in Baltimore and D.C., features an urban area with ample space to build, and is surrounded by several universities, particularly Maryland's flagship school.

The Gilchrist County School District in Florida shuttered its schools after receiving an email threat, and the Nutley Public School System in New Jersey also said it would be closed because of a security threat.

According to a police report, she said 14 - year - old Nikolas had refused to go to school that day, so she took away his Xbox «privileges» and stashed the computer game system in her vehicle.

David M. Lampton, director of China Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, said it was not surprising for China to balk at the idea of an American company using Hong Kong, and China's own «one country, two systems» policy, as a way around censorship.

Liberal MLA Mary Polak (Langley) was instrumental as a Surrey School Board trustee in banning gay - positive books from Surrey Schools: The book ban was later struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada which said «instead of proceeding on the basis of respect for all types of families, the Board proceeded on an exclusionary philosophy, acting on the concern of certain parents about the morality of same - sex relationships, without considering the interest of same - sex parented families and the children who belong to them in receiving equal recognition and respect in the school system.&School Board trustee in banning gay - positive books from Surrey Schools: The book ban was later struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada which said «instead of proceeding on the basis of respect for all types of families, the Board proceeded on an exclusionary philosophy, acting on the concern of certain parents about the morality of same - sex relationships, without considering the interest of same - sex parented families and the children who belong to them in receiving equal recognition and respect in the school system.&school system.»

Many such big names are building or leasing massive super-regional centers that stock a wide variety of products in close proximity to customers or stores in an effort to compete with the likes of Amazon, said Ravi Srinivasan, assistant professor of information systems and operations management at Loyola University Maryland's Sellinger School of Business & Management.

He also discusses the potential weaknesses of using the Austrian system, saying that strictly speaking from an Austrian School, you don't get any help regarding the timing of when we would expect to happen, however, you can still use other theories to help with that aspect.

The Florida high school student, a survivor of the February 14 shooting in Parkland who recently helped organize the March For Our Lives, said four different campuses in the University of California school system have turned him down: UC Los Angeles, UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara and UC Irvine.

Collectively, this disparity fuels what has been called the «school - to - prison - pipeline,» a systemic bias that civil rights advocates say pushes children and young adults of color out of the classroom and into the criminal justice system.

I think there's a lot of amazing people that don't get to college, not only that do things like I do but because their voices just aren't heard in the tsunami of people that apply every year to colleges in such an economic impacted school system here which we have here in America where people have to go into massive amounts of debt just to go to college and get an education,» he said.

«We still have a very fragile financial system,» said Sheila Bair, former chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., who was in Baltimore last week to speak at University of Baltimore's Merrick School of Business.

However, Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of FinAid.org, says recent stresses put on the Perkins - loan system may be forcing more schools to take legal action.

I didn't see this applying to any legislative act, nor did I see that this was a conversation about funding, The case you are siting was a school system FORCING kids to say a particular prayer.

Chief executive, Tim Morfin said: «The reality that kids who are growing up in poverty are four times more likely to be excluded from school just tells us that there is a real risk of a system that isn't fair.»

Mr Morfin said: «We've got some fantastic teachers in our schools who are working so hard to serve these children but the reality is that the current system doesn't enable those vulnerable children to always get the education that they need.»

It nonetheless raised some disturbing ideas about our «we - are - a-Christian-community» slogans (since we were to apportion salary solely according to performance rather than also, say, on need) and about our endorsement of responsible family and church involvement (since the new system would tempt people financially to neglect these other responsibilities in order to work harder at school)

I understand why you would say Atheism isn't healthy for kids, but in that same school of thought, you would have to deduce that NO belief system is healthy for children.

I'd challenge Mr. Latif's viewpoints and suggest that NY Muslims become a peaceful and faithful people by worshipping on their holidays irrespective of what the public school system says.

I first heard that the school system was saying the student speakers were chosen at random, now I read differing reports, including that the prayor was the valedictorian.

I know this is a Roe vs Wade thing but if the school system said you all must believe in a certain Faith then I could see it being a problem.

Transcendence has been, shall we say, declared «inoperative» by the major agencies that «officially» define reality — the universities, the school system, the medical system, the communications media, and to some extent even the courts.

Quest Food Management Systems Inc. was founded on the idea that there's more to a school lunch program than simply making sure meals include the four food groups, and President Mike McTaggart says the company adheres to those same principles today.

Having taught for some years in the public school system of MS, I can say that in many of the rural schools in this state (likely the same in nearby states as well for rural schools) have many football players on free or reduced price school lunch programs and very poor training and weight room facilities.

«(It's a) new way to give kids access to golf in the school system,» said Joe Meunier, a physical education teacher at Alisal and Program Director of The First Tee Tri-Valley chapter.

«I have that kind of patience,» says Macon, who is already tutoring in Philadelphia's public school system.

«We are trying to instill the team concept and develop a camaraderie and team spirit,» Iverson said of taking the program over for longtime coach Carl Massey, who retired after teaching and coaching in the El Dorado County School System for 37 years, including at Oak Ridge since it first opened in 1980.