Sentences with phrase «school absence in»

This policy brief looks at one response to the statewide problem of chronic school absence in New York State: reporting parents to the child protective system, which handles allegations of child abuse and neglect.

This article describes a nursing intervention to decrease early school absence in two elementary schools...

Lone Worker Solutions Protecting support staff whose roles take them off school premises is also a growing concern for the education sector, especially since Charlie Taylor, the Government's expert advisor on behaviour, called for a crackdown on primary school absence in April this year.

It is the number one illness leading to school absences in children, and accounts for more than 1.8 million emergency room visits annually.

Regarding mathematics abilities, results indicated the significant contribution of both socioeconomic status and level of school absences in predicting the math scores of students with asthma.

Not exact matches

She began teaching at the Haskayne School of Business in 1999 and she has recently returned from a leave of absence to pursue her PhD in Industrial Engineering at the Centre for Research in Healthcare Engineering (CRHE), University of Toronto.

The properly measured economic return to community college has to take into account the counterfactual outcomes that entrants would face in the absence of community college, rather than compare community college entrants to students who enter university programs after high school.

Chris completed his PhD in Bioengineering at the University of Utah in the fall of 2013 before taking a leave of absence from medical school (he was enrolled in the MD / PhD program) to found and grow Recursion.

Indeed, what ought to dismay would be the absence of distancing tensions in a theological school's relationship with congregations.

As a Christian who grew up in Kuwait, I had to go to school on Christmas (unless it fell on a Friday) and Easter and it was counted as «unexcused absence».

Call your child in as not attending school and take an absence like the jewish do.

So, in the absence of any explanation, we must ask what, in the eyes of our national Education Service, is the big difference between these two constructive diocesan documents on Catholic schools?

If, as the national media has reported, some Liberty University students absent themselves from their graduation ceremony tomorrow morning in protest of the school's choice of a Mormon commencement speaker, their absence isn't likely to be noticed.

In the absence of other values, the public schools find their justification in preparing students to worIn the absence of other values, the public schools find their justification in preparing students to worin preparing students to work.

But my own judgment is that the absence of some of the more highly motivated students is not the primary problem with the public schools; and in any case these students might lose much of that motivation if forced to attend those schools.

However, in the absence of sufficient public schools, the Sunday schools were just as important in performing the service of teaching such basic knowledge as reading and writing.

Perhaps one place to begin would be in dialogue between religious leaders concerning the role of the public schools in overcoming the absence of values in a secular society.

It was the first EBAL title for Dublin in 44 years, and although Dublin had just rejoined the league after a lengthy absence, the victory showed the school would be a formidable member of one of Northern California's top leagues.

She chose instead to go to Harvard Medical School, and Harvard chose to admit her in 1957 after only three years of pre-medical work at Radcliffe — three years punctuated by long absences — instead of the customary four.

The Gunnery (never properly referred to as the Gunnery School) is an ancient institution of high repute, so small that the absence of eight students in an eight - oared shell would seriously deplete the student body.

Mt. Baldy, Calif.: Dry - ski school launched here on straw - covered slope in absence of sufficient cover.

Healthy children also have fewer school absences, are more engaged in their studies and quite possibly will behave better.

Although the results are limited by the absence of control schools and may not be generalizable in magnitude to middle schools and high schools, these results offer important preliminary insights related to possible economic consequences of eliminating chocolate milk.

In the absence of increased funding, this agreement eases operational challenges and provides school meal programs critical flexibility to help them plan healthy school meals that appeal to students.»

Among them were the Purdue and Rochester studies of athletes in high school and college football [1,8,9,12,13, 31 - 38] and ice hockey, [8] which, as noted above, found subtle changes in cerebral function in the absence of concussion symptoms or clinically measurable cognitive impairment which researchers linked to the volume of head impacts, and a much publicized case - study autopsy of a collegiate football player, Owen Thomas, with no reported history of concussions, which revealed early signs of CTE.

Using DTI, researchers at Wake Forest found in a 2014 study [26] that a single season of high school football can produce changes in the white matter of the brain of the type previously associated with mTBI in the absence of a clinical diagnosis of concussion, and that these impact - related changes in the brain are strongly associated with a postseason change in the verbal memory composite score from baseline on the ImPACT neurocognitive test.

Title III of the ADAAA requires that private, non-religious schools take necessary steps to make sure that no child, due to his disability, is «excluded, denied services, segregated or otherwise treated differently than other individuals because of the absence of auxiliary aids and services, unless the entity can demonstrate that taking such steps would fundamentally alter the nature of the good, service, facility, privilege, advantage, or accommodation being offered or would result in an undue burden.

«Flexi - schooling» or «flexible school attendance» is an arrangement between the parent and the school where the child is registered at school in the normal way but where the child attends the school only part time; the rest of the time the child is home - educated (effectively on authorised absence from school).

These are just a few examples of where breakfast - in - the - classroom has become a tool for administrators and educators to address food insecurity, disciplinary issues, tardies and absences, and trips to the school nurse — and that's on top of improved academic outcomes for students who eat school breakfast!

panel, where panelists discussed all of the great things about serving breakfast in the classroom: improved academic performance, reduced tardiness and absences, lower obesity rates, opportunities for growing school food programs, and most important of all: it's the right thing to do.

In the midst of all the media brouhaha over the pizza = school food vegetable scandal this week, I didn't even notice the significant absence of one particular voice until blogger Michele Simon (Appetite for Profit) pointedly asked, «Where exactly is Michelle Obama and her Let's Move campaign now?»

In the absence of a clear answer, I believe a real possibility is that BOTH remaining schools of thought may be right (to a degree anyway).

Questions during the off - topic portion of the press conference included his opinion of the expected Democratic candidate in the 11th Congressional District special election and whether he'll campaign for Gentile, the prospect of Department of Homeland Security losing funding, religious organizations renting City school facilities for prayer / worship services and the related lawsuit, a NY Post report criticizing a newly - created NYPD training program, reported terror threats against shopping malls, the absence of a Lunar New Year message from the mayor and his non-attendance at the Lunar New Year parade, his reaction to Governor Cuomo's comment that their relationship will be «the best relationship between a mayor and governor in modern political history,» his scheduled trip to Albany on Wednesday and delays in federal funding of Sandy rebuilding.

Lawmakers say the legislation is needed because some schools, especially those in Asian communities, have a high number of absences on the Lunar New Year, which begins on Friday.

Jenny Sedlis, executive director of StudentsFirstNY, a education group that's closely aligned with Cuomo on issues related to schools, said she's not concerned that her priorities will suffer in King's absence.

Mayor Bill de Blasio today said the tentative state budget deal will bring additional millions in school aid to New York City and allow him first crack at fixing failing schools — but lamented the absence of an extension of mayoral control and legislation to fund tuition assistance for undocumented immigrants.

«It is not obviously the same as addressing the core inequality as created by the absence of a resolution in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity case, this is not a follow - through on that commitment by the state, but it does look like a substantial step forward for school aid,» Mr. de Blasio said.

Firstly, to prevent a person from making a choice to wear religious clothing (like the hijab) in public or private schools or institutions, in the absence of justification compatible with human rights law, may impair the individual's freedom to have or adopt a religion.

He is entering his third year in law school but plans to take a leave of absence while he campaigns.

Speaking further, Bichi who said one of the factors responsible for the mass failure, examination malpractices and cultism in Nigerian schools from primary to tertiary level is the misplacement of priorities by the governments, parents, teachers and students blamed the problems on the absence of Social Workers who can help to discover students» potentials and guide them based on their uniqueness.

While it said there was «unclear» evidence that free school lunches raised attainment, it pointed to its own research on free school breakfasts in disadvantaged schools delivering similar academic benefits to free school lunches, but «significantly improved» behaviour and concentration, and reduced absences.

As part of the conversion to the national Common Core standards, school districts in New York are required to place more student records, transcripts, and even behavioral information, like absences and suspensions, in online data bases.

Among the question topics were his reaction to the pre-K funding contained in the state budget agreement and the absence of his proposed income tax surcharge, what funding has been provided in the state budget for the middle school after school portion of his initiative, the outlook for his as yet unfulfilled request for state approval of additional red light cameras in the City and the lingering pain of Bill Buckner's bobble in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series.

In the absence of a full, permanent budget, Cuomo said schools to plan for the 3.9 percent funding increase outlined in his budget proposaIn the absence of a full, permanent budget, Cuomo said schools to plan for the 3.9 percent funding increase outlined in his budget proposain his budget proposal.

About 14 percent of the city's public school students are Asian, and schools such as P.S. 130 in Chinatown have seen absence rates of 80 percent on the Lunar New Year, Silver said.

«This was the first study to detect the recent TB outbreak in Zimbabwe, and the first anywhere to suggest an association between rising TB incidence and national economic decline in the absence of armed conflict,» said Michael Silverman, assistant professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and senior author of the study.

Sir Andy Haines, Professor of Public Health & Primary Care at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and study co-author, said: «This paper shows how heat related deaths will escalate in the absence of decisive action to reduce the emissions of carbon dioxide and short - lived climate pollutants such as methane and black carbon.

She had started a biological and biomedical sciences doctoral program at Harvard Medical School in Boston — but her insecurities and the feeling that she was ill - prepared prompted her to take a leave of absence to reevaluate her life and career goals, not knowing whether she would return.

They were asked what types of guns they owned; reasons for ownership (protection, recreation, as collector's items); their attitudes on gun policies, such as bans, arming teachers and violence against the government; and the sources of violence, ranging from God's absence in public schools to media violence to insufficient mental health screening and background checks.

«Post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome (PTLDS) is a real disorder that causes severe symptoms in the absence of clinically detectable infection,» says John N. Aucott, M.D., associate professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of the Johns Hopkins Lyme Disease Clinical Research Center.