Sentences with phrase «school agenda»

48 per cent of primary schools include PE and sport in their transition programme, using it as a vehicle to drive wider school agendas.

Okay Teachers Unions — American Federation of Teachers — CT Chapter and Connecticut Education Association — now would be a good time to explain how you «took him to the woodshed» and got him to change his massive anti-teacher, pro-charter school, pro-Common Core Testing, anti-public school agenda in return for your endorsement and help getting him the votes he needed to win re-election last November.

But they're also keen to point out they have little sympathy for the Lib Dems, who signed up to the whole free schools agenda so willingly in government.

For years, elites in big business, foundations, well - endowed think tanks, and corporate media have conducted a well - financed marketing campaign to impress on the nation's public schools an agenda of change that includes charter schools, standardized testing, and «new and improved» standards known as the Common Core.

With a nearly unparalleled ability to raise cash and organize their ranks, they have elected school boards, influenced legislation and helped set the public school agenda in major American cities for decades...

Republicans typically want lower taxes and more breaks, except in this instance when the refusal of deductions helps push the party's schooling agenda of privatization.

Despite broad - based community calls to the board to select a superintendent deeply committed to Oakland and advancing Oakland's community schools agenda over the long haul, the majority of the board placed a higher value on the allure of a «rising national leader» — even knowing the risk that he will quickly job - hop to a larger urban school district — rather than selecting a proven local leader.

Science is rarely given top priority on a primary school agenda.

Since he made those comments during an interview with the Daily News editorial board, Cuomo has reiterated his intentions to battle unions over education reforms, most recently with a letter he sent to state education officials outlining what appeared to be his second - term schools agenda, including questions about firing teachers, extending the probationary period before tenure and boosting the charter school sector.

Too often this idea of evidence - informed practice is being isolated teachers working on particular issues, or on a Masters degree, which is great but often that work is not being linked in or informed by, or informing, the overall school agenda.

In commenting on hopes for the future for science education in primary schools, we must hope that science is given priority, not just on an individual school agenda but also on a national agenda.

Frustrated by the lack of provision in the area for pupils with special needs, especially those on the autistic spectrum, the school decided that the Free School agenda offered a source of hope to local families whose needs not being met.

Why follow the Citizen Schools agenda?

«URM - FREE By 2033: Toward A National Safe Schools Agenda» by Edward C. Wolf and Yumei Wang, P.E. Pre-publication draft.

Even the most cursory review of state and federal campaign finance reports reveal that Malloy's pro-charter school agenda continues to pay «big dividends.»

Last year, the Heartland Institute applauded Governor Dannel Malloy's anti-public education, pro-charter school agenda proclaiming,

Learning From Disaster is organized into three parts: School in the Context of the Now Orleans Principles; A Solutions Blueprint for Greening New Orleans Schools; and Benefiting from the Experiences of Others, which profiled three schools from around the country that provide exemplary models of a green schools agenda.

Ensuring that mental wellbeing is high on the agenda and prioritised regularly with staff at the school

And we are angry that Mr. Botel and MarylandCAN are seeking to cynically play on our pride and our children's hard work to promote their own anti-public school agenda.

«It is clear that despite the Coalition Government's attempts to promote the free schools agenda, there is no great clamour for these schools.

Hundreds of teachers are rallied at the State Capitol late Monday, saying they are calling out Cuomo for what they say is his anti public school agenda.

In our union, we have made incredible strides turning around neighborhood public schools and moving forward with our community schools agenda; pushing for better practices for safe patient handling and better staffing ratios for health professionals; and improving health and safety measures for our members and those they serve.

He also voted for the whole anti-public school / charter school agenda.

Science is rarely given top priority on a primary school agenda, but as a nation, if we are to compete on an international level, we must engage more people with science, writes Danielle Spencer.

Through well - publicized partnerships with elected officials like Chicago mayor Richard Daley and through Bill and Melinda Gates's personal advocacy for their high - school agenda in such forums as the National Governors Association and the National Economic Club, the foundation has signaled its intention to leverage its investments through policy change.

Mayor Bill de Blasio took another step today to reverse the previous administration's schools agenda, withdrawing nine co-locations approved last year, including three for Eva Moskowitz's Success Academies.

Mr. Dromm goes on to accuse Ms. Moskowitz of planning her rally specifically to undermine Mr. de Blasio's agenda as retribution for the mayor's decision to pull the plug last week on three of her schools

In part, that's because Governor Andrew Cuomo and the Legislature have been increasingly willing during King's tenure to legislate education policy, even though the State Board of Regents and education department are statutorily tasked with shaping the state's schools agenda.

Hundreds of teachers are rallied at the state Capitol late Monday, saying they are calling out Gov. Andrew Cuomo for what they say is his anti-public school agenda.

«It's more a question of, is the governor, who has very complicated and weighty issues on his plate — he wants to get ethics reform through, he's driving a school agenda that he wants to get through, you know — in the middle of driving all those things, is he going to be willing to put the political capital behind issues like transgender rights, like sex ed in the schools and children having the right to consent?»

Hundreds of teachers are rallied at the State Capitol late Monday, saying they are calling out Cuomo for what they say is his anti-public school agenda.

In New York, de Blasio's critique of the Bloomberg administration's schools agenda was an undercard in 2013 — and candidate de Blasio failed to win the endorsement of Mulgrew's UFT, which went with Bill Thompson.

While the Government pursues its unnecessary and expensive academies and Free Schools agenda, the majority of schools and colleges are left struggling to cope with the effects of cuts to schools», colleges» and local authorities» budgets.

The argument to screen Vaxxed regardless of its relationship to the truth feels similar to that pushed by creationists who cloak their school agendas under the cloak of «teaching the controversy,» when in fact no actual controversy exists.

The Academy and Free School agenda, national funding reform, national curriculum and assessment changes including the introduction of the phonics check, distribution of Pupil Premium, significant changes to the Early Years Foundation Stage and the introduction of two Ofsted frameworks in one year all need to be considered alongside these SEND legislative changes.

The leadership, absolutely, has to create a culture that encourages people to [look to] research, they have to set out processes by which all this work can inform the school agenda, they have to know about effective professional development, they have to have the guts, to be honest, to stop things that are not working.

Unless science has been given priority on a school agenda, purchasing science equipment from a limited curriculum budget becomes problematic.

The data gleaned from NAPLAN plays a huge driving force in school agenda.

The Times editorial in effect says the billionaires «shouldn't be setting America's public school agenda» because they're making a hash of it.

This toolkit highlights particular programs and services that have been included in community schools, and consolidates some policy and outreach resources that can be helpful in advancing a community schools agenda.

She will oversee teachers» pay, the school curriculum, school improvement, the academies and free schools agenda and early years, adoption and child protection.

Jeffries, who is the founding Board President of Newark's Team Academy Charter Schools, a board member of the charter school front called Students for Education Reform (SFER) and a Director for Eva Moskowitz's infamous Success Academy charter school chain, instructs Connecticut's elected officials to «stay the course» with Dannel Malloy's failed anti-student, anti-parent, anti-teacher and anti-public school agenda.