Sentences with phrase «school committee told»

Washington — The parents of a learning - disabled child had no right under federal law to unilaterally move their son from a public school to a private school at a local school system's expense, even though the private school was subsequently found to be the appropriate placement for the child, a lawyer for a Massachusetts school committee told the U.S. Supreme Court last week.

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One university divinity school dean told me that he himself values the writing his faculty does for laypeople in the church, but tenure decisions are made by a universitywide committee, and chemists, economists and other scholars will dismiss more popular writing as «obviously not scholarship.»

In reflecting upon Vashti McCollum's death, J. Brent Walker, executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, told the CENTURY: «The 1948 case that bears her name set the tone for the Supreme Court's view on the proper relationship between church and state in public schools.»

What is surprising, and extremely disappointing to those of us in the youth sports community who have long asked that the N.F.L. take the lead on concussion education, is that Morey, recently named co-chair of the players» association concussion and traumatic brain injury committee, did exactly what he has been repeatedly telling college and high school players not to do: lie and downplay concussion symptoms.

Student representatives from the Arlington Heights Skate Committee, made up of high school and college students, told the Youth Commission at its Thursday night meeting they would like to do as much as possible to bring a skate park to the village.

Skate Committee representative Tristan Farrell, a 16 - year - old junior at Rolling Meadows High School, told the commission the committee would meet Dec. 23 to attract newCommittee representative Tristan Farrell, a 16 - year - old junior at Rolling Meadows High School, told the commission the committee would meet Dec. 23 to attract newcommittee would meet Dec. 23 to attract new members.

I'm pleased to report that at our last Houston ISD Food Services Parent Advisory Committee meeting, our food services director told me that these panini bars and other meal «concept» lines are now (with the exception of four high schools) available to all Houston kids, regardless of socioeconomic level.

He told the joint legislative fiscal committees that schools, along with everyone else, will have to do more with less.

Charles Goodhart, London School of Economics professor and former member of the Bank of England's monetary policy committee, tells MPs to make contingency plans in case of a second downturn linked to the eurozone crisis.

«Justice Atuguba has seniority over me because instead of continuing straight from the fourth year as we used to call it, of law school, to the fifth year which is the professional year or rather the final part of the professional course, I broke and went to do my master's so when I came back they — my first classmates — had already been called to the bar so I was called to the bar with Ato Dadzie and that younger generation,» she told parliament's Appointment Committee on Friday, 16 June when Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu asked her to clarify to the committee whether she or Justice Atuguba was senior to tCommittee on Friday, 16 June when Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu asked her to clarify to the committee whether she or Justice Atuguba was senior to tcommittee whether she or Justice Atuguba was senior to the other.

Educators and parents worked too hard to improve the new school governance law to now see it delayed or not properly implemented, UFT President Michael Mulgrew told a City Council education committee hearing on Sept. 23.

Senate Education Committee chairman Carl Marcellino previously told POLITICO New York he doesn't want school districts to lose funding and the issue would be looked at «closely.»

«People have every right to hold me absolutely and totally accountable for everything that happens in their school system, and if they find my efforts insufficient, they literally can choose to remove me, because we have a scheduled election,» de Blasio told state lawmakers, among them Assembly Ways and Means Committee Chairman Denny «Herman» Farrell (D - Manhattan).

The Education Select Committee recently concluded that there is no basis for telling whether free schools are more or less effective than other similar schools.

Committee chairman Barry Sheerman told the Guardian: «I want to see a rigorous scrutiny of what the charitable work of each of these schools is and the ways they will work to justify that charitable status.»

«The governor's plan is essentially to strip away local control and turn a school over either to an outside entity of his choosing or to the state itself,» she told the committee.

Speaking in Washington Tuesday, Education Commissioner Dianna Wentzell told the Democratic members of a Congressional committee of the strides Connecticut has made on school safety since the Sandy Hook tragedy and about the hope she has that students will...

University District Common Council member Rasheed Wyatt told a Buffalo Common Council committee he still wants a daytime curfew for young people in the city when they should be in school.

«I told the committee when they approached me to run for legislature that the school board was super-important to me.

State Sen. John Flanagan (R - East Northport), chairman of the Education Committee, said in talks leading up to the budget presentation, that Republicans who control the Senate told the governor that any proposed cuts to school aid should to be «fair and equitable.»

She also shares her experiences getting up to speed as a new committee chair, and tells Alan what she thinks of charter schools and teacher's unions.

Describing a committee hearing at which he took a drubbing from otherwise progressive colleagues outraged he was standing in the way of congregations reclaiming their place in the schools, out gay Councilman Daniel Dromm told me the resolution is a shoe - in.

Proposed legislation in Wisconsin will have a devastating impact on the ability of researchers to create lifesaving treatments for patients, Robert Golden, dean of the University of Wisconsin — Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, told members of a Wisconsin Senate committee in a public hearing Tuesday, Sept. 22.

«What is so telling about this moment is that Kathy seemed to know exactly what direction I should pursue, and she was absolutely right,» says Tamer, who later went on to become an elected member of the Boston School Committee.

Gibb's comments were in response to the Committee's inquiry into the well publicised issues with teacher supply, and followed evidence given by Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT), who told the Committee that school leaders felt there was a shortage of quality teachers.

«By the time I was in high school, I was deep undercover,» he told the committee.

School administrators told Fox that a committee of parents approved the no - hugging policy years ago.

It would have helped enormously, he told the Committee on Human Differences, if he'd had even one openly gay teacher in high school to serve as a role model.

Maureen Kelleher, another Education Post blogger, told me about her experience with its «bilingual advisory committee,» launched by the teacher who leads the school's dual - language immersion program.

One professor told the regents» Committee on Educational Policy that «the disaster area is at the junior high school» and blamed poor teaching and a shortage of counseling services at this level for the substandard skills of entering freshmen.

School resource officers, additional guidance counselors, and professional development for educators can help schools head off tragedies such as the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., last December, witnesses told members of the House Education and the Workforce Committee at a recent hearing last week on school safety iSchool resource officers, additional guidance counselors, and professional development for educators can help schools head off tragedies such as the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., last December, witnesses told members of the House Education and the Workforce Committee at a recent hearing last week on school safety iSchool in Newtown, Conn., last December, witnesses told members of the House Education and the Workforce Committee at a recent hearing last week on school safety ischool safety issues.

Despite this, she has told the same committee that she did not have an «easy answer» on this matter because of a conflict between views of schools and parents.

I told the committee about you two, and how well you work together as a team, and how much you love your schools and the children and families you serve every day.

Stacey told the Commons education Select Committee how schools and parents were sending papers back «come what may», which abuses the current system.

However, Schools Minister Nick Gibb told the Commons Education Select Committee last week that the changes to the initial teacher training system had been «successful» and resulted in higher numbers and speedier applications.

He told the committee that education departments shouldn't encourage schools to adopt a set policy.

State Rep. Andrew Brenner, chairman of the House Education Committee, told the board that changes may not happen until the fall, which would delay them from taking effect until the 2018 - 19 school year.

In introducing her bill, Corbett told committee members that seismic regulatory compliance and certification of school facilities is critical in a state that experiences 37,300 earthquakes each year.

A pair of researchers at UNC - Chapel Hill told the committee Wednesday that there's not much research on school district size, so there are concerns about using the «mixed bag» of data to make major decisions.

(Calif.) School administrators should be careful to fully engage parents of students with disabilities and not address the process as simply a compliance function, officials told a select committee meeting on children with special needs Monday.

«I think really what they bring is that experience and expertise of running schools,» Bexon - Smith told the education select committee last month.

A spokesperson for the committee told Schools Week that the details of any annual entitlement to CPD — such as whether it could become statutory or a minimum number of hours — should be decided between school leaders and the government.

Although CPD exists in English schools, sessions are often about curriculum changes, Ofsted and Prevent training, experts told the committee.

As Michael told members of the education select committee earlier this year, we are moving incrementally and inexorably towards clusters of schools supporting and evaluating each other, led by an outstanding headteacher of an outstanding school.

Margaret Hodge, chair of the Public Accounts Committee, told the BBC that there was too much focus on opening the schools quickly, rather than with due process.

Good teachers could take on senior positions within a few years, school leaders could earn more than # 100,000 a year, and the leaders of multi-academy trusts could be «very wealthy individuals», Sir Michael told the committee.

Rep. Leo Daughtry (R - Smithfield) told the committee a private school in his district that accepted school vouchers didn't seem fit for accepting tax dollars.

After hours of anticipation yesterday as a bill lingered on a House Rules committee agenda that could allow for - profit charter school operators to takeover some of North Carolina's worst performing schools, Rep. Rob Bryan (R - Mecklenburg) told the Charlotte Observer Thursday night that his proposal won't be taken up by fellow lawmakers this year.

Labour MP Meg Hillier, who succeeded Ms Hodge as chair of the committee, told Schools Week an update on the progress of the investigation would be helpful, adding that her committee was «really concerned» about the «accountability gap» in some academy chains.

No Child Left Behind (NCLB) represented an unfortunate overstep of the federal government's role in education, members of the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce told National School Boards Association (NSBA) attendees Monday.