Sentences with phrase «school control over»

Teacher development involves multi-year goals for instructional improvement (e.g., reading, mathematics) and increased school control over professional development (PD) decisions and resources in the context of district goals for improvement.
In addition, each district made major investments in professional development for teachers and balanced district and school control over budgets and programs.
Report author Anne Pinney says she is concerned about moves to extend school freedoms, which include giving those schools control over their admissions policies.

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«Delta's decision reflects the airline's neutral status in the current national debate over gun control amid recent school shootings,» the company said in a statement.
This week, you have likely seen Delta in coverage of the national debate over gun control and security in U.S. schools.
On the heels of Wednesday's tragic school shooting in Florida, the debate over gun control is starting up again.
«Delta's decision reflects the airline's neutral status in the current national debate over gun control amid recent school shootings,» Delta's statement said.
The poll comes at a time when the number of deadly school shootings has reached 18 thus far into 2018, reawakening debate over gun control laws and school safety initiatives.
«In terms of how much is present in water reservoirs that have been sprayed with pyriproxyfen to control mosquito larvae, a person would have to drink well over 1,000 liters of water a day, every day, to achieve the threshold toxicity levels seen in animals,» Ian Musgrave, a senior lecturer in the medical school at the University of Adelaide in Australia, said in a statement.
While he doesn't believe MEC has any control over that debate, the organization can help advance the public conversation around the Feb. 14 shooting that resulted in 17 deaths at a high school in Parkland, Fla., he said.
According to the Fast Company article, «Study Finds Work - Life Balance Could Be a Matter of Life and Death,» researchers from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business found that people who work in highly stressful jobs with little to no control over their work life were 15.4 % more likely to die sooner.
In the wake of the heartbreaking mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the debate over gun control has reached a new high.
Last week: The tectonic shift in the conversation about gun regulations, school safety and mental health since the murder of 17 faculty and students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is nothing less than amazing when, in defiance of the NRA, it produced the first successful gun control measure in Florida in over two deschool safety and mental health since the murder of 17 faculty and students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is nothing less than amazing when, in defiance of the NRA, it produced the first successful gun control measure in Florida in over two deSchool is nothing less than amazing when, in defiance of the NRA, it produced the first successful gun control measure in Florida in over two decades!
And many leaders in the Republican - controlled Congress, where gun restrictions have withered over the years, have shown no change of heart in light of this week's school shooting.
Teen survivors of the Florida high school shootings, their parents and other victims took the politician to task over gun control.
The well ORGANIZED effort by Florida school students demanding gun control has GEORGE SOROS» FINGERPRINTS all over it.
The walkout unfolded amid a reinvigorated national debate over gun control and school safety, spurred in part by student survivors of the Parkland shooting.
It is likely to revive a debate over gun control, though efforts to legislate restrictions on firearms following previous school shootings largely proved fruitless.
Barna said that despite the sharp political divide over gun control in the United States, all can agree that schools and children should be safe.
As everyone knows, there is a tremendous cultural struggle going on in national politics, manifested in disputes over abortion, capital punishment, gun control, crime, welfare, affirmative action, gay rights, school prayer, and other kindred things, many of which have a subtle racial dimension.
How do we respond when schools seek greater control over even the most petty details of their students» daily lives?
Liberty, so defined, requires in the first instance liberation from all forms of associations and relationships — from the family, church, and schools to the village and neighborhood and the community broadly defined — that exerted strong control over behavior largely through informal and habituated expectations and norms.
I don't even really want to see your children in school next to mine, but since I have no control over that, keep your stone throwing, women hating views in the middle east where they belong.
In schools, the Catholic authorities have meekly handed over to the politicians control over the curriculum, over the admissions of pupils and, in practice, over the appointment of teachers.
After 20 schoolchildren and six adults were shot and killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Friday, the national debate over gun control has resumed with a fervor.
So I'll make you a deal... stop trying to take over my goverment, control the bodies of women who don't share your extreme beliefs, force children to pray to your gods in schools, destroy scientific and medical advances that I depend upon, and I'll be more than happy to go back to ignoring you.
If the use of guns near schools may impair the performance of students, and the federal government bears responsibility for the success of children in the schools, why couldn't the federal government simply take over control of the local schools?
The administration was still doing damage control over a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services policy that forces religious schools and institutions that offer employee health insurance to cover FDA - approved contraceptives.
I think the schools have very little control over this, neither does the NCAA with the guidelines that are set for the players.
And like many other teachers at high - poverty schools, those at M.S. 45 had come to believe that with students as potentially disruptive as theirs, strong, dominant teacher control was the only way to keep the classroom calm and orderly; handing over the reins would mean chaos.
While none of the bills specifically address overtime pay for school engineers, one centered on giving principals more control over school staff, including maintenance workers.
According to the work of the Prague School, when babies rest on their tummies, they have more control over their movements (Kobesova 2014).
She needs to take back the control and focus on something she has control over like school or sports.
Over some of the last few pages i have read there have been messages about how Jamie shouldn't blame the schools but should approach the «big» people who have control.
The scary time will be when she gets into school, and I no longer have control over what she sees / hears from friends.
The General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, said that the number of school - related outbreaks reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention doubled over the last decade, and generally increased an average of 10 percent per year.
Nobody — not your child's doctor, not her gym teacher, not the director of the school lunch program, not even your child herself — has as much control over what she eats and how she spends her time as you do.
Food Services Directors would LOVE to see kids have more time, but they have no control over the school schedule.
Although the food service director likely has no control over the cafeteria time allotment, he / she might be able to point to other barriers that make lengthening the lunch difficult (ratio of students: cafeteria size etc., budget for labor) 6) Schedule a meeting with the school principal and share your concerns and ask how you might help to arrive at a solution.
Critics argue that mandating more fresh, unprocessed food will limit local control over menu development and cost management for schools and communities.
In a piece written two days after the presidential election («The Fate of Hungry Kids in a Trump Administration,» cross-posted in Civil Eats), I expressed my own grave concerns over the fate of school food reform and other child nutrition programs under a Trump White House and a Republican - controlled Congress.
In another recent Washington Post article, several experts predicted that the popularity of school food reform and cultural shifts regarding obesity over the last eight years would serve as a check on Trump and the new Republican - controlled Congress, while others seemed less sure.
This may appear to be a cheaper method of dealing with a food service provider, but in fact the school district would have much less control over the individual meal items Aramark is serving.
We are educating young people to make sure they understand that high standards are not the problem — school cafeterias where no cooking takes place, the power of processed food industries, and lack of control over our food systems are the real problems.
Getting input from your kids doesn't just help create the ideal environment, it also makes them feel like they have a bit more control over their after school time.
Kimberly, you bring up a very good point about parental involvement in children's milk habits, and it's useful to remiind readers that parents have absolutely no control over what their kids might be drinking at school because they aren't there to supervise them.
Dr. Rachel Klein, PhD, professor of psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine, and a group of colleagues did a 2 - year controlled study of more than 100 school - aged kids back in the late 1970s, and then followed up with them repeatedly over 33 School of Medicine, and a group of colleagues did a 2 - year controlled study of more than 100 school - aged kids back in the late 1970s, and then followed up with them repeatedly over 33 school - aged kids back in the late 1970s, and then followed up with them repeatedly over 33 years.
If you don't want other people to have that degree of control over your children, you should remove them from the government «schools».
These companies have finally found a way to subvert parental authority because parents have no control over what their kids see in school.
Rochester Mayor Bob Duffy insists his push for control over the public schools isn't dead even though the Legislature departed Albany without taking it up.
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