Sentences with phrase «school exclusion policies»

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A total of 16 pupils were affected by the school's policy of «grade exclusion» because they didn't achieve at least three B - grades in their first year tests.

She writes: In order to prevent co-marketing of junk foods in schools, the USDA can include in its rule for local school wellness policy implementation a definition of marketing that includes product packaging and an express exclusion of copycat snacks.

He is a PhD student in the Department of Social Policy and Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) at the London School of Economics, and was recently a visiting democracy fellow at the Harvard's Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation.

Questions on other topics include: the NYS Attorney General's investigation of the Puerto Rican Day Parade committee, whether de Blasio's pre-K initiative will include private and parochial schools, the «absent teacher reserve», a protest by Girls Prep supporters against de Blasio's expected charter school policies, performance of Administration for Children's Services and whether de Blasio plans to contact the St. Patrick's Day Parade committee to urge them to lift their exclusion of LGBT groups and organizations.

That outcome was stunning given the speaker's long identification with the LGBT community — as the 1991 campaign manager and later chief of staff to Tom Duane, the Council's first out gay member; as head of the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project; as a demonstrator arrested year after year in protests against the exclusion of openly gay participants in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day Parade; and as a Council member who pursued a range of initiatives in support of the community, including a school anti-bullying law, a requirement that the city only do businesses with contractors with anti-discrimination policies in place, and funding for LGBT homeless youth services, senior services, and the capital needs of the LGBT Community Center.

The first class affected by the retention policy entered the 4th grade during the 2004 school year, and thus the first NAEP score that could have been influenced by the exclusion of low - performing students from the 4th - grade NAEP sample was the spring 2005 administration.

It would require schools — both DCPS and charters — to have discipline policies that avoid exclusion, address bias, and seek the root causes of misbehavior.

A grammar school ejecting pupils in the middle of their A-levels has backtracked on its severe exclusions policy, saying all pupils affected can return to the school to...

Kevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the National Education Union comments on the Institute for Public Policy report, «Making the Difference - Breaking the link between school exclusion and...

The Exclusion Policy should be read in tandem with the school's Behaviour Policy as well as other relevant school policies, particularly the Special Educational Needs Policy and the Single Equality and Community Cohesion Scheme.

Langdon, who did not respond to Policy Watch interview requests, also pushed through a budget amendment last week to cut the schools» requested exclusions from the dropout count, but they were restored later in the day by Rep. Rob Bryan, an influential Republican from Mecklenburg County who sits on the House Education Committee.

Former teacher and education policy adviser, Kiran Gill, set up The Difference to break the link between school exclusion and social exclusion.

Kevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the National Education Union comments on the Institute for Public Policy report, «Making the Difference - Breaking the link between school exclusion and social exclusion».

As a result, policies that increase the stakes of standardized assessments necessitate schools increase the amount of time spent on basic skills — reading and math, primarily — to the exclusion of a broad range of other skills, experiences, and competencies.

This Policy Brief discusses the negative impact of school exclusion in Virginia and makes recommendations for making our schools safer, stronger, and more conducive to learning for all students.

«Academies, reading, teachers «progress, IT underused and evidence ignored» Professor Robert Cassen, expert in social policy and social exclusion at the LSE, on some policy challenges emerging from Ofsted «s annual report Academies Addressing the social achievement gap needs many initiatives, including some for school improvement.

Call on state lawmakers and school districts to formulate and pass legislation and policies that allow school employees to provide parents with their opinions on whether students would benefit from exclusion from a state / and or district standardized test and that no adverse action or discipline would be taken against employees who engage in such discussion.

Charter application guidelines for groups applying to open a new school state that the DC Public Charter School Board is «unlikely to approve applications for schools with discipline policies that rely solely on exclusion to manage student behavior and / or that are likely to result in high rates of suspensions and expulsions.&school state that the DC Public Charter School Board is «unlikely to approve applications for schools with discipline policies that rely solely on exclusion to manage student behavior and / or that are likely to result in high rates of suspensions and expulsions.&School Board is «unlikely to approve applications for schools with discipline policies that rely solely on exclusion to manage student behavior and / or that are likely to result in high rates of suspensions and expulsions.»

Don't be afraid to ask the school the right questions: What's your policy on exclusions?

Around the time of the lock hospitals, Aboriginal people in WA were active in drawing public and political attention to wide - ranging injustices, including police brutality, their exclusion from schools and general health services, and other policies of segregation.

They are then asked to reflect on if these groups also face these same or different challenges within the school and classroom (including in terms of their ability to participate in all school activities, social exclusion and bullying) and develop steps for addressing this (for example re-designing activities to ensure they are inclusive, putting in place school or classroom policies, and educating other students about respect for difference).