Sentences with phrase «school system by»

The flexibility of the OST field, backed by its expertise in positive youth development, enrichment, and social and emotional learning, can help to fill these gaps in our school system by complementing and supporting traditional education.

In the 1960s the Labour government tried to do away with the grammar school system by introducing comprehensive schools which taught all ability levels.

«We think we are bolstering the public school system by creating new options within it and showing that it can be reinvented in ways to better serve parents and communities,» said Jed Wallace, chief executive of the California Charter Schools Assn..

The very nature of being of a middle class (or higher) status puts parents at an advantage in the school system by virtue of who they know.

«We are concerned about these flavor - of - the - day interventions in the school system by billionaires who think that they know things, but really don't,» Caputo - Pearl said.

«Who in the world is going to agree to kill the public school system by bringing in private companies?»

What it can do is enhance our public school system by adding flexibility to benefit our students and teachers.

Systemic thinking requires an holistic approach, one that focuses on the total school system by examining and understanding the interrelationships...

Teachers across the city began to complain from their sweltering classrooms after they hadn't heard from the school system by midafternoon.

These different forms of punishment inflicted upon the public school system by high stakes testing have been called accountability.

In 1968, the Soka Gakkai began the Soka School System by opening a boys» junior and senior high school in Tokyo.

Some Syrian families have found ways to supplement or replace the public school system by sending their children to private schools or informal ones run by NGOs and religious organizations, including some that teach the Syrian rather than Lebanese curriculum.

Appointed in 2002 by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Klein transformed the city's public - school system by promoting privately managed charter schools to replace regular public schools, by increasing the consequences for principals and teachers of standardized tests, and by attacking union - sponsored due process and seniority provisions for teachers.

Special - progress classes were even more racially and academically segregated from other students than their contemporary version, «gifted and talented» programs that retain middle - class parents in the public - school system by separating their children from most low - income and minority - group peers.

A recent study of the Chicago school system by the New Teacher Project (2007) found that 87 percent of the city's 600 schools, including 69 schools that the city declared to be failing, did not issue a single «unsatisfactory» teacher rating between 2003 and 2006.

«You can not improve a school system by ignoring the wishes of the people whose children attend those public schools,» she said.

Finally, charter schools can complement the public school system by supporting students not typically well - served in traditional public schools.

Value - added testing would at least give voters some idea of whether they are getting their tax money's worth out of the school system by giving them at least some information on how the schools are doing.

Bensnes points out that it may be possible to reduce the impact of hay fever in the school system by properly diagnosing and medicating more pupils who have pollen allergies.

For now, the public can try to prevent another sad day in Rockland County politics by coming out and showing their support for a veto - empowered monitor for the East Ramapo School System by attending the Multi Services Committee meeting on Tuesday, March 8th at 6:30 pm.

In Wake County, N.C., school and political leaders integrated the school system by putting a 40 percent limit on the percent of students who qualify for free or reduced priced lunch at each school.

Carranza, a former superintendent in Houston and San Francisco whose salary is $ 345,000, is easing into his gig running the city's 1.1 - million - student public - school system by starting during a vacation week.

New Yorkers for Students» Educational Rights, an education advocacy group, is suing Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the Board of Regents and state Education Commissioner John King, claiming the state has systematically shortgaged the public school system by failing failing to comply with an agreement that followed the landmark Campaign for Fiscal Equity Ruling of 2006.

Those with adequate resources are in the process of solving the problem of religion and the school system by supporting their own schools.

The Death and Life of the Great American School System BY DIANE RAVITCH BASIC BOOKS, 283 PAGES, $ 26.95 Catholic schools reap one benefit from poverty,» the high - school principal hiring me commented ruefully (I'd just glimpsed my pay package).

On Monday, just hours before a scheduled press event about GE's move, the industrial giant pledged to invest $ 25 million in the city's underfunded public school system by creating a career lab and other resources.

Revolution at the Margins: The Impact of Competition on Urban School Systems By Frederick M. Hess Brookings Institution, 2002, $ 45.95; 268 pages.

The states party to this agreement, desiring by common action to improve their respective school systems by utilizing the teacher or other professional educational person wherever educated, declare that it is the policy of each of them, on the basis of cooperation with one another, to take advantage of the preparation and experience of such persons wherever gained, thereby serving the best interests of society, of education, and of the teaching profession.

The town, like most others in Mississippi, established two school systems by the late 19th century, segregated by race and wholly unequal in money, facilities and trained teachers from the outset.

The mission of the Georgia School Boards Association is to ensure excellence in the governance of local school systems by providing leadership, advocacy and services, and by representing the collective resolve of Georgia's elected boards of education.

Isolated and Segregated: A New Look at the Income Divide in Our Nation's Schooling System by Ulrich Boser and Perpetual Baffour American Progress — May 31, 2017

The mission of GSBA is to ensure excellence in the governance of local school systems by providing leadership, advocacy and services, and by representing the collective resolve of Georgia's elected boards of education.

The Program for International Student Assessment, commonly known as PISA, was administered to 15 - year - olds in 65 countries and school systems by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a Paris - based group that includes the world's wealthiest nations.

Beyond the Individual Teacher: Developing Social Capital in Schools and School Systems By: Megan Hopkins, James P. Spillane, and Tracy M. Sweet

The third challenge is to fund the expansion of our educational program in the Romanian school systems by printing 10,000 animal welfare booklets.

Not exact matches

Nor can the nation's school systems account for foreign - educated adult immigrants, the dated skills of older workers and the changing needs of workplaces, which are often driven by technological change.

Started in 2005 as a school project by University of Waterloo engineering students, Miovision's main product is Scout, a camera system that counts cars at intersections.

Classrooms at Disselboom primary school are equipped with SchoolVision, a lighting system developed by Philips that changes the atmosphere and ambience of a classroom depending on the type of lesson being taught.

CrisisGo was started in 2013 by three co-founders — Reynolds, an education software sales rep, Songwei Ma, a software engineer, and Jim Spicuzza, who had launched and sold a business that made content - management systems for school websites.

It grew so fast, and I came from the school of, like, Craigslist --[the idea] that the community is the immune system and that bad people get ridded from the site by its review system.

Look at STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)-- if we focused on finding early indicators of high performers in our education system, then treated them differently as they progressed through school as potential Canadian innovators, by the time they got to Grade 12 and were thinking about university, they would be wildly ahead of the innovation curve.»

If you want to know more about how the big guys work out problems, check out Justice on the Job, by David W. Ewing (Harvard Business School Press, Boston, 1989), a lively chronicle of the creative complaint systems in place at corporations such as Federal Express, IBM, and Northrop.

Given Osiris's strong five - year record of growth and profitability, Bowers was able to help make Miller's wishes come true: he structured a deal that raised $ 13 million from a large local pension fund — the Pennsylvania Public School Employees Retirement System (see «What Pension Funds Want,» [Article link]-RRB--- by selling a package of subordinated debt and convertible preferred stock, which included a fixed interest rate and dividend yield.

The American system of education makes it possible for a poor boy living in a great city to carry himself through college and even through certain professional schools free, whereas a similar boy living in a rural community will be Stopped alter high school by the costs of transportation to the state - college town and by the cost of board and food away from home.

A few months ago, our kids» school district, one of the largest in South Carolina, was hit with a virus that spread «ransomware,» a malicious software designed to block computer systems by encrypting the data in which the attackers gain access.

Automated response systems are okay, says Dewar, who teaches at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, but companies should facilitate access to live representatives by making direct contact the first option on a service menu.

But over the last decade, it's added a new, $ 70 million hosptial, has rebuilt 11 of its 15 destroyed schools, and it's now protected by a defensive floodwall system.

By Sunday morning, Evergram partnered with The Sandy Hook School Support Fund and integrated a system to deliver funds to affected families.

Yet judging by its school system — perhaps the most important indicator of a country's future economic performance — this Swedish model's looks appear to be fading fast.

A preliminary review by the Office of the Attorney General revealed that Mylan Pharmaceuticals may have inserted potentially anticompetitive terms into its EpiPen sales contracts with numerous local school systems.