Sentences with phrase «school system conditions»

The UVa School Turnaround Program is dedicated to building transformative leadership capacity to establish school system conditions that set the stage for positive change.

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Until schools have water and power, the district's custodial and facilities staff can not start cleaning schools, assessing air conditioning systems or begin repairs.

Yeah, the conditioned brain you were brainwashed all your years growing up in the school system the Pharisees took over..

Boosted Fuel Efficiency Standards Coordinated International Response to Financial Crisis Passed Mini Stimuli Began Asia «Pivot Increased Support for Veterans Tightened Sanctions on Iran Created Conditions to Begin Closing Dirtiest Power Plants Passed Credit Card Reforms Eliminated Catch - 22 in Pay Equality Laws Improved Food Safety System Expanded National Service Expanded Wilderness and Watershed Protection Gave the FDA Power to Regulate Tobacco Pushed Federal Agencies to Be Green Leaders Let Space Shuttle Die and Killed Planned Moon Mission Improved School Nutrition Expanded Hate Crimes Protections Brokered Agreement for Speedy Compensation to Victims of Gulf Oil Spill Pushed Broadband Coverage Expanded Health Coverage for Children Helped South Sudan Declare Independence Killed the F - 22

Teachers from across the UK will be gathering to debate a range of motions on topics including pupil indiscipline, the mental health of teachers, workload, pay and conditions, marking and the school accountability system.

«If the proposal for License to Practise signals a commitment by a future Labour Government to restore qualified teacher status (QTS) as a requirement for all teachers in state funded schools, to introduce, within a national framework of pay and conditions of service, a contractual entitlement for all teachers to continuing professional development and to re-establish a proper system of professional regulation which ensures that all headteachers have QTS and NPQH and are accredited to lead and manage schools, then this is a basis on which progress could be made.

Alongside reforms that would allow schools to choose to use different methods of examination system and to set teachers» pay and conditions it will cause big clashes with the teachers» unions.

The city will also install an air conditioning system in the school's auditorium, Gale Brewer said.

The only current Senate proposal on mayoral control would extend the system just a year, with the new condition that city school budgets would have to be approved by the Legislature.

To improve mobility and traffic patterns, the project will include: · Improved access to Woodbury Common Premium Outlets · Replacing the Route 32 bridge over Route 17, which will include standard Interstate height clearance over Route 17 · Reconstruction and expansion of Park and Ride facilities which will include a bus stop and solar - powered bus station to promote public transit · Reconfiguring the Route 17, Exit 131 eastbound ramp leading to the Thruway · A new interconnected and adaptive traffic signal system along Route 32 to minimize delays and enhance access to local businesses and schools · Intelligent Transportation Systems to adapt to changing traffic conditions and optimize signal responses

Jan. 25: State Comptroller DiNapoli, in his annual report on schools» financial conditions, says the Hempstead and Wyandanch systems on the Island face the highest degree of fiscal stress encountered by any non-urban districts in the state.

Dr. Patel, an assistant professor at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, is a plastic and reconstruction surgeon who specializes in craniofacial surgery and cleft conditions at Loyola University Health System.

When institutions try to improve conditions for their postdocs, the initiative often comes from the top administrative echelons of graduate or medical schools, universities or even multi-university state systems.

«This study helps illuminate why people who have dealt with childhood adversity face a higher risk of developing excess belly fat and related health conditions,» said one of the study's authors, Christos S. Mantzoros, MD, DSc, PhD, of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the VA Boston Healthcare System, both affiliated with Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA.

Researchers from the Universitat Politècnica de València, in collaboration with the company C - Robots, S.L., have developed a new safety system for city and school buses that detects the presence of pedestrians in the surroundings of the bus stop, warns the driver of dangerous conditions and, ultimately, directly affects the vehicle.

They agreed to «accept responsibility for the conditions under which the laboratory was operated,» to create a law school scholarship in Sheri's name and to establish, in all the chemistry labs on all of the system's 10 campuses, an extensive program of required safety training and compliance for all lab workers.

- In a study with potentially major implications for the future treatment of autoimmunity and related conditions, scientists from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have found a way to remove the subset of antibody - making cells that cause an autoimmune disease, without harming the rest of the immune system.

One of these, the world's largest solar - thermal cooling system so far, has since 2014 been chilling a high school in Arizona, where air conditioning typically makes up a significant fraction of an annual electricity bill.

«Despite the differences emerging in the pathophysiology of PsA and rheumatoid arthritis, tofacitinib, which works on many different cytokines, shows efficacy in the treatment of both conditions,» said lead author Professor Philip J. Mease from the Swedish - Providence St. Joseph Health Systems and University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, US.

But a new mouse study out of the Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM) shows that a natural sugar called trehalose can actually arm the immune system with more of the machinery it needs to combat atherosclerosis, a dangerous condition in which plaque build up hardens and narrows the arteries.

A primary role of school systems, states, districts, and charter - management organizations, the pair write, «is to create the conditions in schools through which teachers can become experts at teaching the curriculum they are using and adapting instruction to the needs of their particular students.»

It appears that education policies related to both compensation and working conditions must evolve further if school systems are to address the challenge of staffing math and science classrooms with teachers of strong academic caliber.

«We spent about 2 years consulting with a wide range of bus users, and determined that the combination of 12 seats, a large luggage area and strong heating and air conditioning systems would appeal to the market, and in particular with school users.

At Jordan High School, the administration installed energy - efficient lighting and a new heating, air conditioning, and ventilating system.

The case of Bujnowicz v Trustees Roman Catholic Church indicates that schools need to have in place a system for the regular and close inspection of the condition of the equipment and playing surfaces.

To frame and address bullying, researchers prefer the ecological - systems perspective, which suggests adjusting multiple conditions: home and school, intrapersonal and interpersonal development, peer groups, the community, the media, and cultural norms.

While increasing numbers of school districts offer pay incentives to address math and science staff shortages, the authors conclude that «compensation and working conditions must evolve further if school systems are to address the challenge of staffing math and science classrooms with teachers of strong academic caliber.»

CAMBRIDGE, MA — A new report on New Orleans schools after Hurricane Katrina finds the school system substantially changed from its condition five years ago.

For more than a quarter of a century, America's schooling system has remained stagnant, and pupil performance indicators continually reflect this condition.

She adds, «The rhetoric of local control obscures separate and unequal conditions that have resulted when small, new school systems form that are racially identifiable.

«The caprice of local political conditions can not be permitted to harm the educational opportunity of a child,» the five - member panel wrote in its Sept. 15 report to Franklin Circuit Judge Ray Corns, who declared the current school - aid system unconstitutional last May.

I learned plenty about whether charter schools outperform district schools, and in which conditions, and whether competitive effects from charter schools can improve the traditional public school system.

Meanwhile, defenders of the current system view all this talk about the achievement gap with suspicion — asserting, as they do, that schooling is hopelessly intertwined with conditions in the family and community, and thus that we can't expect results to improve much until we alleviate poverty and racism.

The conditions were ideal for this groundbreaking shift: a citywide consensus that the old system had failed; a once - in - a-lifetime opportunity to build a new system from scratch; the availability of federal school start - up funds; and the keen interest of education entrepreneurs, foundations, and support organizations in seeing this bold reform succeed.

The report recognises the problem the education system is facing; the UK must provide the additional 420,000 new school places needed by 2021, while simultaneously addressing the poor learning and teaching conditions in many parts of the country.

Some of the most common building services introduced into schools during refurbishment projects included; control systems, security systems, cooling and air conditioning, fire protection (sprinklers), fire detection (alarms) and transportation and disabled access — lifts, escalators and ramps.

The single pay system set out in the School Teachers» Pay and Conditions Document, and in use since 1988, will be under threat from over 20,000 potential pay policies if each school sets up itSchool Teachers» Pay and Conditions Document, and in use since 1988, will be under threat from over 20,000 potential pay policies if each school sets up itschool sets up its own.

The conditions, behaviors, and practices required by an effective coaching program can affect the culture of a school or system, thus embedding instructional change within broader efforts to improve school - based culture and conditions.

If choice through vouchers can create conditions that promote academic achievement, and if it can put political pressure on what are often intractable urban school systems, it merits serious consideration.

«We look at a range of different models — project - based, no excuses, Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate, and spaces within schools; not only core disciplinary class but also electives and extracurriculars — to identify the conditions under which powerful learning does emerge, and to understand what kinds of systems might make this kind of learning more the exception than the rule,» he says.

The financial data that exists is (sic) unreliable, there has not been a clean audit since FY 2001 - 2002, there is no inventory of assets, the payroll system is in shambles, school buildings are in deplorable condition and, up to now, there has been little accountability.»

Having worked for an organisation that dealt with integration of non-nationals and disadvantaged [5] children in Dutch society and the educational system for primary school children specifically, there was heartbreaking evidence and examples that those who needed to assess the environmental conditions young children were catapulted into, could not — and will never — understand the extent of trauma these children and their parents had been exposed to; subsequently, unable to realistically assess the cause of underachievement and trauma, nor adequate measures could be taken to equip fugitives with sufficient resources to overcome this disadvantaged position.

Access control systems can have environmental benefits too; if integrated with a school's Building Management System (BMS) the access control system can automatically activate or deactivate lights and heating / air conditioning depending on when the room is being utiSystem (BMS) the access control system can automatically activate or deactivate lights and heating / air conditioning depending on when the room is being utisystem can automatically activate or deactivate lights and heating / air conditioning depending on when the room is being utilised.

In education, she studies the effectiveness of senior leadership teams in large urban school districts across the United States and the conditions that enhance organizational learning in public school systems.

From observing conditions there and in other cities, we believe that bargaining and related union activity have not only hampered urban public schools with such things as cumbersome contracts, but have introduced practices into the education system that are counterproductive, fomenting a demoralizing pattern of acrimony between teachers and administrators that is fundamentally at odds with effective education.

Unlike other industries that often offer higher pay to compensate for less desirable working conditions or to attract more desired applicants in high - need areas (like STEM fields), public school systems are generally limited by collective bargaining agreements or state law in their ability to offer differential compensation (see Goldhaber et al., 2015).

More than a decade of research, at Harvard and elsewhere, on accountability, school improvement, and school organization has become «increasingly specific,» he said, «about the conditions that promote high - level learning and performance in educational institutions,» within classrooms and in systems as a whole.

With the support of the mayor, Vallas restored public confidence in the school system and created political stability, conditions necessary for a functioning school district.

Some view an analysis like ours and conclude that poverty and racial inequities are conditions that public school systems can't overcome.

So what's wrong with the idea of making the four - year college - prep curriculum the default curriculum for all students, as some states have done, or making completion of the curriculum required for admission to a state's four - year public university system a condition of high school graduation, as several large districts in California have done?