Sentences with phrase «school system limits»

Don't let the school system limit you,» he said.

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The Broward county school system, where Marjory Stoneman Douglas is located, has had a program with the goal of limiting outsized disciplinary measures against minority students since 2013, a year before the Obama DOE's guidelines were issued.

Key to his platform were a flat tax, medical savings accounts, a new Social Security system for working Americans, parental choice of schools for their children, term limits and a strong national defense.

The government's method was to offer private schools four options: (1) continued independence with no aid, (2) integration into the public school system, (3) a permanent «contract of partnership» in which the classes under contract would be taught according to public school schedules by teachers under contract to the state, and (4) a «simple contract» of limited duration in which the designated classes would be taught by teachers hired by the school but certified by the state.

It was announced today that Kerrey, the former president of the New School in New York City, had signed on to the effort to tighten campaign finance laws by introducing a voluntary public matching system similar to New York City and lower contribution limits.

The UFT delegates voted overwhelmingly on March 20 to support the 60 - member UFT Task Force on School Governance's recommendations to limit mayoral control of the school system to give more say to parents and communSchool Governance's recommendations to limit mayoral control of the school system to give more say to parents and communschool system to give more say to parents and communities.

Their ability to manage the school system is more limited.»

The system already works for schools, where the speed limits are extremely low and cars are expected to go about 10 miles per hour over a speed limit, give or take.

Meanwhile, the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School plans to push for a system of public funds to match smaller donations as a way to limit the influence of big money donors in campaign fundraising.

On a more local level, Steck took aim at the defeated construction bond issue put up by the North Colonie school system in December, echoing criticisms that the polling location was limited to one spot.

The state comptroller's office has criticized the Quogue school district for exceeding the 4 percent annual state limit that governs its unrestricted reserve fund, saying the system routinely surpassed that ceiling during a five - year span.

At least three Republican senators are demanding big 11th - hour changes to the plan, including prohibiting the University of Wisconsin System from spending on diversity training, greatly raising the income eligibility limit for the statewide school - voucher program and repealing the state's remaining prevailing - wage laws within months.

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.

Teachers have been a problem constituency for Cuomo, who has touted the state - mandated teacher evaluation system and a property - tax cap that limits school districts» abilities to raise revenue as signature accomplishments of his first term.

Question topics, which were limited by the mayor's press staff to «budget only», included an MTA budget cut contained in the state budget, the charter school co - location / rent provisions in the state budget and mayoral control of the school system.

Efforts to limit access to voting, compounded by election security concerns, have created a lack of confidence in the U.S. voting system, said Myrna Perez, professor of law and director of the Brennan Center for Justice Voting Rights and Elections Project at the New York University School of Law.

«Hatha yoga and mindfulness meditation both focus the brain's conscious processing power on a limited number of targets like breathing and posing, and also reduce processing of nonessential information,» said Peter Hall, associate professor in the School of Public Health & Health Systems.

«Self - administered treatment for keloid scars can reduce the economic burden on the healthcare system and provide a treatment option for patients who have limited access to medical care,» comments Professor Jeffrey Karp from Brigham and Women's Hospital at Harvard Medical School, US, an expert on medical device design who was not involved in this study.

«With the development of effective treatments, the most limiting factor to treating acute stroke is infrastructure — we have to keep evolving our systems to get therapy to as many appropriate patients as possible,» says Ferdinand K. Hui, M.D., associate professor of radiology and radiological science at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

«One of the responsibilities that we have as scientists, particularly those of us who receive public funding for our research, is to be engaged with the public about our understanding of the way that the world works and also about the limits of our understanding,» said the Stanford University researcher, who holds dual appointments with the School of Environmental Earth System Science and the Woods Institute for the Environment.

In a year the school plans to have it operating at levels approaching the limits of our perception of actual reality: a visual resolution of 24 million pixels [on the entire surface] and a full 512 - channel sound system that will make it seem «like a bird is flying around your head,» Kuchera - Morin says.

In animal studies, Eric Secor of the University of Connecticut School of Medicine discovered that bromelain reduces the immune system's reaction to allergens and limits airway inflammation.

Under D.C. regulations, the schools chancellor has the power to place students directly into schools, regardless of their lottery results, but that authority is supposed to be limited to cases when it «would be in the best interests of the student» and «promote the overall interests of the school system.»

However, we are a small school district with limited financial resources and can not afford to spend the amount of economic funds to defend the Philosophy of Design class in the court system.»

But in this «free choice» system, schools are able to look at student preferences overall to limit disappointment.

It is advisable that schools seek to limit all non-educational, entertainment use of the Internet — including social networking activities — through the district Internet system.

Many conservatives were concerned that such accountability systems would stymie innovation, burden schools, and limit parental choice.

The state's grade dips a little because Connecticut has only a limited open - enrollment system and a charter school law that is rated as weak by the Center for Education Reform.

As the system is currently defined, that burden is mainly owned by the Dayton Public School district, just because that kid's parents happen to live within the city limits of Dayton this month.

The limited research on efforts to improve school choice systems also demonstrates that simplifying the information parents receive about their school choices increases the likelihood that parents will select a higher - performing school.

Each of these school choice systems can be complex and confusing for low - income families, especially when they are contending with challenges ranging from unstable employment and housing to limited transportation.

In practice it is unlikely that an assessment system will have access to data on student backgrounds beyond what is routinely collected by school systems: the percentage of students with limited English proficiency, the percentage eligible for free and reduced - price lunch, and the ethnic and racial composition of the student population.

[3] Just as voucher holders may benefit from a real estate broker to find housing in a high - opportunity neighborhood, low - income families in school choice systems with limited information about high - performing schools could benefit from an adviser who connects them to educational opportunities.

«For large rural states like Montana, and for inner - city school systems struggling with limited resources, the impact on education could be dramatic,» according to Mr. Burns.

Rountree, who is 31 and a former corps member in Atlanta, said that under that system, her new teachers would arrive in Jacksonville with limited understanding of the city and its schools.

In the early 1970s, the federal courts ordered a number of states to pay school desegregation costs, but these rulings were limited in number and had little overall effect on state systems for school funding.

The «parallel system» approach to chartering's future rests on two mistaken assumptions: first, that by simply creating new schools and not purposely antagonizing the traditional system, chartering wouldn't attract the ire of defenders of the status quo; and second, that if chartering proved successful and popular, the sky was the limit on growth.

The key points from each strand are highlighted as follows: Early Identification and support • Early identification of need: health and development review at 2/2.5 years • Support in early years from health professionals: greater capacity from health visiting services • Accessible and high quality early years provision: DfE and DfH joint policy statement on the early years; tickell review of EYFS; free entitlement of 15 hours for disadvantaged two year olds • A new approach to statutory assessment: education, health and care plan to replace statement • A more efficient statutory assessment process: DoH to improve the provision and timeliness of health advice; to reduce time limit for current statutory assessment process to 20 weeks Giving parent's control • Supporting families through the system: a continuation of early support resources • Clearer information for parents: local authorities to set out a local offer of support; slim down requirements on schools to publish SEN information • Giving parents more control over support and funding for their child: individual budget by 2014 for all those with EHC plan • A clear choice of school: parents will have rights to express a preference for a state - funded school • Short breaks for carers and children: a continuation in investment in short breaks • Mediation to resolve disagreements: use of mediation before a parent can register an appeal with the Tribunal

Comparing districts with and without systems of choice, Schneider, Teske, and Marschall find little evidence of increasing inequities where choice is available; the academic performance of all schools appears to increase with even limited choice in a district; and parents become more engaged when allowed to choose their schools - thus enhancing the community's social capital.

Schools will have to do all that they reasonably can from this September to limit a child's exposure to the three areas of risk from an IT system and as part of this process, those with responsibility need to ensure the school has the appropriatefilters and monitoring systems in place.

Also in this issue: A look back at what the Obama administration's signature education reform got wrong, with lessons learned to guide states and districts in refining their teacher evaluation systems, and a warning on the limits of federally - led school reform; a proposal for how to redesign education research under the Every Student Succeeds Act; and a debate on whether there is a federal constitutional right to education.

English - language learners have limited access to some of the 186 small high schools that are part of a small - schools initiative launched by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg in the New York City school system, says a report by two immigrant - advocacy groups.

Second, Don McAdams, founder of the Center for Reform of School Systems, argued that philanthropy typically entails limited dollars in the grand scheme of things, but has an outsized influence because this money is nimble and can be used to drive a state or a district's reforms, where it's hugely difficult to redeploy more than a sliver of public funds.

Third, in the old system, publicly available school data had limited utility for low - income families; market information does little good for those unable to exercise choice.

The absence of a statewide student achievement test limited the means by which the cost to Wyoming of such a high - performing school system could be determined.

In fact, at one point during testimony before the referees, in the fall of 2004, lawyers for the city requested that the panel include a recommendation for the legislature to remove a statutory cap limiting the number of charter schools in the state, arguing that charter schools were one part of its strategy for overhauling the city's school system.

Morgan says the changes will «unclog» the admissions system for individual schools by limiting challenges to local parents and local authorities and exclude lobbyists and pressure groups.

Adopting a weighted lottery or priority system also means giving up a chance at federal charter - school start - up funding, which is limited to schools with a single lottery.

On the theme of «Assessment», the rollout of the Australian National Curriculum generated negative statements such as: «The school - based assessment system... is particularly stressful as it relies so heavily on teachers,» and «C2C [the Curriculum into the Classroom planning resource] curriculum and assessment are too difficult to introduce with such limited resources.»

Education futurists have predicted the disintegration of the 19th - century model of American schooling for many years, but the barriers to that transformation have been limited by both the intransigence of the current system and a lack of imagination about what might replace it.