Sentences with phrase «school system officials»

School system officials said they don't track such transfers.

But in the course of research I have been doing on teacher reform nationwide, I have followed DCPS's evolving human capital system, interviewing senior school system officials and watching reforms play out in Washington schools.

The Pike County, Ky., school system's use of more than $ 9 million in federal flood - relief funds is being investigated by officials of the U.S. Education Department, a county school system official said last week.

One morning last month at P.S. 295 in Park Slope, Brooklyn, nine adults were at work in a first - grade classroom of 30 general and special education students: the teacher being observed, a second teacher and three paraprofessionals assigned to the classroom, the principal, the assistant principal, a talent coach and a school system official serving as an adviser.

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Peculiar results in U.S. News» specialty MBA rankings have led to speculation that Jesuit schools may be gaming the system, particularly since they are based solely on a survey of business school officials.

The Christian Post: Paganism and Witchcraft Placed Alongside Christian Studies in UK Schools A U.K. school system has included the study of witchcraft and druidry on its official religious education syllabus for the first time, meaning pagan practices will be taught alongside contemporary religions, such as Christianity, Islam and Judaism.

«The new pre-primary school facilities that Accolade helped fund enable township children of between five and six years of age to start their education prior to entering the official school system at seven.

On May 23, the Chamber of Commerce and representatives from the school system will be on - hand for an official ribbon cutting, beginning at 10:30 a.m. Q94 - FM, Richmond's # 1 hit music station, will broadcast live from Pie Five from 6 — 8 p.m. Free pizzas will be given away during the radio remote.

The Los Angeles school system has voted to remove soda from its machines; Philadelphia officials plan a similar move.

School superintendents and board members from the five elementary systems that feed into Mundelein High met last week with District 120 officials.

A reverse 911 system proposed in Glen Ellyn could alert residents during storms and freight collisions and perhaps improve response time if there was a threat of violence at a local school, local officials say.

Serving healthful food to children should be central to the school system's mission and run by school officials, not by a for - profit company, she said.

In Nassau, Ryder said officials at 40 of the county's 56 school districts have access to the Rave Panic Button, a cellphone alert system that allows teachers or administrators to notify authorities about an active - shooter situation with the push of a button.

The first year of the three - year growth plan was unanimously approved by the Board of Governors as a system - wide priority last year, and school officials said Monday they are hopeful the second year of funding will be a system - wide priority this year.

Before taking on the New York City school system, Klein was an executive with German media conglomerate Bertelsmann, and before that a longtime Justice Department official.

Tim Kremer, with the New York State School Boards Association, says the original deadline would have meant districts would have to come up with their evaluation system over the summer, which is a difficult time for school offiSchool Boards Association, says the original deadline would have meant districts would have to come up with their evaluation system over the summer, which is a difficult time for school offischool officials.

According to the comptroller's office, the system used to measure fiscal stress recently was revised to include «direct input» from local school officials.

At a speech given at Hofstra University, Cuomo announced a proposal for a new, less generous pension system for future state, local and school employees that is designed to save taxpayers $ 93 billion over 30 years, according to two officials briefed on the plan.

Woolwich — Senate President Steve Sweeney, Assemblyman John Burzichelli and Assemblyman Adam Taliaferro joined with local officials, educators and others today in a community forum to mark the increase in school funding for the Kingsway Regional School System as the result of the successful effort to include the school funding reform plan in the new state budget.READ MORE&school funding for the Kingsway Regional School System as the result of the successful effort to include the school funding reform plan in the new state budget.READ MORE&School System as the result of the successful effort to include the school funding reform plan in the new state budget.READ MORE&school funding reform plan in the new state budget.READ MORE»

Hartford school board Vice Chairwoman Tiffany Glanville, right, tells city school officials on Sept. 11 that she believes the system is discriminating against Isiah Rivera.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration sent the state's top education officials a letter Thursday warning that he plans to use his influence over the budget to pursue an aggressive legislative agenda to fix what he calls an underperforming school system hobbled by bureaucracy.

Officials from several states criticized the scoring of the contest, which favored states able to gain support from 100 percent of school districts and local teachers» unions for Obama administration objectives like expanding charter schools, reworking teacher evaluation systems and turning around low - performing schools.

New York Police Commissioner William Bratton said he thinks Los Angeles officials engaged in a «significant overreaction» by deciding to close the nation's second - largest school system.

New York City school officials received the same bomb threat early Tuesday that prompted the closure of the Los Angeles school system, but police quickly concluded that it was a hoax.

The chief executive of Chicago Public Schools wrote a letter Monday that school officials sent home with every student in the system attacking Illinois Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner and President Donald Trump.

Today the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System along with local officials and students from the Jewish Community Center and Bennett Park Montessori School kicked off «Read Aloud 15», a new campaign which encourages adults to read aloud to a child for 15 minutes every day.

New York school officials received the same bomb threat that prompted Los Angeles authorities to order the unprecedented cancellation of all classes across its massive school system — but quickly...

City officials bought six residential properties within the site and built special caps and vapor - control systems at the schools.

Officials gathered this morning to dedicate the 46,000 - square - foot University Technology Center, which supports both the growing health system and the region's medical school.

The informal relationship built on shared research interests and successful scientific collaboration was formalized in 2015, when LJI entered an official affiliation agreement with UC San Diego Health System and the UC San Diego School of Medicine.

Eagle County officials overhauled their plan recently, and teachers in the 82,000 - student Baltimore school system last month rejected...

In short, I think the work of teaching is so extraordinarily complex and teachers are so tightly woven into the fabric of school communities that any attempt by faraway federal officials to tinker with evaluation systems is a fool's errand.

State education officials and local school districts are working to use technology money from the federal economic - stimulus package to develop initiatives that do everything from consolidate data systems to create high - quality digital content for school laptops.

A new peer - review system to allow schools to assess each other has been encouraged by a senior official, at the Association of School and College Leaders annual conference.

Under yesterday's system, school boards were needed to keep watch over the superintendent, assistant superintendents, and other district officials as they managed the school system.

In these cities, there is now a single, publicly accountable official in charge, rather than nine wannabe mayors immobilizing the school system with their petty squabbles, power grabs, and turf protecting.

State officials and courts have already grappled with many of these issues, and creating a federal right to education would destabilize policies and decisions that have shaped local school systems for generations,» they say, noting that unlike the federal Constitution, all 50 state constitutions contain provisions that explicitly address education.

Officials at the Center for Economics and Law Charter School, a finance immersion school for 9th and 10th graders, voluntarily closed their school Oct. 28 after learning that its fire - alarm and sprinkler systems were not working, said Barbara Grant, a spokeswoman for the 214,000 - student disSchool, a finance immersion school for 9th and 10th graders, voluntarily closed their school Oct. 28 after learning that its fire - alarm and sprinkler systems were not working, said Barbara Grant, a spokeswoman for the 214,000 - student disschool for 9th and 10th graders, voluntarily closed their school Oct. 28 after learning that its fire - alarm and sprinkler systems were not working, said Barbara Grant, a spokeswoman for the 214,000 - student disschool Oct. 28 after learning that its fire - alarm and sprinkler systems were not working, said Barbara Grant, a spokeswoman for the 214,000 - student district.

U.S. District Judge Clarence Cooper last week ordered officials in the Cobb County school system to remove the stickers immediately.

The Burgin school district's $ 100,000 budget deficit, which officials there attribute to the loss of 50 students in the 368 - student system over the past three years, has forced the school board to cut a janitorial position, trim the athletic budget, freeze salaries, and raise property taxes.

A school - system spokesman, Elliott Alexander, said that the system is relying on city and state officials to follow through on promises of additional funding to help them continue operating through the...

Texas education officials have announced a sweeping review of test security and a new monitoring plan for the state accountability system after a newspaper investigation alleged that assessment results for hundreds of schools throughout the state — including one celebrated elementary school in Houston — showed evidence of cheating and other irregularities.

School officials are talking with administrators at the local hospital, Owensboro Mercy Health Systems, to determine whether the hospital will help fund the change to a fitness program, he adds.

An official of the school system, who asked that he not be named, said that if an investigation by a five - member committee substantiates the allegations on a case - by - case basis, the Los Angeles school board will likely dismiss the 84 teachers and three principals implicated in the scheme.

Education officials are already experimenting with new systems, and hopefully by the time Congress decides to move forward with a reauthorized ESEA (Elementary and Secondary Education Act), there will be strong competency - based accountability systems to incorporate, particularly at the high school level.

California's new system for ranking its schools has hit a major snag, sending state administrators back to their computers for recalculations of the official numbers released last month.

Others have suggested leaving a government - operated school system intact, but putting different people — mayors, [3] appointed boards, or state officials [4]-- in charge and using performance standards to focus the attention of educators on student learning, not distracting rules.

The next year, with 10 computer systems, school officials «limped along» without extended - warranty coverage to protect against malfunctions, Mr. Curtis said.

Come fall, those officials — two of whom are Hmong and were refugees themselves in the 1970s — expect that their school system may enroll about 1,000 children from the Thai camp.

Ryan and other defenders of «benign» racial sorting, in contrast, insist that the use of remedies originally available only to judges charged with dismantling an entrenched racial caste system in the South should also be available to public officials presiding over school systems that have not violated the Fourteenth Amendment.