Sentences with phrase «school system standards»

If, for example, charter operators did not have to abide by Baltimore City Public School System standards, that would strike a mighty blow against the effectiveness of the collective bargaining unit.

Not exact matches

One theory is that schools» justice systems are not subject to the same standards of evidence and burden of proof as the criminal - justice system.

In the days before the Kansas School Board's August decision to strip the teaching of evolution from state science standards, the presidents of the Kansas university system issued a statement.

Public school systems across the nation are instituting «Common Core» educational standards so as to program children to think along the same lines.

Successful efforts have been made to raise and maintain standards through the formation of the American Association of Theological Schools and its system of accreditation.

Shamrock Foods, a foodservice distributor, recently deployed GS1 standards to satisfy the increasing demands from its customers, notably school systems and health care providers, that require allergen and nutritional information.

• Shake up the parental leave system so fathers can spend more time with kids under two years - old • 25,000 more dads per year to sign their child's birth certificate, to reach international standards and halve the number of those who don't • Dads able to stay overnight in hospital with their partner when their baby is born • Modern and relevant antenatal education for both parents • Dads reading with their children in all primary schools • Family professionals — midwives, teachers, health visitors, nursery workers, social workers — confidently engaging with dads as well as mums, and supporting all family types.

And there are also many, many things we could be doing to encourage children's acceptance of healthier school meals: imposing meaningful restrictions on children's junk food advertising; requiring food education in schools — not just nutrition education, but offering kids a real understanding of our food system, and overtly inoculating them against the allure of hyper - processed and fast food; teaching all children basic cooking skills; getting more gardens into schools; encouraging restaurants to ditch the standard breaded - and - fried children's menu; imposing taxes on soda (and even junk food); improving food access; and so much more.

We can't set standards at the school level that's A.) based strictly on calories and B.) based on kids being overweight because that only addresses less than half of the kids in the school system.

Some of that extraordinary work includes Dougherty County School System training students to harvest, wash, and prep product from their teaching gardens for taste tests and to serve in the cafeteria, Elbert County School District featuring local strawberries on the lunch line from a farm 20 miles away, and Dade County Schools utilizing experiential nutrition and garden - based education to teach Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) standards.

Specifically, the SNA sought to: gut the new whole grain standard from 100 percent «whole grain - rich» to 50 percent; halt further sodium reductions in school food; and revert to the old system under which kids could pass up all fruits and vegetables a lunch, instead of being required to take a half - cup serving.

«In Chicago we would have a lot of problems,» says Phillips, who explained that the huge school system is struggling to adapt to the new nutrition standards.

I was so appalled by a system (called the «nutrient standard» method of meal planning) that would lead to this bizarre result that I began to learn as much as I could about the federal school meal program.

We are educating young people to make sure they understand that high standards are not the problem — school cafeterias where no cooking takes place, the power of processed food industries, and lack of control over our food systems are the real problems.

Safety: In addition to CCSD's safety standards, such as an electronic front - door «buzz - in» security system, this new modified prototypical middle - school design requires all visitor traffic to flow into the front office for an additional level of check - in and verification before entering the main hallway.

The developments at D.C. Central Kitchen converge precisely with the public school system's recent efforts to introduce fresher, healthier foods, as well as the «Healthy Schools Act» approved earlier this year by the D.C. Council, which not only raises nutritional standards for school food but provides bonus funding for every meal that contains a locally grown component.

GMA reached out to Chicago Public Schools, and the system's statement says, «Our nutritional standards are designed to exceed the USDA's gold standard of the healthiest U.S. school challenge guidelines.

Giving parents more power to shape the school system is vital to improving education standards, Education Secretary Ruth Kelly said today.

Children, schools and families bill The bill will raise educational standards by providing guarantees - a series of specific entitlements for parents and pupils on what they can expect from a 21st century schools system and a means of redress if expectations are not met.

A selective system concentrating talent in a few schools would not raise standards across the board or promote social equality, he argued.

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

He added: «If you look overall, not just in Britain but around the world, at those school systems we admire that have got high performance and high standards, from Shanghai to Finland, by and large they don't put their effort into trying to pick which kids they educate; they put their effort into raising standards for all the kids.»

«We started to lead the nation last year by implementing a strong, uniform policy across the SUNY system and this new law ensures that every school — public and private — lives up to that standard.

That's why Tristram Hunt's emphasis on school standards, and Ed Miliband's call for a renewed focus on the «forgotten fifty per cent», including compulsory English and Maths up to the age of 18, is critical to ensuring our education system equips everyone to get a job.

«The teacher evaluation system we have in place already, and it's actually negotiated according to each school district,» Klein said, «but, again, I think it's difficult for them to be judged by the standards of Common Core when Common Core wasn't implemented properly.»

The current secretary of state for education, Nicky Morgan, has spoken recently of her commitment to the «self - improving, school - led system», characterised by bottom - up innovations coming from «networks of schools and teachers collaborating with one another to drive up standards».

«It is clear that if the quality of governance is to improve across the education system, basic minimum standards of governance should apply across all publicly funded schools, not just to those in the maintained sector.»

«Mr. Cuomo's adversarial stance toward teachers borders on disdain,» Astorino wrote of the series of battles Cuomo has had with teachers over everything from Common Core educational standards to an evaluation system to the level of state aid to public schools.

Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza sat down with Errol Louis to discuss his first impressions of the school system, including entrenched segregation, educational standards in Yeshivas and more.

«If you believe in a two - party system of government like I do, then I need to win this election,» said McGrath, who pledged to fight for increased school aid and against Common Core standards.

The new evaluation system will provide clear standards and significant guidance to local school districts for implementation of teacher evaluations based on multiple measures of performance including student achievement and rigorous classroom observations.

Led by Stella K. Kang, a radiologist with the Department of Radiology at the New York School of Medicine, the study was designed to compare the effectiveness of a treatment algorithm for small renal tumors incorporating the nephrometry score, a renal tumor anatomy scoring system developed by urologists, with the current standard of uniformly recommended partial nephrectomy in patients with mild - to - moderate chronic kidney disease (CKD).

The state school education system in SA was segregated along racial lines, and the schools for the coloured population group were not of the same standard as those enjoyed by the white population group.

The knowledge system in schools is ultimately a normative standard that can only be understood in a social and historical context,» explains Lucien Criblez, the overall manager of the SNSF project and since 2008 Professor of Education at the University of Zurich with a focus on historical education research and analysis of education policies.

He is the inventor of the Gustilo Classification System which is part of the standard curriculum of medical schools worldwide.

Conversely, other groups, including Tamil, Chinese and Hindi pupils, perform above national standards at primary — despite having arrived in the school system as late as Year 5.

During the debate over the federal «annual yearly progress» standard, many of the proposals that would have included other indicators as measures of a school's annual yearly progress were simply thinly disguised attempts to eradicate any rigor from the system.

This new analysis finds that some groups, including those with a first language of Pashto, Panjabi, Turkish, Portuguese, Czech and Slovak, perform below national standards in primary assessments — despite having entered the English school system at an early stage as infants.

The syllabus required that I address the history of our current school system, debates over reform, standards and testing, teacher preparation, and more.

He helped 17 school districts implement the state's new assessment system — one of the first in the nation to measure students against a standard rather than a national norm.

In seeking to extend learning beyond the classroom and school it became the case that a system of badging for providers who service the educational demand elsewhere ought to have some form of accreditation to safeguard schools, their students and teachers and confirm that acceptable standards of good practice are being applied at those learning venues.

Parliamentary under secretary of state for the school system, Lord Nash, commented: «The 52 new schools will provide much - needed places and encourage innovation, driving up standards and ensuring even more parents have the choice of a good school place for their child.»

Remarkably, while the school system purports to hold children to a standard of excellence, principals can be removed only if they engage in «persistent educational failure.»

«We should always acknowledge that Australia has a high performing education system by world standards with hard working principals, teachers and good school communities,» Minister Birmingham told ABC Radio.

He said: «If you look overall, not just in Britain but around the world, at those school systems we admire that have got high performance and high standards, from Shanghai to Finland, by and large they don't put their effort into trying to pick which kids they educate; they put their effort into raising standards for all the kids.»

Instead of rating and ranking schools, the feds could develop a system that ensures a minimum standard of quality.

By engaging with designers and architects, NFCC believes schools could be designed to inspire learning, address the broadening requirements being placed upon them as community resources and incorporate this essential fire safety system as standard.

People who dislike what the national standards and assessments do are still compelled to send their children to schools operating under that national system.

State funding systems are not closely linked to desired educational outcomes: despite the fact that all states have adopted educational standards, the commission found that only a few states have developed funding systems that enable schools to teach all students the content of state standards.

Still, many wondered with James Stergios of the Pioneer Institute in Boston whether one can set standards capable of driving high performance nationwide in a country that has great regional disparities in student achievement and a decentralized governmental system (where schools are «radically local,» as one panelist put it).