Sentences with phrase «school systems applications»

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The district recently sought and has received approval from the USDA to implement an automated system next school year that will match employee salaries against school lunch applications, more easily identifying those that should not have qualified.

He was instrumental in developing New York's successful Race to the Top application and key to designing a new system for the evaluation of teachers and school leaders.

The program, which will offer free SUNY tuition to students whose families earn up to $ 125,000 per year, is expected to increase applications to the system's schools, and it could lead to the need for expanded offerings as well as more instructors to meet the demand.

«The decision to reject the waiver application submitted by Mayor Bloomberg is a tremendous victory for the more than one million children in the New York City public school system,» he said.

Although 250 applications were submitted, only 30 have been approved, and just eight will be ready to open in September... The avowedly social democratic Swedes allowed [profit - making] when they opened up their school system 20 years ago.

Humanists UK will be doubling down on its efforts for a fully inclusive education system, challenging new faith schools applications as they arise.

The competition — a partnership between County Executive Robert P. Astorino and Pace University's Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems — challenged students to create mobile applications to address the needs of the Alzheimer's and Dementia community.

'» It is not hard to picture other problematic scenarios: An autonomous drone strikes a school; a loan - evaluation program disproportionally denies applications from minorities; a system like Deep Patient makes a specious diagnosis.

«A security breach in RFID applications would leak valuable information about physical objects to unauthorised parties,» says Li Yingjiu, Associate Professor at the Singapore Management University (SMU) School of Information Systems.

«We needed to take our previous work further and develop kill switches that are stable in the long run and would also be useful in real - world applications,» said Silver, who is also the Elliot T. and Onie H. Adams Professor of Biochemistry and Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and a member of the Kavli Institute for Bionano Science and Technology.

They connect the dots with the other systems and applications within the school.

Under the system, Teach First removed application information such as: Name, date of birth, address, gender, ethnicity, disability, peer group, primary or secondary school and university.

Instead of asking families to fill out separate applications for each school, the Plan called for a citywide enrollment system that would streamline the process and hopefully make it easier for families to choose higher - performing schools over lower - performing ones.

Only 27 percent of families participate in the common enrollment system (students can simply be assigned to their neighborhood schools without completing an application).

DIVERSE APPLICATIONS South Craven School, a large secondary in North Yorkshire, initially sought to implement an asset tracking system for basic resource management before linking it with portable appliance testing.

On October 7, the day of the next school board meeting and with the board still unaware of Moran's plans (she had e-mailed the plan to her colleagues the night before, but according to Education Week, some board members and Acting Superintendent Watson said they hadn't had a chance to read the application before the meeting), New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin announced that he would ask the governor for help in creating a citywide charter school system.

All were geared toward a system in which «elementary students were provided with career awareness integrated into the regular curriculum; middle - school students explored technology anchored in career applications; and high - school students were provided with early career counseling and assessment, and with structured programs of study, including appropriate work experience and seamless postsecondary articulation.»

a, HSA.REI.C.6, HSA.REI.C.5, High School: Modeling Ontario Curriculum — MPM2D (Grade 10 Academic) • Analytic Geometry 1.1 & 1.2 → Solve linear systems... in real life applications.

A highlight of this cooperation is My School DC, a program making it easier for district and charter parents to choose from the many D.C. school options available through a common lottery application sSchool DC, a program making it easier for district and charter parents to choose from the many D.C. school options available through a common lottery application sschool options available through a common lottery application system.

As reformers and entrepreneurs seek new applications of technology and innovative models of instruction to revolutionize education systems, schools must reassess their comparative advantages.

The appropriate use of resources and applications, such as data management systems, enable schools to streamline this process, reducing the time spent on entry, analysis and sharing of data and reports, and support learning in the classroom.

Whatever the application requirement; be it to add an extra storey to an existing building, rejuvenate an ageing exterior, improve the insulation performance, to clad a new extension so that it fits in with the surrounding school or to clad a new modular building in the factory before it's transported to site, Eurobrick's systems can deliver.

The digital revolution occurring in schools has focused predominantly on online education in its various forms — including fully online courses, learning management systems, games, and mobile applications — to personalize learning and boost the performance of all students.

One fear is that financial considerations will take precedence over sound fire safety thinking, particularly around the application of new building materials and techniques, the use of fire engineering theory and the omission of a suitable fire suppression system in new build schools.

These systems have to be designed so that all schools have the same time frame for applications and admission decisions, and so that they can not be gamed by either schools or applying families.

«What we then did was, from a strategic planning perspective, took every application we had in our school — so, all of our data sets, all of our curriculum materials that were online, our software, all of our videos systems — and integrated them into one system.»

Over half (52 per cent) of secondary school leaders told us they received more applications than they could accommodate for last year's admissions round, and the rate of growth is set to increase at secondary level as the current primary school population moves through the system.

However, Schools Minister Nick Gibb told the Commons Education Select Committee last week that the changes to the initial teacher training system had been «successful» and resulted in higher numbers and speedier applications.

With most families getting one of their top - ranked schools, the number of satisfied parents could give system and school leaders time to improve the application process further as well as the quality of schools offered.

A state shall also include, in its application for grant funds, descriptions of: (1) the state's system for certifying and licensing teachers and school leaders, and (2) how the SEA will encourage opportunities for increased autonomy for teachers and school leaders.

He served as New Jersey's Deputy Commissioner of Education where he helped lead initiatives including the state's successful ESEA waiver and Race to the Top 3 applications, the launching of a new teacher evaluation system, and an overhaul of the department's charter school authorizing.

Ultimately it will be those visions, applications, the judging of the applications, and, most importantly, the execution of the winning visions by the school districts themselves that have the potential to set the country on a path toward transforming the education system into a student - centric one and bolstering the achievement of every child.

In «The New Orleans OneApp,» the research team takes a careful look at the city's unique centralized enrollment system, which enables families to apply for a seat in 89 percent of the city's public schools by ranking their preferred schools on a single application known as the OneApp.

Washington's application included new teacher and principal evaluations; a focus on science, math and technology; and a new school accountability system to force struggling schools to make dramatic reforms.

(Calif.) Confronted with a host of new policies and conditions created by a wholesale restructuring of the school testing and accountability system, local educational agencies submitted 416 waiver applications last year — a 30 percent increase over 2016.

But the fund helped convince most charters that an enrollment system where parents had to submit separate applications to multiple district and charter schools, particularly as options grew, was neither sustainable nor equitable.

New York, March 7, 2012 - A month after Governor Cuomo and union leaders agreed to a new statewide teacher evaluation system, Educators 4 Excellence (E4E) members today unveiled their recommendations to strengthen the evaluation of public school principals, a system required under the state's winning Race to the Top application.

The program is aimed at helping low - income families navigate a complex system of school choice by providing information on all types of schools, helping parents choose the right school for their children and providing support through the application process.

The commission's report also called for a new national system to provide central marketing, applications, screening and initial interviews for school - led training.

He added that potential developers have been put off from creating applications that can be used in schools because of the large costs associated with making them work on different systems.

The steps implemented this year — School Finder, new online systems for OUSD and charter schools, and a single application for nearly all Oakland charters — are not perfect, but they are a good start.

Each program must be based on classroom application of the Florida Educator Accomplished Practices and instructional performance and, for public schools, must be aligned with the district's evaluation system approved under s. 1012.34.

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From the time they enroll, we can provide newcomer students and their families with information — in their home language — about the grade - based promotion system, high school graduation requirements, standardized testing, college applications, high school exit exams, and the process of class programming.

If the state approves Andrews's application this fall, Beta Academy will join the many charter schools that have partnerships with religious institutions that have cropped up in cities across Texas since the charter school system was established in 1995.

For that reason, state law dictates vouchers can only be granted to the 25 private schools and school systems that receive the most applications.

A group of California districts seeking relief from federal mandates under the No Child Left Behind Act have proposed implementing its new system for school improvement this fall, assuming its updated application is approved by July, officials said Tuesday.

He co-authored three chapters in the 2016 International Handbook of Educational Effectiveness, and several articles on the application of high reliability organization processes in the context of schools and school systems.

Since its founding in 2013, thousands of PreK - 12 school systems nationwide have chosen SchoolMint software to streamline all aspects of their student enrollment process — student recruitment, application and lottery management, registration, school choice and unified enrollment, family communications, and year - round digital forms.

(James J. Barta and Michael G. Allen); «Ideas and Programs To Assist in the Untracking of American Schools» (Howard D. Hill); «Providing Equity for All: Meeting the Needs of High - Ability Students» (Sally M. Reis); «Promoting Gifted Behavior in an Untracked Middle School Setting» (Thomas O. Erb et al.); «Untracking Your Middle School: Nine Tentative Steps toward Long - Term Success» (Paul S. George); «In the Meantime: Using a Dialectical Approach To Raise Levels of Intellectual Stimulation and Inquiry in Low - Track Classes» (Barbara G. Blackwell); «Synthesis of Research on Cooperative Learning» (Robert E. Slavin); «Incorporating Cooperation: Its Effects on Instruction» (Harbison Pool et al.); «Improving All Students» Achievement: Teaching Cognitive and Metacognitive Thinking Strategies» (Robert W. Warkentin and Dorothy A. Battle); «Integrating Diverse Learning Styles» (Dan W. Rea); «Reintegrating Schools for Success: Untracking across the United States» (Anne Wheelock); «Creatinga Nontraditional School in a Traditional Community» (Nancy B. Norton and Charlotte A. Jones); «Ungrouping Our Way: A Teacher's Story» (Daphrene Kathryn Sheppard); «Educating All Our Students: Success in Serving At - Risk Youth» (Edward B. Strauser and John J. Hobe); «Technology Education: A New Application of the Principles of Untracking at the Secondary Level» (N. Creighton Alexander); «Tracking and Research - Based Decisions: A Georgia School System's Dilemma» (Jane A. Page and Fred M. Page, Jr.); and «A Call to Action: The Time Has Come To Move beyond Tracking» (Harbison Pool and Jane A. Page).