Sentences with phrase «school systems risk»

Washington — The new education block grants are a «political football» that state departments of education and local school systems risk fumbling to state legislators and governors around the country unless they act quickly.

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Chief executive, Tim Morfin said: «The reality that kids who are growing up in poverty are four times more likely to be excluded from school just tells us that there is a real risk of a system that isn't fair.»

I've always felt that a high school coach who installs a different system every year to take advantage of his talent runs the risk of spending so much time teaching the new system that he loses ground in other areas.

Regulation 13a.06.08.04 requires each local school system to train each coach in concussion risk and management.

Many school systems only allow students to miss a certain number of days a year, or risk the possibility of being held back.

With one in five high school athletes sustaining a concussion each year, a group of concerned parents created a comprehensive concussion management system to protect youth from the risk of cumulative undetected concussions September 24, 2013 (Chicago, IL...

With one in five high school athletes sustaining a concussion each year, a group of concerned parents created a comprehensive concussion management system to protect youth from the risk of cumulative undetected concussions

The Governor signed a law last year requiring all school districts to implement an evaluation system based on the statewide system approved by the State Education Department or risk losing their increase in education aidresulting in 99 percent compliance (687 out of 691 school districts implemented a system).

Hardly seems worth the money to tie ourselves to a system that, at best, may help already college - bound kids attend marginally better colleges but will likely cause at - risk youths, English language learners and students with disabilities to fail in school in even greater numbers.

Earlier this year, and as part of Race to the Top requirements, the state did direct New York school districts develop their own teacher evaluation systems, known as annual professional performance reviews plan (APPR), lest the districts risk losing additional available state aid.

Schools will be given one year to implement an evaluation system or risk losing educational aid.

Earlier this year, the state did mandate that New York school districts develop their own teacher evaluation systems, known as annual professional performance reviews plan (APPR), or risk losing additional state aid.

The motion, which took party leaders by surprise, said there was a risk that the new schools would increase «social divisiveness and inequity in a system that is already unfair».

There was something for everyone on the menu: using Apple technology, developing research - based practices to teach students in the early grades, engaging students through digital instruction, understanding the new teacher evaluation system as set by state law, preventing high - risk student behaviors and how Community Learning Schools meet the needs of students and their families.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew said the governor's move will ensure that the DOE will implement a new teacher evaluation and support system by this September and New York City schools will not risk further loss of state money.

«Teens are ignorant of the risk of using e-cigarettes, so it has become their new drug of choice,» says Campbell - Heider, associate professor and chair of the Department of Family, Community and Health System Sciences in the UB School of Nursing.

«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.

Texting while driving among high school students: Analysis of 2011 data from the National Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS).

«There are some individual and public health risks with daily dosing of sublingual buprenorphine, such as missed doses and accidental pediatric exposure, as well as the risk of theft or intentional diversion,» said Richard N. Rosenthal, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Medical Director of Addiction Psychiatry, Mount Sinai Behavioral Health System.

«While both bills are improvements — and people may argue about that — it doesn't create a system where we're going to be able to efficiently get the answers about risks of all the chemicals out there,» says David Konisky, an associate professor of public policy at Indiana University Bloomington's School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

«Our results, based on in - depth interviews with seniors and their caregivers, add to a growing body of evidence that this decline in dementia risk is a real phenomenon, and that the expected future growth in the burden of dementia may not be as extensive as once thought,» says lead author Kenneth Langa, M.D., Ph.D., a professor in the U-M Medical School, Institute for Social Research and School of Public Health, and a research investigator at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System.

A recent study by a research team from Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine reveals that the TV Parental Guidelines rating system developed by the entertainment industry more than 20 years ago has been ineffective in helping parents identify shows that contain content that might not be appropriate for children, including tobacco and alcohol use — behaviors strongly associated with increased cancer risk.

«There's no question that constipation that requires straining can put the cardiovascular system at risk by raising blood pressure,» according to a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

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Meanwhile, the game's magic system does away with the concepts of mana pools or the old - school spell tiers, instead existing as a finite resource whose relationship to the party's combat stats introduces a risk - reward question to every battle: Do you cast magic and risk weakening your team, or tough it out?

Yet, given the state of what our culture thinks about math right now, in all of our school systems, I can't risk the possibility that our lowest - income schools don't have access to the same knowledge that their higher - income - level counterparts do.

Cloud based services are fantastic in the commercial world, but could run the risk of schools offshoring 90 per cent of its systems up into the cloud when 90 per cent of the education delivery happens on campus.

Going beyond Risk, the task force calls for «an accountability system with consequences,» such as rewards and sanctions whose result, it is hoped, will be that taxpayers will no longer have to continue paying for ineffective schools.

Gladwell's call to innovation and experimentation in our schools got me thinking about the idea of educational entrepreneurship and how supporting a spirit of adventure and risk within the boundaries of our public school system may allow us to realize more of the gains that we were hoping for rather than more of the same like the past two decades of tight control and, as Gladwell suggests, regimentation.

First, in its rehearsal of the responses, outcomes, and derivatives of Risk, the one advance since 1983 that gets short shrift from Koret (so short that it is virtually unmentioned) is the recent reform focus not just on teachers as linchpins of the education system but on teaching as the very core of what happens in schools and thus of school reform.

The authors of Risk believed that the system was mainly in need of internal reforms: tougher coursework and graduation requirements, higher and more flexible salaries for teachers, a longer school -LSB-...]

If n is too small, statistical reliability is at risk; if n is too big, too few schools and students are held accountable, as those with subgroup enrollments less than n do not participate in the accountability system.

The researchers compared disadvantaged Texas students from successive cohorts within the same school between 1995 and 2000 in order to identify effects when a school encountered a risk point in mathematics under the accountability system.

Creating space for risk begins at the top of any school system.

The threat landscape School systems are threatened by a growing array of risks and dangers that require informed and effective mitigation to avoid the potential loss and damage that can result.

Like most established organizations in other sectors, the education system's inclination when it sees a potentially disruptive technology is to cram it into its existing model to sustain what it is already doing, but not fundamentally transform that model into a student - centric one (the importance of making this transformation should be clearer in light of the ACT's announcement today that 60 percent of 2012 high school graduates are at risk of not succeeding in college and career).

(I've previously noted that the Common Core could weld schools and systems ever more tightly to a one - size notion of grade - level mastery and discourage models that encourage kids to race beyond grade - level material - this is a terrific illustration of that risk.)

Your school should have a water systems risk assessment, which will give details of the necessary actions to minimise the risk, for example weekly flushing of showers.

Recognize that DPS is at risk for financial collapse and develop a plan to replace DPS with a community «portfolio manager» board and superintendent who will see their role as overseeing a citywide system of high - quality schools rather than operating schools directly.

«An Approach to Reducing Risk Through School System Restructuring» by Gary D. Gottfredson and Denise C. Gottfredson, CDS Report No. 10 (August 1990).

Most of the schools in this latest survey did assure the quality of the provision reasonably well, but there are risks involved in this situation, particularly as many of the pupils who attend alternative provision are the most vulnerable and disenfranchised in our education system.»

Secure IT systems and processes are fundamental to this, and adopting Cyber Essentials helps a school to manage its risk and give confidence to parents, staff, students and governors that information safety is taken seriously.»

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.

Without a doubt, the dangerous lack of local oversight of our schools system, and is putting children at risk.»

Colorado requires that 95 percent of students be in a high - risk group before a school can be labeled an AEC and the D.C. Public Charter School Board is considering a proposal based on a «gap» model that would set the threshold at 60 percent high - risk students, while some other states allow schools to bypass conventional accountability systems if their missions focus on serving alternative student populaschool can be labeled an AEC and the D.C. Public Charter School Board is considering a proposal based on a «gap» model that would set the threshold at 60 percent high - risk students, while some other states allow schools to bypass conventional accountability systems if their missions focus on serving alternative student populaSchool Board is considering a proposal based on a «gap» model that would set the threshold at 60 percent high - risk students, while some other states allow schools to bypass conventional accountability systems if their missions focus on serving alternative student populations.

Green Dot founder Steve Barr made the case that schools can't simply expect to teach at - risk students to be patriotic, because these kids haven't seen much from their nation that would incline them to love it — and that these kids need to build trust in the U.S. system before they can be expected to feel attached to it.

Because of the size of city school districts — New York City is the nation's largest school system with 1,189 public schools and 78,100 teachers — urban educators often teach large numbers of at - risk students.

Under such a system, all schools in participating states will need to cover that material in the prescribed timeframe or risk bombing on the assessment.

Such schools serve very high - risk student populations, including those in the juvenile justice system, with substance abuse problems, who are persistently truant, and more.

The authors of Risk believed that the system was mainly in need of internal reforms: tougher coursework and graduation requirements, higher and more flexible salaries for teachers, a longer school day and year.