Sentences with phrase «school systems the power»

Put together, it gives individuals, groups, whole school communities, and school systems the power to get involved in and sustain learning over time.

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Until schools have water and power, the district's custodial and facilities staff can not start cleaning schools, assessing air conditioning systems or begin repairs.

Boosted Fuel Efficiency Standards Coordinated International Response to Financial Crisis Passed Mini Stimuli Began Asia «Pivot Increased Support for Veterans Tightened Sanctions on Iran Created Conditions to Begin Closing Dirtiest Power Plants Passed Credit Card Reforms Eliminated Catch - 22 in Pay Equality Laws Improved Food Safety System Expanded National Service Expanded Wilderness and Watershed Protection Gave the FDA Power to Regulate Tobacco Pushed Federal Agencies to Be Green Leaders Let Space Shuttle Die and Killed Planned Moon Mission Improved School Nutrition Expanded Hate Crimes Protections Brokered Agreement for Speedy Compensation to Victims of Gulf Oil Spill Pushed Broadband Coverage Expanded Health Coverage for Children Helped South Sudan Declare Independence Killed the F - 22

Non-Catholics have grounds for resenting and fearing the tendency of Catholics, when they have the power, to seek control of the public school system to bend it to Catholic purposes.

Entering the season, Baseball Prospectus's PECOTAprojection system cited Francoeur as Kemp's most comparable player, recognizingthe two rightfielders» similarity in power and athleticism; Francoeur was astar defensive back in high school, Kemp was better known for his basketballskills when the Dodgers drafted him.

When Northwestern football players were ruled to be school employees, the potential power of athletes within the NCAA's system sprawled.

The lunch ladies he worked with here — they didn't have the power either, but he got a system up and running for fresh and healthy school food before he went to the British government.

«That's where I learned the power of volume, and I realized that if I wanted to change food, change happens through education and volume, and that's what we have in the school system,» she says.

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.

The school system could use its purchasing power to negotiate discounts on higher quality ingredients that would match what parents are making at home.

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

State takeover would strip de Blasio of most of his power over low - performing schools, which the mayor has argued would be anathema to the system of mayoral control.

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

The new libraries have already been opened for use in the respective schools with facilities such as new furniture, books, computer systems and internet facilities to improve the learning experience of the students, as well as solar powered inverters for consistent power.

Why is it you would use the governor's extensive budgeting powers to force an indefensible, costly, laughable, and quickly repudiated teacher evaluation system onto local school districts but you will not utilize the same budgeting power to force anti-corruption measures onto Flanagan and Heastie?

Mayor Bill de Blasio said that the recently - passed New York State budget is a mixture of «simple pros and cons» and vowed that he will lobby Albany on his proposal to impose a new tax on sales of properties worth $ 2 million and to see his administration's power over the city's school system extended at least another year.

Mr Gove said: «The need to sort out our state education system is urgent, but he won't give schools the powers they need to deal with disruptive children and he won't focus on the fundamentals such as the fact that thousands of children are not taught to read properly.»

Charter school interests that was to see de Blasio's power over the school system weakened and real estate interests that want to see the status quo maintained in the rent laws spent big money to help the Senate Republicans and Cuomo in this election cycle.

The board would have the power over every aspect of the sprawling school system, from budgets to policies to appointments.

Bloomberg made clear earlier Monday that Black will be the boss of the city's school system despite her high - powered number two.

Under «mayoral control» of the city's school system, only Mayor Bill de Blasio has the power to dump Chancellor Carmen Fariña over the scandalous graduation of a high school student who all but begged to fail and other instances of grade - fixing.

It gave former Mayor Bloomberg outsize power over the system, and helped make sure that teachers, parents and advocates had to fight at meetings, on the streets and in the courts to block his efforts to close schools and establish standardized test scores as the only measure of students and teachers.

The Assembly and State Senate closed their 2017 session Wednesday night without renewing Mayor Bill de Blasio's power over the New York City school system — leaving the receivership to expire at the end of this month unless Albany lawmakers reconvene to extend it.

High schools in the U.S. have been using Head Impact Telemetry System technology in football helmets, where six battery powered sensors record the location, force, duration and direction of an impact and send the information wirelessly to a lap top on the sidelines.

«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.

«The goal for our study was to provide a heat transfer and thermodynamic perspective on a system that combines concentrated solar power (CSP) with thermal storage and TPV to show that such a system is worthy of renewed attention,» said Asegun Henry, an assistant professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech.

Long term studies done in the Polish school system in the early seventies revealed that the best anatomical predictor for the capacity to gain strength and power was the girth of the kids calf and then the second best was the girth of the forearm.

The program's success demonstrates that we have the power to change our currently flawed food system, one school at a time.

That said, the game isn't strictly old - school — the game features an innovative battle system, and eight characters with unique powers, strengths, and weaknesses.

«We do not believe there is capacity within the system to withdraw funding and powers for councils to support school improvement and hold schools to account in August 2017 as currently planned by the government.

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.»

In a test of Denver's new system of school - based management, several schools are engaged in what is being called a «power struggle» with the board of education over the right to set testing policy.

Stand for Children exists to challenge the conventional power arrangements of the K - 12 public education system, organizing parents at the grassroots level to advance a school reform agenda.

The sun is shining on public schools throughout the United States thanks to federal, state, and local government funding and incentives and private assistance for installing solar - power systems.

As a result of the legislative activity of the past 20 years, school systems have grown in size and power, under the mistaken assumption that more funding and more authority would give educators the clout and resources they needed to improve achievement.

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.

«You know, the power to use attachments with email is incredible, but with our school's system, you can do it one better.

Understand the instructional core, the power of focusing attention on learning tasks, and the elements of a school or system that support continuous instructional improvement

Until recently, only a small number of schools have had access to the high - powered geographical information system (GIS) software that enables detailed, layered mapping and analysis of data.

The best tactic, therefore, is to sap teachers unions of their power by supporting a competitive charter school system.

America's deeply conservative public education system is striking back at this disruptive innovation, which shifts power from producers to consumers; demonstrates that more can be done with less at the school level; and moves control of resources from central bureaucracies to autonomous schools.

Fedena, the flagship product of Foradian is an open source school management system used in more than 40,000 institutions around the world powering 20 million users.

Michelle A. Rhee, the chancellor of the troubled public school system in the nation's capital, soon will have the authority to fire hundreds of workers in the central office after the District of Columbia Council approved a measure today to grant her that power.

The system's first superintendent, John Covington, adopted an ambitious blended, competency - based model for its schools powered by Agilix's Buzz software.

As a consequence, «the adults «collective employment and political interests» are turning the children's opportunity for learning while in school «on its head» and instead the system is providing job guarantees to teachers as well as «preserving the political power of the Board and the Superintendent.»

The school pays nothing upfront and buys the electricity generated by the system from the investment company more cheaply than grid electricity through a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA).

The state of New Jersey is returning to the city of Newark the power to run its school system.

Admittedly, online learning is spreading more rapidly within the higher educational system than it is among high schools, and that could be due in part to weaker union power and greater competitiveness among colleges and universities.

Additionally, the Scottish government has said it will launch a governance and funding review to examine system changes, which will consider how to give more power to schools through more devolved decision making and funding.

The Finnish education system distributes power and responsibility to create ownership and personalization at the school and classroom level.