Sentences with phrase «school was a last resort»

Closing a school is a last resort, but students and parents deserve the right to know how their schools are performing.

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We're not sure what's in the water in Pennsylvania, but after one school district in the Keystone State distributed buckets of rocks around school to pelt shooters as a last resort, and another handed out tiny baseball bats to thwart would - be attackers, we asked readers what you thought of these...

Typically, an expensive lawsuit is a last resort for schools.

* No requirement that high school football programs have «adequate» medical insurance for treatment related to concussions, or insurance coverage provided by the high school or state high school association as a last resort for players who need treatment but aren't adequately insured.

Suspension should be a last resort as it allows many students to fall behind in schools, she said.

Licensed naturopathic doctors are educated at four - year, post-graduate medical schools to start with non-drug approaches to chronic pain management, and use opioid painkillers as a last resort.

I am now so tired of this disease — especially now going to school and stuff — that I am now using something which I have kept for the last resort (because of its dangers in use, drawing stuff it comes in contact with into the body through the skin) called DMSO, which you probably have heard of.

Jobless and broke, and certain that the ivory tower was not my calling, I applied late — and as a last resort — for a Harvard Graduate School of Education doctorate.

These are choices that expand opportunities for the students, but they leave Ballou as effectively a school of last resort for those who don't leave or who are forced to return after struggling academically or behaviorally elsewhere.

«But these are the measures of last resort — and I believe every school must be absolutely clear on the rare circumstances when this would happen — and when it wouldn't.

Attending a regular New York City public high school is usually the option of last resort.

For struggling and harassed students, online schools may be their last resort.

While banning cell phones and calling in the cops might be options of last resort, they won't do much to improve a school's culture.

But, in return for this flexibility, states and districts would be required to give all parents of students in the 15 percent schools the choices we intended, including private school options as a last resort.

My own favorite idea is, «either give Mom and Dad the choices in the law or, as a last resort, assign their per capita amount to the school of their choice!»

After ESAP or other school - referred intervention, if absences continue, the schools can file a petition to the court, although it's considered a last resort.

Traditional public schools are right to complain about being the «provider of last resort.»

«There are lots of options, like siting a «Pod» mobile kitchen on site if there is space, bringing in food from a hub kitchen or as a very last resort offering cold food items that meet the standards for school food.»

«Every Victorian government school has a place to shelter from bushfires as a last resort, and this program will make sure the shelters at 200 schools in the highest fire risk areas are even safer.»

Severe state budget cuts and declining enrollment are forcing urban districts across the nation to consider what often is a last resort — closing schools.

Because of the negative effect that closing schools has on students and communities, PAA believes that schools should be closed only as a last resort, and never as a strategy for «academic improvement.»

While the closure of a school is not an easy decision and always a last resort — the process was extensive, taken with thoughtful consideration, and made final after a thorough evaluation of evidence that demonstrated concerning poor financial health and poor academic results over multiple years.

Each district has signed a memorandum of understanding with local police to ensure that police are called to school for discipline as a last resort, that students» rights are upheld, and that districts keep data on metrics related to discipline and law enforcement referrals.

The report is chilling in its description of how school closures and privatization are destroying America's big cities and turning urban public school systems into institutions of last resort.

England's schools commissioner Sir David Carter told the Commons Education Committee 119 academies had been «re-brokered» as a last resort.

Firing any employee, whether in the private sector or at a public school, is a last resort.

Online schools often become schools of last resort, and for many families they are the only public school alternative available.»

Developing a school culture in which suspension is the last resort rather than the first is achievable, said Morales, using her own school — which serves a low - income, mostly Latino student population — as a prime example.

«In impoverished cities,» Russakoff writes, «the school district with its bloated payroll was often the employer of first and last resort.

But what both sides fail to understand is that desegregation was pursued mostly as a last resort; blacks wouldn't achieve it immediately through the fiscal means (equal funding of schools) simply because of the opposition of Jim Crow segregationist - controlled school boards and legislatures.

School leaders in DC generally agree that suspensions and expulsions should be used as a last resort when disciplining students.

Kim Sweet, executive director of Advocates for Children, a group for students with special needs, said, «what FES seems to say is schools can't be safe if you use suspensions and arrests as a last resort.»

The report, produced by the Council for Court Excellence, found that almost all school administrators interviewed believed that exclusions from school should be a last resort.

Plus, they often face the added problem of attracting a majority of students who come to their school only as a last resort (having practically dropped out of other schools) rather than those who would be attracted to the school because of its philosophical beliefs.

Is this the same alternative high school that served for years, in one administrator's words, as a «dumping ground» and «school of last resort» for students who weren't making the grade in traditional high schools?

One can reasonably infer that, like non - charter schools, there are likely many effective charter schools that reserve suspension as a measure of last resort.

(The state's current partnership pitch to the 38 schools doesn't come with any extra money, either, though an MDE spokesperson says there could be some «last - resort supplemental funding» if Governor Rick Snyder's $ 3 million budget recommendation for the partnership model goes through.)

The final decision to hire new consultants and companies to run the schools was truly a «last resort» for Bennett.

Additional data such as funding levels and school context should be used to make determinations about how the state supports or — as a last resort — intervenes with schools.

High schools are not designed to be interventions of last resort for struggling students.

Powell says 8th graders in 2007 all assumed they would be attending nearby Strawberry Mansion High School, a catchall of last resort for students who don't qualify for an admissions - based high sSchool, a catchall of last resort for students who don't qualify for an admissions - based high schoolschool.

Our qualitative study for the OCC found that excluding a pupil is generally a last resort for schools.

Some schools will push you to expensive private loans, but those should be a last resort.

Typically, an expensive lawsuit is a last resort for schools.

While exact definitions of suspension and expulsion vary across states and school districts, it is clear that what were intended to be last resort and occasional disciplinary tools have become wildly overused and disproportionately applied to children of color, resulting in dramatically negative long - term effects.

That is, the provisions for voluntary income management and the provisions for the last - resort approach for targeted risk areas that are continued in relation to child protection, school enrolment, school attendance and the Queensland Family Responsibilities Commission.