Sentences with phrase «schooling decisions based»

While scholars and advocates can and do pore over less - definitive types of evidence, hundreds of thousands of parents make practical schooling decisions based on information they gather through word of mouth, campus visits, and the rankings available on online platforms such as GreatSchools.

Not exact matches

«My biggest concern is people who put serious weight into these rankings, make decisions about where to choose to apply, where to go to school, what tuition to pay when there's so little tangible, evidence - based information that lies below that ranking.»

FOR Perth - based white board manufacturer Hans Fruh, a decision to visit the Middle East and try his hand with cold calls to office and school equipment suppliers listed in the local «yellow pages» has paid off handsomely.

Check with the applicable school district prior to making a decision based on these boundaries.

I certainly hope that local governments aren't making schooling, bussing, or housing decisions on the basis of the ethnicity of their constituents!

I would be happy to research that for you, but have to ask, what will you base your final decision on: having that extra bedroom or having your children attend the schools you (and they) prefer?»

These are some of the principles on which the schools of thought based their decisions: all things are fundamentally allowable, unless specifically prohibited; toleration and the lifting of restrictions should be the aim of legislation; eradication of mischief is the aim of administration; necessity permits benefiting by things not otherwise allowable; necessity is given due appreciation; preventing mischief has priority over bringing about welfare; commit the lesser of two evils; mischief is not removed by mischief; one should suffer private damage to avert general disaster.

That said, the reason many Old Catholic and Independent Catholic denominations have avoided the pedophilia scandals has more to do with the form of governance (synod - based decision making, laity inclusive or laity directed), recognition that clergy are mere humans with a special calling and ministry (as opposed to «always to be obeyed» representatives of the «monarchy» / Vatican and king / Pope), clergy are often members of the community at large (married or not, they have homes, careers, and lives outside a rectory), and the fact that clergy have not been brought up in seminary / parochial schools as young boys where they learned how to be abusers because they were abused themselves, but in homes.

Writing in the Baylor Law Review before the Romer decision, David Smolin of Samford University Law School argues that the present Court» rejecting «religiously based» claims as inherently particularistic» is increasingly dismissing «traditional theists» as too absolutist to join in public debate in a pluralistic society.

Therefore, they contended that a lower federal court in Little Rock had no constitutional authority to order the desegregation of public schools in Arkansas on the basis of the Brown decision.

When it came time to attend college, he based his decision on a number of factors, including points given for a school's style.

But if it's Kentucky or any other school — if it's Kansas or Oregon or Florida State or any of them — he just has to make a decision based solely on what makes him happy.»

The NCAA tries hard to prevent people from using recruits to get jobs — and to keep schools from making hiring decisions based on which parent, uncle, or high school coach might give them the best shot to land some particular recruit.

The problem is that there is no uniformity in the forms being used: the decision is made on a school - by - school, program by program basis.

In the end, it all comes back to education: In the ideal world, a parent's decision about whether to allow a child to start playing or continue playing collision sports before high school under current rules of play (which are evolving in the direction of safety, fortunately, as seen, for instance, in USA Hockey's ban on body checking at the Pee Wee hockey level and below, and limits on full - contact practices instituted at every level of football, from Pop Warner, to high school, college, and the NFL), will be a conscious one; a decision in which the risks of participating in a particular sport - provided it is based on the most up - to - date information about those risks and a consideration of other risk factors that might come into play for their child, such as pre-existing learning disabilities (e.g. ADHD), chronic health conditions (e.g., a history of history of multiple concussions or seizures, history of migraines), or a reckless and overly aggressive style of play - are balanced against the benefits to the child of participating.

An Orland Park Village Board committee delayed a possible decision on the matter until its Feb. 26 meeting, saying it wanted to ask the Orland Park - based school district to agree to allow the larger Sandburg High School campus to be annexed asschool district to agree to allow the larger Sandburg High School campus to be annexed asSchool campus to be annexed as well.

I was lucky enough to get Arabella to agree to an interview for Love Parenting, in which she shares how she made the decision to walk away from her dream of sending Iris to school and choose interest based home education instead.

It is these opportunities for us to truly meet each other that led Rudolf Steiner to demand non-hierarchical republican structures and consensus based decision making for our Waldorf schools.

Backed by evidence - based policy and funding decisions, school nutrition professionals, advocates, students, and families have driven this progress, and in seven years, they have fundamentally remade school meal programs for America's kids.

The free for all school meals cover pupil with special nutritional needs and based on decisions by the provider of the education, also needs related to ethical and religious beliefs.

I agree that PTAs & PTOs can help dictate school based decisions.

Read the OSA's decision: https://humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/AD2410The-London-Oratory-Hammersmith-Fulham-28August13.docx Read the BHA's previous press release on the OSA decision: https://humanism.org.uk/2013/08/29/schools-adjudicator-london-oratory-school-must-overhaul-admissions-criteria-after-bha-complaint/ Read the BHA's press release on the threat of judicial review: https://humanism.org.uk/2013/11/05/london-oratory-school-challenges-schools-adjudicators-decision-must-rewrite-admissions-policy/ Read more about the BHA's campaigns work on «faith» schools: http://www.humanism.org.uk/campaigns/religion-and-schools/faith-schools View the BHA's table of types of school with a religious character: http://www.humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/schools-with-a-religious-character.pdf The British Humanist Association is the national charity working on behalf of non-religious people who seek to live ethical and fulfilling lives on the basis of reason and humanity.

In its decision, the EC has opaquely said, «After careful analysis of all relevant elements, we have come to the conclusion that the UK has provided sufficient clarification as regards its narrow interpretation of Sections 58 and 60 [the relevant law], which merely enables the faith - based education and is limited to ensure the maintenance of the religious character of the school.

Administrators and boards in many school systems across Long Island and the state expect to face difficult financial decisions because this year's state - imposed cap is at a near - zero base.

«The NYPD makes deployment decisions based on real school - by - school safety evaluations.

Debate still rages over the extent to which British school children are tested, despite the decision by children's secretary Ed Balls to scrap the Key Stage 3 tests and replace them with school - based assessments by teachers.

This written notice will include the specific basis for the determination, the date when the child will no longer be able to attend school in the district, and information about appealing the decision to the New York State Education Commissioner.

You anticipated it and that informed the decision to add 200 new Community based Senior High Schools to the existing stock.

Wednesday's decision states that although 40 percent of a teacher's evaluation can still be based on test scores, half of those tests must be chosen by local school districts through collective bargaining with their union.

In a move widely seen as dismissive of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's education initiatives, Miner and de Blasio on Monday called upon state officials to revise school aid based on the Citizens for Fiscal Equity court decision, which held that New York City schools were inadequately funded.

The BHA has put the data in a spreadsheet for convenience - attached to this email and online at http://humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/List-of-proposed-Free-Schools.xlsx Read the previous BHA press release, «Landmark Freedom of Information victory for BHA vs Department for Education», 15 January 2013: http://humanism.org.uk/2013/01/15/landmark-freedom-of-information-victory-for-bha-vs-department-for-education/ Read the Information Tribunal's decision: http://humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/20130115-Decision-EA20120136-0166-0167.pdf Read more about the BHA's campaigns work on «faith» schools: http://www.humanism.org.uk/campaigns/religion-and-schools/faith-schools The British Humanist Association is the national charity working on behalf of non-religious people who seek to live ethical and fulfilling lives on the basis of reason and humanity.

We have about 30 new NYSUT members that are now sitting on school boards, and what's great about that is they make decisions based on education.

A former Deputy Minister of Communications, Felix Kwakye - Ofosu, has questioned the basis of government's decision to use part of Ghana's oil revenue to finance the free senior high school policy started last year.

His loud and expensive campaign had finally succeeded in passing a bill through the State Senate that would allow for merit - based personnel decisions in the city's schools.

The government's decision to lift the 50 % cap on faith - based admissions to new free schools prompted differing reactions.

Serving on and presiding over various boards, including the New Paltz School Board and the Kingston Hospital Board, has given me opportunities to deliberate with those with sometimes starkly contrasting views and work together to reach consensus - based decisions.

Attacking new teacher evaluation systems that are, for the first time, enabling district public schools to make decisions based on teacher quality, does violence to the cause of improving the quality of education for the overwhelming majority of students who don't attend charter schools.

Professor Alexandra Gerbasi, Director of the Centre for Leadership and Decision - making at Surrey Business School, commented, «With shifts in organisational structures leading to more collaborative, team - based work, it's often assumed that extraverts have an advantage when it comes to achieving success in the workplace, especially in team - based work.

«This starts to shed light on how subconscious processes can affect our decision - making and starts to provide a bit of the neural basis for that,» says George Bush, a research psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School in Boston.

Seniors, ages 65 and older, support a school - based requirement for the MMR vaccine rather than leaving the decision up to parents by a margin of 90 % to 8 %.

The results of this trial study should inform surgical decision making when caring for these complex patients,» said Annetine C. Gelijns, Ph.D., the Edmond A. Guggenheim Professor of Health Policy and chair of the Department of Health Evidence and Policy at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and the principal investigator for the Data Coordinating Center based at Mount Sinai.

Understanding how much society values those future people should be an influential component of climate policy decisions,» said Noah Scovronick, co-lead author and a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University's Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP), which is based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

«Based on our data, which is comprised of gene expression across 16 brain regions, we found that the most distinct region, i.e. the region where we observe more human - specific differences in gene expression, is the striatum, a region involved in motor coordination, reward, and decision - making,» lead author André M. Sousa of the Yale School of Medicine and the Kavli Institute for Neuroscience told Seeker.

I was interested how the brain processes the information about normative concepts in healthy people to extend our understanding of the neural basis of decision making in social conditions,» said study author Oksana Zinchenko, a PhD student at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow.

Based on the comic book of the same name by Daniel Clowes, Terry Zwigoff's film follows Enid (Thora Birch) and Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson), who, as they graduate from high school, respond to a personal ad from a middle - aged record collector as a joke — a decision that changes their friendship.

The Supreme Court based its decision on a lower court's findings that the re-segregated neighborhood elementary schools in Oklahoma City had increased achievement, parent and community involvement, while maintaining equity and integration in the city's schools.

One place to begin is the way in which our secondary schools include students in both classroom and school - based decision - making processes.

Students critiqued both the individual decision - making of peers and the school - based structures that encourage cheating.

«The intervention is a rigorously - designed study that will lead to evidence - based decision making in support of North Carolina public school children.»

The study, «Resegregation and Equity in Oklahoma City,» authored by Jennifer Jellison of the Harvard Project on School Desegregation, examined the assumptions underlying the Supreme Court's 1991 Oklahoma City - based Dowell decision, a landmark decision that for the first time sanctioned a return to segregated schooling by stating that districts may be released from a desegregation order if they had met certain conditions.