Sentences with phrase «schools across the country start»

I know that many schools across the country start even sooner than that.

introduced a congressional resolution that recommended high schools across the country start at 9 a.m. — but it died in committee.

I would say that in Algeria, the government has eamarked an important budget for retrofitting schools across the country starting year 2008.

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Like so many other schools across the country, our transition to lay leadership started some time ago, and we are prepared.

Teachers all across the country are soon going to be packing in their lunches between lunchroom duty and recess as school starts for the new year.

My Healthy School Sponsored by Kiwi magazine, this helpful website is dedicated to providing teachers, administrators, parents and students with resources on how to improve the health of schools across the country — with action plans for parents, suggested nutrition goals, advice for starting a school garden, and strategies to minimize environmental tSchool Sponsored by Kiwi magazine, this helpful website is dedicated to providing teachers, administrators, parents and students with resources on how to improve the health of schools across the country — with action plans for parents, suggested nutrition goals, advice for starting a school garden, and strategies to minimize environmental tschool garden, and strategies to minimize environmental toxins.

I read Janet Poppendieck's «Free for All: Fixing School Food in America», and also became more aware of the wide variety of challenges across the country as we started to follow the process of the implementation of the new regulations.

Schools across the country are utilizing various locations and methods to reach more students and ensure every child starts their day with a balanced, nutritious breakfast.

The requirements and laws about starting kindergarten vary across the country, but local school districts often post their own kindergarten readiness requirements on their websites.

Starts up kits have been given to people across the country to start businesses while schools have benefitted from donation of educational materials and clothing.

Parents and activists across the country have rallied around Kiarre Harris, the Buffalo mother who says her children were taken from her because she started home schooling them.

The rally, started in the aftermath of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting on February 14, will be held in Washington, D.C. Thousands of students from across the country are expected to be at the rally.

Spring football practice started this month for high schools across the country, and teams are drawing up game plans for the heat as well as this fall's opponents.

They've put together a toolkit that helps people either start or join a school garden, so really, this great program now can be taken into communities across the country.

When Jonny and I first started dating, and he was in school across the country, I would dress up (boots, accessories, the whole nine) for my 4 + hour plane ride to go see him just to be disheveled and uncomfortable after a half day of travel.

She reminded me that what I was doing — moving across the country, starting my first job out of school and a new life — was brave and when we make those brave decisions, it pays off.

Pupils across the country have enjoyed a fresh start for 2016 as they returned to state ‑ of ‑ the ‑ art new school buildings funded through the government's flagship rebuilding programme at the start of January.

In this spirit, we are starting to see more and more makerspaces springing up in schools across the country.

Started by a school in Washington, D.C., as a homegrown repository for screencast lessons by their best teachers, they got funding to go big, and now teachers across the country can participate.

Pupils across the country have enjoyed a fresh start for 2016 as they returned to state - of - the - art new school buildings funded through the government's flagship rebuilding programme at the start of January.

Since the programme started in 2012, Historic England has provided direct support to more than 600 schools, and training to 3000 teachers and trainee teachers, reaching more than 500,000 schoolchildren across the country.

The couple hopes that the Ed School will become a laboratory for innovative ideas, which will be tested in Cambridge and then spread to urban areas and school districts, starting in Boston and eventually expanding across the country and the School will become a laboratory for innovative ideas, which will be tested in Cambridge and then spread to urban areas and school districts, starting in Boston and eventually expanding across the country and the school districts, starting in Boston and eventually expanding across the country and the world.

The school year has started, and teachers across the country are excited to try out all the cool new tools they learned about during their «summer off.»

The issue of whether to introduce a uniform school starting age across Australia has been put under the spotlight again as the country's peak primary principals» association revealed a plan to introduce a standard national starting age of five - and - a-half.

Currently the various states and territory education departments control how old a child must be upon starting school and that age varies widely across the country.

Years ago, most computer science classes were being taught in comfortable suburban settings or in after - school programs, but since we started Code.org in 2013 we've seen success in places like New York City and Oakland, and more broadly across the country.

When the 2015/2016 academic year started this September, thousands of school children across the country stepped foot inside new school buildings for the first time.

In 2011, with the blessing of then - Chancellor Dennis Walcott and Mayor Bloomberg, I left to start New Classrooms as a national, non-profit organization to further develop the idea and make it available to schools across the country.

At a time when charter schools account for 10, 25, even 45 percent of public school enrollment in urban areas, this represents thousands of students across the country who won't start the school year with the teachers they need.

In order to achieve this, the Commission suggests the government should mandate all schools in the ten lowest performing local authorities to take part in area - wide programmes, as well as reform the training and distribution of teachers across the country and create new incentives — including better starting pay — to get more of the highest - quality teachers into the schools that need them most.

The start of construction at Pyrford Primary School is a key milestone for the first phase of the Priority School Building Programme which is investing # 2.2 billion to rebuild or refurbish 260 schools in the worst conditions across the country.»

In 2000, Gap founders Doris and Don Fisher donated $ 15 million to start the KIPP Foundation, with a goal of replicating Feinberg and Levin's charter school model across the country.

A select number of schools across the country will start trialling the multiplication tables check from next month.

The goal for Cristo Rey (part of the Cristo Rey Network which runs about 12 similar schools across the country) is to get kids off the streets and into college, as well as to have them start thinking about a professional career.

Some charter schools and traditional public school districts across the country have started to retool their approach.

Starting with La Crosse, Wisconsin, in 1979, a handful of school districts across the country have rejected traditional school boundaries and instead have created boundaries that encourage diverse schools.104

Because the Gates - McGinitie is nationally normed, we can show that struggling students in RAISEup Texas schools (solid lines) had ten times as many point gains over the year as their nationally - normed peers from across the country who started at the same level (dotted lines).

A starting point School boards across the country strive to capture the essence of their work through a district mission statement.

Just a few weeks before the start of the school year, parent Cynthia Ramirez today joined California Congressman George Miller and Ben Austin, executive director of Parent Revolution, to celebrate National Parents Day (tomorrow) and to highlight efforts of parents across the country who used parent trigger law to improve their children's schools.

The energy behind private - school choice got a major boost in 2010, when the GOP started making gains in statehouses across the country.

By contrast, Early Head Start teachers do not even have to have a bachelor's degree, and the standards for caregivers at scores of unaffiliated day care centers across the country are typically low — with just a high school diploma and some short training courses considered sufficient.

How do charter school opponents and proponents across the country and in Philadelphia stop warring and start cooperating in the interests of children?

Public charter schools across the country were started with the promise of being alternative, quality options for parents to choose for their children.

To start the conversation, use the New York Times article 7 Times in History When Students Turned to Activism as a basis for helping your students place into historical context the efforts of Parkland survivors and youth activists across the country to raise awareness and call for change in school safety measures and gun legislation.

As teachers across the country start a new school year, lawmakers in South Carolina are brainstorming ways to keep their teachers happy.

Test Drive: New Hampshire teachers build new ways to measure deeper learning Schools across the country are watching as some New Hampshire schools start relying less on standardized testing and more on performance - based assesSchools across the country are watching as some New Hampshire schools start relying less on standardized testing and more on performance - based assesschools start relying less on standardized testing and more on performance - based assessments.

In a written statement, they said: «In the summer we wrote to Copland Community School to confirm that we expect to start working with them between July and September 2014... «Copland is one of 261 schools across the country in the worst condition that were successful when applying to the programme.

One reason D.C.'s education reforms attracted significant attention across the country was their timing: DCPS started using IMPACT to evaluate teachers during the 2009 — 2010 school year, just as the education reform organization The New Teacher Project (TNTP) released a report recommending that districts develop evaluation systems that rate teachers «based on their effectiveness in promoting student achievement.»

Because if parents really want to know if their local school is helping kids learn — instead of empty reassurance that their artificially inflated test scores means they moved to the right school district and their property values will hold — then they need to start demanding one high bar for proficiency across the country.

This report shows how disparities in school attendance rates starting as early as preschool and kindergarten are contributing to achievement gaps and high school dropout rates across the country.