Sentences with phrase «schools and systems move»

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On Monday, just hours before a scheduled press event about GE's move, the industrial giant pledged to invest $ 25 million in the city's underfunded public school system by creating a career lab and other resources.

For instance, in Weston, Mass., most homes lost value during the downturn, but a select few lower - priced homes maintained their value because the town has a very good school system and there's always demand at the low end of the market from families looking to move in, Weiss said.

On the other hand, I think completing the move to the metric system is probably far more important right now in making us competi.tive, not to mention increasing magnet schools, de-emphasizing sports and ensuring that only those who want and are ready for children have them.

Education was being placed under the control of the state and was becoming secularized, but on the frontiers of white settlement, especially in the United States, those moved by their Christian faith were founding most of the institutions of higher learning and were even responsible for much of the public school system.

She taught school in the Texas school system before moving to Nashville, TN in 1980, where she became a Leader with La Leche League International, an educational and support organization for breastfeeding mothers.

We heartily agree, but for all our talent and determination, my school community's been unable to move the system itself.

Here's the back story: when it comes to health and wellness initiatives, Nettelhorst, my neighborhood public elementary school, has moved mountains: we successfully lobbied to become a Healthy Choice Pilot School, giving us one of the system's coveted salad bars, honored by the Healthy Schools Campaign and U.S. Senator Dick Dschool, has moved mountains: we successfully lobbied to become a Healthy Choice Pilot School, giving us one of the system's coveted salad bars, honored by the Healthy Schools Campaign and U.S. Senator Dick DSchool, giving us one of the system's coveted salad bars, honored by the Healthy Schools Campaign and U.S. Senator Dick Durbin.

Stefani spent her high school years moving from family to family in the Phoenix, Arizona foster care system, and Luis» family was in Mexico.

Miller Place is the first Long Island district to publicly acknowledge the posting of armed security personnel since the Feb. 14 shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that killed 17 students and teachers but other local systems are moving in that direction.

«The expansion of the academies and Free Schools programme, regardless of any evidence to show that it is the solution to raising attainment in schools, is a wrong move and will lead to a two tier education Schools programme, regardless of any evidence to show that it is the solution to raising attainment in schools, is a wrong move and will lead to a two tier education schools, is a wrong move and will lead to a two tier education system.

«If we are going to move our school system forward, we need a policy where parents have a voice, where there are real checks and balances, where everybody has to prove their points and convince others before policy is made or changed.»

Pendleton said this was a «political move of the majority going from security in the school system to changing polling places and redistricting which is clearly a violation of laws.»

But that same message led to the Tuesday shutdown of the Los Angeles school system — a move de Blasio suggested was inappropriate, and Bratton said was «a significant overreaction.»

The message that PROSE teachers delivered, he said, was: «We are moving our school system forward, and we would like your support.»

This law would set up a more flexible and functional system to allow the state to move in and appoint a caretaker school board if the NYS Schools Chancellor determines that the current one is not acting in the district's best interest, and a caretaker fiscal director to correct budgetary issues.

Bloomberg has repeatedly argued that failing to repeal the law and establish a system based on merit immediately would be devastating to schools as the city moves forward with a plan to lay off 4,666 teachers, which is set to begin as early as this spring.

«Now that Ms. Black and Mr. Polakow - Suransky have been approved by State Education Commissioner Steiner, I hope we can move forward on the many challenges the system faces, including creating a curriculum that will give students a well - rounded education, new and better interventions for struggling students, and early action to turn around failing schools,» he said in a statement.

White stated that the move was made to address an education system in Ramapo which he says is failing, specifically mentioning a 50 percent graduation rate for Hispanic students and private school placements which the organization stated was discriminatory and illegal.

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.

When the family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and couldn't afford to buy a home in suburban Shaker Heights, which boasted one of the country's best school systems, Robert Black decided it would be better to rent than to own until his younger son graduated from high school.

«The team will further evaluate the long - term biocompatibility of the modified insulin system in an animal model before determining whether to move to clinical trials,» says co-author Dr. John Buse, professor of medicine at the UNC School of Medicine and director of the UNC Diabetes Care Center and the NC Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute.

For an understanding of how nuclear plant safety is assessed and will likely be evaluated moving forward, Scientific American spoke with Najmedin Meshkati, a professor of civil, environmental, industrial and systems engineering at the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering in Los Angeles.

About me: Hi my name is Douglas but ppl just call me Doug or Dougie i am a senier at the westport high school and it looks like i am going to graduate and move on to college i want to go to BCC for computer information systems game dev / game creation program i

I just retired from the Navy and moved back out to AZ, Im attending school for Computer Information Systems and working as a computer tech #NERD!

Watching Nathalie go through the motions of losing touch with modern school system, letting go of her husband and kids who have moved on, trying to connect with today's youth, and hopelessly falling in love with a cat ended up being the very best cinematic experience I've had at the festival, and indeed, the year so far.

Her 1974 book The Great School Wars describes how New York City has played educational three - card monte over its long public school history by moving apparent control over decisions up and down the system, between the central chancellor's office and the local superintendents, but never yielding any fraction of control to the scSchool Wars describes how New York City has played educational three - card monte over its long public school history by moving apparent control over decisions up and down the system, between the central chancellor's office and the local superintendents, but never yielding any fraction of control to the scschool history by moving apparent control over decisions up and down the system, between the central chancellor's office and the local superintendents, but never yielding any fraction of control to the schools.

In an ideal world, transparency would suffice in prompting families to move their students to better schools and encourage the school system to make needed improvements to keep more families from exiting.

With a population of approximately 1,500 students, 60 percent of whom are of color and 71 percent of whom are low - income, RHS is a national example of the type of programmatic systems change needed to move our schools forward.

This issue is at the heart of transformational teaching — finding ways to move effective educational practices and initiatives past the tipping point into the realm where teachers, administrators, and policy makers acknowledge their positive impact and agree on the need to integrate them into school systems.

«We want families to move here and to live here and stay here, and that's pretty hard to do without a strong school system,» said Bliss, now in her second year as mayor.

Superintendent Ramon Cortines said in a news release that the move would save the nation's second - largest school system a projected $ 90 million and an estimated 5,000 jobs.

This potential shift to a fully academised system presents an extensive yet, in NGA's view, underplayed change, one where all schools are effectively moved into the third sector and so bringing about a transformation to governance by trusteeship.

Longer school days, a move toward a less segregated two - pillared system, and a push for standardized national curricula are among the various reforms adopted by the country since their initial low scores on PISA provoked change.

Further, it is unlikely that district authorizers will move beyond the regulatory - driven, compliance - based accountability systems that are the hallmark of public education or the troubling hit - and - miss formation of new schools that is raising questions about the ability of charter schools to deliver improvement on the scale that our country needs.

Education officials are already experimenting with new systems, and hopefully by the time Congress decides to move forward with a reauthorized ESEA (Elementary and Secondary Education Act), there will be strong competency - based accountability systems to incorporate, particularly at the high school level.

When the roof over East High School's gymnasium collapsed here last fall, renovating and repairing the crumbling building moved from a short list of priorities to among the Ohio school system's most critical School's gymnasium collapsed here last fall, renovating and repairing the crumbling building moved from a short list of priorities to among the Ohio school system's most critical school system's most critical needs.

But the 82 - year - old retired school administrator — whose 1977 move to charge the families of undocumented children here $ 1,000 per student to attend public schools sparked a federal lawsuit — has more than made his peace with the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling against him and the school system in Plyler v. Doe.

In New Hampshire's example, for those schools that have yet to move to fully competency - based systems, getting unstuck from the organizational structures and processes that guide them appears just as potent a barrier to innovation in some schools as the state's policies are a gateway to innovation.

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.

The «man with credentials,» Shael Polakow - Suransky, turns out to be a South African native raised in Michigan, who taught mathematics in New York City public schools before moving up the career ladder, to assistant principal, principal, and, in the Klein regime, to an executive position overseeing the district's pioneering system to track student performance.

As Paul Hill, founder of the Center on Reinventing Public Education, has pointed out, we can leapfrog our system of school finance to truly fund education, not institutions; move money as students move; and pay for unconventional forms of instruction.

Alabama overstated its rates because of an administrative oversight, and a recent ProPublica report investigated Florida schools «improving» their graduation rates by moving struggling students to the adult education system.

, chronicled a host of K — 12 school systems that are moving away from the age - old tradition of failing students whose work doesn't cut it, in hopes of keeping students motivated and on the road toward graduation.

According to Building Pathways, a new report by Chris Bierly and Eileen Shay, school systems need to move from leaving great leadership to chance to strategically building an internal pipeline of new leaders.

«With schools facing another year of financial uncertainty, our contribution to the sector is to remove some of the cost burden and to help them move on from the use of outdated systems based around paper and basic Word documents.

For the last ten years — through the Food and Conservation Science Program (FACS)-- my students at Hood River Middle School and I have been designing, building, and operating a permaculture - inspired system that allows the depth, complexity, and ownership required to move from a linear pedagogy to a systems - based approach offering the variables and relevance that my students devour.

We need to move beyond our historic conception of what schooling is to a way of embracing our young people, giving them what they need to be successful, and having systems that differentiate between these young people as much as the healthcare system does, and provides them with the ingredients for success in each and every case.

The move to promote a schools chief from within the system came despite suggestions from some, including Adam Urbanski, president of the Rochester Teachers Association, that the board should have conducted a national search for a permanent leader for the district's innovative experiments in teacher accountability and higher pay.

According to Duncan, «Over 40 states are developing next - generation accountability and support systems,» guided by the CSSOs, and «many states are moving forward with reforms in teacher and principal evaluation and support, turning around low - performing schools, and expanding access to high - quality schools.»

However, according to Annie - May Roberts of First Wave Adventures, change is the biggest challenge teachers and schools are facing today: «Changing systems and moving goalposts are challenging teachers every day.»