Sentences with phrase «schools and systems requires»

Creating the conditions for high - performing schools and systems requires operational metrics beyond student achievement.

Learning to develop and sustain standards of excellence with genuinely inclusive, equity - focused schools and systems requires leaders to understand the intersection of race, identity, power, and privilege in society and, as a result, in schools.

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The STOP School Violence Act might be just that, although House Republican leaders voiced some support for the Senate's Fix NICS Act, which would only reinforce existing laws requiring state and federal agencies to report to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.

But after 20 children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, the Obama administration tried to add some people to the background check system, by requiring the Social Security Administration to submit records of some beneficiaries with severe mental illness.

On behalf of the Islamic Society of North America, the largest organization of Muslims in the United States and Canada, we would like to request that in view of the above teachings of Islam, Muslim students in your school system should not be required to:

Shamrock Foods, a foodservice distributor, recently deployed GS1 standards to satisfy the increasing demands from its customers, notably school systems and health care providers, that require allergen and nutritional information.

The fundamental goal was to develop a system that satisfied our state law requiring the top 10 % and a valedictorian to be named from every public high school in the state.

And there are also many, many things we could be doing to encourage children's acceptance of healthier school meals: imposing meaningful restrictions on children's junk food advertising; requiring food education in schools — not just nutrition education, but offering kids a real understanding of our food system, and overtly inoculating them against the allure of hyper - processed and fast food; teaching all children basic cooking skills; getting more gardens into schools; encouraging restaurants to ditch the standard breaded - and - fried children's menu; imposing taxes on soda (and even junk food); improving food access; and so much moAnd there are also many, many things we could be doing to encourage children's acceptance of healthier school meals: imposing meaningful restrictions on children's junk food advertising; requiring food education in schools — not just nutrition education, but offering kids a real understanding of our food system, and overtly inoculating them against the allure of hyper - processed and fast food; teaching all children basic cooking skills; getting more gardens into schools; encouraging restaurants to ditch the standard breaded - and - fried children's menu; imposing taxes on soda (and even junk food); improving food access; and so much moand overtly inoculating them against the allure of hyper - processed and fast food; teaching all children basic cooking skills; getting more gardens into schools; encouraging restaurants to ditch the standard breaded - and - fried children's menu; imposing taxes on soda (and even junk food); improving food access; and so much moand fast food; teaching all children basic cooking skills; getting more gardens into schools; encouraging restaurants to ditch the standard breaded - and - fried children's menu; imposing taxes on soda (and even junk food); improving food access; and so much moand - fried children's menu; imposing taxes on soda (and even junk food); improving food access; and so much moand even junk food); improving food access; and so much moand so much more.

Contact the special education department of your local school system, which is required by law to provide assessment and services for children age 3 and older with special needs.

It also requires the Department of Education to develop a procedure to monitor and measure implementation of a local school system's wellness policy monitoring implementation plan, and provide technical assistance to support local systems in this effort.

Regulation 13a.06.08.04 requires each local school system to train each coach in concussion risk and management.

At Pope John XXIII, teachers are required to fully utilize an online communication system and are creating individual web pages that are connected to the school's site while parents at Avery Coonley look inside their student's «Smart Folder» to see a slide show of their child's daily classroom experience.

Specifically, the SNA sought to: gut the new whole grain standard from 100 percent «whole grain - rich» to 50 percent; halt further sodium reductions in school food; and revert to the old system under which kids could pass up all fruits and vegetables a lunch, instead of being required to take a half - cup serving.

Many school systems require high school students to do volunteer work in order to graduate — and helping a new mother (for free) counts.

Safety: In addition to CCSD's safety standards, such as an electronic front - door «buzz - in» security system, this new modified prototypical middle - school design requires all visitor traffic to flow into the front office for an additional level of check - in and verification before entering the main hallway.

In his letter, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R - Suffolk County) accused the school system of failing to comply with state education law by not submitting the required forms showing a building - by - building breakdown of how it spends local, state and federal funds.

Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina has encouraged parents to «get more involved in their child's education» by joining the councils — which are required by state law to give input and oversight in a school system controlled by Mayor de Blasio.

Cuomo has proposed an extra $ 1 billion in school aid, but only if lawmakers agree to revamp the state's new teacher evaluation system and require more experience for teachers to qualify for tenure.

Some aspects of the rating system would be optional, so they would require negotiations between school districts, teachers and principals» unions.

Passed by the Council last July after extensive work by Councilman Cornegy along with parents and organizers from StudentsFirstNY, Avonte's Law required the Department of Education (DOE) to conduct a system wide survey of school buildings to evaluate the need for additional safety equipment.

In fact, she says that they are required to select from a lottery system and actually bounce fewer students from school than ordinary public schools.

What we would like to see is a system of cooperation and collaboration between parents, schools and the local authority to ensure that any school which requires assistance is given the necessary support.

«That includes this year's landmark achievements to fully fund the Environmental Protection Fund and the new law just signed to require schools statewide to test their drinking water systems for lead contamination.

Although many schools throughout the New York City school system choose to require uniforms, the New York City Department of Education (DOE) does not require students to wear uniforms as part of its code of conduct and instead applies a voluntary uniform policy.

Yet in education, health and local government, the Government has increasingly specified from the centre not only an extensive system of targets which schools, NHS bodies and local councils have been required to achieve, but has typically specified how it expects local institutions to operate.

... Almost a third of schools inspected between September 2012 and June this year fell into the «requires improvement» category following the introduction of the new system, according to figures released today.»

STEM - focused high schools are important because they constitute the first U.S. science and mathematics reform that requires whole - school transformation rather than tinkering with peripheral components of an outmoded educational system or serving just a small, select segment of the public school population.

They agreed to «accept responsibility for the conditions under which the laboratory was operated,» to create a law school scholarship in Sheri's name and to establish, in all the chemistry labs on all of the system's 10 campuses, an extensive program of required safety training and compliance for all lab workers.

Context is also lacking in his September 3 column, where he noted, «The federal system uses a single yearly proficiency goal - for North Carolina, 68 percent of students reading on grade level this year - and requires all schools to make that number.»

The syllabus required that I address the history of our current school system, debates over reform, standards and testing, teacher preparation, and more.

It discounts real improvements in the city's school system, ignores the tremendous challenges facing some of the city's secondary schools, and distracts from the hard work required to graduate students truly qualified for what comes next.

How we got from a state constitution requiring that the legislature «provide for the maintenance and support of a system of free common schools, wherein all the children of this state may be educated» to laws taking away the right of citizens to determine what they spend for that «free» education is a long and hard legal and policy road.

The system also requires examining funding, training, minimizing the burden of assessment on students and schools, and integrating health concerns of children as well.

The pilot will also ensure systems are in place to share appropriate information between CAMHS and schools, shared care arrangements are agreed for those young people requiring more intensive support, and that arrangements are in place to escalate / de-escalate as the young person's needs dictate.

Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Richard Niehaus ruled this month that the education department failed to conduct legally required hearings before implementing the Educational Management Information System, which was designed to gather demographic data and achievement scores for individual districts and schools.

She notes that supporting teacher professional learning, a funding system more tightly targeted to high needs schools, and policies requiring all schools to take a percentage of disadvantaged students would be a good place improve the system.

If an additional level of support was required, schools could also explore pro-active remote services which are focussed on freeing up network teams by performing automated or standardised tasks such as system updates and security checks; tasks which are necessary, but often overlooked when network teams are busy firefighting more pressing issues.

The threat landscape School systems are threatened by a growing array of risks and dangers that require informed and effective mitigation to avoid the potential loss and damage that can result.

But decision makers at all levels — from students and parents to school leaders to system managers and governments — require dependable information about current levels of achievement to guide future action.

NCLB dramatically expanded the law's scope by requiring that states introduce school - accountability systems that applied to all public schools and students in the state.

In their legal complaint, they claim that the credits violate state constitutional provisions forbidding public spending on religious schools and requiring a «uniform» public school system.

Smarick is surely right that the transition from the monopolistic system of geographically assigned district schools to a market in education will require «new policies» and «a new understanding of the government's role» in education.

Either high schools will really have to embrace family incentives by becoming significantly smaller and more informal, or they will have to admit that they are large, modern organizations that require explicit systems of rewards and sanctions to enhance productivity.

Even if they are enacted, however, they will face an uphill battle absent broader reforms to teacher compensation systems — reforms that may be encouraged from Washington but will ultimately require action by state legislatures and local school boards.

It would require state accountability systems to designate schools and districts based on their performance against these targets (so there would be a bit more flexibility than NCLB or waivers).

Arne Duncan has also espoused the wisdom of looking at progress over time, yet his ESEA waiver rules require state accountability systems to take proficiency rates into account — those are expected to be the drivers in identifying «focus» and «priority» schools.

Under this program, tens of thousands of students were required to attend summer school, thousands who did not master basic skills were held back rather than being promoted as was traditional in most school systems, and more than 100 schools were put on probation for low test scores.

It engages school districts and school sites in the team building and consensus building required to produce a coherent system of discipline management.

about mayoral control, non-educators running public school systems, Klein's legacy, and who Cathie Black was — and wasn't; we saw Steiner appoint an eight - member panel of experts to advise him on whether to grant a legally - required waiver to non-educator Black, Checker call the need for a waiver «antiquated,» the special panel recommend no waiver, polls showing New Yorkers opposing Black, a flurry of celebs — including Gloria Steinem and Whoopee Goldberg — weighing in to support her, Steiner losing sleep.

The proposed changes would lead to poorer educational outcomes and require thousands of children (some as young as four) to travel long distances on inadequate road systems to school every day;