Sentences with phrase «schools by preference»

Students rank their schools by preference and spaces are first given to those with siblings in the school and then to those who live in the area.

Not exact matches

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The preference for a male may be unspoken or obliquely voiced by search committees, especially in liberal Protestant denominations where «it is totally unacceptable to refuse» pastor candidates because of gender, race or ethnicity and it is «frowned upon» to make age or marital status an issue, said the study, published last year as part of the Pulpit & Pew project at Duke Divinity School.

It is actually a double option which determines Professor Radhakrishnan's explicit and implicit evaluation of religion: his preference for the apprehension of ultimate reality as proclaimed by the seers and sages of India and, within this tradition, his preference for the teachings of the Upanisads in the peculiar interpretation of the Advaita school.

The SEC's options are limited by its presumed preference to expand only to states outside its umbrella, assuming it intends to stick to schools that are at least partially south of the Mason - Dixon.

it's time for schools to stop letting kids call the shots on menu items by focusing on kids» preferences.

By the time the students got to middle school, they were more positive about eating in the cafeteria, seemed to have a preference for produce in season and were conscious that their eating choices could help or hurt the environment, according to the report.

By kindergarten and grade - school, children are socializing more with each other, are developing preferences, and are increasingly picking friends of their own.

Kids are subjected to — what is it, $ 10 to $ 12 billion * of advertising a year worth of targeted advertising — almost all of it for sort of unhealthy foods, so they come to school with preferences shaped by what manufacturers want to sell them.

So far as the Roman Catholic parents I represent in the Ravenscourt Park Ward are concerned they would be pleased if preference was given to their sons for places at the school rather than being nabbed by Islington socialists.

Avella's concern has been echoed by other parents and school advocates, who have complained that Bloomberg's selections for the school boss spot have revealed a preference for businessmen and women rather than those with a background in education policy.

Devoutly wishing to enhance minority students» access to academic and career success, and disdaining universities» self - serving desire to assemble racially diverse student bodies at the expense of young people already shortchanged by inferior K — 12 schools, Sander and Taylor show that large minority admissions preferences are hypocritical and a severe disservice to many able students.

Preference programs are often criticized by opponents who claim that they actually hurt the beneficiaries because they can't compete at the elite schools where they've gained entry.

Founded in 2011 by chief executive (and Harvard Business School alumna) Katrina Lake, Stitch Fix aims to take the guesswork out of shopping by using 85 «meaningful» data points — including style, size, fit and price preferences — as well as qualitative data to serve up items it predicts the customer will actually want to buy.

They select dating preferences filtered by gender, age, distance, industry and school, then swipe through potential matches.

Members are given control over who can access their profiles by filtering through schools, departments, location, age range, and personal attributes according to their preferences.

Local school - board members and school officials who participated in an August survey of their Presidential preference conducted by The American School Board Journal favored President Reagan by a 65 - percent to 32 - percent margin over the challenger Walter Moschool - board members and school officials who participated in an August survey of their Presidential preference conducted by The American School Board Journal favored President Reagan by a 65 - percent to 32 - percent margin over the challenger Walter Moschool officials who participated in an August survey of their Presidential preference conducted by The American School Board Journal favored President Reagan by a 65 - percent to 32 - percent margin over the challenger Walter MoSchool Board Journal favored President Reagan by a 65 - percent to 32 - percent margin over the challenger Walter Mondale.

In focusing on individual school models and putting forth an open call for ideas — rather than insisting on a prescribed list of policy - related preferences — the initiative appeared to depart significantly from the kind of education grant making that has been practiced for the past 15 years by philanthropists such as the Gates, Walton, and Broad families.

Users can compare up to three colleges side - by - side and see how well each school matches a students preferences and academic scores.

This may reflect a parental preference for their children to enjoy school, or it might reflect parental preferences for teachers who emphasize academic facets that increase student satisfaction but are not captured by standardized test scores, such as critical thinking or curiosity.

Parents would express preferences among a cluster of schools, and an algorithm would make matches by balancing personal preferences with the shared civic goal of maximizing socioeconomic integration.

In general, parents who make a request exhibit a strong preference for teachers who have received higher overall ratings by the school principal.

But the fact that schools viewed technology as a «luxury good,» and not as an essential instructional tool, is concerning if these decisions were driven by habit and teacher preferences rather than thoughtful analysis of what is best for students and the most productive use of limited resources.

The key points from each strand are highlighted as follows: Early Identification and support • Early identification of need: health and development review at 2/2.5 years • Support in early years from health professionals: greater capacity from health visiting services • Accessible and high quality early years provision: DfE and DfH joint policy statement on the early years; tickell review of EYFS; free entitlement of 15 hours for disadvantaged two year olds • A new approach to statutory assessment: education, health and care plan to replace statement • A more efficient statutory assessment process: DoH to improve the provision and timeliness of health advice; to reduce time limit for current statutory assessment process to 20 weeks Giving parent's control • Supporting families through the system: a continuation of early support resources • Clearer information for parents: local authorities to set out a local offer of support; slim down requirements on schools to publish SEN information • Giving parents more control over support and funding for their child: individual budget by 2014 for all those with EHC plan • A clear choice of school: parents will have rights to express a preference for a state - funded school • Short breaks for carers and children: a continuation in investment in short breaks • Mediation to resolve disagreements: use of mediation before a parent can register an appeal with the Tribunal

Nevertheless, such pressure is counterbalanced by other, more parochial concerns, such as the preferences of the local school board, superintendent, principals, department chairs, and parents.

Arizona's free education market solved it's problems by allowing administrators, teachers, and parents to find or create schools that fit their preferences.

A federal judge ruled last week that the Arlington County, Va., school system was violating the U.S. Constitution by using racial preferences to admit students to its three magnet schools.

• there is no default assigned school (everyone must choose); • there is a common application; • there is rich, valid, and comparable information on school performance (including test results that incorporate academic growth); • school performance information is clearly presented (including support for less educated parents); and • there is an assignment algorithm that maximizes the preferences expressed by all parents and the resulting school assignment for all students.

It is unclear if this reflects governing agency preferences or the fact that RSD schools are, by definition, previously low performing and therefore may be more constrained by test - based accountability.

The autonomy of private schools and the liberty guaranteed by the Constitution ensure that protecting the rights of people of faith is not merely a policy preference.

According to the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) of 2011 — 12, a nationally representative survey of schools conducted by the U.S. Department of Education, 28 percent of magnet schools give admissions preferences to academically gifted students, three times the rate of charter sSchools and Staffing Survey (SASS) of 2011 — 12, a nationally representative survey of schools conducted by the U.S. Department of Education, 28 percent of magnet schools give admissions preferences to academically gifted students, three times the rate of charter sschools conducted by the U.S. Department of Education, 28 percent of magnet schools give admissions preferences to academically gifted students, three times the rate of charter sschools give admissions preferences to academically gifted students, three times the rate of charter schoolsschools.

Further, when told that a voucher system either could help public schools by making them compete or hurt them by reducing their funding, preference for only funding public schools rises to 67 %, compared to 26 % support for vouchers, a 41 - point gap.

In practice, about a fifth of lottery winners never attend a charter school, and some lottery losers eventually end up in a charter school (by entering a future admissions lottery, gaining sibling preference when a sibling wins the lottery, or moving off a waitlist after the offers coded by our instrument were made).

A 2008 survey by Harvard University's Program on Education Policy and Governance found that voters greatly underestimate how much public schools cost and that their funding preferences vary depending on whether they are accurately informed or not:

States may create lists of evidence - based interventions to better support school improvement plans developed by districts and schools; use of the list may be optional or required, depending on the state's policy preference.

The result is voluntary school segregation by race for whites and blacks, which is entirely consistent with a large literature demonstrating that Americans prefer to live among co-ethnics, and that this preference is particular strong for blacks.

In the memo, Superintendent Philip Streifer urges school administrators to give preference to teachers who graduated from highly ranked colleges and universities as identified by U.S. News & World Report.

For example, those arguing for a return to zip code assignment of students to schools because such schools are somewhat more likely to be racially balanced than schools of choice have to discount: 1) the strong preference of parents to choose their children's schools, 2) the likelihood in some districts that a voluntarily segregated school of choice will provide a much better education than a child's marginally less segregated neighborhood school, and 3) the impacts of the competition among education providers that occurs when school enrollment is determined by choice.

The performance of regional schools commissioners will be judged by how many schools in their areas convert to academy status, despite education secretary Nicky Morgan's public stance that she has no preference for any particular school type.

But perhaps the most intriguing bit of the mayor's lengthy list of proposals was a demand that the state change its law to allow students who attend a charter elementary school to receive preference in the lottery to be admitted to the middle and high schools operated by the charter school.

LAUSD board member Bennett Kayser has introduced a resolution seeking to clarify policy on the use of «founding parent» preferences by LAUSD - authorized charter schools.

The in - boundary preference is automatically populated based on the guardian's home address used on the student's My School DC application and sibling status is verified by the school prior to the loSchool DC application and sibling status is verified by the school prior to the loschool prior to the lottery.

Brooke Charter Schools and LACY have partnered to provide City Year alumni preference in our application process by automatically moving them to the initial phone interview round.

Education Cities» mission, carried forward locally by Minnesota Comeback, is to spread school choice and facilitate the growth of charter schools, under the guise of a «sector neutral» preference for «High Quality Seats.»

This annual survey — developed and reported by EdChoice and interviews conducted by our partner, Braun Research, Inc. — measures public opinion and awareness on a range of K — 12 education topics, including parents» schooling preferences, educational choice policies, the federal government's role in education and more.

This paper studies the pension preferences of Washington State public school teachers by examining two periods of time during which teachers were able to choose between enrolling in a traditional defined benefit plan and a hybrid plan with defined benefit and defined contribution components.

He also pointed to another section of the law that said «other preferences may be permitted by the chartering authority on an individual school basis and only if consistent with the law.»

ther preferences may be permitted by the chartering authority on an individual school basis and only if consistent with the law.»

Post-Katrina charter school staffing preferences were driven by quality and numbers, said Jay Altman, chief executive officer of FirstLine Schools, which now includes five charter schools in New OSchools, which now includes five charter schools in New Oschools in New Orleans.

When it was time for Trujillo to transition her daughter Michelle from the fourth to the fifth grade, she was faced with the hard reality that KIPP LA, by law, could not provide an enrollment preference from KIPP elementary schools to KIPP middle schools.