Sentences with phrase «schools control costs»

For those who aren't familiar, BOCES is a shared - service provider that helps schools control costs by providing programs and services districts can't afford on their own, including nutrition services.

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Though survival may not be a burning issue for most firms at the moment, the seeds of the next age for cost control may already be sown, according to Wil Uecker, an associate dean at the Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University in Houston.

Besides inflation, the provincial government has fobbed off a whole array of additional downloaded costs to local school districts — costs the government largely controls, but doesn't provide sufficient funding to cover.

This person doesn't have control of the money in the account, but can use the money from the plan for school costs.

All that being said, the questions about the practicality of salad bars in schools still persist: are they safe, do they cost too much, how do you control portion sizes, how do you control waste, and how do they fit into the USDA guidelines?

Understand how recipes support food quality, regulation compliance, cost control, and inventory and procurement in a scratch - cook school food operation.

In Season 1 in West Virgina with Jamie Oliver's lunches, the costs spiralled out of control for those schools - everything from buying new equipment to more labor costs to higher costs for the food.

Critics argue that mandating more fresh, unprocessed food will limit local control over menu development and cost management for schools and communities.

It depends on too many variables, most of which are not fully within the control of the person running the meal program — getting more paying kids to buy the school lunch, keeping volatile food costs under control (remember the spike of 2008?

House Republicans initiated the block - grant proposals under the Personal Responsibility Act to return control of the schools and curriculum to the local level, cut costs and reduce federal bureaucracy, said Kristin Woltemuth, a legislative assistant to Rep. Harris Fawell (R., Naperville) a member of the House Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities.

Later this month the Republican - dominated U.S. House likely will approve a cost - cutting bill that would dismantle the 48 - year - old National School Lunch Program, giving control of school - based feeding programs to individual sSchool Lunch Program, giving control of school - based feeding programs to individual sschool - based feeding programs to individual states.

In his campaign, McGrath has used de Blasio as a boogeyman for the suburban Senate district, raising the specter of a Democratic - controlled Senate being beholden to the liberal New York City mayor and costing Nassau County precious school aid.

The expiration of mayoral control of city schools could cost the city up to $ 1.6 billion over 10 years — and the city would go after the state for the bill, according to a memo from de Blasio administration officials.

The Team, chaired by Senior Advisor to the Governor Larry Schwartz, includes representatives from private industry, education, labor, and government and look for ways to reduce the costs of mandated programs, identify mandates that are ineffective and outdated, and determine how school districts and local governments can have greater ability to control expenses.

Mayor Bill de Blasio dug in his heels on charter schools Monday, as the fierce debate threatened to cost him control of the city's school system and bring back the bad old days of the Board of Ed.

The Team, chaired by Senior Advisor to the Governor Larry Schwartz, will include representatives from private industry, education, labor, and government and look for ways to reduce the costs of mandated programs, identify mandates that are ineffective and outdated, and determine how school districts and local governments can have greater ability to control expenses.

She added that there are hard costs which are out of the control of local school districts including teacher salaries, pensions and healthcare.

When Mayor de Blasio arrived in Albany on Tuesday, he had a lot to talk about: aid to CUNY, cost - sharing for Medicaid, mayoral control of the schools and more.

Tax cap supporters, meanwhile, say low inflation should be a signal for school districts to control their costs, just like other segments of the economy.

They'll be looking for ways to reduce the costs of mandated programs, identify mandates that are ineffective and outdated, and determine how school districts and local governments can have greater ability to control expenses.

And its not just school districts but all local governments with these same out of control costs.

The school boards group point out that its members» personnel costs are rising so rapidly - partly for reasons out of their control - that a tax cap would leave them collectively $ 3 billion short over the next four years.

«It's been successful in restraining local school revenue, but has been a failure in controlling costs,» he said, adding it caps revenues, but not expenses.

Mr. Adams was also recently named to Governor Cuomo's Task Force on Mandate Relief, tasked with finding ways to reduce the costs of mandated programs, identify mandates that are ineffective and outdated, and determine how school districts and local governments can have greater ability to control expenses.

Lighting accounts for 20 per cent of the energy cost of running our schools and yet this can be halved by installing energy efficient LED lighting and reduced even further by the use of intelligent controls.

The authors have made several recommendations for further work, including replicating this analysis through a Randomised Control Trial, broadening it to cover Discovery, Bronze and Gold Award types and conducting a cost benefit analysis for schools.

Councils had to spend more than # 22m covering the costs of schools converting to academy status in the last two years, even though they are moving free from local authority control and are funded from Whitehall.

Given that school budget cuts, coach costs, changes in the curriculum cycle, staff cover, and health and safety legislation are largely beyond the control of out - of - the - classroom attractions, what exactly can be done to make school trips as painless and pleasurable as possible for those who want to undertake them?

And their revised strategy of operating public schools under contract with public school districts was flawed by an underestimation of the political resistance they would face and their inability to control costs or quality within the public system.

Schools around the world are adopting blended learning to personalize learning, increase access and equity, and control costs.

As we have argued elsewhere, there are various ways to do this (cash balance plans, defined contribution, and hybrids), but without fundamental change, schools will continue to be vulnerable to cost hikes beyond their control.

Contributing around 10 percent of public school costs, the US Department of Education imposed further requirements and regulations on the public schools, which removed another major fraction of local boards» control over school policy.

Even if a school district were to control its costs enough to generate a significant surplus, the extra funds would immediately become a target for outside interests.

The problem with building up costs to match revenues is that school districts do not generate their own revenues and can not control their service obligations.

We recognised the need to give the control back to schools and help them find supply teachers without the substantial associated costs and, likewise, for supply teachers to find work without having to forgo large portions of their salary.

In today's budget sensitive economy it's becoming increasingly important for school leaders to find a way to achieve a high level of ICT delivery and support whilst also keeping costs down, and taking back control of their ICT, and in the school's that don't currently have an IT partner, 27 % are currently reviewing this option as they become more forward - thinking.

The biggest problem is that the asbestos went into the ground around the schools when they were being built and strict building control assessments add extra cost to make sure all soil found with pollutants is taken away from the site.

Unfortunately, we were not able to control for changes in the number of students who spoke limited English or in the school's operating cost per pupil, because at the time of the study such information was available only up to the 2001 - 02 school year.

This is where schools have to strike the right balance between keeping risks under control «so far as is reasonably practicable» and judging the risk of doing something against the cost of not doing it, while taking into account the health and safety of employees and anyone else affected by a school's actions.

Therefore students need continual access to 3D printers while at the same time schools need to control access and costs of the filaments used to create the models.

However, for charter schools that opted out, the primary drivers were lower costs, flexibility of investment options for teachers, portability of benefits, and greater control over total compensation costs.

Fundamentally the key issue that faces every new - build school is space, as they are now typically built by area to control cost; this method has an immediate impact on the catering facilities, particularly in those schools moving from much larger, traditional buildings.

The girls in the randomised controlled trial (those involved in the VIP programme) were given four educational sessions by a school nurse on various topics including not smoking, drinking or taking drugs in pregnancy, good nutrition, the financial costs of having a baby, sexual health, contraception, and respectful relationships.

In the 2013 - 2014 school year, with 200 teachers (in 50 schools) in the treatment group and an equal number in a control group participating, we examine whether digital video technology can improve teaching practice and student outcomes in treatment classrooms; whether it is preferred by both teachers and principals to in - person observations; and whether it presents a cost - effective, scalable alternative to in - person observations.

Pay and pensions make up a massive portion of schools» costs, but controlling them takes creativity and realism.

This offers the most effective route to quantifying the problem, understanding the risk, controlling the cost of remediation and minimising the impacts on school continuity.

This funding gap, coupled with the fact that traditional districts often control access to public school buildings, means that many charter operators fall back on a «patchwork of solutions» to cover their operating costs, find adequate school facilities, and transport students.

School administrators use GIS for smarter planning and sustainability - saving time, controlling costs, and improving safety.

However, recent studies using randomized admission lotteries at charter schools and the random assignment of teachers has suggested that simple, low - cost methods, when they control for students» prior achievement and characteristics, can yield estimates of teacher and school effects that are similar to what one observes with a randomized field trial.

Thus, from the 1950s and well into the 1980s, the conventional wisdom among mayors was to shun control of the schools: the political costs exceeded the benefits.