Sentences with phrase «schools cut back»

In fact, we may have made recess so safe, perhaps dull even, that few complained when many schools cut it back in order to spend more time prepping students for standardized tests.

This is despite new accountability measures for state schools that favour academic subjects, like the EBacc, and funding cuts that have seen some state schools cut back on their creative offer.

Troublingly, in recent decades kids more and more have been sequestered indoors, as fearful parents discourage unsupervised roaming and schools cut back on recess to make more time for test prep.

In response to the USDA's recommendations that public schools cut back on sodium, starchy foods like potatoes, saturated fats and total calories in school lunches, while including more whole grains and a wider variety of fresh fruits and vegetables, Congress decided that the tomato paste in pizza should count as a «vegetable.»

Can your grade - schoolers cut back on the amount of paper they print from the Internet?

There was no point in having an iPad, for example, if there weren't decent applications installed or if cost was prohibitively high and would result in schools cutting back elsewhere.

15 How playing sports helps girls; lack of sleep hurts teens academically and socially; celebrating the national PTAs Healthy Lifestyles Month; school cuts back on soda in vending machines.

WASHINGTON — With public schools cutting back on spending for physical education, some members of Congress want to intervene, worried that the nation's schools are churning out too many fat kids.

Not exact matches

In their first season back after the program was cut from the school for budgetary reasons, the team qualifies for their just their second bowl game in history.

Schools are constantly under pressure to cut back and most are overseen by governments and that has hurt the company.

Researchers such as Nancy Rothbard at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School say that in tough times, it's easier for an employer to roll back a perk than cut pay.

For instance, they can beef up to meet demand during summer - vacation months, and then cut back (and reduce their bills) after school starts.

The Brookings paper suggested that transferring some of the risk of the student loan repayments to the schools the borrowers attend could cut back on this problem.

Latvia's GDP has plunged by over 22 % during 2008 - 09, unemployment is rising, and the government has cut back spending on hospitals and health care, schools and other basic social integument.

The ground is being prepared for a neoliberal «cure»: cutting back pensions and health care, defaulting on pension promises to labor, and selling off the public sector, letting the new proprietors to put up tollbooths on everything from roads to schools.

You know Johnny got cut back on his hours, and his kids need help with school supplies.»

Don Browning, director of the Religion, Culture and Family Project at the University of Chicago Divinity School, has observed that in the 1970s and»80s most mainline Protestant denominations severely cut back their funding of family ministries programs while continuing to fund government lobbying efforts.

That means it's back to making sandwiches, cutting fruit and veggies, and packing those school lunches.

It's pre-marinated and perfectly seasoned in a variety of delicious cuts and flavors, saving you precious time this back - to - school season.

Don't forget the H2O I was drinking a lot more coffee than usually my last grad school quarter... knew it... said once my tests were over I'd cut back... and then got a kidney infection the weekend of my tests.

That chambers recked my head far to many mistakes today and to be fair he wasn't at fault for all the goals because the goals came from the runners running into the box you have to have people picking these runners When I am on the pitch playing I get annoyed because defenders are very close to me so i seat back and wait for that moment to run into the space with a goal no one would even see me but that is on the local field and not on professional level come on seriously I can except cotinou free kick but elanas goal and cotinou second even mane the way he ran in for goal as if he was a hot knife cutting through butter unacceptable these mistakes are school errors 3 errors on the same match to much to digest

Because of the well - documented benefits of interscholastic sports for both boys and girls, it is critical that everything possible be done to avoid cutting back or eliminating school sports.

Many schools are cutting interscholastic sports because of budget constraints, with others avoiding cut - backs only by increasing user fees.

Today at one school, after seeing that almost 90 % of apples came back untouched (first graders have missing / loose teeth) I asked the kitchen for a knife and cutting board.

it is true that some injuries in contact and collison sports are inevitable, but at the rate youth and high school ice hockey was going, it wouldn't have been too long before it was considered one of the «extreme sports» that are so popular on television these days; you know, the ones where, after the big crash or fall, the show cuts to a commercial and, when it comes back, the seriously injured participant has already been stretchered off to a waiting ambulance.

However, there are overall calorie limits on meals so schools may be cutting back on desserts in order to stay within these limits.

The Pleasanton School District, north of San Jose, Calif., is proposing this month to cut homework times by nearly half and prohibit weekend assignments in elementary grades because, as one administrator said, «parents want their kids back.»

If research shows that after two hours there's not a lot of value in homework, high schools can afford to cut back without sacrificing anything in academic quality.

Newspapers, radio and TV stations and city magazines know exactly when and where you can get free school supplies to help cut your back - to - school spending.

Last month, 40 Republicans and Democrats in Congress questioned the USDA's proposal to cut back on potatoes and other starchy vegetables in school meals.

Park District officials originally looked into constructing a temporary skating facility on a parking lot at the area high schools, but backed away from the idea because the season would be cut short when school starts up again at the end of the summer.

School nutrition directors shouldn't feel pressured to cut back on higher - cost healthy food just to balance their budget.

The Meal Component and Offer vs. Serve systems ensure that each student gets the proper amount of food including a variety of vitamins and nutrients in their school meal, while simultaneously cutting back on waste.

Even high school has been cut back.

The school recently held a ribbon cutting to celebrate the installation of the permanent shade structure over the back playground.

Think about it: so many schools either cut back or eliminated... [Read more...]

His program at Holy Trinity is telling us some important things about kids and school food — namely, that food doesn't need to be «dumbed down» for kids to accept it; that kids implicitly understand when deep care is being put into the preparation of their food and they respond with equal respect; and that improving school food can change kids» attitudes about food outside the school yard gates, as was the case with the student quoted by Chef Boundas who cut back on fast food now that he's eating healthful foods at lunch and learning about nutrition and cooking in Chef Boundas's kitchen.

The Obama administration wanted to make school lunches more healthful, cutting back on the endless procession of potatoes, corn, refined flour, and sodium.

Classroom management challenges are growing as our school systems experience financial cut backs, staffing shortages, larger class size.

Extracurricular activities: If your child's extracurricular activities are interfering with his / her school work, cut back the activities.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo this week continued his simmering disagreement with Senate Republicans over tax and fee increases in the budget, saying that without the revenue, the state would have to cut back on health care and school spending.

This action cuts back to the modern - day Westminster office, and swaps between this and enjoyable classroom antics as Sam attempts to do focus group - style research by teaching some pleasingly irreverent pupils in a school each week.

Now, in a second attempt, the new task force will review the Common Core standards, the state's curriculum guidance and the tests» quality, develop a process to ensure that tests fit the curriculum and standards, examine how schools can cut back on the length and number of tests and suggest reforms, according to a news release.

Unfortunately, Cuomo's tax cap combined with unnamed cuts to state spending to create the surplus needed to pay for the circuit breaker means that what he gives with one hand in a circuit breaker he takes back with the other hand as cuts to the schools and municipal services these same people use,» said Hawkins.

We would liek to cut all property taxes to 3 or 4 percent annually... We haven't been able to get any cooperation from the Legislature... so we've come back to them and said look we'll just tax the entities which are not school taxes which are voted on by the public... but we haven't been able to get the Assembly to pass that either, so we're still trying.

Cuomo, speaking with reporters afterward, put the responsibility back on local governments and schools, saying it's up to them to cut back.

We are going to win the majority because we have the right candidates and the right message, and whether it's providing record support for schools, delivering a 20 percent middle - class income tax cut, or ensuring every region of the state gets its fair share of infrastructure and economic development funding, New Yorkers know that Senate Republicans have their backs.»

The Alliance for Quality Education is firing back at Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who this morning accused school districts of playing politics when they say his proposed funding cuts would force teachers to lose their jobs, hurting kids in the process.

The pro-Cuomo Committee to Save NY is backing up a recent TV spot supporting the governor's proposed education aid cuts with a mailer that accuses school superintendents of going behind closed doors and «taking money out of classrooms — but putting hundreds of thousands of dollars in their own pockets.»

Cuomo on Sunday unveiled an anti-poverty plan that would raise the state minimum wage, cut taxes for small businesses, give college graduates a respite from paying back school loans and pump millions into the state's emergency food programs.