Sentences with phrase «schools in the worst state»
Schools Minister David Laws said: «The opening of Whitmore Park marks a major milestone in the Priority School Building Programme, which is making great strides in ensuring that vital building work takes place at some of the schools in the worst state across the country.»
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The Scott campaign, meanwhile, has run TV ads accusing Crist of raising tuition at state colleges and leaving K - 12 schools in worse shape than when he took office.
Religious Education with a Catholic syllabus is encouraged — if material in a Catholic school is useless or worse, it is the fault of the Church authorities and not that of the State.
They cite first - hand accounts of children returning to school in a worse educational, health and developmental state than when they ended the previous term.
Just 10 months after Oklahoma State marked the decade anniversary of the deaths of 10 members of its men's basketball team's traveling party in a plane crash, school president Burns Hargis welled up last Friday as he addressed the media about OSU's «worst nightmare.»
It was a sad day when Spurs sold him in the Martin Peters deal, I was in such a bad state of shock it made me ill and I had to have a week off school to recover, and that's the truth it's not a joke.Jimmy was the greatest player I ever had the pleasure to watch, the nearest player to him but no way as good is Messi, but of course he is playing in a soft era of football with lots of protection from the referees, and that protection is right and should have been in place years ago, and of course would he be that good in England?.
A sad day when Spurs sold him in the deal for Martin Peters I was in such a bad state of shock it made me ill and I had to have a week off school and that's true not a joke.Jimmy was the greatest player I ever had the pleasure to watch, he would be priceless today, the nearest player I have seen that gets anywhere near him is Messy but of course he's playing in a soft erea of football with all the protection you could dream of from the referees, and of course never wil play ion England.Anyway I wish my hero Jimmy Greaves a good recovery.
We all pretty agreed that the state of the lunches in our public schools was bad... lots of processed fatty foods with sugar on top.
Any such measures would overwhelmingly help good state grammar, faith and other schools in rich areas and not those pupils from genuinely worse social backgrounds.
If you relate this with the issue of education, you will discover that these two states have the worst cases in terms of children's school drop - out rate with more than 50 percent drop - out rate.
«I am running to build a real Democratic State Senate majority that finally fully funds our public schools, protects tenants from being thrown out of their homes and strengthens our loophole ridden rent laws, passes badly needed ethics reforms, election reforms and real criminal justice reforms and makes Andrea Stewart - Cousins the first woman Senate Majority Leader, breaking up the so - called «three men in a room.»
This proposal would mean a badly needed boost in support for parochial schools in New York — schools that provide one - of - a-kind and enriching educational opportunities to young students across our state.
Commenting on the reports in the media that the Secretary of State for Education, Rt Hon Michael Gove MP, is to apologise to Parliament for errors contained in the Government's list of schools to be rebuilt or refurbished under the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said: «The Government's decision to scrap over 700 projects to rebuild or refurbish schools was an unnecessary and disastrous development that history will judge to be bad for children, bad for education and bad for local communities and the eschools to be rebuilt or refurbished under the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said: «The Government's decision to scrap over 700 projects to rebuild or refurbish schools was an unnecessary and disastrous development that history will judge to be bad for children, bad for education and bad for local communities and the eSchools for the Future (BSF) programme, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said: «The Government's decision to scrap over 700 projects to rebuild or refurbish schools was an unnecessary and disastrous development that history will judge to be bad for children, bad for education and bad for local communities and the eschools was an unnecessary and disastrous development that history will judge to be bad for children, bad for education and bad for local communities and the economy.
Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren echoed Mayor de Blasio's rhetoric of income equality, saying her city has the worst school district in the state and the fifth - highest child poverty rate in the nation.
But many of his proposals — such as toughening up evaluation systems teachers barely agreed to in the first place, firing teachers with bad ratings, tying tenure to evaluations, and increasing the cap on charter schools — are sure to be met with ire from politically powerful state and city teachers union.
He says the fiscal troubles for schools just keep getting worse, with not much help in sight from the state.
Buffalo Public Schools Superintendent Kriner Cash told the School Board Wednesday night that BUILD Academy is not the worst school in the state, no matter what test scoresSchool Board Wednesday night that BUILD Academy is not the worst school in the state, no matter what test scoresschool in the state, no matter what test scores show.
Put another way, more than 4 out of 5 state schools in Surrey and Oxfordshire are doing worse than 2 state schools in relatively deprived parts of inner London.
The week concluded for New York politics with a racially charged jolt: A prominent and prolific campaign donor and benefactor of charter schools in since - deleted Facebook suggested the state's black Senate minority leader had been worse for people of color than the Ku Klux Klan.
I submit that our current crop of office holders on every level of government, in all 50 states, from fire and water districts to school districts, town, counties, cities, states and federal legislatures are so bad that the term limit should be about 30 days.
But though 80 percent of the charters in her home state perform worse than traditional public schools, DeVos — a billionaire whose family has also opposed workers» rights, gay marriage and has contributed heavily to a variety of other right - wing causes — has led the way in resisting any attempts to regulate or improve Michigan charter performance.
Assemblyman Francisco Moya of Queens, whose district suffers the worst school overcrowding in the state, predicted the CFE decision would play a part in the upcoming negotiations.
We need to focus the state's limited resources on badly needed school aid and basic services in the places where the economy has been hit the hardest,» said Blue Carreker, Campaigns Manager, Citizen Action of New York.
Education advocacy groups are giving Gov. Andrew Cuomo bad grades when it comes to spending on education in his proposed 2014 budget, as Syracuse parents and community members believe the state needs to come through with substantially more money for schools in the spending plan.
Or over the fact that New York State has the most segregated schools in the country, worse than it was 50 years ago?»
Under their watch, our economy crumbled and public infrastructure, such as roads, schools, hospitals and sporting facilities were in their worst and horrible state of disrepair.»
Meanwhile, licensing rules in most states do little more than «screen out the bottom few who can't master the English language or are badly schooled,» says Eric Nadelstern, the former New York City deputy schools chancellor and visiting professor of practice at Columbia University's Teachers College.
The New York education sector has had its own controversy over race in the past week: Daniel Loeb, a political donor and chairman of the board of directors of Success Academy, the state's largest charter school network, said in a since - deleted Facebook post that state Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins, who is black, was worse for racial minorities than «anyone who has ever donned a hood,» because of her support of teachers» unions.
Parents always find their ways to keep their wards in school; we have hostels in Ho and so if it comes to the worse, parents can get those hostels for their wards» she stated.
The graduation rate in the Syracuse City School District continues to be one of the worst in the state, with less than half the students getting their diplomas after four years of sSchool District continues to be one of the worst in the state, with less than half the students getting their diplomas after four years of schoolschool.
«Our once proud state has become a laughing stock around the country, with the highest taxes, the worst business climate, high energy costs, a failing transportation and infrastructure system, failing schools and rising unemployment in every region of the state, except New York City,» DeFrancisco said.
MANHATTAN — Negotiations between the city and the teachers union on a new teacher evaluation system fell apart Friday, prompting the State Department of Education to suspend more than $ 60 million in federal funding that had been targeted at some of the city's worst - performing schools.
From its inception, the GEA has cost school districts all across my District, millions of dollars in badly needed state resources.
Misgivings have been widely expressed in the media about the state of science teaching in schools and, in particular, whether recent changes have made the situation worse.
In Louisiana, the state takes over the worst schools and puts them into its Recovery School District.
As the debate over school choice heats up once again, in the halls of Congress and in many state capitals, a favorite gambit of defenders of the status quo is to damn such changes as «sure to undermine public education» or «bad for the public schools.»
We'll find out over time whether kids in schools and states that join in the common curricula and exams do better (or worse) than in those that maintain their curricular independence.
The public schools in that part of town were among the worst in the state — some said, in the nation.
Teacher attrition rates are especially bad in Hawaii, where only about half of the state's public school teachers remain teaching after five years.
Back in 2011, states chafing under the badly outdated No Child Left Behind Act leapt at the Obama administration's offer of relief from the mandates at the center of the law — and the chance to forge a new and innovative partnership with the federal government to bolster standards, pinpoint good teachers, and fix low - performing schools.
However, while White touts that, if the voucher schools were their own district, they'd rank 9th for performance improvement, they'd still be the fifth - worst of 76 in the state in actual performance.
Almost none of the participants in our ESSA design competition recommended that states use proficiency rates, reflecting the near - universal consensus that such rates are a bad measure of school quality.
Harris instead offers two potential alternatives: 1) the improved public / charter school performance in New Orleans made the performance of the private sector look relatively worse; and 2) the curriculum at most private schools may not have been aligned to the state test, so the poor performance merely reflects that lack of alignment rather than poor performance.
Working with data from the State of Florida, I have regularly noticed that achievement gains by students who move from one public school to another badly trail the gains of students who remain in the same school — even after one has adjusted for many family background characteristics.
It showed that among the 16 states studied, there was wide variation in charter quality, and that while lots of charters were doing well, lots were doing worse than local district schools.
States would have the obligation to create and offer those children in the worst schools seats in better - performing schools.
Consider the article in Education Week, which reported, «Movement in elementary - school reading scores was evenly split — better than the national average in half the states, worse in the other half.»
At the same time, hold districts accountable from the state and federal levels, by making their (bad) results transparent and forcing them to adopt meaningful (and unpleasant) reforms in their failing schools.
European funding The European Investment Bank (EIB), the lending institution of the European Union owned by its Member States, is supporting England's plans to improve its school estate by giving long - term loans to schools whose buildings are in a bad state.
According to the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), the current state of affairs could be the result of some bad habits in recent years, as daily participation in high - school physical education classes dropped from 42 percent in 1991 to 28 percent in State Legislatures (NCSL), the current state of affairs could be the result of some bad habits in recent years, as daily participation in high - school physical education classes dropped from 42 percent in 1991 to 28 percent in state of affairs could be the result of some bad habits in recent years, as daily participation in high - school physical education classes dropped from 42 percent in 1991 to 28 percent in 2003.