Sentences with phrase «schools meet high standards»

Private schools participating in the school voucher program also do not have to be accredited by an organization that seeks to determine whether or not approved schools meet high standards for teaching and learning.

But when done properly, states can use regulations to ensure that schools meet high standards, ensure that teachers are highly - qualified and improve curricula.

In a statement released following the speech, Education Secretary Nicky Morgan said: «Thanks to our plan for education, more children in England have the opportunity to go to a good or outstanding school than ever before and free schools have been crucial to that change — with more than two - thirds of free schools meeting this high standard.

Not exact matches

USA Today: Ruling lets S.C. students earn credit for religion classes In a ruling that advocates called «a tremendous victory for religious education,» a three - judge panel of the 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the right of a school district to award high school credit for religious courses, as long as they meet secular standards.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

A year after requiring soccer shinguards to meet National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment (NOCSAE) standards, the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) Soccer Rules Committee will now require the front of the shinguard to be permanently marked with the NOCSAE seal and height range, effective in fall 2012.

But I love her overarching message (as you seem to, also) that we must set a reasonably high standard for school food and let kids learn to meet it, instead of assuming they'll only eat junk food so there's no point in even trying to improve school food.

Schools that have the means should be held to high standards, and schools that do not should be permitted to meet exemption requirSchools that have the means should be held to high standards, and schools that do not should be permitted to meet exemption requirschools that do not should be permitted to meet exemption requirements.

The suit argues that while high school football players strive to meet the NCAA's eligibility requirements, those standards disregard concussion management protocols.

Teams of students from across the country have traveled to Washington in recent years to compete in Cooking up Change, a national contest that challenges high school students to create meals that meet nutrition standards and can be easily replicated in schools.

According to the latest USDA data, over 93 % of schools are currently meeting the higher nutrition standards that were implemented as part of the Healthy, Hunger - free Kids Act of 2010.

These programs address some of the root causes of underrepresentation at the city's specialized high schools by helping youngsters rise to meet the standards of these schools and thrive in them,» said Sharon Manewitz, Chair of the Alumni Association of the Bronx High School of Sciehigh schools by helping youngsters rise to meet the standards of these schools and thrive in them,» said Sharon Manewitz, Chair of the Alumni Association of the Bronx High School of ScieHigh School of Science.

Some parents, teachers and students have complained in meetings statewide that the Common Core was forced on schools by the state Education Department before teachers and students were prepared for the higher standards.

Under the proposal, half of the expected 300 students would have to meet the higher performance standards while the others — who could be admitted by taking a school tour or signing up for information at a fair, for example — could gain entry based on less stringent criteria, the notice stated.

The SUNY Charter School Committee put a high - performing Bronx charter school on probation for not meeting teacher certification stanSchool Committee put a high - performing Bronx charter school on probation for not meeting teacher certification stanschool on probation for not meeting teacher certification standards.

As part of this, Hempstead High School is identified as «persistently struggling» and Alverta B. Gray Schultz Middle School as «struggling,» with each given requirements and deadlines to meet federal and state standards — or face potential takeover by an outside manager.

Currently, those who scored a 2 or lower were judged to be not meeting the required standards, now children who receive a score of 2 or higher will be considered on track for meeting the new Regents requirements for high school graduation.

Our children deserve teachers who have met the highest standards of preparation, and these standards should not be tossed aside because some charter schools are having difficulty meeting them.

By setting high standards and pushing ourselves to meet them, our school realized our boundless potential to exceed our own expectations, and those laid out by others.

Our training school has met the stringent requirements set by the World Yoga Alliance, demonstrating that our courses are of the highest standard and that our graduates may register with the World Yoga Alliance as a «Registered Teacher of Yoga» RTY as a sign of quality training.

Mount Madonna is a Registered Yoga Alliance School and our faculty meets YA's high standards of preparation and training.

Ladies and gentlemen, meet Bartleby «B» Gaines (Justin Long), a high school graduate falling perilously short of not only his own standards of who he ought to be (or — and how's this for nursing those cliché withdrawals — who he is destined to become) but those of his parents as well.

The report also addresses a second, widely used accountability policy: high - school exit exams that hold students responsible for meeting a set of content standards.

An exhibit like Climate Change can satisfy a high school standard, she says, while an elementary school teacher can meet those standards by focusing on the intricacies of the local ecosystem.

Is it too much to expect that we can create and implement effective strategies that would enable virtually all students to succeed on appropriate standards in elementary, middle, and high school, so that virtually all can meet rigorous requirements and walk across a stage, head held high, knowing that they truly attained what a high school diploma is supposed to certify?

A recent investigation revealed that several high schools in Washington, D.C., skirted district rules to graduate large numbers of their students who didn't meet the standards for earning diplomas.

Russell Hobby, general secretary of school leaders» union NAHT, said: «After three years of warnings by NAHT, the government is still falling short of its core responsibility to guarantee enough teachers of a high enough standard to meet the needs of our growing school population.»

Interim teaching facilities give schools, colleges and local authorities the flexibility to increase school places to maintain the highest standards of teaching during major construction or refurbishment work or to meet a short - term surge in pupil numbers.

John H. Hollifield, in his letter to the editor, called the Scholastic Aptitude Test «the specific measure that we use to judge all... high schools («An «Effective» School That Fails To Meet the Standard Measure of Effectiveness,» Education Week, March 21, 1984).

A US study titled Schoolwide intervention to reduce chronic tardiness at the middle and high school levels found that «instructional time lost to widespread tardiness is likely to significantly affect the capacity of the entire student population to meet rigorous academic standards».

A joint effort by Detroit businesses, educators, and community groups to provide jobs for high - school graduates who meet tougher academic standards has been delayed by infighting over the amount of responsibility to be shouldered by companies and schools.

The success has been astounding: over the past decade, the percentage of students meeting provincial standards in the annual literacy and numeracy tests for grades 3 and 6 has risen from 54 % to 71 %, and the high school graduation rate has grown from 68 % to 83 %.

That meant a school might be designated «needing improvement» because it had failed to raise scores over the past several years — but still could have a higher absolute score than a school that had met the federal standard because it had made steady gains from a lower base.

Small schools can also help boost graduation rates among these underserved students by providing them with a new version of the three Rs - rigorous academic coursework, meaningful relationships with instructors who can help them meet high standards, and relevant learning opportunities through internships, community partnerships, and real - world tasks.

Schools are divided into six categories: (i) «gaining ground schools» which have met standards but have only minimal gain scores; (ii) volatile schools, whose performance varies significantly from year to year and criteria to criteria; (iii) «national challenge schools», who meet neither the norm standards nor the gain score standards; (iv) «good to great schools» which do not meet norm criteria but have high gain scores and (v) great schools which have high norm results and high gain Schools are divided into six categories: (i) «gaining ground schools» which have met standards but have only minimal gain scores; (ii) volatile schools, whose performance varies significantly from year to year and criteria to criteria; (iii) «national challenge schools», who meet neither the norm standards nor the gain score standards; (iv) «good to great schools» which do not meet norm criteria but have high gain scores and (v) great schools which have high norm results and high gain schools» which have met standards but have only minimal gain scores; (ii) volatile schools, whose performance varies significantly from year to year and criteria to criteria; (iii) «national challenge schools», who meet neither the norm standards nor the gain score standards; (iv) «good to great schools» which do not meet norm criteria but have high gain scores and (v) great schools which have high norm results and high gain schools, whose performance varies significantly from year to year and criteria to criteria; (iii) «national challenge schools», who meet neither the norm standards nor the gain score standards; (iv) «good to great schools» which do not meet norm criteria but have high gain scores and (v) great schools which have high norm results and high gain schools», who meet neither the norm standards nor the gain score standards; (iv) «good to great schools» which do not meet norm criteria but have high gain scores and (v) great schools which have high norm results and high gain schools» which do not meet norm criteria but have high gain scores and (v) great schools which have high norm results and high gain schools which have high norm results and high gain scores.

The latter is one of nine principles of learning formulated by the Institute for Learning that I direct at the University of Pittsburgh to provide assistance to school systems in building organizational and instructional practices that will enable their students to meet higher achievement standards.

With the emphasis on high - stakes testing, we have learned a great deal about who is succeeding and failing, and which schools and school systems are meeting targeted performance standards.

When truly high standards are set, students stay in school and rise to meet those standards.

Some education reformers and media outlets are already using the results of the new, tougher tests to brand schools as «failing» if most of their students don't meet the higher standards.

2) Local school administrators and teachers with the flexibility to determine how their schools can best meet high standards.

The first state standardized test scores are in, and the 11th graders did no better than those at other comprehensive, non-selective city high schools: about one - quarter of the students met proficiency standards in reading and a mere 7 percent in math.

It's also part of the National STEM School Education Strategy 2016 - 2026 and comes at a time when Australian student performance in maths is flatlining, a substantial proportion of Australian 15 - year - olds are failing to meet the National Proficient Standard, and Year 12 high - level mathematics participation is declining.

A big focus for the schools is that all meals should be of high quality and cater for a wide range of dietary requirements, while at the same time meeting all the new food - based standards.

Responding to what they perceive as growing public disillusionment with their profession, 19 deans from some of the nation's leading schools of education are meeting in Wisconsin this week to consider forming a new organization to promote higher standards in the field.

Unlike the Committee of Ten model, in which all students followed similar college preparatory programs, in the Cardinal Principles model equal educational opportunity was achieved because all graduates received the same ultimate credential, a high - school diploma, despite having followed very different education programs and having met very different standards in the process.

Nonetheless, the claims that schools are underfunded rest on models that purport to quantify the level of expenditure necessary to meet higher performance standards.

Kevin Hall: At a minimum, a high - quality charter school produces a vast majority of students who meet or exceed academic standards regardless of their ethnic or socioeconomic background and who are well prepared for postsecondary success.

Here's what the Common Core is designed to communicate: If your children are meeting the standards, it means they are believed to be on track for college and career readiness by the end of high school

During her appointment, she set a high bar, and had a powerful track record: 95 percent of Richmond's lowest performing schools achieved full accreditation under Virginia's Standards of Learning reform legislation, and the district improved from 18 percent to 91.7 percent of all schools meeting this standard as measured by the State Department of Education.