Sentences with phrase «schools met the target»

Currently, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) sets bandwidth targets for schools, and according to the 2017 State of the States report, 92 % of Virginia Schools meet the target of 100 kilobits per second per student.

Graduation rates for 2016 are not available yet, but in 2015 only three of the schools met their targets; three schools saw their graduation rates decline.

Yes, a fraction of schools met the target and received the transfers, but it did not improve the achievement of students, to say the least.

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Nonetheless, that is part of the mental anguish many applicants wrestle with as they meet their target school's deadlines.

She cites Superintendent Beverly Hall's turnaround program in Atlanta as positive because Hall «established accountability targets for every school, including the percentage of students who meet standards and the percentage who exceed them.»

Hall gave out bonuses to the staff when a school met 70 percent of its targets.

However, schools are now relieved having to meet the laws more rigorous sodium - reduction targets 2 and 3.

In fact, parents, teachers and school administrators who propose swapping double - fudge brownies for apple slices are often met with resistance or sometimes even become targets.

Monthly meetings or calls with the school staff are recommended to ensure your child's food allergy plan is on target.

The new meal requirements seek to ensure that the meals planned by school foodservice providers and selected by students reflect the food groups emphasized by the 2005 Dietary Guidelines and meet the nutrient targets identified by IOM.»

After the meeting, have everyone in your group write to the school board target and thank him / her for meeting with you, and express support for whatever it was you requested.

The government may also make it easier for grammar schools to become academies, allowing schools to retain an element of selection and helping the government meet its target for 400 new academies.

This benchmark has already had a devastating effect on schools who have struggled to meet its targets, branding a whole new group of schools and pupils as failures.

«We have so far met our target for school enrollment for 2016.

Schools have felt forced to meet floor targets by pushing the average pupils to Level 4 and have not always had the resources, despite hard work and the best intentions, to sufficiently support pupils requiring additional help in basic skills who may never reach Level 4.

The pair's speeches come a few days after Liz Kendall voiced support of free schools and pledged to meet the Nato target of spending 2 per cent of GDP on defence.

This target was imposed upon Local Education Authorities, which are required to draw up detailed class size plans and to restrict admissions or increase teaching capacity at particular schools to enable the targets to be met.

Amid growing criticism that New York City is demanding too little improvement from its lowest - performing schools, the Department of Education released a list of the education targets that schools in de Blasio's $ 400 million School Renewal Program are expected to meet.

The State Education Department this month identified 144 struggling and persistently struggling schools statewide — 62 of them in New York City — that could be turned over to an outside administrator or «receiver» if they do not meet performance targets.

The Welsh Government could also monitor the performance of a school on the basis of how many of its pupils were meeting their individual targets.

«Welsh Liberal Democrats are committed to the introduction of an individual pupil monitoring programme to measure all pupils» progress, allowing schools to target efforts at those students who are not meeting their potential».

The University of Rochester was honored for its targeted scholarship programs for Rochester City School district graduates, beginning with the scholarship program for graduates of the Wilson International Baccalaureate program and continuing with the addition of the Rochester Promise Initiative, for which any Rochester city school graduate meeting admission standards is eliSchool district graduates, beginning with the scholarship program for graduates of the Wilson International Baccalaureate program and continuing with the addition of the Rochester Promise Initiative, for which any Rochester city school graduate meeting admission standards is elischool graduate meeting admission standards is eligible.

Sport in our schools is essential to the sort of message that we seek to deliver, which is why we have pledged not just effort and time, but a huge amount of finance to meet those targets.

More of England's secondary schools are meeting baseline government targets on GCSEs, according the latest league tables.

The community held several meeting with DOE officials in the weeks after the closure was announced, and Juan Pablo Duarte was removed from the list of targeted schools in January.

Trustees of Agudath Israel of America, an Orthodox Jewish organization, told Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz, a Sheepshead Bay Democrat, during an Albany meeting in April that he would be the target of a 2016 primary if the education investment tax credit, a bill that would give a tax break to people and companies donating money to public schools and private school scholarship funds, does not become law this session.

He also threatened to sue his then primary opponent, Sen. Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward CruzTen dead after shooting at Texas high school Hillicon Valley: Lawmakers target Chinese tech giants Dems move to save top cyber post Trump gets a new CIA chief Ryan delays election security briefing Twitter CEO meets lawmakers For cable commentators, the 2016 GOP primary never ended MORE (R - Texas), «for not being a natural born citizen.»

Topics in the Q&A included the source of money for the City's planned pre-K advertising campaign, the City's target number of pre-K applicants, whether Speaker Silver thinks the proposed income tax surcharge should be pursued next year, how the pre-K selection process will work, how the City will cover the approximately $ 40 million annual gap between the estimated cost of pre-K and the amount provided in the state budget, when parents will learn whether their pre-K application has been accepted, how the City will collect data and measure success of the pre-K program, whether the existing pre-K application process will be changed, how the City will use money from the anticipated school bond issue, the mayor's reaction to a 2nd Circuit ruling that City may bar religious groups from renting after - hours space in public schools, the status on a proposed restaurant in Union Square, a tax break included in the state budget that provides millions of dollars to a Bronx condominium project, the «shop & frisk» meeting today between the Rev. Al Sharpton and Police Commissioner Bratton and a pending HPD case against a Brooklyn landlord.

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In this episode meet a would - be utopia in Spain where civic life is managed on Twitter; a teacher who becomes the target of a digital lynch mob; and the father of a school shooting victim who must prove to the internet that his son existed.

Schools will benefit by using the framework by reducing property costs, releasing unwanted property assets, identifying savings and opportunities to generate income from land and buildings, as well as meet central targets for reduced property occupancy.

In fact, the «safe harbor» provisions in NCLB mean that all schools do not have to meet fixed targets across the board each year, but only make some improvement in order to make adequate yearly progress.

They are designed to cater for all alternative curriculum students — those within the pupil premium category, in exclusion or inclusion, home education or isolation, school refusers, target groups, or those with low literacy / numeracy levels, to mention just a few — and meet the needs of their teaching assistants, senior leadership and parents.

Schools that don't meet achievement targets for subgroup students are subject to increasingly serious sanctions.

The plan should set out the school / academy vision for the use of ICT, the long - term aims and short - term objectives, make it clear who is responsible for achieving what, how and by when and what levels of resource — financial, estates - related and human, including training — will be required to meet each target.

Schools participating in the bonus program received awards based on their progress toward meeting target scores.

Schools that fail to make adequate yearly progress (meet achievement targets) for three consecutive years, even if it's just for a particular subgroup of students, must offer free tutoring to all students.

«Although primary targets have been met, we remain concerned that the teacher supply model is under - estimating the number of new primary teachers that schools actually need.

It also called for sanctions on schools that failed to meet statewide targets for student proficiency rates.

Under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, schools that receive funding from the federal Title I program for disadvantaged students are required to offer supplemental education services if they fail to meet their achievement targets for three or more years.

But with states in the accountability driver's seat, I could persuade myself that the time has come for at least some foresighted states to set subject matter targets and hold schools accountable for meeting them.

The standards for an adequate education in this study were that all students must achieve proficiency on the state assessment by 2014, and that all schools must meet «adequate yearly progress» targets.

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.

Ultimately the learning platform framework was set up to help schools and colleges meet the government's target of providing all learners with an online personalised learning space by 2008.

The PRP system was introduced in September 2013 and advises that teachers» pay should only progress if targets set by schools are met.

It advised the government to draw up a clear plan for teacher supply covering the next three years, detailing how targets will be met and based on better data; to set out how it will talk to school leaders about the recruitment challenges they face; to report back on the extent of teachers taking lessons in which they are not qualified; and to ensure there is clearer information on where applicants may train to become a teacher and how much it costs.

Although the law is not slated for reauthorization until 2007, they are hoping for amendments as early as next year, in part to address the large number of schools and districts that may not meet its performance targets.

In poorly performing schools, there are usually more challenges to contend with, such as demoralized staff (which often leads to high turnover), increasing pressures from district staff to meet adequate yearly progress targets on standardized tests, and physical environments that are poorly maintained and often unsafe.

In spring 2011, the president visited a suburban school (with notable achievement gaps) to argue that without substantial changes more than 80 percent of the nation's schools would not meet NCLB performance targets this year.

To create such programs, states and districts must identify the most important elements of student performance (usually academic achievement), measure them (usually with state tests), calculate change in performance on a school - by - school basis, and provide rewards to schools that meet or beat performance improvement targets — all of which must be backed by system supports that enable all schools to boost results.