Sentences with phrase «schools running on this system»

«We now have all our schools running on this system,» Martinez says, «so this is a real, scalable thing, not a prototype.»

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Run by radicals for approximately twenty years, Berkeley has experienced the virtual ruin of its public school system, a vastly increased municipal bureaucracy, a greatly diminished housing stock (thanks to stringent rent controls and other restrictions on property rights), increased crime and drug abuse, widespread corruption, and wholesale waste of public funds.

«Mayor Bloomberg ran for Mayor in 2001 on a platform of Mayoral control of the school system.

Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks to reporters at City Hall in Manhattan after Miami - Dade County Public Schools Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho announced abruptly that he will not accept the job of running the New York City school system on Thursday, March 1, 2018.

In a shot directly at Mayor Bill de Blasio, the state Senate Republicans on Friday quietly introduced a bill that would extend New York city mayoral control over the schools for just a year while at the same time giving the governor a role in how the city system is run.

She spoke with host Gary Axelbank about her abstention in the vote on mayoral control, the concept of mayoral control, charter schools, how the system mgiht be run to maximum effiency, lessons learned from her tenure as president at Hostos CC, and numerous other topics.

He ran against Hillary Clinton for Senate in 2006, receiving 1.2 percent of the vote, and his platform calls for «universal single - payer health care, fully funded public schools, tuition - free SUNY and CUNY, building a carbon - free clean energy system — all paid for by restoring progressive tax rates on Wall Street and the rich.»

Here in New York, vibrant movements opposing fracking and the growing corporate attacks on our public school system helped spur the Green Party gubernatorial campaign of Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones, which received almost 5 percent of the vote running against incumbent Democrat Andrew Cuomo, the best any independent third party campaign has done statewide in more than 80 years.

ALBANY — In a shot directly at Mayor de Blasio, the state Senate Republicans on Friday quietly introduced a bill that would extend New York city mayoral control over the schools for just a year while at the same time giving the governor a role in how the city system is run.

The petition says he has run the NYC school system «like a ruthless dictatorship,» shutting out parents and teachers, putting the focus on tests, and refusing to cut overcrowding and class size.

The agency was ostensibly dedicated to helping parents navigate the school system, but prosecutors said employees there and at another nonprofit organization she ran stole more than $ 100,000 in state grants instead of spending the money on programming.

Cloud based services are fantastic in the commercial world, but could run the risk of schools offshoring 90 per cent of its systems up into the cloud when 90 per cent of the education delivery happens on campus.

about mayoral control, non-educators running public school systems, Klein's legacy, and who Cathie Black was — and wasn't; we saw Steiner appoint an eight - member panel of experts to advise him on whether to grant a legally - required waiver to non-educator Black, Checker call the need for a waiver «antiquated,» the special panel recommend no waiver, polls showing New Yorkers opposing Black, a flurry of celebs — including Gloria Steinem and Whoopee Goldberg — weighing in to support her, Steiner losing sleep.

They crossed paths occasionally after Obama was elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1996 representing Duncan's home base, Hyde Park and Kenwood on the South Side, and frequently when Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate and Duncan ran the school system.

It also minimises any disruptions from technology, as IT partners providing managed services to schools can run proactive checks on the schools» systems throughout the day to instantly pick up and rectify issues before they become a problem.

The Times editorial relies on an op - ed they ran by Tulane Professor Doug Harris, who asserted in November that Detroit's charter school system is «the biggest school reform disaster in the country.»

And even if by some political miracle the new PARCC test could be used to impose tough sanctions on schools and educators who failed to comply with Common Core, it's a really bad idea to try to run school systems with a test.

While some may find it unusual for Powell to speak on education, he said he felt certified on the topic, arguing that he ran the largest school system in America and the world — the U.S. Armed Forces.

The district's success will depend on a new system - wide leader and principals, who are given wide latitude to run their schools.

Schools will be running a dual system with the expectation that they will scrutinise and report back on their outcomes.

Once again, the benefits of cashless catering systems are realised because the school can, at any time, run a report on what each child has eaten that day, week or month, to ensure they are eating a stable, nutritionally balanced diet.

In the long run, parental perceptions will also depend on how the school system responds to market demand.

She helps manage the learning management system, creates professional - development courses, writes the virtual school's blog, runs the district's professional - development Twitter chat, and is working on the issue of interoperability to make sure district software and technology work together seamlessly.

School officials in Fairfax County, Va., have changed their procedures for running criminal - record checks on substitute teachers after discovering that a convicted killer who had escaped from prison had been working in the school system for almost two mSchool officials in Fairfax County, Va., have changed their procedures for running criminal - record checks on substitute teachers after discovering that a convicted killer who had escaped from prison had been working in the school system for almost two mschool system for almost two months.

It was the most recent of a growing list of decisions she has made while running the nation's largest school system that seem to be based not on empirical evidence, but on the chancellor's personal preference.

It should come as no surprise that many countries have the same draconian reforms foisted on their public schools like the U.S. I find it interesting to learn how other countries run their schools and the similarities and differences between their systems and ours.

The state board plans to conduct a trial run for the new system based on schools» 2013 - 14 performance in order to perfect it.

It focuses on the relevance of comparing U.S. national student performance with average scores in other countries when U.S. students attend schools in 51 separate education systems run not by the federal government, but by states (plus the District of Columbia).

They are unregulated monsters run amok on our school system.

After a couple of years of planning and a trial run last spring, the state on Thursday released the California School Dashboard, displaying a multi-color system for grading the performance of schools, school districts and charter schools on a variety of measureSchool Dashboard, displaying a multi-color system for grading the performance of schools, school districts and charter schools on a variety of measureschool districts and charter schools on a variety of measurements.

Most arts councils, schools, and school systems will want to run a felony background check on you.

Despite reassurances from Michael Gove that reforms based on the Swedish system of «free» schools would not be run for profit, there is the strong possibility under this system that governing bodies could increasingly contract out the running of schools to private companies in return for management fees.

Critics fear that parent triggers will transform the school system into an assembly line of identically run schools that focus on test scores at the expense of teacher autonomy in the classroom.

America must choose either a patchwork of online schools and charters with profiteers on the prowl, or a transparent community public school system run by citizens elected by their neighbors.

By 2001, however, while running against former West High School principal Libby Burmaster, who would go on to beat him, Evers had publicly opposed the expansion of vouchers beyond Milwaukee and said the system's level of financial and academic accountability must increase.

In February, Northumberland Council launched a seven - week consultation which set out plans to completely overhaul the education system in the west of the county, where there is a 30 - per - cent surplus of places, and many schools still run on a three - tier system.

The spokesman said accountability for academies was more robust than in council - run schools, adding that regional schools commissioners enabled «swift action» on problems «that the council - run system would fail to tackle for years».

In addition to seniority rights for teachers, the debate in Detroit hinges on the question of how school systems should be run.

The Achievement School District: Lessons from Tennessee reports on the ASD model, including the viability of charter schools within a community - based enrollment system, developing a sustainable teacher and leader pipeline, and collaboration with the Shelby County district - run turnaround effort, called iZone.

But he also moved to establish the unified enrollment system across all schools, local or state run, and a central expulsion procedure, so that schools would have to follow the same rules on the students they took and those they let go.

Unlike with the public school system or charter schools, private schools do not run on public funds.

In the short run, we must bring vast pressure to bear on the U.S. president to implement a system of incentives like the one that I've described, or any other strategy he may contrive, to give the children of the inner - city poor the same full opportunity for first - rate integrated schooling that he himself enjoyed and is now providing his own children.

On the other hand the white segment, 8 % of the school population, receive outside school placements 81 % of the time and are placed in the district only 11 % of the time, and not one orthodox child is placed in special education class run by the Lakewood system.

He estimates that KIPP will need about 10 percent of the students in a community to really put pressure on the system as a whole, and in Houston, he is already seeing some evidence of that, as the traditional direct - run schools have begun emulating KIPP policies, putting up posters about colleges instead of standardized tests and sending teachers on visits to new students» homes.

Chicago Public Schools said it will approve expansion plans for just two charter operators and put 10 of the privately run schools on an academic warning list that could lead to them being shut down if they don't improve under the district's rating Schools said it will approve expansion plans for just two charter operators and put 10 of the privately run schools on an academic warning list that could lead to them being shut down if they don't improve under the district's rating schools on an academic warning list that could lead to them being shut down if they don't improve under the district's rating system.

Apparently, payments are being made to the Teacher Retirement Fund so he can count his Windham work toward his pension despite that fact that Adamowski is STILL not certified to work in Connecticut and is not even an employee of the State Department of Education, despite being responsible for running the Windham School System on Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor's behalf.

Observe an urban artery during the school run, or a trunk road on a bank holiday weekend, and ask yourself whether the current system meets that need.

Inslee on 14 December proposed using a price on carbon to support the state's primary and secondary education system and end a long - running fight with lawmakers over how best to comply with a 2012 court ruling that said the state had not adequately funded its schools.

This week on the legal - affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we look at the Peer - to - Patent system, an innovative pilot project run jointly by the USPTO and the Center for Patent Innovations, a research and development arm of New York Law School's Institute for Information Law and Policy.

Private pro bono clinics, law school clinics and clinics run by legal aid organizations are the first point of face - to - face contact with the justice system for most people who don't have a law firm on personal retainer.