Sentences with phrase «schools since»

«Just like the Labour party, all they have done is undermine the hard work of classroom teachers, which has seen a million more pupils in good or outstanding schools since 2010, a 71 % increase in students taking rigorous academic subjects and 100,000 six year olds reading more confidently,» said Mr Gibb.

The New School Center has been documenting chronic absenteeism in New York City's schools since 2008, when almost 29 percent of the city's students were chronically absent.

Dr Sarah Younie, the professor of education innovation at De Montfort University, said local authorities used to negotiate with «EdTech» suppliers, but this task is now often left to individual schools since the onset of academies.

We pay attention to New Jersey — a state that has been chartering schools since 1997 — for its dramatic efforts to improve authorizing practices during the last few years.

Nearly 300 students fleeing the devastation in Puerto Rico have enrolled in Orange County (Fla.) public schools since Hurricane Maria struck their island.

We were one of the original schools authorized by the Arizona Department of Education to provide distance learning services to Arizona students in grades K - 12, and we have continued to innovate and advocate for Arizona online schools since 1998.

«Interestingly, these were also the most salient concepts brought up across respondent groups (principals, teachers and parents) when they described the changes which had occurred in their schools since Innovation,» the report states.

Richard Carranza, who has led San Francisco schools since 2012, is the sole finalist to become superintendent of the Houston Independent School District.

But the considerations at issue are really the fundamental ones underlying fights over charter schools since their inception.

Aaron Boyle has worked in New York City transfer schools since 2003.

She has conducted numerous studies related to the Baltimore City Schools since 1996.

Leslie Jacobs, a businesswoman who served on the state board of education and helped guide the schools overhaul, said New Orleans has built a foundation for better schools since the hurricane.

the proportion of good or outstanding schools has risen by 1 percentage point for primary schools, and 2 percentage points for secondary schools since August last year

My solution is for parents who choose to send their children to nonpublic schools, instead of giving them school vouchers, have their property taxes exempt from funding public schools since by doing this they help reduce the size of public school class sizes.

Secondary schools are likely to have two very different groups of ELLs — newcomers to the country and long - term English learners, many of whom were born in the United States and attended U.S. schools since kindergarten but are still not proficient in English.

Jennifer Bryan, marketing director for the Challenge Foundation, said in an email that the trust has been helping fund charter schools since 1989 in hopes it will improve education overall.

There are fewer children in overcrowded primary schools and, most importantly, one million more children in good or outstanding schools since 2010.»

Parents have «triggered» changes at three schools since the law took effect.

I am really more concerned with primary schools since I believe that the largest lasting gains in education can be made by dealing with problems at the primary level.

Principals have had control over staffing at their schools since 2005, when the district officially adopted «mutual consent» hiring.

Marleen C. Pugach is a Professor of Teacher Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, where she has been responsible for the preparation of teachers for urban elementary and middle schools since 1986.

Our business has been for and about schools since the beginning, which is why 95 % of clients stay with us year over year.

The NEU will continue to lobby the Government to provide more funding for sixth form colleges, as well as for schools, as the post-16 sector has suffered even greater real - terms funding cuts than schools since 2010.

Harris Teeter has donated over $ 26 million to Together In Education schools since 1998!

Massachusetts has granted charter to 108 schools since 1994, about 25 percent of them closed or never opened.

According to a report released this month by the Pew Charitable Trusts, school districts that have closed schools since 2005 often have trouble unloading buildings from their portfolio.

Her remarks appeared to be her strongest endorsement of public schools since taking office just over a month ago.

Similarly, in Providence, R.I., a successful principal training collaboration between the district and the University of Rhode Island has placed graduates in leadership positions in roughly half of the district's 49 schools since 2002, without a single termination to date.

One such volunteer tutoring program, Book Buddies, has evolved in the Charlottesville city schools since 1992.

NAHT Aspire is a proven School Improvement programme that has been delivering consistently high outcomes for partner schools since its beginning in 2013.

Dr. Byrd has worked in Washington schools since 2002.

Prior to moving to Olathe, Allison had served as Superintendent of the Wichita Schools since 2009.

Working with select Connecticut schools since 1994, the program has directly served over 47 schools in all congressional districts and reached over 100,000 students.

The project, partly funded by the Sutton Trust's sister charity, The Education Endowment Foundation, has tutored more than 2,000 pupils in more than 50 schools since it began less than two years ago.

This is a guest post by Christine Sugrue, who has taught middle school social studies in the New York City Public Schools since 1999.

Physical education standards have been relatively unchanged at most U.S. schools since the early 1990s, and the push by the District was embraced by those linking exercise and academic achievement.

CEI has been helping create and develop effective charter schools since the advent of charter legislation in the late 1990s.

We have been serving school districts, learning / tutoring centers, charter schools, and private schools since 2000.

A new analysis released by leading education reform organization StudentsFirstNY finds that Mayor Bill de Blasio has done little to improve New York City public schools since he took control in January 2014.

Mary Levy, a local activist who's been tracking DC schools since 1980, told Washingtonian in 2007, ««I have never figured out why it is so hard to do in DCPS what is absolutely routine elsewhere»... Like ordering books, paying teachers, fixing bathrooms.»

Preparing students for the future has been the role of schools since their inception.

But we know a lot more about these innovative public schools since the last failed measure in 2004.

Empty Promises: A Case Study of Restructuring and the Exclusion of English Language Learners in Two Brooklyn High Schools Since 2002, the New York City Department of Education (DOE) has attempted to reverse the city's severe drop - out crisis through a large scale restructuring of high schools, focused mainly on closing large, comprehensive high schools and replacing them with small high schools that offer a more personalized learning environment.

The tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina provided a much - needed occasion to reflect on the progress of the city's schools since the floodwaters receded.

... Benjamin O. Canada, the superintendent of the Atlanta schools since 1984, is returning to the Pacific Northwest,...

One survey indicates a sizable drop in the availability of even introductory computer - science courses in public and private secondary schools since 2005.

(New Jersey has been in charge of the Jersey City schools since 1989.)

New Haven has used magnet schools since the 1970s, and their popularity continues to grow.

Andy Smarick has been expressing skepticism about the ability to turn around failing schools since at least 2010, when he wrote «The Turnaround Fallacy: Stop trying to fix failing schools.

Fariña's favored Teachers College Reading and Writing didn't make the cut — a conspicuous omission given the program's dominance in New York City elementary and middle schools since the early days of the Bloomberg / Klein era.