Sentences with phrase «schools than the capacity»

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High school is short but life is long and having belief in your principles and capacity for rational thought are going to mean a lot more in the long run than being popular with the vapid sheep you are currently surrounded by.

Indeed, with the capacity to keep milk fresh for days rather than hours, America plunged into a near - obsession with milk - drinking that came to be part of the national character: Three glasses of milk a day turned into a staple of the diet for city dwellers along with farm families already close to the source; kids with red - and - white milk cartons became as common in school cafeterias as mystery meat.

«This school has the capacity we need, with even greater efficiencies, security and technology than our last school construction project... and it's a beautiful building.

Under the proposal, Success Academy Harlem 4 would have been allowed to expand at the school, pushing capacity to more than 130 percent.

Assemblyman Francisco Moya, Rep. Joseph Crowley and state Sen. Jose Peralta gathered Monday to urge the city to reduce the density of new buildings in South Corona — saying the area's schools already are at more than 150 percent capacity and the 7 train is strained to capacity.

«Most of the boroughs are below capacity, but we exceed capacity at 108 percent on average,» Katz said of the more than 238,000 students enrolled in Queens schools.

While two of four elementary schools — P.S. 261 and P.S. 287 — are currently under capacity, by 2017 the neighborhood is expected to absorb more than 4,000 newly occupied apartments and 1,164 new students, leaders said.

The most overcrowded high school in New York City is Francis Lewis High School in Fresh Meadows, whose student population now more than doubles the school's maximum capacity, Katzschool in New York City is Francis Lewis High School in Fresh Meadows, whose student population now more than doubles the school's maximum capacity, KatzSchool in Fresh Meadows, whose student population now more than doubles the school's maximum capacity, Katzschool's maximum capacity, Katz said.

Lead author Dr Roel Brienen, from the School of Geography at the University of Leeds, said: «Tree mortality rates have increased by more than a third since the mid-1980s, and this is affecting the Amazon's capacity to store carbon.»

59 % of women said more than 10... or more than their lip gloss capacity... Hmm... does that include school grade kisses?

Speaking to MPs on 16 September, Wilshaw claimed that too much time is spent debating structures rather than the bigger issue of capacity within the English school system, calling for a debate on how to ensure more good people are brought in.

The moves includes more than # 45 million for successful multi-academy trusts to help tackle underperformance and improve schools in areas that lack capacity.

The Local Government Association, which represents more than 370 councils in England and Wales, is highlighting that under proposals in the Educational Excellence Everywhere White Paper, councils will retain their responsibility to make sure all children get a school place, but from 2022, when all schools are academies and free schools, will have no powers to force schools to expand — even where there is demand and capacity within the school.

While many people now have access to internet at a much higher speed than this, it can act as a useful benchmark and conservative target for calculating the capacity of a school connection.

This is a much more positive and optimistic view of learners» capacities for learning than past views that individuals differed markedly in their ability to learn and that part of the role of schools was to identify these differences and to sort students accordingly.

When faced with the challenges and opportunities of the 21st Century, each leader's capacity to network is now more important for their school's development than ever before.

With pupil numbers on the increase and school places more contested, Jackie Maginnis, of the Modular Portable Building Association, looks at the fast capacity that modular buildings hold to construct more than just basic classrooms.

The bill's intent was to force «virtual» charter schools to spend a high proportion of their budgets on certified staff rather than on technology, stifling their capacity to innovate.

She has worked in higher education for more than 10 years in various capacities including outreach, admissions, student affairs, and development, most recently at the MIT Sloan School of Management, overseeing class and reunion giving.

«The other reason we need to raise money is for a school's start - up years, when the school has many fewer students than it will have at capacity.

Joanne Weiss, the former chief of staff at the U.S. Department of Education under Secretary Arne Duncan, has brought education officials from more than a dozen states to Louisiana in her capacity as a consultant to the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO).

Yet while school boards» capacity to innovate may be greater in practice than it is in theory, they enjoy less autonomy than other local governments.

An analysis I did for my newspaper, the New York Daily News, compared all 6,979 transfers in the city for 2003 - 04 with the official building capacity of the receiving schools the previous school year and found that nearly 60 percent of those transfers went to schools with more than enough room to spare.

Ironically, the expansion of student legal rights, rather than enhancing youth outcomes, has increased the extent to which schools have relied on authoritarian measures, decreased the moral authority of educators, and diminished the capacity of schools to socialize young people effectively.

The two storey nature of the school buildings allows for a greater student capacity than was available previously, and also plays into the treehouse concept envisaged by the students.

Andrew says the school installed the EB - 695Wi because of the technology's capacity to project a larger image than usual.

One school increased school meals turnover by more than # 12,000 in the six months after starting to make little changes — such as buddy systems to help younger students feel more confident in the dining area, re-arranging tables to improve capacity and allowing packed lunch students to sit with school lunch students.

The greatest insight we have gained in our work with school districts across the continent is that organisation that take the plunge and actually begin doing the work of a PLC develop their capacity to help all students learn at high levels far more effectively than schools that spend years preparing to become PLCs through reading or even training.

At the same time you might have the capacity to do more in health and wellbeing than you've ever done before, and to orientate the school, to meet the needs of the kids even more than you do now.

Lynette N. Tannis began her education career more than two decades ago and has served in myriad capacities in traditional and charter school settings, including classroom teacher, literacy coordinator, school / district administrator, intern superintendent, and education consultant.

Rather than having to establish, manage and maintain growing racks of server and storage infrastructure, a school can instead purchase capacity from a cloud provider.

Being the principal of a large secondary school, for example, requires quite different capacities than serving the same role in a small elementary school.

He has worked directly with more than 25 schools in Illinois, Maryland, Florida, and Texas, working directly with teachers in their classrooms and grade - level teams on capacity building, differentiated instruction, student learning outcomes, and data analysis.

Since the school has just 90 students so far, the teachers have lots of time for each kid - more time than they're likely to have when the school is at capacity with 300 students.

He previously served as New Jersey's Commissioner of Education, in which capacity he oversaw 2,500 public schools, 1.4 million students, and 110,000 teachers across more than 600 school districts.

In response to the concern that SEAs are losing knowledge capacity as staff members retire faster than they are being replaced, we suggest that schools of education begin to take stock of this important change.

Senior Corps» Foster Grandparents program provides an opportunity for volunteers age 55 and older to serve as mentors and tutors for students.39 In 2016, an estimated 24,000 Foster Grandparents volunteers served approximately 200,000 students.40 Similarly, in 2016, AmeriCorps VISTA volunteers were approved to provide capacity - building assistance to more than 2,900 education - related project sites.41 Cutting funding for the CNCS would mean eliminating a substantial amount of necessary support for traditional public and public charter schools and would hurt low - income students across the country.

He said the Conservative manifesto had been light on issues such as pupil numbers, funding and teacher retention, and risked righting the «last war» on autonomy and accountability, rather than the «future war» on school capacity for improvement.

It also meant accepting hundreds more students than Locke had capacity for, a reality regularly forced on public schools.

The school now has an enrollment of more than 900, with a capacity of 960.

This is a capacity that has developed over time, and the results can be seen at the transfer schools (small, academically rigorous, full - time high schools for students who have been enrolled in high school for at least one year and are far from promoting on grade level), which often have higher graduation rates than regular schools.

The SMF findings come in a report assessing a proposal by the Sutton Trust that children should be admitted to independent schools on academic ability alone, rather than on their family's capacity to pay fees.

◦ Increase its student enrollment once per school year by up to 15 % more than the capacity identified in the charter

Rather than using data to create a laundry list of «what's going wrong with our schools» or to assign blame to a group or individual, it is more effective to look at equity - related data with the goal of building capacity for improvement.

Only 10 per cent of the under - capacity planning areas in regions other than London have benefitted from a new secondary free school, compared to nearly half of the planning areas with a severe or definite need in London.

The first is the removal of the generous «system weighted average» in the capacity - to - pay measure, which treated all Catholic schools as average rather than basing their funding on each school's parent body.

The back - to - basics charter schools will serve more than 5,000 students once at capacity.

More than 185,900 students have enrolled in charter schools this year, with tens of thousands more waiting to attend schools at capacity.

Closings of «underutilized schools» may result in overcrowding: «A Catalyst Chicago analysis of CPS utilization data shows that in eight instances, the receiving school will be more than 100 percent over capacity if the current enrollment of the closing and receiving schools combines.

An earlier report included a shortlist of four primary schools which would have capacity for more than 1,000 pupils by 2014 - 15.