Sentences with phrase «schools than the crises»

Meanwhile Malkin seems to ignore the reality that the nation's criminal justice systems are in as sore a need of reform as public education — and that as school reformers, Teach For America alumni and staffers can no more ignore the consequences of those woes on children outside of schools than the crises within them.

Not exact matches

Cruz's «crisis clinician» had the teen sign a «safety contract,» though the report does not specify what the contract required, other than to say that Cruz would continue with counseling and remain in school.

Who would have ever thought my house would ever be worth that much in a so - so school district, now valued higher than before the housing crisis.

An example: the Beslan school hostage crises in September 2004, where more than 300 people were killed.

Business Council President Heather Briccetti, in a statement says: «It is ironic and troubling that just days into the school year the teacher's union is asking its members to spend their energy trying to repress opposing views rather than focus on fixing the crisis in our schools.»

«The Coalition Government was repeatedly warned about the growing crisis in school places, but rather than addressing the needs of children and young people, it has decided it is more important to fund its ideological free school programme.»

«The governor moved more than anyone could have anticipated,» said Billy Easton of the Alliance for Quality Education, one of the groups pushing to restore school aid and social service funding cut over the last three years of fiscal crisis.

The crisis of lead in the municipal water in Flint, Michigan, earlier this year was cited when advocates for the New York bill released a list of 67 of the state's more than 700 school districts that have been the subject of news reports noting concerns over lead in water.

McMahon said Spitzer used the CFE decision as a «pretext for proposing an enormous multi-year state school aid increase, which was unsustainable on its face and proved to be even more unsustainable than that once the economy collapsed in the financial crisis.»

The contentiousness of the debate was on full display over the last two weeks, as a pro-charter school group filed its second lawsuit alleging a «crisis» of violence in the city's schools — after which leaders of the city's education and police departments spent consecutive days reassuring reporters that city schools are safer than ever.

Malliotakis» campaign has argued that she can manage the city better than de Blasio has — she regularly criticizes the mayor for failing schools, the homelessness crisis, crumbling subways, and other quality of life issues.

Dr. Molefi Asante, father of the director, suggests that the holiday was born more out of a cultural crisis than an identity crisis because, historically, African - American school kids have had «two sets of notes, one for the test, one for the truth.»

Teach First, the largest teacher provider in England, has warned that schools are facing a teaching crisis «worse than 2002», TES reports.

«No one is going to think it's a wonderful idea, but nothing would illustrate to the public the fiscal crisis more than shortening the school year,» Roberta Weintraub, a school - board member, recently told the Los Angeles Times

In recent years, Chicago has become emblematic of a national crisis concerning the fates and futures of Black boys, and nowhere are the depths of the crisis more frighteningly clear than within our big cities» public schools.

Coincidentally, the Archdiocese of Chicago, which ran the nation's largest parochial school system with more than 130,000 students, was in the midst of a demographic and financial crisis.

Thus, even while the right education is more valuable than ever, the public perception that traditional schools are overpriced, overcrowded, and irrelevant to the modern workplace has contributed to an atmosphere of crisis.

The Department of Education just released its first - ever report on what it labels a «hidden educational crisis» — chronic absenteeism, defined as missing more than 15 days of school in a year — in American schools, and the statistics are sobering: In the 2013 — 2014 school year, more than 6.5 million kids fell into this category.

The funding crisis has left schools with no alternative other than to reduce staffing levels — meaning larger class sizes and cuts to the curriculum.

More than 80 % are now teaching more hours than the average teaching hours in 2016, as schools face rising pupil numbers at the same time as a recruitment and retention crisis.

The latest report from Peter Huidekoper on Denver and the state's failure to turnaround these schools is more than depressing, it's a crisis.

It's one effort to help avert a brewing crisis for New Orleans schools: By 2020, the city will need to hire more than 900 teachers annually, an increase of nearly 40 percent from 2010, according to estimates by New Schools for New Oschools: By 2020, the city will need to hire more than 900 teachers annually, an increase of nearly 40 percent from 2010, according to estimates by New Schools for New OSchools for New Orleans.

School safety concerns have tragically been thrust to the forefront of a national discussion, but too much of the talk has been at schools and educators rather than with them.This webinar is an opportunity to explore and discuss school safety strategies centered on a comprehensive approach to violence prevention and crisis response that focuses on all hazards and is derived from an educational perspeSchool safety concerns have tragically been thrust to the forefront of a national discussion, but too much of the talk has been at schools and educators rather than with them.This webinar is an opportunity to explore and discuss school safety strategies centered on a comprehensive approach to violence prevention and crisis response that focuses on all hazards and is derived from an educational perspeschool safety strategies centered on a comprehensive approach to violence prevention and crisis response that focuses on all hazards and is derived from an educational perspective.

Laura Henry, an independent early years consultant, said: «Rather than penalising the sector, which is already seeing a recruitment crisis, why aren't we asking why these individuals are leaving secondary school without those GCSEs?

There is indeed an upcoming secondary school places shortages that will be more difficult to deal with than the primary crisis.

Petrilli argued that it required schools to reduce suspensions without providing any supports, but Jimenez and Kristen Harper of Child Trends argued that it did not require any changes without supports, but instead called attention to a discipline crisis where students of color were punished more regularly and harshly than their white peers.

For years, most in education circles have been acutely aware of a «boy crisis» in education — though around the world, girls are less likely to enter school, boys are significantly more likely to be held back, suspended, fail or drop out than their female counterparts and are more likely to be labeled as special needs — a truth that has remained for decades.

«The Government needs to get a grip and sort out the teacher shortage crisis, school places crisis and the increase in child mental health issues all of which are more important than reorganising who runs schools.

«What we see right now is a crisis, really, of staff turnover, with several of our highly qualified teachers, especially in very sought - after areas — bilingual education, special education — going to suburban schools, getting paid more than what they're getting paid in Milwaukee,» Peterson says.

In a special session of the Louisiana Legislature less than two months after the storm, with much of the population still displaced, lawmakers significantly changed the threshold for «failing» and allowed for the takeover of a failing district — a clear response to a school system in crisis that couldn't even open its doors.

Thirty years after being labeled the worst school district in the nation and after two decades of fiscal crisis, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) welcomed more than 381,000 students back to class last month as a leader among the nation's urban school districts.

More than 1 in 4 of the nation's full - time teachers are considered chronically absent from school, according to federal data, missing the equivalent of more than two weeks of classes each academic year in what some districts say has become an educational crisis.

The contentiousness of the debate was on full display over the last two weeks, as a pro-charter school group filed its second lawsuit alleging a «crisis» of violence in the city's schools — after which leaders of the city's education and police departments spent consecutive days reassuring reporters that city schools are safer than ever.

Yes, you read the headline right: Charlotte faces another crisis as its third charter school in less than a year — Entrepreneur High School — faces potential closure thanks to low enrollment and financialschool in less than a year — Entrepreneur High School — faces potential closure thanks to low enrollment and financialSchool — faces potential closure thanks to low enrollment and financial woes.

But although the funding crisis is real and governors have to make difficult decisions to balance budgets, striking, to me, feels to be the wrong reaction when schools need us more than ever.

More than five years after the start of the Great Recession, school libraries in the US are in crisis, their budgets constricted and their staff short - handed or nonexistent.

American student loans are quickly developing a crisis, with more than 70 percent of students leaving school weighed down with debts of more than $ 30,000.

Educate young people about science throughout their school years and we might not have this tragic delay in responding to the crisis (or have half of the people in the most scientifically and technologically advanced nation on earth believing that the earth was created less than ten thousand years ago for that matter).

But often those interviews just produce more questions than answers, said Scott Poland, a professor of psychology at Nova Southeastern University who has led crisis teams that responded to school shootings.

TOKYO (Reuters)-- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is facing his biggest political crisis since taking office more than five years ago, as suspicions swirl about a land sale to a school operator...

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Less than a decade after the housing crisis drove 30 percent of construction workers into new fields, according to NAHB, contractors across the country are now scrambling to find workers, some going as far as handing out flyers at sporting events, churches and schools.