Sentences with phrase «schools with the flexibility»

Dungan soon envisioned a community organization that offered some of the structures and supports of traditional schooling with the flexibility of homeschooling.

This paper, written for the Rural Opportunities Consortium of Idaho, offers policymakers and philanthropic leaders a set of recommendations to capitalize on the potential of technology to serve students: expand broadband access to schools lacking it, create an elite corps of proven teachers who would be made available to students across the state, and provide districts and schools with the flexibility to develop new models of staffing and technology and to achieve the most strategic combination of personnel, facilities, and technology.

This move toward unification must balance the need for locally elected governance of schools with the flexibility and independence necessary to continue making meaningful progress for students.

«We are extending the school day and providing schools with the flexibility to build effective teams by allowing teachers and school leaders to make hiring decisions together,» he said.

When the two of us applied to teach at Central Park School for Children, we each saw in the school's mission the original promise of charter schools in North Carolina: a collaborative community school with the flexibility to meet student and community needs in new and exciting ways.

«Putting in place new leadership and a majority of new staff, new governance, and improved instructional programs, and providing the school with flexibilities such as the ability to select staff, control its budget, and expand student learning time.»

The Follett - EBSCO partnership provides schools with the flexibility to purchase EBSCO eBooksâ «cents on Titlewave, a platform already integral to their workflow, and provides an easy, cost - effective way for libraries to provide educators with full - text EBSCO eBooks coverage to support their curricula.

The reform provided law schools with flexibility in designing their curriculum.

Thank you Nicastro's Driving School with your flexibility with make up classes and scheduling of on the road driving lessons.

Not exact matches

With a strong emphasis on flexibility, the school considers applicants without undergraduate degrees, and lets students design their own program to be either course - based or project - based.

«They have very, very demanding school and social lives and because of that, you have to provide them with the flexibility» to balance all those responsibilities.

A first - of - its - kind, the Fortune │ UNC partnership elevates the learning experience through regular interaction with renowned business school faculty, Fortune's access to C - suite executives, and the flexibility of a dynamic virtual learning environment.

FROM THE FIELD Alliance President Liz Beaven reports on a visit to the Community School for Creative Education in Oakland, CA and her conversation with Dr. Ida Oberman: Fidelity & Flexibility

According to the survey, a whopping «75 percent of school leaders encourage an increase in federal funding for school districts to comply with the new standards,» while 15 % fewer of those surveyed support the «flexibility» (SNA's favorite buzzword for: «gutting of regulations») which the SNA is now doggedly pursuing on Capitol Hill via its high - powered lobbyists.

«USDA has continued to show flexibility in implementing these new standards, and Congress should focus on partnering with USDA, states, schools, and parents to help our kids have access to more healthy food, not less.»

It wasn't long before the two groups» talking points mirrored each other perfectly, with each espousing a pressing need for «flexibility» in school food programs, a goal which sounds innocuous but really means throwing science - based nutrition standards out the window, despite growing evidence of their success in improving the diets of 31 million school kids each day.

TLT: Although the Senate bill gives schools more flexibility on whole grains, overall it preserves and respects the science - based nutrition standards promulgated by the USDA in accordance with the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act.

The renovation included remodeling two existing rooms into combination dance studio / meeting rooms, with a room divider for added flexibility; providing a program viewing / waiting room for families; improving the west parking lot entrance to the building; creating two outdoor accessible restrooms for North School Park events; and creating a receiving area for bulk delivery and increasing the storage area for program supplies.

I'm a SAHM so there's a lot of flexibility at this point with only one in school full - time.

SNA members clearly support providing the healthiest possible meals for students, but to ensure overall sustainability of our nation's child nutrition programs, Congress and USDA must provide these school nutrition professionals with greater menu planning flexibility.

Flexibility Our staff works with your school to plan delivery times that work for you.

Recommendation: To improve SFAs» ability to design menus that comply with the new lunch requirements, the Secretary of Agriculture should modify federal regulations or guidance to allow school districts flexibility in complying with the defined calorie ranges for schools with students in both the grades 6 - 8 and 9 - 12 groups.

The new School Meal Flexibility Rule... reflects USDA's commitment, made in a May proclamation to work with program operators, school nutrition professionals, industry, and other stakeholders to develop forward - thinking strategies to ensure school nutrition standards are both healthful and practical... This action reflects a key initiative of USDA's Regulatory Reform Agenda, developed in response to the President's Executive Order to alleviate unnecessary regulatory buSchool Meal Flexibility Rule... reflects USDA's commitment, made in a May proclamation to work with program operators, school nutrition professionals, industry, and other stakeholders to develop forward - thinking strategies to ensure school nutrition standards are both healthful and practical... This action reflects a key initiative of USDA's Regulatory Reform Agenda, developed in response to the President's Executive Order to alleviate unnecessary regulatory buschool nutrition professionals, industry, and other stakeholders to develop forward - thinking strategies to ensure school nutrition standards are both healthful and practical... This action reflects a key initiative of USDA's Regulatory Reform Agenda, developed in response to the President's Executive Order to alleviate unnecessary regulatory buschool nutrition standards are both healthful and practical... This action reflects a key initiative of USDA's Regulatory Reform Agenda, developed in response to the President's Executive Order to alleviate unnecessary regulatory burdens.

Based on this input, the 2015 Position Paper does not request a waiver, but rather increased funding paired with commonsense flexibility to restore the financial stability of school meal programs and allow for menu improvements that can entice students back to healthy school meals.

We are working with schools to provide funding, training, and flexibility so that 100 percent of schools will be able to successfully serve children healthier meals.

However, some states, such as Georgia, have used this flexibility to create a loophole from compliance with the standards by setting a high number for how many exempt fundraisers schools can hold per year.

Some family child care providers may offer parents more flexibility with hours of operation such as evening, weekend, overnight, and before and after school care.

Leon County School Superintendent Rocky Hanna says that will leave the district with little flexibility to put money toward other priorities.

Also, schools want flexibility with finding ways to improve their cost effectiveness, and that might include using alternate energy, or greater freedom to share services and administration between schools and units of local government.

Teaching public or private school offers a variety of benefits: geographic flexibility, a stable career, employment opportunities with health benefits, manageable work hours, and often 3 months off during the summer.

«The video lectures allowed for flexibility, as students could repeat sections they didn't understand for clarification and prepare questions to send to section leaders ahead of time, although the video lectures did make it difficult for students to engage directly with the lecturers,» said Stephanie Shiau, PhD, a post-doctoral student in Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health, and co-first author.

The flexibility of the BOKS program and the lack of a required investment in material resources can be helpful for schools with limited equipment and financial resources.»

Dr Kevin Paterson, a senior lecturer from the University of Leicester's School of Psychology, explained: «The fact that developing young readers in the study behaved similarly to skilled adult readers suggests both groups treated the position of inside letters with similar flexibility and are equally sensitive to the special importance of the outside letters when reading words.

«When I was in high school, I did yoga with my mom and it's really helped me a lot, A lot of guys take it because it really helps you with your flexibility.»

«For flexibility,» Pinkett Smith told an Essence reporter, «so they can stay with us when we travel, and also because the school system in this country — public and private — is designed for the industrial age.

Circe Wallace, a retired snowboarder turned action - sport agent, remarked in 2006, «I've been in this business 15 years, and it's always been those with parents that understand the freedom and flexibility of home schooling that go the furthest.»

Arts organizations are workingside - by - side with teachers and principalsto develop arts - integrated curricula that tapinto the flexibility and innovation possible inafter - school time.

With the grant came good things: extra cash — as much as $ 2 million per school per year — as well as the flexibility to try new things often restricted under union rules, like an extended school year.

Like other administrators in her position, Nolan is now faced with a dilemma: How do you keep the school's positive momentum going without the added funding and flexibilities?

The Flexibility for Equitable Student Funding pilot gives districts that use student - based budgeting new freedom to allocate Title I and Title II dollars to schools along with state and local dollars.

ESSA's flexibility coupled with the fact that some cities now have fewer than half their schools within the traditional district can enable state leaders to apply charter - style accountability to district - run schools.

Spell out flexibility for state educational agencies (SEAs) to contemplate accountability that looks different in urban areas with many charter schools.

Whilst vending allows operators the flexibility to vary their vended offerings in accordance with what their customers want, where education vending is concerned, vending services can be stocked to provide students with the products that they should be consuming — the healthy options that meet school meal guidelines as per the government's recommendations — so operators can control what students» should / shouldn't be eating and drinking.

With a greater understanding of deployment related students» needs principals have built greater flexibility into school processes,» the report says.

Zoning flexibility for schools with non-traditional approaches (like small - group instruction or one - to - one blended learning models) would make it easier for innovative schools to find space that fits their needs, such as using office occupancy standards instead of the usual school standards for rezoning.

When a school approaches the mission of teaching with creativity and flexibility, as seen at the Weilenmann School of Discovery, something magical can hschool approaches the mission of teaching with creativity and flexibility, as seen at the Weilenmann School of Discovery, something magical can hSchool of Discovery, something magical can happen.

Along with other major changes to state - funded education, the new legislation gave public schools more flexibility in offering single - sex programs.

But with flexibility, creativity, and an open door to the community and beyond, schools could get a lot closer to personalized pathways for even the most complex student.

This year's class makes my point — a great cross-section of students, some with teaching experience, some with a business background, one in the Harvard Law School, and several from overseas — but all wanting to see how they could put to work the freedom and flexibility afforded by the charter model.

Money raised as part of the Sugar Levy will to be used to double the amount of money spent on sports in schools, and schools will be able to bid for funding to offer five hours or more a week of additional lessons or extracurricular activities, with the new flexibility arguably offering such schools the ability to tailor the structure and duration of their school day to suit their pupils» needs.