Sentences with phrase «select number of schools»

If local authorities still had a key role, they would probably select a number of schools where they would offer such a service and develop it according to demand.

Supporting a select number of schools in a newly formed Rural School Improvement Collaborative.

A select number of schools across the country will start trialling the multiplication tables check from next month.

«The law was passed because lead can cause serious health problems, especially for young children and pregnant women, and testing at a select number of schools last year uncovered potential problems,» said Christine Schuyler, director of health and human services for Chautauqua County.

Not exact matches

That's now the case for hundreds of students at the University of South China, which according to a number of news outlets has essentially barred those who are in their second year of the school's civil - engineering program from selecting their specialties; the program is broken down into seven of them.

As one of a select number of nonprofits in the accelerator, it's taking a unique path through the startup school.

The Catholic Church has rejected criticism over plans to remove the cap on the number of children from one particular faith that a school can select.

The report also examines the impact of select trends and policies on program participation and compares the number of schools offering the School Breakfast Program to the number of schools operating the National School Lunch Program.

Individual school production records documented the number of food items produced (including entrées and side dishes) and the number of servings of each individual food item, such as milk, selected by students at lunch along with the daily reimbursable lunch count.

For each school, the nutritional content of an average school lunch by month was computed using the recorded food items selected by students that month along with the salad bar food portions divided by the number of lunches served.

Southern was selected for the grant based on the number of students that qualify for free or reduced priced meals, average daily participation in the school breakfast program, and district and school - level support.

Realistically, the only way we can do this is to create a very small number of state schools that have the freedom to select the most gifted children regardless of their wealth — perhaps just several thousand in a given year - and which provide these children with the most academically demanding education available anywhere in the country.

A select number of private schools also have been allowed to enter the program.

The report by the House of Commons education select committee into Regional Schools Commissioners (RSCs) raises a number of concerns about the role and function of the people charged with overseeing the growing number of academy schools in ESchools Commissioners (RSCs) raises a number of concerns about the role and function of the people charged with overseeing the growing number of academy schools in Eschools in England.

Secondary schools will have to, if selected, be able to provide GCSE level teaching for any number of languages — Mandarin, Hindi - Urdu, Bengali, Russian or Japanese to name just a few.

Under current rules, if a faith school is over subscribed it has to limit the number of pupils it selects based on faith to 50 per cent.

Each year from July 2016, around $ 10 million is available to integrate early childhood, maternal and child health, and family support services with schools in a selected number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities experiencing disadvantage.

Is PBL really so difficult that only a select number of masterful teachers, innovative schools, and dynamic school leaders can pull off high quality projects?

The central problem with estimating peer effects in schools is that families, in a number of ways, can select their children's peers.

Ackerman pointed to the district's support for the growing numbers of students selecting charter schools and to rising test scores by district students on the state's standardized tests.

The academics say that boosting the number of schools that select pupils for ability would be dangerous for equality.

Host families when selected should receive the following information about their guests: name, age and gender of charge, plus any dietary requirements or necessary medical or cultural information; contact numbers, including emergency contacts and medical insurance information; and the visiting school's code of conduct.

Instead of focusing the education conversation around a select number of hot topics ~ often related to school governance ~ we should focus our efforts on overcoming larger societal realities and their impact on student learning.

The Northern Education Trust was selected for a focused review because of Ofsted's concerns about the performance of a number of its 20 schools.

We were able to select from a number of nominations, three schools in Victoria, one in the ACT (Australian Capital Territory) and one in Queensland.

No, this isn't another piece about how online learning can allow students to continue to learn even when school is canceled because of snow — although online learning could arguably help a select number of parents who can work from home solve the problem faced when this happens.

The Education Select Committee has heard that a number of teachers are starting their careers in primary school with only a few hours training in some subject areas.

What is the number of students that select the school cashless catering system instead of packed lunches?

Number, highest degree, and years of full - time teaching experience of teachers in public and private elementary and secondary schools, by selected teacher characteristics: Selected years, 1999 - 2000 through 2selected teacher characteristics: Selected years, 1999 - 2000 through 2Selected years, 1999 - 2000 through 2011 - 12

Similarly, the share of funds to be used by each recipient LEA to serve educationally disadvantaged students attending private schools is determined on the basis of the number of low - income children enrolled in private schools and living in the residential areas served by public schools selected to receive Title I grants.

The Mathematica researchers draw on other studies to try to estimate the potential peer effects, but clearly the best way to resolve the issues of self selection, attrition and replacement would be for KIPP to run a substantial number of «conversion» charter schools — schools in which KIPP educates students who happen to live in a particular neighborhood, rather than a self - selected group of students.

We selected equal numbers of high - and lowscoring schools to represent elementary, middle, and secondary schools.

But when families are asked which type of school they would select in order to obtain the best education for their child, the numbers change dramatically: 41 percent would choose private school and 36 percent would remain in public school.

From the 40 schools included in the first round of site visits, we selected the four with the highest principal - turnover rates as case study schools, based on the principal survey question about the number of principals that those 40 schools had had over the past 10 years.

Grammar schools - state - funded schools that select pupils on the basis of ability - are facing increasing pressure to become more socially inclusive, amid government plans to increase the number of them.

General secretary Chris Keates said: «Whilst selecting pupils on the basis of banding or a lottery may seem, at first glance, fair and attractive, it masks a number of potentially adverse consequences in a system in which there is a free for all for schools to set their own admissions arrangements.

Each of the 11 high schools selected to receive a Reach Higher System Impact Grant was a second year participant of MCAN's Reach Higher grant program, an initiative aimed at supporting college - going culture inside high schools to increase the number of high school students ready for and enrolling in college.

Making judgments about student learning and school quality based on a body of work — a select number of pieces of student work from a number of assessments within a given discipline, provides a much richer and more accurate picture of student learning than a single, disconnected standardized test.

Previous to this, she was selected by Teach for America to join the NYC Corps of 2002, where she taught 6th grade for two years, initiated a number of programs for at - risk youth, served as the TFA School Leader at Community Intermediate School 232, and was the Sue Lehman regional finalist in the NYC corps.

In a number of schools, students are involved in selecting textbooks, creating classroom behavior guidelines, and designing new buildings.

For example, in gathering a normative sample for a state assessment a certain number of students from each grade level in each county or school district could be selected.

The programme was set up initially after the head teacher from St Peter's School in Farnworth approached Bolton School to ask for help in raising the attainment of a select number pupils in Year 6 who were preparing to take the Level 6 SATs paper.

In many cases schools select different classes or groups for each session so that a large number of pupils in each school are given the opportunity to play cricket.

Operating mostly in Memphis with mixed results, ASD has selected two middle schools in Nashville, Madison and Neely's Bend, for potential takeover even though data shows the number of students scoring proficient or advanced at the schools are nearly seven points higher than the ASD average.

Detractors often challenge these results by accusing charter schools of skimming the cream of the crop or selecting a disproportionate number of gifted students compared to traditional public schools.

If there are states that do not participate, a certain number of schools and students are selected to complete the national - level sample.

If the number of completed New Hampshire applications submitted in any given year exceeds the capacity of the school, eligible applicants will be randomly selected through a lottery.

The only thing standing in their way was a state law requiring that parents, teachers and the local community had to play a role in selecting a «turnaround» model and there was little interest in a Washington D.C. charter school company that had virtually no experience running schools with a large Latino population, a significant number of English Language Learners and a large special education population.

A select few charter schools do better than traditional public schools, however, there are a number of things to consider in those limited instances.

In 2000, the foundation helped launch the Charter School Growth Fund, which offers start - up and facilities financing, multiyear program grants, technical and other supports to a select number of charter networks each year.