Sentences with phrase «serious need for improvement»

While BC has pulled up its grade in seven of the nine key areas this year, the report card still shows a serious need for improvement in order to fulfill international commitments on women's human rights.

Not exact matches

To get over an addiction, your partner will need to dedicate serious work toward personal growth, and it might be a struggle for him or her to put in the necessary work toward self - improvement, while also trying to be an attentive partner.

Whilst giving a nod to examples of good practice, the tone of the letter was one of serious concern about whether or not MAT Trustees were any better at driving improvements in educational provision (particularly for those children who most need it) than the local authority from which the academies came.

While many schools have been identified as needing improvement under NCLB, only a small percentage have failed to make progress for long enough — six years — to be subject to restructuring, the most serious consequence for schools under the law (see Figure 1).

State agencies have limited authority to intervene in low - performing schools, for example, and have limited staff, funding, and expertise to support serious improvement efforts in every school that needs it.

In a letter sent to trust chair Rachel Mallows in early December, Post raised concerns over «serious weaknesses» identified by Ofsted and the need for «significant improvement».

What is needed instead is a fundamental shift in direction in federal education policy, and ESSA is not it; therefore every family that can afford it should opt out of state schooling whenever possible until No Child Left Behind's failed strategy for social improvement via annual testing and publishing the results is abandoned entirely, and until Sacramento gets serious about subsidiary devolution, which implies that assessing and reporting on the results of local schools should be left to the local districts, whose citizens may have different priorities and values that the state and federal governments should learn to respect.

And the need for improvements has never been clearer than in the past week, as the New York region grappled with the human toll (four deaths and dozens of serious injuries) from the completely avoidable derailment of a speeding Metro - North commuter train one week ago.