Sentences with phrase «significant changes to school»

Justine Greening's 18 months at the Department for Education mean that she had had one of the shortest tenures in the role, despite leaving a legacy of significant changes to school funding and primary assessment.

«Outstanding issues include under - investment in school technology infrastructure, significant inequities in allocation of Fair Student Funding dollars, disparities in gifted and talented education, resistance to training and support for new learning devices like tablets, inaction on liberalizing school space usage policy for community - based organizations, and poor community notification on significant changes to school utilization,» Adams said.

The foundation supported several levels of training, first on building important culinary skills and knowledge of healthy food preparation, then on building employee morale and support for making significant changes to the school food environment.

Caldwell said she first became worried about SNA's new direction in March, when she attended the group's legislative conference and was handed a policy paper asking for significant changes to the school meal regulations, including eliminating the requirement that students take a fruit or a vegetable and rescinding strict sodium limits set to begin in 2017.

The researchers focused on 18 - to 22 - year - olds in Georgia, Idaho and Texas — three states which implemented state - mandated financial literacy courses that first measured results for the class of 2007 without making any other significant changes to their schools» coursework.

Not exact matches

Whether the college endowment tax was politically targeted or part of a larger plan to push schools to lower the barrier to entry, it doesn't change the reality that many liberal arts colleges stand to lose significant endowment income.

While Trump could initiate some changes to the visa program with executive action, significant shifts would likely need to go through a lengthy formal rulemaking process, said Stephen Yale - Loehr, an immigration expert at Cornell Law School.

The moratorium episode — the closest that Florida's Democratic gun - control proponents have come to success after a Feb. 14 shooting rampage, at a high school in Parkland, left 17 people dead — illustrates why it is so difficult to pass firearm restrictions in the State Legislature: When it comes to backing a significant change, even a popular one, the votes just aren't there.

Following a full - scale review, the business school's flagship Bachelor of Commerce (BComm) degree program underwent a number of significant changes to meet the school's new strategic focus on ethical leadership, entrepreneurship and energy.

«Although the headline ranking figures show changes in the data year to year, the pattern of clustering among the schools is equally significant,» admits the FT in the footnote.

Florida Governor Rick Scott announced Friday that he had signed the school safety bill that makes significant changes to gun laws, school security, and funding for mental health treatment.

But according to the «Violence Profile» conducted annually by George Gerbner of the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School of Communication, the level of violence in television showed no significant change throughout the 1970s.

The consequent break between past and present realities provides a significant opportunity to change the way in which the Sunday school is viewed.

Especially as one harbors hopes for significant changes in a theological school, it is important to understand a particular school in its concrete particularity.

The AHA recommends obtaining a comprehensive personal and family history from an athlete entering high school or college, with an interim history and blood pressure check each year for the next 3 to 4 years, significant changes or abnormalities triggering another physical exam and further testing.

The company believes that the USDA's new «Smart Snacks in School» rule, which is the first change to competitive food guidelines in more than 30 years, will lead to significant improvements in student health, happiness and overall performance — both in the classroom and on the athletic field.

BHA Faith Schools Campaigner Richy Thompson commented, «These changes represent a significant victory in ensuring Academies and Free Schools have to respect the shared citizenship that all British people enjoy, which includes liberty, equality, tolerance for other views, and respect for the rule of English law.

To help achieve the Governor's goal of encouraging efficiency and results, the Executive Budget allocates $ 250 million to be awarded on a competitive basis to school districts that demonstrate significant improvement in their student performance outcomes and another $ 250 million to be awarded on a competitive basis to school districts that undertake long - term structural changes which reduce costs and improve efficiencTo help achieve the Governor's goal of encouraging efficiency and results, the Executive Budget allocates $ 250 million to be awarded on a competitive basis to school districts that demonstrate significant improvement in their student performance outcomes and another $ 250 million to be awarded on a competitive basis to school districts that undertake long - term structural changes which reduce costs and improve efficiencto be awarded on a competitive basis to school districts that demonstrate significant improvement in their student performance outcomes and another $ 250 million to be awarded on a competitive basis to school districts that undertake long - term structural changes which reduce costs and improve efficiencto school districts that demonstrate significant improvement in their student performance outcomes and another $ 250 million to be awarded on a competitive basis to school districts that undertake long - term structural changes which reduce costs and improve efficiencto be awarded on a competitive basis to school districts that undertake long - term structural changes which reduce costs and improve efficiencto school districts that undertake long - term structural changes which reduce costs and improve efficiency.

That short - changing, along with the Legislature's continuing refusal to raise New York's statutory cap on new charter schools, marks a significant shift in strategy for school - choice opponents.

This highly significant change has been made in order to ban creationism from being taught in Free Schools, and prevent creationist groups from opening sSchools, and prevent creationist groups from opening schoolsschools.

It's still unclear how much funding the Buffalo Public School District stands to lose for special education services, should the U.S. Senate pass the American Health Care Act approved last week by the House without significant changes.

In one of her most significant actions as state education commissioner, MaryEllen Elia has granted Buffalo Superintendent Kriner Cash unprecedented power to make changes at the district's most struggling schools, bypassing the teachers union contract and sparking a likely court battle.

The governor says he will only agree to a significant school aid increase if the Senate and Assembly agree to all of his changes.

By our estimates, without significant changes to this plan, as well as additional revenues, our schools won't receive enough funding to maintain the level of services they currently have.

«This is significant and reflects NYU's willingness to engage in the public process and accept change,» said City Councilwoman Margaret Chin, who helped negotiate the final plan and said she hoped it would forge a new era of cooperation between the neighborhood and the school.

But recently, scientists at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) have identified significant mitochondrial changes that take place in cocaine addiction, and they have been able to block them.

«It's a tremendous leap to draw these conclusions — that climate change is linked to violence — and factors such as economics, technology, poverty, group dynamics, cultural nationalism and personalities play significant roles in outbreaks of war,» says William Martel, an international securities expert at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

I didn't manage to pick up a significant other in grad school (Chapter 23), but it's just as well: I can only be responsible for my own sanity right now; adding another person would be a wee bit too much, even if he could take my car for oil changes and take care of some of the household chores.

While feelings of incompetence and basking in glory could have opposing effects on well - being, the study found overall that attending a higher - ability college relative to high school did not have any significant links to depression or self - esteem, relative to no school ability change from high school to college.

«A significant part of adulthood is managing health care, which includes regular trips to the doctor, following treatment plans, and being aware of symptoms and changes in health,» said Nancy Cheak - Zamora, an assistant professor in the MU School of Health Professions and researcher in the Thompson Center for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders.

«Although we expected the rates of cognitive change to differ significantly between those with a history of TBI compared to those with no history of TBI, we found no significant difference between the groups, regardless of their APOE genotype,» explained corresponding author Robert Stern, PhD, Director of the Clinical Core of the Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center (BU ADC) and professor of neurology, neurosurgery and anatomy and neurobiology at Boston University School of Medicine.

School - based prevention programs were found to be successful in having a significant impact on dating violence knowledge and attitudes and, unlike victimization experiences, changes in knowledge were sustained over time.

Qing Li and his colleagues from Nippon Medical School found that visits to the forest (compared with urban trips) can have a long - lasting influence on immune system markers, increasing the activity of antiviral cells and intracellular anti-cancer proteins — and these changes remained significant for a full week after the visit.

In light of the huge funding cuts to schools, worsening terms and conditions, and unmanageable and exhausting workloads, teachers can not be expected to go on without significant change.»

In Massachusetts, about two - thirds of schools in turnaround adapted significant changes in the first year and then used years two and three to imbed those changes.

Contrary to the largely symbolic reactions to competition evident when the school choice movement was just beginning, we find evidence of significant changes in district policy and practice.

Most of the statistical significant changes regarding students» acculturation orientations are related to the domain of school activities, which means that their participation in the project and activities of the program had a direct impact on this dimension, without being extrapolated to the other dimensions.

Most school - choice programs offer significant but not revolutionary changes to the traditional educational model.

She knew that the staff would resist any significant changes coming from someone so new to their school, so she focused first on relationships, got to know the school and its culture, and built trust before bringing in her new ideas.

The Academy and Free School agenda, national funding reform, national curriculum and assessment changes including the introduction of the phonics check, distribution of Pupil Premium, significant changes to the Early Years Foundation Stage and the introduction of two Ofsted frameworks in one year all need to be considered alongside these SEND legislative changes.

Apple made significant changes to the iOS platform with its announcement of iOS 9.3 which bought several education specific features such as allowing for the sharing of devices across several students, a classroom application which will provide in class control of devices, and managed Apple IDs which can be created in bulk and managed by the school district.

With the extent of changes taking place throughout all areas of the sector, a review of the national curriculum and a significant tightening of the purse strings, schools are under pressure from all angles to continue to provide the exemplary education that has come to be expected.

If several primary schools are combining to convert together, choosing to form a new Multi-Academy Trust (MAT) as the conversion vehicle will add a significant additional dimension of change to the shape and function of the individual schools» management teams just when resources will be stretched by the demands of the conversion process.

Senior Lecturer Thomas Payzant, former superintendent of the Boston Public Schools, played a significant role in the development of a report released last week calling for major changes to the American education system.

Today it is clear that suppliers have worked hard to provide the level of quality required by schools; we are seeing a significant shift in expenditure towards CPD to support the perpetual Government policy changes.

During three years at The Southport School in Queensland, Australia, my colleagues and I managed to produce significant changes in classroom practice via the use of Moodle and the staged introduction of mobile devices to the classroom.

January 2011 had marked the 27th successful year of BETT, where once again the significant role that technology plays in the classroom and in the school as a whole was clear to see, even in a time of ongoing change and austerity in the sector.

Posted: December 21, 2006 PayzantSenior Lecturer Thomas Payzant, former superintendent of the Boston Public Schools, played a significant role in the development of a report released last week calling for major changes to the American education system.

From Neal's vantage point, the district needed to make significant changes to get back on a sound financial footing and bring families back to its schools.

Portability would make significant changes to how federal dollars allocated at the state level flow across and within school districts, private schooling aside.