Sentences with phrase «size reduction efforts»

It would also redirect federal dollars currently used to finance class size reduction efforts to providing districts with funds to implement evaluations.

Californias landmark class - size reduction effort hit a snag last week when the state education department announced that funding for new classrooms will come up $ 151 million short of first - year requests.

Not exact matches

It's unclear if these job reductions are part of an overall or coordinated effort to restructure the state's myriad authorities and public corporations — a system that has been criticized by Gov. Andrew Cuomo who has made «right - sizing» government a priority.

Targeting additional resources to early childhood education, extended day, summer programs, prudent class - size reduction, or enhanced accountability structures is likely to have a higher return in these communities than racial desegregation efforts.

For example, no effort is made to show the increase in public - school spending in America during the past 30 (or 50) years, the uses to which that money has been put, the steady reduction in class size, the huge increase in numbers of school employees, and the various trends in achievement that correlate almost not at all with any of these resource trends.

Last week's failure of a massive tobacco - settlement bill in the Senate added new urgency to efforts by the Clinton administration and education lobbyists to find money to pay for class - size reductions and other programs with funding contingent on new cigarette taxes.

Efforts at the state level have been supported by the Clinton administration's class - size reduction program, passed in 1998, which was to fund the hiring of around 29,000 new teachers during the 1999 - 2000 school year alone.

It necessitates implementation that «connects the utilisation of the resources for class size reduction with all curricular, administrative, and institutional efforts that shape teaching and learning» (Graue et al. 2005, 32).

The group's executive director, Leonie Haimson, called the situation «unconscionable» and noted how the DOE had repeatedly pledged to «focus class size reduction planning efforts on the School Renewal Program.»

Under Mr. Wilson's amended budget proposal, another $ 230 million would be pumped into the state's K - 3 class - size - reduction effort, raising revenue for the program to $ 1.5 billion beginning in the fall.

The hope is that in addition to saving educator jobs, such efforts will address the ballooning class sizes, shortened school days, and reduction of after - school activities that many districts are facing this school year as a result of state budget shortfalls.

The lesson is all too clear: If class - size reduction is to narrow the achievement gap, as it did in Tennessee, schools need to get the plan right; otherwise, their efforts can easily backfire.

In addition, the bill caps the use of funds for class size reduction at 10 percent because such efforts have «little to no effect on student learning.»

On the other hand Samsung's and RIM's marketing effort is to sell you 7 inch as a feature making it more usable than the iPad, when in fact it doesn't make a terrible lot of sense in size and weight reduction, because you lose battery time — Galaxy has half of iPad at best — you lose work space — you can't do office on 7 ″ as like on 10 ″ and you don't gain that much portability.

Sofidel and WWF Climate Savers continue their joint effort concerning climate and energy and, in view of the important changes that the company has undergone since the partnership began in 2008, they are defining and broadening new reduction objectives, updating them to the new size of the company.

Again, these methane emissions reduction trends can be traced to voluntary efforts — not the stringent and costly «one - size - fits - all» federal rules that environmental groups insist are needed, despite the fact that they will provide little climate benefit.

The phone, a marked reduction in size from Lenovo's own Phab 2 Pro effort, will come packed with a Snapdragon 821, 6 GB of RAM, 128 GB of storage, DTS surround sound enhancements and all the sensors it needs to detect real world distances and performance incredibly complex GUI adjustments.

However, he says many firms are working to embrace workspace reduction efforts, such as universal office sizes, teaming attorneys in the same office and adopting paperless methods.