Sentences with phrase «small schools and systems»

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We noted that no other major institution in American society» notably the public school system, social workers, Boy Scouts, athletic associations» has been subjected to similar scrutiny, and that some experts believe that the incidence of sex abuse by priests and bishops is relatively small by comparison.

For instance, small businesses pay sales tax in the community, which filters into the school system, public parks, roads and local service workers.

Systems big and small, including public schools in Montgomery and Fairfax counties, opted out.

Security and theft are big issues, and the dining room is just a big, scary place... If I could hope for one change it would be for smaller schools... it is just one solution for a system that needs a lot of solutions and a lot of change... longer lunch periods, teachers willing to eat with the students, nutrition education, getting rid of the soda and snack vending machines that fund the sports programs, and more money and support for school food service programs...

Both the Roselle and the Mount Prospect school systems are smaller than District 25.

«This lack of oversight means the state's 2,700 small community water systems — including the Village of Hoosick Falls — as well as thousands of non-municipal entities, including businesses and schools, with their own water systems are not tested for unregulated contaminants.»

He's also in favor of free tuition to CUNY colleges for low - and middle - income students, smaller class sizes in the city's public schools, and desegregation of the school system, which he noted is the «third most segregated in the nation.»

Tyner called for a «living minimum wage» that would rise to $ 15 an hour by 2020 for companies employing 500 people or more; single - payer health care in New York state; a tax system that would reduce the burden of school taxes on property owners; and the legalization of small amounts of recreational marijuana for adults.

In Ms. Nixon's first speech, delivered before a small, mostly African - American crowd in Brownsville, Brooklyn, she outlined the themes of her insurgent bid to knock off Mr. Cuomo, a two - term incumbent, in the Democratic primary: tackling the «very segregated» school system, fixing the subways and addressing the «crushing inequality» in the state.

John Kufuor oversaw the setting up of the National Health Insurance Scheme to replace the existent cash - and - carry system, institutionalised the capitation grant, started the school feeding programme, launched the Microfinance and small loans program and introduced the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty Program, among other social interventions.

Small towns and rural areas also generally don't have enough students to support significant choice options or charter schools within the public school system.

Sharpton added that Devos — a longtime backer of charter and Christian schools --» does not believe in public education,» and would transform federal school funding into a voucher system that would favor a small percentage of well - off students while neglecting the rest.

Holland prides itself on its charming, small - town atmosphere, its fine school system, and its rural friendliness.

The foundation long backed controversial education reforms, including retooling teacher evaluation and compensation systems based in part on student test scores and creating smaller schools.

STEM - focused high schools are important because they constitute the first U.S. science and mathematics reform that requires whole - school transformation rather than tinkering with peripheral components of an outmoded educational system or serving just a small, select segment of the public school population.

Lead author Dr. Peter Alexander, of the University of Edinburgh's School of GeoSciences and Scotland's Rural College, said: «A mix of small changes in consumer behaviour, such as replacing beef with chicken, reducing food waste and potentially introducing insects more commonly into diets, would help achieve land savings and a more sustainable food system.»

Conor Purcell from Cardiff University's School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, said: «Using the simulations performed with our climate model, we were able to demonstrate that the climate system can respond to small changes with abrupt climate swings.

Michael Gambon and Imelda Staunton stand out as the two duelling headmasters of Hogwarts School, at which Harry and his friends assemble a small band of students to rail against a blinkered educational system modeled, one stretches, on the Kansas School Board's recommended curriculum.

However, we are a small school district with limited financial resources and can not afford to spend the amount of economic funds to defend the Philosophy of Design class in the court system.»

Nine New Mexico school districts have filed a lawsuit claiming that the state's school - funding system favors large and small districts at the expense of those in between.

The trend for schools, colleges and universities to replace poor efficiency legacy lighting systems with cost - effective LED fixtures is now well - established — thanks in no small part to the innovative technology that Tamlite Lighting has been able to deliver to the educational community.

If n is too small, statistical reliability is at risk; if n is too big, too few schools and students are held accountable, as those with subgroup enrollments less than n do not participate in the accountability system.

In our recent report, «Schools and Software,» small - and medium - size school systems talked openly about their desperate need for a data warehouse solution to act as middleware that simplified their management of the explosion in educational software.

Until Bloomberg and Klein, the system tolerated the new small - school «seeds,» but didn't fertilize them.

Instead of devoting so much energy to dismissing the standards movement, small - schools founders and advocates would do well to engage the discussion and help refine or redefine state standards and statewide accountability systems in the name of equity.

Until recently, only a small number of schools have had access to the high - powered geographical information system (GIS) software that enables detailed, layered mapping and analysis of data.

She adds, «The rhetoric of local control obscures separate and unequal conditions that have resulted when small, new school systems form that are racially identifiable.

Either high schools will really have to embrace family incentives by becoming significantly smaller and more informal, or they will have to admit that they are large, modern organizations that require explicit systems of rewards and sanctions to enhance productivity.

Both of us were deeply involved in developing New York's small schools and in establishing the central support systems that made them possible and sustained them, during the years when we worked in the New York City Department of Education in the administration of Chancellor Joel Klein.

The spread of whole - school reform models such as Success for All; the imposition of standards and high - stakes tests; the lowering of class sizes and slicing of schools into smaller, independent academies; the explosion of charter schools and push for school vouchers — all these reforms signal a vibrantly democratic school system.

Regardless of the reform strategy — whether new standards, or accountability, or small schools, or parental choice, or teacher effectiveness — there is an underlying weakness in the U.S. education system which has hampered every effort up to now: most consequential decisions are made by district and state leaders, yet these leaders lack the infrastructure to learn quickly what's working and what's not.

They are not satisfied with certain features of the public school system, especially inequities, the absence of voluntary prayer, the level of parental involvement (they'd like more), and school size (they'd like smaller).

A new report describes the New York City school system's efforts since 2002 to close large comprehensive high schools and replace them with 200 new small schools.

A small number of progressive leaders of major urban school systems are using school closure and replacement to transform their long - broken districts: Under Chancellor Joel Klein, New York City has closed nearly 100 traditional public schools and opened more than 300 new schools.

Small wonder then that many politicians had loosened their ties to teachers unions and school system contractors.

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The campaign to take on The System and its schools also enjoyed the services of a handful of intellectual spokesmen whose written works outline a case against education bureaucracy that remains brilliant in many small ways, if repulsive in several big ones.

Yes, many will take a course here and there, but the comprehensive high school in most suburban districts and proliferation of small high schools in urban systems will continue to enroll the vast majority of eligible teenagers.

Studies predict that Finland will hang on to its lackadaisical workers, and suggest things like «keep students in school by engaging them with smaller class sizes and better paid teachers» or «get rid of standardized tests» and» individualize learning,» which they'll expand on by saying «create a system that instills curiosity, creativity, passion, and accept that it is impossible to test these things.»

Peterson: Since John Dewey, school reformers have tried to customize education to the needs of each child, but each step towards customization has required a big step toward centralization (bigger schools, larger school districts, state certification for teachers, federal dollars and regulations, etc.) School systems are no longer embedded in the small politics of local communities and this has dramatically changed the way accountability school reformers have tried to customize education to the needs of each child, but each step towards customization has required a big step toward centralization (bigger schools, larger school districts, state certification for teachers, federal dollars and regulations, etc.) School systems are no longer embedded in the small politics of local communities and this has dramatically changed the way accountability school districts, state certification for teachers, federal dollars and regulations, etc.) School systems are no longer embedded in the small politics of local communities and this has dramatically changed the way accountability School systems are no longer embedded in the small politics of local communities and this has dramatically changed the way accountability works.

Countries without such alternative systems, either because the public systems were acceptable to Catholic leadership (as in Italy, Spain, Austria, and most of Latin America) or because the Catholic share of the population was too small to create and sustain an alternative system competing across the board with public schools, have not experienced the benefits of such competition.

Small schools need support from within and outside the system to flourish.

A professor at Newcastle University and the brains behind the School in the Cloud, Mitra told the Bett Arena of his belief in the need to «make small changes to the assessment system to drive change throughout the entire system».

Cloud based portal for smaller schools that combines SIS, CRM, and LMS systems into one integrated environment.

In striving to make it through the K - 12 system and on to higher education, this small but important portion of public school students faces special challenges.

If current trends continue, we» re going to see a bi-modal system develop, with public schools (including charter schools) and ultra-elite private schools monopolizing the education space as the plethora of smaller private and parochial schools that once fell between them gradually fade away.

City and school leaders in Boston reached an agreement with the Boston Teachers» Union last week to expand the district's system of small, autonomous schools, ending a 2 - year - old standoff that had stalled the growth of the experimental program.

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Among some of the factors that need to be addressed include the poorly - designed accountability system that is pushing schools into reconstitution, the mania for smaller schools, and whether to close low - performing schools altogether, Elmore said.