Sentences with phrase «state schools across the country»

The research comes as Future First launches Back to School Week between October 13th and 17th in state schools across the country during which celebrities and every day heroes — from doctors and lawyers to plumbers and caterers — will return to their former state school to talk to the current generation about their career paths and the skills necessary to succeed in work.

Kevin Courtney, general secretary of the NUT, the largest teachers» union, said: «The announcement that there is to be an extra # 320 million to fund up to 140 new free schools demonstrates an extraordinary lack of judgement at a time when state schools across the country are tipping out their piggy banks to search for the loose change to run their schools, let alone engaging in any capital upgrading.

However, despite the clear progress, places are still dominated by privately educated pupils when compared to proportion of pupils educated in state schools across the country.

There might be more than 450,000 people working in state schools across the country, but even that number is not enough to satisfy the demands of a growing school age population.

The way that we do this is by recruiting, training and placing doctoral and post-doctoral researchers in non-selective state schools across the country.

Not exact matches

For example, the US Department of Education's Race to the Top Fund, which offered $ 4 billion in grants to states that developed successful educational reforms, spurred innovations that hold promise for school systems across the country.

We stand with these teens even from across the country, because this problem — gun violence — is not confined to one school, student, or state, it threatens every young person living in America.

«Mr. Speaker, today in First Nations communities across the country, the unemployment rate can reach 80 %, half of the housing units are in a pitiful state and schools and students receive 30 % less funding than others,» Thomas Mulcair reported.

«We have to keep this country safe,» the mayor told reporters, addressing questions about an Associated Press report that said the NYPD was closely monitoring Muslim student associations in schools across the Northeastern United States.

By reserving 23 percent of all central and state government jobs for Scheduled Castes and Tribes, with comparable reservations for school and university admissions across the country, India paved the way for improving dalits» professional and educational opportunities.

Even if your own school doesn't provide any K - 12 resources, you can browse other schools across the country or discover content provided from state Departments of Education.

Let's take a closer look at the state of school breakfast across the country.

The School Nutrition Association has a presence in every state across the country.

She works with anti-hunger organizations and state and national agencies to expand access to school breakfast programs for students across the country.

They were designed to allow flexibility for state associations that collectively oversee the more than 15,000 high schools across the country that have football programs.

The mentoring will be piloted in London before being rolled out at state schools across the capital, the Black Country and greater Manchester.

In response to a series of school shootings across the country, the Kingston Common Council may seek federal and state action for more stringent gun control, including a freer hand for research into firearm violence.

(New York, NY)-- Two weeks after the tragic shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, American State Legislators for Gun Violence Prevention — a non-partisan coalition of legislators from across the country — announced today that lawmakers in 30 states have introduced or are planning to introduce Extreme Risk Protection Order legislation that would empower family members and law enforcement to help prevent gun violence.

(New York, NY)-- In response to brave gun violence prevention activism by students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and from communities across the country, New York State Senator Brian Kavanagh, Chair of American State Legislators for Gun Violence Prevention, released the following statement:

He said the administration also made impacts through the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme, which feeds 3,065,000 pupils in 14 states and has employed 36,000 cooks across the country; the Conditional Cash Transfer that has seen about over 30,000 households benefit from the N5, 000 monthly stipend; the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme under which about 120,000 people have benefited from the cooperative loans; and the N - power that has employed 200,000 people.

A new report on public school funding across the country finds that most states are now providing less support per K - 12 student than before the 2007 - 2009 Great Recession — and that some states continue to cut funding.

The states noted that their position was in line with insistence of the Federal Government that the schools across the country resume on the day despite the threat by NUT to embark on strike if adequate provision was not made to prevent spread of the Ebola virus in schools.

«So we are going to look at what has proven, across the country, to really work to turn schools around,» stated Brown.

KINGSTON, N.Y. >> In response to a series of school shootings across the country, the Common Council may seek federal and state action for more stringent gun control, including a freer hand for research into firearm violence.

PARKLAND, Fla. (AP)-- Pressure is growing for tougher gun - control laws after a mass shooting at a Florida high school, with thousands of angry protesters at state rallies demanding immediate action from lawmakers, and more demonstrations planned across the country in the weeks ahead.

For example, what Kepler scientists are learning about potentially habitable planets, she says, can be easily turned it into a lesson that's aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards, a state - led, voluntary effort to improve science instruction in elementary and secondary schools across the country.

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Penn State, with a consortium of colleagues across the country and around the...

Nearly 58 percent of middle school students in nine states and almost 73 percent of high school students across the country don't get the recommended amount of nightly shuteye, according to a report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

I go to school halfway across the country, but most of my friends here live in state, so I feel like I'm the only one who doesn't know the next time I'll see people again.

Pupils across the country have enjoyed a fresh start for 2016 as they returned to state ‑ of ‑ the ‑ art new school buildings funded through the government's flagship rebuilding programme at the start of January.

The commissioner of education in Florida, where 70 percent of the 15,000 applicants for new teaching certificates each year come from out of state, has asked school chiefs across the country to help improve interstate information - sharing on teachers whose licenses have been revoked.

Orfield noted, «Congress has just voted to greatly expand mandated state testing, requiring the development of 213 additional state tests, the expenditure of billions of dollars, and the loss of a great deal of instructional time in schools across the country.

Yet, across the country, state standards have been abysmally low for too long, evidenced by the fact that 75 percent of high school graduates are not fully prepared for college or a good paying job.

Now, 19 states have passed laws relating to the purchase of fresh fruits and vegetables, and the National Farm to School Network counts more than 2,000 programs across the country.

Despite the challenges, states and districts are attempting to make it happen in tens of thousands of schools across the country.

«By improving the skills of teacher educators, we will improve the training to all state school teachers across the country.

Pupils across the country have enjoyed a fresh start for 2016 as they returned to state - of - the - art new school buildings funded through the government's flagship rebuilding programme at the start of January.

When studying the pattern of charter school enrollment across the country, we took into account how each of three factors contributes to or retards charter school growth: per pupil expenditures (also measured during the 1989 — 90 school year), length of time a charter law was on the books, and degree of permissiveness of each state's charter school law, as measured by the CER index.

The Department of Education is seeking proposals for 21 comprehensive centers spread across the country that will provide expertise to states and school districts working to meet the demands of the No Child Left Behind Act.

Today, 45 of 50 states and the District of Columbia have a state virtual school or online initiative, full - time online school, or both, according to «Keeping Pace with K - 12 Online Learning,» (3M) a 2009 report sponsored by ten schools and organizations across the country.

Arkansas is the first state in the country to require yearly body - mass index, or BMI, screening for all of its 450,000 public school students, and this was the first year those measurements were taken by school nurses across the state and analyzed.

States and school districts across the country are reevaluating the practice of educating young adolescents in stand - alone middle schools, which typically span grades 6 through 8 or 5 through 8, rather than keeping them in K — 8 schools.

State efforts at carrying out requirements to test English - language learners under the No Child Left Behind Act are receiving increased scrutiny, as hundreds of schools across the country fail to meet goals for adequate yearly progress at least in part because of such students» scores.

Many of the reforms he championed, namely, more accountability, more focus on standards, and growth in charter schools, are already at various levels of implementation in states and districts across the country.

Since the ASD launched three years ago, it has been touted by policymakers in Tennessee and across the country as a promising approach for states looking to improve their lowest - performing schools — and criticized by some local educators and communities for not showing results quickly enough.

Philander Claxton, the commissioner of education in the United States, reached out to students across the country — not about standardized tests or preschool for all, but about something he called «joyous» and «useful»: school gardens.

With school vouchers popping back on to state agendas in the wake of Republican gubernatorial and state legislative victories across the country, renewed interest in the long - term effectiveness of vouchers has quickened.

While states can and should continue to create facilities options for their charter schools, a new federal tax incentive has the potential to lighten that load for hundreds, even thousands, of charter schools across the country.

The analysis of growth rates across countries emphasized the quality of the elementary and secondary schools of the United States.

Five student groups shared their presentations with ISTE's Leadership Symposium, which is made up of more than 150 educators from across the country who strive to develop and model the effective use of technology in education in their schools, school districts, and states.