Sentences with phrase «structural changes to the school»

The government needs to change tack and admit that its obsession with structural changes to schools has failed.»

It is not right that we are having to pay this money for legal and structural changes to schools, rather than it being spent in ways which directly benefit the achievements of pupils.»

At the same time, the new mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, was moving to implement the biggest structural changes to the school system since the Ocean Hill - Brownsville crisis of 1968.

Not exact matches

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.

Parents Urge Governor and State Legislature to Place All Priority Schools Under Receivership this Fall, Providing Bold, Structural Change for Chronically Failing Schools Includes 91 Priority Schools in New York City New York, NY — On Wednesday, Families for Excellent Schools (FES)-LSB-...]

Cuomo said the city also needs to make «structural changes» so the school district isn't in the same dire position next year.

Elected and parent leaders urged Albany not to back down from efforts to achieve bold, structural change to expand access to high - quality schools — district or charter.

«Some of the major issues students have to cope with are adapting to both organisational and structural changes within the school environment while socially trying to establish new social roles in new social groups.

«We will, of course, take action where a school is failing — on those rare occasions where, frankly, the leadership isn't there to make the improvements needed then we must act decisively and make structural change where it's necessary.

If the chartering strategy depends on disrupting the existing arrangements for how public education functions, then most charter laws have a structural flaw that will dramatically limit the ability of charter schools to deliver real change for educators and students.

The school that is awakened and moved to action by its «D» grade — and loss of pupils — leading to structural and staffing changes that were otherwise just too painful.

To date, most ed - reform efforts have been aimed at mere structural change — expanding the reach of school choice and charter schools, improving teacher quality, or insisting on test - driven accountability.

Because moving between schools is known to have a negative impact on student achievement, we also control for whether the student changed schools in the current year and whether that change was structural (for instance, the student moved to a junior high school from its feeder elementary school).

We begin with steps to connect students and parents to school and then address structural, programmatic, and funding changes:

Observers like Bracey, Kohn, and others, dead set against any fundamental changes in the nation's schools, usually work hard to dismiss the TIMSS results as evidence of any structural weakness in the U.S. education system.

This means it is crucial to continue evaluating the impact that structural changes are having on schools in order to inform future policy developments.»

Vocational education has been promoted largely as a way of improving the transition from schooling to work, but it also appears to reduce the adaptability of workers to technological and structural change in the economy.

«Governments have seemed unwilling to have a key school reform rigorously tested against the evidence, and too often the critics have also wanted to make their case without reference to the emerging data on how structural change is impacting on attainment and value added.

«With 86 per cent of council - maintained schools in England rated as good or outstanding by Ofsted, the government needs to recognise councils» role in education improvement and that imposing structural changes on schools is not the best way to improve education.»

79, president of the foundation, «when we developed the conviction that dramatic structural change was going to be necessary in Boston and other urban public school systems in order to generate broad improvement in the academic achievement of the mostly low - income, minority students who populate these districts today.»

What the experts believe is that schools need to make some structural changes to lessen stress and anxiety, while at the same time not go too far to accommodate anxious students in ways that don't teach them resiliency skills and actually make anxiety worse in the long run.

[11] Too often, schools make structural or organisational changes in the hope that these will lead to improved teacher and student performance, without addressing the bigger issue of teacher quality and its impact on learning.

School grounds should be inspected for potential hazards such as: • Verandah poles outside doorways, in thoroughfares or in situations where students are unlikely to see them, especially while running; • Steps and changes in level which are poorly proportioned, difficult to see or lack handrails; • Fencing, gates and railings which students climb and which have structural problems, sharp protrusions, splinters or other hazards; • Trip hazards at ground level — protruding drainage pit covers, irregular paving, cracks or tree roots in thoroughfares, broken off post or other remnants of old structures; • Loose gravely surfaces on slopes and where students run; • Slippery patches which may stay damp in winter; • Rocks which students can fall onto or throw around; • Embankments which students can slip down or which have protruding sharp objects; • Blind corners in busy areas; taps and hoses which are positioned where students play or walk; window glass at low levels through which students could fall; • Holes, cracks or exposed irrigation fixtures in ovals; • Trees or shrubs with poisonous parts, sharp spikes or thorns or branches at eye level; • Splinters and deteriorating timbers in seats, retaining edges and other wooden constructions; • sSeds or other areas with hazardous chemicals or machinery to which students have access; rubbish skips which students can climb into or around, or which place students at risk when trucks enter the school; • Areas within the site used for car parking when students are present; and, • Sporting equipment such as goal posts or basketball rings which have structural or other design or maintenance proSchool grounds should be inspected for potential hazards such as: • Verandah poles outside doorways, in thoroughfares or in situations where students are unlikely to see them, especially while running; • Steps and changes in level which are poorly proportioned, difficult to see or lack handrails; • Fencing, gates and railings which students climb and which have structural problems, sharp protrusions, splinters or other hazards; • Trip hazards at ground level — protruding drainage pit covers, irregular paving, cracks or tree roots in thoroughfares, broken off post or other remnants of old structures; • Loose gravely surfaces on slopes and where students run; • Slippery patches which may stay damp in winter; • Rocks which students can fall onto or throw around; • Embankments which students can slip down or which have protruding sharp objects; • Blind corners in busy areas; taps and hoses which are positioned where students play or walk; window glass at low levels through which students could fall; • Holes, cracks or exposed irrigation fixtures in ovals; • Trees or shrubs with poisonous parts, sharp spikes or thorns or branches at eye level; • Splinters and deteriorating timbers in seats, retaining edges and other wooden constructions; • sSeds or other areas with hazardous chemicals or machinery to which students have access; rubbish skips which students can climb into or around, or which place students at risk when trucks enter the school; • Areas within the site used for car parking when students are present; and, • Sporting equipment such as goal posts or basketball rings which have structural or other design or maintenance proschool; • Areas within the site used for car parking when students are present; and, • Sporting equipment such as goal posts or basketball rings which have structural or other design or maintenance problems.

The motion also commits the NAHT executive to «ensure that school leaders are supported in resisting forced academisation» and to «continue to challenge the perception that structural change is a panacea for improvement».

«This is especially an issue with complex structural changes to education systems, such as the move to a school - led system, be it in the form of the academies programme, teaching schools or free schools.

Part of the point I was trying to make the other day, with my «More money to the parents» post, was that plenty of these parents, including poor parents, are a lot smarter than we — the system — gives them credit for and that if they had more choice (or the money to exercise those preferences) and fewer structural and institutional impediments to overcome, you'd see big changes in some of our slackard schools.

But to make all of this happen — to «re-envision school» as the paper puts it — some structural changes are needed.

This is not to say that their jobs are not difficult, but they come to this work with the mindset and tenacity needed to change individual lives of struggling students and larger structural inequities in their schools and in American education more generally.

«All schools should be treated equally, judgments should be made under the same criteria and it must be understood that a structural change, such as conversion to an academy, doesn't necessarily solve all the difficulties a school might have.»

The Breaking Ranks Change Process NewsLeader editor Sarah McKibben speaks with NASSP director of program services John Nori about the latest book in the Breaking Ranks series, Breaking Ranks: A Field Guide for Leading Change and the process that moves schools beyond structural change to deeper, sustained improveChange Process NewsLeader editor Sarah McKibben speaks with NASSP director of program services John Nori about the latest book in the Breaking Ranks series, Breaking Ranks: A Field Guide for Leading Change and the process that moves schools beyond structural change to deeper, sustained improveChange and the process that moves schools beyond structural change to deeper, sustained improvechange to deeper, sustained improvements.

In addition to structural changes from large schools to small schools or small learning communities, the district focused on improvements to leadership development for school leaders, curriculum and instruction, and relationships between students and adults in the building.

It's still early to attempt to draw any lasting conclusions on the effects of the significant structural changes taking place in English schools.

Structural systems available today in schools enable architects to change classroom walls more easily, and at less cost to the institution.

District leaders also worked hard to protect the 75 percent of ILD time devoted to schools, even as they faced major structural changes — the merger of Memphis City Schools and Shelby County Schools, followed by several smaller county municipalities leaving the newly formed dischools, even as they faced major structural changes — the merger of Memphis City Schools and Shelby County Schools, followed by several smaller county municipalities leaving the newly formed diSchools and Shelby County Schools, followed by several smaller county municipalities leaving the newly formed diSchools, followed by several smaller county municipalities leaving the newly formed district.

First, this stance reduces attention to the fundamental structural changes needed in schools if they are to meet the twin goals of equity and excellence in education.

Logan City School District educators and parents are contemplating how future structural changes to Logan High School's seven - period semester schedule could maximize the capability of both students and teachers.

She said the council is meeting schools to discuss «whether there may be future structural change».

Legislation coming out of this year's General Assembly could change a lot for the day to day operations of schools, with the funding formula changing and a variety of structural changes proposed for the State Board of Education, and one thing teachers are keeping a close eye on: their collective bargaining rights for new bonuses.

Yet these reform issues have moved to the mainstream as even the Democrats, traditionally labor's biggest allies, have gotten fed up with union intransigence to structural changes to improve America's schools.

The goal is to «change mindsets, practices, and beliefs» so that teachers, principals and other school leaders «have a complex understanding about how structural bias and structural racism works within the fabric of schooling» resulting in disproportionality.

Free schools were a key part of the Conservative election manifesto and they reflect dramatic structural changes to the way England's schools are set up and run.

Confusion about the different actors within the system... who has the power to do what and on what basis, the exact circumstances that could lead to enforced structural or leadership change at a school.

Participants noted that the comments from the staff and students showed a positive response to new policy initiatives and structural changes in the redesigned schools and research - based structural changes (small classes, focused curriculum, etc.) that supported improved student achievement and staff professionalism.

In 2003, Governor Easley launched the North Carolina New Schools Project (NCNSP), funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, designed to bring dramatic structural change to the state's high sSchools Project (NCNSP), funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, designed to bring dramatic structural change to the state's high schoolsschools.

Really, most structural changes and educational reforms make little difference in and of themselves, except to the extent that they get kids and teachers excited about school.

«I argued that certain managerial and structural changes — that is, choice, charters, merit pay and accountability — would help to reform our schools.»

• all structural changes give respect to the autonomy of Head teachers and local identity of schools

Student empowerment is any attitudinal, structural, and cultural activity, process or outcome where students of any age gain the ability, authority and agency to make decisions and implement changes in their own schools, learning and education, and in the education of other people, including fellow students of any age and adults throughout education.

The doctoral program in special education is designed to prepare students for creative leadership in a rapidly changing world that is experiencing increasing cultural diversity, curriculum and structural reforms in schools, and pedagogical innovations across the educational spectrum.

The students claim that they will hold the space until the Cooper Union administration meets a series of demands, including a public commitment that the school will pursue no new tuition increases, structural changes to the board of trustees and the school's governance structures, and the removal of President Jamshed Bharucha.