Sentences with phrase «successes of the last school year»

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The school credits its success to a suite of entrepreneurship programs and initiatives, many launched within the last few years.

However, despite all that recent success, this season's version of the Acalanes Dons might just be the best the school has fielded over these last five years of dominance.

In charge of filling her students» stomachs with the healthiest school meals possible, Patty was instrumental in the success of Edison Elementary's «backpack» program last year to support students in need.

In my experience — meaning traveling the country for the last year and reporting on school food on a daily basis — everywhere you see these kinds of success stories there's a professional chef standing squarely in the middle.

The success in reaching over 9000 pupils last year is thanks, in large part, to the many partners across the UK who have helped us by showing schools how to use the inspiring model of astronaut fitness and health to change children's activity levels and diet through learning about the science behind it.»

Skelos said he was outraged by de Blasio's decision to cancel classroom space for three of longtime adversary Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy charter schools this fall that were approved last year by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Representatives for Families for Excellent Schools said some 13,000 people attended the pro-charter school «Don't Steal Success» rally today — unlike last year, the governor was not one of them.

Since failing last year to halt the expansion of Success Academy Charter Schools, run by his old political foe Eva Moskowitz, Mr. de Blasio has softened his rhetoric toward charter schools, even as his liberal allies continue to Schools, run by his old political foe Eva Moskowitz, Mr. de Blasio has softened his rhetoric toward charter schools, even as his liberal allies continue to schools, even as his liberal allies continue to seethe.

Eva S. Moskowitz, founder of the Success Academy charter school network, at a rally last year.

Eva S. Moskowitz, the founder and chief executive of Success Academy Charter Schools, shown last year, said in a statement on Wednesday, «In the midst of a widely recognized teacher shortage, SUNY's vote today ensures that kids of color will have access to great teachers and exceptional educational outcomes.»

Success, the city's largest charter school network, began a prekindergarten program last year, serving 72 students at three of its schools.

290 people from 70 different organizations, including the Department of Education, visited Success schools in the last academic year, according to the application.

Ms. Moskowitz, the founder of Success Academy Charter Schools, did not dismiss rumors last year that she was also thinking about taking on Mr. de Blasio, her old rival from their City Council days.

If we spent $ 15 for every family who applied but didn't win the Success lottery last year — and improved their odds of escaping a failing school — we've fulfilled part of that mission.»

In October last year, the Times also exposed one Success principal's «Got to Go» list of underperforming students, whose parents claimed they were being pushed out of the school.

The schools are operated by Success Academy CEO and former councilwoman Eva Moskowtiz, one of de Blasio's political foes and someone he frequently criticized during the mayoral campaign last year.

At Success Academy Charter Schools, for example, students who are mainly black and Latino, and who are from many of the city's lowest - income neighborhoods, tested in the top 1 % in math and 3 % in English of all schools in New York State lasSchools, for example, students who are mainly black and Latino, and who are from many of the city's lowest - income neighborhoods, tested in the top 1 % in math and 3 % in English of all schools in New York State lasschools in New York State last year.

At Success Academy Harlem 1, as the original school is now called, 23 percent of the 896 students were suspended for at least one day in 2012 - 13, the last year for which the state has data.

Kendra Scott for example (one of my favorites being she graduate from my high school) started her company in 2002 — but didn't really get popular until like the last 5 or 6 years... it seemed like she came out of no where (an «overnight success») but it was years of hard work and hustle.

Last year the New York Times published an op - ed arguing that the seeming success of charter schools in Harlem is driven by their willingness to push out students with disabilities, and that such «charter school refugees» drain district schools of resources.

Following the success of last year's competition, FSE Design in partnership with Jessops and Manfrotto, have re-launched The National School Photography Awards for 2016!

Ransome points to well - known public, diverse, all - girls success stories such as Baltimore's Western High School, founded in 1844, which boasted a 100 percent college placement last year, and the Philadelphia High School for Girls, established nearly 200 years ago, which counts among its graduates a federal judge, an opera singer, the first female bishop in the Episcopal Church, and the first female head of the Black Panthers.

«This is a strategic achievement on a par with Hamas» success in closing (Tel Aviv's) Ben Gurion international airport for a couple of days last month,» commented DEBKAFile, a news website with close ties to Israel's military and intelligence establishment.v Hamas is likely to cement its achievement with the war threatening the opening of the school year in chunks of Israel.

Engage, the National Association for Gallery Education, is delighted to announce that after the success of last year's event Children's Art Week will return in 2016, from Saturday 11 to Sunday 19 June, and previous school participants explain just how easy it is to get involved.

Here are some recent quotes from a variety of people who have used these resources: «using these resources sprung me back into life... Going to school is a pleasure now» «got me excited about being in school again... long time since that's happened» «shows you don't need to be a bruiser, basher or battle - axe to be a success» «the inspectors were surprised at how quickly we had improved» «the union reps suddenly came to life when I started using these resources» «these have saved us thousands at SLT and made our school a much better place» «best resources I have used in over twenty years of CPD» «we use these ideas when recruiting new staff... it works, it really does work» «really useful in framing staff and student feedback» «rich and valuable... helps develop the language and the decisions we make» «my students relate to these ideas and now it's a beautiful class to be in... at last» «gives you splendid ideas you can work in your own classes» «I was never any good at visualising what success might look like... now I can see the bright lights» «extremely helpful» «inspectors praised our use of these resources and commended our progress» «genuinely helped get my Mojo back... my colleagues and classes have also noticed the new me» «just had some of my best days at school because of these resources» «there is nothing better at this price»

One of the schools that I work with, United for Success Academy (UFSA), in Oakland, CA, has launched a concerted effort in the last year to address the needs of their ELs who comprise some 90 percent of the student body.

A health - food pilot program launched last year at San Francisco's Aptos Middle School, which used to sell «all kinds of junk food,» according to PTA representative Caroline Grannan, has turned out to be a financial — and nutritional — success.

First Minister Nicola Stugeon said: «The First Ministers» Reading Challenge has been a fantastic success since it was launched last year, with almost three quarters of schools across Scotland taking part.

In addition, the start of a new school year can provide opportunities to reiterate some of last year's great successes and build upon them a plan for continued success.

Last year's celebratory event for Roald Dahl's 100th birthday was incredibly successful and saw over 57,000 party packs downloaded, so we hope to build on this success and know that some schools are already planning events ahead of the summer holidays!»

Following on from the success of last year's championship, which saw over 300 schools take part, the competition aims to find Britain's rising memory stars.

The initiative has been such a success that the Chinese school's Twitter hashtag received in the region 20 million exposures last year, and even caught the attention of Banksy.

Last week, at AEI's terrific conference on «encouraging new and better schools» via school - choice programs, I presented a paper on what the recently resurgent private - school - choice movement can learn from the 20 years of successes and struggles of charter schooling.

Legislation adopted last year requires the inclusion of graduation rates, and an advisory committee has been working for the better part of two years to recommend other factors that prove whether or not a school is preparing all students for success in college and / or careers.

Spending Still Does Not Translate With Academic Success July 19, 2016 by Brett Kittredge The Mississippi Department of Education released the school accountability ratings for the 2014 - 2015 school year last week.

After visiting some Dutch Leader in Me schools last year and doing research into their way of educating children, I believe three significant factors contribute to their success;

im currently in a school doing extra sixth lessons and im actually finding it detrimental to my learning giving me more work homework time and my mock results are down from my last year many schools do less school and achieve much higher pass rates i fell that this extra time is making students feel worse and limits there ability to socialize when they go to school until 4:10 pm and arrive home at about 5 making it dark in the winter while walking home may i add it also means that when we get home are daily 2 hr of hw leaves us being at home with no extra work at about 7 pm on top of this there is revision for exams and catch up work for students to complete all of this removes a students ability to have fun were we are hunting success in fear of punishment To conclude extra lessons punish the mind and form a generation of students that dislike school and even sometimes even become suicidal all because schools think they are doing things right

The government and its supporters have previously spoken of the need to build on the success of institutions like the King's Maths Schools, which saw all its pupils achieve either an A or A * in maths A-level last year.

Alan Warhaftig, who retired last year after more than a decade as the magnet program co-coordinator at Fairfax High School, believes that the district's goal of rapid expansion of magnets could dilute the success of the programs.

In a visit last month to a public school where 4 percent of students passed last year's math tests, and that shares a building with a Success school where 96 percent of the students passed, the city's schools chancellor, Carmen Fariña, said, «We would like to be at that percentage, but we keep all our kids from the day they walk into the building.»

He will tell delegates at the ACC on Liverpool's iconic waterfront of his pride of seeing improved primary school results at the end of last year, which he will claim reflects the success of Lib Dem policies.

«I think we have to keep in mind that what (the GOP lawmakers) are essentially proposing, which is more privatization of the Milwaukee Public Schools, has been tried for the last 25 years without a lot of success,» Peterson says.

Based on internal analysis of its success data, MTDA has rolled out several new design enhancements in the last two school years, including a simplified course organization, increased access to live tutoring for students struggling on particular assignments or concepts, and an increased expectation of local schools to build a supportive environment around credit recovery students.

Last year the House passed the Student Success Act, a broad based reform of federal education policy that would maintain the high standards the President called for while giving state and local school districts back the money and authority they need to meet those standards.

In this dissertation, I examine discipline practices during the transitional years of pre-K and Kindergarten, when children's school experiences are known to have lasting impacts on later achievement, development, and school success.

But Moskowitz's fine - grained focus imbues every facet of Success Charter Network: the reading rugs in air - conditioned classrooms, the hands - on science program (after the Brearley School's), the otherworldly performance on last year's standardized tests, and, yes, the gleaming lavatories.

«If you want a highly performing principal to go to a low - performing school knowing that it will take about a five - year window to achieve success, and you're going to be judged on two out of the last three years, then that superintendent will have to sweeten the pot with local money to stabilize pay while the principal does that hard work,» said Collins.

In the NEXT four years, Indiana's K - 12 schools will continue to build upon the success made possible by the work of the LAST four years.

That aggressive expansion plan has been complicated over the last year, as she's battled negative stories about the internal workings of her network and about controversial discipline practices in Success schools.

What evidence of success can you site that would indicate that the climate and culture at your school is improving compared to last school year?