Sentences with phrase «terms of the school closings»

«It's too bad whoever was listening to my phone conversation didn't get it right and the Free Beacon would rather cover what people overhear on trains instead of what's happening on the ground in Puerto Rico in terms of the school closings and the all out assault on public education on the island.

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Bayer was joined at the café's opening by Drexel University President John Fry, 11 - term U.S. Congressman Chaka Fattah and Dean of Drexel's Close School of Entrepreneurship Donna De Carolis, who joined Bayer in pulling the café's first espresso shots.

Republican State Rep. Trey Lamar introduced a bill last week that would force the NCAA to close investigations and render judgments within nine months of a school's response to a notice of allegations, termed by him as a «letter of official inquiry.»

The mid year financial report released by Cuomo's budget office says options to close the gap include more cuts to state agencies, delaying payments to local governments and schools, suspension of some construction projects, and even borrowing money short term to pay for operating expenses.

Cuomo has long insisted the state has been funding schools at record levels after initially seeking to scale back spending hikes in order to close yawning budget gaps he inherited during the first year of his first term.

Nixon has been very close with the Alliance for Quality Education, an organization that has been pushing the state to fulfill the terms of a lawsuit over equitable funding for school districts.

He was still effectively able to close schools, open charters and co-locate schools during his second term, as the sympathetic P.E.P. approved almost all of the mayor's proposals.

School Board President Barbara Seals - Nevergold, who was among the board members who filed the charges against Paladino, talked about Paladino's ouster Thursday in terms of Elia's ruling, which cited comments Paladino made in an Artvoice article detailing conversations from a closed - door executive session of the School Board.

ENDAUM and SRIC intervened in NRC's licensing of the HRI project in 1994, asserting that the proposed solution mining risks long - term contamination of the regional aquifer and presents health risks to the local communities because homes and schools are located close to the proposed mining operations.

Research Associate (Solar Physics) University of Central Lancashire — School of Physical Sciences & Computing Reference number: REQ003025 Hours: Full time (1.0 FTE) Basis: Fixed term contract for 36 months Grade: G (# 29301 — # 33943) Closing Date: 24 September 2017 Interview Date: To be confirmed

Dr. John Preston Parry, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, added: «No medication has come close to the birth control pill in terms of social, political and medical impact.

To achieve these objectives, KIPP schools leverage strong student - behavior policies with rewards and sanctions; contracts between students, parents, and teachers; longer school days and school on Saturdays; substantial autonomy for principals; and close monitoring of school performance in terms of student achievement and college readiness.

Seek an early actuarial valuation and agree a repayment term Step 3 — Setting up an Academy Trust and Funding Agreement • This is the stage at which all legal documents need to be agreed with the DfE • The Academy Trust has to be registered with Companies House • Transfer or leasing arrangements for school land needs to be finalised • Completion of TUPE process • Governors complete and close consultation process • Funding Agreement signed by Academy Trust and Secretary of State • Academy opening date set Step 4 — Pre-opening • All CRB checks completed prior to transfer to academy status • Financial systems and contracts with staff and suppliers confirmed • Academy registrations with exam bodies confirmed • Insurances put in place

Until 2015, when Ofsted Data Dashboard closed, Achievement for All collected average point score (APS) data each term from participating schools, as a measure of attainment across schools» target groups.

Using their new authority, Bloomberg and Klein «dramatically» expanded the «availability of alternatives» to failing public schools, increasing charters from 14 schools to 159 during Bloomberg's three terms, closing failing schools, and making almost all of the city's high schools «schools of choice» (see Figure 2).

Thus, the case for charter schools today is almost always made in social - justice terms — promoting charters» success in closing achievement gaps, boosting poor kids» chances of upward mobility, and alleviating systemic inequities.

In the report Blake noted there was no evidence that small schools were disadvantaged in terms of educational performance, however, he pointed out that Tasmanian public primary schools were more costly per student compared to the Australian average and the Tasmanian Government could save potentially $ 433,000 per year for each school closed.

This activity was so popular the school is planning to run the activities again in Term 3 as July 22nd is the Australian equivalent of pi day — 22/7 is the closest fraction to calculate pi.

After the act passed yesterday, Tasmania's Education Minister, Jeremy Rockliff said the bill is part of a long - term plan to to improve education outcomes in the state, and that it «will help close the gap where currently Tasmanian students can receive up to two years less schooling than their interstate counterparts.»

In terms of patterns of procurement, non ‑ academy schools continue to close their financial year in March and therefore tend to restrict purchasing from March, while for academies, July is the most likely time for restricting purchasing.

With Catholic schools closing across New York City and enrollment plummeting 35 percent over the last decade alone, Queen of Angels and five other Catholic schools in East Harlem and the South Bronx have banded into a «network» — another charter term — of six schools and 2,100 students to try to reverse course.

WASHINGTON — Roman Catholic educational leaders meeting here to discuss the future of Catholic schools have endorsed such concepts as increasing faculty pay and benefits and opening new schools, despite long - term trends in which thousands of parochial schools have closed.

Each takes control of a set of existing schools in a single city, maintains a close relationship with the local diocese, and focuses primarily on establishing long - term financial sustainability for existing schools rather than opening new ones.

If school leaders do not move the needle, the district still holds the the authorizing authority to intervene as they would for a charter in terms of phasing out or closing the school.

The Shared Learning Trust, formerly known as Barnfield Academy Trust, last week said it was closing its studio school in Luton after «carefully weighing up its long - term viability» in the face of dwindling pupil numbers.

Worst - case scenario: A charter school doesn't meet performance standards, and by terms of the contract, is relatively quickly closed.

In fact, the research I reviewed on rigorous evaluations of long - term outcomes from choice programs suggests that using test scores to decide whether a bunch of schools should be closed or expanded would lead to significant Type 1 and Type 2 errors.

Portfolio management guided solely by test scores would seriously harm students by unwittingly closing a bunch of successful schools, like those Booker, et al studied in Florida, while expanding and pouring more resources into ones with less impressive long - term results, like those studied by Angirst, et al, Dobbie and Fryer, and Tuttle, et al..

If you don't really know whether schools are on the left or right end of some curve of quality, closing schools just limits options without improving long - term outcomes.

In her manifesto, Allen says that while charter authorizers have a role to play in terms of opening schools, it should be parental choice that determines whether or not schools close.

Noting that many state plans «show promise in terms of how states will identify and support struggling schools,» Cabinet Report's Alisha Kirby focuses on the fact that, «no state has submitted a plan likely to close achievement gaps between subgroups.»

Applications for this are now closed for this year, but will reopen at the start of the next school term.

That second finding, in particular, will have a positive impact if it prompts school districts to clearly define what teacher effectiveness looks like and to measure professional development programs in terms of how they help teachers get closer to that goal.

Regular school year — The period of time between the opening day of school in August or September and the closing day of school for that school term that is at minimum 180 teaching days or 990 teaching hours.

The change in facility plans, announced by Chicago Public Schools CEO Janice Jackson, comes after public hearings where residents and community activists criticized the proposal to close all four schools in the Englewood neighborhood at the end of this academiSchools CEO Janice Jackson, comes after public hearings where residents and community activists criticized the proposal to close all four schools in the Englewood neighborhood at the end of this academischools in the Englewood neighborhood at the end of this academic term.

Wykeham House School in Fareham could close at the end of the Autumn term after being open for 100 years.

Charter schools which do not fulfill the terms of their charter contract may be non-renewed and closed.

A «failing» free school will close at the end of this term after its action plan was judged insufficient to turn it around.

We have learned that the closed schools are mostly on a par with the receiving schools academically and in terms of maintenance costs.

Although the gap between rich and poor schools may be closing in terms of computer - to - student ratios, a new digital divide separates white and minority students (Benton Foundation, 1998, 2003; Moersch, 1995; Piller, 1992; Technology Counts, 2001), particularly in opportunities to use computers to engage higher order thinking skills (Wenglinski, 1998).

She left the Bush administration before his second term ended and has since researched and written about the goals of «reform» that parents and teachers and societies may disagree with — get rid of or render toothless any unions, punish teachers for any failure of a student or a school, close as many public schools as possible in order to open private, for - profit schools run by foundations whose motives and agendas are not fully visible.

Depending on how strict your state's charter law are, the school may risk being closed if the school is unable to meet certain guidelines or the terms of the school's charter with the state.

A large number of English Learner students amassing in California secondary schools who despite many years in our schools and despite being close to the age at which they should graduate, are still not English proficient and have incurred major academic deficient — Long Term English Learners (LTELs).

This is a huge proceeding in terms of efforts to stop the CPS, the Board of Education and Mayor Rahm Emanuel from a record number of school closings.

Schools that have used it have lowered suspensions rates by 15 to 25 percent and closed or narrowed some of the racial disparities in long - term suspension rates.

WHEREAS, the San Diego Unified Vision 2020, long - term strategic plan, Quality Schools in Every Neighborhood, supports and provides for quality teaching, access to broad and challenging curriculum for all students, closing the achievement gap with high expectations for all, and is committed to using multiple formative measures of success that go beyond standardized achievement tests; and

In response, the motion to close the schools also called for Saavedra to convene a committee of stakeholders to develop a long - term plan for facilities use to support student outcome goals and grow enrollment and also to seek community feedback on how to best repurpose Kazen and Athens to «serve South San students directly, advance the board's student outcome goals and grow enrollment.»

Black leadership is necessary not only in terms of maintaining close connections with the community in the role of teachers, para professionals and principals, but also in the capacity of leading CMOs, influencing policy and practice, and designing and facilitating strategies for schools that serve hundreds and thousands of children.

Their tactics are intentionally disruptive and invite instability: frequently opening and closing entire schools rather than fostering stable, successful neighborhood schools and cycling through a procession of short term teachers, seeking to fire, instead of develop, a large number of teachers.

We at NACSA recommend building an authorizing system capable of credibly closing a school at the end of its first five - year term.