Sentences with phrase «than that of the parent policy»

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According to a policy statement by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), one - fifth of all SIDS deaths occur while the child is in the care of someone other than parents.

Rather than thinking about helicopter parenting and no - rescue policies, what if we just think about parenting with heart, soul, and a whole lot of swagger?!

He further noted that under the free SHS policy, all fees approved by the Ghana Education Service (GES) Council for first year students other than Parent - Teacher Association (PTA) dues, would be absorbed by the government through settlement of the «onetime fee» for all first years — whether day or boarding.

Teachers, parents and community members crowded into Long Island City HS for the monthly Panel for Educational Policy meeting on May 18 and made it clear they had a lot more on their minds than the Department of Education agenda items.

He makes way for Nicky Morgan, a 41 - year - old member of the 2010 cohort, whose job description is to defend the revolutionary schools policy that Gove designed while being less reviled by parents and teachers than Gove himself.

To find out, we at the Harvard Program on Education Policy and Governance have asked nationally representative cross-sections of parents, teachers, and the general public (as part of the ninth annual Education Next survey, conducted in May and June of this year) whether they support or oppose «federal policies that prevent schools from expelling or suspending black and Hispanic students at higher rates than other students.»

Fewer than 40 of the district's 194 schools volunteered to participate in the program, in which teachers and other staff members, parents, and community members form school - community councils to provide oversight for school policy in consultation with the school principal, according to Rodney Davis, director of information services.

According to a 2008 national survey conducted by Education Next and the Harvard Kennedy School Program on Education Policy and Governance, more than two thirds of American parents say they would be willing to have their children take some of their high school courses over the Internet.

I'm consistently struck by how much more comfortable we are talking about policy and even about centralizing government power when it comes to schooling than we are talking about the responsibilities of parents and students — or how private action can encourage responsible behavior.

Rather than a case of federal overreach, the CRDC allows the federal government to empower state and local education providers to improve their policies and provides parents, policymakers, and advocates the tools to hold schools accountable.

Some, for example, are incorporating parent / carer codes of conduct into school policies to set expectations around the use of social media.Others ask parents and carers to refrain from discussing the business of school or children attending school in any public forum, while many request that complaints are made via official school channels rather than social networking sites.

Teachers have been supportive of the wellness policy, and Caudle says that students and parents have embraced it more eagerly than anticipated.

From Virginia Walden Ford's work in D.C., to those of Samuel in Connecticut, to the Parent Trigger actions of families throughout the country, it is these impromptu leaders who have done the work of jump - starting and sustaining reform that Beltway and operator - oriented reformers, often more - concerned about policy and management than with rallying critical support from people on the ground, almost never do.

Along the same lines, parents (53 %) are also more likely than the public (46 %) to think money should be spent on reducing class size rather than increasing teacher salaries or buying new books and technologies — unless they are told the relative cost of each policy.

Commenting on the small differences in satisfaction levels among parents with children in the charter and chosen district sectors, Paul E. Peterson, professor of government and director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard Kennedy School, notes that «chosen district schools serve a smaller percentage of students of color than charters do, and they are more likely to use examinations as entry requirements, while most charter schools must accept all applicants or use a lottery to select among them.»

By banning two novels and adopting a policy that prohibits the use of more than 60 other books, the Bay County (Fla.) School Board has violated the First Amendment rights of students, teachers, and parents, a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court charges.

I believe the parents of Newark's 45,000 students are more than capable of rising above the din and working to keep the policy discussion within these clear boundaries.

That said, the pattern of associations reported here is consistent with the hypothesis that school district policies that allow parents to easily choose a school for their children can lead to schools that are more segregated than would be the case if school assignment were based entirely on zip code.

«Subtle» aspects of family involvement — parenting style and parental expectations, for example — may have a greater impact on student achievement than more «concrete» forms such as attendance at school conferences or enforcing rules at home regarding homework.144 Some researchers, policy makers, and practitioners argue that these subtle forms of family involvement are not easily influenced by schools.145 In contrast, we argue that the value of creating participatory structures in schools lies in its potential for increasing family and community members «sense of engagement in children «s education, and, as a consequence, augment and reinforce the subtle behaviors responsible for improved outcomes.146

«Well - meaning but ill - informed expressions of policy, especially without the benefit of formal public comment from affected stakeholders, confuse rather than aid the legal landscape and make the work of schools and parents in ensuring students receive appropriate education needlessly difficult,» said Francisco M. Negrón, Jr., Associate Executive Director and General Counsel, National School Boards Association.

Moreover, on behalf of Arizona's more than 500 public charter schools, we will remain a champion of policies that ensure parents have quality choices when it comes to the education of their children.

More Than a Score parents give CPS a «D» grade for a promotion policy that continues to focus too much on test scores and ignores the value of report cards.

Not only are we in a crisis, we have failed generations of students and their parents, with policies that have sought to provide more comfort for the adults than quality education for the students.

Conservatives need to stop accepting the Left's premise about education policy, which is that central planners can know and do better than parents and teachers, the people who stand in front of children every day.

LFA members, which include AACTE and collectively represent more than 10 million educators, parents, and local policy makers, contributed their sectors» best practices and research to the compendium to advance a collective vision of how and why public schools flourish.

This anti-reform advocacy budget is far larger than that of all other education policy advocacy combined, including those of pro-reform teachers, parents, corporations, and philanthropists.

«Nor will this policy improve parental choice, because it won't give the majority of parents any more choice than they have already.

Parents, policy advocates, legislators — and some of brightest minds in the areas of education technology, pedagogy, curriculum, teaching and learning have helped create a vibrant environment for student success among more than 3 million students who annually benefit from charter school education.

Through more than a decade of policy changes and course corrections, New Orleans has discovered a lot of the ways that a system based on giving parents choice can go wrong.

«Support of public schools is important; involvement and action by several parents in a group can influence school policy - makers and result in decisions and choices than can benefit many children.»

A Parent Guide to the Broad Foundation's training programs and education policies The question I ask is why should Eli Broad and Bill Gates have more of a say as to what goes on in my child's classroom than I do?

Rather than requiring parents to «trigger» a restrictive, damaging set of reforms or shop around among wildly divergent charter schools, PAA supports the kind of empowerment which involves parents authentically at the ground level and in district -, state -, and nationwide policy discussions about how to improve schools.

Rather than focus on poverty, language barriers, unmet special education needs and inadequate funding of public schools, the charter school proponents and Malloy apologists want students, parents, teachers and the public to believe that a pre-occupation with standardized testing, a focus on math and English, «zero - tolerance» disciplinary policies for students and undermining the teaching profession will force students to «succeed» while solving society's problems.

«More than 300 school leaders, supporters, parents, and students will have the opportunity to meet with elected officials, discuss key legislation impacting charter schools, and share the importance of their support on policies that will ensure the future success of charter schools and the students they serve,» said CCSA President and CEO, Jed Wallace.

«School choice does not really exist when the priorities of thousands of parents to strengthen their local public schools, rather than write them off, are completely dismissed by policy makers.»

More than 150 parents participate with a panel of experts on state policies, home and school curricula, and leadership development.

Through his role as Chief Executive Officer of New Schools for Chicago, Daniel Anello is creating a platform for parents and students to make school quality so resonant that decision - makers are compelled to support education policy that prioritizes the interests of children rather than the adults.

«If the parent or other person having control of a child who is a truant fails to attend the meeting held pursuant to subdivision (1) of subsection (b) of this section or if such parent or other person otherwise fails to cooperate with the school in attempting to solve the truancy problem, such policies and procedures shall require the superintendent of schools to file, not later than fifteen calendar days after such failure to attend such meeting or such failure to cooperate with the school attempting to solve the truancy problem, for each such truant enrolled in the schools under his jurisdiction a written complaint with the Superior Court pursuant to section 46b - 149 alleging the belief that the acts or omissions of the child are such that the child's family is a family with service needs.

Several studies of LSC reform conclude that site - based management under parent - majority LSCs successfully raised academic achievement.3 Further study showed that schools where LSCs were allowed to continue as the main policy - making body for the school after mayoral control was established in 1995 improved substantially more than schools where the district intervened and usurped LSC control.4

Tim, I am surprised by your conclusion: «And helping children may sometimes be done best by policies that directly help the incomes of their parents rather than by providing services directly to the children.»

And helping children may sometimes be done best by policies that directly help the incomes of their parents rather than by providing services directly to the children.

More than 16,000 educators, parents and policymakers have signed an online petition at Change.org in the past two weeks, urging the national parent - teachers group to adopt a set of homework guidelines that they say local schools can implement to realign homework policy and practice with research on student learning, health, and engagement.

You'll want to check with your agent to make sure, but the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) says that students who are younger than 26 and living on campus may be covered through their parents» policy.

It could cost more than double the premium of a teen on a parent's policy.

Regarding open adoptions, there's little evidence to show that such pet placement policies result in higher returns than those involving an exhaustive, hassle - filled adoption process in which would - be adopters are made to feel guilty of poor pet parenting until they prove themselves worthy.

«There is absolutely still an understanding that without ICWA, things would be much worse than they currently are» in terms of children taken from their parents, says law professor Kathryn Fort of Michigan State University's Indigenous Law and Policy Center.

Sample # 2: Notwithstanding anything else contained within this Policy, in the event that the proceeds of the Insured Mortgage are paid to any person or entity other than: i) to the registered title holder or holders, as the case may be; ii) holder (s) of prior registered encumbrances (s); iii) an execution or judgment creditor (s); iv) to a non-registered covenantor that is a spouse, child or parent of the registered title holder or holders; v) to credit card companies for credit cards in the name of the registered title holder or holders or in the name of non-registered covenantor (s) that are the spouse, child or parent of the registered title holder or holders; then the Company can deny coverage and shall have no liability to the Insured for any matters that involve the allegation of mortgage / title fraud, including challenges to the validity and enforceability of the Insured Mortgage.

For instance, USAA notes that the former dependent must have been insured on the parent's policy for a minimum of three years, have a clean driving record and be less than 25 years of age.

Note 11 To be eligible for this discount, the former dependent must have been insured on the parents» or guardians» policy for a minimum of three years, be less than 25 years old, and have a clean driving record.

In the event of an accident that may give rise to a claim on the policy the Parent / Guardian should notify AIG as soon as possible but in all cases no later than 30 days after the incident.