Sentences with phrase «urging school»

With test results increasingly tied to teacher evaluations, experts are urging school districts to remain vigilant because the incentives to cheat grow ever larger each year.

The Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center alerted TEA and others in the education sector of the growing threat in early December, urging school district information technology departments to be on alert and to take precautions to protect employees.

The UTLA has embraced the findings of the study and is urging the school board to consider the financial impact on the district before granting any more non-union charters.

So I'm urging school districts to increase serving fish in the cafeteria to replicate what the Finns and Koreans do and match their level of achievement.

Without any law to back him up, Florida's state schools chief is urging school districts to adopt higher academic standards on their own.

By mid-summer, Flores and Villaraigosa were ready to hatch their charter - and - choice initiative, at first urging the school board to hand off 50 recently opened campuses to charter firms and nonprofit reform groups.

Back in December I wrote an op - ed for the Houston Chronicle urging my school district to consider moving from the use of a food service management company (Aramark) to operating its own school food program.

RBC and Free The Children urge schools across Canada to take up the challenge of financial literacy with It All Adds Up...

The FBI's 2013 report, published with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, also urged schools to consider that typical lockdown drills may not enough.

The Commission urged that books should be used to convey important social messages: for instance one book which it urged school libraries to acquire, and this writer personally got to see as a governor, was about a boy wearing a pink dress.

The Commission was fanatical throughout the 70s and 80s in urging schools to re-write history and, where it deemed this important, biology.

They can even urge the schools to talk about religious freedom and to discuss the role of religion in national life.

With the full briefs for the 2016 Starpack Awards now available online, the winner of the 2015 Student Category, Gavin Houseley urges school, college and university Design departments to enter this prestigious student scheme organised by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.

When Little Mike was a freshman, his father urged the school to make Liccione the varsity coach.

We don't believe everyone deserves a trophy, but we have seen the problems associated with a ranking system, and have urged schools to consider other ways to honor their top students — ways that rely less on a grade point average and that are more similar to the MVP status on a sports team - where multiple skills and traits are valued.

It also urged school lunchrooms to serve more fresh fruits, vegetables, whole grains and legumes and to dish out less salt, sugar and saturated fat.

Other: The State Board of Education released a Position Statement on Nutrition and Physical Activity (updated in 2010) that urges schools to adopt policies that address Section 204 requirements.

Four years later, the breakfast program had grown to serve 199 public elementary schools, and Esaian urged the school board to take it districtwide, crediting the program with improving the «intellectual, emotional, social and physical development» of schoolchildren from low - income families.

Despite the company's claims, the district's chief legal officer urged the school board in a memo to settle the dispute as a «good faith gesture.»

Finally, Amanda urges school foodservice professionals to take charge of their message to spread the positive things going on in your cafeteria.

urges schools to adopt safety measures to protect student - athletes from injury or illness, which mainly occur in four major areas:

It urges schools to adopt safety measures to protect student - athletes from injury or illness, which mainly occur in four major areas:

But we are pleased that the Secretary of State agrees with us in principle and we would urge schools and councils to consider funding universal free school meals themselves.

Urging schools to develop comprehensive policies that create an overall «culture of wellness,» the report specifically illustrates the roles of school breakfast and physical activity, citing their positive student outcomes in the classroom — and beyond.

Lucan subsequently wrote a piece for U.S. News & World Report, again urging schools to drop their nut bans in order to allow healthy nut snacks on campus: «When School Food Policies Are Just Nuts.»

The USDA is urging schools only to limit junk food marketing.

«I urge all school districts using private food vendors to examine their contracts and the performance of those vendors.»

Despite government assurances that «no grammar school will lose its right to select pupils by academic ability as a result of converting to become an academy,» the National Grammar Schools Association has urged schools to «exercise extreme caution» before making the change.

Laws said he would provide new guidance to urge schools to end the practice of using a single uniform supplier, which stops parents from shopping around.

«Increasing competition between schools undermines outcomes and life chances for children with SEN.. The Government needs a SEN strategy which urges schools to work in partnership, to build collaboration and to share resources and specialist SEN knowledge.

He urged schools and parents to breed excitement about books, not just teach children how to read and write.

The principal also urged school staffers to «wear red» on Fridays to support the union's campaign against Cuomo, said a parent who heard the announcement.

In the same way that creationists urge schools to «teach the controversy,» climate change skeptics aim to sow doubt about scientific consensus, said Mark McCaffrey, the programs and policy director of the National Center for Science Education, a nonprofit that has long supported the teaching of evolution in schools and recently began to defend climate change education.

The district's diploma guarantee will be based on job skills identified by the U.S. Labor Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills, or SCANs, which last summer released a set of job competencies that it urged school districts to adopt.

We would urge all schools to develop a CPD and leadership development strategy for all their staff.

Action Fraud is now urging schools to be on their guard against the scam, including challenging any requests that seem suspicious and to make sure there are robust systems in place to verify and corroborate financial requests.

We recommended the DfE to strongly urge schools to review the curriculum time they give to Computing as a discrete subject, in view of the changes to the Computing curriculum, with a view to treating it like other longer - established disciplines.

This year, we're trying to reach a quarter of a million children, so we're urging schools and teachers to sign up to the event so their pupils don't miss out on what could be the most valuable lesson they ever learn.

It also encourages employers to use them to support performance management and training activities and urges schools and academies to use them to assess operational capacity and competency.

«Urge school and political leaders to make sure they are analyzing gains, not just raw scores,» Shearon said, «then forget about the scores!

In a report released last week, the Washington - based council urges school systems to tread carefully when using test scores to decide who graduates, who is held back a grade, and who is put in a remedial program.

As students are claiming their rightful place in today's ongoing dialogues on gun control and school safety — leading powerful demonstrations such as March for Our Lives and National School Walkout Day — there are an increasing number of educators who urge schools to allow students to voice their opinions, and make these conversations a regular occurrence.

They urged school districts to reform curricula by creating practical, relevant courses (such as shop, home economics, and driver's education) based on students» needs and interests.

It very much relates to the relationship between teacher and student, and between teacher and teacher... [everyone] is dependent on one another's success,» said Domonique Foxworth, president of the NFL Players Association and former cornerback with the Baltimore Ravens, who urged school administrators to...

The Modular and Portable Building Association (MPBA) is urging schools to «act now» to ensure that they can provide the best possible facilities as pupil headcounts grow nationally.

As a result of this, Jadhav has urged schools «to not rely on any predictions of grade boundary marks for new GCSEs next summer».

As reported by The Telegraph, the NAHT's general secretary advised its members that they should only travel to work if they could do so safely, but urged school leaders to not to leave parents «in the lurch» with poor communication.

The energy minister Greg Barker has been quoted as urging schools to install solar panels.

Releasing the study last week, the executive director of the National Association of Secondary School Principals urged school decisionmakers to «be more visionary» in planning for the future.

Jones also urges schools to collect data by surveying students and teachers in order to gauge school climate.