Sentences with phrase «used by school officials»

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While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

School officials said the district needs to taste success in its next referendum or face overcrowding by 1999 that might force them to use mobile classrooms, or institute split shifts or year - round school scheSchool officials said the district needs to taste success in its next referendum or face overcrowding by 1999 that might force them to use mobile classrooms, or institute split shifts or year - round school scheschool schedules.

By using products bearing the GREENGUARD Children & SchoolsSM or GREENGUARD Gold Certification mark, parents, teachers and school officials can rest easy knowing these products have been independently tested and verified to meet strict emission levels of pollutants, such as volatile organic compounds (VOCs), formaldehyde and phthalates.

Parks officials have asked the school district to share the cost of playground renovations because they are used primarily by schoolchildren.

Robert Zimmerman, co-president of Zimmerman Edelson Inc., a public relations firm used by the school district, said the budget process is at such an early stage that any comments by district officials would be «speculative.»

The report on Levittown's operations said school officials must ensure that reserve funds are governed by board resolutions or policies that include the reasons why money is being set aside, financial objectives for the reserves, optimal funding levels and the conditions under which each reserve fund will be used.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration sent the state's top education officials a letter Thursday warning that he plans to use his influence over the budget to pursue an aggressive legislative agenda to fix what he calls an underperforming school system hobbled by bureaucracy.

In late July, 17 officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, descended onto the TAMU campus to assess whether the school was complying with regulations that govern «select agents,» toxins, such as Ebola and monkeypox, that are considered potential bioweapons and whose use is strictly controlled by the U.S. government.

The XPRIZE group also plans to help teams commercialize new sensor technology, which could eventually be used by virtually anybody interested in monitoring ocean health — from school groups to marine park officials.

Baltimore school officials are standing by their decision to use popular magazines and other nontraditional texts as part of a strategy to engage middle school students, despite criticism from some teachers and community members that the new language arts curriculum lacks rigor and downplays formal grammar lessons.

School officials used some $ 316,000 in funding from the School Energy Efficiency Program, available to qualifying K - 12 districts in 18 counties in California and administered by the Resource Solutions Group, to retrofit about 12,000 fixtures between March and July 2007.

So, I think almost every credible researcher would agree that the vast majority of ways in which test scores are used by policymakers, regulators, portfolio managers, foundation officials, and other policy elites can not be reliable indicators of the ability of schools or programs to improve later life outcomes.

As well as the award for teachers, the Anti-Bullying Alliance is calling on students and school staff across England to showcase their creativity and harness their «inner Director» by entering a film - highlighting how important it is to use our Power for Good to stop bullying and create a world we'd all like to live in - with the chance to become the official film of Anti-Bullying Week 2016.

The Court's decision to hear Wygant v. Jackson Board of Education (Case No. 84 - 1340) marked the first time in recent years that it has agreed to review the use of affirmative - action procedures by school officials.

For decades, the S.A.T. and the American College Program test have been used by college - admissions officials as a «common yardstick» to determine if students from New England boarding schools, one - room schools, and everywhere in between are ready...

The Pike County, Ky., school system's use of more than $ 9 million in federal flood - relief funds is being investigated by officials of the U.S. Education Department, a county school system official said last week.

School officials in Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, and other districts began to return apples to their lunch menus last week, after confirming that their fruit did not contain a potentially harmful chemical used by some apple growers.

Federal prosecutors have charged that a $ 140 million project to bridge the «digital divide» in Arizona's public schools was used as a vehicle for accounting fraud in late 2001 by officials of the telecommunications giant Qwest Communications International Inc..

These nascent rules — from acceptable - use policies created by school districts to guide students on the Internet to basic manners instructions for students with school email accounts — have begun to show up in official documents.

Perhaps adding to the putative frontrunner's frustrations was a warning to his campaign by school officials not to try to use a film of the session for political purposes.

HR 2066, which was approved on a voice vote May 1 by the Economic and Educational Opportunities Committee, would allow school officials to use any «reasonable approach» to meeting the guidelines.

In a similar scenario, Englewood, New Jersey, officials wreaked havoc on the Englewood Charter School by abruptly rezoning the site of a converted warehouse that the school was planning tSchool by abruptly rezoning the site of a converted warehouse that the school was planning tschool was planning to use.

A long - awaited inspection of the federal Reading First program found today that federal education officials may have steered the grant - application process for the $ 1 billion - a-year initiative to ensure that particular reading programs and instructional approaches were widely used by participating schools, and that others were essentially shut out.

In consultation with private school officials, the LEA may use either an individual school - by - school option or a pooling option to determine how funds will be distributed to participating private schools.

Attendance is one of the criteria used by state education officials to determine Georgia's school climate ratings, which grade schools on the safety of its learning environment.

Hosted by the Harvard Graduate School of Education, NCRPP is offering an online course February 5 - 18, 2018 that will help district leaders, school leaders, and state education officials learn how to find, evaluate, and use research to inform the decisions theySchool of Education, NCRPP is offering an online course February 5 - 18, 2018 that will help district leaders, school leaders, and state education officials learn how to find, evaluate, and use research to inform the decisions theyschool leaders, and state education officials learn how to find, evaluate, and use research to inform the decisions they make.

Such a solution would enable officials to keep the schools open and maintain neighborhood schools, while making constructive use of the space that is no longer needed by the school, according to Janis L. Cromer, a spokesman for Superintendent Floretta D. McKenzie.

Private schools can either accommodate the student themselves, using whatever resources they have, or negotiate with public school officials regarding the provision of special services to the student by the public school system with additional public funds (a process called «equitable services»).

Considering Connecticut's public officials made a profound mistake by mandating that schools use the SAT scores to evaluate students and teachers, Mr. Alfaro's information and warnings are particularly important.

The study was a fallback when a bill by the governor, and sponsored by Hoffmann, would have allowed school officials to use test data as they chose on teacher evaluations failed to gain traction in the Legislature.

School performance measures are used just as much by officials to monitor standards and ultimately Progress 8 is an accountability measure.

Just last week, the governor of New York sent the state's top education officials a letter warning that he plans to use his influence over the budget by pursuing an aggressive legislative agenda to fix an ailing school system hobbled by bureaucracy.

By embracing the tests — which are designed to measure students» knowledge of the more rigorous standards — college officials are at odds with many parents who have protested their use in schools and kept their children out of the exams.

Gov. Larry Hogan could untangle Baltimore County Public Schools officials from their technology quagmire by simply eliminating the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers testing (PARCC) they use to justify their obsession with...

These charter public school supporters will be at the meeting to discuss the charter petitions for both schools, respond to intimidation tactics used by District officials and ask SJUSD Board members for a vote.

What: Parents, teachers and supporters of Perseverance Preparatory School and Promise Academy - two proposed charter public schools - will be at the SJUSD Board Meeting to discuss the charter school petitions and recent intimidation tactics used by District offiSchool and Promise Academy - two proposed charter public schools - will be at the SJUSD Board Meeting to discuss the charter school petitions and recent intimidation tactics used by District offischool petitions and recent intimidation tactics used by District officials.

In the age of accountability ushered in by the No Child Left Behind law in 2002 and continued under 2015's Every Student Succeeds Act, many school officials are using fraudulent methods to inflate graduation rates.

Parents seeking the first use of the state's controversial parent trigger» school restructuring law vowed Wednesday to carry on their fight despite a move by Compton school officials to disqualify their petitions.

Droessler said she and the other drafters did the best they could in developing the budget and were told by district officials to use as a guide the budgets of the district's three other charter schools: Badger Rock Middle School, Nuestro Mundo Community School and Wright Middle School.

The Principal Ambassador Fellowship program was launched by USED in 2013 to forge deeper connections between federal officials and school practitioners, to provide excellent principals with opportunities to learn about the federal policymaking process, and, ultimately, to strengthen federal education policies and programs to better reflect the experience and expertise of great school leaders.

This would be separate from the official performance data published by the government, which is currently used to generate school rankings.

Use of the Materials by the Government constitutes acknowledgment of Association of School Business Officials Maryland and the District of Columbia proprietary rights in them.

ST. LOUIS (AP)-- In days gone by, a knock on the door by a teacher or school official used to mean a child was in trouble.

Next school year, district officials may nearly triple the number of students using the program by expanding it to the third and fourth grades.

He said at the time the agreements raise «substantive questions» about whether school officials broke the law by using public money to advocate passage.

The United Federation of Teachers, joined by the NAACP and several public officials, filed suit against the New York City Department of Education on Wednesday in attempt to halt the city's closure of 22 schools and to prevent charter schools from using space in buildings that house public schools.

The blunder was initially spotted by a teacher at one of 700 schools that was carrying out an official trial of the test, using the paper that was to be taken by pupils around England.

That change came at the behest of officials with the North Carolina Virtual Academy, the school backed by controversial for - profit online school operator K12, Inc., who complained to state officials that recording and reporting daily student attendance through the online reporting software that traditional schools use didn't work for them, according to DPI's interim director of the state's charter school office Adam Levinson.

The information provided on the application will be used to determine eligibility and may be verified at any time during the school year by school or other program officials.