Sentences with phrase «very schools it controls»

This matters even more because the mayor's office does not always hold itself responsible for the very schools it controls.

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Parkland shooting survivor and gun control activist David Hogg says his teachers are «very understanding» when he skips school for gun control rallies.

Birth control (condoms, etc.) has been very available to the point that schools give them to their students, but that has not stopped unplanned pregnancies.

It is likely that the coalition formed there failed to notice that their merger was never perfected, for they separately envisioned two very different foundations: «one fully under the control of the bishops and one committed, above all else, to theological education... [and] a church - sponsored university but otherwise one without religious tests or even theological schools, one open to the latest science and scholarship.»

I think the schools have very little control over this, neither does the NCAA with the guidelines that are set for the players.

These were the responses to a teacher's comment about wanting to address, «Very creative and out of control cheating issues that high schools are experiencing.»

A child or teenager who feels very powerless will stay in bed, not go to school, avoid homework, sit on the couch and withhold overall involvement because it gives them a sense of being in control.

Some families choose to home school their child because of inhalant allergies that are very difficult to control in a school environment.

Kimberly, you bring up a very good point about parental involvement in children's milk habits, and it's useful to remiind readers that parents have absolutely no control over what their kids might be drinking at school because they aren't there to supervise them.

«I will continue to work to extend mayoral control because I believe very strongly in the accountability it provides, but I also believe that the 50,000 boys and girls in Harlem, Brooklyn and the Bronx who are now on waiting lists for a seat inside a charter school deserve the best possible education we can provide,» Flanagan said in the statement.

We expanded mental health services in schools through partnership with Say Yes and others; maintained an active and robust rodent control program that is having positive results in communities across the county; continued a very popular rabies clinic program that has been attended by thousands of appreciative pets (and owners); and, along with partners, created the innovative Erie County Health Mall to improve local health outcomes.

There has been very little discussion of the rebalancing that is needed under the current status quo to ensure that schools serve their local communities and are accountable to them through a framework that enables democratic control.

«We have violence, terrible violence and out - of - control behavior in our schools and it starts at a very young age,» said Carl Paladino, who asserted that school principals have been encouraged to downplay problems in their buildings.

Duffy, a former police chief, is a very popular politician known statewide for following in Mayor Michael Bloomberg's footsteps by pushing for mayoral control over the Rochester school system.

In this study, researchers from the UCLA School of Nursing used the Valsalva maneuver — during which participants breathe hard out through a very small tube to raise blood pressure — to measure brain activity as it controls the blood pressure change.

«There is a very small number of people that control a huge amount of water,» said Douglas Kenney, director of the Western Water Policy Program at the University of Colorado Law School in Boulder.

«This study looked at more than 2.3 million ED visits among children with asthma, and we identified some interesting trends that give a baseline to find better ways to help children with asthma control this very treatable disease,» said Aparna Roy, MD, MPH, lead author of the study and resident at UH Rainbow and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

«These findings clearly point to the very important role that health care providers can play in increasing coverage with this safe and effective vaccine,» said lead author Linda M. Niccolai, Ph.D., associate professor in the school's Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases and member of the Cancer Prevention and Control Program of the Yale Cancer Center.

The genes involved encode proteins that control the activity of a very important and ubiquitous class of molecules that are a major target of pharmacologic agents across medicine,» says Ethan Goldberg, MD, PhD, an attending physician and instructor of neurology at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and The Perelman School of Medicine at The University of Pennsylvania.

Most studies of self - control development have focused either on very young children or adolescents, but there is a lack of research on children in kindergarten and primary school, a transition period that requires children to regulate their behaviour.

Nina and I are friends as well, even though I say her name wrong, who has also written some books about fat, but there's this national conversation where you have the old school low - fats, mostly paid for by big grain sort of research out there, and you're refuting some of that using very strong academics, randomized controlled trials, and the things that everyone wants, but no one has paid for except for maybe big drug companies and things like that.

The tennis school is just a very basic tutorial of the games controls and shows all the different shot variations that you can use.

It makes clear that schools face formidable challenges over which they have very limited, if any, control.

Providing a non-arbitrary comparison of schools on even one criterion will be nearly impossible...» He says that the agency's subjective measures of equity grant almost complete control to federal regulators over a district's administration, something that is at odds with the very structure of the American educational system and will surely damage local control.

There could be very big implications for schools if this is funding that would have gone to schools and will now be directly controlled by families.

For example, districts have provided money, but they have kept so much control over its use that individual schools have very little budgetary discretion.

This control is denied, but the organization that holds direct responsibility for the administration of the tests and the maintenance of standards in public examinations (the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, formerly the Schools Curriculum and Assessment Authority) has, as I know from my experience when I was its chief executive, a very fragile independence.

You may feel that claims are outside of your control, but it is no coincidence that academies with the most interest in risk management and proactively taking and implementing risk advice are often those with the very best claims experience, and it is worth bearing in mind that any money left over from the insurance settlement can be retained and spent by the school.

This raises a question very much worth pondering: What is the best way to arrange a city's system of schools given our tradition of local control and the state's ultimate constitutional obligation?

While selection bias is still a concern, it is worthwhile noting that the authors control for a very rich set of covariates including student demographics, parental income, parental education, student AFQT score, freshman year GPA, state of birth and various school characteristics.

«I am optimistic, cautiously optimistic with schools, but in a reasonably long term; ie here the next two years is when we will begin to see some results, but it is a very difficult, complicated, slow, very protected market, where defenders of what should be the introduction of technology and aid coming through technology in schools, which are teachers, are very comfortable with the paper book, in the territories that they already dominate and control.

By expanding parental choices in schools, foundations can engage parents very effectively in controlling education policies.

Local authorities, also expecting their massive investment to work «out of the box», are surprised to find that school and academy buildings are unfinished at occupation and full of technologies and controls that don't work very well and that no - one understands.

Very interesting reading, however from my perspective all the if's and when's say that someone haven't noticed this is already happening outside the traditional school systems controlled and governed by the state one happen to live in.

Statistical controls must be used if the assessments of teachers, schools, or programs are to be accurate, even though very few educators understand the statistical principles and methods involved.

Delta Security, the CCTV and access control specialists, has extended its 18 - year partnership with the Stoke Newington - based Sir Thomas Abney Primary School, to deliver the very latest wireless - based «ring of steel» to protect pupils, visitors and staff.

The service is regularly used by new schools that are yet to be built, and Moira says this gives school's the control they need right from the very beginning.

The dysfunctional nature of how urban schools teach students to relate to authority begins in kindergarten and continues through the primary grades.With young children, authoritarian, directive teaching that relies on simplistic external rewards still works to control students.But as children mature and grow in size they become more aware that the school's coercive measures are not really hurtful (as compared to what they deal with outside of school) and the directive, behavior modification methods practiced in primary grades lose their power to control.Indeed, school authority becomes counterproductive.From upper elementary grades upward students know very well that it is beyond the power of school authorities to inflict any real hurt.External controls do not teach students to want to learn; they teach the reverse.The net effect of this situation is that urban schools teach poverty students that relating to authority is a kind of game.And the deepest, most pervasive learnings that result from this game are that school authority is toothless and out of touch with their lives.What school authority represents to urban youth is «what they think they need to do to keep their school running.»

In authority - controlled primary schools rapid and easy ordering and delivery is the key or very important factor (90 per cent) and in secondary schools, being a current and trusted supplier is of key or high importance (88 per cent).

Reville said that an example of tight control in Massachusetts was that there aren't multiple authorizes of charter schools, just a single authorizer with «very clear standards and procedures.»

For instance, although most of the studies cited above do include statistical controls for peer effects (the mean characteristics of other student in a class or school), very few states or districts do so when generating value - added estimates.

And when we talk about improving public education, and the very real and increasing threat that is coming from the corporate «education reform» types, who want to layoff teachers, ban or reduce collective bargaining rights, take - over public schools and transfer the care and control of our public schools to various third parties... let's not forget that many districts do not fund enough IA positions and every district fails to fairly compensate IAs for the incredible work they do.

We have some very skilled and talented teachers in a school, doing their absolute best, working against the odds, and within some constraints that are beyond their control.

The idea that this trust could be set up to be controlled by one family, and to have very strong links with a hitherto - successful school improvement firm, seems to have been embraced by the department at the time.

But no, you rather just try to destroy charter schools, which parents are flocking to, because they want to escape from the very school system you essentially control.

Very similar to academy schools, they also reflect the way the government wants to revolutionise the system, with schools funded directly by Westminster, semi-independent and outside of local authority control, with the freedom to vary the school day, terms, the curriculum and teachers» pay and conditions.

Free schools are very similar to academies in that they do not have to follow the national curriculum, can vary the pay and conditions of teachers, are directly funded by central government and are outside of local authority control.

A school has very little power indeed unless it has control over how to spend its money.

«When you have national standards, it becomes very hard for a state school board to control what exactly your child is learning,» said Jenni White of Restore Oklahoma Public Education, a parent advocacy group.

So proponents claiming the mantle of «education reform» have been quick to jump on the one - sided election results as proof - positive of widespread voter support for their ideas, which include competitive charter schools, vouchers to transfer public education money into private hands, and harsh accountability measures to punish schools and teachers for the circumstances they have very little control over.