Sentences with phrase «which increased the number of schools»

Previously, he managed New Visions» expansion to support New York City's Community & Renewal Schools, which increased the number of schools using New Visions Data Tools by more than 150 %.»

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The most recent estimates from local authorities put the number of home schooled children in the UK at more than 36,000 — a figure which has increased by 65 % over the past six years.

But all have said they feel lawmakers deserve their first pay bump in more than a decade, which was then tied to increasing the number of charter schools in New York.

It recently raised the possibility that it won't endorse anyone in the gubernatorial race due to a considerable difference of opinion with AG Andrew Cuomo's platform, which includes increasing the number of charter schools and a property tax cap.

In the middle of admissions season, the state's private schools say their numbers are up, despite the price competition from Cuomo's «free college» Excelsior program, which he last week credited with increasing applications to SUNY and CUNY affiliated schools by 10 percent.

The Labour government is the first under which the number of faith schools has increased.

A source said Cuomo spent Wednesday trying to broker a deal over mayoral control, which balanced the desire of Senate Republicans (which Cuomo shares) to increase the number of charter schools against the Democrat - dominated Assembly's refusal to budge.

He has been a passionate supporter for annual increases in the Pupil Deprivation Grant which gives schools with higher numbers of children from poor backgrounds more money to spend.

By the end of May, state lawmakers reached a deal to increase the number of charter schools, which are publicly funded but privately run and usually not unionized, to 460 statewide, up from 200, while also increasing state oversight of them.

During his time as superintendent, the Rockland County Psychiatric Center, with which the district has a relationship, has doubled its number of school psychologists from two to four, and increased its number of social workers from one to three.

The deal, which comes days before the June 30 deadline, actually increases the number of daycare and after - school spaces offered by the city, which had been on the chopping block under Mayor Michael Bloomberg's original plan.

The Massey plan would also expand the number of competitive, specialized high schools from nine to 13, increase the number of vocational / trade schools, and implement merit pay for teachers, which the Bloomberg administration tried on a limited basis.

The $ 68.5 billion budget keeps fire companies and libraries open, without raising taxes, and increases the number of daycare and after - school spaces offered by the city, which had been on the chopping block under Mayor Michael Bloomberg's original plan.

Other areas the chime led administration is positively giving uncommon facelift to include; renovation of dilapidated school structures, provision of Ambulances and medical emergency response personnel in Enugu State which is under its Medical Emergency Response Scheme, recruitment of 2000 teachers for secondary schools and an additional 2000 volunteer teachers to fast track its Volunteer Service Scheme, a scheme whereby retired but not tired teachers are engaged based on personal volition in order to increase and complement the inadequate number of teachers teaching in the state's schools, provision of brand new tractors to encourage mechanized system of farming to add vim to the revolution going on in the agricultural sector etc..

In the meantime, students are consuming an ever increasing number of calories from sugary refreshments, which are generally accessible at or nearby schools.

However, evidence presented in the report sheds doubt these large test score increases: according to an Education Writers Association study, when neighborhood schools were restored, the superintendent in Oklahoma City reduced the number of low - achievers taking the standardized tests by increasing the number of students retained (or «flunked») and implementing transition grades (in which students repeat all or part of the previous grade).

For example, no effort is made to show the increase in public - school spending in America during the past 30 (or 50) years, the uses to which that money has been put, the steady reduction in class size, the huge increase in numbers of school employees, and the various trends in achievement that correlate almost not at all with any of these resource trends.

The dwindling number of school places, the increasing size of classes and the continued budget cuts that are stretching resources to breaking point are all important factors which limit our teachers» ability to provide the proper safeguarding for vulnerable children.

Which is why the movement needs a new political strategy — one that builds a broader constituency, whose success doesn't turn key supporters against it, and one that continues to encourage innovation in an increasing number of high - quality charter schools.

An increasing number of regions are trying to create concentrated groups of blended - learning schools alongside education technology companies, which may be key to advancing the blended - learning field and increasing its odds of personalizing learning at scale to allow every child to be successful.

I calculate the number and share of FTC students attending different groupings of private schools, which have differential track records in terms of increasing students» rates of college enrollment.

The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham will see the biggest increase in pupil numbers, requiring a total of 28 new schools, followed by Lambeth, Newham and Greenwich, which need 21, 37 and 25 new schools built, respectively.

The SMCPC also raised the issue in its recent annual report, which named and shamed individual Oxbridge colleges for their failure to increase the number of state school pupils studying at their establishments.

The number of such schools increased from 27,223 to 29,273 — or by 7.5 percent — from 1999 to 2001, the most recent years for which data are available, according to the federal report.

Put quite simply — if you increase the number of connected pupil devices in your school — you will need to upgrade your Wi - Fi systems (which were probably originally built just to connect your staff and the school office) and you will need to increase your broadband speed and capacity.

In effect, the nation's urban high schools, which served increasing numbers of young people from poor and immigrant families, were arguably providing the best academic and, for a smaller number of students, vocational education available in the United States at that time.

He has been «incredibly explicit,» he says, about «the definition of success for us, [which] is that we dramatically increase the number of children, regardless of birth circumstances, who graduate from high school ready for college and career.»

The statistics also show that there has been an increase in the number of schools which are unable to balance the books, with 1,461 in deficit in 2016 - 17.

According to the ICT in UK State Schools report from the British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA), in 2000, we saw the number of computers in schools increase to over 800,000, a third of which were lSchools report from the British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA), in 2000, we saw the number of computers in schools increase to over 800,000, a third of which were lschools increase to over 800,000, a third of which were laptops.

In response to the publication of the SEN Code of Practice for parliamentary approval by the Department for Education, the AEP has stressed that an uncertain funding future for the initial training of the educational psychology workforce and the ever increasing demand for educational psychologists» posts will mean that there will be an insufficient number of educational psychologists supporting local authorities and schools in future, which could put the wellbeing of vulnerable children and young people across the country at risk.

The government's trial of the scheme aiming to increase the number of BME headteachers was a success, with 30 schools allocated funding to spend on diversity leadership projects which are set to benefit 1,000 teachers — all of whom are predicted a promotion within 12 months.

While there has been a gradual increase in the number of school - based health clinics, which provide preventive and remedial care and even crisis interventions, clinics serve only a small minority of students, and few states and districts have policies in place to help them scale up and become sustainable.

With increased hygiene and less bacteria in the environment, it is reasonable to assume there would be a decrease in sickness, which will, in turn, have an effect on the numbers of children absent from school.

Common challenges create opportunities for collaborative solutions which is why an increasing number of employers — including schools — are looking to learn from each other in terms of innovative approaches to hiring.

According to the Department for Education, there were 56,735 places allocated to initial teacher training providers (ITT) and school direct lead schools in 2017/18, of which 6,672 were for undergraduate ITT; figures, which continue the increase in the number of aspiring teachers choosing on the job training as their preferred method of a route into teaching.

Finally, it is possible that the introduction of more difficult GED examinations in 2002, which resulted in a temporary decline in the number of 16 - to 18 - year - olds obtaining the credential, contributed to the increase in the high school graduation rate during the decade ending in 2010.

Without increased funding schools will have to continue cutting the number of support staff, which leaves vulnerable children with less support and further increases teachers» workloads.»

NewSchools Venture Fund commissioned a MassINC poll of 625 Boston voters, which found 64 percent of respondents in favor of increasing the number of students who can attend charter schools and just 23 percent saying the limit on charters should stay.

For instance, regarding charter schools, states will be scored, in part, on the extent to which they have a law that does not prohibit charters or inhibit an increase in the number of high - performing charters.

At the federal level, former U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. prioritized school diversity through a number of federal grant programs, including the Investing in Innovation Fund, or I3, Magnet School Assistance Program, and Charter School Program grant competitions.11 Additionally, in December 2016, the U.S. Department of Education announced the Opening Doors, Expanding Opportunities grant competition, which will use funds from the 2016 fiscal year to support school districts in increasing socioeconomic diversity in their schoschool diversity through a number of federal grant programs, including the Investing in Innovation Fund, or I3, Magnet School Assistance Program, and Charter School Program grant competitions.11 Additionally, in December 2016, the U.S. Department of Education announced the Opening Doors, Expanding Opportunities grant competition, which will use funds from the 2016 fiscal year to support school districts in increasing socioeconomic diversity in their schoSchool Assistance Program, and Charter School Program grant competitions.11 Additionally, in December 2016, the U.S. Department of Education announced the Opening Doors, Expanding Opportunities grant competition, which will use funds from the 2016 fiscal year to support school districts in increasing socioeconomic diversity in their schoSchool Program grant competitions.11 Additionally, in December 2016, the U.S. Department of Education announced the Opening Doors, Expanding Opportunities grant competition, which will use funds from the 2016 fiscal year to support school districts in increasing socioeconomic diversity in their schoschool districts in increasing socioeconomic diversity in their schools.12

In addition to an increase in the number of poor students, the funding for schools declined, Common Core standards were introduced, the use of educational software increased, and, in many schools, time spent on test preparation expanded (which often detracts from learning).

Grant money, which started going to the school district this year, funds SAISD's Pipeline for College Success program, an initiative aimed at increasing the number of students who enroll in and complete college.

It would be a far better use of public money to rebuild and refurbish existing schools, many of which are in dire need of repair, as these schools have taken the lion's share of the increased numbers of pupils, and will continue to do so.»

Anyone who views the strings attached to the supposedly increased dollars will immediately see that Pryor, with Malloy and Jepsen to help him, is cynically using the inequities in order to push his agenda of privatizing and increasing the number of charter schools — which are not better than well - resourced, well - staffed (no TFA, please) public schools — indeed, with their shaming rituals, bare - bones curriculum, and newbie teachers, they are much worse.

If anything, Kent County's district became even more punitive: It arrested and referred 60 children in 2013 - 2014, a sixty-fold increase in the number of students sent onto the most - direct path to the school - to - prison pipeline two years earlier (which was none).

Critics say the use of 2017 - 18 as a baseline is unfair on schools that have already made efforts to increase numbers studying maths beyond GCSE in recent years, which won't benefit from the extra cash.

The EPI analysis, which is disputed by the government, also found a significant increase in the number of primary schools in deficit.

And what I found is that if from 1992 to 2015 (which is the most recent data I can get) the number of students in American public schools increased 20 percent.

Market - oriented education reform refers to a series of initiatives that include educator evaluations based in large part on student standardized test scores, the closure of schools that are considered failing or underenrolled, and an increase in the number of charter schools, many of which are operated by for - profit companies.

The third report will reveal new mentor standards which Gibb said are designed to «bring consistency» to the role of school - based mentors for trainee teachers, whose numbers are increasing as a result of more teacher training occurring in schools via programmes such as Teach First and School Dschool - based mentors for trainee teachers, whose numbers are increasing as a result of more teacher training occurring in schools via programmes such as Teach First and School DSchool Direct.