Sentences with phrase «while remaining at their school»

Career Lattices — PICCS schools offer educators opportunities to grow while remaining at their school, including a clear promotion process based on performance as well as leadership roles such as becoming a mentor teacher or coach for a professional learning community or data team.

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While the number of schools with satellite campuses has remained around 95, the number of locations themselves has grown by about 20 percent over the past 10 years, from 254 to 305, according to ATS.

He went through normal schools with above - average grades, even while his behavior at home remained violent and tyrannical.

«While cultural background is always a significant consideration in making this decision, so too are other factors including remaining in the local area to promote contact with the child's family and for the child to continue at the same school in order to give them as much stability as possible.»

Looking back at 2013, while the food movement made progress in certain areas (such as school food and GMO labeling), when it comes to exploitative food marketing to children meaningful change remains elusive.

Provide your child language for expressing specific emotions and encourage discussion about likes and dislikes about the day at school, while remaining empathetic about any difficult feelings your child may be having.

While I remain pessimistic about what those rules will look like after industry lobbying (more on that in a future post), at the very least they should put a stop to a school - supplied -LSB-...]

A rural cemetery containing the remains of 14 boys who died while they were inmates at a state reform school in Rush will be returned to the state more than 20 years after being sold as part of a land deal.

«While some progress has been made, the public schools remain broken and someone who lacks educational experience is not the relief pitcher our school children need at this time,» he said.

«While we can't guarantee that the partners of patients will not develop oral HPV infections or cancers, we can reassure them that our study found they had no increased prevalence of oral infections, which suggests their risk of HPV - related oral cancer remains low,» says Gypsyamber D'Souza, Ph.D., M.P.H., associate professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.

While deaths from infectious diseases are declining as a result of research and medical intervention, preterm birth has remained a difficult problem, says Joy Lawn at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Meanwhile, his girlfriend, Wendy (Kate Graham), promises to remain loyal while away at school, only to fall in love with a gay, activist classmate, Micki (Allyson Sereboff).

About 1 million school - age children still can not go online at home and while that number is steadily reducing it remains an area of concern due to the growing assumptions that all children are now connected to the Internet.

While I believe the program offers academic benefits, the reality is that you have to remain flexible and work with existing goals at your school.

The OECD report highlighted that, while desktop computers remained the most common form of computers in schools in 2012, the share of students with access to mobile devices is increasing, with 43 per cent of students, on average, having access to laptops at school, and 11 per cent having access to tablets.

While the softened, non-legislative path to drive English schools to become academies within a wider multi-academy trust (MAT) seems an inevitability, let's remember that it's also a path that remains at the heart of the Department for Education plans.

The boys part ways in high school — Idris remains at Dalton while Seun transfers to the mostly black Benjamin Banneker Academy.

Those who think unions have a «negative effect» on their local schools ticked upward from 31 percent to 33 percent between 2009 and 2010, while those who think unions have a «positive effect» remained unchanged at 28 percent.

US Childcare System Makes «Having It All» All the More Difficult Huffington Post, July 18, 2012 «While the question of whether anyone can «have it all» remains open for discussion, it is clear that our haphazard childcare system, with its inconsistent monitoring and paucity of reliable information on the quality of individual programs, makes striking this balance all the more difficult for parents with young children,» writes Todd Grindal, a doctoral candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

In The Four - Day School Week, another School Administrator report, Jack McCoy, deputy director of learning services at the New Mexico Department of Education, said in his district's case attendance for teachers and students improved while scores on standardized achievement tests remained stable.

While it is an improvement over the original ESEA legislation posted at the beginning of the week, concerns remain over the language within the bill that allows 21st CCLC funds to be used for expensive, whole scale school redesign — an initiative that is also funded elsewhere in the bill through School Improvement Gschool redesign — an initiative that is also funded elsewhere in the bill through School Improvement GSchool Improvement Grants.

Support for Question 2, which would lift the state's current cap on charter school expansion, has remained static at 41 percent, while opposition has grown from 48 percent to 52 percent since last month's poll.

Although much remains true to form, Catholic primary and secondary schooling is also exhibiting more entrepreneurialism and energy than it has in decades while at the same time preserving its commitment to the religious formation of boys and girls.

While charter schools have expanded at an impressive rate, the size of these schools has remained small: about 140 students.

The Department for Education said 95 % of parents had received an offer at one of their top three preferred schools last year, while the average infant class size had remained stable.

Given its location in a major metropolitan area, I suggest seeking learning experiences via partnerships with educational programs at one of the many nearby colleges of education while remaining critical of pedagogical choices in their school.

Using unflinching language, Ms. Feldman — who said she would remain president of the New York City teachers» union while heading the national union — spoke at a news conference about the importance of creating high standards and denounced using vouchers that channel students and dollars from public schools to private schools.

The 172 existing students will be guaranteed places, while a further 115 places are available to new applicants - with priority for those with siblings at the school and 20 % of the remaining places allocated to children from some of the town's most deprived areas.

This data shows us that while there remains progress to be made, thousands more Newark students are reading and doing math on grade level today than just a few years ago, and that these students have a better chance at attending college and pursuing a meaningful career when they leave our schools.

Pew looked at 12 school districts and reported that 267 properties had been sold, leased or reused, while 327 remained vacant.

In February 2014, CCSA released a report on Oakland public charter middle and high schools which shows that while the graduation rate at traditional district high schools has remained at 50 %, the average graduation rate at charter schools has increased to 68 %.

While the Indiana Department of Education's Office of School Improvement and Turnaround offered support and encouragement, it also reminded local educators of what was at stake for schools where test scores remained low: after six straight F's under Indiana's school rating system, the state can take the schoolSchool Improvement and Turnaround offered support and encouragement, it also reminded local educators of what was at stake for schools where test scores remained low: after six straight F's under Indiana's school rating system, the state can take the schoolschool rating system, the state can take the schoolschool over.

The report shows that as a country we have greatly increased education spending and the number of non-teachers on payrolls at district school, while test scores and teacher salaries have remained stagnant at best.

At Knox Central High School, located in the Appalachian Mountains, some classrooms have been transformed under Common Core, while others remain much like they were five years ago.

Students remain enrolled in their regular school for the majority of their classes while taking 1 - 2 classes online at eAchieve Academy.

Most notably, the IBO only looked at students who remained enrolled in schools while they phased out, not those who benefited from being able to attend new small schools.

Mark Herbert, head of schools programmes at the British Council, said: «While it was encouraging to see Mandarin Chinese GCSE entries rise by 18 % this year, more investment is welcome as overall numbers remain low compared to other important languages such as French, Spanish and German.»

«At the end of the day, one fact remains clear: New Jersey's public charter schools serve every child and do so while achieving strong academic outcomes for students.

In the latest analysis we've produced in partnership with our good friend, Professor Tammy Kolbe of the University of Vermont, we found on these two basic questions that, among non-charter schools, the length of the school day has increased slightly over the last few years to 6.8 daily hours — and a bit more among charters — while the duration of the school year has remained consistent at 179 days.

While we will need to be more prescriptive in identifying, assisting, and allocating fund to the lowest performing schools and schools with less than 67 % graduation rate, it remains the intent to provide support and assistance to all schools and districts by leveraging the expertise and knowledge at the national, state, and local levels.

(4) Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, if a district qualifying under paragraph (3) is no longer in the lowest 10 per cent, the net school spending cap shall be 9 per cent; provided, however, that if the board of elementary and secondary education previously approved a higher level of enrollment for a charter school in the district while the district was in the lowest 10 per cent, the net school spending cap shall remain at the level necessary to support such enrollment.

If this proposal goes anywhere, the changes at Clark would begin in the 2014 - 2015 school year, with the fifth grade being operated by Achievement First, while other grade levels at Clark remain under Clark.

While many colleges and universities say that graduates of redesigned high schools will not be disadvantaged in the admissions process, 66 family concerns about college admissions might inhibit enrollment in new high schools that use competency - based approaches.67 At least one state, Utah, has passed legislative language with the intent to bar public institutions of higher education from treating graduates of competency - based high schools unfairly during the admissions process.68 As new issues and challenges emerge, states will need to remain vigilant and creative about how to best encourage and enable innovative high school designs.

While the new report blasts how Sharpe handled the oversight of Jumoke at Milner, and even highlights the fact that significant funds remain missing, the report fails to even mention the deal - making that led to Jumoke / FUSE getting a no - bid contract to control a Hartford public school.

While school districts may develop local promotion criteria, the prohibition against promoting students who fail one or more TAKS exams at the fifth or eighth grade level (unless the local grade placement committee unanimously agrees to promote) remains in place.

Parent activist Megan Wolf, who testified about the bill during the Oct. 3 hearing at the State House, said the filing of the new enrollment policy took many by surprise and occurs while the public remains largely in the dark on details such as how the proposed unified enrollment process would work — including its impact on school choice, equitable access and the BPS budget.

While ISL has not added new classes at its Camp Street building, increasing numbers of students are remaining at the school into the upper grades, straining the building's capacity of roughly 600.

These nontraditional school schedules not only increase students» learning time but also ensure that students can remain in a safe, engaging environment while their parents are hard at work.

While long - term trends demonstrate a decline in walking and bicycling to school, preliminary analysis of 2009 NHTS travel data reveals the percent of five - through 14 - year olds walking and bicycling to school in the U.S. has remained stable at about 12 percent over the last 15 years.

However, if you are the recipient of an unsubsidized Stafford loan (interest accrues while in school), you can take solace in knowing that your interest rate has remained constant at 6.8 %.