When the school day ends at one of those pilot schools, the campus hosts adult education classes.
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Next year in a few hundred pilot schools, single level tests will replace Sats in maths, though the government is moving cautiously in introducing the new tests.
By the end of the project, each of the participating pilot schools will have formulated a school DRR and climate change response plan in collaboration with the local community.
Some 100 pilot schools are trying out a new timetable, with academic subjects in the morning and sport in the afternoon (only 20% of secondary-school pupils now take part in school team sports).
Since its start in the fall of 2010, the program has gradually expanded from two pilot schools ordering 750 pounds of produce from 10 local farms to this year, where 10, 000 pounds of carrots, cabbage, squash, sweet potatoes and zucchini were pre-ordered in the fall from 15 local farmers.
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His lawyer says he was following his dream to become a commercial pilot and the schools were cheap.
Hall County worked hand-in-hand with Dell to define the requirements of that user interface and pilot it in their schools.
The QCA is running a pilot scheme in 60 schools with the Edexcel board, involving "more relevant and interesting topics", such as business vocabulary and the media.
Initially 72 schools will join in 12 pilot projects in England and Wales, the hope being that by 2015 7, 000 state schools will be involved.
The launch across Wales follows a pilot project in four Cardiff schools.
There has been a pilot scheme for this project, involving schools in 22 US states, and also a small number of schools in the UK and Canada.
The First Minister said a pilot scheme will be introduced in 40 schools in the coming school year and the scheme will be funded before the next Assembly elections in May 2007.
This Northwest Cluster event was sponsored by Great Seneca Creek Elementary School PTA, Matsunaga Elementary School PTA, Kingsview Middle School PTA and Roberto Clemente Middle School PTA. The PTAs in the Northwest Cluster of Montgomery County Public Schools are also looking to pilot a curriculum on bullying prevention through the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County.
He said the Shepway Community Safety Unit, which included police and Kent and Shepway councils, had developed a pilot scheme for tackling school parking issues and four schools were taking part in it.
Rhyl High School was chosen for the pilot after the council carried out research at various schools, taking into account safety issues such as the speed cars were travelling outside and the number of accidents.
Chagrin Falls schools proved to be fertile ground to pilot the MOVband, since the district had started a program called Kids Move Smart in 2009 and has put a big emphasis on getting kids to be active.
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Among the primary schools to have taken part in a pilot was Vicarage Park in Kendal, Cumbria - with the head teacher Anne Hallam saying that the scheme had a "significant impact" on helping boys to articulate their emotions.
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To maintain profitability, flight schools focused on well-maintained used aircraft as pilot training alternatives.
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The pupils chosen for the pilot will be taken from two of the LEA's schools, and will be borderline GCSE candidates.
Scottish Borders Council was told that figures for primary schools had also dropped after the conclusion of a free meals pilot which ended in June.
There will also be a multi-million pound pilot project, involving about 60, 000 pupils, aimed at helping schools with a high proportion of children who get free school meals to offer a much wider range of extra-curricular activities.
Highland Council officials said the pilot would guide a three-year phased introduction of the vaccination to its other schools.
It is carrying out a pilot scheme for online GCSEs in chemistry, biology, physics and geography with 200 schools and colleges across the West Midlands and the west of England.
Voucher systems are hated by educational bureaucrats (and by some non-bureaucrats who fear that the use of vouchers leaves sink schools behind), but the evidence from places like Milwaukee suggests that a pilot scheme is worth a try in New York.
If the pilot is successful, it will be extended to pupils from the borough's other seven secondary schools.
Under a pilot scheme due to begin next autumn, heads will be invited to inspect each other's schools, drawing on their knowledge of school management and leadership in a new kind of peer-review system.
It is likely that the scheme will be made a pilot, rather than being nationwide from the outset, and will not be a regulatory requirement on England's schools for another year.
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