Sentences with phrase «as parents of public school students»

As parents of public school students, we encourage you to be proactive in discussing your child's assessment data with their teachers.

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Comparing national test scores, Catholic schools in general (as with most private schools) perform better in both reading and math than public schools although the advantage is stronger in reading than in Math though the difference in Math was still statistically significant; however, this could be due to the self selecting nature of the students in Catholic schools where the parents have made the decision to value education to the extent of paying for it.

Likewise, homeschooling seems to mitigate the negative effects of low levels of parents» education on student achievement — a finding that's especially intriguing since these parents are the educators — as well as the negative effects of family socioeconomic variables and race displayed in public schools.

Finally, in Houston in 2010 — 11, he gave cash incentives to fifth - grade students in 25 low - performing public schools, as well as to the parents and teachers of those students, with the intent of increasing the time they spent on math homework and improving their scores on standardized math tests.

Supporters of the Tim Tebow laws believe homeschooled students should have the same rights as public school students, after all parents of homeschooled children pay the same amount of taxes as all the public school students» parents.

by Shawna Cohen, October 8, 2014, Today's Parent Magazine As a former chair of student council at her daughter's Toronto public school, Stacie Smith helped raise more than $ 40,000.

As the chairperson of the nutrition committee of HISD's School Health Advisory Council (SHAC), I'm working with a dedicated group of parents and public health professionals to address the issue of a la carte foods in HISD — both the items sold by the district itself (like the Flaming Hot Cheetos above) and items sold by parent and student groups (usually in violation of state rules) as campus fundraiserAs the chairperson of the nutrition committee of HISD's School Health Advisory Council (SHAC), I'm working with a dedicated group of parents and public health professionals to address the issue of a la carte foods in HISD — both the items sold by the district itself (like the Flaming Hot Cheetos above) and items sold by parent and student groups (usually in violation of state rules) as campus fundraiseras campus fundraisers.

The Post's interviews with parents and staffers at JHS / MS 80, as well as public documents, painted a picture of a school where students are allowed to shirk their studies, hurt each other and play on computers in rat - infested buildings, while administrators turned a blind eye and even discouraged staffers from reporting violence.

Wadleigh librarian Paul McIntosh, who has secured West, Liu and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio as part of a speakers program at the school, said students, faculty and parents know they are facing a difficult to nearly impossible fight to keep their middle school open.

Children and parents should not suffer because they choose to send their child to a religious or independent school - the rights and needs of a student at one of these schools should be treated as equally as those of a child who attends public school.

Mona Davids, President of the New York City Parents Union (NYCPU) recalled that as a New York City public school student being marked absent when observing Muslim Holidays and until recently her own children have been marked absent for observing those holidays.

As a parent of a NYC public school student and a preschooler attending an early childhood program, I look forward to parent - teacher conferences as one of many vehicles that provides feedback on my children's development, their strengths and weaknesses, and strategies I can employ at home to support their cognitive and social - emotional growtAs a parent of a NYC public school student and a preschooler attending an early childhood program, I look forward to parent - teacher conferences as one of many vehicles that provides feedback on my children's development, their strengths and weaknesses, and strategies I can employ at home to support their cognitive and social - emotional growtas one of many vehicles that provides feedback on my children's development, their strengths and weaknesses, and strategies I can employ at home to support their cognitive and social - emotional growth.

Parents and students across New York, including grassroots activists organized by education reform advocacy organization StudentsFirstNY and Derrell Bradford, executive director of NYCAN, view Governor Cuomo's reforms as critical to improving public school options.

Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN)- Early this morning as nervous and anxious students and parents were starting a new school year in the Buffalo Public Schools, Superintendent Dr. Kriner Cash was making the rounds to multiple schools and delivered a message to students and staff, saying this is «the yeaSchools, Superintendent Dr. Kriner Cash was making the rounds to multiple schools and delivered a message to students and staff, saying this is «the yeaschools and delivered a message to students and staff, saying this is «the year of...

As a review on Insideschools.org — an online guide to the city's public schools — said of JHS 123, «Parents were scared off by tales of kids getting their heads dunked in toilets by gang members and students ripping fixtures out of the walls and then hurling them from windows.»

Janice K. Jackson's journey through the Chicago Public Schools as a student, teacher, principal, administrator, parent, and now, chief executive officer, has prepared her for one of the toughest jobs...

I attended public schools from kindergarten through 12th grade, as well as a public university, and I am the parent of public school students.

Fifty percent of the parents of voucher students said they were doing «very well» as compared to 52 percent of public school parents.

To find out, we at the Harvard Program on Education Policy and Governance have asked nationally representative cross-sections of parents, teachers, and the general public (as part of the ninth annual Education Next survey, conducted in May and June of this year) whether they support or oppose «federal policies that prevent schools from expelling or suspending black and Hispanic students at higher rates than other students.»

The Chronicle declares that similar situations are «playing out up and down California as more parents of special education students seek extra-special education at public expense: private day schools, boarding schools, summer camps, aqua therapy, horseback therapy, travel costs, personal aides and more.»

Meanwhile, more parents in D.C. neighborhoods west of Rock Creek Park are sending their kids to public schools, resulting in fewer spots for «out of boundary» students in the most sought - after neighborhood schools such as Lafayette, Murch and Eaton elementary schools or Deal Middle School.

As Linda Erdos, spokesperson for Arlington, VA public schools, says, apps are «the next generation» of communication between parents, students and schools.

Most differences between performance in public and private schools, according to the report, can be attributed to elements in the family background of the students, such as family income and the parents» educational level.

• As many as twenty states are considering «parent trigger» legislation, which closes failing schools upon a majority vote of parents and replaces the staff, charters the school for private management, or allows the students to attend private or other public schoolAs many as twenty states are considering «parent trigger» legislation, which closes failing schools upon a majority vote of parents and replaces the staff, charters the school for private management, or allows the students to attend private or other public schoolas twenty states are considering «parent trigger» legislation, which closes failing schools upon a majority vote of parents and replaces the staff, charters the school for private management, or allows the students to attend private or other public schools.

As a current example of ever - larger traditional public schools, the Chicago Board of Education is closing fifty traditional schools at one time and sending their students out of their neighborhoods to ever - larger schools against continuing parent protests.

Then, as conceptions of youth rights began to shift, and as institutions that provided support for the expansion of these rights emerged, students and parents, with the support of public - interest lawyers, began to question and challenge school disciplinary practices in court.

The longtime education leader says public schools must serve the needs of parents and students as the Trump administration focuses on school choice.

As the organizational sponsor of Doe v. Antioch, Students Matter is uniting students, parents, teachers, and concerned California taxpayers with an interest in ensuring accountability in our public Students Matter is uniting students, parents, teachers, and concerned California taxpayers with an interest in ensuring accountability in our public students, parents, teachers, and concerned California taxpayers with an interest in ensuring accountability in our public schools.

Education Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Hill touted DeVos» visits to 12 public, charter, private, religious and military schools — «an average of one per week» — as evidence that «the Secretary is engaging with students, parents, teachers and leaders to deliver the President's vision of ensuring every child in America has the equal opportunity to receive a world - class education.»

The court let stand a federal appeals court ruling against the parents of a Roman Catholic elementary school student who argued that the IDEA should afford their son the same legal protections as if he attended a public school.

As of this month, all California public schools are required to post notices informing students and parents of their rights to clean and safe classrooms and adequate educational materials.

Imagine Schools Mission Statement As a national family of public charter school campuses, Imagine Schools partners with parents and guardians in the education of their children by providing high quality schools that prepare students for lives of leadership, accomplishment, and exemplary chaSchools Mission Statement As a national family of public charter school campuses, Imagine Schools partners with parents and guardians in the education of their children by providing high quality schools that prepare students for lives of leadership, accomplishment, and exemplary chaSchools partners with parents and guardians in the education of their children by providing high quality schools that prepare students for lives of leadership, accomplishment, and exemplary chaschools that prepare students for lives of leadership, accomplishment, and exemplary character.

Join us on Saturday, December 5th as students, parents, educators, and community allies collaborate to build a longterm strategy that both defeats the proposed Takeover of MPS, while also laying the groundwork for a new vision that embraces the successful public community schools model.

The Notebook serves as an information source and voice for parents, students, teachers, and other members of the community who are working for quality and equality in Philadelphia's public schools.

As a national family of public charter school campuses, Imagine partners with parents and guardians in the education of their children by providing high quality schools that prepare students for lives of leadership, accomplishment, and exemplary character.

Forget about the hundreds of hours that children have already spent prepping or the absurd Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Field Test and forget that instead of informing towns that only 10 % of their students need serve as rat labs for this test, Malloy and Pryor decided that ALL Connecticut public school students should be used a guinea pigs — test subjects for a testing that will run from March through June — all without the approval of their parents.

Despite the hope of success for students and empowerment for parents, unions quickly condemn the idea of school choice as an «assault on public education.»

This new law passed earlier this year allows parents of students with special needs to withdraw their children from a public school and receive a deposit of their child's state education dollars into a government authorized savings account for education expenses, such as tuition and fees.

New Haven, CT — Parents, students, educators and school leaders from Booker T. Washington Academy (BTWA), a public charter school in New Haven, will come together on Tuesday, March 28 to demand fairness from Governor Dannel Malloy, as well as the heads of the Appropriations Committee, as the proposed budget would prevent the school from growing past the 3rd grade.

North Carolina's State Superintendent for Public Schools, Dr. June Atkinson, says she's received emails from citizens concerned that the state will collect information such as facial expressions of children, parents» political and religious affiliations, blood pressure readings of students, and the DNA and irises of children — all thanks to the Common Core guidelines.

In short, racially diverse, vibrant public school options in which teachers think of student diversity as an asset to explore and build upon in the classroom would keep more affluent parents and their resources in public schools.

«As ESEA undergoes modernization and reauthorization, the time is now to uphold local and community leadership of public schools as serving the best interests of our students, parents, and local communities.&raquAs ESEA undergoes modernization and reauthorization, the time is now to uphold local and community leadership of public schools as serving the best interests of our students, parents, and local communities.&raquas serving the best interests of our students, parents, and local communities.»

The Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools is linking together parents, educators, students, school staff and community members in dozens of cities across the country on and around February 17 as they WALK - IN to support the quality public schools that all our students dSchools is linking together parents, educators, students, school staff and community members in dozens of cities across the country on and around February 17 as they WALK - IN to support the quality public schools that all our students dschools that all our students deserve.

Hartford Public Schools should be used as an example to students, parents, school administrators, school boards, and communities of outside of Hartford as an example of how odious things get when a district's leadership and school board sells out to corporate school reform.

Many elements of success at the private school would not be easy to replicate in a public school: The students, as members of the insular Hasidic community, are mostly sheltered from the distractions, like television and video games, and problems, like single - parent homes, that many low - income students in public schools face.

You might recall from a post I released approximately 1.5 years ago a story about how a person who self - identifies as «Virginia SGP,» who is also now known as Brian Davison — a parent of two public school students in the affluent Loudoun, Virginia area (hereafter referred to as Virginia SGP), sued the state of Virginia in an attempt to force the release of teachers» student growth percentile (SGP) data for all teachers across the state.

Virginia SGP, also known as Brian Davison — a parent of two public school students in the affluent Loudoun, Virginia area (hereafter referred to as Virginia SGP)-- has been an avid (and sometimes abrasive) commentator about value - added models (VAMs), defined generically, on this blog (see, for example, here, here, and here), on Diane Ravitch's blog (see, for example, here, here, and here), and elsewhere (e.g., Virginia SGP's Facebook page here).

The election of three school board members comes at a particularly important time as the district faces critical budgetary decisions, the need to improve student achievement particularly for chronically underserved students and even greater parent demand for high quality educational options including charter public schools.

On Sunday, Helen Gym, a member of ParentsUnited, a volunteer group made up of parents of public school students, criticized the congressman as well as his stance on school choice.

As head of the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, he led a system of 17 urban public schools, serving over 15,000 students — and worked with parents and educators to raise graduation rates by 60 % and improve student achievement at a faster rate than any other school system in California with more than 10,000 stuSchools, he led a system of 17 urban public schools, serving over 15,000 students — and worked with parents and educators to raise graduation rates by 60 % and improve student achievement at a faster rate than any other school system in California with more than 10,000 stuschools, serving over 15,000 students — and worked with parents and educators to raise graduation rates by 60 % and improve student achievement at a faster rate than any other school system in California with more than 10,000 students..