Sentences with phrase «hundreds of public schools»

Yet due in part to the overly powerful influence of the Walton billion, hundreds of public schools have been closed.

The approach, which has been adopted by hundreds of public schools, is a particularly good fit for Catholic schools, said Father Nate Wills, a professor at the University of Notre Dame's Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) in South Bend, Indiana.

Since 2011, Morningside Center has partnered with the NYC Department of Education to introduce restorative circles and other restorative practices to hundreds of public schools.

Hundreds of public schools perform marginally or do not meet state standards, which are not all that tough to begin win.

At 4:15 p.m., hundreds of public school parents and teachers from Kenmore, Lakeshore, Hamburg and across WNY are expected to rally at Sen. Mark Grisanti's office to «hold him accountable for breaking his promise to fully fund public education,» 65 Court St., # 213 (Corner of Court & Niagara Square), Buffalo.

Hundreds of public school students and parents have rallied at the New York state Capitol to urge lawmakers to boost school funding and reject Gov. Andrew Cuomo's education reforms.

(New York, NY)-- Hundreds of public school parents joined education reform organization StudentsFirstNY and other advocates on the steps of City Hall today to urge new Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza to hit the reset button on Mayor Bill de Blasio's failing education agenda.

Recognized as a national model and the best example of public - private partnership in Pennsylvania, the EITC program has allowed more than 40,000 students to attend the school of their choice in this school year alone, and hundreds of public school initiatives would have gone unfunded without this program.

Hundreds of public school parents joined education reform organization StudentsFirstNY and other advocates on the steps of City Hall today to urge new Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza to hit the reset button on Mayor Bill de Blasio's failing education agenda.

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A few hundred thousand people visit the Killing Fields every year; there is another site open to the public in Phnom Penh, a former school where victims of the genocide were tortured before being taken to the Killing Fields.

The country is $ 70 billion in debt, schools are closing by the hundreds, and infrastructural services — like the overburdened electricity system — have been overlooked in order to make way for debt payments to Wall Street creditors, according to Juan Cartagena, President and General Counsel of LatinoJustice PRLDEF, a public interest law firm.

These worlds were needed hundreds and thousands of years ago to explain mysteries that today are explained and understood as nature in public school classes.

A panel on the public - private school debate at a 1993 ISNA convention in Kansas City drew hundreds of participants.

«Since a large proportion of vitamin A — deficient children and their mothers reside in rice - consuming populations, particularly in Asia, Golden Rice should substantially reduce the prevalence and severity of vitamin A deficiency, and prevent at least hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths and cases of blindness every year,» said Dr. Alfred Sommer, professor and dean emeritus, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

In 2007, Robert Pianta of the University of Virginia published in Science the results of a large - scale survey of American public schools that he and a team of researchers had undertaken, observing regular instruction over the course of an entire school day in 737 typical fifth - grade classrooms across the United States, as well as hundreds of additional first - and third - grade classrooms.

Probably some variation of what I have answered the other hundred thousand times I've fielded that question at a school, library, church, or any other public area: «No.»

Every day hundreds, thousands, millions of people are having public conversations debating everything from Justin Bieber's haircut to what «healthy school food» really means.

«Tioga Downs» expansion will foster hundreds of new jobs and spur much - needed economic development in the Southern Tier, plus generate millions of dollars for public schools and local governments — with all private money and zero taxpayer dollars,» Commission Executive Director Robert Williams said in a statement.

The programme which will kick off in April this year, with three hundred (300) Coding Centers across six (6) Education Districts in Lagos State to be commissioned, marking the beginning of the CodeLagos after - school programme in both public and private schools — primary, secondary & tertiary.

«I am disappointed by the decision of the Chicago Teachers Union to turn its back on not only a city negotiating in good faith but also the hundreds of thousands of children relying on the city's public schools to provide them a safe place to receive a strong education.

Hundreds of upset parents showed up last night at contentious meeting in Manhattan where a city panel was going to vote on closing 13 public schools this summer.

Buffalo Public Schools, always strapped for cash, missed out on hundreds of thousands of dollars when it underbilled for providing special education services to students from other school districts, a new state audit found.

Many people believe education is best run at the local level because school boards and school officials better serve the public when they are able to be held accountable by the local community they serve; when the decision - makers have local roots, many believe they do a better job than a monolithic federal bureaucracy hundreds or thousands of miles away.

Those unions, which represent hundreds of thousands of public school employees, spent a combined $ 1.1 million lobbying Albany in 2017.

The children of Cynthia Nixon, Samantha Bee and Louis C.K. got into this popular public middle school, while hundreds of others are shut out every year.

That's why more than two hundred public school parents took to the steps of City Hall to demand immediate and bold action by Mayor de Blasio to end «Middle School Deserts» in New Yorkschool parents took to the steps of City Hall to demand immediate and bold action by Mayor de Blasio to end «Middle School Deserts» in New YorkSchool Deserts» in New York City.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio has decided to discontinue three charter schools from using public - school space, leaving hundreds of students without a school for next year.

Calling for an end to the unfair distribution of teacher quality across New York City public schools, StudentsFirstNY organizers and hundreds of New York City public school parents came together today to demand action to address the disproportionate number of unsatisfactory - rated teachers in schools with the highest needs.

A campaign arm of the rebranded, left - wing group ACORN is spending hundreds of thousands to help Democrats win control of the state Senate and protect traditional, union - controlled public schools.

The public school system continues to fail hundreds of thousands of students, because the mayor remains in thrall to the teachers union.

Hundreds of teachers are rallied at the State Capitol late Monday, saying they are calling out Cuomo for what they say is his anti public school agenda.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Nikolas Cruz could be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, his public defender said Wednesday as the Florida school shooter appeared at a hearing to determine if taxpayers will pick up the tab for his defense.

Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State has launched the distribution of seven hundred thousand free textbooks and library resources materials to public primary schools in the...

UFT President Michael Mulgrew joined a coalition of labor, business and political groups urging New Yorkers to vote yes on Election Day on Proposition 1, a referendum on a casino plan that would bring to the state new jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars in new revenue for public schools.

Hundreds of bland, white public school boys rolling off a conveyor belt in the Home Counties.»

Senate Republicans were pushing proposals to eliminate the charter school cap and send hundreds of millions of dollars in funding to charter coffers at the expense of New York City public schools.

Hundreds of Indians living in Ghana turned up for the Diwali day celebration organised by B5 Plus Limited in alliance with Delhi Public School (DPS) International Ghana.

He has formed new partnerships with teachers in many school districts to engage with hundreds of high school students, working with teachers to develop nanotechnology - focused lesson plans, and inspired art students and teachers to produce a nanotechnology - inspired public art display.

Recent studies by Sood and colleagues at USC Schaeffer Center, the USC Price School of Public Policy and the USC School of Pharmacy have found that most consumers on high - deductible plans are not comparing prices to find the best deals on services or on prescription drugs, even though the research indicates that some patients could potentially save hundreds or thousands of dollars per year.

To look at the rate of change in working memory in relation to different measures of socioeconomic status, the researchers studied more than three hundred 10 - through 13 - year - olds from urban public and parochial schools over four years.

New York City public schools are missing hundreds and possibly thousands of computers, due to poor record keeping, theft, corruption or some combo.

The findings, which involved hundreds of kids participating in musical training programs in Chicago and Los Angeles public schools, highlight the role learning music can have on the brains of youth in impoverished areas, according to presenter Nina Kraus, PhD, a neurobiologist at Northwestern University.

After working with hundreds of parents in these sessions, we have seen outcomes that show that parents can truly impact public schools positively.

Though the first public high school opened in Boston in 1821, for more than a hundred years, the majority of American teens were otherwise engaged.

Juneau's great - grandparents attended federal schools hundreds of miles from home because they were not allowed to attend public school.

And, while it is not a charter school, it was the country's first state - wide Internet - based public high school and has enrolled hundreds of thousands of public school students since 1997.

During a public - safety forum last week in the Broward County school district that brought hundreds of participants, shaken students and enraged parents and educators appealed to school leaders to protect campuses from violence.

South Carolina was among the first states to pass a charter school law, in 1996; today it has 44 charters (2 percent of total public school enrollment), as compared to hundreds of charter schools in some other states, such as California, Arizona, and Florida.

He follows two public schools in Washington, D.C. over the course of a year — one a brand - new progressive charter school, and the other a hundred - year - old neighborhood school now experiencing the early stages of gentrification.

Michelle A. Rhee, the chancellor of the troubled public school system in the nation's capital, soon will have the authority to fire hundreds of workers in the central office after the District of Columbia Council approved a measure today to grant her that power.