Sentences with phrase «if public school policy»

If public school policy gives teachers a roadmap for their education, homeschool policy merely provides parents with a target destination.

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If you're dedicated enough to get into U of T's MPP program as well as their JD program (law school), you can combine the degrees and complete them simultaneously for a well - rounded law and public policy education.

If Thor believers were rampant in the country and were trying to impose their myths into government, public policy, schools and science, and were continually promising dire eventualities for not believing in him, I'll just bet you would hit up a message board or two about it!

If Santa Clausism became the dominant «religion» of the country, tried to influence the government, inst / itute laws and public policies and demand that it be taught in public education - start every school day with a reading from «Twas the Night Before Christmas» and have «Ho Ho Ho» on your money - I'm just betting that you would have something to say about it on an internet forum and elsewhere!

That means that doctrinal provisions of religious schools «may not be enough to fend off IRS challenges to tax - exempt status if the IRS or the courts conclude that the right of same - sex couples to marry is a fundamental and compelling public policy,» he wrote.

These are essentially questions of public policy, and if real solutions are going to be found to the problems of disadvantaged children, these questions will need to be addressed, in a creative and committed way, by public officials at all levels — by school superintendents, school - board members, mayors, governors, and cabinet secretaries — as well as by individual citizens, community groups, and philanthropists across the country.

The Public Health Advocacy Institute («PHAI») has urged the USDA to put a provision in the agency's proposed wellness policy rules that would prohibit companies from using brand names, logos, characters, etc. on school product packaging if those same marketing elements are also used on products which don't meet the Smart Snacks nutritional requirements.

If you are interested in lobbying local elected officials for policy changes that effect our neighborhood (congestion pricing, affordable housing, public school improvements), getting involved in the local community board, or participating in our club's efforts to elect progressive judges, this is the committee for you.

Queens Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras - Copeland, who chairs the powerful Committee on Finance, suggested the city could lose precious monies for the NYPD for its non-cooperation on immigration issues, while the public hospital network could suffer if the president repeals the Obama - era Affordable Care Act and the school system might lose funding under the policies of U.S. Secretary of Education - designate Betsy DeVos.

If you live in a one room flat in Chelsea and you got 9 cats and have had 11 abortions chances are you're giving public policy advice to Christine Quinn when it comes to school children.

«It can not be considered efficient if the Coalition Government writes off more than # 160 million of tax payers» money and yet, at the same time, persists with a policy of creating academies and free schools that are both expensive and unwanted by the public.

«If you look at your own bill across the year, you'll probably see that your usage is highest in the summer, when you're running the air conditioning,» said Catherine Hausman, assistant professor at U-M's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

Saad B. Omer, M.B.B.S., M.P.H., of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, and colleagues conducted a study to determine if the rates of nonmedical exemptions differ and have been increasing in states that offer only religious vs. personal belief exemptions, and if the incidence of pertussis is associated with policies of granting personal belief exemptions and ease of obtaining exemptions.

If youre paying your own way for an expensive medical procedure like a coronary bypass, go in advance and ask to speak to the chief financial officer of the hospital, advises Gerard F. Anderson, a professor of health policy and management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

But rather than supplanting BMI as the best predictor of diabetes risk, waist circumference might be most useful if it's simply added to the mix, says Jane Bolin, Ph.D., an associate professor of health policy and management at the Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Rural Public Health, in College Station.

If one's purpose is to evaluate the effects of a specific public policy, such as the District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP), then the comparison of the average outcomes of the treatment and control groups, regardless of what proportion attended which types of school, is most appropriate.

In a new study, researchers find that seniority - based layoff policies — the norm in public schools — lead to higher numbers of teacher layoffs than would be necessary if administrators were allowed to make effectiveness the determining factor in issuing layoff notices, rather than length of service.

«If they have a list of 20 things, there are 3 or 4 of them they really want and my guess is there are 3 or 4 that are the first to go,» explains Bruce Hunter, the associate executive director for public policy at the American Association of School Administrators.

But if we truly want teacher evaluations to be part of an ongoing cycle of learning and growth, one that helps to cultivate great teachers, then effective policy has to address school capacity, particularly the capacity of traditional public schools.

There's no hope for improving education policy if we don't keep the facts and evidence distinct from the public - school system's party (and often partisan) line.

The group says it may file a lawsuit if the Sycamore public school system does not reconsider the policy it adopted in February to make Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year, and Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, official school holidays.

If we want to nurture high standards, if we want teachers to take responsibility for the quality of instruction and for student outcomes, we need public policies and school organizations that demand that teacher unions behave differentlIf we want to nurture high standards, if we want teachers to take responsibility for the quality of instruction and for student outcomes, we need public policies and school organizations that demand that teacher unions behave differentlif we want teachers to take responsibility for the quality of instruction and for student outcomes, we need public policies and school organizations that demand that teacher unions behave differently.

Under an intradistrict choice policy, a family is able to choose any traditional public school within their school district, even if it falls outside of their local school attendance zone.

If the host is a governmental agency responsible for school quality — and those range from national ministries to local school administrations — it has a considerable amount of time, effort, public funds, and political prestige wrapped up in a particular set of policies.

If the new information surprises respondents by indicating the district is doing less well than previously thought, the public, upon learning the truth of the matter, is likely to 1) lower its evaluation of local schools; 2) become more supportive of educational alternatives for families; 3) alter thinking about current policies affecting teacher compensation and retention; and 4) reassess its thinking about school and student accountability policies.

But if DCPS wants to have diverse schools among its ranks, it's going to need some help from public policy.

Determine if improvements to existing policies are warranted, in order to more effectively combat bullying in Virginia public schools.

Washington Policy Center, the state's premier public policy research and education organization, has completed non-partisan, objective analysis of all statewide propositions appearing on this year's ballot, including Referendum 55, which asks voters to decide if a limited experimental charter school law, which the Legislature passed earlier this year, should be pasPolicy Center, the state's premier public policy research and education organization, has completed non-partisan, objective analysis of all statewide propositions appearing on this year's ballot, including Referendum 55, which asks voters to decide if a limited experimental charter school law, which the Legislature passed earlier this year, should be paspolicy research and education organization, has completed non-partisan, objective analysis of all statewide propositions appearing on this year's ballot, including Referendum 55, which asks voters to decide if a limited experimental charter school law, which the Legislature passed earlier this year, should be passed...

Today if you don't recognize Indiana's Superintendent of Public Instruction by name, you're probably familiar with his policies — high stakes reading exams for third graders, merit pay for teachers, A-F grading for schools.

If so, there is reason to believe the race for state school chief will once again prove critical to CTA and charter supporters even though the Superintendent of Public Instruction has little actual authority over education policy in the state.

Considering Connecticut's biggest corporate executives are determined to see their policies adopted, no matter how wrong that are, it will be interesting to see if the new Executive Director of the Connecticut Council for Education Reform reverses herself and joins the call for charter schools or if she is able to sit down with her organization's members and explain why shifting scarce public resources from district schools to charter schools is not the solution for closing Connecticut's achievement gap.

The DCPS funding formula does differentiate public funding based on the number of students at each grade level and in different special needs categories, including special education, English language learners, and those «at risk» for academic failure.38 DCPS would not disclose how or if it factors in parental donations when determining school budgets or allocations.39 However, it did report not having a policy to equitably redistribute parent donations or to prohibit these additional dollars from being put toward staffing.40

«I urge this commission to really try to figure out what it takes to meet the outcomes that we desire and not to tie your hands prematurely and leave it up to the legislature to decide what's feasible, what kind of shifting of budget priorities need to be made and if tax increases are what we need to fund our schools,» said Chandra Villanueva, an analyst with the left - leaning Center for Public Policy Priorities.

«If administrators and policy makers continue to focus solely on recruitment efforts, without attention to retention, they run the risk of creating a revolving door of teachers in our public schools.»

If the Assembly bill were law today, about $ 587 million in state aid would be redirected to convert poorly performing public schools into charter schools, DPI policy adviser Jeff Pertl told lawmakers on the Assembly Education Committee on Wednesday during the first hearing on Thiesfeldt's bill.

If access to public charter schools is sustained and accelerated in federal and state policy, the opportunity exists to lift student achievement, educational attainment and life outcomes for all students.

If a public school does not improve after three years under Thiesfeldt's bill, a school board is required to authorize its superintendent to act unilaterally to improve the school «contrary to policies and procedures adopted by the school board.»

«If this is not done carefully, it has the potential to be the mother of all unintended consequences,» Public School Forum President Keith Poston told Policy Watch this year.

If you have concerns or questions about teaching methods, instructional resources, or public involvement in decision making, please click below to link directly to the appropriate section to find the related school district policy.

If a public school does not improve after three years, the bill requires a school board to authorize its superintendent to act unilaterally to improve the school «contrary to policies and procedures adopted by the school board.»

And he must consider how funding for local public schools would be affected if a charter school opens nearby,» said Julia Sass Rubin, an organizer with Save Our Schools NJ, an advocacy group that has battled the administration on charter schools would be affected if a charter school opens nearby,» said Julia Sass Rubin, an organizer with Save Our Schools NJ, an advocacy group that has battled the administration on charter Schools NJ, an advocacy group that has battled the administration on charter policy.

They recommend «changes to federal, state, and local policy» and a greater degree of «neighborhood partnerships» among charters, public schools, foundations and universities if these schools are to «be a powerful vision for educational innovation in a new century.»

«If it is true that virtually all costs are fixed then when public schools add students they shouldn't get extra money because their costs are fixed,» said author Benjamin Scafidi, who is director of the Economics of Education Policy Center at Georgia College & State University.

The idea was that the key policies and practices that affect the success of school leaders — the standards that define high - quality leadership and provide a basis for holding leaders accountable; the training that prepares leaders for their role as catalysts for learning; and the range of conditions and incentives that help or hinder those leaders — are most likely to be successful and sustained if they are both well - coordinated and aligned to the goal of improved student learning at all levels of public education: state, district and school.

The FHSAA policy is that if a student is taking 50 % or more of their courses in a Franchise, the student will be ruled a public school student.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the players in this initiative are absolutely and totally silent about the biggest issue of all; If the Renzulli teaching model works, and I'm sure it does knowing his level of expertise on the subject, the logical and appropriate public policy decision would be to insert Renzulli's approach into more schools and provide a broader range of children, included those «most gifted,» with the benefits of curriculum that includes «enrichment clusters that stimulate investigation and creativity, making learning fun.»

It will take more than lip service to reform these institutions, but if the voters reject giving more money to the public school system in their state, they should at least demand a re-evaluation of policies that are systematically disadvantaging key demographics of students.

For this we were required to contact one school library and one public library, and to request that they inform us their book challenging policy, the process if it were to occur, and any history they have of books being banned there.

Mackinac's director of labor policy is Vincent Vernuccio, who chairs a committee of the labor task force of the Bradley - supported American Legislative Exchange Council and previously has worked at the Bradley - supported Capital Research Center and Bradley - supported Competitive Enterprise Institute... MCLF spent much of last year helping to defend the new right - to - work law, in policy and legal arguments, as well as in the larger public discourse in the state and nationally... MCLF is working with the Bradley - supported National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation on this and several other legal matters surrounding implementation of right to work in Michigan... On education, among other things, Mackinac is analyzing mroe [sic] than 200 collective - bargaining agreements (CBAs) in the state, covering some 75 % of the state's public - school students, to see if and if so, how, they are adhering to the teacher - tenure and - evaluation policy changes.

After the first IPCC report, if you had published a paper that can be used by the environmental groups as proof that their energy policy is the correct one, then your paper and School will be put in press releases that the media then circulate to the public.