Sentences with phrase «like other public schools in»

Like other public schools in our state, Avalon must meet intense external accountability measures, including 133 graduation standards and hundreds of benchmarks.

Like other public schools in Wisconsin, charter schools are still held accountable for students» academic performance and progress.

Tangi Academy students are Tangipahoa students, and they deserve 100 percent of their education funds, just like all other public schools in the parish.

Charter schools, like all other public schools in the state of Connecticut, have been working to implement Common Core State Standards since they were adopted by our state in July 2010.

Like every other public school in the city, Stuyvesant is plagued by bureaucratic regulations and corrosive work rules that favor seniority and paper credentials over a teacher's knowledge and skill in the classroom.

Though they get tested and graded like any other public school in the state, state laws give charter schools more «flexibility» to set programming and curriculum as they see fit.

Not exact matches

5) Religious Clothing in Public Sector: «Do you agree or disagree you feel uncomfortable when served or attended to by a government employee wearing a turban, a hijab or a yarmulke or other religious clothing or symbols in a government institution like a school or hospital?»

The government should not be permitted to create incentives for religious practice or belief (like giving favored status to religious organizations, as compared to other nonprofits), to facilitate the religious practices of some at the expense of others (like offering vocal prayers in public schools), or to accommodate one religion but not others with similar needs or problems (like limiting draft exemptions to members of traditional «peace churches») Within these guidelines, religious accommodations are fully in keeping with the First Amendment — albeit in conflict with strict separation.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

I think city councils could do more good for kids by considering other food and kid scenarios like banning soda served to kids in public schools, or requiring food with nutritive value to always be served when refreshments are offered at a school, or requiring restaurants to offer kids real food choices on the kids menu.

Several schools and hospitals in the Chicago area use sensory equipment to help people with disabilities regulate their emotions or stimulate their senses but the equipment is rarer in public recreational settings like a park district, said local occupational therapists and a representative from Flaghouse, the company that sold the sensory equipment to SEASPAR and other Chicago organizations.

In some states, public health and school officials would like to ban the miniature cakes from schools entirely, along with all other sugar - laden goodies.

Philip Blonde takes an almost Democratic Republican ideology towards public service reform in advocating using social entreprises to manage schools, hospitals, sure start centres etc, which would be democratically connected to all other schools etc through out the country and collectively elect the central management who allocate budget spending to each and every school etc. http://www.respublica.org.uk/publications/ownership-state It sounds more like a radical libertarian socialist solution to public services than a free market conservative solution to public services.

Some of the posers the party wants the Governor to address also include, the reason he «sacked medical Doctors in all the public hospitals»; «why he has decided to run the affairs of the state without the political party he claims to belong»; whether it is «possible for a state like Kogi to function without teachers in schools,» among others.

I hope Skoufis wins, the Republicans are not in support of ESL and other immigrant friendly things like translation services for parents of AMERICAN citizens in AMERICAN public schools.

Many students try to compensate for other bad habits (like binge drinking) by taking these drugs, says Amelia Arria, PhD, director of the Center on Young Adult Health and Development at the University of Maryland School of Public Health, in College Park.

The low fat school of nutrition benefits greatly from the fact that the public has only vague notions about vitamin A; for the family of water - soluble nutrients called carotenes are not true vitamin A, but are more accurately termed provitamin A. True vitamin A, or retinol, is found only in animal products like cod liver oil, liver and other organ meats, fish, shell fish and butterfat from cows eating green grass.

Furthermore, 49 per cent of parents agree that they would like their child's school to do more in teaching them how to behave in public, which increases to 74 per cent for Indian and other Asian parents.»

Although some progress had been made since the horrors of unhealthy school lunches had been made public by folks like celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, interest in hot lunch had plummeted to a dismal 43 percent of students, with schools losing money and making up costs from other parts of the budget.

In other words, schooling in Sweden changed from being almost entirely public, uniform, and centralized to something much more like schooling in the United StateIn other words, schooling in Sweden changed from being almost entirely public, uniform, and centralized to something much more like schooling in the United Statein Sweden changed from being almost entirely public, uniform, and centralized to something much more like schooling in the United Statein the United States.

It's here that the critics of single - sex education begin to sound like opponents of another kind of separation: the racial and economic segregation in American public schools documented by Savage Inequalities author Jonathan Kozol and others.

Comprehensive school reform has been identified by both Democratic and Republican administrations and Congress as a key strategy in turning around the country's lowest performing schools, but this fact does not make NAS just like any other education group in D.C. Instead, it means that after a great deal of review, comprehensive school reform emerged as one of the country's best hopes for public school improvement on a grand scale.

Critics of ESAs and other school choice efforts like to allege that the programs will «siphon» resources from public schools or harm students in some way.

Like other public school students in Michigan, HFA students must pass the state's proficiency test, so they needed competence in core areas.

Educators are also supporting each other as design thinkers in regional collaborations like Atlanta's #AK12DC, a collection of 30 public and independent schools working to accelerate design challenges, and Henry Ford Learning Institute's work in Michigan to gather regional enthusiasts and design thinking leaders.

Some districts in the largely rural state have long - standing voucher - like programs, called «tuitioning,» in which they pay to enroll students at secular private schools or public schools in other districts when...

Furthermore, 49 per cent of parents agree they would like their child's school to do more about teaching them how to behave in public, which increases to 74 per cent among Indian and other Asian parents.

So, in 2006, the Davidsons started a public school — a public school like no other — on the University of Nevada campus.

Even if 1 in every 10 of these graduates entered teaching for two years (average tenure at KIPP - like No Excuses charter schools) before moving onto other careers, they would provide only 6 percent of the some 450,000 teachers currently working in the member districts of the Council of Great City Schools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school syschools) before moving onto other careers, they would provide only 6 percent of the some 450,000 teachers currently working in the member districts of the Council of Great City Schools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school sySchools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school systems).

Other projects created during the class include an organization that will provide free public libraries in India; an online platform to help students make more informed decisions when applying to college; an app that gives students fun, game - based content that shows what real scientists are like; a cellphone - hosted service for rural teachers in the Philippines that provides direct training and tips; and a nonprofit that will train and employ parent liaisons to develop stronger bonds between families and middle schools in an effort to improve dropout rates.

And like other public schools engaged in major school reform, their approaches to education often vary dramatically from one another.

When asked to grade the public schools, respondents in this survey offer assessments that look much like those observed in other national surveys of education attitudes (see Figure 9).

• None of us should think that most bureaucrats and school personnel in Illinois» public education industry want to see more good charters: Those schools, like many parochial and other privately run schools, are thriving proof that when schools have to excel to stay in business, many of them will... find ways to excel.

Public - school officials, like all government bureaucrats, primarily engage in the worst kind of spending: They spend other people's money on children who are not their own.

Being Los Angeles based, you are likely aware of the changes in the LAUSD Board, the success of many charter schools, their unique approach, the importance of groups like The Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, Great Public Schools Now, ExED, and schools, their unique approach, the importance of groups like The Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, Great Public Schools Now, ExED, and Schools, Great Public Schools Now, ExED, and Schools Now, ExED, and others.

Unlike other industries that often offer higher pay to compensate for less desirable working conditions or to attract more desired applicants in high - need areas (like STEM fields), public school systems are generally limited by collective bargaining agreements or state law in their ability to offer differential compensation (see Goldhaber et al., 2015).

In a belated response to the National Education Association's criticism of the Center for Education Reform (Letters, Jan. 31, 1996), I would like to express my resentment over the suggestion that I, and thousands of other charter school proponents across the country, are pursuing an «agenda» to erode public education.

Institutional theories take a different view, arguing that schools (like other major social service sectors) are so constrained by public expectations that they have limited options for becoming very different.137 Public agencies that have limited autonomy, owing to extensive public oversight, find it difficult to develop their own policies and initiatives for change.138 This does not mean that successful leadership activity in schools is impossible, but it does not come epublic expectations that they have limited options for becoming very different.137 Public agencies that have limited autonomy, owing to extensive public oversight, find it difficult to develop their own policies and initiatives for change.138 This does not mean that successful leadership activity in schools is impossible, but it does not come ePublic agencies that have limited autonomy, owing to extensive public oversight, find it difficult to develop their own policies and initiatives for change.138 This does not mean that successful leadership activity in schools is impossible, but it does not come epublic oversight, find it difficult to develop their own policies and initiatives for change.138 This does not mean that successful leadership activity in schools is impossible, but it does not come easily.

On Monday, April 3, we would like to encourage parents, students, community members, educators, etc. to gather in front of one of their local public schools and encourage others to #GoPublic.

Like all other successful school systems, the Harford County Public School System must continually ensure through curriculum that what is taught continues to reflect the very best knowledge and practice in all subject school systems, the Harford County Public School System must continually ensure through curriculum that what is taught continues to reflect the very best knowledge and practice in all subject School System must continually ensure through curriculum that what is taught continues to reflect the very best knowledge and practice in all subject areas.

LA School Report covered the intense race like no other publication, with comprehensive profiles of the primary candidates, what was at stake for kids, what fueled the record spending, and the rising parent movement that swept in change for public education.

Millions of dollars in financial aid are available, just in case you're not a celebrity dad (who totally believes in public schools... for other people), like Matt Damon.

In an email, Hawkes said lawmakers wanted «operators [to] come into the state like they did in Louisiana and other states and quickly affect the public school choice landscape for the better and in quantity.&raquIn an email, Hawkes said lawmakers wanted «operators [to] come into the state like they did in Louisiana and other states and quickly affect the public school choice landscape for the better and in quantity.&raquin Louisiana and other states and quickly affect the public school choice landscape for the better and in quantity.&raquin quantity.»

Though they are public school students like any other, each public charter school student is given, on average, $ 2,800 dollars less per year than their peers in traditional public schools.

Sign up here to join with other Californians like you who support charter public schools and want to make a difference in the education policy environment in our state.

«New Jersey's LIFO law forces school districts like Newark to retain ineffective teachers and, in fact, put them back in the classroom while cutting spending to other critical areas of public education.

As cataloged in the Public Schooling Battle Map, government schools have forced parents into conflict over issues like freedom of expression, religion, morality, creationism, evolution, multiculturalism, sexuality, and numerous other issues in hundreds of reported cases in recent years.

Now, DeVos is President - elect Donald Trump's pick for U.S. education secretary, and observers expect her to lessen the federal role in public education and vigorously advocate to expand access to voucher and charter schools in other states just like she has done here.

Because students in kindergarten are not required to attend a public school for 100 days like students in all other grades, it may be the case that some kindergarten ESA users fit that mold.

«I came up with the idea for The Empathy Gap Project after I realized it seems like we're having a harder and harder time putting ourselves in each other's shoes,» Zalcman said in a video addressed to the students of the Inspired Teaching Public Charter School, one of Pulitzer Center's D.C. education partners.