Sentences with phrase «many students in our public schools»

The piece draws a comparison to Virginia's Fairfax County, which is similar in many ways to Westchester: They're both suburbs of big cities (New York and Washington, D.C.), they have similarly high home values, and they educate about the same number of students in public schools, which in both places have a good reputation.

Thus, in recent years the Supreme Court has invalidated a Connecticut law (passed to replace the prior Sunday closing law) allowing workers to select their Sabbath day as their day off from work, struck down a Massachusetts statute allowing churches and schools to object to the issuance of liquor licenses in their near vicinity, and abolished an Alabama law allowing students in public schools a moment of silence.

And transgenderism, let alone questions of bathroom access for transgender students in public schools, was so far off the policy radar it was inconceivable that it would receive presidential attention.

Experiments involving the measurement of blood sugar levels of elementary students in a public school revealed that the levels were characteristically high or low in certain classrooms.

But we don't insist on it for students in public schools and especially students in low - income public schools.

«The goal now should be to extend those effective strategies to all students in our public schools.»

The Governor of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, on Monday disclosed that neither his Government nor himself has ever ordered the use of Hijab by female Muslim students in public schools in the state.

The NYC Department of Education is failing miserably at caring for homeless students in public schools, according to an audit released by Comptroller Scott Stringer's office.

Since 2011, Keith has worked for City Council Speaker Peter Vallone, Sr. helping to advocate for after school funding, expanded Advanced Placement, prevent bullying of LGBT students in public schools, secure funding for employment and workforce programs, create new affordable housing, and preserve the quality of life on the Upper East Side, In 2006, Keith was the tenant organizer for the «Preserve Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village» campaign during the sale of the neighborhood to Tishman Speyer.

The final budget will change some elements of Common Core, but will keep intact, for now, teacher evaluations tied partly to standardized test results of students in public schools.

The city Department of Education is failing miserably at caring for homeless students in public schools, according to an audit released on Thursday.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia told a conference of private - school leaders this month that her agency is clarifying guidance that says children in these schools must receive a «substantially equivalent» education to students in public schools.

Trump will issue «further guidance» on an Obama administrative policy aimed at protecting transgender students in public schools, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said.

And because I was in public school and I was one of the first legally blind students in public school, the message I got was, «Don't say anything and you won't get into trouble.»

Most of the students in the public schools are black or Latino.

This year we built upon those numbers by investing a record $ 1.2 billion, a $ 700 million increase, in Foundation Aid which is critical to our students in public schools.

Just 10 % of seats at those schools were offered to black and Hispanic kids, who make up nearly 70 % of students in the public schools.

The government's free secondary education policy should have been targeted at deprived families and areas instead of the blanket coverage of all students in public schools, the Vice President of the National Association of Graduate Teachers, Angel Carbonu, has said.

Racial and ethnic minority students make up the majority of students in public schools, especially in urban areas.

An increase in slave concentration is related to greater underrepresentation of white students in public schools.

She suggests schools take advantage of the expertise available from adult literacy and military educators who have developed programs for older, at - risk students in public schools who reach the secondary level without basic skills.

We also find that the students applying to charter schools in New York City are more likely to be black and eligible for a free or reduced - price lunch program than students in the public schools in the district.

Florida and Milwaukee compared private choice participants with similar students in public schools, but the possibility remains that unmeasured differences could affect results.

Another literature review, conducted by economists Jeffrey Grogger and Derek Neal, found few clear - cut gains for white students, while «urban minorities in Catholic schools fare much better than similar students in public schools.»

(A few years later, using survey data from the second round of «High School and Beyond,» the team showed that students in private schools had greater learning gains between their sophomore and senior years than did students in public schools.

This would guarantee that private placement costs the public no more than serving the student in the public school.

They save taxpayers money, because the average voucher ends up costing less than educating the same student in public school and because the voucher curbs public - school financial incentives to inflate the special education rolls.

«There are fifty - five million students in public schools and eight million students in private schools.

I am an Instructional Coach with seven years of experience teaching World History to Emergent Bilingual students in public schools in the Bay Area.

The Florida Department of Education's Education Data Warehouse provides test scores from the Florida Comprehensive Achievement Test (FCAT) and demographic characteristics for all students in the public schools.

Washington — While the overall level of integration experienced by black students in public schools has remained relatively stable for several years, there are signs that resegregation has been occurring in some Southern states, a new report concludes.

During this academic year, students in the public schools were applying for private school scholarships for the following year.

(That same year, Massachusetts Governor William Weld passed a bill that made the state the first in the country to outlaw discrimination against gay and lesbian students in public schools.)

Right now there are 186 private schools in Nevada serving just over 29,000 students in a state with more than 450,000 students in public schools.

«Our results suggest that students in public schools profit nearly as much from increased private school competition as do a nation's students as a whole,» West and Woessman note.

In Colorado, charter advocates say they succeeded by framing the issue in terms of equity for all students in all public schools.

Kaukauna, a city that educates more than 3,900 students in its public schools, quickly became Walker's shining example when it came to the benefits of his reform.

This project, in partnership with the School Choice Demonstration Project at the University of Arkansas, addresses the effects of LSP vouchers on the achievement and non-cognitive skills of students offered vouchers, as well as racial segregation and the competitive effects on students in public schools.

«The term «racial imbalance» refers to a ratio between nonwhite and other students in public schools which is sharply out of balance with the racial composition of the society in which nonwhite children study, serve and work.

The Boston study of just over 2,000 students in the public school district's universal program for 4 - to -5-year-olds found greater gains in vocabulary and math for participating students compared with nonparticipants, after one year, than seen in any other study of other large - scale pre-K programs around the US.

, Pew Hispanic Center, June 6, 2007), and that black and Hispanic students are increasingly isolated from white students in the public schools (Fry, The Changing Racial and Ethnic Composition of U.S. Public Schools, Pew Hispanic Center, Aug. 30, 2007).

Ricker's husband, Robert Cudahy, is a teacher of English language learners, and their two children are students in public schools.

It covers the nation's 49 million K - 12 students in public schools.

The study's lead author Marya Gwadz explained there are «no doubts» students in public schools are experiencing similar or same levels of chronic stress, but the team chose private school settings because they've gone largely understudied.

While 41 percent of students in public schools are Hispanic and 25 percent are black, 60 percent of teachers are white, according to the city's Education Department.

Both the Cleveland and Milwaukee programs successfully targeted poor, lower performing, and predominantly minority students in public schools.

They employ propensity score matching methods where they compare voucher students with similar students in public schools by matching across a variety of observable background factors, including baseline test scores.

Texas» new schools chief said he plans to appoint a «dropout czar» to try to help the state improve its efforts to keep more students in public schools through graduation.

Either because of public opposition, lawsuits, or the modest scope of voucher and tax - credit scholarship laws, only some 200,000 students nationwide attend private schools through choice systems, a paltry figure compared to the 50 million students in public schools across the United States.

According to The Condition of Education (NCES, 2013), 4.7 million students in public schools are English language learners, which refers to students in language assistance programs.