Sentences with phrase «minds of public school parents»

Read about the disconnect between how well parents think their children are performing academically in school and how students score on tests nationally as our «Parents 2016: Hearts and Minds of Public School Parents in an Uncertain World,» research findings are highlighted in this Edweek blog.

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Get started this summer when school lets out and act as if you're homeschooling 3 days a week, Kindergarteners don't need more than 1 — 2 hours a day sitting still, you have to get yourself out of the «school is an 8 hour a day» mind set, that was set up for public schools because parents work, that is the only reason the school day is so long.

Who in their right mind would even want the job of school superintendent: parents hate you, teachers hate you (if you're doing your job)-- and the pay scale for superintendents is absurdly below what would be paid to a private sector CEO / COO managing the people and contracts and mandates that public school superintendents manage.

So vaccination is clearly on the minds of doctors, public health officials and all those parents who will be sending their kids back to school in September.

Over the past three decades, mayors such as Richard Riordan and Antonio Villaraigosa have fought to place reform - minded players on the district's school board, while grassroots reformers such as Green Dot Public Schools founder Steve Barr and the group that is now known as Parent Revolution have successfully forced L.A. Unified to start an effort to spin off over 200 of its traditional public schools into charter school operators and grassroots gPublic Schools founder Steve Barr and the group that is now known as Parent Revolution have successfully forced L.A. Unified to start an effort to spin off over 200 of its traditional public schools into charter school operators and grassroots Schools founder Steve Barr and the group that is now known as Parent Revolution have successfully forced L.A. Unified to start an effort to spin off over 200 of its traditional public schools into charter school operators and grassroots gpublic schools into charter school operators and grassroots schools into charter school operators and grassroots groups.

Faith - based schools, they assume, are in the business of «indoctrinating» their pupils, while public schools are by definition committed to critical thinking and to the emancipation of their pupils» minds from the darkness of received opinions, even those of their own parents.

The Mind Trust will host its sixth in a series of «Educational Bus Tours,» which highlight high - performing public schools in Indianapolis for local parents, educators and community members later this month.

Indianapolis — The Mind Trust today announced that Caitlin Hannon of Indianapolis was awarded its Education Entrepreneur Fellowship, through which she will develop and launch Enroll Indy, a new nonprofit that will create a unified enrollment system in Indianapolis to provide parents with a central hub for information about various public school options and how to enroll their child in one of those schools.

The Mind Trust today announced that Caitlin Hannon of Indianapolis was awarded its Education Entrepreneur Fellowship, through which she will develop and launch Enroll Indy, a new nonprofit that will create a unified enrollment system in Indianapolis to provide parents with a central hub for information about various public school options and how to enroll their child in one of those schools.

Veissi, the younger of Ella and Jack Veissi's two children, says his parents were extremely tolerant and open - minded people, well ahead of their time, enrolling Veissi in one of Miami's few racially integrated public high schools in 1960.