Sentences with phrase «most public schools offer»

Most public schools offer the 30 hour driver's education courses to their students.

While the DP is offered at various high schools in North Texas, most public schools offer the program to a small percentage of high - achieving students.

Not exact matches

Parental choice in general, and Catholic schools in particular, got a big boost when Mayor Giuliani of New York took Cardinal O'Connor up on his long - standing offer to accept a thousand of the poorest and most problem - ridden children in the public schools, those performing in the bottom five percentile.

Our challenge is to present better educational offerings, using what - ever tools are most efficacious, which no doubt would include public schools.

Moreover, most private high schools employ a counselor who is solely dedicated to matters of college admissions, something very few public high schools are able to offer.

During the last school year, most Chicago public schools did not offer recess, regular nutrition classes or more than 40 minutes of physical education a week.

Such strictures would preclude, for example, meals including pizza, cheeseburgers, white bread, tater tots, and most fruits and vegetables offered on the side — foods reportedly served to children at public schools in Richmond.

«This decision should bring an end to the politicking and grandstanding and allow us all to focus on what matters most: continuing to improve the quality of education we offer New York City's public school children,» Mayor Bloomberg said.

In order to ensure that the best teachers are hired and retained in the classrooms in which they are needed most, he proposed offering full tuition as an incentive to top CUNY and SUNY students who pledge in return to serve as public school teachers for a minimum of 5 years.

In the most recent proposed cutbacks, the MTA would no longer offer MetroCards to public school students.

President Nana Akufo - Addo last Friday said it is most appropriate to use a part of the country's oil revenue to fund the policy, which was rolled out last September to offer free education to persons who qualify into public senior high schools.

When I graduated without medical school acceptance letter in hand, my interest in finding employment and their interest in adding a second science writer to their staff came together in the form of a job offer as public relations assistant, responsible for publicity in the engineering school and most other scientific disciplines outside the medical school.

Our basic assumption was that K12's model — which relied on parents or other caretakers doing most of the instruction — wouldn't be feasible for kids living in poverty, most of whom would need the custodial care offered by traditional public schools.

A movement born in opposition to public schools ironically might offer public education its most promising reform paradigm for the 21st century.

Harris instead offers two potential alternatives: 1) the improved public / charter school performance in New Orleans made the performance of the private sector look relatively worse; and 2) the curriculum at most private schools may not have been aligned to the state test, so the poor performance merely reflects that lack of alignment rather than poor performance.

Its main purpose was to make it easier to pass bond issues for public school funding, and district advocates say that most voters were not aware of the provision («buried in a little Easter egg,» as Folsom put it) requiring public schools to offer charters their unused space.

This useful video from the Schools That Work package about Mesquite Elementary School in Tucson offers practical tips for making the most of limited resources — something every public school teacher School in Tucson offers practical tips for making the most of limited resources — something every public school teacher school teacher needs.

When asked to name a preferred private school, roughly half named independent private schools (the most popular being Worcester Academy and Milton Academy), with tuitions that eclipse the values of even the most generous school vouchers offered in public and private programs across the country.

Although the college - sending rates of the highest - performing high schools in the sample are low relative to Texas as a whole, our findings suggest that offering eligibility for automatic admission may not be effective at accomplishing even the narrow goal of increasing access to the top public universities for students in the most - disadvantaged settings.

Most private schools convert to charter status in order to offer their educational vision to additional or more diverse students using public funds.

The most inexcusable aspect of Burris's argument is that she offers no constructive ideas for actually improving schools, when the American public is clearly looking for solutions.

Consider that Nevada's system, like many similarly structured DB plans offered to most public school teachers throughout the country, is structured to:

Every decade the federal government issues a large report on arts education throughout the country, Arts Education in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools, and the most recent data from 2010 confirms that low - income schools don't offer music and visual art as much as high - income schoSchools, and the most recent data from 2010 confirms that low - income schools don't offer music and visual art as much as high - income schoschools don't offer music and visual art as much as high - income schoolsschools do.

Most, however, offer a fairly traditional curriculum — more traditional, in many ways, than regular public schools.

«Although the current dialogue about school choice is generally focused on charter schools, vouchers, and the overall diversion of taxpayer monies to private entities, it misses a fundamental reality: Most public school districts already offer a wide range of choices to their students.»

Given the small share of total education spending Gates could offer, most public districts refused to entertain the Gates strategy of smaller schools, others took the money but failed to implement it properly, and others reversef the reform once the Gates subsidies ended.

Most of our teams are offered through PSAL (Public School Atheletic League).

Most, but not all, larger public schools offer a wide variety of major options while smaller schools tend to specialize in just a few things.

Most recently, the Texas Education Agency offered a temporary fix for the 2016 - 2017 school year but we need to find a lasting solution during the next Legislative Session, particularly since public charter schools do not receive any facilities funding from the state.

Yes our Capital Prep children take community college classes @ Capital Community College however that is nothing to show boat about most public and magnet schools today offer the same «Collaboration» projects.

In their 2012 book, «Exam Schools: Inside America's Most Selective Public High - Schools,» Chester E. Finn Jr. and Jessica A. Hockett offer a comprehensive look at screened admissions secondary schools across the US by spotlighting a cross-section of educational Schools: Inside America's Most Selective Public High - Schools,» Chester E. Finn Jr. and Jessica A. Hockett offer a comprehensive look at screened admissions secondary schools across the US by spotlighting a cross-section of educational Schools,» Chester E. Finn Jr. and Jessica A. Hockett offer a comprehensive look at screened admissions secondary schools across the US by spotlighting a cross-section of educational schools across the US by spotlighting a cross-section of educational models.

We want to be leaders in transparency and accountability in the state — shining a light on our areas of growth so we can continuously improve and offer South Carolina kids what they deserve — only the most excellent public school choice options.

In the recent era of tight public agency budgets, the community school approach has offered a strategic method for making tough budget decisions — making the most of existing resources.

Education Week reported: «Over the objections of teachers» unions and many Democrats, Louisiana's Republican governor and GOP - controlled legislature have crafted one of the most exhaustive education overhauls of any state in the country, through measures that will dramatically expand families» access to public money to cover the costs of both private school tuition and individual courses offered by a menu of providers.»

It's no secret that DeVos has long supported unaccountable, for - profit charter schools and vouchers, which drain public schools of critical resources and offer no choice for the most vulnerable students — those with special needs, those who don't speak English, and those living in poverty.

«Providing high - quality correctional education that is comparable to offerings in traditional public schools is one of the most powerful — and cost - effective — levers we have to ensure that youth are successful once released and are able to avoid future contact with the justice system,» wrote Education Secretary Arne Duncan and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.

A report released by the National Center for Education Statistics last year (NCES) estimated that as of the 2010 - 11 academic year (most recent data) 96 percent of public two - year community colleges offered some form of college credit to high school students through a dual - enrollment program.

The number of Oxbridge offers made also exceeded those given this year to some of the most famous public schools in the country, including Gordonstoun, Sherborne, Bedales and Haileybury.

Meanwhile, despite the fact that many «reformers»» policies have spectacularly failed, prompted massive scandals and / or offered no actual proof of success, an elite media that typically amplifies — rather than challenges — power and money loyally casts «reformers»» systematic pillaging of public education as laudable courage (the most recent example of this is Time magazine's cover cheering on wildly unpopular Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel after he cited budget austerity to justify the largest mass school closing in American history — all while he is also proposing to spend $ 100 million of taxpayer dollars on a new private sports stadium).

A few D.C. traditional public and charter schools offer cursive; most others don't.

Most district administrators have the mentality that charters are taking students, money and facilities from the districts and therefore fight charters rather than appreciate that they serve students that need a different environment from what is offered in traditional public schools.

Most of our nation's public school districts would incur staggering travel costs for students to implement «choice» or would have to run a complex and inefficient system of schools too small to offer comprehensive programs.

The most critical question that must then be answered is what kind of alternative schooling should be designed and offered in our public schools?

But while I know from experience that nonprofit public charter schools can offer opportunity and hope in some of our most underserved neighborhoods, I've also seen how for - profit schools fail to serve students» best interests.

When weighing finances with philosophies, if students aren't failing in the traditional schools, most parents believe the public schools are good enough and offer their children socializing experiences that they can't get in schools that are too small.

Nevada, the most recent state to initiate such a program, is offering education savings accounts to almost all of its 385,000 public - school students.

We agree with Senator Corman and most strongly urge the legislature to hold public hearings on the impact that inadequate and inequitable state education funding has on educational opportunities available to poor minority children and on schools» ability to offer all students quality CTE opportunities.

Missouri also offers a robust online program, including 90 undergraduate and graduate degrees, the second most in the SEC and third among public AAU schools.

The day will be a celebration of the unique and diverse offerings of our state's public charter schools, as well as an opportunity to advocate for the critical needs of these schools, most notably the need for fair funding.

Recognizing that principals are essential to most school - improvement efforts, the revised law governing the federal government's major source of dollars for public schools offers states and districts new funding possibilities for activities to promote effective school leadership.