Sentences with phrase «public alternative schools»

Founded and operated Chicago High School for Metropolitan Studies (Metro), one of the earliest public alternative schools (1969?).

The documented results of these programs, together with the growing research on public alternative schools (Kleiner, Porch, & Farris, 2002), provide a knowledge base about comprehensive approaches to increasing both academic achievement and high school completion rates — which generally go hand in hand.

Public alternative schools and programs for students at risk of education failure, 2000 — 01.

1997 AERO's Virgin Island Consulting Project trains staff at at - risk public alternative schools on the islands.

Braziller has spent a decade teaching Facing History and Ourselves (FHAO)-- a curriculum that leads students to reflect on themselves through in - depth study of history — and has taught at this public alternative school for 18 years.

One in four school children in the United States no longer attends his neighborhood school; fully 15 percent of all kids (more than 7 million) now participate in a public alternative school.

The spectrum of possibilities, for instance, might extend from a Debbie Meyers - type public alternative school, which has no principal and instead is staff - run, to a Sudbury Valley - type school that is entirely governed by the school's democratic meeting.

Not exact matches

Parochial schools are supported by church funds in addition to tuition, not tax dollars, providing in many areas a reasonable alternative for working class and middle class parishioners and removing these millions of students from the public education system paid for by taxpayers.

There are INFINITE alternative possibilities that have no evidence or reason to think they could be true, we can't teach them all & they have no place in public schools.

The aim of these recent suits (contrary to the claims of outraged separationists) is not to restore traditional religious teaching and practices, but to purge away a «counterreligion,» an alternative system of belief that the plaintiffs claim public schools are inculcating.

Yet, if the only alternative is to turn pre-schoolers over to the same people who run the public schools, we seem to be caught between a rock and a hard place.

When I asked why they attend the the school if the didn't beleive they said its academics were better the the public school alternative.

Parents may trust religious schools to provide them with viable alternatives to our aggressively secularized public school system.

Many legislators realize that public schools lack the moral resources to offer a healthy alternative (including religious ones), so the odds are good that the political process will lead to policies that continue to make it easier for parents to access alternatives.

This clarity will allow them to compete with the consumerist youth culture to which public schools, whatever their academic quality, offer no credible alternative.

With very few exceptions, nobody in these major cities who can afford an alternative sends their children to the public school.

We'll likely be moving before kdg, and may have some good alternative options, but it hurts my heart to imagine sending my boy into the standards / performance / testing mess that our public schools have become.

The school was started by a group of committed parents and teachers who believed they could offer a distinct educational alternative by forming a school guided by the Core Principles of Public Waldorf education.

Woodland Star provides an innovative public - school alternative for Kindergarten through Eighth Grade.

Virginia Hunger Solutions works to increase participation in school breakfast programs throughout the Commonwealth by promoting alternative breakfast delivery models, such as Breakfast in the Classroom, and innovative public policies, such as the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP).

I work at a public school district in Minnesota, and we are required to provide an alternative (either lactose - reduced milk, milk fortified with lactase, or milk to which lactobacillus acidophilus has been added) for students with lactose intolerance.

Her advocacy for youth includes providing an educational alternative in the form of Edge Hill University, where she is a Professor of Public Understanding of Science, as well as serving as the school's first chancellor.

Challenge Success currently works with 130 public schools, Pope said, helping to educate students, parents and counselors on alternatives to the current pressure paradigm.

Camps are usually scheduled to coincide with the local public school system's spring break to give kids a fun alternative to staying home all week if your family isn't traveling.

But a search of online school lunch menus found that «alternate» or «alternative» lunches of a sandwich (usually cheese or peanut butter) along with juice or milk were being served this month in public school districts in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington state.

«This is an issue we're trying to resolve,» said Michael Cook, a spokesman for the Las Cruces, N.M., Public School District, which he said was trying to make certain that any student who can't afford the main meal on the menu «is served some kind of alternative» rather than go hungry.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos was more supportive of the effort to strengthen charter schools statewide as the governor wants to lift the cap on the alternative public schools by 100.

Although the amendment wouldn't directly affect funding (and such) for public schools, in the long term anything that makes alternative education feasible for more people could lead to a reduction in the status of public schooling.

That would probably lead many Democrats to favor public schools over alternatives, regardless of the NEA or any other group specifically taking that position.

Cuomo and Flanagan also want to make it even easier for charter schools to reject, and even kick out, students who don't do well academically and might tarnish the pretty statistics charter schools often paint to suggest they present a much better alternative to traditional public schools.

And he's convinced that Miliband will find it hard to unveil a credible set of alternatives to big - ticket items like public sector pension changes, NHS reform, new schools and other shake - ups.

Some are calling her support for charter schools, a growing alternative to public education, as a conflict of interest much like Pruitt's.

400,000 students, or approximately 15 percent of all students in New York State attend nonpublic schools, providing an important educational alternative in virtually every corner of New York State — and especially so in communities where the existing public schools are failing.

Once the evidence of the «Got to Go» list became public, he added, Moskowitz claimed that her schools «provide a safe and orderly alternative to the disorderly public schools.

New York State taxpayers should not be subsidizing private school transportation that is excessive and that financially benefits the private school investors, trustees, and parents who have chosen these as alternative to their local public school.

An alternative version, put forward by state lawmakers, asked whether the Legislature should «provide for the establishment and support of effective free public schools without judicial enforcement.»

Currently, 24 charter schools could still be designated under the existing cap as it is, but Cuomo wants to go further with the alternative public schools.

Cuomo and NYSUT have been at odds over the evaluation push, as well as the governor's strong support for charter schools as an alternative to the present public education system.

Families for Excellent Schools, an education reform group that supporters charter schools, will call on the state to lift the cap on the alternative public sSchools, an education reform group that supporters charter schools, will call on the state to lift the cap on the alternative public sschools, will call on the state to lift the cap on the alternative public schoolsschools.

NYC public schools aren't that great, so its good for parents to have alternatives.

A report from a pro-charter school organization found Queens and the Bronx are being under served when it comes to establishing the alternative public schools in their communities.

A lawsuit filed by AG Eric Schneiderman against the Utica City School District charges that children over 16 were funneled into alternative programs, in which they could not earn credits toward a diploma, as part of a broad program aimed at barring immigrants from the district's only public high sSchool District charges that children over 16 were funneled into alternative programs, in which they could not earn credits toward a diploma, as part of a broad program aimed at barring immigrants from the district's only public high schoolschool.

A lawsuit filed on Tuesday by the state attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, against the Utica City School District charges that children over 16 were funneled into alternative programs, in which they could not earn credits toward a diploma, as part of a broad program aimed at barring immigrants from the district's only public high sSchool District charges that children over 16 were funneled into alternative programs, in which they could not earn credits toward a diploma, as part of a broad program aimed at barring immigrants from the district's only public high schoolschool.

Empowering schools and hospitals, and extending user choice, would maximise public - service efficiency and help prevent the incursion of profit - driven alternatives.

And now, following a national trend, New York's conservatives have joined in, using what they portray as a specimen of big - government overreach in the service of a longer - term fight to eliminate teacher tenure and promote alternatives to traditional public schools.

He is responsible for the complex operations of a sheriff's office which include criminal law enforcement, traffic patrol, marine patrol, snowmobile patrol, emergency rescue operations, dive team, homeland security programs, SWAT operations, civil emergency response, jail operations, correctional alternative management, courtroom security, school resource officers, school and public building security and civil litigation process.

400,000 students, or approximately 15 percent of all students in New York State attend nonpublic schools which provide an important educational alternative in virtually every corner of New York State — and especially so in communities where the existing public schools are failing.

In the 25 years since Minnesota passed the first charter school law, these publicly funded but privately operated schools have become a highly sought - after alternative to traditional public education, particularly for underserved students in urban areas.

StudentsFirstNY's Interim Executive Director Glen Weiner said the lawsuit could trap students at failing public schools with no other alternatives:

The actions could be a lifesaver for the popular alternatives to public schools because Bloomberg's likely successor, Democrat Bill de Blasio, has vowed to impose a moratorium on co-locating charter schools in city facilities.