Sentences with phrase «public schools challenged»

Westminster Public Schools challenges the ineffective practice of social promotion, which historically has allowed lower - performing students to «squeak by» with a D minus while lacking the skills and competencies needed to be successful in society.

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A Wall Street outsider in every conceivable way — a public school grad, a Texan from a visible minority, a woman — Godiwalla contended with more than the usual challenges when she moved to Manhattan in the»90s and became an analyst in Morgan Stanley's corporate finance group.

«I took it very, very seriously and quickly realized that this was even tougher than any of the other challenges in the public domain because it was my hometown, and it was my school,» says Alexander.

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Completely scrap the the funding for private schools, but in the event it's not politically expedient for the government heading into an election, at least consider a reduction in funding levels to financially aid the public system and alleviate some of the pressures they currently are experiencing with class size, lack of teachers and the challenges inherent in providing school lunch programs.

In wider public life, too, the plight of a local borough councillor, school governor, magistrate or head teacher who challenges the gender - agenda is likely to be a bleak one.

And so are public school teachers across the country who are being told via this fiasco not to be creative as teachers, not to challenge their students to think in new ways.

For instance, a hypothetical public high school teacher who advanced New Age ideas and attitudes under a neutral or secular wrapping would be far less vulnerable to legal challenge than would be a teacher who spoke of God by name or who expounded on the biblical foundations of Western thought.

That includes never challenging local corruption or asking why our children are being brain - washed by public schools.

Marty says nothing about what this challenge might mean for theological schools, whose attention to these topics will play an important role in educating the people — pastors, denominational employees, lay leaders and the like — whom he frequently singles out as important interpreters and «brokers» of the public involvement of religious groups.

I'd challenge Mr. Latif's viewpoints and suggest that NY Muslims become a peaceful and faithful people by worshipping on their holidays irrespective of what the public school system says.

Deplore as we may the existence of the parochial school, its challenge to the separation of church and state, and its attempted inroads on the public treasury, the fact remains that parochial schools exist primarily because Catholic parents, who pay their public - school taxes, think it worth while to submit to additional cost and often to much inconvenience to see to it that their children receive the religious instruction denied them in the public schools.

That means that doctrinal provisions of religious schools «may not be enough to fend off IRS challenges to tax - exempt status if the IRS or the courts conclude that the right of same - sex couples to marry is a fundamental and compelling public policy,» he wrote.

Highly publicized reactions to science and social science on the part of religious conservatives, as evidenced by lawsuits concerning the teaching of evolution in public schools and court cases challenging the influence of «secular humanism» on school textbooks, suggest that Habermas's forces of «secular rationality» have by no means carried the day.

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

My son has a chance to live his values because they can be challenged in a public school setting.

Because so many of the challenges happen through the public school system, I chose an author who was deeply influential to me in high school.

Though Wilma works in a public school district rather than a private catering service, I think you'll see that she and Justin share many of the same challenges.

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I also became acutely aware of the challenges public school art teachers face with large class sizes, poor quality materials, and infrequent class time.

And that's going to put increasing challenges on the public school system.

These students, and others from 14 local public high schools, were competing in Cooking Up Change, a healthy cooking contest in which teams were challenged to create nutritious school lunches on a tight budget — $ 1 per meal — and limited ingredients and prep work.

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

But I know what intense pressure the public schools are under — it's challenging to get everything in.

I have struggled sometimes with conversations with other parents about what school is best, as my kids have moved from an amazing public elementary school to public middle school that has more challenges.

CHICAGO — In his new book, «Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why,» journalist Paul Tough investigates the challenge of educating low - income children, who now account for more than half of all public school students.

Neither one of them had ever known anyone who homeschooled, so that was a truly scary idea, but public education wasn't for them and they were just too «economically challenged» to afford any kind of private school.

Will he be challenged in our public school or should I look for a private school?

Pew conducts original research and analyses to help policymakers understand local policy challenges, from providing healthy school lunches for children to designing retirement programs for public employees.

If you have just found out your young child is gifted and want to ensure that your child gets an appropriate education or if you've known your child is gifted and need to remove him from the public school environment because he is not being sufficiently challenged, you may be considering a private school.

GMA reached out to Chicago Public Schools, and the system's statement says, «Our nutritional standards are designed to exceed the USDA's gold standard of the healthiest U.S. school challenge guidelines.

Among the toilet training challenges that you might be dealing with is a child who, despite using the potty regularly at home and in public, refuses to use it at day care or school.

The challenges for pilots are similar to those for surgeons operating, where the patient's safety is paramount, says Katy Kozhimannil, an associate professor of health policy and management at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.

When Zephyr Teachout, then a little - known Fordham Law School professor, challenged Cuomo in a primary four years ago, one of the state's largest public workers unions, PEF, endorsed her, while NYSUT decided to sit out the governor's race entirely, declining to pick a favorite.

In other e.politics news, I'm doing a call - in show on Minnesota Public Radio tomorrow morning about YouTube debates, chatting with academics from Princeton and Wake Forest (hope my Palestine (Texas) High School degree is up to the challenge).

Brooklyn Paper article on the victory of Brooklyn public schools in the Hour of Code challenge initiated by BP Adams.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

According to the email, the WFP is particularly pleased that its candidates fended off challenges from the «billionaire - funded «New Yorkers for Independent Action» SuperPAC seeking to privatize public schools,» adding:

The public school system has challenges., but that reflects our society.

A legal fight between the Buffalo Public School District and Buffalo Teachers Federation over a plan to transfer teachers from City Honors will return to court next week, when the district will file papers challenging a restraining order obtained by the BTF.

Full disclosure: Among the people backing Fordham law professor and former Howard Dean internet director Zephyr Teachout's effort to challenge sitting NY Governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary, according to the filings by her and her running mate Tim Wu with the state board of elections: Union Square Ventures» Brad Burnham ($ 20,000), Tumblr founder David Karp ($ 20,000) WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg ($ 5,000), Netflix VP Chris Libertelli ($ 5,000), Kickstarter's Fred Benenson ($ 5,000), campaign finance reform activist Arnold Hiatt ($ 2,500), Lawrence Lessig ($ 2,500), Reddit's Alexis Ohanian ($ 2,500), our own Andrew Rasiej ($ 1,500), Digg's Andrew McLaughlin ($ 1,000), Open Technology Institute's Sascha Meinrath ($ 1,000), Harvard Law School's Jonathan Zittrain ($ 1,000), Duke law prof Jedediah Purdy ($ 1,000), Ben & Jerry's Ben Cohen ($ 1,000), EchoDitto founder and former Dean webmaster Nicco Mele ($ 600), net neutrality campaigner Marvin Ammori ($ 500), Blue State Digital's Joe Rospars ($ 500), Progressive Strategies» Mike Lux ($ 450), former Dean data - wiz Kenn Herman ($ 300), former Dean developer Josh Koenig ($ 250), Fight for the Future's Tiffiniy Cheng ($ 250), MIT's Ethan Zuckerman ($ 250), Brooklyn law prof Jonathan asking ($ 250), Public Campaign's David Donnelly $ 250), former Dean developer Zack Rosen ($ 250), the ACLU «s Christopher Soghoian ($ 100), Sunlight Foundation's Ellen Miller ($ 100), former Dean blogger Mathew Gross ($ 100), and yours truly ($ 100).

In today's NY Post, I challenge Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott's decision to bypass affirmative parental consent in launching the Connecting Adolescents To Comprehensive (Sexual) Health pilot program which distributes to contraceptives and birth control to minor adolescents at 14 public... Continue reading →

Albany, NY — Alan is joined by New York State Senator Bill Perkins, who is challenging charter school funding and questioning whether public schools are being left behind in some of the state's poorer neighborhoods.

July 25 — TAPCo Public School of the Arts is hosting a ribbon cutting unveiling a beautiful 4,000 sq. ft. mural highlighting the diversity and challenges faced by the mental health community in the Bronx, 5:30 pm.

De Blasio's key challenges now include renewing mayoral control of the public schools and getting the state to live up to more of its court - ordered funding obligation.

They included Kathleen Rice, a U.S. representative from Long Island who unsuccessfully challenged Schneiderman in the 2010 Democratic primary; Preet Bharara, the former U.S. attorney from Manhattan; Alphonso David, Cuomo's chief counsel; Michael Gianaris, a state senator from Queens and chief political strategist for the Democratic conference; Zephyr Teachout, a Fordham Law School professor who ran for governor in 2014; Letitia James, the New York City public advocate; Carrie H. Cohen, a former federal prosecutor who handled the trial of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver; Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D - N.Y.; and Benjamin Lawsky, formerly the state's top financial regulator.

The prime minister followed Jeremy Corbyn on the Channel 4 News / Sky News «Battle for Number 10» programme and was challenged by members of the public on reductions to police numbers, the Conservative plans for social care, and cuts to school funding.

At 8:30 a.m., Assemblywoman Maritza Davila, NYC Councilman Antonio Reynoso, parents and advocates challenge the NYC Department of Education for giving public school classroom space to charter schools, School Building K111, 35 Starr St., Broschool classroom space to charter schools, School Building K111, 35 Starr St., BroSchool Building K111, 35 Starr St., Brooklyn.

At 6 p.m., NYC Collaborates hosts a panel discussion, Opportunities & Challenges in Integrating NYC's Public Schools, featuring New York City Councilmen Brad Lander and Ritchie Torres and remarks from Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Brooklyn Law School, Brooklyn.

As Borough President, I worked to create more than 27,000 new seats in 48 new public schools, fought to strengthen the role of the local Superintendents, and provided funding to modernize our schools so they can meet the challenges of future.