Sentences with phrase «public schools is interested in»

Some charter - school groups have already expressed interest in coming here, and the superintendent of Spokane Public Schools is interested in having a charter in her district, according to The Spokesman - Review.

Not exact matches

Parents are increasingly interested in providing private school funding for their children 1) because they see the value and importance of good education and 2) because of frequent public school closings.

Jonathan Zittrain, a professor at Harvard Law School and an expert in the First Amendment, told the Washington Post that a court could decide that if the public interest was so compelling, then newspapers or the public should try to compel the candidate to authorize the IRS to release his tax information lawfully.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

The company, which recently airdropped a massive cache of XRP into US public school coffers is hoping to stimulate interest in the creation of applications that use its currency and blockchain, which has attracted a lot of interest as a back - end technology in the banking industry, but has only been adopted by one other Coin thus far — the somewhat mysterious Allvor.

The country is $ 70 billion in debt, schools are closing by the hundreds, and infrastructural services — like the overburdened electricity system — have been overlooked in order to make way for debt payments to Wall Street creditors, according to Juan Cartagena, President and General Counsel of LatinoJustice PRLDEF, a public interest law firm.

These inner - city Catholic schools are «public schools» in the best sense of the term; they're open to the public (not just to Catholics), and they serve a genuine public interest, the empowerment of the youthful poor.

But because its governing interest is «religious,» theological schooling on the model of paideia has characteristically been disengaged from the public realm in the sense of the realm of political, social, and economic power, its arrangement and its management.

I have known laymen to invite a friend who is or who may be interested; I have known other persons who just «turn up» because somehow an announcement has reached them or they have read about the school in the public press.

They are the same people who fight nondenominational prayers in public schools, the use of public school facilities for meetings of high school religious - interest groups, and state support of private schools.

I'm not interested in what Obama thinks about the issue because he isn't attempting to put creationism in the public schools.

The religious New Right has taken a very vocal interest in education, charging that the public schools in particular are permeated with secular humanism.

The film will be offered to schools, clubs and public theaters all over Africa and anywhere else (except the U.S.) where there may be an interest in it.

Part of the reason for this is that so many choose to send their kids to private school and have no interest whatsoever in improving the public schools.

Sweet Deals: School Fundraising Can Be Healthy and Profitable (Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)-RRB-

Janis Groomes, food service director at Northport Public Schools, knows the power of school gardens to get kids interested in eating fruits and vegetables, even ones that are unusual...

I received invaluable assistance from the Center for Science in the Public Interest in getting the letter circulated, and it has now been signed by 29 organizations and individuals, including: CSPI; the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity; the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation; the Environmental Working Group; Healthy, Child, Healthy World; The Healthy Schools Campaign; Chef Ann Cooper; Dr. Yoni Freedhoff and many more.

My kids are going to be eating in a private school cafeteria over summer so I'm interested to see what their offerings are compared to the public school we attend during the year.

When the school lunch program was institutionalized across the country in 1946, Congress voted 9 cents for every child in the country eating school lunch, according to Victoria Leonard, director of Children «s Nutrition for the Center for Science and Public Interest, a Washington - based consumer activist group.

Every morning, I struggle with what to send my two boys for lunch at their downtown public schools — something healthy and interesting that can be packed in a small bag (and eaten in about 10 minutes).

I briefly told you about the Get Food Education in Every School initiative when it was announced in May, but now you can read more about it in this week's Huffington Post editorial by Michael Jacobson of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (the folks behind Food day).

I do not bemoan public interest in school lunch issues and sketchy additives, but it is crucial to not lose sight of the big picture — «pink slime» is one of many symptoms of a broken food system.

I graduated from a small high school, where the principal was very much interested in the poor and the hungry, and in public policy; he taught us how to be an advocate for the helpless people in our community and in our state.»

Her longtime interest in the political process and public policy came to a head in January of 2011, when the new USDA proposed rules came out and Sandi realized how many changes school nutrition professionals would be facing.

«It's a shame that Congress seems more interested in protecting industry than protecting children's health... this legislation may go down in nutritional history as a bigger blunder than when the Reagan Administration tried (and failed) to credit ketchup as a vegetable in the school lunch program,» — Margo Wootan, Nutrition Policy Director, Center for Science in the Public Interest in a press release

«The new school meal standards are one of the most important advances in nutrition in decades,» said Margo Wootan, nutrition policy director at the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

Ask if copies of the Center for Science in the Public Interest's Constructive Classroom Rewards can be distributed to teachers and other school staff.

During his first official meeting as a Buffalo School member, a Buffalo woman brought her own bat during the public comment session to «combat any actions that are not in the best interest of the students.»

NYC Public Advocate Tish James is calling state lawmakers to express her interest in the AG post, and Fordham Law School Prof. Zephyr Teachout, a former House and gubernatorial candidate, is also interested.

But Lipton also said there is «more to do,» like restoring «progressivity» to the state's tax code, closing the carried interest tax loophole, and investing in a new «social contract» on public education that ensures full funding for schools — including universal pre-K (an early de Blasio priority)-- and restoration to the public university system to pre-recession levels.

The UFT is hitting the airwaves today with a 60 - second radio spot that slams for - profit charter school management companies as «more interested in making money and ducking accountability than fighting for our kids» and spending «millions on false attacks against teachers and public schools.»

If you are interested in lobbying local elected officials for policy changes that effect our neighborhood (congestion pricing, affordable housing, public school improvements), getting involved in the local community board, or participating in our club's efforts to elect progressive judges, this is the committee for you.

«I applaud those students for speaking up, I applaud the students for taking action and I think the calls of the students and parents have captured the attention of the administration of the Buffalo Public Schools and the teacher's union and I'm hoping that those two entities can come together in the best interest of the education of the children at City Honors,» he said.

It's time our community rejects the special interests and their lobbyist, Jose Felix Diaz and elect a champion who will fight for our public schools, take on traffic gridlock and enhance our healthcare system,» said Taddeo in a statement.

Paladino was protecting the public's interest when he disclosed in a newspaper story secret details about contract talks with the Buffalo teacher's union — information he received during School Board's confidential executive session, his attorney said.

«Given the strong interrelationship between the economic success of the city and the health of its real estate industry, and that REBNY is one of the city's leading trade associations, the organization historically has spoken out on matters of important public interest, like mayoral control of NYC public schools,» Chin - Lyn said in a statement.

Mr. Heastie, who leads an Assembly dominated by Democrats and backed by public school interests, is the mayor's closest ally in Albany.

Representatives of nonprofits or public schools interested in applying for MCAP grants are asked to direct questions to Sam Levine, Budget Director for the Borough President's Office, [email protected] or 212.669.4814.

A new scholarship for graduates of the Buffalo Public Schools interested in studying human rights - will be available at UB next year.

Mulgrew said he was «perplexed» that so many upstate Republican senators — many who receive contributions from the charter industry — took so much interest in creating «more free space in New York City public schools» for charter chains.

In his opening remarks, Paladino's lawyer Dennis Vacco said Paladino was protecting the public's interest by publicly disclosing secret information from the School Board's closed - door meeting about contract talks with the teacher's union.

In an extraordinary interview, Mr. de Blasio, appearing to unburden himself of months» worth of frustrations, said that Mr. Cuomo — who, like the mayor, is a Democrat — «did not act in the interests» of New Yorkers by blocking measures like reforming rent laws and the mayor's long - term ability to control the city's public schoolIn an extraordinary interview, Mr. de Blasio, appearing to unburden himself of months» worth of frustrations, said that Mr. Cuomo — who, like the mayor, is a Democrat — «did not act in the interests» of New Yorkers by blocking measures like reforming rent laws and the mayor's long - term ability to control the city's public schoolin the interests» of New Yorkers by blocking measures like reforming rent laws and the mayor's long - term ability to control the city's public schools.

Buffalo School Board Member Carl Paladino was protecting the public's interest when he disclosed in a newspaper story secret details about contract talks with the Buffalo teacher's union — information he received during School Board's confidential executive session, his attorney said Thursday.

A key goal of the study was to understand how creationist interest groups, science interest groups, public opinion about evolution and political climate influence the political - reform process related to how evolution is taught in schools.

«My concern is that independent trials are on the decline and that means we have less high - quality data to inform public health that are not influenced by commercial interests,» says study leader Stephan Ehrhardt, MD, MPH, an associate professor in the Bloomberg School's Department of Epidemiology.

In fact, says Daniel Albert, F.A. Davis Professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, in Madison, medical schools are increasingly interested in applicants who don't come straight from their senior year in collegIn fact, says Daniel Albert, F.A. Davis Professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, in Madison, medical schools are increasingly interested in applicants who don't come straight from their senior year in collegin Madison, medical schools are increasingly interested in applicants who don't come straight from their senior year in collegin applicants who don't come straight from their senior year in collegin college.

Bloomberg is actually pretty interested in public health, and I know that he has given so much money to Johns Hopkins that the school of public health is the Bloomberg Sschool of public health is the Bloomberg SchoolSchool.

Buttke is interested in using public interest in personal health as a way to increase support for public green space, and enhancing public understanding of how human actions can drive infectious disease spread through a variety of avenues including school programs, websites, and smart phone apps.

James Mitchell, who studies stress resistance at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, was especially interested in ischemic reperfusion injury, a problem that often occurs with heart attacks and strokes, and sometimes even from heart and vascular surgery.

«We became interested in studying the effects of economic downturns on public spending during the Great Recession of the late 2000s, when media outlets were filled with stories about states cutting optional Medicaid benefits, increasing school class sizes and reducing course offerings,» said Ho, who is also a professor of economics at Rice and a professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.