Sentences with phrase «public schools officials did»

Fayette County Public Schools officials did not immediately respond to questions Wednesday how that district could be impacted by additional costs

Denver Public Schools officials don't disagree.

Not exact matches

Indeed, Ontario and other jurisdictions did not bother to be so prescriptive, and even Alberta officials concede this part of the bill is largely clarification (other parts are to force religious and private schools to adopt the same LGBT - friendly policies as public schools).

One need not be a historian of education or a theologian to assess the damage done to public education and then to society in general by how these cases were decided and what public school officials were empowered to do (or so they believed) despite the clearly given cautions from the Supreme Court itself.

The greatest present bar to a mature religious orientation in public education is the assumption that the church and the synagogue are the only appropriate channels for religion, and that anything done about religion in the schools must be accomplished through these channels or at least with the official approval and sanction of the recognized religious officials.

Hmm... did «Chicago public school officials» really do that?

Many people believe education is best run at the local level because school boards and school officials better serve the public when they are able to be held accountable by the local community they serve; when the decision - makers have local roots, many believe they do a better job than a monolithic federal bureaucracy hundreds or thousands of miles away.

The result won't do much to allay the fears of New York teachers» unions that Cuomo's real aim is to transform traditional public schools into charter schools, since charter groups were among those chosen by Massachusetts education officials to implement turnaround plans in chronically underperforming districts.

Some of the last issues to be decided had to do with education, including a push by state Sen. Simcha Felder — a Democrat from Brooklyn who conferences with Republicans to give them a critical 32nd vote — to protect ultra-Orthodox yeshivas from official reviews that might find they do not provide substantially equivalent instruction to public schools.

At recent public meetings, the DOE did not give parents and leaders enough assurances that construction of the Beacon School's new Hell's Kitchen campus is on schedule, Community Education Council 3 members said in a Dec. 9 letter to DOE officials.

What the public should do with this information is get schooled up on the actual risk and make sure that their public officials do the same and then the answer will become clear: we need to get our power from another source and we can do it.»

While schools often are required to ask students for proof that they live within a district, school officials essentially are barred from asking about immigration status and can not block a child's access to a public K - 12 school based on such status, under a landmark 1982 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in Plyler v. Doe.

The activities that were delayed include a proposed nationwide NASA telecast to schools this week, which officials of the Public Broadcasting Service said NASA had «agreed to do in principle.»

By cutting red tape and promoting transparency, Congress can help equip parents, voters, taxpayers, and public officials to do the real work of school improvement.

«Baltimore city public schools do not deserve or accept this arbitrary action,» Phillip H. Farfel, the president of the Baltimore school board, said in a Feb. 1 letter to state officials.

New York — On a recent Friday morning, while legislators and other state officials were making financial decisions that would make the difference between retaining and immediately laying off 1,000 of New York City's public - school teachers, Frank J. Macchiarola did what, in almost any other case, would be described as switching hats a few times.

At the community level, support for schools might also be enhanced under a regime of public school choice, because fewer people would feel compromised, silenced, or alienated in an environment where well - intentioned school officials are forced to accommodate conflicting constituent demands and wind up doing so in ways that favor the most vocal, affluent, or well - organized.

In too many places, public officials do not appreciate the stakes in school finance litigation or erroneously believe that such litigation will hasten reform efforts.

The group says it may file a lawsuit if the Sycamore public school system does not reconsider the policy it adopted in February to make Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year, and Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, official school holidays.

Rep. Annette «Polly» Williams is backing a proposal by state education officials to bar private schools in the program from charging voucher students registration and book fees that public schools do not impose, according to Greg Doyle, the spokesman for the state education department, which proposed the rule last month.

Official data from California showed that a quarter of all the children in California public schools didn't know English — about 1.5 million students.

Another charter school administrator reported that an official with the Toledo Public Schools (TPS) often flags student entries, but doesn't make clear what is wrong.

«What has traditionally made this country great is that the leaders don't have to be the elected officials,» says Olson, the president of the Parents for Public Schools national board of directors.

But Audrey Spalding, education policy director at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, wondered what these state officials have done to bring accountability to Michigan's conventional school system.

What we do know, with considerable certainty, is that while the percentage of students in the voucher schools with disabilities is substantially lower than the disability rate in the public schools, it is at least four times higher than public officials have claimed.

Does Connecticut's Governor Malloy and the array of state and local officials who are saying that schools will lose money really not know what the federal law is or are their intentionally misleading, even lying, as a way to keep parents and the public from knowing the truth?

All you need to do is declare your support for charter schools and urge public officials to protect them.

Five years ago, school officials told Goolsby her 3 - year - old son Walker didn't qualify for the free public preschool program for children with disabilities.

Officials with the N.C. Office of Charter Schools, which oversees management of the state's public charters and reports to the State Board of Education, do not keep data on out - of - state charter leaders.

Virginia intends to revise its new goals for student achievement in public schools, after state and federal officials agreed that those goals did not do enough to narrow the gap between students with the worst and best scores on annual state exams.

WILL officials suggested the base salary data, obtained from the Department of Public Instruction, didn't tell the whole story because it doesn't account for bonuses and merit pay increases that have surfaced in some school districts since the law was enacted.

Yet it's worth noting non-public schools haven't fared as well as public schools under the model state officials have used to calculate A-F grades for the past two years — fewer private schools are earning A's than they once did.

We don't have all the details yet about time and place as the public hearing notice has not yet been posted; however, the Commission will be taking testimony from school leaders (including board members, district administrators and school business officials) at this meeting.

A spokesman for Wake County Public School System, the state's largest K - 12 district, said local officials don't expect to have an estimate on the new costs for at least a month.

This isn't to say that these officials don't care about these children, but that they are disinterested in taking on the tough work needed to overhaul districts and schools in order provide kids with the schools they deserve — which includes challenging the soft bigotry of low expectations for poor and minority kids held by far too many adults working in American public education in Virginia and the rest of the nation, and the affiliates of the National Education Association which has succeeded for so long in keeping the Old Dominion's status quo quite ante.

Because when push comes to shove, our elected officials are simply unwilling to do what it takes to have quality, adequately funded public schools.

In a statement Thursday, Broward County Public Schools officials said the Sun - Sentinel's report contained information that «does not accurately reflect the capability of the surveillance system» and said «the account of events reported in the article does not adequately or accurately reflect the full circumstances in immediately responding to the event.»

Standardized test scores may be rising in the city's public schools, but those gains on paper do not translate into any meaningful improvements in the lives of the city's poorest students, said former New Orleans education official and activist Dr. Andre Perry.

Such charter authorizers are not elected officials accountable to parents and the community and do not have the same stake in the vitality and improvement of local public schools.

However, despite that opposition from the local officials responsible for education policy and despite the fact that Connecticut doesn't even fund its existing public schools adequately and the fact that the State of Connecticut is facing a massive $ 1.4 billion projected budget deficit next year, Governor Malloy's former Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, and Malloy's political appointees on the State Board of Education approved four new charter school proposals last spring.

And not only will school districts have to put aside instructional time and give the Common Core SBAC test this year, but they will have to do it next year, and the year after, and the year after that, and every single year until this nonsense stops and the state's elected officials finally have the courage to stand up and put an end to the Common Core test scam that is designed to intentionally judge the vast majority of Connecticut's public school children as failures.

Rather than use the event to congratulate each other on the destruction of our public schools, Connecticut's elected officials should be explaining to Duncan that the Common Core and Common Core Testing scheme is a fiasco that needs to be repealed and that Connecticut must be allowed to develop its own effective teacher evaluation system that doesn't rely on the use of unfair, inappropriate and faulty standardized test scores.

It is time for Connecticut's elected and appointed officials to do the right thing and stop undermining Connecticut's parents, students, teachers and public schools.

Their utter failure to do what is right has left parents and public school advocates with no choice but to take steps to hold state and local school officials accountable for their abusive strategies and tactics.

That is, the burden of proof would likely rest on Denver Public School officials to evidence that they are no only complying with the state law but that they are doing so in sound, evidence - based, and rational / reasonable ways.

Officials with Boston Public Schools decided to do their own study to get results.

We do not believe the decision to establish a new charter school or to convert a traditional public school to a charter should be made just by government officials or by a small group of parents, as the consequences will affect the entire community.»

In this age when too many elected officials delight in drawing divisions rather than doing the hard work of solving problems, we hope you will reject that path and instead come together to focus on the opportunities and challenges in all of our city's public schools.

Although many previous examples have at least involved distasteful public speech surrounding school officials, the latest example is especially egregious, as it involves private speech that does not really implicate the school at all.