Sentences with phrase «public school students get»

Their efforts will help ensure that more public school students get a great education, regardless of race, wealth or zip code.»

But what Jennifer Alexander, Governor Malloy and the other proponents of the Common Core fail to tell parents, and the public, is that the Common Core SBAC Test is designed in such a way as to ensure that only about one - third of our state's public school students get passing marks.

Public school students get free transportation to and from school.

According to the judge's reading of the law, as long as public school students got classrooms with desks, chairs, air to breathe, a teacher, textbooks, and a curriculum, the State had fulfilled most of its obligation to provide an equal educational opportunity.

Not exact matches

The pair's solutions to the alleged problems of CEO - speak are greater government control of markets, more bureaucracy in the private and public sectors, an end to CEOs» duty of care to shareholders and — get this — more snore - inducing courses on critical textual analysis in business schools so students can know exactly how many times a CEO says «our company» versus «the company.»

An advocate for a local teachers union also expressed concern to the New York Times Magazine about the quality of the education, arguing Bridge focuses less on getting poor students to the baseline as enticing public school students to switch to Bridge schools.

With these for - profit universities pulling out all stops to get students to enroll in their programs, there isn't much room left for nonprofit schools like Georgetown and Stanford to educate the public about their offerings.

If he were to refinance his student loan with SoFi, which recently raised a whopping $ 1 billion in funding from Softbank to help make student loans even cheaper, I'm sure he could get lower than 5 % because he went to William & Mary, Columbia for his Master's in Public Health, Yale for Medical School, and Cornell for his residency!

Over the next several months, amid signs that his emotional state was deteriorating, Cruz bounced among several Broward County public schools, including one for students with disabilities, before ending up at an adult education center to get his GED.

Yet at least one student, in every Bible - as - literature course I have taught in a public high school, looks around conspiratorily the first day and asks in a stage whisper, Can we get away with this?»

Nice point: our public students ARE getting more ignorant, and our church - supported private - school students are making all the difference in the world.

Christians do not want to reduce the chances for students to get a good education in the public schools.

The Principal of Public School 244 in Queens, New York City, has revealed that his pupils now have longer attention spans, are getting better academic scores, and the number of overweight and obese students has dropped by two percent — all since the school went «Meat Free» back in JaSchool 244 in Queens, New York City, has revealed that his pupils now have longer attention spans, are getting better academic scores, and the number of overweight and obese students has dropped by two percent — all since the school went «Meat Free» back in Jaschool went «Meat Free» back in January.

, we work hard every day to get more kids and their families cooking in the kitchen, help fight the battle against hunger, and help more public school students have an opportunity toward education in the restaurant and foodservice industry.

«Students» legal rights aren't something that public schools get to put up to a vote.

Donna travels the world to promote Registered Dietitian Nutritionists and the Academy, but she is still happiest eating lunch with Burke County Public School students, out standing in collard fields with organic farmer Sam Adderson, or planning new ways to get even more local products, like grits, onto school lunch trays and farmers market shoppingSchool students, out standing in collard fields with organic farmer Sam Adderson, or planning new ways to get even more local products, like grits, onto school lunch trays and farmers market shoppingschool lunch trays and farmers market shopping bags.

They largely refused to acknowledge that poverty rather than school quality was the root cause of the educational problems of disadvantaged kids, for fear that saying so would merely reinforce a long - standing belief among public educators that students unlucky enough to live in poverty shouldn't be expected to achieve at high levels — and public educators shouldn't be expected to get them there.

In the Somerville, Mass. public schools, the 6,200 students who eat school lunch sometimes get chicken nuggets but the chicken is skinned and the nuggets are baked, not fried, to cut fat.

In Cincinnati Public Schools, a nutrition app is not only changing how students and parents get meal information, it's used in classrooms for morning announcements and by school nurses to tally carb counts and manage student allergy needs.

Because most of Chicago «s public schools have closed campuses and 88 percent of the children attending receive free or reduced - price lunches, Phillips is more concerned about getting the students to eat than losing them to outside competition.

«Unfortunately, after George Amedore got elected to office all his campaign promises were conveniently forgotten, and it's the parents and public school students who are suffering as a result,» she said.

Buffalo Public Schools are buying more and more computers for students, as the district works on a $ 56 million technology plan to get one laptop or tablet to every student and install WiFi antennas on the growing network of community schools to serve the surrounding commuSchools are buying more and more computers for students, as the district works on a $ 56 million technology plan to get one laptop or tablet to every student and install WiFi antennas on the growing network of community schools to serve the surrounding commuschools to serve the surrounding communities.

And because I was in public school and I was one of the first legally blind students in public school, the message I got was, «Don't say anything and you won't get into trouble.»

New York City public schools won't penalize students for missing classes to attend gun - safety protests Wednesday, if they get parental permission.

Anyta Brown, grandmother of seven public school students from East New York, said: «Governor Cuomo is fighting for our kids and it's time for the Legislature to get on board.

The CFE sued in order to get more state money for the New York City public schools and to guarantee a sound education for all students.

He added, «And at a time when public schools are struggling with budget shortfalls and student loan debt is increasing, these tablets would go a long way for high school students here in the Capital Region and could also help those trying to get through college.

«I've come here with organizers and public school parents and students from across the state to demand public schools in every district get the resources they need regardless of the students» zip code, regardless of the students» skin color.»

The city currently operates 80 Beacon centers in public schools across the five boroughs where students get after - school tutoring and help looking for jobs, among other services.

Critics, including Upper Manhattan City Councilman Robert Jackson, said charter students at the schools are getting illegal, preferential treatment, while public students are being treated like «second class citizens,» forced to learn in lesser classrooms and loosing out on their fair share of library, auditorium and lunchroom time.

Education funding for public schools, which now get an average $ 21,152 per student per year, would increase by at least 3.9 percent.

She estimated Buffalo schools would be owed more than $ 100 million in aid from the state, had Albany followed the decision that came out of a landmark school funding lawsuit won by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, a group Nixon got involved with when her oldest teenager began as a kindergarten student in a New York City public school.

«Wind energy is already pretty cost - competitive and solar energy is quickly getting there,» said Anna Kelly, a graduate student in the School of Public Policy at Oregon State University, and an energy policy analyst.

A study by researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health found that female students, racial / ethnic minorities, and students of lower socioeconomic status are particularly affected, with teens in these categories less likely to report regularly getting seven or more hours of sleep each night compared with their male counterparts, non-Hispanic white teenagers, and students of higher socioeconomic status, respectively.

As the 2005 school year got underway, a new requirement in a Pennsylvania public school district mandated that all 9th - grade biology students listen to a statement questioning the validity of evolutionary theory and promoting intelligent design.

November 2, 2017 Chicago students to get hands - on cancer research experience through $ 1.9 million grant to UChicago Medicine The Chicago EYES on Cancer program will recruit students from underrepresented backgrounds and teachers from Chicago Public Schools for a two - year summer research apprenticeship.

A student from Haji Public School, Jammu and Kashmir wrote a heartwarming letter to the renowned author JK Rowling after getting inspired by her life and achievements.

In the state of Oklahoma, low - income high school students who agree to make good grades in a prescribed curriculum, attend school, and stay out of trouble can get free tuition at public and private colleges in the state.

As a review on Insideschools.org — an online guide to the city's public schools — said of JHS 123, «Parents were scared off by tales of kids getting their heads dunked in toilets by gang members and students ripping fixtures out of the walls and then hurling them from windows.»

And, as has been true for all public schools since the beginning of time, the online schools get paid whether their students are learning or not.

While student teaching (and eventually full - time teaching) in Portland Public Schools, I quickly got involved in education policy at the city and state level.

A federal appeals court has reinstated a $ 1 million jury verdict awarded to a special education teacher who claimed she was fired by public school officials in Portland, Ore., in retaliation for complaining that her students were getting a raw deal.

The $ 1.6 billion relief package has drawn fire from some education groups because it provides aid not just for public schools, but also for private schools, both to help get damaged schools up and running and to pay tuition costs of displaced students.

Educational researcher Gerald Bracey, author of Reading Educational Research: How to Avoid Getting Statistically Snookered, writes in Stanford magazine that «NCLB aims to shrink the public sector, transfer large sums of public money to the private sector, weaken or destroy two Democratic power bases — the teachers» unions — and provide vouchers to let students attend private schools at public expense.»

At the school, students learn the differences between public and private colleges, prepare for the SAT, tour campuses, and get assistance filling out their Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) forms and admissions applications.

Just the fact that a young person can so articulately get to the heart of educational reform is an example of what could be possible if we encouraged students to assess their schools, examine public education, provide feedback on what they see, and suggest ways of addressing the problems.

The intersection between public mission and private opportunity continues to get busier as schools search for better ways to educate students, and entrepreneurs work to create products and services to help educators achieve their goals.

The Spokane (Washington) Public Schools, along with many other school districts, has made a living embracing this simple concept: If we assess our students beforehand, create a common curriculum based upon what the students need to have, then teach that curriculum and fill in what the students don't have, and then assess the students again to be sure they got it, we'll probably be okay.

For instance, waiver states no longer have to aim toward the (now past) 2013 - 14 deadline for getting all students to proficiency, or offer public school choice or tutoring for schools that miss achievement targets.

«It will put around $ 2300 per student on average into schools across the country, but delivers the fastest growth to the public schools who need it most and to the public schools who got the most unfair deals in the past,» he said.