Sentences with phrase «public school systems almost»

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Following the devastation in Puerto Rico caused by Hurricane Maria, and months without sufficient electricity, water and supplies, the public school system on the island now faces potential manmade devastation: closures of almost 350 public schools.

In almost all states, the fiscal crisis is creating a crisis in the public school systems.

Under the old teacher evaluation system, New York City public school teachers were subjectively rated either satisfactory or unsatisfactory and almost all teachers received a satisfactory rating, with fewer than 3 % rated unsatisfactory.

Here in New York, vibrant movements opposing fracking and the growing corporate attacks on our public school system helped spur the Green Party gubernatorial campaign of Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones, which received almost 5 percent of the vote running against incumbent Democrat Andrew Cuomo, the best any independent third party campaign has done statewide in more than 80 years.

Public school teachers are almost universally covered by traditional defined benefit pension systems.

Within the span of one year, all public - school employees were fired, the teacher contract expired and was not replaced, and the state took control of almost all public schools, dramatically reshaping the teacher workforce and providing the first direct test of an alternative to the U.S.'s century - old system of school governance.

This program may yet lift the performance of our pupils as they go through the school system, although problems remain: out of Australia's total expenditure on early childhood education in 2010, parents contributed almost half the cost and only 56 per cent was met from the public purse — compared with an OECD average of 82 per cent public funding — and the rest was from private sources, probably parental pockets.

But the somewhat better attention to merit incentives in colleges has helped make our higher education system the envy of the world, while our K — 12 public schools, almost entirely lacking external incentives, are not.

Politicians, educators, and parents, long frustrated with the state of public education in New Orleans, suddenly had the opportunity, as the waters receded, to build, almost from scratch, a new school system.

Throughout Washington, D.C., and around the country, parents are raising hundreds of thousands — even millions — of dollars to provide additional programs, services, and staff to some of their districts» least needy schools.7 They are investing more money than ever before: A recent study showed that, nationally, PTAs» revenues have almost tripled since the mid-1990s, reaching over $ 425 million in 2010.8 PTAs provide a small but growing slice of the funding for the nation's public education system.

From an experience perspective, I thought it was important to bring experience growing up in public schools on Vandenberg Air Force Base in Lompoc, serving as a senior leader in the central office of a large, complex public school system in Chicago — with over 600 schools serving almost 400,000 students — and as an executive at a nationwide nonprofit working through state agencies and local districts to support public education.

Close to 300,000 children are in Nebraska's public school system, and according to the Nebraska Department of Education, almost half of them fall below the poverty line.

On the other hand, a public system is a challenge that private schools don't: they have to enroll almost anyone who lives within its boundaries.

Taxpayers are supporting a public school system that is almost double the cost of many private sector alternatives, and delivers poor results, particularly in our poorest districts.

These included a strong vision of and value for public education in which almost Finnish children participate as the creator of Finland's future society; resulting high status for the country's teaching profession whose members are stringently selected through rigorous university - based teacher education programs that confer Masters degrees on all of them; a widespread culture of collaboration in curriculum development among teachers in each school district; an equally robust culture of collaboration among all partners in strong local municipalities where most curriculum and other policy decisions are made; and a system of widespread cooperation and trust instead of US - style test - based accountability.

For the past year in almost every available venue, opponents of high stakes standardized assessments of public school student achievement have been droning on about the perceived oppression of the Texas public school accountability system, which has been rated by national education organizations as having produced the best high school graduation standard in the country when fully implemented.

... instead of outsourcing almost $ 4 million services this month, that money was used to put a dent in the estimated $ 5 billion it will cost to repair our public school buildings — from leaky roofs to deficient electrical systems?

You've warned that «a new form of redlining is emerging» in public education, and called out «a growing number of apartheid schools populated almost entirely by low - income African - American and Latino students in our increasingly race - and class - segregated system.»

You'd want to look into that if you were a reporter covering schools because compensation makes up 80 percent of school budgets in America, so budget squeezes are almost ALWAYS about salary and benefits (Last year, according to the Census» survey of public school finances, school systems in American spent $ 523 billion, $ 419 billion of which was salaries and benefits).

Yet public school districts have no alternatives; almost all of them are joined by statute to state pension systems (or, sometimes, to their own local pension systems).

According to the report, «African - American and Latino charter students almost twice as likely (19 percent) to apply to [the University of California system] as their traditional public school peers (11 percent).»

Nearly half of all U.S. workers report not having any form of flexibility in their work schedules, and almost 40 percent of all workers do not even have paid vacation time.57 Public school schedules are not based on student achievement but on an antiquated system that relies on two - parent, one - income households.

The sense of unease among Camden residents and teachers over the recent announcement of a state takeover of the local school system was almost palpable yesterday, at a public forum hosted by NJ Spotlight.

In Illinois, for example, the Chicago Public School system is almost bankrupt.

When future educational historians look back at the last few decades of U.S. public schooling, they will surely identify a system in which students» scores on annual accountability tests became, almost relentlessly, the prominent determiner of a school's success.

Not so, says Judy Winberg is a special education teacher and guidance counselor for almost 30 years, whose Toronto - based Options in Education consulting firm helps parents find the best school program for their children's needs, in both the public and private systems.

«Of course, the public school system is good but what I really love about the area is that I can walk to almost anywhere in the city in less than half an hour.»