Sentences with phrase «u.s. public primary schools»

An estimated 36 % of U.S. public primary schools had sworn officers on site at least once a week in the 2015 - 16 school year, up from 21 % a decade earlier, according to the report from the National Center for Education Statistics and the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

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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 U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Plyler vs. Doe (457 U.S. 202 (1982)-RRB- that undocumented children and young adults have the same right to attend public primary and secondary schools as do U.S. citizens and permanent residents.

«Only though a clearly defined and appropriate federal role, a willingness to explore a revised charge of the U.S. Department of Education, and placing primary responsibility for education in the hands of locally elected school boards who clearly have the greatest confidence of the public, will school reform efforts thrive at local levels.»

In Plyler vs. Doe, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that undocumented children and young adults have the same right to attend public primary and secondary schools as do U.S. citizens and permanent residents.