Sentences with phrase «u.s. public school children»

Given that the average suspension is conservatively put at 3.5 days, we estimate that U.S. public school children lost nearly 18 million days of instruction in just one school year because of exclusionary discipline.

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Funds are used to raise awareness about child hunger in the U.S.; create public - private partnerships that align kids with the resources they need; support nutrition programs like school breakfast and summer meals; and educate kids and their families on how to cook healthy meals with limited resources.

With the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004, PL 105 - 268, the U.S. Congress established a requirement for all local agencies (including public and nonpublic, as well as Residential Child Care Institutions) with a federally - funded National School Lunch Program (NSLP).

The necessity for the assistance of children during the harvest is the reason that public schools in the U.S. were closed during the summer months.

«As the mother of two young kids who attend New York City public schools, I know first - hand how important it is for children to eat lunch at school,» said U.S. Rep. Grace Meng, a Founder and Co-Chair of the Congressional Kids Safety Caucus.

While children in the U.S. are often required to be current on their vaccinations or receive a special waiver in order to attend public school, there is no requirement for adult vaccinations, despite several diseases that continue to present dangers.

A report on the commodity program published by Public Voice asserts that firmly entrenched dairy policies are a major impediment to the federal governments's goal of providing children with school lunches that meet U.S. dietary guidelines.

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara says 83 % of the city's public elementary schools are not fully accessible to children with disabilities.

HARD TO MISREAD THIS MESSAGE — DeVos, in first visit to NYC schools, picks yeshivas, by POLITICO's Azi Paybarah, Eliza Shapiro and Caitlin Emma: U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos came to New York City, whose 1.1 million public school children represent the country's largest school district, and walked into an all - girls private yeshiva in Manhattan's tony Upper East Side.

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers say a new candidate vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) made with a weakened version of the virus shows great promise at fighting the disease, the leading cause of hospitalization for children under the age of one in the U.S.

Children who buy lunch in public schools are now being served up healthier options, including more fruits and vegetables, as new U.S. Department of Agriculture's National School Lunch Program standards go into effect this year.

Despite a wave of patriotic fervor washing over the country during the past year, most Americans expect schools to teach children the bad as well as the good about U.S. history and government, a survey by Public Agenda reveals.

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.

U.S. Private Schools Increasingly Serve Affluent Families (Vox CEPR's Policy Portal) Richard Murnane discusses how fewer middle - class children are now enrolled in private schools and that an increase in residential segregation by income in the US means that urban public and urban private schools have less socioeconomic diversity than they had decadSchools Increasingly Serve Affluent Families (Vox CEPR's Policy Portal) Richard Murnane discusses how fewer middle - class children are now enrolled in private schools and that an increase in residential segregation by income in the US means that urban public and urban private schools have less socioeconomic diversity than they had decadschools and that an increase in residential segregation by income in the US means that urban public and urban private schools have less socioeconomic diversity than they had decadschools have less socioeconomic diversity than they had decades ago.

The hallmark document of the first decade of the 21st century was No child Left Behind, This legislation, passed by the U.S. Congress in 2001, sought to increase the accountability of the nation's public schools.

Nearly 5 million children in U.S. public schools are learning the English language.

Only about 1 in 5 children with disabilities was enrolled in public schools in 1970, according to the U.S. Department of Education.

Today, more than 1.2 million U.S. school children attend more than 4,000 public charter schools.

According to the Hartford Courant («Public Schools Studying Future in Advertising,» April 24,1998), «In 1997, U.S. children 12 and under spent and influenced spending at a record $ 500 billion... increasing by 20 % a year,... that could lead to more than $ 1 trillion in such spending by 2002.

Washington — The parents of a learning - disabled child had no right under federal law to unilaterally move their son from a public school to a private school at a local school system's expense, even though the private school was subsequently found to be the appropriate placement for the child, a lawyer for a Massachusetts school committee told the U.S. Supreme Court last week.

But the 82 - year - old retired school administrator — whose 1977 move to charge the families of undocumented children here $ 1,000 per student to attend public schools sparked a federal lawsuit — has more than made his peace with the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling against him and the school system in Plyler v. Doe.

Ferro and her co-director Deborah Hoard focused on U.S. public schools which seek to create a «culture of intellectual life» and to respect «the whole child as a learner and as an adult in training.»

INTERVIEWER: In 1975 U.S. public schools accommodated only one out of five children with disabilities.

But observers in St. Paul believe two recent developments may create a favorable climate for the concept: the U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the state's 25 - year - old system of income - tax deductions for expenses incurred by families with children in private and public schools, and the endorsement of a generalized voucher...

Today, forty - three states and the District of Columbia have such laws, and some 6,800 charter schools educate almost three million children — about 6 percent of all U.S. public school pupils.

None of the independent studies performed of the most lauded and long standing voucher programs extant in the U.S. — Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Cleveland, Ohio; and Washington, D.C. — found any statistical evidence that children who utilized vouchers performed better than children who did not and remained in public schools.

To qualify for a scholarship, children had to be entering grades 1 through 4, live in New York City, attend a public school at the time of application, and come from families with incomes low enough to qualify for the U.S. government's free or reduced - price school - lunch program.

Washington — The leaders of the U.S. Roman Catholic Church have called on the Congress to include families of public - school children in tuition tax - credit legislation now pending in the Senate.

Copyright 1988, Editorial April 22 — Immigrant education: The U.S. Education Department is inviting applications for new awards, under the Emergency Immigrant Education Program, to provide financial assistance to state educational agencies for educational services and costs for eligible immigrant children enrolled in elementary and secondary public and nonprofit schools.

A recent report from the Center for Public Education (CPE) indicates that the majority of U.S. elementary school children — nine out of ten — have regularly - scheduled recess.

This past spring, the U.S. Department of Education released data showing that approximately 1,700 public schools across the country were eligible for «restructuring» under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) for 2005 — 06.

With more U.S. public schools entering the restructuring phase under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, experts convened here last week agreed that the remedies for schools and districts that don't meet their achievement targets have so far had more bark than bite.

Michaela W. Colombo writes in her article «Reflections From Teachers of Culturally Diverse Children» (PDF) that «approximately 40 percent of children in the U.S. public schools are from culturally diverse backgrounds (NCES 2003)Children» (PDF) that «approximately 40 percent of children in the U.S. public schools are from culturally diverse backgrounds (NCES 2003)children in the U.S. public schools are from culturally diverse backgrounds (NCES 2003).»

For the first time in U.S. history, a majority of children attending public schools are students of color.

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.

For this reason, U.S. public schools may not deny enrollment to any school - age children, regardless of their immigration status.

The U.S. Supreme Court has given the nation's public schools the green light to keep «under God» in the Pledge of Allegiance — at least for now — by holding that a California father lacked the legal standing to challenge a California school district's policy of leading children in the pledge.

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Nearly nine in ten school - age children in the U.S. attend public school, a proportion that has been fairly consistent for four decades; 16 percent are enrolled in a public school of choice.

«In 1960, six - year - old Ruby Bridges became the first African - American child to attend an all - white public elementary school in the South when she was escorted by U.S. marshals into William Frantz School in New Orschool in the South when she was escorted by U.S. marshals into William Frantz School in New OrSchool in New Orleans.

Kids in special ed account for 70 percent of all students punished through such means even though they account for 12 percent of all children in public schools, according to the U.S. Department of Education.

The U.S. Department of Education reports that in 2002 there were about 3.9 million children, or 8 percent of those enrolled in public elementary and secondary schools, classified as having mental retardation, emotional disturbances or a specific learning disability.

In the U.S., where 87 % of white students attend a majority white school, many middle - class and affluent urbanites grapple with what Mike Petrilli calls the Diverse Schools Dilemma: Should I send my child to a local public school that offers racial, cultural, and economic diversity or to a more homogenous — but perhaps higher - performing — school?

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Most are familiar with the famous 1954 ruling Brown v. Board of Education, in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state laws creating separate public schools for white and black children were unconstitutional.

In light of the U.S. Senate's passage of its fix for No Child Left Behind, the National School Boards Association (NSBA) applauds the bipartisan consensus to restore local governance in public education.

This report provides a new resource for understanding the state of urban public schools in the U.S. Geared specifically toward city leaders who want to evaluate how well traditional district and charter schools are serving all their city's children and how their schools compare to those in other cities, the report measures outcomes for all public schools, based on test scores and non-test indicators, in 50 mid - and large - sized cities.

These factors help develop trusting teacher - student relationships.18 Minority teachers can also serve as cultural ambassadors who help students feel more welcome at school or as role models for the potential of students of color.19 These children now make up more than half of the U.S. student population in public elementary and secondary schools.20

The report evaluated the 50 U.S. states on four fairness measures: per - pupil funding levels; funding distribution (whether a state provides more or less funding to schools on the basis of their poverty concentration); effort (differences in state spending relative to the state's fiscal capacity); and coverage (the proportion of children in public schools and the income ratio of private and public school families).

National School Boards Association (NSBA) Executive Director Thomas J. Gentzel was selected to present at today's public meeting at the U.S. Department of Education in Washington, D.C. Seeking advice and recommendations on the implementation and operations of programs under Title I, as States and local education agencies begin the transition from No Child Left Behind to the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), Acting Education Secretary John B. King, Jr. called for two regional meetings, today's in D.C. and a second scheduled for January 19 in Los Angeles, California.