Sentences with phrase «adequate education in the public schools»

The Urban Youth Collaborative called the bill «an unprecedented step to subsidize private education using the public's money,» noting in its release that according to the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, «New York City schools are owed $ 2.3 billion» under court judgements against the city and state for not providing a minimum adequate education in the public schools.

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Can we reconceive theological education in such a way that (1) it clearly pertains to the totality of human life, in the public sphere as well as the private, because it bears on all of our powers; (2) it is adequate to genuine pluralism, both of the «Christian thing» and of the worlds in which the «Christian thing» is lived, by avoiding naiveté about historical and cultural conditioning without lapsing into relativism; (3) it can be the unifying overarching goal of theological education without requiring the tacit assumption that there is a universal structure or essence to education in general, or theological inquiry in particular, which inescapably denies genuine pluralism by claiming to be the universal common denominator to which everything may be reduced as variations on a theme; and (4) it can retrieve the strengths of both the «Athens» and the «Berlin» types of excellent schooling, without unintentionally subordinating one to the other?

The premise is that an adequate education requires teaching about the Bible — as distinct from ignoring it, which is the almost universal practice today in public schools, and from teaching the Bible doctrinally and devotionally, which is, according to the courts, unconstitutional.

Hawkins chose to announce in front of the NYC Board of Education to highlight his call for adequate funding for public schools and an end to high - stakes testing.

The changes, which Education Commissioner John King said are already under way, include increasing public understanding of the standards, training more teachers and principals, ensuring adequate funding, reducing testing time and providing high school students the option to take some traditional Regents exams while Common Core - aligned tests are phased in.

Chapters take on a variety of work, including: Regularly scheduled events for the public to discuss public education, school board candidate forums, monitoring school board meetings, translating proposed school board policies into other languages for various language groups, providing tours of schools for prospective students and families, working for adequate funding for public schools, engaging with bond elections, helping parents navigate enrollment policies, and in general, being involved in the issues of public schools in their communities.

New York's court of appeals, the state's highest court, decided 4 to 2 that $ 1.93 billion in additional annual spending was sufficient to provide an adequate education for New York City public school students.

Disabled students are entitled under federal law to demand an adequate education and to obtain one in a private school if the public schools are unable to provide it.

As Whitehurst goes on to state, the expansion of public school choice «is not a repudiation and abandonment of the role of government in the provision of an adequate education for the nation's K - 12 students.

This report, co-authored by Safal Partners and Public Impact for the National Charter School Resource Center, examines federal requirements under civil rights laws and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, and state laws governing charter school recruitment, retention, enrollment of EL students and their accountability for EL student performance; requirements and current challenges related to EL data reporting; and whether existing laws are adequate to address the needs of this growing population of ELs in charter scSchool Resource Center, examines federal requirements under civil rights laws and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, and state laws governing charter school recruitment, retention, enrollment of EL students and their accountability for EL student performance; requirements and current challenges related to EL data reporting; and whether existing laws are adequate to address the needs of this growing population of ELs in charter scschool recruitment, retention, enrollment of EL students and their accountability for EL student performance; requirements and current challenges related to EL data reporting; and whether existing laws are adequate to address the needs of this growing population of ELs in charter schools.

He has also worked on several significant cases involving education financing, including M.A. v. Newark Public Schools, a case now in federal court; Cover is representing Newark special - ed students who say they haven't gotten adequate teaching.

As The Wichita Eagle explains, the suit was filed by four school districts but the ruling applies to all of Kansas» public schools: «The districts claimed the state had failed in its constitutional duty to provide «suitable» funding for public education on two counts: Ensuring adequate state funding overall, and equitably distributing it among districts.»

An article in the Oct. 25, 2006, issue of Education Week on charter schools in the District of Columbia («At Age 10, Booming D.C. Charters Feel «Growing Pains»») should have said that 118 out of 146 regular public schools in the city did not make adequate yearly progress under the No Child Left Behind Act for last school year.

The impacts of the first private school voucher programs in the South still reverberate today in battles for adequate and equitable funding of public education.

The Democratic governor and Lt. Governor who used to decry the lack of adequate funding for the state's public schools are now proposing the deepest cuts to public education in Connecticut history.

In 2010, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that «under the education clause of the state constitution, public school children are entitled not just to a free and equal education but also to an adequate (quality) education, and the state must pay for it.»

While North Carolina continues on a path of disinvestment in public education, equitable and adequate school funding is perhaps more critical than ever now that children from low - income families make up the majority in the United States» public schools, according to a report released by the Southern Education Foundation earlier teducation, equitable and adequate school funding is perhaps more critical than ever now that children from low - income families make up the majority in the United States» public schools, according to a report released by the Southern Education Foundation earlier tEducation Foundation earlier this year.

Since public education has failed to provide adequate education in the cities, a voucher program that could send kids to Catholic schools that have a track record of success, save the schools from closing, and no religion requirement was made would be good competition to the public schools.

Public school leaders, education experts and policymakers in New Jersey must work together to identify an adequate funding source so that all of our schools have the resources they need to succeed.

He declared unconstitutional and «irrational» the way Connecticut funds and oversees local public schools; he found that the state government has the enforceable responsibility under Connecticut's constitution to provide all students an adequate education — not just the wealthy suburban kids who rank first nationwide in reading scores, but also the many «functionally illiterate» high - school graduates from the 30 poorest Connecticut school districts, which rank below Mississippi and 39 other states in those same scores.

Unlike the arbitrary, budget driven efforts of the past and present, an Education Adequacy Cost Study would provide hard, real - world data on student needs and what resources are necessary to meet our state constitutional responsibility to deliver an adequate and equitable educational opportunity for every K - 12 public school student in our state.

• Requirements that ensure fairly distributed, adequate resources in all public schools, so that every child receives a high - quality education.

Unlike the arbitrary, budget - driven efforts of the past and present, an education adequacy cost study would provide hard, real - world data on student needs and what resources are necessary to meet our state constitutional responsibility to deliver an adequate and equitable educational opportunity for every K - 12 public school student in our state.

Such a study is the necessary first step to developing a rational, effective and constitutional education funding and finance system that provides a truly adequate and equitable educational opportunity to every K - 12 public school student in Connecticut.

At a time when Connecticut's students, parents and educators need and deserve adequate funding for the state's public schools, Governor Dannel Malloy has proposed the most drastic cuts to public education in Connecticut history.

The Florida public - school establishment is suing to repeal the Sunshine State's 13 - year - old school - choice tax credit and its new education savings accounts under the state's Blaine Amendment and its «uniformity clause,» which mandates that «Adequate provision shall be made by law for a uniform, efficient, safe, secure, and high quality system of free public schools...» The Florida Supreme Court previously struck down the state's voucher program under this provision in Bush v. Holmes (2006), on the grounds that the vouchers «divert [ed] public dollars» from «the sole means set out in the Constitution for the state to provide for the education of Florida's children.»

And in fact, it was less than twelve hours after he declared victory in November, that Malloy's Education Commissioner and Malloy's political appointees to the State Board of Education voted to approve 8 more non-unionized charter schools --- at the very same time the Malloy and his administration continue to refuse to provide Connecticut's public schools with a Constitutionally adequate amount of money.

Judge Moukawsher set forth a very narrow vision of what is needed in public schools in order to provide an adequate education; a vision that contradicted precedent across the United States and precedent from the Connecticut Supreme Court itself.

Through its Adequate Yearly Progress measures, the low quality of education across the nation's public schools — especially in suburbia — was exposed for all to see.

In March of 2010, the Connecticut Supreme Court took up CCJEF V. Rell and ruled all public school students in Connecticut have the constitutional right to an effective and meaningful (quality, adequate) education and CCJEF's claim for a new public financing system was appropriatIn March of 2010, the Connecticut Supreme Court took up CCJEF V. Rell and ruled all public school students in Connecticut have the constitutional right to an effective and meaningful (quality, adequate) education and CCJEF's claim for a new public financing system was appropriatin Connecticut have the constitutional right to an effective and meaningful (quality, adequate) education and CCJEF's claim for a new public financing system was appropriate.

The actions of the Florida legislature reveals that by underfunding public education through repeated cuts, the Florida legislature ignores many children's rights issues such as adequate nutrition, health care, health insurance, healthy environmental conditions, or to an adequately funded, quality education K - 12 and post-secondary, but it funds private education in religious schools.

One of the first obstacles to this kind of initiative — at least at the public school level — is adequate technology education for teachers in order to prepare them for their roles as digital facilitators.