Sentences with phrase «affecting students in public schools»

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The standards also increased the portion sizes of fruits and vegetables and required students to select at least 1 serving of fruits and / or vegetables.4 Because the National School Lunch Program reaches more than 31 million students each day in 99 % of US public schools and 83 % of private schools, the new standards have the potential to significantly and consistently affect the nutritional health of children.5

At 9:15 a.m., Regent Judith Johnson and Regent Nan Mead will participate in a discussion on legislative policies and proposals affecting schools and students at the first - ever Scarsdale Public Schools Parent Teacher Council Legislative Advocacy Breakfast, Quaker Ridge School, 125 Weaver St., Scaschools and students at the first - ever Scarsdale Public Schools Parent Teacher Council Legislative Advocacy Breakfast, Quaker Ridge School, 125 Weaver St., ScaSchools Parent Teacher Council Legislative Advocacy Breakfast, Quaker Ridge School, 125 Weaver St., Scarsdale.

School nurse positions funded through the city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene will be downsized, affecting some 33,000 students in public, private and parochial schools.

Based on billing records, poisoning affected approximately 3 percent of all Illinoisans in 2010, said Alison Krajewski, a graduate student in the UIC School of Public Health and lead author study.

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.

The study, co-authored by Brian Kiessling, associate instructor and Ph.D. student within the Recreation, Parks and Tourism Department at the IU School of Public Health - Bloomington, focused on how people regard activity trackers, how the trackers affect behavior, and how they can be effectively integrated into programs that help people increase movement in their lives.

Thanks to the fact that millions of Public School students were affected by Wunder's reviews, his importance, in the eyes of the movie companies, rose quickly.

As a founding teacher at the NYC public school with a unique game - like learning model (currently in its fifth year), I have worked through many iterations of this game and how it affects students» mathematical experience over the years.

Because my interest here is in how portability would affect the distribution of federal funds across public schools even if students do not switch to private schools, I do not need any assumptions about the terms private schools would face.

We also used new data to see whether the academic performance of students in traditional public schools and the influence of teachers unions affect the strength of charter school legislation in a state.

Florida and Milwaukee compared private choice participants with similar students in public schools, but the possibility remains that unmeasured differences could affect results.

Also, instructional per - pupil spending has increased in all affected public school districts, contradicting the belief that school choice programs take money away from public school students, the report says.

However, simple tests we conducted, based on changes in the average previous - year test scores of students in schools affected and unaffected by charter - school competition, suggest that, if anything, the opposite phenomenon occurred: students switching from traditional public to charter schools appear to have been above - average performers compared with the other students in their school.

We address this question here by examining the link between the establishment of charter schools in North Carolina and average student proficiency rates at the traditional public schools most affected by the new source of competition.

In a 2008 study, we examined whether the academic achievement of special education students was affected by the number of options they had to leave their public school with a voucher.

In work published in 1997, Susan Mayer, former dean of the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy Studies, tried to answer this question by carrying out a variety of tests, each of them an attempt to see exactly how much changes in income directly affect student achievemenIn work published in 1997, Susan Mayer, former dean of the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy Studies, tried to answer this question by carrying out a variety of tests, each of them an attempt to see exactly how much changes in income directly affect student achievemenin 1997, Susan Mayer, former dean of the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy Studies, tried to answer this question by carrying out a variety of tests, each of them an attempt to see exactly how much changes in income directly affect student achievemenin income directly affect student achievement.

The New York City Public Schools, the largest district in the U.S., and one most affected by the terrorist attacks, still forbids students to have any electronic devices in their possession.

The 2015 - 2016 Civil Rights Data Collection is a survey of all public schools and school districts in the country that measures student access to courses, programs, staff and resources affecting education equity and opportunity for students.

Of the panoply of reforms now being implemented in California schools, the one affecting the state's youngest public school students passed almost unnoticed this fall.

Timesha Cohen, a member of our learning community and teacher from Propel McKeesport Public Charter School, has talked about the impact of her participation as positively affecting herself and her students: «My students are able to make connections between what they know and what they need to know, as well as draw conclusions based on patterns they may notice in both math and science.

Successful union - management collaboration in public school reform must focus on substantive areas affecting the quality of teaching or student achievement.

While the introduction of choice affected all public high school students, most of the school closings and openings were concentrated in low - income, nonwhite areas of the Bronx and Brooklyn.

Similarly, when the researchers looked at whether transfers to charter schools affected the distribution of students by race or ethnicity, they found that, in most sites, the racial composition of the charter school entered by a transferring student was similar to that of the traditional public school that he or she had left.

I control for other factors that affect all NYC public schools in a given year, such as the appointment of a new chancellor or curriculum changes, and I use prior - year test scores to capture students» ability and control for previous school and family effects.

He notes that, although few studies have examined the impact of choice on public school students, most every finding to date suggests that vouchers, rather than adversely affecting students who are «left behind» in public schools, actually lead to gains for public and private school students.

«Well - meaning but ill - informed expressions of policy, especially without the benefit of formal public comment from affected stakeholders, confuse rather than aid the legal landscape and make the work of schools and parents in ensuring students receive appropriate education needlessly difficult,» said Francisco M. Negrón, Jr., Associate Executive Director and General Counsel, National School Boards Association.

So not only do vouchers help those who use them, but they also seem to positively affect those students who stay in their traditional public schools.

This window into how public schools are funded and what they spend their money on should help educators, parents, and the public see how differences in resources and spending affect student outcomes.

Independent public charter schools remained the norm as the public charter school movement grew from a fledgling reform effort into a major force in public education, now affecting 2.7 million students and families nationwide.

As you may know, many students and parents in Chicago Public schools have been adversely affected by school closings and other issues.

In their brief, NSBA and its co-signing state school boards associations urge the Ninth Circuit to limit eligibility for special education and related services only to students who have a disability that adversely affects their educational performance in a manner that requires specialized instruction and related services to benefit from public educatioIn their brief, NSBA and its co-signing state school boards associations urge the Ninth Circuit to limit eligibility for special education and related services only to students who have a disability that adversely affects their educational performance in a manner that requires specialized instruction and related services to benefit from public educatioin a manner that requires specialized instruction and related services to benefit from public education.

We take a public health approach to addressing trauma in schools, and have found that more safe and supportive school environments benefit not only traumatized children and youth, but also those who are affected by these students, including their peers and the school personnel who work with them.

For example, in a highly publicized case involving the co-location of Girls Preparatory Charter School with a public school serving students with autism, we established the right of parents in schools for students with disabilities to participate fully in the public process required for proposed co-locations or other significant changes in school utilization that may affect their scSchool with a public school serving students with autism, we established the right of parents in schools for students with disabilities to participate fully in the public process required for proposed co-locations or other significant changes in school utilization that may affect their scschool serving students with autism, we established the right of parents in schools for students with disabilities to participate fully in the public process required for proposed co-locations or other significant changes in school utilization that may affect their scschool utilization that may affect their schools.

Driven by evidence that school suspensions disproportionately affect students of color and are ineffective at deterring inappropriate behavior, Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced new initiatives that will revamp discipline strategies in public schools across New York City.

The open enrollment provisions will affect all public schools, allowing students to attend any school in the state that hasn't reached capacity.

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National data from the Office for Civil Rights shows that at least 6.8 million public school students missed 15 or more days of school in 2013 - 14, and it affects at least 89 percent of the nation's school districts.

The statewide teacher walkout resulted in six lost instructional days and affected the majority of Arizona's 1.1 million public school students.

Chairman John Kline and Senior Democratic Member Bobby Scott have led the process in the House to develop legislation that will positively affect the educational outcomes of our nation's 50 million public school students, the performance of our more than 13,000 public school districts, and the success of both our communities and our nation.

The Every Student Succeeds Act, which received strong bipartisan support from both houses of Congress, will directly affect nearly 50 million students and their 3.4 million teachers in the nation's 100,000 public schools.

The NCES said it conducted the report because of growing concerns about resegregation in the nation's public school system, and it hoped to shed more light on how segregation affects the achievement of minority students.

Search proposed legislation below and sign up to follow the progress of proposed bills that affect public charter school students in the state legislature.

Research suggests that charter schools are unlikely to harm student achievement in traditional public schools but do affect traditional public schools» finances.

Corporate and Tax - Exempt Fundamentals Best Practices for Open Meetings and Avoiding Conflicts of Interest; Laws Affecting Governance and Transparency in Charter Schools: Brown Act, Government Code 1090; Political Reform Act; Determining Which Governance and Public Transparency Laws Apply to Your School; Tax Exempt Facilities Financing; Prop 39; Commercial Space to School Use; Lease Negotiations; Compliance Related Legal Updates; HR Compliance; Pupil Fees; Student Privacy Laws; Student Expulsions and Dismissals; Admissions Practices and Lottery Preferences; Renewal; Revocation; Closure; Risk Management and Internet Safety

Test refusal connects so many issues that affect public school students everywhere but are felt hardest in poor communities of color.

Anthony Bryk, Eric Camburn, and Karen Seashore Louis, «Professional Community in Chicago Elementary Schools: Facilitating Factors and Organizational Consequences,» Educational Administration Quarterly 35, no. 5 (1999): 751 — 781; Andrew Calkins, William Guenther, Grace Belfiore, and Dave Lash, The Turnaround Challenge: Why America's Best Opportunity to Dramatically Improve Student Achievement Lies in Our Worst - Performing Schools (Boston: Mass Insight Education and Research Institute, 2007); Yvonne L. Goddard, Roger D. Goddard, and Megan Tschannen - Moran, «A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation of Teacher Collaboration for School Improvement and Student Achievement in Public Elementary Schools,» Teachers College Record 109, no. 4 (2007): 877 — 896; Karen Seashore Louis and Helen M. Marks, «Does Professional Community Affect the Classroom?

For the first time in recent history, more than half of U.S. public school students come from low - income households, affecting both educational opportunity and attainment.

Student Eligibility Student must: — Have an Individualized Education Program (IEP) or services plan in affect and was enrolled in a Wisconsin public school for the entire immediately preceding the school year — Have applied to attend one or more public schools in nonresident school districts under the state's open enrollment program in school year 2011 — 12 forward and have been denied enrollment by the nonresident school districts

Second, beyond selection bias, we don't know if there are other factors that affect achievement that we are not accounting for that are systematically different between students in choice schools and students in traditional public schools.

My hypotheses going in to this study is that when first looking at choice schools on student achievement I would see a positive effect because of selection bias; I expected that the students in choice schools would be systematically different from those in traditional public school due to parental factors that affected their selection of a choice program.