Sentences with phrase «also been in public schools»

Their first method analyzed information on 1,475 students (20 % of the total 7,338 sample) who had attended schools with a voucher for part of their education but had also been in public schools.

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«It's also part of a civic duty,» said Joo Yu - min, an assistant professor at the National University of Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy whose research focuses on mega-events in Asian cities.

The school is also known for its top - notch engineering program, and offers majors in everything from chemical engineering to engineering and public policy.

He also has affordable health insurance in retirement because his wife, who was a public school teacher, was allowed to buy into her health insurance.

The Gilchrist County School District in Florida shuttered its schools after receiving an email threat, and the Nutley Public School System in New Jersey also said it would be closed because of a security threat.

All this despite the fact that private schooling doesn't actually yield better outcomes for students, according to a recent Statistics Canada report (instead, the apparent academic success of private school student is due to their socioeconomic backgrounds).9 A UBC study also found that students from public schools scored higher in first - year university classes than their private school counterparts.10

Still a third national survey (1997) discovered not only that a strong majority of African - Americans (57 percent) and Hispanics (65 percent) favored vouchers, but also that it was precisely the black age group most likely to have children in the public schools (those 26 to 35) who supported vouchers most strongly (86.5 percent!).

Also courts have ruled ID / creationism can't be taught in public schools in US.

The event --(which is connected with the school, not the Festival of Faith and Writing, which is happening concurrently and which I'm also participating in)-- is free and open to the public.

A medical school, for instance, is a research and often also a healing center, directly concerned with the increase of knowledge about the human organism and with its health; but it is also a training center where men are prepared to work in many other institutions of the society, from private practice to public health offices.

It is within the province of public schools not only to see that students are correctly informed about religious matters, but also to provide a setting in which older young people may learn to recognize and sift out irreligious and idolatrous tendencies and perversions in the various religious systems of mankind.

I want to introduce my kids to a God who is both personal and public, a God who hears their prayers about being afraid to go down the slide at school and who also cares about the systems of injustice and oppression in this world.

They are not only getting a * far * better academic education, they are also getting a far better moral education than can be had in a public school, where morality may not even be mentioned and there is little or no talk about ethics, either.

Robbie Parker, also Mormon, was the first parent of a child killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting to come forward in a public press conference.

But it is also important to focus on issues critical for Muslims in the public schools.

Also, they argued against any prayer or Bible - reading in the public schools unless it was according to their beliefs.

In capitalist countries, if not in others also, what the poor urgently need is more cheap housing, bread and public facilities such as schools, medical services and transporIn capitalist countries, if not in others also, what the poor urgently need is more cheap housing, bread and public facilities such as schools, medical services and transporin others also, what the poor urgently need is more cheap housing, bread and public facilities such as schools, medical services and transport.

«Also I'm associated in the media and public with a number of people who have been accused, and in some cases pleaded guilty, to child abuse in a relatively small school within the same time.»

Barton is also active in the national struggle over public school curricula, consulting with both Texas and California on educational standards.

MCC - SF also strives to educate people outside the gay and lesbian community about AIDS, through letter - writing campaigns, public presentations and workshops on AIDS, which have been given in a variety of settings, including the San Francisco AIDS Interfaith Conference, the United Methodist Consultation on AIDS Ministries, the Presbyterian Ministers Association, and Pacific School of Religion's AIDS Awareness Week.

«The public school business now represents about 23 percent of our overall business, and not only is it a little more surefire in a difficult economy, but also a great offset to what has always been a seasonal business for us,» Barstow notes.

Tanner is also a member of the Spongberg family, but based on his background before joining WKS as a certified public accountant at KPMG in Manhattan and his MBA from Yale University School of Management, any organization would be fortunate to have him on its leadership team.

We are making these again this year for our family and also providing the GF dough for our synagogue's Purim Carnival (where many hamantaschen will be made) as well as the recipe for our older daughter's 3rd grade (public Waldorf) class, which is studying Judaism this year, and learning about Purim, in part by making hamantaschen as a school activity.

On the Harlem playgrounds, where one - on - one is usually more important than the team and where reputations are made or lost on the swoosh of a reverse, two - hand dunk or the volleyball block of a jump shot, Manigault ranked above such stars as Lew Alcindor and Connie Hawkins, who were also playing in the school yards and public courts of Harlem at that time.

I was a staunch supporter of public schools, having both been educated in them and having many generations of teachers in my family, and I was also of the ilk that I would / could never homeschool.

In addition to downloading an application from the City's website, hard - copy applications are also be available at the Durham Teen Center, 1101 Cornell St.; Durham Public Schools middle and high school guidance counselor offices as well as in private and home schools; and at the Durham County Public Library Main Branch, 300 N. Roxboro SIn addition to downloading an application from the City's website, hard - copy applications are also be available at the Durham Teen Center, 1101 Cornell St.; Durham Public Schools middle and high school guidance counselor offices as well as in private and home schools; and at the Durham County Public Library Main Branch, 300 N. RoxbSchools middle and high school guidance counselor offices as well as in private and home schools; and at the Durham County Public Library Main Branch, 300 N. Roxboro Sin private and home schools; and at the Durham County Public Library Main Branch, 300 N. Roxbschools; and at the Durham County Public Library Main Branch, 300 N. Roxboro St.

I am biased, being an educator in a public school (high school), but I have also met some wonderful kids who were homeschooled until 8th grade.

They're also planning May 19 rally at the Wake County Commons Building, located at 4011 Carya Drive, in Raleigh, for the public to learn about the benefits of school - based health centers.

This relatively new movement, which is also sometimes called student - centered learning, has its roots in the progressive strain of American educational thought, but its current incarnation is also based on the modern belief, common among corporate executives and other business leaders, that there is a major and potentially calamitous disconnect brewing between the historical structures and traditions of the American public school system and the labor - force demands of the 21st - century American economy.

In addition to his private therapy practice, he is also a speaker and consultant to public and independent schools, and a teacher of parenting classes and classes for daycare teachers.

In the end we went with the public school that is also our neighborhood school and he got a lottery spot in the full - day prograIn the end we went with the public school that is also our neighborhood school and he got a lottery spot in the full - day prograin the full - day program.

In this extensive document is found an exploration not just «what and when» but also «how» schools can address these standards while remaining true to Public Waldorf Education philosophy and pedagogy.

And prayer and worship can be part of the school day, as they also may be in certain private schools, but are avowedly not part of the public school schedule.

The Public Health Advocacy Institute («PHAI») has urged the USDA to put a provision in the agency's proposed wellness policy rules that would prohibit companies from using brand names, logos, characters, etc. on school product packaging if those same marketing elements are also used on products which don't meet the Smart Snacks nutritional requirements.

So while I appreciate the argument that keeping our kids in public school benefits the community as a whole, I'm also not willing to keep my kids in a sinking ship so the school can reap an extra $ 5000 / year per child for the benefit of our community.

The report also shows that American Indian students, who account for less than 2 percent of the student population statewide, received more than one - third of all corporal punishment in North Carolina public schools, although most of that disparity was driven by one school district, Robeson County.

Bauscher is also the nutrition services director for Jefferson County Public Schools in Kentucky.

We're also one of the only public schools to have guaranteed recess for every kid, everyday — it's a gift from our teachers who voluntarily gave - up a union - mandated planning period in order to supervise it.

She is certified as a Montessori teacher for children ages 0 - 3 and 3 - 6 by the Association Montessori Internationale (AMI) and also holds public school certifications in early childhood education, elementary education, bilingual education (Spanish and English), and English as a Second Language.

I also considered the fact that higher - risk foods like carrot sticks, hot dogs and grapes are commonly found in kids» lunches, and that, thanks to No Child Left Behind, public school lunch periods are shorter than ever, with some children getting as little as fifteen minutes to scarf down their entire meal.

My nephew (4YO also) is in France and goes to public school.

(Faced with this pressure, and perhaps also to resuscitate LAUSD's public image — which has been battered quite a bit on «Food Revolution» — the new Los Angeles schools superintendent announced yesterday that he'll ask the LAUSD board in to consider a flavored milk ban.)

Teachers are not, and I know this because my husband is an academic administrator here in North Carolina he was also an academic administrator in Chicago public school and that was something that I was working in Chicago public schools is because in health education we teach about sex, we teach about STI's we teach about all these other public health issues.

Silver has also taken issue with Cuomo's call for a new education reform commission, saying the Board of Regents — which the Legislature, not the governor, appoints — is already working to address myriad problems in the public school system.

The invite to the May 12 event, which costs between $ 1,000 and $ 3,800 to attend, features a photo of the mayor and a note from him lauding the Buffalo Democrat as a «champion for charter schools in the Assembly,» (which is, for the record, a place where that sort of behavior is not widespread), and also an «outspoken advocate for public school reform.»

NYC Public Advocate Tish James is calling state lawmakers to express her interest in the AG post, and Fordham Law School Prof. Zephyr Teachout, a former House and gubernatorial candidate, is also interested.

A year later, the election of another Albanian girl — the best pupil in her school in Crete — was also met with public outrage, to which the local teachers» union president reportedly responded: «This excellent student may be of Albanian origin but she has a Greek citizenship».

«I am disappointed by the decision of the Chicago Teachers Union to turn its back on not only a city negotiating in good faith but also the hundreds of thousands of children relying on the city's public schools to provide them a safe place to receive a strong education.

The speaker, a Democrat, also said the council would move to centralize the public schools» sexual education curriculum, and wipe out warrants from unanswered summonses that are 10 years or older for petty offenses like open containers of alcohol in public.

Buffalo Public Schools officials who asked not to be identified said in March they were also looking into social media reports of underage drinking at the senator's home.