Sentences with phrase «also more public school»

There are more remedial classes today, but there are also more public school students with special needs, more students who don't read English, more students from troubled families, and fewer students dropping out.

Not exact matches

The Clinton platform also focuses heavily on education, including a call to broaden computer science education in public schools, revamp job training programs, and provide more funds for minority colleges to help tackle tech's diversity problem.

More than 3,000 members of the public also paid their respects at an open viewing Friday after a week of mourning across Houston that included tributes at City Hall, the police headquarters, the elder Mr. Bush's office, and Barbara Bush Elementary School, the New York Times reported.

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 transport.

«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.

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.

They also had their meal — stuffed green peppers, carrot quesadillas, and refrescante salad — served to more than 40,000 public school students nationwide.

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.

The group also asks its members to support the inclusion into the House bill of The Healthy School Meals Act (which would require more plant - based meal options in accordance with recommendations made by the American Medical Association and the American Public Health Association) and to provide comments to the House supporting changes to the Farm Bill (in 2012) to increase federal support for local, organic diversified agriculture.

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

Former teacher Linares said he also intends to focus on education, and called for more funding to help community schools and provide wrap - around services for public school students.

Cuomo has also talked of making schools and school administrators more accountable, and he has yet to fulfill a key component of his reform agenda, the public financing of campaigns.

Success Academy also released a fact sheet in response to the criticism, arguing that its schools already offer significantly more instructional time than traditional public schools thanks to longer schools days and a longer school year.

But Lipton also said there is «more to do,» like restoring «progressivity» to the state's tax code, closing the carried interest tax loophole, and investing in a new «social contract» on public education that ensures full funding for schools — including universal pre-K (an early de Blasio priority)-- and restoration to the public university system to pre-recession levels.

Senate Republicans not only stuck it to NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio on mayoral control of the public schools, but also handed a victory to his nemesis, Success Academy charter school network founder Eva Moskowitz by allowing charters to hire more uncertified teachers.

Woodcock also reflected some of his colleagues» concerns that Miline is less of a hard - bitten hack and more of a classic public school Trot.

The public advocate also said she would hire a chief diversity officer for the Department of Education in order to address segregation in city public schools, which she said is more rampant now than it was in the 1960s and the 1970s.

A smaller public sector, perhaps, but it is noticeable that as Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove is creating a far more market - like system of school provision; he is also protecting spending levels.

He also said the district needs to return to «neighborhood schools» and «promote charter schools which are generally more successful than the traditional public schools.»

I'm grateful to Borough President Diaz for supporting more great public school options in the Bronx, and I know that his investment in our kids is also an investment in our borough's future.

The freeze on charters» per - pupil funding won't officially end for another year, but these innovative public schools will get direct state grants to reduce the gap this year — and also get markedly more facilities funding.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said the money would also help kick - start projects that mean a great deal to New Yorkers, including more quickly removing the PCBs in the light fixtures in public schools.

Klein, who oversaw more than 1,600 public schools with 136,000 employees and a $ 21 billion operating budget, also helped grow the number of charter schools in the city.

These respondents were also more likely to support stricter public policies like banning under - vaccinated children from schools to increase vaccination rates.

«The system could also be adapted for use with other respiratory viruses, and with some modification, for infectious diseases more broadly,» says lead author Sen Pei, a postdoctoral scientist in Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health.

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health - led research also suggests that employing local community health educators instead of more formally educated nurses to counsel young at - risk mothers could be cost effective and provide badly needed jobs to high school graduates from the same impoverished communSchool of Public Health - led research also suggests that employing local community health educators instead of more formally educated nurses to counsel young at - risk mothers could be cost effective and provide badly needed jobs to high school graduates from the same impoverished communschool graduates from the same impoverished communities.

«We had the idea for this study more than seven years ago, but it took the laboratory three months to finish quantifying telomere length for just 100 samples, which was not enough to draw any meaningful conclusions,» said Yuan, also a professor of epidemiology at Pitt's Graduate School of Public Health.

The administration also announced it will expand its Climate Data Initiative to more than 150 databases and unveiled a pledge from 30 medical and public health schools nationwide to train students on the links between climate change and medicine.

«Those taking intermediate - acting insulin were more likely to gain weight,» said Dr. Tricco, who has a PhD in population health and is also an assistant professor in the University of Toronto's Dalla Lana School of Public Health.

So far, I've been leaning towards things that are generally more formal than the dress code for teachers in most public schools just to further differentiate myself from the students, and I've mostly been wearing heels (which also give me a slight height advantage, because I'm petite).

The 85 year old filmmaker is probably more well - known for his examinations of public institutions in films like Welfare (1975), Titicut Follies (1967), At Berkeley (2013) or High School (1968, followed by a sequel in 1994), but he's also one of cinema's great chroniclers of art as work.

The film doesn't have a release date yet (but is in post-production)-- and Baumbach also is in post-production on «Untitled Public School Project» with Greta Gerwig — but one way or another, we'll get us some more Baumbach (or double the Baumbach) by year's end — and maybe on the festival circuit as well?

As a teacher at a small Oakland, California public high school called Life Academy, where each teacher also holds a mixed - grade level advisory class of about 20 students, I began conducting home visits for my advisees as a way to clarify my relationship to them as more than a teacher.

We also find that the students applying to charter schools in New York City are more likely to be black and eligible for a free or reduced - price lunch program than students in the public schools in the district.

A separate study of the ECLS - K data, also by Peterson and Llaudet, similarly showed that private school students gained significantly more in reading achievement than demographically similar public school students in schools with similar student populations.

Also in 2010, Representative Phillip Owens, the chair of the House Education and Public Works Committee introduced a bill aimed at establishing a more sustainable funding policy for CSD, and despite being stalled by opponents representing traditional districts, the 2011 - 12 state budget included a funding increase for CSD schools.

The survey also reports on what the public thinks about Common Core, charter schools, teachers unions, and more.

Faculty compensation in college, unlike public high school, is also influenced by market demand for those faculty members, so people in some fields are paid significantly more than others and outside offers are sometimes matched.

Such a strategy also calls for researchers to ask more nuanced questions than simply whether or not voucher programs are better than public school programs.

It's worth reminding people that public schools can't be fixed simply by recruiting eager missionaries from elite colleges without also adopting the systemic reforms that would attract, retain, and motivate more people like them.

While special education does consume more money over time, the relative financial burden of special education on public education has not increased because public schools are also receiving significantly more money.

They also agreed to make it easier for parents to enroll their children in charter schools, and promised to make public more information about their track records.

It also, the Court wrote, builds support for public schools, enables those communities that wish «to devote more money to the education» of their children to do so, and provides «opportunity for experimentation, innovation, and a healthy competition for educational excellence.»

On the flip side we're also seeing a rise in cyber attacks in the education and public sectors with the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on the NHS making national headlines last year and more recently hoax bomb phishing emails demanding money from schools.

They also found that salaries in private schools correspond to aptitude and scarce skills (such as math and science skills) more than they do in public schools.

With burgeoning federal aid, federal rules that would make autonomous private schools ever more homogenous and, well, public would also likely proliferate.

A study released earlier this month by Mathematica finds that students attending charter high schools in Florida scored lower on achievement tests than students in traditional public schools, but years later, the charter students were more likely to have attended at least two years of college and also had higher earnings.

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But this claim needs to be tested, for there is clearly a plausible alternative: that teachers are not only better educated and more middle class than the average citizen, but also more public spirited, more committed to public education, and thus more likely to vote in school - board elections regardless of their personal stakes.

More importantly, by our measures, the amount of competition that specific public schools faced on the eve of the program also varied widely.