Sentences with phrase «among public school parents»

Awareness was higher among public school parents (7 % heard a lot, 30 % heard a little).

Support for keeping decision - making power local — a common feature of public attitudes — is higher among public school parents than nonparents (53 % vs. 47 %).

Among public school parents the margin was greater, 69 percent to 22 percent in favor of the union.

In an interview, Mr. Walcott said that he had «a great relationship» with the school board president, Yehuda Weissmandl, but that the fragile condition of the district and the level of mistrust of the board among public school parents made it vital to have a monitor with veto power.

The number was even higher among public school parents, where the split was nearly 70 percent for the union and just 22 percent for the mayor.

Not exact matches

The NRA, bolstered by Trump, has been a vocal proponent of allowing more guns in public places, including schools, but the exception for the convention has raised eyebrows and prompted skepticism among students and at least one parent who lost his child in the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in which 17 people were killed and others injured.

Here are the results among voters and parents of public school children:

Data were collected via landline and cellular telephone surveys Feb. 24 - 26 among 600 registered voters, including 222 parents or guardians of children in K - 12 public or charter schools.

Polling was conducted among a representative sample of registered voters in Kentucky that included an oversampling of parents with children in public schools.

Among parents of children in the city's public schools, support for the plan following a description is just as strong (73 %), with just under half (49 %) backing it strongly.

March 5: DNAinfo's Heather Holland reported on a public elementary school, P.S. 116, that stopped assigning traditional homework to its students and encouraged them to play, read and socialize with family instead, sparking outrage among some parents.

As another school year comes to a close, education and education funding remain among the top concerns for parents, teachers and public officials.

In his «100 - day action plan to Make America Great Again,» Trump announced the School Choice and Education Opportunity Act, which, among other proposals, would redirect education dollars to give parents the right to send their child to the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school of their cSchool Choice and Education Opportunity Act, which, among other proposals, would redirect education dollars to give parents the right to send their child to the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school of their cschool of their choice.

The way around that problem, of course, is for schools, sports leagues and other organizations to join public health experts in raising ever greater awareness among coaches, parents and children to play it smart and take brain injury very seriously.

From the 1970s until 1991, PDK measured voucher support with a survey item that defined vouchers as a government - funded program allowing parents to choose among public, private, and parochial schools.

According to parents, the disability rate among voucher students is 11.4 percent, as compared to 20.4 percent in the public schools.

Roughly 70 percent of districts also offered parents some degree of choice among public schools or the option of applying to a magnet school.

Parents have almost no choice among public schools.

In asking who might switch from public to private schools if money were not an object, Moe finds that the appeal of private schools is especially strong among parents who are minority, low income, and living in low - performing districts.

After controlling for all these factors, I compared teachers in areas where parents have more choices among public schools with teachers in areas where they have fewer.

That's the message of a report by the National Working Commission on Choice in K - 12 Education, which spent two years trying to get beyond divisive political rhetoric and figure out how best to give parents choices among schools receiving public money.

Furthermore, 49 per cent of parents agree they would like their child's school to do more about teaching them how to behave in public, which increases to 74 per cent among Indian and other Asian parents.

· Big - city school systems are fighting charters by giving parents a wider array of choices among their public schools, suggesting that the choice genie has escaped from the bottle.

Others are involved with parent - based community groups: the Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation (working to create a dialogue among parents on local education issues, including assignment processes for schools), the Black Ministerial Alliance (working to improve the quality of Boston public schools), and City Life / Vida Urbana (working with a group of Latina mothers advocating for their special - needs children).

If we believe that all parents — particularly those struggling to make ends meet — deserve authentic choice among diverse school options that include charter, Catholic, and traditional public schools, we can and must do better.

In addition, California provides a dedicated CAASPP Results Web site, where parents and the public can view and compare aggregated results among schools, districts, and counties along with statewide results.

In many large school districts, parents are able to choose among traditional public schools, not just among charter or magnet schools.

A 2010 report from the Education Department that examined the D.C. program found that graduation rates were higher among voucher recipients than public school students, according to reports from parents.

The question is, without an assist from public policy, will these parents have any diverse schools among which to choose?

This should shed a bit of light on the charter school craze that has taken hold among parents outside of Ward 3 — there are no public charter schools within Ward 3.

«For us, what's going on in Newark is not a triumph, it's a tragedy,» said Sharon Smith, who has three children in that city's public schools and was among about 40 parents and students who filled the 12th floor conference room at the American Enterprise Institute.

The city's charter system is now one of the largest in the country, fueled largely by word of mouth among parents looking for better public schools.

Public school discipline in Nashville is a topic of discussion among parents, city leaders and educators in MNPS.

«These results demonstrate support for vouchers among parents whose children are directly impacted by the quality of Louisiana's public schools.

Some critics of public schools urge greater competition among schools as a way of returning control from bureaucrats to parents and teachers.

This past cycle of Newark Enrolls, the collaborative enrollment system that lets parents prioritize their choices among traditional district schools and public charters, over 50 percent of parents of incoming kindergarteners chose charters as their first choice.

Despite this growing consensus, opponents of school choice programs persist in their attempts to spread fear among parents and the general public by falsely accusing these programs of undermining local public schools and of further restricting educational access.

Martin brought up the subject of charters by saying that a poll in South Carolina among black parents found that most of them were interested in enrolling their children in charter schools because they were not satisfied with traditional public schools.

«To defund public schools and give parents «choice» among an erratic range of charters.»

Conceived as a way to teach a small segment of the home - schooled and others who need flexible schooling, virtual education has evolved into an alternative to traditional public schools for an increasingly wide range of students — high achievers, strugglers, dropouts, teenage parents and victims of bullying among them.

Among parents with children in public schools, 63 percent were opposed to linking teacher evaluations to their students» test scores in a recent Gallup Poll.

◦ To meet high standards of student achievement while providing parents the flexibility to choose among diverse educational opportunities within the state's public school system

AACTE is among the 50 national education groups representing teachers, principals, superintendents, parents, and other civic organizations that have issued a joint statement in support of public education and are celebrating the critical roles for public schools in developing future generations of successful citizens.

The GI Bill, Pell Grants, student loans, both Presidents Bush, President Trump, the 25 states that allow parents to choose among public and private schools, Congress with its passage of the Washington, D.C. voucher program, 45 U.S. senators who voted in 2015 to allow states to use existing federal dollars for vouchers, Betsy DeVos — or her senate critics?

There is also the skepticism of school reform among suburban parents, who may realize public schools are in atrocious shape, but also have a relationship with schools and teachers that few school reformers (save for the Steve Barrs and Geoffrey Canadas) have dared to match.

We believe that building solidarity among parents and teachers, supporting social movement teacher unionism and fighting racist school policies is key to building a high quality, equitable, and just public school system for all of Chicago.

By Rodolfo Aguilar, MPU Parent Leader When we talk about public education in Massachusetts, Governor Baker is proud that we are rank among the top states with improved scores in math, science and language, the statement is true but falls short in describing that there are two types of public education, the suburban public education where schools are better equipped...

He said, «It makes perfect sense that parents should have public school choice and I am not alone in this view among Catholic educators.»

Today, many of Madison's public schools are still figuring out a way to incorporate the standards, about which confusion reigns among students, parents and teachers.

The NRA, bolstered by Trump, has been a vocal proponent of allowing more guns in public places, including schools, but the exception for the convention has raised eyebrows and prompted skepticism among students and at least one parent who lost his child in the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in which 17 people were killed and others injured.