Sentences with phrase «around is in public school»

(Calif.) There's a problem in California when it comes to civic participation and many experts agree that one of the best places to start turning that around is in public school classrooms.

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Bill Gates was the most public face of Microsoft, but of course the company started as a partnership with the kid Gates met one day in a group of students crowded around a teletype machine in a Seattle high school.

'' it's perfectly legal to take pictures in a public area» Hang around a grade school taking pictures of the kids and we'll see how your «internet law degree» holds up in court.

Rachel: You note that while Catholics, African Americans, Hispanics and many Mainline Protestants have continued to be involved in public education, White evangelical Christians are largely absent, until a «culture war» issue arises --(around school - led prayer, evolution, sex ed, etc.)-- and the protests begin.

In the case of «Lifeboat» he calls out the warning about something that was being taught to many of our grade school children in public schools around the country, namely, values clarificatioIn the case of «Lifeboat» he calls out the warning about something that was being taught to many of our grade school children in public schools around the country, namely, values clarificatioin public schools around the country, namely, values clarification.

The neighborhoods around a parish were occupied by parishioners; the schools (even the public ones), and the shops were often in the hands of parishioners.

It is an insult to those Christians around the world who face actual persecution when evangelicals complain because public school teachers are not allowed to lead children in prayer before lunchtime because it violates the Establishment Clause.

This has had the effect of making those teams really good (2 of the top 3 teams according to MaxPreps were private Catholic high schools in LA, including clear # 1 Mater Dei), while hurting the public schools around them.

He certainly had seen some form of bullying in and around his school by that point, but this was probably the first time he said, «I'm going to be the bully, and I'm going to do it in public.

I am convinced that if she were in the public school we would have been «encouraged» to put her on medications (the standard line around here, when she is getting jumpy is to «run up to the mailbox and get the mail» which is a mile round trip).

Shaw is an active partner to leaders in government and public and charter education around the role of independent schools in the vital debate about the future of education.

As well as being the first time in recent memory that meals have been made from scratch in D.C. Public Schools, the program represents the culmination of innovative efforts by D.C. Central Kitchen to build a successful economic model around concepts that don't normally associate in the public mind: local farming, job training for the down - and - out, and feeding the indPublic Schools, the program represents the culmination of innovative efforts by D.C. Central Kitchen to build a successful economic model around concepts that don't normally associate in the public mind: local farming, job training for the down - and - out, and feeding the indpublic mind: local farming, job training for the down - and - out, and feeding the indigent.

While tooling around the Internet one day I stumbled upon the story of Sara Salo, a public health advocate in Bend, Oregon who is going to be biking across the country to bring attention to school food reform.

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Tentative deals have been reached on parts of a new state budget, including about $ 1 billion in additional funding for public schools, a work - around for some higher - income New Yorkers to reduce the impact of new federal tax deduction limits, and a freeze on what Albany sends to local governments around the state.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

History can be a contentious subject in public schools, and so the state's Board of Regents agreed on a new exam that would measure students» knowledge of events starting around 1750 — a date chosen partly in hopes of avoiding arguments.

He tells WBFO News now is the time to review every possibility in an effort to turn around failing city schools and refresh education for Buffalo's public school children.

«We believe that it is obscene that at a time when we should be making strong frontline investments in public schools, at a time where we should be making sure our public schools are world class... the Senate and governor are considering implementing a plan that would be a reverse Robin Hood for millionaires and billionaires around the state,» Charles Khan, an organizing director at Strong Economy for All Coalition, said at a rally at the Legislative Office Building.

ALBANY — A deal that would link future increases in per - pupil charter school aid to public school funding could be breaking the logjam around the state's $ 150 - plus billion budget.

A Harvard - educated proponent of reforming traditional models of education, Waronker is known for turning around dangerous and struggling public schools in New York City.

History can be a contentious subject in public schools, and so the state's Board of Regents agreed Tuesday on a new exam that would measure students» knowledge of events starting around 1750 — a date chosen partly in hopes of avoiding arguments.

«It is crucial that parents and members of the public know that this bond proposition, which will greatly benefit students in urban school districts around Westchester, will need support on Election Day,» said Williams.

The environment that has been forged around the Buffalo Public Schools is stifling, mean - spirited rife with in - fighting and devoid of innovation.

«Every school and public building in the country will be emblazoned with a new «national motto» under Gordon Brown's drive to encourage patriotism and Britishness... Members of the public will be asked to come up with five or six - word slogans, perhaps based around ideas of fair play or national pride.»

Around 50 to 60 percent of traditional charter school students are Black, compared to approximately 10 percent in online charters and 12 percent in traditional public schools.

«We know alcohol outlets can be associated with unsafe nuisance activities in urban areas, but this study appears to be the first to suggest U.S. tobacco shops may also impact public health,» said Andrew Subica, Ph.D., an assistant professor of social medicine, population, and public health in the School of Medicine, who led the study that focused on South Los Angeles, Calif. «Our analyses show that in South Los Angeles tobacco shops as well as liquor stores were associated with high levels of violent and property crime around their locations.

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.

«Around the world, people are leaving rural areas and moving into cities, potentially creating new opportunities to restore forests on abandoned farmland,» said co-author David Wilcove, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and public affairs in Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Princeton Environmental Instpublic affairs in Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Princeton Environmental InstPublic and International Affairs and the Princeton Environmental Institute.

The authors note that public health initiatives that could help make the overall environment healthier include restricting the sale of non-nutritious foods in and around schools; menu labeling and providing incentives for food stores to build outlets in local food deserts; creating safe spaces for physical activity that are monitored to reduce the likelihood of crime; and maintaining smoke - free restaurants and public spaces, among others.

«There had been a decline in the use of animals, and genetic modification technologies turned that around,» says Thomas Hartung, director of the Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore.

Those decades of gap - year growth were far from Pendoley's mind when he graduated from the Ed School and began working in public schools in and around Boston.

McCoy and colleagues at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, where the research was conducted, used data collected between 2005 and 2015 from caregivers of about 100,000 three - and four - year - old children, in 35 low - and middle - income countries around the world.

The Oreo project is open to all students in all grade levels in public and private schools and in home schools around the world.

99, took on a daunting challenge: figure out how to turn around the Lawrence Public Schools, the only school district in Massachusetts ever to be placed in state receivership.

Comprehensive school reform has been identified by both Democratic and Republican administrations and Congress as a key strategy in turning around the country's lowest performing schools, but this fact does not make NAS just like any other education group in D.C. Instead, it means that after a great deal of review, comprehensive school reform emerged as one of the country's best hopes for public school improvement on a grand scale.

To be sure, the population of public school children in New York City is different from that of many other school districts around the country.

How «public» is a school in an exclusive suburb with high housing costs, especially when compared with a Catholic school that offers financial aid to assist with its tuition (which, in turn, is usually only around $ 2,500 a year)?

That for - profit schools have only now become players in the K — 12 market is puzzling, given that public schools have been around for two centuries, independent schools for four.

How «public» is a school in an exclusive suburb with high housing costs, especially when compared with a Catholic school that costs around $ 2,500 a year?.

The Chicago Public Schools first brought in AUSL in 2006 to turn around eight schools in which test scores, attendance, discipline issues, and graduation rates made it clear that the students were not getting the education they Schools first brought in AUSL in 2006 to turn around eight schools in which test scores, attendance, discipline issues, and graduation rates made it clear that the students were not getting the education they schools in which test scores, attendance, discipline issues, and graduation rates made it clear that the students were not getting the education they needed.

Through this initiative, students from six local public middle schools monitor the waters around Mount Desert Island by regularly testing phytoplankton for toxic species, particularly the most prevalent one, Alexandrium, which is known to trigger red tide events — toxic discoloration of ocean waters — that can result in poisoning shellfish.

Lately ~ he's been bouncing around the country talking to educators and the public at both K - 12 schools and institutions of higher education ~ all in an attempt to better...

As the former HGSE Managing Director of Programs in Professional Education and Director of The Principals» Center, she was responsible for on campus, online and hybrid Pre-K through Higher Education executive education programs that reached more than 6,000 professionals each year from public, private and faith - based schools, colleges and universities from the U.S. and around the world.

That's rare in the world of selective - admission public high schools, as Jessica Hockett and I learned in our recent examination of some 165 such schools around the country.

Safe Is Not Enough Michael Sadowski There has been a sea change in public attitudes around gender and sexuality, yet progress on LGBTQ issues in schools has moved slowly, writes Michael Sadowski, Ed.M.»

Importantly, the schools shouldn't just use norm - referenced tests to measure growth in relation to cohorts of students; they must use criterion - referenced growth assessments — like those that iReady offers — to report the results in a way that is transparent and the public can understand and that captures raw results around student progression.

Last year, under the NCLB rules, more than 8,600 schools around the country were listed as «in need of improvement» by state departments of education-less than 10 percent of all public schools in the country.

During the 1980s, the Chilean government decentralized the administration of schools, transferring responsibility for public school management from the Ministry of Education to municipalities (recognized neighborhoods in Chile around which municipal services are organized).

In 2004, Chicago announced the Renaissance 2010 project, which is built around closing chronically failing schools and opening 100 new public schools by the end of the decade.