Sentences with phrase «as free public schools»

Charter public schools in Santa Clara County accomplish all of these objectives, as free public schools of choice serving all students.

While technically the money side of social welfare is indeed not payable to illegal aliens, (1) They still get an incredibly costly (to taxpayers) set of benefits such as free public school education for their kids; law - and - order which is a public good; and medical care in ER facilities who have to treat everyone, with or without insurance.

Not exact matches

Bonds get their «tax - free» status because the money raised by the bond issue is usually for a «public good or service» such as schools or roads.

The waqfs were created for a great variety of services, such as the building and upkeep of water conduits, fountains, wells, roads, sidewalks, bridges, kitchens for the distribution of free meals, guest houses, homes for widows, schools, libraries, mosques, tekkes, cemeteries, open — air places for prayer, caravansaries to lodge full caravans of men and animals, clock - rooms for telling time, bakeries for distributing bread and cakes to the poor, dispensaries, hospitals, public baths, shaded land on the roadside.

In its first statement of principles, the AAUP declared that schools run by churches or by businesses as agencies for propagandizing a particular philosophy were free to do so, but that they should not pretend to be public institutions.

It involved the problem of free public transportation for students attending parochial schools, and it also involved the possibility of parochial students receiving various forms of Federal subsidy for such things as school lunches and textbooks.

After all, it was through political and legal struggles over many years, and as a result of compromises, that other Western democracies recognized the pluralistic nature of a free society and adopted policies protecting the rights of parents and of educators to maintain and receive public funding for faith - based schools.

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

Having taught for some years in the public school system of MS, I can say that in many of the rural schools in this state (likely the same in nearby states as well for rural schools) have many football players on free or reduced price school lunch programs and very poor training and weight room facilities.

About 100,000 Chicago public high school students, 80 percent of whom qualify for free and reduced - price lunches, can choose nachos as an entree every day.

Although numerous parents choose public education because it is a free resource and may be a good option depending on the school district, increasing numbers of families are discovering the benefits of choosing another option, such as private school or homeschooling.

But the comment came as DeVos, a staunch opponent of public schools, is taking over the nation's free lunch program that provides nutrition to low - income students and is under attack from Republicans, raising questions about whether the administration of President Donald Trump will protect food aid programs for children, NPR reported.

«Offering free lunch for all public school students will help ensure that all our children have the nutrition they need as they learn,» said Council Member Costa Constantinides.

She says there are initiatives on the horizon, such as universal lunches like those recently passed in the Boston public schools that provide all kids, regardless off socioeconomic or racial background, with free school meals.

New York residents entering the state's public two - and four - year colleges are able to apply starting today for the new Excelsior Scholarship and, depending upon eligibility, could attend school tuition - free beginning as soon as the fall semester.

The Free Senior High School Policy, described by Mr Akufo - Addo as «my obsession», he said, is on its way to being fulfilled, indicating that his government will fund the cost of public Senior High Schools for all those who qualify for entry from the 2017/2018 academic year onwards.

Policy achievements — such as the pupil premium, free school meals, the increase in the tax allowance and so on — tend to be in micro areas of public policy that are invisible to most voters.

A year after Talk of the Sound first reported on Smith's criminal record, he remains licensed as an administrator by NYSED and is free to take an administrative position with any public school district in New York.

At our state conference last month, we overwhelmingly passed resolutions supporting guaranteed healthcare as a human right, free public education from pre-K through college or trade school, a living wage and fair compensation for all, investments in environmental protection and renewable energy, restoration of voting rights to former felons, public financing of elections to eradicate the corrupting influence of big money in politics, and other policies that serve the people.

The circular released the fee items the government has absorbed for all day public senior high school students in the country in line with its commitment to implement the progressively free secondary education policy as expressed in President John Mahama's State of the Nation Address last year.

Speaking as the Special Guest of Honour at the 60th Anniversary celebration of Okuapeman School Saturday, February 11, 2017, he said the government had a well thought - out plan that involved the building of new public and cluster SHSs to give more meaning to free public SHS education.

She has recently split with the mayor by supporting equal disability pensions for city uniformed employees, and by advocating for free school lunches for all public school students, both proposals Mr. de Blasio views as too expensive.

A library in the Broadalbin - Perth Central School District did not fare as well: a proposition that would have taxed each parcel in the district $ 1.56 every year to provide a $ 10,000 annual contribution to Amsterdam Free Public Library went down.

As a major manifesto pledge of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) since 2008, the government has commenced the programme which has seen only first year students entering public senior high schools for free.

NEC members praised his conference speech and drew attention to Tory attacks on employment rights including access to tribunals, the paradox under which British railways can be run by states as long as they are foreign states, the need for good jobs not just any jobs, further cuts in public service pay, the threat of a new European / United States trade agreement, excessive warmth towards free schools, and expansion of food banks and payday loans into mainstream society.

The governor says the money is needed to pay for a middle class tax cut, agreed to last year and which is scheduled to begin phasing in later this year, as well as a plan to provide free tuition at public colleges for New Yorkers earning less than $ 125,000 a year and to spend more on public schools.

The Kaduna State government has set January 17, 2016 as kick off date for the free feeding for all public primary school pupils in the state.

«As a product of New York City public schools, I believe a free or affordable education is one of the most important services we provide in our city,» said Mr. Cohen.

Cuomo touted his plan to give some public college students free tuition and extending after - school programs at public schools, as well as a doubling of a state child care tax credit for more than 200,000 people.

The brains high fat content makes it especially vulnerable to free radicals, but these antioxidants may act as shields, says study author Peter Zandi, PhD, an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Foods marketed specifically as gluten - free and made with alternative ingredients can be lower in fiber and other important nutrients, says lead author Geng Zong, PhD, a research fellow in the department of Nutrition at Harvard University's T.H. Chan School of Public.

The law, known as the Gun - Free School Zones Act, was struck down last fall by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which said that Congress exceeded its authority under the commerce clause of the Constitution when it made gun possession near public or private schools a federal offense.

Under the administration proposal, all K - 12 public, private, and parochial schools, as well as public libraries, would receive a basic package of services for free.

All content is made with / by kids for kids; it is free of advertising; it is offered as Open Educational Resources to schools, kindergartens, public libraries, civil - society media (community radios) for free.

As a public school teacher in a state experiencing painful budget cuts, I want to send teachers a message that they can create a blended learning model using web 2.0 technology that is readily available and, in many cases, free.

Federal courts have played a key role in the development of special education policy by interpreting what Congress wrote in IDEA three decades ago, and the Supreme Court is reviewing what the law means by a «free appropriate public education» as it considers Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District, which deals with the standard of services districts are required to provide (see «Examining the Standards for Special Education» legal beat, Summer 2017).

Charter Schools: publicly funded, privately managed schools that operate semi-autonomously, meaning they're free from some rules applicable to other public schools (such as around teacher hiring, budgets, and other operaSchools: publicly funded, privately managed schools that operate semi-autonomously, meaning they're free from some rules applicable to other public schools (such as around teacher hiring, budgets, and other operaschools that operate semi-autonomously, meaning they're free from some rules applicable to other public schools (such as around teacher hiring, budgets, and other operaschools (such as around teacher hiring, budgets, and other operations).

Jacobs describes how Summit Public schools, a charter school network known for «an approach that emphasizes both project - based and self - paced learning as well as the development of cognitive skills» has been sharing its model with schools around the countroy for free with support from Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.

PDK: «As you may know, charter schools operate under a charter or contract that frees them from many of the state regulations imposed on public schools and permits them to operate independently.»

Unions slam free schools plan as an «irresponsible use of public money» ahead of tomorrow's Budget

The First Amendment does provide that «Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or the free exercise thereof,» but this did not apply to the states (or to public schools as presumed organs of the state) for the first 150 years of the Union.

As the United States Supreme Court noted in its recent Forest Grove School District decision, pursuing private placement through the legal system is ««ponderous» and therefore inadequate to ensure that a school's failure to provide a [free and appropriate public education] is remedied with the speed necessary to avoid detriment to the child's education.&School District decision, pursuing private placement through the legal system is ««ponderous» and therefore inadequate to ensure that a school's failure to provide a [free and appropriate public education] is remedied with the speed necessary to avoid detriment to the child's education.&school's failure to provide a [free and appropriate public education] is remedied with the speed necessary to avoid detriment to the child's education.»

The act allows private developers limited access to tax - free bonds to pay for public buildings such as schools, using a provision of the 2001 federal tax cut bill.

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You can wish that educators were free to spend public funds and run public schools as they see fit.

The charter school students are about as likely to be eligible for special education and for the free or reduced - price lunch program as are students in the regular Chicago public schools.

In my time as chancellor at D.C. Public Schools, we worked with the U.S. Department of Agriculture on community eligibility programs so that all students could have access to free breakfast and lunch programs.

«With the passage of EHA, public schools were now mandated to provide a «free and appropriate public education» with the ultimate goal of preparing students for positive postsecondary outcomes such as employment or postsecondary education.»

But as funding formulas, budget cuts, free school lunches, and now A-Level results, dominate the headlines, the day - to - day realities of managing academy finances has perhaps been forgotten in the public's minds.

Increasingly, schools are using online learning - management systems such as Brooklyn LAB Charter School's Cortex and the Summit Learning platform (offered free to teacher teams that apply to Summit Public Schools) to deliver and organize custom playlists of activities for students and to allow educators to track students» progress incrementally (see «Pacesetter in Personalized Learning,» features, Fallschools are using online learning - management systems such as Brooklyn LAB Charter School's Cortex and the Summit Learning platform (offered free to teacher teams that apply to Summit Public Schools) to deliver and organize custom playlists of activities for students and to allow educators to track students» progress incrementally (see «Pacesetter in Personalized Learning,» features, FallSchools) to deliver and organize custom playlists of activities for students and to allow educators to track students» progress incrementally (see «Pacesetter in Personalized Learning,» features, Fall 2017).