Sentences with phrase «as kids in public schools»

There was some bad news for charter schools in a government report last week that said children in those schools didn't do as well on national tests scores as kids in public schools.

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One recent (if small study) that followed a diverse group 183 teens who attended public high school for a decade, starting in middle school, found that «by the age of 22, these «cool kids» are rated as less socially competent than their peers.

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.

However teaching creationism in public schools as a scientific reality on the order of evolution damages kid's critical thinking.

I do not know how much LGBT is involve in promoting that their life style be taught as a norm in public schools, but it is entirely unnecessary and I think can cause little kids to be very confused.

As Chicago Public Schools pushes ahead with a district - wide roll - out of its Breakfast in the Classroom program, concerns are mounting from some parents worried about kids» allergies

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.

PT: One of the ones I'm most excited about is Expeditionary Learning Schools [now known as EL Education]-- about 150 schools spread out over the country in both public and charter schools, some with well - off kids, some with kids in pSchools [now known as EL Education]-- about 150 schools spread out over the country in both public and charter schools, some with well - off kids, some with kids in pschools spread out over the country in both public and charter schools, some with well - off kids, some with kids in pschools, some with well - off kids, some with kids in poverty.

I was team mom for little league, cheer mom, pta mom, chaperoned school field trips, volunteered as a classroom helper and parent at their schools (when in public school) attended toddler tumbling and mom classes, was a homeschooling parent for one of my kids with leaning disabilities, I didn't have to scramble to figure out what to do about work or where to take my kids for child care if they were sick, I led and was involved with the church groups with my kids, I spent summers with them doing all kinds of things like traveling, visiting grandparents out of town, amusement park trips, swimming, picnics, and hiking, instead of them being stuck with a sitter every summer.

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.

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.

Look for people with a medical background, or those with youngish kids in the public schools, or those who have fought similar battles in the past, especially battles based on the idea of social justice, that low income students deserve the same respect and services as higher income students.

Submitted and Written by Reana KovalcikNancy Easton and Chef Bill Telepan serve as the executive leadership for Wellness in the Schools, a New York City - based non-profit that inspires healthy eating, physical fitness, and environmental awareness as a way of life for kids in the public school system.

The UFT is hitting the airwaves today with a 60 - second radio spot that slams for - profit charter school management companies as «more interested in making money and ducking accountability than fighting for our kids» and spending «millions on false attacks against teachers and public schools.»

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.

As a kid whose life was saved by the incredible teachers I had in public schools in Brooklyn, I'm proud to have served my fellow New Yorkers.»

«As a resident, as a parent who has kids in our public schools, she's the one I want leading uAs a resident, as a parent who has kids in our public schools, she's the one I want leading uas a parent who has kids in our public schools, she's the one I want leading us.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan and Assemblyman Robert Rodriguez today rallied with religious school parents, kids and administrators in East Harlem for the passage of the controversial education investment tax credit — which would incentivize private donations for scholarships at parochial schools and other private schools, as well as public school scholarship funds.

«As mayor, I will have no higher priority than ensuring kids in our city can go to a good school in their neighborhood, whether public, private, parochial or religious,» Massey said.

In their letter to the union, the candidates, including City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, expressed their solidarity with the drivers, but said they were increasingly concerned about the impact the strike was having on public school kids, parents and drivers, as it entered its fifth week.

Join Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones at the New Possibilities for Public Education: Rally for Kids and Schools as they stand with educators and parents dedicated to saving public schools and talk about how to fight back against the test and punish regime rampant in schools, the privatization of education, and the attacks against tePublic Education: Rally for Kids and Schools as they stand with educators and parents dedicated to saving public schools and talk about how to fight back against the test and punish regime rampant in schools, the privatization of education, and the attacks against tSchools as they stand with educators and parents dedicated to saving public schools and talk about how to fight back against the test and punish regime rampant in schools, the privatization of education, and the attacks against tepublic schools and talk about how to fight back against the test and punish regime rampant in schools, the privatization of education, and the attacks against tschools and talk about how to fight back against the test and punish regime rampant in schools, the privatization of education, and the attacks against tschools, the privatization of education, and the attacks against teachers

Whether those refusing the vaccine have helped fuel the current pertussis epidemic is uncertain, but their decisions have created a public health tinderbox: in some Bay Area schools, 40 percent or more of the kids are not vaccinated, leaving them unprotected against pertussis and other preventable diseases, such as measles.

Texas A&M School of Public Health researchers have already shown that stand - capable workstations — those in which the worker could raise or lower the desk to stand or sit as they wished throughout the day — boost productivity in office workers, help students» cognitive functioning and improve kids» BMI.

Well, you guys, as soon as you think you have it together, reality hits you smack dab in the face My kids are on different Spring Break schedules because Shay's Christian Preschool follows the public school schedule.

Hogwarts, the school of witchcraft and wizardry, s a celebration of the public school system with its houses, grand dining halls and traditional games as codified for lower - class kids in the early 20th century by Frank Richards in his stories about Greyfriars and St Jim's in the Magnet and the Gem.

Aiden's father, Gabe, is Jewish and, although Aiden has rejected faith ever since he was a teen, his children attend a private Jewish school in L.A. as part of a deal Aiden made with his father that keeps the kids out of public school.

As a review on Insideschools.org — an online guide to the city's public schools — said of JHS 123, «Parents were scared off by tales of kids getting their heads dunked in toilets by gang members and students ripping fixtures out of the walls and then hurling them from windows.»

«The Cartel» really took on the notion that public education in America operates solely and purposefully «for the kids,» and it showed exactly what can go wrong when you are consistently first or second in school spending every year (as New Jersey is) and lots of interest groups have placed the economic advancement and security of the adults above the kids.

«We really tried to tell the story as, «We are not getting rid of this horrible institution» — although it was failing kids and was a huge injustice — but we tried to tell the public that, «We are revitalizing the school to restore its proper place in the community,»» he says.

And Tuesday's interminable «expose» of state - level tax - credit scholarship programs certainly deepens one's impression that the writer (and, presumably, her editors) is in love with anything that smacks of «public dollars» or «public schools» and at war with anything that might be seen as diverting even a penny from state coffers into the hands of parents to educate their kids at schools of their choice.

Meanwhile, more parents in D.C. neighborhoods west of Rock Creek Park are sending their kids to public schools, resulting in fewer spots for «out of boundary» students in the most sought - after neighborhood schools such as Lafayette, Murch and Eaton elementary schools or Deal Middle School.

I met Lee Ju - Ho, the former Minister of Education, Science, and Technology and now a professor at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management, to understand his efforts to improve the Korean education system In the book The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley, Lee comes across as a forward - minded thinker about the challenges facing Korean education and the need to make changes to the status quo of how education is regulated, managed, and delivereIn the book The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley, Lee comes across as a forward - minded thinker about the challenges facing Korean education and the need to make changes to the status quo of how education is regulated, managed, and deliverein the World by Amanda Ripley, Lee comes across as a forward - minded thinker about the challenges facing Korean education and the need to make changes to the status quo of how education is regulated, managed, and delivered.

I've come to view annual testing of kids in reading and math, and the disaggregating and public reporting of their performance at the school (and district) level, as the single best feature of NCLB and the one that most needs preserving.

In the eyes of many educators, policy makers, and philanthropists (and probably the broader public as well) chartering has come to be viewed as principally a mechanism for liberating poor kids from bad schools and relocating them into better schools.

But as Andy Rotherham points out, forcing people to «go private» in order to get a customized education for their kids is not a great political strategy for building broad support for the public schools.

So you use all kinds of connections and networks to get your kid into a good school, as opposed to what should be the case in public education; you go to the school in your neighborhood and its a good school.

If the state is successful in its current court appeal and the ESA program moves forward, I would love to see the kind of robust Yelp - like parent evaluations Ladner envisions — so long as they're paired with strong oversight representing the public interest of all the taxpayers whose kids aren't attending ESA - financed schools.

But the reality that many kids must travel as long as two hours away from home in order to attend school (often on inefficient public transit) has also put a strain on the Crescent City's poorest families, who, like middle - class households, want high - quality schools within their own neighborhoods.

But it seems to be that as long as the majority of public - school kids in this country remain poor, with unstable housing and massive day - to - day challenges, perfect attendance will remain an elusive goal.

All in all, Perry offers a guide for parents to know why traditional public schools are doing little for their kids and for themselves as taxpayers.

He liked the notion of low - income public - school students» getting the same kind of instruction as rich kids in private schools.

Sadly, that includes Washington's various schools for kids in trouble, such as the juvenile detention center, Next Step Public Charter School, and Maya Angelou.

KIPP helps its communities, the report says, «by transforming the lives of the kids we serve in our current network of schools; and [b] y inspiring others — as we continue to reach more students in more communities — to reconsider what is possible in public education.»

We put up with all of this because, as charter schools, we're granted the autonomy to provide educational services in a way that makes sense to us, and we are free to experiment with new models and create the innovative, exciting public schools to which folks in our communities want to send their kids.

These children need and deserve the same support as all other public school kids and we hope this is the year they receive that support from those who represent them in Albany.»

«I think as we're going through these years of Common Core standards, we're going to see a lot more success for kids as they're exiting public school in the 12th grade.»

The per - pupil funding increases they've granted will help close Connecticut's worst - in - the - nation achievement gap, and the money for more charters will act as a lifeline for the 65,000 Connecticut kids still stuck in failing public schools.

«These schools will help close our state's worst - in - the - nation achievement gap by acting as a lifeline to the 65,000 Connecticut kids still stuck in failing public schools.

Combine the struggles in improving literacy with low levels of classroom management skills among many teachers (another problem traceable to ed schools), the arbitrary nature of traditional school discipline practices, and the problems within American public education attributable to racialist practices such as ability grouping, and it is little wonder why the overuse of suspensions is such a problem for our kids.

In my 30 + years as a school SLP and 3 kids go through the public school system (to 8th grade), the first thing to note is that truly «gifted» students are few and far between.