Sentences with phrase «asking about the public schools»

When asked about public schools around the nation, these grades drop.

When asked about public school choice and how he will address the growth of charter schools and declining enrollment in the district, he said that his own parents had the choice to be in a community that provided the best options for their children.

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Of the 52 Facebook comments, the remaining five included one asking whether the clear backpacks were just at Stoneman Douglas or were countywide (Answer: Just Stoneman Douglas); two that weren't understandable; and two that maintained minor students have no rights in public school, so the complaints about the loss of rights by students were meaningless.

A client asked me the other day why in the world he should care about getting links from a few K - 12 public school library Web sites, most of which look horrible, have very few visitors, and live way out in the middle of nowhere in the.

Tried to talk with them about it, but they're too busy asking me for things, and they never get around to listening... wouldn't like what I'd say if they did shut up for moment... think I'll send a mass email... (no, did that the other day to another group of my followers, the ones who continue to blame Satan and the Atheists for getting prayer and «God» out of the public schools... they just deleted the email as SPAM: 0 -LRB-...

I have been getting so much useful feedback and information for my book from two surveys I've been circulating: one asking you about the notion of «kid food» and your general thoughts about the role of junk food in your kids» lives, and a second survey just for public school parents, asking your thoughts about school meals, a la carte snacks and on - campus food fundraisers.

Now that my kids are no longer in the public school system, a few people have asked whether I'll continue to write and advocate about school food reform.

Ask your school district about their Wellness policy — each public school should have one.

We asked Higgins about his concerns for the future of education, especially for children living in poverty that attend Buffalo Public Schools.

Asked by Sky News about the row, Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, who went to Westminster public school, said: «I don't care where someone went to school.

The city school district has released a new set of rules for public participation at Board of Education meetings that ask the public to fill out speaker cards, end a custom of sharing minutes, and warn speakers about disruptive or rude behavior.

The poll also asked voters about the city's efforts to ban churches from renting space in public schools.

Asked about problems with Albany schools, McLaughlin pointed out that while public schools and charter schools are often pitted against one another, they're all public schools in the sense that they all run on public money.

Asked about this in 2015, then - Medical District for City School District of New Rochelle Dr. Adreinne Weiss - Harrison was vague about whether pizza sales as fundraisers was illegal at public schools in New York State.

«Sometimes to get something done, you hold your tongue in public,» the mayor said when asked about the 180 - degree turn, during an unrelated press conference at a public school in Ridgewood, Queens.

«Like cancer, autism is a very complex disease,» says Craig Newschaffer, chairman of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Drexel University School of Public Health, «and it's exciting to start asking questions about the interaction between genes and environment.

When families inquire about the school, Hecker's assistant asks families to what public school their children would be assigned and then walks them through the voucher application if they're assigned to a failing one.

While schools often are required to ask students for proof that they live within a district, school officials essentially are barred from asking about immigration status and can not block a child's access to a public K - 12 school based on such status, under a landmark 1982 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in Plyler v. Doe.

It is an odd mark of our time that the first question people ask about character education is whether public schools should be doing it at all.

Close to three - fourths of the public say their local schools are doing well at attending to the needs of more - talented students, but that percentage plummets to just 45 percent when asked about the effectiveness of local schools at meeting the needs of the less - talented (Fig. 3).

To see where the public stands, we asked questions about visa programs for highly specialized workers, federal aid to school districts impacted by immigration, and the desirability of instructing immigrants and students with limited English proficiency in their native language.

If the mayor were truly concerned about «corporate» funding of public schools, we have to ask, «Does that include all corporate money?»

Yet that is what the public schools are about to ask of teachers more generally.

For one thing, it has asked the same question about the nation's schools and local schools every year since the 1980s — and I am making use of that poll in my forthcoming Brookings book, Teachers vs. the Public, by Michael Henderson and Martin West and myself.

The most commonly used national data file, the Schools and Staffing Survey, includes a survey in which roughly 42,000 public school teachers were asked about their education backgrounds and teaching credentials.

When one segment of respondents was asked to choose between «support,» «oppose,» and «don't know,» a similar proportion selected» don't know» as had selected «neither support nor oppose,» again suggesting that Americans either do not understand what charter schools are or have not made up their minds about them (see «Educating the Public,» features, Summer 2009).

When asked to hazard a guess, Americans estimate that public school teachers in their states receive, on average, about $ 36,000 in salary annually.

For example, when asked about lowering student grades for disciplinary reasons, approximately half of public school teachers and administrators responded that this action was prohibited; among the educators who did think such disciplinary actions were permissible, 32 percent reported that students subject to such disciplinary sanctions were entitled to formal due process protections.

We asked survey respondents about waivers and exemptions from the customary rules and regulations within which public schools operate.

Responding to a question asking how they feel about going to school each day, 24 percent of the public - school students said they didn't want to go, compared with 9 percent of private - school students.

When asked to evaluate their local public schools, uninformed Americans give much more positive assessments than they offer when asked about the nation's schools.

Overall, 49 percent say that their local public schools deserve an «A» or a «B» on the scale traditionally used to evaluate students, but only 20 percent say so when respondents are asked about schools nationwide.

Irvin and Lettre launched CBP, Irvin says, after a fellow guest she'd met at a Washington dinner party asked her how a public - school advocate like himself could find out about charter - school boards that could use his help.

The Persuadable Public The 2009 Education Next - PEPG Survey asks if information changes minds about school reform By William G. Howell, Paul E. Peterson and Martin R. West

When in 2006 California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger asked a panel of education experts to recommend an overhaul of the state's troubled public schools, observers hoped the celebrity chief executive was about to bring his unique brand of postpartisan politics to an issue that sorely needed it.

When asked about the schools around the nation, whites, Hispanics, and African Americans offer similar assessments, as do public school employees and the remaining population.

When asked in 2012 to grade their local schools, about 60 % of both parents and teachers give a grade of A or B. Nearly as many parents express confidence in public school teachers as do those teachers themselves.

To celebrate this milestone, our team at the Ed School — in collaboration with teachers from around the country — asked hundreds of public K — 12 students, «What would you tell your friend about Scratch?»

The Persuadable Public The 2009 Education Next - PEPG Survey asks if information changes minds about school reform By William G. Howell, Paul E. Peterson and Martin R. West Fall 2009

To investigate the public's views about race - and income - based enrollment programs, we asked Americans one of two variations of the following question: «In order to promote diversity, should public school districts be allowed to take the racial background [family income] of students into account when assigning students to schools?»

The 2009 Education Next - PEPG Survey of Public Opinion (see «The Persuadable Public,» features, Fall 2009) asked public school teachers about their views on education reforms their unions work tirelessly against, among them, charter schools and meriPublic Opinion (see «The Persuadable Public,» features, Fall 2009) asked public school teachers about their views on education reforms their unions work tirelessly against, among them, charter schools and meriPublic,» features, Fall 2009) asked public school teachers about their views on education reforms their unions work tirelessly against, among them, charter schools and meripublic school teachers about their views on education reforms their unions work tirelessly against, among them, charter schools and merit pay.

When asked about these costs, Powell noted that public charter schools receive $ 13,527 in public funds for each student.

John Austin made the comments in an email when asked about accountability of charter public schools.

To understand how public opinions shift, Howell and West embedded a series of experiments within the Education Next / PEPG survey by dividing respondents into randomly chosen groups: some were simply asked their opinion about school spending and teacher salaries, while others were first provided with accurate information about each of these issues.

If this is true - if academic education is merely about the three R's - then we might well ask: Why should any society make a fundamental and expensive public commitment to common schools?

In closing, Honan asked each panelist about the future of private management of public schools in 20 years.

We — the teachers of a public secondary school in New York City — are writing because we wish you to join us in asking this question about what's happening in our schools.

When asked specifically about the timeline to tenure — which can be awarded after as little as 18 months in the classroom — 38 percent said two years is too soon to award tenure, and 35 percent said public school teachers shouldn't receive tenure at all, the poll showed.

With the state education agency expected to announce a plan to overhaul special education programs in public schools, we asked members of our community what questions they have about such services — and turned to a disability rights advocate for help answering them.

When asked about charter schools, Vermont's Deputy Secretary of Education said she did not support charter schools saying «No I don't think we need them... The state's longtime tradition of allowing public funding to flow to private, non-religious schools when a community does not have a public school... provides enough flexibility.»