Sentences with phrase «at public charter»

Earlier this week, Senator Donna Campbell held an event at the Texas Capitol to highlight joint efforts to narrow the funding gap between students at public charter schools and traditional school districts.

Williams was connected to two opportunities at public charter schools: KIPP Houston Public Schools and Houston A Plus Unlimited Potential.

«We are meeting the needs of families in St. Louis by providing access to world - class education and character formation at our public charter schools,» says Matt Hoehner, executive director for Open Sky Education's St. Louis Region.

Maria Morelli - Wolfe, a lawyer with Greater Hartford Legal Aid Inc., which last year filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights on behalf of children with disabilities at the public charter school, said that very often those students spend too many hours out of the classroom — suspended in school or out of school — because of behaviors they weren't necessarily able to control.

On behalf of our members, TCSA recently submitted public comments to Education Commissioner Mike Morath on matters impacting students at public charter schools: New Instructional Facility Allotment and separately, the Student Attendance Accounting Handbook.

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos visits fifth grade students at a public charter school in Washington, D.C.

Thousands of families have applied for spots at public charter schools, hoping to move their child into a safer school, but are still on waiting lists.

At a public charter school in Boston, students spend years preparing to go to college.

The nearly 450 students enrolled at the public charter school shared roughly 70 computers, laptops and iPads.

Meet one of Vision Public Charter School's most outstanding teachers, Chris Allen, as she talks about her unique experience working with students at her public charter school.

We welcome the new Commissioner and look forward to working with him to meet the needs of the more than 100,000 families waiting for a seat at a public charter school.

It is vital that you connect with lawmakers to share the successes occurring at your public charter schools.

Which candidate will support great teachers at public charter schools and traditional public schools alike?

As a teacher at a public charter school and a Teach for America Corps Member, Ravitch, while respected in the field, continually belittles the work I do in the classroom.

Families living in this area are the only ones in the city who overwhelmingly attend in - boundary schools, from elementary school through high school, over other options in DCPS or at public charter schools (see Figure 1).

However, as a current employee at a public charter school, like in traditional schools, Ms. Spells indicated that often times there isn't access to financial resources due to extremely tight budgets.

The Texas Charter Schools Association (TCSA) team has been at the state Capitol working on behalf of students at public charter schools.

As a result of the demand from Texans for more seats at a public charter school and TCSA's advocacy efforts, we have seen legislation that includes additional funding for public charter schools:

He most recently taught math at a public charter high school in San Francisco, and subsequently served on the Board of Trustees for the school.

Parents of eligible children apply for an Education Savings Account instead of enrolling their children at their assigned district school or at a public charter school.

Over the last year, parents at both public charter schools have given us powerful testimonies about what the opportunity to attend these schools means to their children and their families.

Youngsters at public charter school Brooklyn LAB are taking the lead in designing curriculums for the schools.

At a public charter in Denver, Real Time Teacher Coaching is the key to tripled student engagement.

When parents and students make the decision to seek a better education at a public charter school — which comes at no cost to them — they do so because they are dissatisfied with the status quo of traditional education.

The reason I don't have much time to write is because the parents and staff at our public charter school have been spending our summer repairing, repainting, re-landscaping, repaving, and cleaning up our site.

Trevor Baisden is a founding fifth grade ELA and history teacher at a public charter school.

At the public charter school behind St. Columbkille's Church on Market Street in Brighton, we've been hanging out with the most advanced of several orchestras at the Conservatory Lab Charter School.

«My analysis looks at two high school English teachers — one at an elite private school serving mostly economically advantaged white students, and one at a public charter school serving largely low - SES students of color.

Q) You looked at a public charter school and a private school for this book, both of them institutions that are not in the mainstream of public education.

First, let me point out that while you're right that I did some of my reporting for the book at a public charter school and a private school, I reported in more depth at two traditional public schools (Fenger High in Chicago and I.S. 318 in Brooklyn).

At the public charter school where she used to teach, she said, «I had a lot of students comment, «I can't really feel bad for this rich kid with a weekend free in New York City.»»

We need to enact a truly comprehensive and fair funding formula that equitably funds all public school students, including those at our public charters, and place the focus where it should be: on our kids.»

Not exact matches

Tom Price resigned as Health and Human Services secretary in September after he racked up at least $ 400,000 in charter flights on the public's dime.

In a PRIVATE club with membership and a charter you may conduct yourself as you see fit, but in a place of public accomadation run by an organization that takes public monies and pays no taxes that action would be considered at best unethical and at worst illegal.

While some evangelical supporters of homeschooling, private school, and charter school options are celebrating a school choice advocate's appointment to this all - important role (and a graduate of the evangelical liberal arts school, Calvin College, at that), other conservative Christian public school parents and advocates are disheartened by DeVos's limited personal history with our nation's public schools (she has mentored in public schools but not attended, taught, or sent children to public schools).

It was the time when Public Broadcasting was chartered and, at its the beginning, fairly well funded by the Congress.

Pupils of all age ranges in about 40 schools across New York have already joined Meatless Monday, including public (state - run), private and charter schools, and the Brooklyn announcement was made at a school that serves only meat free meals — every day of the week.

«If DeVos follows through on her plans to privatize education and hold charter schools receiving federal funds to different standards than public schools, as she indicated she would in her confirmation hearing, this could mean that fewer and fewer schools are even required to follow Title IX guidelines at all,» Gibbs wrote.

From Men in Blazers: America SCORES is non-profit organization that promotes football and poetry with students at more than 175 public and charter schools across North America.

Paul will discuss How Children Succeed at an event sponsored by Patterson Park Public Charter School.

Second largest in the nation, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) enrolls more than 640,000 students in kindergarten through 12th grade, at over 900 schools, and 187 public charter schools.

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Nestle's Public Affairs Manager, Marie Chantal Messier in response to a letter from Mike Brady of Baby Milk Action said that Nestle's CSV council charter stipulated that «if so desired, Council members may receive compensation for time spent devoted to the Council at a rate of CHF 25,000 per annum, assuming participation in a minimum of one meeting per year».

To support his argument, Tough describes how the private Riverdale Country School and KIPP Public Charter School — two New York schools at opposite ends of the socioeconomic spectrum — developed this new approach to character development and are now integrating into their school cultures.

This success is due in part to the D.C. Healthy Schools Act of 2010, which requires school breakfast to be provided at no charge for all students in D.C. Public Schools and D.C. Public Charter Schools, and it requires schools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular school day.

Email blasts from the two liberal organizations note that Avella used to be an outspoken opponent of charters — and co-location in particular — and yet voted «yes» on the Senate one - house budget that education advocates say pushes more of the controversial co-locations and hikes state aid to charters at the expense of traditional public schools.

«When the charter industry begins serving students with special needs and English Language Learners at the same rate as traditional public schools, and cracks down on the fraud, mismanagement and abuse prevalent at so many charters, perhaps its leaders can then join our longstanding fight for the equitable funding that all kids need.»

Politics in Spires, together with OurKingdom, IPPR and the Department of Politics at the University of Southampton, are hosting the Great Charter Convention — an open, public debate on where arbitrary power lies in the UK today and how we should contest and contain it.

At 6 p.m., NYC's Charter Revision Commission holds a public meeting and hearing soliciting input from New Yorkers on how best to improve the efficiency of local government and strengthen democracy, Bronx Community College, 2155 University Ave., Bronx.

Also at 11 a.m., the City of Mount Vernon Department of Law Corporation Counsel Lawrence R. Porcari will hold a press conference to announce new anti-corruption and public ethics measures, which include full funding of an independent Inspector General as required by Mount Vernon charter, City Hall, 1 Roosevelt Square, Mount Vernon.