Sentences with phrase «at public schools across the country»

Partly through Parlin's efforts, homophobic behavior is neither overlooked nor minimized at Newton South and at public schools across the country.

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We give presentations at law schools and public interest employers across the country and regularly lecture at career fairs and conferences, including the NALP Annual Education Conference, the NASFAA National Conference, and the ABA / NLADA Equal Justice Conference.

The «Musically Mastered Menu» series pairs celebrated chefs and musicians for an intimate evening aimed at raising funds to restore music programs in public schools across the country.

Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools is a public health campaign to increase salad bars in schools across the country so that every child has the choice of healthy fruits and vegetables every day at Schools is a public health campaign to increase salad bars in schools across the country so that every child has the choice of healthy fruits and vegetables every day at schools across the country so that every child has the choice of healthy fruits and vegetables every day at school.

A 2014 study (1), however, found that, despite the 2010 endorsement of 6 national medical societies of a single PPE form as part of an effort to standardize the screening process, and nearly unanimous public support for PPE screening by a qualified health care professional before participation in a consistent manner across the country, the medical community is still largely unaware of national sports preparticipation physical evaluation guidelines and only 11 % of athletes at US high schools are guaranteed to receive a PPE fully consistent with the national standard.

These are essentially questions of public policy, and if real solutions are going to be found to the problems of disadvantaged children, these questions will need to be addressed, in a creative and committed way, by public officials at all levels — by school superintendents, school - board members, mayors, governors, and cabinet secretaries — as well as by individual citizens, community groups, and philanthropists across the country.

At least since the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, this has been interpreted to give the federal government the power to intervene in cases of legally sanctioned discrimination, like the segregation of public schools across the country; to mandate equal access to education for students with disabilities; and, according to some arguments, to correct for persistently unequal access to resources across states and districts of different income levels.

Across the country in Washington, D.C., Andrea Smith, a 6th - grade math teacher at E. L. Haynes, a high - performing public charter school, shares Bergmann's enthusiasm, but focuses on a different aspect of the flipped classroom.

At a time when charter schools account for 10, 25, even 45 percent of public school enrollment in urban areas, this represents thousands of students across the country who won't start the school year with the teachers they need.

According to a 2015 study of charters in urban regions across the country, conducted by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes at Stanford University, African - American students at charters out - performed comparable students at nearby public schools in math by roughly a half years» worth of learning.

There are public school districts across the country that have engaged in innovative contracts between teachers and the central office, and there are multiple models of educational interventions, including at the curricular level, that show real promise and do not depend on wholesale structural reform.

Public school systems across the country have been re-thinking how they describe instructional excellence and let teachers know when they've achieved it,» said Tom Kane, Professor of Education and Economics at Harvard's Graduate School of Education and leader of the MET prschool systems across the country have been re-thinking how they describe instructional excellence and let teachers know when they've achieved it,» said Tom Kane, Professor of Education and Economics at Harvard's Graduate School of Education and leader of the MET prSchool of Education and leader of the MET project.

State charter laws vary widely across the country — and eight states have no public charter schools at all.

There are schools across the country — some are charter, some are private, and many are traditional public — that have shown us that it is possible for poor children to achieve at high levels when we respond to their needs and create conditions that are conducive to learning.

The study, based on survey responses from 16,000 1985 seniors at public and private high schools across the country, is the 11th annual report on teen - age drug use by the university's Institute for Social Research.

A research professor of education at New York University, Ravitch recently published a book, Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools — which argues that the crisis in American education is not a crisis of academic achievement, but of the destruction of public schools across the country — that landed in the number 10 spot on the New York Times Best SellerPublic Schools — which argues that the crisis in American education is not a crisis of academic achievement, but of the destruction of public schools across the country — that landed in the number 10 spot on the New York Times Best SelleSchools — which argues that the crisis in American education is not a crisis of academic achievement, but of the destruction of public schools across the country — that landed in the number 10 spot on the New York Times Best Sellerpublic schools across the country — that landed in the number 10 spot on the New York Times Best Selleschools across the country — that landed in the number 10 spot on the New York Times Best Seller list.

Building Hope is expert at delivering state - of - the - art educational facilities to charter public school students across the country.

According to a 2017 nationally representative survey from the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, enrollment at charter schools is on the rise across the cSchools, enrollment at charter schools is on the rise across the cschools is on the rise across the country.

Marguerite Vichier - Guerre taught elementary Special Education in both public and charter schools across the country prior to working at 1647.

According to the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, more than 100 school districts across the country now have at least 10 percent of students enrolled in charter sSchools, more than 100 school districts across the country now have at least 10 percent of students enrolled in charter schoolsschools.

For his study, Mehta and his colleague conducted 300 interviews at 27 different public schools across the country, including magnet schools and International Baccalaureate schools.

As districts across the country brace themselves for low student scores on tough Common Core tests this spring, the staff at Sturgis Charter Public School in Hyannis, Massachusetts, isn't sweating it.

The defeat of two high - profile charter initiatives at the ballot box on Tuesday signals a growing public concern about the impacts, and rapid proliferation of charter schools across the country.

At the same time, this may help explain why so many educators across the country take a dim view of charter schools, most of which enroll low - income students of color who have been underserved by the traditional public school system.

Nationally, the report found that at least one in five students now attends a public charter school in 43 communities across the country, up from 32 last year, and that 12 urban communities now enroll at least 30 percent of their public school students in charter schools, a jump from seven urban communities last year.

National Public Radio looks at BARR in action in St. Louis Park and digs in on the model's outcomes in BARR schools across the country.

«In working together with the parents and the charter school operator to arrive at this decision,» said Desert Trails Parent Union lead coordinator Cynthia Ramirez in a press statement, «the school board has set an example for other parents and districts across the country on how to use Parent Trigger legislation to transform otherwise failing public schools.»

He pointed to the positive changes happening in public schools across the country — including several teacher - led reforms implemented in California schools that are helping at - risk students and closing achievement gaps, which drew national attention yesterday.

The study looked at 25 voucher programs (20 traditional voucher and 5 education savings account programs) across the country and found that these voucher programs significantly complicated the receipt of federal funding for programs in public schools in those states.

The book includes great advice from many Aspire blended learning teachers, and shares key insights from blended learning leaders across the country, including folks at the KIPP Foundation, Summit Public Schools, Rocketship Education, E. L. Haynes Public Charter School, the Alliance College - Ready Public Schools, Cornerstone Charter Schools (Detroit), Highline Public Schools (Washington), Mastery Schools and FirstLine Schools.

Teach For America recruits and trains recent college graduates who pledge to teach for at least two years in mostly low - income public schools across the country.

While explicitly avoiding the debate over the existence of charters and carefully noting that he was looking at the problems associated with a poorly regulated sector taking public funds, Mr. Oliver looked at financial scandals and fraud in charter schools across the country:

In districts across the country we are working with parents to ensure successful turnaround programs are used at the lowest performing schools, and we are championing quality school models at all types of public schools.

Charters currently educate more than 600,000 students at 3,000 of the nation's 88,000 public schools; they have grown tremendously over the past decade and appear likely to grow even more as No Child Left Behind identifies thousands of schools across the country for possible closure because of poor test scores.

If successful at the New York Public Library and the Brooklyn Public Library — two of the country's largest library systems — Penguin said it could offer similar deals to libraries across the U.S., including school and university libraries.

She recently represented the Vatican City - State at the 56th Venice Biennale and has created what she refers to as «visual interventions» in halls and atriums of buildings across the country and abroad including the University of Texas, the Los Angeles Airport and a NYC public school in Queens.

AmeriCorps engages more than 75,000 Americans in intensive service each year at nonprofits, schools, public agencies, and community and faith - based groups across the country.