Sentences with phrase «at schoolhouse doors»

Financial struggles at home don't stop at the schoolhouse door, said Keith Pain, superintendent of Frankfort's Summit Hill School District 161, where the number of students eating free and discounted lunches climbed from 162 in August 2008 to 215 in April.

This crazy outcome — whereby students enjoy more rights than their teachers do — is the result of free - speech confusion going all the way back to Tinker and its declaration that students don't abandon their rights «at the schoolhouse door.»

Every generation of education reformers debate whether or not their efforts begin and end at the schoolhouse door.

Now we have nine judges — the U.S. Supreme Court — assigned the task of deciding whether and how the nation's schools may (or may not) recognize the race of the children at the schoolhouse door.

It's the profile of 165 free public secondary schools in the United States, many of them in big cities known for sky - high dropout rates, low test scores, metal detectors at the schoolhouse door, and rapid turnover among teachers.

Wolves at the Schoolhouse Door chronicled a national crisis of inadequate and deficient school facilities, and served as a wake - up call that America was educating its children in buildings that were not conducive to learning and potentially dangerous.

Wolves at the Schoolhouse Door, by the Education Writers Association, chronicles a national crisis of inadequate and deficient facilities.

Some parents have a notion that they can drop off their child at the schoolhouse door, and behold, 12 years later, they will be able to pick up a perfect specimen of a human being — well - rounded, academically proficient, emotionally sound, physically fit and ready to meet the next phase of life.

The ad features the image of Alabama Governor George Wallace's infamous stand at the schoolhouse door, in which he refused to allow black students to register for classes at a segregated university.

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With innovative leaders opening schoolhouse doors for the last 22 years, changes have occurred in the last two decades at both the state and federal level.

• Fifty years ago, Alabama Governor George Wallace stood in the schoolhouse door at the University of Alabama to block desegregation.