Sentences with phrase «attend the public schools there»

Recent evidence from Arkansas confirms that black students attending public schools there are punished more harshly than their white peers, but also suggests that most of the difference is attributable to the schools that students attend.

He attended public school there until his mother packed him off to the private Mount Hermon School for Boys, founded by famed Protestant evangelist Dwight Moody (in 1881).

Not exact matches

For example, near the public high school in Utah that my wife attended, there was a Catholic religious education building.

My opinion is if a school is being funded by the government, religion of Any type should not be taught b / c in public schools there are many different types of people who attend.

He said they were brought here by their parent they did not wrong... those kids should be allowed to attend our public schools... and he was critized by the GOP right wing Christians for that comment... It seems to me there are many that wave the Bible and have no idea what is written in the Bible...

The question is whether forcing all these children to attend public schools would in fact be a benefit to the students there.

The school was famous in 1995 when a movie called «Dangerous Minds» featuring actress Michelle Pfeiffer was based on a true story about Carlmont HS during a time when East Palo Alto was the murder capital city in the nation and there were 4 regions that segregated each students to attend (4) public high schools in the Sequoia District: Menlo - Atherton, Woodside, Sequoia and Carlmont.

There are a multitude of reasons that 72 percent of college students choose to attend school in their home state, the chief one, of course, being reduced tuition at public universities.

If your children attend public school anywhere in the country, chances are there are food items sold in the cafeteria that you could never have imagined appearing there when you were a child.

While children in the U.S. are often required to be current on their vaccinations or receive a special waiver in order to attend public school, there is no requirement for adult vaccinations, despite several diseases that continue to present dangers.

Since New York City public schools would not guarantee him an education without placing him in special education classes, his family bought a home in the Long Island suburb of Hempstead so that he could attend mainstream classes there.

Roughly 9,000 students, the vast majority of them black or Latino, attend public schools in the district, while about 24,000 students who live there attend yeshivas.

Johnson was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and attended both public and private schools there.

There were now eight children attending Weston public schools who had type 1 diabetes, including those who had been diagnosed in previous years.

There were now eightchildren with type 1 diabetes attending Weston public schools.

In 1935, Native Americans were finally allowed to attend public school, but there were still many things preventing Native American children from actually attending regularly.

Bersin, Colvin tells us, the son of «Russian immigrants» (better described as Eastern European Jews) in Brooklyn, had «benefited from a rigorous public school education» (though there is no mention of his attending one of New York City's examination high schools); gone on to Harvard, Oxford (as a Rhodes Scholar, in the same class as Bill Clinton), and Yale Law School; and enjoyed a successful legal career culminating in service as the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Califschool education» (though there is no mention of his attending one of New York City's examination high schools); gone on to Harvard, Oxford (as a Rhodes Scholar, in the same class as Bill Clinton), and Yale Law School; and enjoyed a successful legal career culminating in service as the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of CalifSchool; and enjoyed a successful legal career culminating in service as the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of California.

Yet there's none of the outcry that surfaces when someone proposes vouchers so poor children can attend private schools at public expense.

When Margery Yeager, special assistant for transformation management for the D.C. public schools, attended her first school closing meeting in 2008 — she's now helped close 28 schools — the meeting was so contentious that, she recalls, «I honestly thought at the time, «I don't know how we will make this happen because there is just such vocal opposition.

After reading the critics and examining many more studies than Klein names (some inevitably negative), I believe there is simply no doubt that under Klein's leadership, children attending public schools in New York City were, on average, being far better educated at the end of his eight years than they had been nine years before.

However, there may still be unmeasured differences that explain why one charter 8th grader attends a charter high school while another charter 8th grader attends a traditional public high school.

Even within the public sector, there are schools to which students are assigned based on geography and schools they choose to attend (magnet and charter schools, for example).

There are now 43 communities where at least 20 percent of the students attend charters, reports the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.

There is also some evidence that the public schools attended by Hispanic students were superior to those attended by African American students.

Overall charter school enrollment increased by approximately 225,000 students during the 2012 - 2013 school year and there are now more than 2.3 million students attending these independently run, innovative public schools.

Refreshments were also served to parents, there were door prizes, and the Hartford Public Library issued library cards to every family who attended First Day of School programs.

There's a reason more than 50 million students attend public schools every year, and its related to the important reality that public education is the cornerstone of democracy.

Her son attended Capital City Public Charter School, and her daughter is now a third - grader there.

The latest example of this comes courtesy of Charles Epps, the superintendent of the woeful Jersey City school district, who declared on Wednesday that the young women attending the traditional public schools there were «our worst enemy» in his (abysmal) effort to improve education in the district and prevent school crime.

One valid challenge in estimating DC gains for which there are no available answers is how to treat gains under Rhee between public school students attending charter and non-charter public schools.

A child's learning needs do not change based on the type of public school they attend — there's no excuse for education funding that is disconnected from that reality.

As anyone who attended the 12/15/12 conference knows, there are a lot of educators who are interested in using WA's new public charter school law to create new public school choices for the children and families of WA.

Because our schools are public charter schools, there is no tuition to attend.

One look at the data makes it seem as though students are leaving their public schools in droves to use state money to attend private school, but there's more to the numbers than that.

There is no clear evidence that demonstrates students who receive vouchers and attend private schools perform better than students who attend public schools.

Studies have shown that blacks who attend public schools support school choice, but there's always rancor around the loss of the neighborhood school.

«There's no way we're going to give up on bringing Montessori to public schools, and if that means changing how we do it, then we will,» added Muldrow, a director of youth programming and inclusion for a Madison nonprofit whose two children, ages 2 and 7, attend IMA.

Nationally, there are about 1 million students nationwide who are on waiting lists to attend a public charter school.

There were a couple of questions about the piece, though, including mine about the dearth of named USDE sources in the piece (there's just one) and NPR education reporter Anya Kamenetz's question about whether the 80 percent of students attending public schools cited in the piece was accurate (that figure apparently excludes charter schools, which are pubThere were a couple of questions about the piece, though, including mine about the dearth of named USDE sources in the piece (there's just one) and NPR education reporter Anya Kamenetz's question about whether the 80 percent of students attending public schools cited in the piece was accurate (that figure apparently excludes charter schools, which are pubthere's just one) and NPR education reporter Anya Kamenetz's question about whether the 80 percent of students attending public schools cited in the piece was accurate (that figure apparently excludes charter schools, which are public).

Some students attend public charter schools within their school boundary The impact of the Wilson HS feeder pattern is present here, too: location within the Wilson HS boundary (where there aren't any public charter schools) decreases public charter participation by about 11 percentage points for elementary schools and about 22 percentage points for middle and high schools.

Are there differences between the kids who go to charters, and those who attend public schools in New York?

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In fact, the company says, in New York there was no significant test - score difference between students who attended private school on vouchers and those who stayed in public school.

When I was a child, there was this widespread quaint notion that children ought to attend the public schools where they lived.

Is there anything about the education system or the public schools that seems different today than the way it used to be when you were attending school?

Black people were not allowed to attend public schools with white students, and in most cases there weren't any black schools getting public funding.

There were more than 141,000 students on wait lists to attend a public charter school.

When Board member Robert Cotto spoke, there were audience members dismissing him for not being a parent; no such criticism was levied against other Board members — most of whom do not have children currently attending Hartford Public Schools — who happened to be in favor of approving plans for a new charter school.

Although white test - takers and ELL test - takers are largely not educated in the same public schools, there are public schools that educated both white and ELL students.8 To gauge how much of the ELL achievement gap is due to white students and ELL students attending different schools, this section of the report measures the difference in math proficiency, based on the state assessment tests, between ELL students and white students who attend the same schools.

As a parent writing to President Obama explained, in a letter posted at the Washington Post blog of Valerie Strauss, «We have something very important in common: daughters in the seventh grade... Like my daughter Eva, Sasha appears to be a funny, smart, loving girl... There is, however, one important difference between them: Sasha attends private school, while Eva goes to public school... Sasha does not have to take Washington's standardized test, the D.C. CAS, which means you don't get a parent's - eye view of the annual high - stakes tests taken by most of America's children.»