Sentences with phrase «attended public schools as»

Florida, which will soon allow any student to cross district lines to attend a public school as long as they have open seats, has been a national leader in offering parents educational options for two decades.

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«At that time Anita and Ben... certainly in their public statements, were very clear,» says Wild Planet's Grossman, who first attended an SVN meeting as an intern while he was earning his M.B.A. from Stanford Business School.

Consulting groups Integral Development and Nous Group have won contracts to support development of independent public schools, as part of a range of programs that also include 20 principals per year attending a training program at Harvard University.

One recent (if small study) that followed a diverse group 183 teens who attended public high school for a decade, starting in middle school, found that «by the age of 22, these «cool kids» are rated as less socially competent than their peers.

Growing up in a middle - class family in Manhattan, Powers had the opportunity to attend Hunter College High School, a prestigious public school that counts Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan and Hamilton's Lin - Manuel Miranda as among its illustrious aSchool, a prestigious public school that counts Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan and Hamilton's Lin - Manuel Miranda as among its illustrious aschool that counts Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan and Hamilton's Lin - Manuel Miranda as among its illustrious alumni.

Released time to allow public school students to attend religious education at a church - owned building was specifically confirmed by the US Supreme Court as consistent with the First Amendment decades ago.

It involved the problem of free public transportation for students attending parochial schools, and it also involved the possibility of parochial students receiving various forms of Federal subsidy for such things as school lunches and textbooks.

It leaked into the schools, wasn't rectified by the passing of Brown vs. the Board of Education, and, as recent as 2014, black and white children still attended segregated public schools.

As a rule, if you witness a large group of kids playing together you will not be able to pick the homeschooled kids out from the kids who attend public school.

And as a parent whose children attend public school, I'm also angered that McDonald's is trying to go through schools to access children, providing much - needed fundraising dollars by pushing its unhealthy food on school families.

I was team mom for little league, cheer mom, pta mom, chaperoned school field trips, volunteered as a classroom helper and parent at their schools (when in public school) attended toddler tumbling and mom classes, was a homeschooling parent for one of my kids with leaning disabilities, I didn't have to scramble to figure out what to do about work or where to take my kids for child care if they were sick, I led and was involved with the church groups with my kids, I spent summers with them doing all kinds of things like traveling, visiting grandparents out of town, amusement park trips, swimming, picnics, and hiking, instead of them being stuck with a sitter every summer.

«As the mother of two young kids who attend New York City public schools, I know first - hand how important it is for children to eat lunch at school,» said U.S. Rep. Grace Meng, a Founder and Co-Chair of the Congressional Kids Safety Caucus.

New York residents entering the state's public two - and four - year colleges are able to apply starting today for the new Excelsior Scholarship and, depending upon eligibility, could attend school tuition - free beginning as soon as the fall semester.

The invite to the May 12 event, which costs between $ 1,000 and $ 3,800 to attend, features a photo of the mayor and a note from him lauding the Buffalo Democrat as a «champion for charter schools in the Assembly,» (which is, for the record, a place where that sort of behavior is not widespread), and also an «outspoken advocate for public school reform.»

Mr. Altschuler attended New York City public schools, received his bachelor's degree from Princeton University, studied abroad as a Fulbright Scholar and received his MBA from Harvard University.

In her speech, Ms. Nixon touched only briefly on her own biography — born in New York City, attended public schools, the mother of public school attendees — as her wife, Christine Marinoni, looked on from the side of the room.

Such unsubstantiated assertions often highlight that his father was born into a Muslim family in Kenya, and that Obama received some instruction in the religion at the Indonesian public school he attended as a child.

NYCLU announced a settlement with Utica City schools ensuring refugee children receive the same educational opportunities as their peers, by guaranteeing them the right to attend public school past the age of 21.

Ms Turnely continued: «In the face of the government's campaign to broaden access to universities, elite public schools have actually increased the number of pupils they send to Oxbridge over the last five years, whilst ethnic minority students are twice as likely to attend modern universities than traditional universities.»

Kevin Lafferty, who applied last week to replace Carl Paladino as the new Buffalo Public Schools board member representing the Park District, says it's important to have a voice on the board whose children attend school in the district.

Children and parents should not suffer because they choose to send their child to a religious or independent school - the rights and needs of a student at one of these schools should be treated as equally as those of a child who attends public school.

As a parent of a NYC public school student and a preschooler attending an early childhood program, I look forward to parent - teacher conferences as one of many vehicles that provides feedback on my children's development, their strengths and weaknesses, and strategies I can employ at home to support their cognitive and social - emotional growtAs a parent of a NYC public school student and a preschooler attending an early childhood program, I look forward to parent - teacher conferences as one of many vehicles that provides feedback on my children's development, their strengths and weaknesses, and strategies I can employ at home to support their cognitive and social - emotional growtas one of many vehicles that provides feedback on my children's development, their strengths and weaknesses, and strategies I can employ at home to support their cognitive and social - emotional growth.

Personal Info Birthplace: Staten Island, NY High School: Brooklyn Tech High School (public - requires entrance exam) Higher Education: SUNY New Paltz, University of Buffalo Law School NY19 Connection: Attended SUNY New Paltz, 1970 - 1974; Returned to live in Kingston in 1981 and thereafter moved to Woodstock where he has resided through today Length of Residency in NY19: Kingston, NY and Woodstock, NY since 1983; greater than 34 years Prior Job History: Served as a Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) Volunteer working with Native American tribes in Nebraska, Western Nebraska Legal Services attorney between 1977 - 1980; Ulster County Public Defender's Office in the 1980s and early 1990s, Law Offices of Dave Clegg practicing predominantly personal injury law and elder abuse cases until prpublic - requires entrance exam) Higher Education: SUNY New Paltz, University of Buffalo Law School NY19 Connection: Attended SUNY New Paltz, 1970 - 1974; Returned to live in Kingston in 1981 and thereafter moved to Woodstock where he has resided through today Length of Residency in NY19: Kingston, NY and Woodstock, NY since 1983; greater than 34 years Prior Job History: Served as a Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) Volunteer working with Native American tribes in Nebraska, Western Nebraska Legal Services attorney between 1977 - 1980; Ulster County Public Defender's Office in the 1980s and early 1990s, Law Offices of Dave Clegg practicing predominantly personal injury law and elder abuse cases until prPublic Defender's Office in the 1980s and early 1990s, Law Offices of Dave Clegg practicing predominantly personal injury law and elder abuse cases until present.

William is worth just as much as Deputy Mayor Buery's son, and so are all of the kids who are still waiting to attend public charter schools.

The report describes the East Ramapo School District as containing 33,000 school - age children, 9,000 of whom attend the public scSchool District as containing 33,000 school - age children, 9,000 of whom attend the public scschool - age children, 9,000 of whom attend the public schools.

Newly - elected mayor Bill DeBlasio made history as the first mayor with children attending public school.

Educators from Brooklyn Technical HS and Murrow HS attended the press conference to drive home what their students are missing as a result of the state's failure to meet its financial obligation to public schools.

Steyer, Paulson and Bloomberg are scheduled to attend the New York event, in addition to several members of the Risky Business advisory committee: Clinton administration Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala, as well as Alfred Sommer of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Gregory Page, former CEO and current chairman of the board of Cargill Inc..

I had recollections of a slimly built, blond - haired guy who spoke as if he had attended public school.

Aiden's father, Gabe, is Jewish and, although Aiden has rejected faith ever since he was a teen, his children attend a private Jewish school in L.A. as part of a deal Aiden made with his father that keeps the kids out of public school.

The film finds dramatic visuals, an invaluable and often challenging part of any documentary, for its conclusion, as the profiled families attend public lotteries where they hope to beat the long odds of getting into a high - performing charter school whose applicants may outnumber its vacancies by more than ten times.

In the 1960s, Juneau's family was relocated as part of a policy to assimilate Native Americans in the workforce and she became the third generation of her family to attend public school.

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.

Few topics stir up as much debate in the education sphere as steering public money in the form of vouchers to pay for students to attend private school.

Commissioner of Education Vincent L. Ferrandino of Connecticut has proposed allowing parents to choose the public schools their children attend as a way to promote racial diversity.

Using a metropolitan area as point of comparison allowed us to consider segregation within a smaller geographical area — compared to our state - level analysis — where students can conceivably choose to attend either traditional public or charter schools.

If one's purpose is to evaluate the effects of a specific public policy, such as the District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP), then the comparison of the average outcomes of the treatment and control groups, regardless of what proportion attended which types of school, is most appropriate.

Among this group of students they found that 9.1 percent were identified as disabled when attending a private school, but 14.6 percent were identified as disabled when attending Milwaukee's public schools.

Using the best available unit of comparison, we find that 63 percent of charter students in these central cities attend school in intensely segregated minority schools, as do 53 percent of traditional public school students (see Figure 1).

Importantly, the schools attended by students in our sample include both open - enrollment public schools operated by the local school district and five over-subscribed charter schools that have been shown to have large, positive impacts on student achievement as measured by state math and English language arts tests.

As the authors themselves note, across the country only 2.5 percent of public school children roam the halls in charter schools each day; the remaining 97.5 percent are compelled to attend traditional public schools.

I attended public schools from kindergarten through 12th grade, as well as a public university, and I am the parent of public school students.

In 2013, more than 80 percent of New Orleans public school students attend charter schools, including 12 charters that are authorized by the Orleans Parish School Board, which still operates six of its own schools asschool students attend charter schools, including 12 charters that are authorized by the Orleans Parish School Board, which still operates six of its own schools asSchool Board, which still operates six of its own schools as well.

For example, a 2010 report by UCLA's Civil Rights Project found that black charter school students were twice as likely to attend schools that enrolled fewer than 10 percent non-minority students as their counterparts in traditional public schools.

Granted, the fabulous standardized test scores of those high - performing charter networks who take on this special ed challenge may not be as uniformly high — at least in the short term, but when one in every twenty public school students now attends a charter, the movement is mature and entrenched enough to move to the next stage of reform for both moral and political reasons.

Those families would have saved the taxpayer money by paying their own education bill, but as they are eligible for a voucher, they can attend the private school at public expense instead.

Jewish Day school alumni attend their first - choice college at about the same rate as Jewish students who graduated from a public or other private school, says a report by the Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education, a Boston - based organization that seeks to strengthen the Jewish day school movement.

Figure 1b shows the dissimilarity index — the percentage of blacks who would need to change schools if blacks and whites were to attend each school in the same percentage as their percentage of public school enrollment.

Vouchers have come to include the use of private funding as partial tuition support for low - income students to attend private schools (as in Washington, D.C., San Antonio, and New York); the use of public funds to allow a small number of low - income students to attend private schools (as in Milwaukee and Cleveland); or, as in the case of Florida, the provision of public funds for students to attend a private school or another public school if their current public school has a poor aca - demic record.

The studies were conducted as a partnership with the School Choice Demonstration Project at the University of Arkansas and look at the impact of the vouchers on student achievement and non-cognitive skills, on racial segregation, and on students attending nearby public schools (competitive effects).