Sentences with phrase «basic public school system»

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The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

The organization looks to fill in the cracks in the public school system, buying basic school supplies like pens, pencils and papers, and distributing them to the schools that need them.

Critics have carped that the Bloomberg - led system fails to give parents sufficient voice — whatever that means — but the current arrangement is a night - and - day improvement over the old Board of Education, which was not only less accountable to the public, but failed at its most basic mission: improving our schools and teaching our kids.

Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for governor, outlined his education platform last week, defining education as a basic human right and calling for an end to segregation in the public school system.

But for too long the Buffalo Public School System was failing in this basic task.

The impetus for the plot is one anyone with even the most basic awareness of public school system can support: Parts of the system are broken.

These results support our basic reasoning that as long as Catholics could not be sure that the emerging public school systems of the 19th century would provide education in line with their church's demands, they tended to resist state schooling and establish their own private schools alongside the state sector.

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A successful school - accountability system contains three basic elements: It gauges education quality and progress by measuring data that accurately reflect student achievement; it disseminates the results to parents and the public in a simple and transparent manner; and it rewards and incentivizes success and provides interventions to support low - performing schools and reverse failure.

Here his argument is unpersuasive, simply because those most critical of the current public education system — Catholics, Christian fundamentalists, inner - city African - Americans, and home schoolers — don't disavow basic moral and civic education.

The AFT report also showed that 68 percent of charter school students are performing at or above basic levels in math, the same level as in the broader public school system.

Its basic claim was that the American standard of living was threatened by the loss of major manufacturing industries — such as automobiles, machine tools, and steel mills — to other nations, which the commission attributed to the mediocre quality of our public educational system; this claim shifted the blame from shortsighted corporate leadership to the public schools.

«These grants will allow for safety enhancements and systems that will help schools meet the basic expectation that public schools are safe environments where all students can focus on learning,» Superintendent of Public Instruction Steven R. Staplespublic schools are safe environments where all students can focus on learning,» Superintendent of Public Instruction Steven R. StaplesPublic Instruction Steven R. Staples said.

Known as the Gilmer - Aiken Act, this basic funding plan served as the primary vehicle for the support of Texas public schools for a few years until legal challenges to inequalities in public school funding caused the state to review its funding system.

How can the Foundation justify its expenditures to advocate for public investment in data systems when the basic needs of children aren't being met in schools?

«Charter schools are asking for basic fairness when it comes to educating their public school students and a system that forces schools to take funds out of the classroom to pay rent is clearly one that is broken,» said James Merriman, CEO of the New York City Charter School Cschool students and a system that forces schools to take funds out of the classroom to pay rent is clearly one that is broken,» said James Merriman, CEO of the New York City Charter School CSchool Center.