Sentences with phrase «because parents and the public»

We're here today because parents and the public need to know what's really going on in schools run by the Noble Network, a charter school management company that has been called «a miracle,» a model that all schools should copy.

We published the «Grading the Teachers» series and value - added data analysis because parents and the public have a right to some form of objective evaluation of LAUSD teacher effectiveness.

Not exact matches

Parents are increasingly interested in providing private school funding for their children 1) because they see the value and importance of good education and 2) because of frequent public school closings.

Because I'm not a parent, I don't use the men's restroom, and I've never attempted to change a baby in a public restroom.

Doomsdayers aren't hurting Christianity, Mr Jeffres, as much as people like you are; you stole books from the Wichita Falls public library because they were trying to teach the children of gay people that their parents might be normal, loving human beings, and you accompanied it with a media campaign that raised $ 1 million that same year for your church through bigoted, close - minded sermons.

I am tired of how people who believe in their own «gods» try to shove religion down other peoples throat, what I mean is if your religion doen not let you support guns then don't support it but also don't try to change it for everyone else who doesn't see it your way, I don't go around asking for you all's religion to remove crosses from public view because I don't believe and to remove the bible from public places (i.e. Hotels, Bookstores, etc.) so it can only be seen in their respective places of workship, Remember WE ALL ARE BORN ATHEIST, YOU ARE NOT BORN WITH THE KNOWLEDGE THAT THERE IS A GOD, YOUR PARENTS HAVE TO TELL YOU THERE IS A GOD, A DEVIL, HEAVEN AND EARTH... THEN IT BEGINand to remove the bible from public places (i.e. Hotels, Bookstores, etc.) so it can only be seen in their respective places of workship, Remember WE ALL ARE BORN ATHEIST, YOU ARE NOT BORN WITH THE KNOWLEDGE THAT THERE IS A GOD, YOUR PARENTS HAVE TO TELL YOU THERE IS A GOD, A DEVIL, HEAVEN AND EARTH... THEN IT BEGINAND EARTH... THEN IT BEGINGS.

I don't know if it was the hormones or what, but I remember crying in the pool on the last day because it was one of the most beautiful things I'd ever seen: people of different shapes and sizes and backgrounds and ages and races and religions, all of us in the public pool with the babies we loved, looking ridiculous for their little sakes, utterly and entirely here for this parenting gig.

When asked whether cyber bullying is most likely to be on private or on public comments she replied: «Cyber bullying can be texts, WhatsApp... private message generally and that very hard to manage because nobody has access to those messages unless you're a parent and you have access to your child's phone».

Deplore as we may the existence of the parochial school, its challenge to the separation of church and state, and its attempted inroads on the public treasury, the fact remains that parochial schools exist primarily because Catholic parents, who pay their public - school taxes, think it worth while to submit to additional cost and often to much inconvenience to see to it that their children receive the religious instruction denied them in the public schools.

There are millions of poor kids who only eat because of free and reduced - cost meal programs at public schools, and still tons of kids are running meal account deficits because their parents can't or won't pay their account balances, and it's the kids who suffer in that case.

Get started this summer when school lets out and act as if you're homeschooling 3 days a week, Kindergarteners don't need more than 1 — 2 hours a day sitting still, you have to get yourself out of the «school is an 8 hour a day» mind set, that was set up for public schools because parents work, that is the only reason the school day is so long.

Do whatever it is you do to keep your calm and keep that parenting frustration under control, not because you're in public but simply for your child's sake.

We are stereotyped (by parents, the people we work for / with, and the general public) as uneducated idiots who do this job because we have no other choice.

Although numerous parents choose public education because it is a free resource and may be a good option depending on the school district, increasing numbers of families are discovering -LSB-...]

Although numerous parents choose public education because it is a free resource and may be a good option depending on the school district, increasing numbers of families are discovering the benefits of choosing another option, such as private school or homeschooling.

Because this is a heavier model, we don't think this is best for a parent who will be clambering on and off of public transportation (taxis, buses or down subway stairs).

Because when not - yet AP parents believe that attachment parenting comes with a whole bunch of other stuff (albeit much good stuff), like homemade baby food (not necessarily AP), cloth diapers (not necessarily AP), most expensive carseats / infant carriers (not necessarily AP), homeschooling (not necessarily AP), and not working out of the home (not necessarily AP) it becomes something less attainable to the general public.

The campaign to save lone parent benefit registered, as even those generally supportive of the government's strategy have acknowledged, a significant breakthrough for the Labour left because it successfully identified with and led public, extra-parliamentary political opposition.

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.

Inspection data from schools was requested via the Freedom of Information Act because it was not posted online for public consumption and parents had no way of knowing the state of cleanliness of where their children eat each day.

«I think you will see a lot of votes that otherwise would have gone to Cuomo who will go to Astorino and Howie because of this issue,» said Rudley, a Briarcliff Manor resident who is a co-founder of New York State Allies for Public Education, a coalition of parent groups.

«I chose not to speak publicly about these disagreements, however, because I feel my responsibility as CEO of Success Academy is not to advance my personal beliefs on a broad range of political issues but instead to focus all of my energies on advocating for our kids and public policies that expand educational opportunity and parent choice,» she wrote.

«He no longer could drive because he fell asleep at the wheel more than once and he had to have me, his 9 - year - old daughter, pull him up from chairs and help him in ways no 9 - year - old should ever have to help their parent,» she recalled Wednesday during a marathon public hearing at the Legislative Office Building.

The 37 Buffalo & Erie County Public Libraries remind parents to spend at least 15 minutes each day reading aloud to their young children because research shows reading is the single most important thing you can do to help prepare a child for school and lifelong learning.

There's growing concern among researchers that public wariness about the newborn screening program will create a backlash — with parents declining to screen their kids (who may end up much sicker because their disease wasn't caught early), and with the spots no longer made available for valuable pediatrics research, such as tracing the origins of childhood leukemia.

A spokesperson for Dayton Public explained that because the district doesn't necessarily assign children to a neighborhood school and families are allowed to choose where they send their children, parents have to register in order to obtain a school assignment that would allow them to qualify for a voucher.

And he answers, «certainly not because I have any direct self - interest — no... I'm not profiting from my involvement in charter schools (in fact, I shudder to think of how much it's cost me), and I have little personal experience with the public school system because I'm doubly lucky: my parents saw that I wasn't being challenged in public schools, sacrificed (they're teachers / education administrators), and my last year in public school was 6th grade; and now, with my own children, I'm one of the lucky few who can afford to buy my children's way out of the NYC public system [in] which, despite Mayor Bloomberg's and Chancellor Klein's herculean efforts, there are probably fewer than two dozen schools (out of nearly 1,500) to which I'd send my kids.&raqAnd he answers, «certainly not because I have any direct self - interest — no... I'm not profiting from my involvement in charter schools (in fact, I shudder to think of how much it's cost me), and I have little personal experience with the public school system because I'm doubly lucky: my parents saw that I wasn't being challenged in public schools, sacrificed (they're teachers / education administrators), and my last year in public school was 6th grade; and now, with my own children, I'm one of the lucky few who can afford to buy my children's way out of the NYC public system [in] which, despite Mayor Bloomberg's and Chancellor Klein's herculean efforts, there are probably fewer than two dozen schools (out of nearly 1,500) to which I'd send my kids.&raqand I have little personal experience with the public school system because I'm doubly lucky: my parents saw that I wasn't being challenged in public schools, sacrificed (they're teachers / education administrators), and my last year in public school was 6th grade; and now, with my own children, I'm one of the lucky few who can afford to buy my children's way out of the NYC public system [in] which, despite Mayor Bloomberg's and Chancellor Klein's herculean efforts, there are probably fewer than two dozen schools (out of nearly 1,500) to which I'd send my kids.&raqand my last year in public school was 6th grade; and now, with my own children, I'm one of the lucky few who can afford to buy my children's way out of the NYC public system [in] which, despite Mayor Bloomberg's and Chancellor Klein's herculean efforts, there are probably fewer than two dozen schools (out of nearly 1,500) to which I'd send my kids.&raqand now, with my own children, I'm one of the lucky few who can afford to buy my children's way out of the NYC public system [in] which, despite Mayor Bloomberg's and Chancellor Klein's herculean efforts, there are probably fewer than two dozen schools (out of nearly 1,500) to which I'd send my kids.&raqand Chancellor Klein's herculean efforts, there are probably fewer than two dozen schools (out of nearly 1,500) to which I'd send my kids.»

These parents made this decision primarily because of the schools» reputation for effective discipline, and in reaction to the observable disorder of their local public schools.

Lucian Boyd Harte, director of finance and operations at Chelsea Academy in London, noted that parents were supporters of the change because it reduces risks: «This removes the students» need to carry cash into school on public transport, and makes paying for school items more secure and safer for our students.»

Because the parents pay tuition comparable to other private day schools, $ 24,250, the lunch is subsidized at levels to which public and more urban Catholic schools can not aspire.

The reason I don't have much time to write is because the parents and staff at our public charter school have been spending our summer repairing, repainting, re-landscaping, repaving, and cleaning up our site.

Sherina Lucas, the Treasurer of Harriet Tubman Charter School's Parent Association said: «I chose a charter school for my son and daughter because I want them to have the best possible public school education — and Harriet Tubman is providing that for them.

And of course Ravitch, Cody and their ilk are against closing any public schools no matter how awful they are, no matter how empty they are because parents refuse to send their children theAnd of course Ravitch, Cody and their ilk are against closing any public schools no matter how awful they are, no matter how empty they are because parents refuse to send their children theand their ilk are against closing any public schools no matter how awful they are, no matter how empty they are because parents refuse to send their children there.

Sun, October 23 — Teach - In 11:00 am — 2:00 pm 417 N. Lexington Street, Durant Students, parents, elected and public officials, and child - servicing agencies in Holmes County will learn about the experiences of Black girls and their increasing rate of incarceration, dropout, and alternative school placement because of zero - tolerance policies that disproportionately push them out of school.

«Regular public school parents are angry because they no longer have an art room, they no longer have a computer room — whatever space they had for extra activities gets given to the charters and then they have better facilities.

Annie stood strong with Superintendent Driver and Board President Sain against the MPS Takeover because they knew passing parents» democratic control to private third party operators isn't the way to improve public education in Milwaukee.

When parents and students make the decision to seek a better education at a public charter school — which comes at no cost to them — they do so because they are dissatisfied with the status quo of traditional education.

That's right — children are being penalized because their parents chose something different, and often better, within the public school system.

Other white and affluent parents choose private schools, either because their children are not accepted to their first choice of public schools, or because they are bothered by the racial separation within and between New York public schools.

To these advocates, the very idea of public oversight of private providers is redundant: market forces will ensure that schools will deliver high quality service because customers — parents just as much as outsourcing public agencies — will otherwise just take their money, and children, elsewhere.

Idaho's Attorney General concluded that a bill to provide tax credits to parents who do not use public schools would likely be constitutional under Idaho's Blaine Amendment because «[t] he credit is not dependent upon payment of money to a sectarian school, and any benefits to parochial schools are tenuous at best.»

A federal district court in Iowa held that a state tax deduction for school expenses, including private school tuition, does not violate the Establishment Clause because it is available to parents regardless of whether their child attends a public, private or religious school, neither advances nor inhibits religion, and does not entangle the state with religion.

Paula Gray, Director of Human Resources --» School choice is important because a parent should have the ability to choose which public school their child attends and not be restricted by their address or income.

Other public school superintendents and principals are sending letters telling parents what a great opportunity taking the Common Core Smarter Balanced Field Test will be because they will be helping develop a more effective Common Core test for future students.

But it's impossible for parents and the public to know whether it has a reasonable chance to succeed, because the exact details remain to be seen.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan had said in 2010 that he was «convinced that this new generation of state assessments will be an absolute game - changer in public education» because they would be able to tell millions of school children, parents and teachers — «for the first time» whether students are «on - track for colleges and careers.»

We have ASD because it was part of our RTTT application commitments and because it is what the progressives want in order to privatize education, destroy traditional public schools, destroy traditional public school teachers, eliminate elected school boards, destroy the voice of parents and local control.

Parent Jenny Ball moved her two children out of public school and to Blackfoot Charter Community Learning Center because of the smaller class sizes and schedule.

Last summer North Carolina charter school officials put the small suburban school, which got about $ 1.6 million in public money last year, under extra supervision because of state concerns about finances and parent complaints about building safety and school leadership.

Parents and families choose public charter schools because they provide the best educational fit for their students.