Sentences with phrase «benefit public school children»

Corporate interests pushed the federal overreach of our laws in order to profit from public education, not to benefit public school children.

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The editorial neglects to mention that Amazon wants enormous «tax incentives» so the deal would probably cost Baltimore more than it would benefit us — and by «Baltimore,» I mean those of us who live here, who use public services, who send our children to public schools.

By law all children have the right to benefit from certain federal programs, but the voucher system — through which funds can be spent to benefit the school, not just the student — is both unconstitutional and poor public policy.

About three thousand students are already benefiting from the latest wrinkle in five states, «education savings accounts,» which provide even more flexibility to families by allowing those who withdraw their children from public schools to receive a deposit of public funds into government - authorized savings accounts that can be used to pay for private school tuition, online learning programs, private tutoring, educational therapies, or college costs.

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

Now, as Waldorf - methods schools enter the public arena, a broader population of children will benefit from and succeed with this exceptional child - centered educational experience.

Even though statistics prove that art education benefits the child in so many ways, funding for art and music and other creative instruction is continually one of the first program cuts from public school programs.

NECPA's mission is to create broad public understanding of the benefits of high quality early childhood care and education and a raised awareness of the «professional expertise» required to deliver that high quality care and an appreciation of the advantages that children receive from accredited centers and schools.

So while I appreciate the argument that keeping our kids in public school benefits the community as a whole, I'm also not willing to keep my kids in a sinking ship so the school can reap an extra $ 5000 / year per child for the benefit of our community.

Since historically, separationist rhetoric was used to pass Blaine Amendments that forced poorer Catholic parents to send their children to Protestant («public») schools, church - state separation may erroneously seem to exclude certain religious groups from the full benefits of citizenship.

A large number of public primary school children have yet to benefit from the free meal initiative government.

These schools enrich our communities and expand opportunities for children, and I will continue to work hard to ensure they receive the same reimbursement public schools benefit from.

«The poorest children are already eligible for free school meals — the main beneficiaries of this new universal benefit will be middle and upper - income households, who really don't need a public subsidy.»

Expanding publicly funded health insurance to low - income children could have long - term benefits for adult health, according to new research from the University of Maryland School of Public Health.

Key recommendations for government in the report that won API support were: for play to be embedded within a Whole Child Strategy under the aegis of a Cabinet Minister for Children responsible for cross ‑ departmental roll out and co-ordination; for government to require local authorities to prepare children and young people's plans including strategies to address overweight and obesity with its physical, mental and emotional consequences; for funding for play to be ring - fenced within local authority budgets; to address barriers to outdoor play for children of all ages and abilities; to extend the Sport England Primary Spaces and Sport Premium programmes to all schools with a broader scope to incorporate a wide variety of physical literacy activities including play; to communicate through public information campaigns to parents and families the value of active outdoor play, including risk or benefit assessment; and to improve public sector procurement practice for public play prChildren responsible for cross ‑ departmental roll out and co-ordination; for government to require local authorities to prepare children and young people's plans including strategies to address overweight and obesity with its physical, mental and emotional consequences; for funding for play to be ring - fenced within local authority budgets; to address barriers to outdoor play for children of all ages and abilities; to extend the Sport England Primary Spaces and Sport Premium programmes to all schools with a broader scope to incorporate a wide variety of physical literacy activities including play; to communicate through public information campaigns to parents and families the value of active outdoor play, including risk or benefit assessment; and to improve public sector procurement practice for public play prchildren and young people's plans including strategies to address overweight and obesity with its physical, mental and emotional consequences; for funding for play to be ring - fenced within local authority budgets; to address barriers to outdoor play for children of all ages and abilities; to extend the Sport England Primary Spaces and Sport Premium programmes to all schools with a broader scope to incorporate a wide variety of physical literacy activities including play; to communicate through public information campaigns to parents and families the value of active outdoor play, including risk or benefit assessment; and to improve public sector procurement practice for public play prchildren of all ages and abilities; to extend the Sport England Primary Spaces and Sport Premium programmes to all schools with a broader scope to incorporate a wide variety of physical literacy activities including play; to communicate through public information campaigns to parents and families the value of active outdoor play, including risk or benefit assessment; and to improve public sector procurement practice for public play provision.

• Show that public charter schools could benefit the students most in need of new opportunities (poor and minority children in big cities).

This is actually something parents of home - schooled children have done for years, but increasingly some seem to be saying that they would like some of the benefits of the local public school, for which they are paying with their tax dollars, as they do so.

When parents send their children somewhere other than the local public school, it's not because they believe that the private market is the best way to deliver education or that their child will benefit from a longer bus ride.

These services and benefits must be 1) delivered in a timely way, and 2) comparable to the services and benefits the district provides to the children and teachers in its public schools.

A parent might think their child would benefit in other (harder to measure) ways by opting out of the local public school.

This action by the NAACP is a slap in the face to 700,000 African American children currently benefiting from public charter schools and the millions of African American parents struggling to give their children a quality education.

A decision by a rural family to withdraw a child from the public school and enroll them elsewhere doesn't mean that the family disconnects from the school — it simply means that the school has fewer resources to provide the non-educational benefits critical for community members.

Brooks, 59, had moved her family from Tennessee back to Boston so her three children could benefit from the outstanding education she herself had received in public schools there.

Georgia's program also promised to designate scholarships for students in «failing public schools» from low socioeconomic levels, but as a 2013 New York Times article exposed, the program has «[benefited] private schools at the expense of needy children.»

Although her legacy is yet to be fully written and those who will benefit the most from her incredible work may never know her name, as the leading force behind the Connecticut Coalition for Justice in Education Funding [CCJEF], Dianne has been and will remain the most vital force behind the historic effort to ensure that Connecticut's public schools are adequately and fairly funded and that every Connecticut child is provided with the education, knowledge and skills they need to live more fulfilling lives.

Second, the current formulas also benefit states with more children in each household, whether or not the states serve more children in their public schools.

A common knee - jerk reaction: «By supporting the public schools, you're helping ensure an educated society, even if your children don't benefit directly.»

Launched in 2011, the National Summer Learning Project is looking at whether and how large - scale summer learning programs led by public school districts can help benefit children in low - income urban communities.

These celebratory events raise public awareness of the different K - 12 education options available to children and families, while spotlighting the benefits of school choice.

The Indiana Attorney General wrote that providing free bus transportation for parochial school students on the same basis as public school students does not violate Indiana's Blaine Amendment because any benefit to parochial schools is incidental to the protection and education of children.

We take a public health approach to addressing trauma in schools, and have found that more safe and supportive school environments benefit not only traumatized children and youth, but also those who are affected by these students, including their peers and the school personnel who work with them.

The court noted that paying for special education services in private schools was required only after it was first determined that a public school lacked the ability or desire to meet the needs of special education students and that this requirement was intended to benefit children, not to aid or promote private schools.

Recapture directly benefits at least 90 percent of Texas public school districts, and all of Texas benefits from investment in our children.

Let's hope that Governor McCrory sees the obvious educational and political benefits of focusing most of his efforts on supporting the teachers and students in the traditional public school system that educates more than 90 % of North Carolina's children and readies the future workforce of the state.

At 6 pm, dinner will be served and the group will open up the discussion on public education and how the development of community schools can benefit children, families and neighborhoods.

The 46th annual Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup poll on the public's attitude toward public schools also shows that although America's support for the Common Core State Standards is waning and the public questions the benefits of standardized tests and international assessments, two out of three public school parents would still give high marks to the school that their children attend.

Charter - school opponents say they fear the schools will drain public resources and benefit only wealthy children.

The report also found that mayors can provide great benefits to public schools in other ways, especially by enabling better integration and coordination of services for children and families.

The two measures, though small steps in the larger context of imminent changes in the state's educational system, represent advances that will ultimately benefit New Jersey's 1.4 million public school children.

The lawyers at Gibson Dunn first became aware of the teacher unions» practice of bundling political activities with job - related benefits in their dues structure while preparing for Vergara v. California — a lawsuit brought by California public - school students challenging five seniority statutes that harm low - income children by entrenching grossly ineffective teachers in their schools.

Most public dollars spent to benefit children go toward traditional education (such as public school).

The Children's Trust is by statute (Section 125.901 (2)(a)(3)-RRB- required to allocate and provide funds for other agencies in the county which are operated for the benefit of children, provided they are not under the exclusive jurisdiction of the public schoolChildren's Trust is by statute (Section 125.901 (2)(a)(3)-RRB- required to allocate and provide funds for other agencies in the county which are operated for the benefit of children, provided they are not under the exclusive jurisdiction of the public schoolchildren, provided they are not under the exclusive jurisdiction of the public school system.

There are so many different schooling options in the Houston area — public, charter, magnet, vanguard, Catholic or other private schools — that you have the benefit of choosing from many possible local schools for your child.

In far too many cases these would be the same school districts that are responsible for the terrible public schools that will fail to educate the very children the president's preschool proposal is intended to benefit.

As Scott D. Pearson of the U.S. Department of Education's charter school program noted in 2010, while «one of the promises of charter schools was they were going to be a source of innovation and be a benefit not only for the children attending charter schools, but [for] all public schools,... [in practice],... the collaboration is not as widespread as we would hope.»

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While Charter schools do enjoy some of the benefits of both private and public schools, it doesn't always mean that a particular charter school will be right for your child and your family.

• Over the last 10 years, when costs of public education skyrocketed, especially salaries and benefits, the schools were nonetheless generously supported by taxpayers, who believed that funds were critically needed to improve outcomes «for our children.

Held to a higher standard of accountability than traditional public schools, but with the benefit of added autonomy that puts local school leaders and teachers in charge, Tennessee's public charter schools are empowered to create a challenging and focused learning environment for students, while giving parents even more direct and meaningful opportunities to participate in their children's education.

«Support of public schools is important; involvement and action by several parents in a group can influence school policy - makers and result in decisions and choices than can benefit many children.»