Sentences with phrase «best public school systems»

It's close to Boston, public transit, local highways and one of the best public school systems in the state.

I assured the board that I wanted what they wanted: a better public school system to help all of our children to be more successful.

«Our veteran teachers have helped build what is arguably the best public school system in the nation, so this agenda makes no educational sense,» he said.

If you're interested, my own kids attend a very good public school system in the suburbs.

«I honestly believe that our state should be working to create the best public school system in America,» Caire said.

Not exact matches

The company's plan, which prioritized community amenities, called for affordable homes that Hershey workers could rent or own, as well as public schools, an all - boys orphanage, shops, restaurants, and a trolley system.

Turning our provincial school systems into providers of universal free child care for well - to - do families is a perversion of good public policy.

For this reason it is important for a democracy to have a strong public school system, and parents who cherish democratic ideals do well to send their children to schools, either public or independent, in which traditional class distinctions are minimized.

Whatever works best, because the worst thing that will happen is we'll see an erosion of the public school system as each religious sect starts its own school board (and there goes integration).

Have you morons not ready the ENTIRE article??? If you did, you would see that your negative nancy comments have taken it totally out of context... Wow, if you people are the best that the U.S. public school systems can produce, then we are totally screwed.

A just society will levy appropriate taxes for this purpose, to support the best possible public systems, public parks, and playgrounds, schools, and health facilities.

Instead of confronting the public school system or arguing before school boards for better teaching methods, we might do best by setting up small schools in which we try out our methods.

Having taught for some years in the public school system of MS, I can say that in many of the rural schools in this state (likely the same in nearby states as well for rural schools) have many football players on free or reduced price school lunch programs and very poor training and weight room facilities.

We sit where we get the product of the, primarily, the public school system, and there are issues with what we get, even for those who, nominally, are well educated, who have high SAT scores, who've taken AP courses.

To obtain the best education for your child research into your local public school system as well as research about homeschooling will help you to make a decision that makes sense for your own family.

There could be other factors involved as well, such as school - family incompatibility, multiple intelligences (where certain children learn best within environments that aren't offered in either public or private schools), as well as religious convictions and beliefs that aren't welcome in the public school system (creationism, for example).

I am fortunate enough to have a wonderful public school system for my children, but it just makes me laugh when I see so many parents continue to get caught up in always wanting «the best»: the best 2nd grade teacher, the best soccer coach, the best swim program.

The developments at D.C. Central Kitchen converge precisely with the public school system's recent efforts to introduce fresher, healthier foods, as well as the «Healthy Schools Act» approved earlier this year by the D.C. Council, which not only raises nutritional standards for school food but provides bonus funding for every meal that contains a locally grown component.

I am new to public school, but hope to take on this issue soon once I learn how to navigate the system a bit better.

We're going to strive together to make this Buffalo Public School system better,» Paladino said.

The politicians seem to be unable to move away from grand gestures which they think will impress the electorate rather than consider the fundamentals of what makes the kind of education system that the public wants - good local schools in every neighbourhood.

We've spent many decades building an independent and free PUBLIC school system in this country, and it has served us well.

«We have a real shot to flip the State Senate this fall so we can build a New York that works for all of us: reforming our broken criminal justice system, fighting climate change and creating good jobs, expanding opportunities for immigrant New Yorkers, fully funding all of our schools and public universities, and taking on big money in politics to expand and protect our democracy.

Cuomo and NYSUT have been at odds over the evaluation push, as well as the governor's strong support for charter schools as an alternative to the present public education system.

As a public school teacher for the past twenty - four years, I know first - hand what is working in our education system and I know all too well what desperately needs fixing.

Sharpton added that Devos — a longtime backer of charter and Christian schools --» does not believe in public education,» and would transform federal school funding into a voucher system that would favor a small percentage of well - off students while neglecting the rest.

Here in New York, vibrant movements opposing fracking and the growing corporate attacks on our public school system helped spur the Green Party gubernatorial campaign of Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones, which received almost 5 percent of the vote running against incumbent Democrat Andrew Cuomo, the best any independent third party campaign has done statewide in more than 80 years.

Then, he took those lightweight twinkletoes and gave poor and working class New Yorkers the chance to send their children to mostly superior charter schools intsead of leaving them in the cesspools of the public system (and, in the process, forced the public system to get much better because of the competition.)

Even as they promised more help for parents, both de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña reiterated Tuesday that they felt the city's public school system still remained the best place for most special needs students.

Todd is also the statewide leader on access to diplomas for special needs students, as well as fixing New York's broken standardized testing system for public school students.

«Although some of the data used to compile the rankings is subjective in its reporting, the report highlights the fact that community health is the responsibility of the entire public health system comprised of individuals, schools, non-profits, faith - based organizations, and public safety, as well as health care providers,» Gilmore said.

«I can not imagine that David Steiner will sleep well tonight; he wrestled with his conscience and settled on a nightmarish scenario for the million - plus children in the New York City public schools — placing at the helm of the New York City public school system a person with zero educational credentials,» he said.

Klein's compromise didn't sit well with some students at PS - MS 147 Ronald McNair, which Klein recently revealed to have the worst - scoring cafeteria in the public school system.

The charters have been used for tax breaks by hedge - fund operators; worse yet, he continued, is that they're siphoning away children in poorer neighborhoods whose parents are aware enough to seek something better for them than their local schools, in what he called «a cannibalization of our public - school system... We need to fully fund our schools.»

«We need to have a national search to get the best possible candidate that we can get for a Buffalo Public School system,» said Rev. Mark Blue with Baptist Minister's Conference of Buffalo and Vicinity.

Study collaborators included NIAID - funded scientists from Public Health Research Institute and New Jersey Medical School - Rutgers University, as well as researchers from Case Western Reserve University, the Houston Methodist Research Institute and Hospital System and NIAID's Rocky Mountain Laboratories, where the comparative genome sequencing took place.

«There are some individual and public health risks with daily dosing of sublingual buprenorphine, such as missed doses and accidental pediatric exposure, as well as the risk of theft or intentional diversion,» said Richard N. Rosenthal, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Medical Director of Addiction Psychiatry, Mount Sinai Behavioral Health System.

The team, which also included David A. Rotholz, Ph.D., of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Anne M. Kinsman, Ph.D., of the Greenville Health System, and Kathi K. Lacy of the South Carolina Department of Disabilities and Special Needs (SC DDSN), as well as other leaders from key public and private stakeholder organizations from across the state, saw a way to remove this barrier.

A mindfulness practitioner and a long - time champion of efforts to improve the health and well - being of American families and children, Congressman Ryan is also a public advocate for mindfulness - based programs in schools, the military, and the health - care system.

The protocol was approved by the institutional review boards at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the Pennington Biomedical Research Center of the Louisiana State University System, as well as by a data and safety monitoring board appointed by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

The state should develop such a system for funding the public schools and apply it to the ESAs as well.

Not a cheerful title, perhaps, but an important one — your choice for best video is a sobering and illuminating investigation of today's public school system.

Our analysis of these data reveals that teachers transfer from one school to another — or exit the Texas public school system altogether — more as a reaction to the characteristics of their students than in response to better salaries in other schools.

Justice Antonin Scalia was particularly vexed by the idea that well - heeled families might game the system to get reimbursed for private school tuition when they never had any intention of using a public school regardless of the quality of the program.

[3] Would poor students using vouchers to attend private schools do better than if they remained in their public systems?

«We are so lucky to have one of the world's best teachers right here in the NSW public schools system and now we would like to see Eddie's magic rubbing off on our educators across the State,» Ms Berejiklian said.

The law requires states to use a single accountability system for public schools to determine whether all students, as well as individual subgroups...

Yet the United States already bears costs from our broken education system, including higher crime rates, additional expenses for health - care and public - assistance programs, and lost tax revenue as well as the untold costs of telling generations of children in chronically under - resourced, low - performing schools: «You don't matter!»

The net effect of growing charter schools, closing under - enrolled traditional public schools, and only hiring back the best and most desired teachers from those schools is a true merit pay system.

The case against the Lowndes County public schools began in 1973 when the U.S. Justice Department filed suit in an effort to better integrate the school system's white and black students.