Sentences with phrase «children than other public»

Consequently, charters proudly enroll higher percentages of black and Hispanic children than other public schools, and a growing body of research underscores their success.

Not exact matches

That said, families with children seem more determined to return than others; while the post-wildfire population dropped about 17 per cent, public school enrolment fell only by about five per cent this year.

After March 4, 2013, an International Arrest Warrant will be issued against these Defendants.The guilty verdict followed nearly a month of deliberations by more than thirty sworn Citizen Jurors of the 150 case exhibits produced by Court Prosecutors, The Court's judgement declares the wealth and property of the churches responsible for the Canadian genocide to be forfeited and placed under public ownership, as reparations for the families of the more than 50,000 children who died in the residential schools.To enforce its sentence, the Court has empowered citizens in Canada, the United States, England, Italy and a dozen other nations to act as its legal agents armed with warrants, and peacefully occupy and seize properties of the Roman Catholic, Anglican and United Church of Canada, which are the main agents in the deaths of these children

Children in public schools are being used to achieve an agenda other than literacy.

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But for other secular homeschoolers, those who do not follow a particular philosophy — which may either mean that they fall into the group of homeschoolers known as eclectic or that they use many public school methods — they don't or don't seem themselves as having a single, shaping vision that guides all their choices other than providing their children with an excellent, safe education.

«The truth is that New York dedicates more money per pupil to education than any other state — including over $ 25.8 billion in this year's budget,» Rich Azzopardi, a spokesman for Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, said in a statement, «and we'll continue to work to strengthen our public schools and provide New York children with the education they deserve.»

«Local media is the bedrock of internet surveillance — the kind of work that we do in terms of scouring the web looking for early signs of something taking place in a community,» explained Brownstein, chief innovation officer at Boston Children's and a pioneer in the field of using sources other than public health data to do this type of work.

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implicatother long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implicatOther high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

The virtues essentially stop with the shot design and the work of Edward Norton (himself being a sort of walking meta joke, as his character arrives on scene and immediately begins armchair directing and taking control, something for which Norton himself has been infamous on set), and while the other actors are fine, they do not manage to separate themselves as anything other than puppets for Inarritu's agenda, who looms over every frame like some petulant child with a grudge and a budget that allowed him to force his opinions on an unwitting public.

Protestants, secularists, and public - school advocates proposed (and sometimes enacted) regulations that charged children with truancy if they attended Catholic schools; taxes on Catholic school property; bans on private schools that taught children in a language other than English; and constitutional amendments forbidding the use of public dollars to support even the secular instruction provided by a Catholic school.

One - quarter (26 %) of those living with school - age children have educated at least one of their children in a setting other than a traditional public school.

• One - quarter of those living with school - age children have educated at least one of their children in a setting other than a traditional public school.

And, in fact, parents of school - aged children are even more positive than other Americans about their local public schools, with 58 percent assigning them an «A» or «B» grade.

In the voucher program's first five years, more than $ 27 million that could have gone toward reduction of class size or other reforms for the 76,000 children who attend Cleveland's public schools was instead diverted to vouchers.

Others ask parents and carers to refrain from discussing the business of school or children attending school in any public forum, while many request that complaints are made via official school channels rather than social networking sites.

These and other education - related issues affect parents and educators more than they do other citizens, particularly those citizens who do not have children enrolled in public school.

Two thousand and five hundred Manhattan - residing children are tested at the kindergarten level by parents who believe Hunter will be better for them than any other public school option.

In other words, parents with a charter nearby appear better informed about the mechanics of enrolling a child but no more informed than the broader public about other regulations on charter practices.

Writing about Illinois» newly approved NCLB waiver, it breathlessly reported that, «Under a dramatic new approach to rating public schools, Illinois students of different backgrounds no longer will be held to the same standards — with Latinos and blacks, low - income children and other groups having lower targets than whites for passing state exams, the Tribune has found.»

The first cohort, now old enough to participate in third - grade testing, scored higher than did other low - income children who did not receive public pre-K.

Schools, and the communities they create, have more contact with children during their first two decades in life than any other public institution.

Was it right that her children should have limited access to speech therapy and music programs simply because their school received $ 1,000 less per pupil each year than other public schools?

2) More than one - fourth of all families with school - age children have educated a child in a setting other than a traditional public school.

Rather, it is that there are other ways to spend as much or more public funds on early education and child care than under the dominant school readiness model.

Hillary for America senior policy adviser Maya Harris said the «proposal could strip funding from up to 56,000 public schools serving more than 21 million children» and it «might only serve 1.4 million students, while stripping funding from the other 10.5 million low - income students in America.»

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.

A ruling against the tax credits would jeopardize not only the hopes children desperate to escape failing public schools, but also educational support for more than 15,000 other students.

Examining data on more than 15,000 children born between 1955 and 1985, it found that poor children whose schools were estimated to receive and maintain a 10 percent increase in per - pupil spending (adjusted for inflation) before they began their 12 years of public school were 10 percentage points more likely to complete high school than other poor children.

Cascio's research did not examine the effect of universal preschool on middle - class children, other than to observe that where it was offered, middle - class families availed themselves of the opportunity to send their children to free public preschool.

State support is now at $ 11,000 per - child — far less than what other public schools have to support their students.

Our children are no different than all other public school children.

When asked what type of school they would select to obtain the best education for their children, nearly two - thirds of registered voters (66 %) would select something other than a regular public school.

Children are More than Test Scores is a blog run by teacher Jesse Turner, called the «Walking Man» due to his passionate trekking for children from Connecticut to Washington, DC in 2011, and for a myriad of other activist activities fighting for public Children are More than Test Scores is a blog run by teacher Jesse Turner, called the «Walking Man» due to his passionate trekking for children from Connecticut to Washington, DC in 2011, and for a myriad of other activist activities fighting for public children from Connecticut to Washington, DC in 2011, and for a myriad of other activist activities fighting for public schools.

In permitting — for the first time — entities other than school districts to create new public schools, states are taking a bold step toward reform that can produce the diverse educational opportunities that our children need.

The Kentucky Court of Appeals, which was then the state's highest court, held that a statute authorizing public aid to private schools for exceptional children did not violate, among other Constitutional Provisions on Education, Kentucky's Blaine Amendment because the funds were for children's «welfare» rather than «education.»

«More than any other public institution, including the schools, the public library contributed to the intellectual growth of children during the summer.

When families, when these military families were asked where they would like to send their children to school, 68 % of the respondents said something other than a district public school, a traditional public school.

It is critical that you email your state representative right now to let them know public charter school children are not worth less than their peers at other public schools.

Both public school systems claim to offer all things to all children, and each state they offer them differently and better than each other.

Public charter schools provide enormous opportunity for success to children who need a learning environment other than a traditional public sPublic charter schools provide enormous opportunity for success to children who need a learning environment other than a traditional public spublic school.

And liberated from traditional school boundaries, Shanker and other early charter advocates suggested, charters could do a better job than the regular public schools of helping children of different racial, ethnic, economic, and religious backgrounds come together to learn from one another.

Special - progress classes were even more racially and academically segregated from other students than their contemporary version, «gifted and talented» programs that retain middle - class parents in the public - school system by separating their children from most low - income and minority - group peers.

Others say they look for homes outside of Cambridge in places like Brookline or Belmont to put their children in those public school districts, which rank higher than the Massachusetts state average on metrics such as college readiness, math proficiency, and English proficiency.

For more than a decade, the debate over public school reform has created friction between teachers unions, administrators, school boards, parents, policymakers, and other stakeholders in public education and has fueled disagreements over how to improve the quality of teaching and learning for children.

My children should not be treated any differently than other public school children just because I found a better option for them.

Side by Side charter has significantly fewer needy children than its host district — which brings me to Ms. Dichele's other claim: that her school spends less than public schools.

As we demonstrated in our 2015 analysis of the Common Core debate on Twitter, the dispute about the standards was largely a proxy war over other politically - charged issues, including opposition to a federal role in education, which many believe should be the domain of state and local education policy; a fear that the Common Core could become a gateway for access to data on children that might be used for exploitive purposes rather than to inform educational improvement; a source for the proliferation of testing which has come to oppressively dominate education; a way for business interests to exploit public education for private gain; or a belief that an emphasis on standards reform distracts from the deeper underlying causes of low educational performance, which include poverty and social inequity.

From opposing the expansion of high - quality charter schools and other school choice options, to its opposition to Parent Trigger laws and efforts of Parent Power activists in places such as Connecticut and California, to efforts to eviscerate accountability measures that hold districts and school operators to heel for serving Black and Brown children well, even to their historic disdain for Black families and condoning of Jim Crow discrimination against Black teachers, both unions have proven no better than outright White Supremacists when it comes to addressing the legacies of bigotry in which American public education is the nexus.

More parents choose public schools as their child's option to education than all of the other options.