Sentences with phrase «come from public school»

«When we found out that part of being eligible for a voucher program meant having come from a public school, we just couldn't believe it,» says Lemrow.

Many voucher students in DC do not come from a public school labelled as being «in need of improvement» but come from other public or even private schools.

Most users have come from public school districts; high - school coaches use the service to stay connected with student athletes, and teachers employ it to elicit participation from shy students.

While BFA faculty were accustomed to teaching students who had previously come from public schools, the fact that the DHS students came all at once as a large group made the transition somewhat harder for the students and for the BFA teachers.

«We spend a lot of time getting students to speak in different arenas, forums, and environments,» says Rachael Futo, a Year 7 coach, «so that they're ready and prepared for things like interviews where students who come from public schools often don't do as well.»

About 60 percent of them come from public schools, and one - third receive financial aid to help with the hefty $ 17,500 tuition.

I came from public schools.

Eva Moscowitz justified this practice by claiming that it would be «unfair» for her students to be educated with students she considers to be lower achievers because they come from public schools.

As for Dyess, he comes from a public school background.

KTA teachers come from public schools and private, from urban schools and rural, from California to Massachusetts.

By Fordham's own, constant admission, most states have cruddy standards, and one major reason for this is that special interests like teachers» unions — the groups most motivated to control public schooling politics because their members» livelihoods come from the public schools — get them neutered.

For example, if the average cost of a voucher is $ 5,000 and the average student variable cost is $ 7,000, then at least 71 percent of voucher users will need to come from public schools for the program to not cost taxpayers anything.

If you are coming from a public school, become more familiar with independent schools.

Not exact matches

Given Osiris's strong five - year record of growth and profitability, Bowers was able to help make Miller's wishes come true: he structured a deal that raised $ 13 million from a large local pension fund — the Pennsylvania Public School Employees Retirement System (see «What Pension Funds Want,» [Article link]-RRB--- by selling a package of subordinated debt and convertible preferred stock, which included a fixed interest rate and dividend yield.

«They still want good restaurants, but now it's also about space, affordability and being able to send their kids to a good public school,» said Paternite, 45, who said that about 70 percent of her business now comes from young families who are making the move from Brooklyn or Manhattan.

Indeed, over the years, Georgetown has been perhaps the clearest example of what many such schools practice: the whipsaw of «Catholic tradition,» in which the strongest declarations of Catholic identity come from the fund - raisers, the alumni association, and the public - relations office ¯ all the people trying to sell the university in a tight economic situation that requires a good bit of niche marketing.

I've heard or read varying degrees of that same attitude when it comes to some of the conversations about «biblical» womanhood as people heap guilt on mothers or fathers for everything from choosing public school education to relying on babysitters or daycare, from Sunday School to family strucschool education to relying on babysitters or daycare, from Sunday School to family strucSchool to family structures.

It often comes down to snobbery: some administrators believe that applicants coming from Catholic schools simply were not «good enough «to get a job in a better paying public school to begin with.

Nord may not offer a panacea, but he has an educational agenda more specific than usually comes from those who bemoan the lack of religion in the public schools.

Until now his last public comment had come two weeks later in a post on his youth team's website, divorcing himself from the apology that the Covenant headmaster placed on the school's site.

The winning team in every grade, in other words — with the exception of those outliers from San Benito — came from a private school, an exam school, a parochial school, or a public school populated by the children of Apple engineers.

It's probably not an possibility for most city dwellers, but our second homebirth was just on the other side of the fence from a public school (and recess ended just as active labor came on...)

«The company's decision came after McDonald's, the National School Lunch Program, Kroger Co., Safeway Inc.and others made public their reduction or elimination of the product from their outlets in recent weeks.

Well, good for you for sticking to your guns, but prepare to be furious when your child comes home on the last day before the winter break vibrating like a tuning fork from all of the «holiday» (read «Christmas») treats that well meaning parents send for the traditional pre-break party that happens in virtually every public school classroom on the last school day of the calendar year.

In truth, what I'm most worried about is not deep fryers, since schools may not want to invest in equipment they only just got rid of a few years ago, but instead the clear message coming from the TDA, through Mr. Miller's public statements, that junk food is not a big deal.

The two sides came together on the issue as public pressure to remove junk foods from schools increased.

Betti J. Wiggins, executive director of Detroit Public School's office of school nutrition, said students don't like to admit they come from poor backgrSchool's office of school nutrition, said students don't like to admit they come from poor backgrschool nutrition, said students don't like to admit they come from poor backgrounds.

But the comment came as DeVos, a staunch opponent of public schools, is taking over the nation's free lunch program that provides nutrition to low - income students and is under attack from Republicans, raising questions about whether the administration of President Donald Trump will protect food aid programs for children, NPR reported.

The New York State Athletic Trainers» Association (NYSATA) has come full - circle with its current public outreach initiative by again operating an educational exhibit booth at the New York State School Boards Association (NYSSBA) conference in Rochester, from October 24 - 26, 2013.

«If President Clinton came in from his running and ate french fries that are baked, healthy and low in fat, that would capture the imagination of the American public,» said Peter Kwiterovich, professor of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

If you come from a low - income home — that's 2/3 of the District of Columbia Public School students — where breakfast is Doritos and some colored water and high fructose corn syrup called «juice» purchased at the convenience store on the way to school, with dinner not being much better, where do you learn about food and nutrSchool students — where breakfast is Doritos and some colored water and high fructose corn syrup called «juice» purchased at the convenience store on the way to school, with dinner not being much better, where do you learn about food and nutrschool, with dinner not being much better, where do you learn about food and nutrition?

Katherine Snedaker, a Norwalk resident and Executive Director of the non-profit PinkConcussions.com, told Concussion Litigation Reporter that 75 students in Norwalk public schools have reported concussions with 19 of them coming from non-school sports, which were not covered by the state law.

Trump's plan — coming from the NRA's talking points — to «harden» schools and arm teachers received a failing grade from parents, educators, school safety experts and public officials.

The United Federation of Teachers (UFT) has argued that nearly half of the city's college - ready students come from only ten percent of the city's public high schools, including Bronx High School of Science, Stuyvesant High School, Brooklyn Tech High School, and Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Art.

Books will be written analyzing where these ideas came from and why they were foisted on the nation's public schools at a time of fiscal distress.

We would liek to cut all property taxes to 3 or 4 percent annually... We haven't been able to get any cooperation from the Legislature... so we've come back to them and said look we'll just tax the entities which are not school taxes which are voted on by the public... but we haven't been able to get the Assembly to pass that either, so we're still trying.

The deadline for Carl Paladino to submit his resignation from the Buffalo Public School Board has come and gone.

A report from a pro-charter school organization found Queens and the Bronx are being under served when it comes to establishing the alternative public schools in their communities.

«It's really important for us to remember that 75 - percent of our Buffalo Public school students are coming from a background of poverty and that there's a lot of challenges associated with that.»

Every one of the state's 728 public school districts must run lead tests on the water coming from drinking fountains and most of the sinks in every school building.

Only about half of the funding for public schools in the United States comes from the federal and state budget.

Project BOOST, run by the Center for Educational Innovation - Public Education Association (CEI - PEA), provides academic enrichment opportunities to elementary and middle school students who have demonstrated academic talent, but come from disadvantaged neighborhoods.

«(Consolidation is) unlikely to reach the voters at this point, given the strong push - back against it, coming not only from communities in the city, but also much of the suburbs,» said Grant Reeher, director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute and a political science professor in Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, in an email.

The Moral Mondays movement came to New York State on Jan. 12 as about 1,000 students, parents, advocates and union leaders from New York City and across the state converged on the state Capitol to demand fair and equitable funding for public schools.

«I've come here with organizers and public school parents and students from across the state to demand public schools in every district get the resources they need regardless of the students» zip code, regardless of the students» skin color.»

«The education policies coming from the leadership of both major parties in the recent state budget — from underfunding public schools and promoting charter schools to modifying but not ending the high - stakes testing regime — are pro-privatization and anti-public schools.

She estimated Buffalo schools would be owed more than $ 100 million in aid from the state, had Albany followed the decision that came out of a landmark school funding lawsuit won by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, a group Nixon got involved with when her oldest teenager began as a kindergarten student in a New York City public school.

THE BRONX — State Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz tried to block minority students from enrolling in a popular public elementary school — saying that he didn't want «outsiders» coming into the kindergarten in the tony area of Riverdale, according to a lawsuit filed by the school's assistant principal on Monday.

The data comes from the 2015 Youth Risk Behavior Survey, a nationally representative survey that examines the prevalence of risky health behaviors among 9th - to 12th - grade public and private school students.

In fact, says Daniel Albert, F.A. Davis Professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, in Madison, medical schools are increasingly interested in applicants who don't come straight from their senior year in college.