Sentences with phrase «concern about public school»

Currently, the widespread concern about public school quality impels mayors to expend unusual amounts of leadership and resources to remedy urban school ills, but this has not always been so and may not be in the future.

They too cite concern about public school environments, family ties and academic standards as reasons to home school, research shows.

• If parents really are concerned about public school strikes, at some point they need to ask if we should be giving government unions the broad powers that we give them.

Meanwhile a few blocks from the Hartford line the parents in Wethersfield, West Hartford, Bloomfield, and Windsor are blissfully ignorant and not the least bit concerned about their public schools being given to anyone.

Not exact matches

The investigation was prompted by about a dozen complaints concerning the Trump school that the attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, has found to be «credible» and «serious,» these people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the investigation was not yet public.

An advocate for a local teachers union also expressed concern to the New York Times Magazine about the quality of the education, arguing Bridge focuses less on getting poor students to the baseline as enticing public school students to switch to Bridge schools.

Irene Lanzinger, president of the BC Teachers Federation, echoed the call for public investments and stricter regulation of banks, and added particular concerns about schools, women and students.

If Amazon is concerned about retaining employees as they move into their 30s, settle down and have families, Montgomery's bucolic neighborhoods and strong public schools might be the answer.

Stevens offered not a word of concern about whether religious students might feel themselves to be less than full members of the political community if, by order of the nation's highest court, their messages and only their messages are categorically excluded from the school's public arena.

A medical school, for instance, is a research and often also a healing center, directly concerned with the increase of knowledge about the human organism and with its health; but it is also a training center where men are prepared to work in many other institutions of the society, from private practice to public health offices.

As a result, Jewish groups, though usually nervous about evangelicals» intentions regarding public schools, have pointedly distanced themselves from the position of People for the American Way — one of the active liberal advocacy groups — that parents with religious concerns should enroll their children in private schools.

Christian parents who care about the values of their children are rightly concerned about the moral and social values communicated through the public schools.

In 1962 and 1963, when the U.S. Supreme Court removed Bible reading from American public schools, social conservatives were overwhelmingly concerned about the moral effects.

As Chicago Public Schools pushes ahead with a district - wide roll - out of its Breakfast in the Classroom program, concerns are mounting from some parents worried about kids» allergies

A Tribune analysis in January highlighted concerns about fraud in the federal school lunch program within Chicago Public Schools because of layers of bureaucracy, incentives for high enrollment, and minimal checks and balances.

We should all be less concerned about supermarket shoppers being misled (though that's a real problem) and far more worried about the 32 million public school children participating in the National School Lunch Program and the 12 million in the School Breakfast Program, all of whom are offered milk — usually including a flavored milk option — each and every school day, sometimes multiple times school children participating in the National School Lunch Program and the 12 million in the School Breakfast Program, all of whom are offered milk — usually including a flavored milk option — each and every school day, sometimes multiple times School Lunch Program and the 12 million in the School Breakfast Program, all of whom are offered milk — usually including a flavored milk option — each and every school day, sometimes multiple times School Breakfast Program, all of whom are offered milk — usually including a flavored milk option — each and every school day, sometimes multiple times school day, sometimes multiple times a day.

I'll still be concerned about school food, but it wont be affecting my child personally, until the grand kids start public school anyway.

The basic tenets of good nutrition are sneaking their way into the public consciousness, especially in school cafeterias, where concern is mounting about the typical fare of high - fat, deep - fried foods frequently served for lunch.

Because most of Chicago «s public schools have closed campuses and 88 percent of the children attending receive free or reduced - price lunches, Phillips is more concerned about getting the students to eat than losing them to outside competition.

Recently Wilma had a moment of frustration and sent me an email which I felt ought to be required reading for any public school parent concerned about school food.

Still others are concerned about perceived deterioration of the academic quality of public schools as a result of overcrowded classrooms.

He's certainly concerned about how institutions like school districts and public authorities manage their funds.

Today he commented, «At a time when public concern about the place of religion in schools has never been higher, we need full accountability and transparency with respect to decisions as to which schools are funded.

Concerned about children's exposure to lead found in drinking water, lawmakers met with reporters today at the state capitol in Albany to discuss a last - minute push to require lead testing in all public schools.

We asked Higgins about his concerns for the future of education, especially for children living in poverty that attend Buffalo Public Schools.

The governor, who has said in recent months that he wants to break the public education monopoly, says New Yorkers have concerns about the quality of the schools and whether they are adequately preparing students.

Caveating his concerns, the man of God said his comments should not be misinterpreted as an endorsement of corruption or wrongdoing, but rather a warning about the destruction of the private sector which has the potential of providing jobs for over 95 per cent of employable graduates and secondary school leavers, since, according to him, the public and civil service has room for just about five per cent of all employable Ghanaians.

Speakers shared their concerns about Buffalo schools during a public hearing Thursday in Council Chambers.

Parents worry about funding and standards for their public school students and remain least concerned about the amount of testing in classrooms, a survey released by High Achievement New York and Achieve found.

In announcing the postponement in a statement, Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott said, «After reviewing concerns raised by parents and public officials about this year's Citywide and Community Education Council elections, I have concluded that the process could and should have been handled better.»

Nixon joined AQE as a volunteer in its incipient years, as a public school parent concerned about the quality of her children's education, she has said.

In their letter to the union, the candidates, including City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, expressed their solidarity with the drivers, but said they were increasingly concerned about the impact the strike was having on public school kids, parents and drivers, as it entered its fifth week.

«We're concerned about the future of the Buffalo Public Schools,» said Richard Lipsitz Jr., president of the local labor federation.

About the Parent Advisory Board The Parent Advisory Board gives Queens public school parents an opportunity to be heard on education issues and concerns and provides a forum to meet with senior city and state DOE officials.

Parents joined City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez in expressing concerns about uptown public schools.

«What we are saying is that, all the things that you have put to me are things that I am very concerned about — extending the school feeding programme, establishing a nurses training college — but a lot of them depend on the state of our public finances.

But Burke, who now teaches at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, remains concerned about the move, in light of previous actions by Pruitt that he thinks have weakened EPA's Scientific Advisory Board and put the independence of the agency's chemical assessment program at risk.

A new NPR / Robert Wood Johnson Foundation / Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health poll finds that more than six in ten people living in the U.S. (62 %) are concerned about their future health.

While data from the Harvard School of Public Health indicates that olive oil is clearly a healthier choice for heart outcomes than butter and lard, there is concerning data about olive oil and arteries.

He told public health and medical school authorities about his discovery but they were more concerned about loss of their own profits and ended up instigating a government law that Boron be declared a poison in any concentration.

We found a lot of concern among government actors about unregulated, possibly ideologically motivated, schools operating under the radar, while local communities found these schools more open and accessible because they were close and taught lessons in Arabic, rather than in English and French, which are used in public Lebanese schools.

But in the evolving landscape of public education, with ever - present conversations about school choice and concerns about school quality, that is changing.

At the beginning of the last decade, before concerns about the nation's graduation rate ascended to prominence on the policy agenda, only about two - thirds of U.S. public school students were finishing high school with a regular diploma.

Teachers and school leaders are concerned about this increasing «creep» of commercialism into public schooling, a university survey conducted as part of CIPS shows.

If the mayor were truly concerned about «corporate» funding of public schools, we have to ask, «Does that include all corporate money?»

The Bush administration's drug czar is telling public schools in a new document that drug testing of students has «enormous potential benefits» and that concerns about damage to individual privacy are «largely unfounded.»

We have long known from polling data that the public is concerned about the quality of American education, but most parents are satisfied with their own children's school.

Valid concerns are being raised about the safety of some portables, including in Minnesota's Lake Forest Public Schools, where 16 portable classrooms were closed in September because of poor and potentially unsafe construction.

Because of concerns about what was being taught in public schools and rampant anti-Catholic bigotry, the Catholic Bishops at the 1884 Plenary Council of Baltimore decreed that every Catholic parish ought to have a school and that every Catholic family ought to send their children to such schools.

If you look at the Fund's «990» tax form, you'll find even more reason to question the veracity of the mayor's concern about the malign influence of private money in public schools.