Sentences with phrase «concerns of public school parents»

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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.

-LSB-...] of public - school children Chris Liebig offers the following explanation for what he calls the «incredible shrinking lunch period»: At a meeting with concerned parents, the school superintendent sympathized with our concerns, but -LSB-...]

-LSB-...] and parent of public - school children offers the following explanation for what he calls the «incredible shrinking lunch period»: At a meeting with concerned parents, the school superintendent sympathized with our concerns, but -LSB-...]

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

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.

Prisco's concerns echo the concerns of parents who have blasted Bloomberg's failure to include parents in the city's public schools since winning mayoral control over the Education Department in 2002.

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.

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.

The off - color quip came in response to concerns by public - school dad Eric Greenleaf, who said at a meeting of parents and officials at state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's downtown office that there will be «huge shortages» of classroom space in lower Manhattan in coming years.

Wendy Craig, PhD, a professor of psychology at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, says that bullying and obesity are both major public health concerns that teachers and schools — and not just parents — need to address.

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.

The only issues on which charter school parents are either less satisfied or more concerned than traditional public school parents are is the availability of extra-curricular activities, school facilities, and the location of their child's school.

Attitudes: support for diversity (racial integration), a perception of inequity (that the public schools provide a lower quality education for low - income and minority kids), support for voluntary prayer in the schools, support for greater parent influence, desire for smaller schools, belief in what I call the «public school ideology» (which measures a normative attachment to public schooling and its ideals), a belief in markets (that choice and competition are likely to make schools more effective), and a concern that moral values are poorly taught in the public schools.

Those entrusted with directing our public schools can bring to bear the creativity of experts, parents, administrators, and other concerned citizens to find a way to achieve the compelling interests they face without resorting to widespread governmental allocation of benefits and burdens on the basis of racial classifications.

As the organizational sponsor of Doe v. Antioch, Students Matter is uniting students, parents, teachers, and concerned California taxpayers with an interest in ensuring accountability in our public schools.

Community groups and parents had also expressed concern about locating a new charter within a few blocks of an existing public school, Oakland Technical High Sschool, Oakland Technical High SchoolSchool.

Middle TN CAPE (Coalition Advocating for Public Education) Momma Bears Blog Advocates for Change in Education (Hamilton County) Concerned Parents of Franklin County (Franklin County) Parents of Wilson County, TN, Schools Friends of Oak Ridge Schools (City of Oak Ridge Schools) TNBATs (State branch of National BATs) TREE (Tennesseans Reclaiming Educational Excellence) TEA (Tennessee Education Association)

Strong Schools (Sumner County) Williamson Strong (Williamson County) SPEAK (Students, Parents, Educators Across Knox County) SOCM (Statewide Organizing for Community eMpowerment) Momma Bears Blog Gideon's Army, Grassroots Army for Children (Nashville) Advocates for Change in Education (Hamilton County) Concerned Parents of Franklin County (Franklin County) The Dyslexia Spot Parents of Wilson County, TN, Schools Friends of Oak Ridge Schools (City of Oak Ridge Schools) TNBATs (State branch of National BATs) East Nashville United Tennessee Against Common Core (Statewide) Coalition Advocating of Public Education (CAPE)

Six months ago, some lawmakers in Sacramento were concerned that a new law giving parents rights to force school restructuring could undermine the foundations of the public school system.

«I was talking to another parent that I worked with at that time regarding high schools and I was telling her my concerns with (public schools) and Dante was always in a school that had smaller classes and not a large number of students enrolled,» explained Hamilton.

We need a strong leader in the U.S. Department of Education that has experience in the public school system and is aware of the concerns of parents, teachers, and students within the system.

About: The Save Our Schools coalition is made up of students, parents, teachers, and concerned citizens who want children in Jackson to have access to high quality public charter sSchools coalition is made up of students, parents, teachers, and concerned citizens who want children in Jackson to have access to high quality public charter schoolsschools.

As Congress considers the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA, aka No Child Left Behind), Parents Across America, a national network of public school parents, will be calling on our U. S. Senators and Congressmen this week to share our concerns about the direction of federal education policy, and offer our proposals in a new position paper (attParents Across America, a national network of public school parents, will be calling on our U. S. Senators and Congressmen this week to share our concerns about the direction of federal education policy, and offer our proposals in a new position paper (attparents, will be calling on our U. S. Senators and Congressmen this week to share our concerns about the direction of federal education policy, and offer our proposals in a new position paper (attached).

North Carolina's State Superintendent for Public Schools, Dr. June Atkinson, says she's received emails from citizens concerned that the state will collect information such as facial expressions of children, parents» political and religious affiliations, blood pressure readings of students, and the DNA and irises of children — all thanks to the Common Core guidelines.

FundEducationNow.org is determined to arm children, parents, teachers and concerned citizens with the power to speak out against the Florida Legislature's plan to defund public education, disrespect professional educators and cause deep and lasting harm to the state's 2.6 million school children.Thanks to thousands of volunteer hours and in - kind donations, FundEducationNow.org quickly grew into a statewide non-partisan alliance of dedicated advocates.

With growing awareness of childhood obesity and diabetes as public health concerns, reformers and parents heralded the new law's emphasis on nutritious school meals, health education and environmental literacy.

Recruiting messengers such as teachers, parents, and business leaders who can speak to the importance of their local public schools and share their concerns about vouchers directly with policymakers and the media.

It means talking with parents and community activists worried about children with greater needs having access to fewer resources, local business leaders concerned about protecting the critical contributions of public schools to their local workforce and economy, and many others who have a stake in public education and our country's future.

CEA, the Connecticut Parent Teacher Association (CT PTA), and the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents (CAPSS) presented key survey findings including concerns with technology to the effects of overtesting and the time needed to administer and take the SBAC test.

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Last summer North Carolina charter school officials put the small suburban school, which got about $ 1.6 million in public money last year, under extra supervision because of state concerns about finances and parent complaints about building safety and school leadership.

The most serious problem facing public schools, according to parents polled, contrary to claims by reformers, is the fundamental lack of adequate funding, with school overcrowding being the second most serious concern cited by parents.

As a public school parent and arts educator in Salt Lake City, I can't speak to some of his concerns, but I can speak to assumptions about schools.

It turns out that it took less than 24 hours for Governor Dannel «Dan» Malloy to make it clear that Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor's departure IS NOT a sign that Connecticut's anti-teacher, pro-corporate education reform Democratic governor is going to use a second term to do a better job representing the concerns of teachers, students, parents and public school advocates in Connecticut.

State takeover of public schools fragment school authority, disenfranchise communities of color, and ignore parent and community concerns.

Led by the Charter Community of Silicon Valley (CCSV)- which represents Santa Clara County's charter public schools and serves as the voice for over 30,000 charter public school students in the region - CCSV members, collectively engaged principals, teachers, parents and students to call, write letters and personally meet with Senator Beall to share their positive experiences with charter public schools and concerns about the bill itself.

Ninety - one percent of parents cited concerns about the environment of public schools, 77 % cited moral instruction, and 74 % expressed concerns about the academic instruction.

Today, a group of California teachers, parents and concerned taxpayers seeking to ensure that public school educators are meaningfully evaluated, as required by state law, will have their day in court.

«As a mother of two children in Nashville public schools, I know firsthand the concerns of Tennessee's parents and how important education is not only to our kids but also to Tennessee's future,» said Kamrani.

Then later, as the Deputy Commissioner of Education was announcing that the «roundtable» meeting was over, a parent diplomatically and respectfully stood up, thanked the Department for its presentation and began to explain why parents were understandably concerned about the Common Core SBAC and NEW SAT testing and our accurate concern that that our public schools are being turned into little more than testing factories.

PURE and More Than a Score joined with the ACLU of Illinois, Parents 4 Teachers, Raise Your Hand Illinois, the Chicago Teachers» Union, the CReATE organization of university researchers, and the national group EPIC, to educate parents and others about this move, and to share our concerns with Chicago Public Schools and school board offParents 4 Teachers, Raise Your Hand Illinois, the Chicago Teachers» Union, the CReATE organization of university researchers, and the national group EPIC, to educate parents and others about this move, and to share our concerns with Chicago Public Schools and school board offparents and others about this move, and to share our concerns with Chicago Public Schools and school board officials.

In his extensive review of public polls and surveys concerning student testing in past three decades, Phelps (1998) concluded that parents generally wanted more standardized testing in schools.

A third might be a pledge by school - choice advocates that they will cease any and all attacks upon parents of means who have chosen to pay a premium for good public schools, and who have reasonable concerns about proposals that would change the terms of the deal by affecting the quality of their schools and harming their property values.

First - hand accounts like that make me — as both an educator and a parent of three children of color in public schools — especially concerned about current efforts to eliminate one of the most useful tools we have for gauging student and school progress.

The lack of public discourse has stoked some parents» concerns that there is an effort underway to advance charter schools at the expense of traditional public schools.

Once hailed as a kind of free - market solution offering parents an escape from moribund public schools, elements of the charter school movement have prompted growing concern in recent years.

Another option available for parents in a majority of public schools is something called an Intervention Assistance Team (IAT)- If you have significant concerns about your child's reading, request an Intervention Assistance Team (IAT) meeting.

«For parents concerned about the harm being caused by this increasing focus on testing, «opting out» is a powerful option — a kind of civil disobedience in response to a testing regime imposed by politicians, many of whom haven't spent any significant time in a public school classroom.»

Even charter schools, which some parents like, generally perform no better than public schools and increasingly have raised concerns about accountability, transparency, and draining of resources from and displacement of public schools.