Sentences with phrase «count on the public schools»

A parent can also count on a public school bus to provide transportation to a public prekindergarten.

Not exact matches

Three commissioners may grant some of the nation's largest refineries a tax refund of more than $ 135 million — money Texas» cash - strapped schools and other local governments have been counting on to help pay teachers and provide other public services.

In response to the USDA's recommendations that public schools cut back on sodium, starchy foods like potatoes, saturated fats and total calories in school lunches, while including more whole grains and a wider variety of fresh fruits and vegetables, Congress decided that the tomato paste in pizza should count as a «vegetable.»

«Over 2.7 million public school students are counting on the Senate and Assembly to do their homework when it comes to education — not cram for the exam,» the statement continues.

«What we want all the candidates to know right now is that the minute this Mayor's term is over, the new administration can count on having in this great union, the UFT, a partner who will work with you to make New York's public schools into the greatest schools system in the nation,» he added.

The essays in part I are troubling on several counts, beginning with their main source of «data,» which is a survey of public school teachers — and no one else.

Quality Counts 2012, the 16th edition of Education Week's annual examination of issues and challenges facing America's public schools, takes aim at topics high on the policy agenda, from the White House and Congress down to the level of local school boards and chambers of commerce: the nation's international standing in education, and lessons to be drawn from high - performing countries.

Transforming education in the District of Columbia into an all - ESA district — establishing a truly universal policy to create education savings accounts for every DC student — would transform the existing school finance system from one that is based on student enrollment counts in boundary - defined regular public schools to one that is student - centered and responsive to the needs of individual families.

«Florida is rated the fifth - best state on quality of our public schools by Education Week's Quality Counts report, despite the fact that the state is ranked close to the bottom in funding for schools and teacher pay,» said Andy Ford, president of the statewide teachers union.

As The Wichita Eagle explains, the suit was filed by four school districts but the ruling applies to all of Kansas» public schools: «The districts claimed the state had failed in its constitutional duty to provide «suitable» funding for public education on two counts: Ensuring adequate state funding overall, and equitably distributing it among districts.»

Any data that rely on official reports of disability will under - count the percentage of students in private schools who would have been identified as in need of special education had they attended public schools.

Although votes are still being counted on Washington's charter school initiative, Spokane Public Schools officials have already decided the district will apply to have one if it passes...

His own conversion to the school reform movement offers one more reason why defenders of traditional public education such as the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers can no longer count on the Democratic Party for unquestioned support.

The two original KIPP schools in Houston and New York placed their graduating eighth - graders in private schools — including some famous ones like St.Mark's — and public magnet schools that could be counted on to demand the same high standards.

Rejection of Initiative 884 could spell tough times ahead for educators now counting on Washington lawmakers to carve out more state money for public schools.

At Norris Public Schools, students from pre-school through 12th grade can count on a fully integrated approach to special education.

All of the «options» Florida is offering have the same issues as public education: they are only as good as the quality of programs & people - administrators, teachers, evaluators, etc. implementing them - and more importantly, in the voucher plan there are two huge issues: 1) poor and uneducated parents rarely are aware of the range of quality and number of schools available (which I am sure the politicians are counting on) 2) Even if every parent were saavy in the needs of their child and the kind of school they should look for, there aren't enough of those schools available...

Mikulski, the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee, said she wanted to ensure that «Maryland families have public schools they can count on.»

On the other hand, the public schools won't have to bear the cost of educating those students, but will still be able to include them in enrollment counts used to determine how much state aide they get and how much in property taxes they can levy, according to the LFB.

But when the superintendents of Florida put their justified fear of political retribution aside to do the right thing for the three million public school children who are counting on us, it's a good day.

But with all the uncertainty, it's comforting to know that there is one thing we can count on in late summer: a new bogus study showing that public school teachers are woefully underpaid.

Speaking of the power of high expectations, Beard urged school board members and public school leaders to «expect greatness from every child and from each other,» reminding them that, «the children in our schools are counting on us.»

Experience counts and so, it is going to take an effort on everybody's part to make sure that this next year goes well for the Milwaukee Public Schools,» Peterson says.

As the California Charter School Association points out, unlike traditional public schools, charters «are academically accountable on two counts.

c. Students who are either (i) enrolled in a nonpublic school or (ii) receiving home instruction pursuant to § 22.1 - 254.1 and who are enrolled in a public school on less than a full - time basis in any mathematics, science, English, history, social science, vocational education, health education or physical education, fine arts or foreign language course, or receiving special education services required by a student's individualized education plan, shall be counted in the funded fall membership and March 31 ADM of the responsible school division.

Despite Tom Foley's decision to join Malloy in backing the corporate education reform industry's agenda, any endorsement of Malloy — prior to him publicly reversing course on the issues listed above — would be an insult to every Connecticut teacher and the tens of thousands of parents and public school advocates who are counting on the Connecticut Education Association to stand up for public education in Connecticut.

That's worse on both counts than students in the city's public schools.

I'd say they could use that money at a participating public school, too, but in Pennsylvania the public schools taking part in the program can be counted on one hand with fingers to spare.

«The challenger and three incumbents we've chosen to endorse represent the common sense leadership that families in Los Angeles are counting on to provide equitable access to a quality public education, which includes the 130,000 students who attend 285 independent and affiliated charter schools in the district.»

Counting on the support from the ally, Governor Dannel Malloy, the charter school industry is intent on leaving Connecticut public schools will fewer resources and Connecticut residents with higher tax bills.

Now, with only days left to the 2015 Connecticut Legislative Session Perry is counting on Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy to force the Connecticut General Assembly to provide the public funds Perry needs to open his privately owned charter school in Bridgeport Connecticut.

Charter schools are counting on the Trump administration to dramatically accelerate to privatization of public education in the United States.

Families count on New York's public schools to put their children on track for success in college and beyond.

Sen. Al Franken's elicitation of her lack of understanding between growth and proficiency, her disdain for gun - free school zones (in front of a Newtown representative, no less), her view of sexual assault on campuses, her refusal to assure Sen. Tim Kaine that she would hold all schools that receive public funds — traditional, public charter, private, parochial — to the same standards of accountability: Shall we count the ways she equivocated on civil rights, equity, safety and basic comprehension of pressing educational matters?

Education Week released its 21st annual «Quality Counts» report on the state of the nation's public schools.

They can not count on loving public service jobs or working ten years in the public schools.