Sentences with phrase «count only public school»

The PDK / Gallup poll released last week shows 54 percent of Americans — a majority now — agree that «standardized tests are not helpful» in letting teachers know what to teach, a figure that jumps to an alarming 68 percent when you count only public school parents.

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In Cincinnati Public Schools, a nutrition app is not only changing how students and parents get meal information, it's used in classrooms for morning announcements and by school nurses to tally carb counts and manage student allergy needs.

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...

In a recent radio interview, Brill summarized his views as follows: «The nation's K to 12 schools are basically the only workplace in America where, until recently with some reforms including reforms in your state [Colorado], until those reforms, they have been the only workplace in America, even though there are 3.2 million public school teachers, where performance basically doesn't count.

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.