The American public needs to know that our country's future is secure and they can
depend on its public schools.
Rationale Democracies
depend on public schools for the education of active citizens through equal access to a free, high - quality public education.
In an about - face betrayal of California's students and hardworking families who
depend on our public schools, AB 934 now abandons California's 6 million public school students and hard - working public school teachers by embracing a harmful, unpopular and unconstitutional «business as usual» mindset.
About 4,000 students in Baton Rouge Diocesan schools
depend on public school buses, he said.
California's leadership in the nation and world
depends on public schools working well for every child.
Not exact matches
Students in DC
Public Schools depend on breakfasts, lunches, after
school snacks, supper, and fresh fruit and vegetables to counter the effects of a rough economy and widening urban income inequality.
Although numerous parents choose
public education because it is a free resource and may be a good option
depending on the
school district, increasing numbers of families are discovering -LSB-...]
So if kids»
school performance
depends on full bellies, why aren't universal meals built into our
public school system?
Although numerous parents choose
public education because it is a free resource and may be a good option
depending on the
school district, increasing numbers of families are discovering the benefits of choosing another option, such as private
school or homeschooling.
School districts in some states, including all five surveyed, may have additional protection under «recreational use» statutes, which offer immunity from certain claims against landowners who open their property to the public for recreational use.10 In states with broad recreational use statutes, such as Indiana, opening school kitchen facilities could be considered a protected activity under the law, depending on the circumstances of the use and other factors.11 However, in Massachusetts, protection for recreational activities extends only to purposes that are «scientific, educational, environmental, ecological, research, religious, or charitable,» 12 so the state's statute might not apply when districts allow for - profit groups to use school kit
School districts in some states, including all five surveyed, may have additional protection under «recreational use» statutes, which offer immunity from certain claims against landowners who open their property to the
public for recreational use.10 In states with broad recreational use statutes, such as Indiana, opening
school kitchen facilities could be considered a protected activity under the law, depending on the circumstances of the use and other factors.11 However, in Massachusetts, protection for recreational activities extends only to purposes that are «scientific, educational, environmental, ecological, research, religious, or charitable,» 12 so the state's statute might not apply when districts allow for - profit groups to use school kit
school kitchen facilities could be considered a protected activity under the law,
depending on the circumstances of the use and other factors.11 However, in Massachusetts, protection for recreational activities extends only to purposes that are «scientific, educational, environmental, ecological, research, religious, or charitable,» 12 so the state's statute might not apply when districts allow for - profit groups to use
school kit
school kitchens.
Public use of
school kitchens also can generate revenue that can be invested back into student meal programs.21 Some districts adjust the rental price
depending on the category of user.
«Maintaining mayoral control of city
schools is critical to students, parents and employers who all
depend on high quality
public schools,» said Kathryn Wylde, President & CEO of the Partnership for New York City.
The final measures passed Sunday by the Senate provide for the flow of funds to state agencies, money to be sent to
school districts,
public college tuition to be cut or raised for students
depending on their family incomes, and non-fiscal matters, including the legalization of ride - hailing upstate.
«Maintaining mayoral control of city
schools is critical to students, parents and employers who all
depend on high quality
public schools,» said Kathryn Wylde, the president of the Partnership for New York City.
Parochial and independent
schools provide essential learning opportunities and help students grow just like
public schools, and we should be doing everything we can to support them and the families that
depend on them.
Depending on what happens in the coming session, this could turn out to have been a first step in weakening the mayor's control over the city's
public school system.
«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.
The success of fast - food menu labeling
depends on multiple conditions being met, not just the availability of calorie information,» said study author Andrew Breck, a doctoral candidate at NYU Wagner Graduate
School of
Public Service.
Public health messaging about the safety of e-cigarettes needs to account for the worldviews of the target audience, with different groups displaying varying levels of trust
depending on the source of the message, according to a recent study by the
School of
Public Health at Georgia State University.
The Institute of Medicine's recommended daily amount of fiber is 25 grams or more,
depending on gender and age, but the average American gets only 15 grams a day, says the Harvard
School of
Public Health.
The success of
schools also
depends on other individuals and institutions to provide the health, intellectual stimulus, and family support
on which
public school systems can build.
All of these strategies establish an important and unambiguous principle: teacher education exists to serve the needs of Pre-K — 12
schools and
public financial support should
depend on its ability to do so.
The quality of America's
public schools ultimately
depends on the competence and commitment of its teachers.
If the chartering strategy
depends on disrupting the existing arrangements for how
public education functions, then most charter laws have a structural flaw that will dramatically limit the ability of charter
schools to deliver real change for educators and students.
They believe true equity
depends on universal access to good
public schools.
Depending on the proposal, it can either include private
schools that participate in the Title I program or only
public schools.
Average per - pupil
public revenues (from all sources, including federal Charter
School Program start - up grants) across the NewSchools portfolio were more than $ 11,500 in 2010, ranging from about $ 9,000 to $ 16,000,
depending on the states and cities where
schools are located.
Charter
public school success
depends on the opinion of parents.
The influence of a nearby charter
school on traditional
public schools in the area
depends, in part,
on the credibility of students» threats to switch to the charter.
School Vouchers: Public opinion on school vouchers varied somewhat, depending on the way in which the question was w
School Vouchers:
Public opinion
on school vouchers varied somewhat, depending on the way in which the question was w
school vouchers varied somewhat,
depending on the way in which the question was worded.
Given that the growth in for - profit
schools has been mainly in contracting with
public schools or charter
schools to operate individual
public schools as EMOs, how much they diverge often
depends on state laws and
school district contracts.
I also narrate the stories of a few urban and rural teenagers to provide context; China is not a monolith, and educational experiences can vary
depending on whether a
school is, say,
public or private, or urban or rural.
The future of accountability — and of using test scores to improve our
schools — will
depend on one thing: does the
public care enough to advocate for the «eat - your - vegetables,» common - sense annual tests and the associated accountability?
The total loss
depends on the proportion of current private
school families who use 529 plans for private
school tuition, how many families switch from
public to private
schools, and
on the generosity and stability of state tax incentives.
Strategies such as these, Walsh writes, «establish an important and unambiguous principle: teacher education exists to serve the needs of Pre-K — 12
schools and
public financial support should
depend on its ability to do so.»
The future of our state
depends directly
on how well we teach our kids today and I look forward to working together with the Commission to make our
public schools the best in the nation.»
There are
public school districts across the country that have engaged in innovative contracts between teachers and the central office, and there are multiple models of educational interventions, including at the curricular level, that show real promise and do not
depend on wholesale structural reform.
A 2008 survey by Harvard University's Program
on Education Policy and Governance found that voters greatly underestimate how much
public schools cost and that their funding preferences vary
depending on whether they are accurately informed or not:
Finally, an individual student's academic success
depends not so much
on whether he or she attends a private or
public school but rather
on a complex interaction of abilities, attitudes, and strengths or problems brought to
school; the skills and knowledge of teachers; and the quality of the learning environment.
And because education is not just a «private good» — all of our welfare
depends on an educated populace — isn't it appropriate for the
public to demand that
schools meet certain standards, especially when taxpayer dollars are involved?
Whether competition from charter
schools can eventually spur academic improvements in traditional
public schools also
depends on the academic performance of the charter
schools themselves.
Public schools depend mainly
on local, state, and federal funds, and private
schools usually gain support mainly from tuition, with some funds coming from other nonpublic sources such as religious organizations, endowments, grants, and charitable donations.
At the same time, however,
public schools depend on a widespread civic trust: families send their children to common
schools with the expectation that no one gets to impose his or her own sectarian religious or moral values at
school.
Schools in poor rural communities, for example, may be more likely to build bridges to the state or to other non-local funding sources, given the local constraints they face.135 Charter schools, which are particularly vulnerable to resource constraints, may need to depend more on non-educational community members than regular public schools
Schools in poor rural communities, for example, may be more likely to build bridges to the state or to other non-local funding sources, given the local constraints they face.135 Charter
schools, which are particularly vulnerable to resource constraints, may need to depend more on non-educational community members than regular public schools
schools, which are particularly vulnerable to resource constraints, may need to
depend more
on non-educational community members than regular
public schoolsschools do.136
The other thing that we're really looking at, and this is coming from our state and local
school district affiliates, as people have now started to see charter
schools as: Wow, there are studies that say they are really no better,
depending on which charter
schools and how selective they are, and they're not really improving the
public schools the way the original concept had hoped.
Since over 90 % of America's students attend
public schools, our children's future
depends on those
schools being good
schools.
Too many children
depend on their
public charter
school for this unequal treatment to prevail.»
Brass City Charter
School depends on the generosity of foundations, corporations,
public agencies, and individuals to realize its mission of providing our students a rigorous, well - rounded and emotionally supportive education that will eliminate the achievement gap characteristic of urban underserved students and enable them to lead meaningful and productive lives both for themselves and for their community.
In Connecticut,
public charter students and teachers must go to the Capitol every year to fight for literally every seat in every charter
school in the state — that is, they must fight for every inequitably funded seat their
school needs to serve the students whose futures
depend on that education.
Parent Trigger or «Parent Empowerment,»
depends on professional lobbyists and outside forces to persuade 51 % of the parents in a struggling
school to «pull the trigger,» and transfer a valuable
public asset from the jurisdiction of a duly elected
school board into the hands of a proprietary corporation.