Sentences with phrase «do for our public schools»

That is what we will continue to do for our Public Schools and our Students: Fight for Them.

2 For more ideas on how teachers can be integral to the change process, see the book I coauthored with 12 other teachers, Teaching 2030: What We Must Do for Our Public Schools — Now and In the Future (Teachers College Press, 2011).

Thank you, Byron and Eunice, for all you're doing for public schools in LA.

But beyond the hubbub around the A-F school grading system's formula, which many agree overemphasizes student performance on standardized tests, there are larger questions about what the A-F school grading system will do for public schools in the long term.

Not exact matches

Turning our provincial school systems into providers of universal free child care for well - to - do families is a perversion of good public policy.

We haven't even touched upon how many people can save a ton of money going to a public school like I did or attend community college for two years and then transfer to a public school for even more savings.

«Expect a burden of mental health problems, which will include depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and it's particularly going to impact groups who don't have access to rapid opportunities for recovery,» Sandro Galea, dean of the Boston University School of Public Health, told Vox after Hurricane Harvey hit Texas.

Didn't support the Burnaby School Board's policy banning homophobia and transphobia: The premier didn't stand up for the board's progressive policy, missing a key opportunity to take a strong public stance in favour of protecting LGBT students.

Nikolas Cruz's public defender argued that the Florida school shooting suspect should be represented at the expense of taxpayers because he likely doesn't have the assets to pay a private lawyer for his death penalty case.

The poll on education funding, done by Environics Research for the Alberta Teachers Association, dealt only with public attitudes about public funding for private schools.

This includes public school operations and capital funding for school facilities but does not include school board expenses or pensions and debt.

According to the College Board, tuition and fees for the 2016 — 2017 school year cost an average of $ 33,480 at private colleges, $ 9,650 at public in - state colleges, and $ 24,930 at public out - of - state colleges.3 And those figures don't even include room and board.

All this despite the fact that private schooling doesn't actually yield better outcomes for students, according to a recent Statistics Canada report (instead, the apparent academic success of private school student is due to their socioeconomic backgrounds).9 A UBC study also found that students from public schools scored higher in first - year university classes than their private school counterparts.10

Or they can help pave the way for the next public software - engineering school, as Union Square Ventures» venture capitalist Fred Wilson did in New York.

It is thus possible to teach «about» secularism rather than simply teaching secularism, as our universities, public schools, periodical media, and courts have been doing for so long.

Do you have a source to cite for «millions of Christians fleeing the failing public school system» because of acceptance of gays being taught?

Writing for the court in Abington v. Schempp (1963), Justice Tom Clark held that public schools can not establish a «religion of secularism,» preferring «those who believe in no religion over those who do believe.»

School records are NEVER open to the public, as it is against the law for them to do so.

For this reason it is important for a democracy to have a strong public school system, and parents who cherish democratic ideals do well to send their children to schools, either public or independent, in which traditional class distinctions are minimizFor this reason it is important for a democracy to have a strong public school system, and parents who cherish democratic ideals do well to send their children to schools, either public or independent, in which traditional class distinctions are minimizfor a democracy to have a strong public school system, and parents who cherish democratic ideals do well to send their children to schools, either public or independent, in which traditional class distinctions are minimized.

The greatest present bar to a mature religious orientation in public education is the assumption that the church and the synagogue are the only appropriate channels for religion, and that anything done about religion in the schools must be accomplished through these channels or at least with the official approval and sanction of the recognized religious officials.

For instance, the church school should supplement whatever the public schools do in the area of sex education and preparation for family life by relating these areas to the Christian understanding of the good liFor instance, the church school should supplement whatever the public schools do in the area of sex education and preparation for family life by relating these areas to the Christian understanding of the good lifor family life by relating these areas to the Christian understanding of the good life.

Now, on the other side, look up what the Texas board of education has been trying to do in Texas public schools for the past several years.

Public schools do not even allow for Christmas to be mentioned, much less taught anymore.

have a good spring break / holidays / winter break... i seriously do not believe there is any religion involved in public schools when kids go home for breaks..

A lot of these responses are from people who does not live in NY or NJ, Public School in these area have holidays for Ros Hassanah and Yom Kippur already.

While it's probably acceptable that public schools should go out of their way to blacklist MAJOR religious holy days from exams or deadlines (some kind of authoritative national list would be required, but I'll bet even with community involvement it won't please everyone, sheesh) I don't buy having our public school system bend over backwards for religion.

At a time when secularists are doing all they can to drain the last drop of Christianity out of this country, I find it insulting that these same anti-religious zealots are becoming muslim apologists and arguing for the inclusion of muslim holidays in the NYC public school calendar.

For several decades the strict separationists have had it all their way with the public schools; both the Alabama case and the Tennessee case are signs of a counteroffensive by parents for whom religion is a central part of that experience to which schools claim to do justiFor several decades the strict separationists have had it all their way with the public schools; both the Alabama case and the Tennessee case are signs of a counteroffensive by parents for whom religion is a central part of that experience to which schools claim to do justifor whom religion is a central part of that experience to which schools claim to do justice.

The shared worldview of a faith - based school provides a margin of safety for discussions on a deeper level than is often possible in a public school where such a common perspective does not exist.

This is consistent with the research on Catholic and other faith - based schools, suggesting that religious instruction provides a better standpoint for critical engagement with the dominating culture than does a public school immersed in that culture.

I did not know the public schools were part of one monolithic organization with a single person in charge that continually covered up its crimes for decades....

In its first statement of principles, the AAUP declared that schools run by churches or by businesses as agencies for propagandizing a particular philosophy were free to do so, but that they should not pretend to be public institutions.

Tried to talk with them about it, but they're too busy asking me for things, and they never get around to listening... wouldn't like what I'd say if they did shut up for moment... think I'll send a mass email... (no, did that the other day to another group of my followers, the ones who continue to blame Satan and the Atheists for getting prayer and «God» out of the public schools... they just deleted the email as SPAM: 0 -LRB-...

But opposition to public support, direct or indirect, to any religious school did not satisfy a positive need for Protestants.

He said they were brought here by their parent they did not wrong... those kids should be allowed to attend our public schools... and he was critized by the GOP right wing Christians for that comment... It seems to me there are many that wave the Bible and have no idea what is written in the Bible...

This country certainly does not cater to religious beliefs, given that you can't even say the word «pray» in a public school anymore, and we have a president who is pushing for everyone to pay for contraceptives.

Crucifixes are all over Italy in public places and it will be hard for that person not to notice a crucifix in any public place INCLUDING the public schools there... so I don't know why this person would suddenly sue the government for having a crucifix at a walking or sitting at a PUBLIC school which does not teach religion any more than a walking at a PUBLIC pedestrian where you would probably find more crucifixes as you wapublic places and it will be hard for that person not to notice a crucifix in any public place INCLUDING the public schools there... so I don't know why this person would suddenly sue the government for having a crucifix at a walking or sitting at a PUBLIC school which does not teach religion any more than a walking at a PUBLIC pedestrian where you would probably find more crucifixes as you wapublic place INCLUDING the public schools there... so I don't know why this person would suddenly sue the government for having a crucifix at a walking or sitting at a PUBLIC school which does not teach religion any more than a walking at a PUBLIC pedestrian where you would probably find more crucifixes as you wapublic schools there... so I don't know why this person would suddenly sue the government for having a crucifix at a walking or sitting at a PUBLIC school which does not teach religion any more than a walking at a PUBLIC pedestrian where you would probably find more crucifixes as you waPUBLIC school which does not teach religion any more than a walking at a PUBLIC pedestrian where you would probably find more crucifixes as you waPUBLIC pedestrian where you would probably find more crucifixes as you walk by.

We've done that in our public schools to keep from offending the least among us... and hasn't that worked out well for us.

One's familial education choices don't have to equate to isolation from engagement in our public schools, says Andrea Reyes Ramirez, the executive director of the Faith and Education Coalition for the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference.

They have — most of them — hot running water, central heating, electric lighting, immunizations against deadly disease, public schooling, access to parks and beautiful libraries, etc. etc, wonderful benefits that, for most of human history, were either reserved for the few ruling elite or didn't exist!

In previous chapters I have suggested what concerned citizens can do to deal with television without censorship: create local television councils and community action to get stations to accept their responsibility for the public welfare; introduce media education courses in the schools and churches to create media literacy; organize community groups to develop programs relating to community issues on the «narrowcast» media of cable - TV, videocassettes, low - power TV, public - broadcasting facilities, and commercial side - band channels; employ stockholder action and other economic measures.

Christians do not want to reduce the chances for students to get a good education in the public schools.

when xians learn to stop meddling... when they stop attempting to inject their mythologies into public school science classes — and put an end to nullifying equality for those who do not follow their theological ideals....

Instead of confronting the public school system or arguing before school boards for better teaching methods, we might do best by setting up small schools in which we try out our methods.

For the most part we homeschool our kids when we don't like the public school's teachings.»

We put too high a premium on those things we can buy for ourselves as individuals while resenting the taxes which provide public goods such as mass transit, schools, social security, and welfare but which do not directly benefit us.

It is one thing for courts to remind us that the government may not promote Christian tenets, as it did when it forbade the recitation of the Lord's Prayer in public schools in the Schempp case (1963).

«Whether you attend the concert or bring your family to the full - day Saturday taste, we want everyone to know we do this for the kids - the funds we raise from summer high school classes and public events like TOTV go right back to school sites for visual and performing arts and curriculum support to benefit students,» he added.

At the same time, Kitchens was more than ably supported by athletic director Bob Wilson, who is the best athletic director I've ever worked for in a public school (I only make that distinction because I don't want to upset my present, private school, athletic director).

When Calipari lost to UNC in 2015, he attacked the refs for causing the best players on his team to dwell on the bench with foul trouble.When Calipari had a very public fight with John Chaney, the legendary Temple coach, it was about threatening the refs with losing their jobs when he was at UMass.Two of the schools he coached were hit with NCAA sanctions but of course Calipari's hands are always clean.He is the Teflon basketball coach.Calipari is not an X's and O's type of coach and makes poor adjustments during games.Frankly I don't understand why so many people think this arrogant bloviating fool is a good coach.You will say, well he went to 4 final fours and one Championship.One.....