Sentences with phrase «educate parents and the public»

We at the California Charter Schools Association will continue to work with our members to help educate parents and the public about how best to navigate the transition from a command and control system of education to one where parents make well - informed choices between an abundance of quality options.

We have shown the world that we can connect and co-operate globally about educating parents and the public about the damages Parental Alienation can do to children's emotional and mental health.

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She says the typical Waldorf parent, who has a range of elite private and public schools to choose from, tends to be liberal and highly educated, with strong views about education; they also have a knowledge that when they are ready to teach their children about technology they have ample access and expertise at home.

Otherwise competent journalistic reports on research findings about male homosexuality, such as Peter and Barbara Wyden's Growing Up Straight (Stein & Day, 1968), confound the picture for the public by appealing to the fears of middle - class parents; further, they profess (without foundation) to show that parents can educate their children away from the possibility of becoming homosexual.

The Pennsylvania Departments of Public Health and Education must develop and post on their websites guidelines and other relevant materials to inform and educate students, parents, and coaches about concussions, the nature and risk of concussion and traumatic brain injury (TBI), including the risks of continuing to play or practice after a concussion or TBI.

The most fundamental to this was supervising a teen parenting program in Chicago Public Schools that guided and educated young moms.

Concussion and Sports - Related Head Injury: Code 18 -2-25a (2013) requires the governing authority of each public and nonpublic elementary school, middle school, junior high school and high school, working through guidance approved by the department of health and communicated through the department of education, to do the following: (A) Adopt guidelines and other pertinent information and forms as approved by the department of health to inform and educate coaches, school administrators, youth athletes and their parents or guardians of the nature, risk and symptoms of concussion and head injury, including continuing to play after concussion or head injury; (B) Require annual completion by all coaches, whether the coach is employed or a volunteer, and by school athletic directors of a concussion recognition and head injury safety education course program approved by the department.

Kim Rosas, owner of the cloth diapering site Dirty Diaper Laundry and executive director of Giving Diapers, Giving Hope, has made a career out of educating the public about cloth diapering, often giving cloth diaper seminars at parenting conventions.

Challenge Success currently works with 130 public schools, Pope said, helping to educate students, parents and counselors on alternatives to the current pressure paradigm.

At fundraisers, foster and adoptive parents distribute literature to educate the public regarding the need for additional homes, which helps recruit new foster and adoptive parents.

For example, my children have two college - educated parents (with graduate degrees), go to a «safe» public school and are in sports and music classes.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

Her marketing and communications career has taken her into various public Montessori schools, where she helps them find new ways to educate other parents and their communities about the benefits of Montessori education.

You might live in a health - conscious, progressive city and / or your children might attend a school (public or private) in which the parent community is well educated about nutrition — or at least open to nutrition education.

For example, physicians can educate parents on child development to reduce angry and punitive responses to normative child behaviours and provide resources on positive discipline.46 In addition, physicians may refer parents to public health programs, resource centres, positive parenting programs and other clinical professionals for further support.

A child dies every two weeks and a child is injured every 24 minutes in the U.S. from furniture or TVs tipping over, according to the CPSC, which has launched a public safety campaign to educate parents about the dangers.

Surveys show consistent public support for parents to have options when choosing a provider to care for and educate their young children.

Foster: Parents for Public Schools (PPS) is a national organization of community - based chapters working to strengthen public schools by engaging, educating and mobilizing pParents for Public Schools (PPS) is a national organization of community - based chapters working to strengthen public schools by engaging, educating and mobilizing paPublic Schools (PPS) is a national organization of community - based chapters working to strengthen public schools by engaging, educating and mobilizing papublic schools by engaging, educating and mobilizing parentsparents.

And Tuesday's interminable «expose» of state - level tax - credit scholarship programs certainly deepens one's impression that the writer (and, presumably, her editors) is in love with anything that smacks of «public dollars» or «public schools» and at war with anything that might be seen as diverting even a penny from state coffers into the hands of parents to educate their kids at schools of their choiAnd Tuesday's interminable «expose» of state - level tax - credit scholarship programs certainly deepens one's impression that the writer (and, presumably, her editors) is in love with anything that smacks of «public dollars» or «public schools» and at war with anything that might be seen as diverting even a penny from state coffers into the hands of parents to educate their kids at schools of their choiand, presumably, her editors) is in love with anything that smacks of «public dollars» or «public schools» and at war with anything that might be seen as diverting even a penny from state coffers into the hands of parents to educate their kids at schools of their choiand at war with anything that might be seen as diverting even a penny from state coffers into the hands of parents to educate their kids at schools of their choice.

That law has four key provisions: 1) every child, no matter how disabled, has a right to a free and appropriate education, which can take place in either a public or private setting; 2) an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) must be designed for each child in consultation with his or her parents; 3) the child should be educated in the «least restrictive environment»; and 4) parents can object to the educational provisions for their child by requesting a «due process» hearing with an independent hearing officer, whose decisions can be appealed to the courts (see sidebar).

Public Relations: Educating the general public, media, and parents around the potential of digital leaPublic Relations: Educating the general public, media, and parents around the potential of digital leapublic, media, and parents around the potential of digital learning.

Grades: Pre-K-2, 3 - 5, Parents The Elevator Escalator Safety Foundation (EESF) offers this site to educate the public on the safe and proper way to use elevators, escalators and moving walks through informational programs.

All of which makes one thing obvious: The only system of learning compatible with a truly free society is not one of government domination, but one rooted in educational choice — public education, not schooling — in which the public assures that all people can access education, but parents are free to choose their children's schools and educators are free to educate how they wish.

Perhaps the two most obvious reasons are: 1) public opinion drives political actions in state legislatures, such as repeal efforts and efforts to adopt new assessments outside the Common Core - aligned consortia, and 2) public opinion likely affects schools» implementation, as politically active groups involve themselves in school board meetings, contact teachers directly to express their concerns, and «educate» parents with information or misinformation.

In California, we believe parents, as educated consumers and advocates for their children, want to know more about how public schools are performing, and that policymakers should ensure the public has the necessary tools to make good use of multiple measures.

«Since this program saves taxpayers money and the legislature will need to appropriate more funding to return these students to the local public schools, which will lead to increase costs to the local district; the legislature should instead provide the funding for the scholarship program to allow parents to choose schools they believe will best educate their children,» Duplessis added.

«But parents in the neighborhood who were middle - class parents and were educated people banded together and decided, «Well, if we all send our child to the local public school, it will get better.»

Parents should be allowed to take the money that as taxpayers they are paying to educate their child in a public school and apply it to enroll their children elsewhere — in a traditional public, charter or private school.

Established on Joint Base Andrews in 2011 to provide outstanding educational opportunities for military and community students, Imagine Andrews Public Charter School is a member of Imagine Schools, a full - service charter school management organization that operates 72 schools in 12 states and helps nearly 80,000 parents and guardians educate their children.

And if it is truly advocating for people of color, it won't deny Black parents the right to choose schools that are educating Black children far better than traditional public schools.

The Valley News - Dispatch ran a great LTE today from a parent who has educated her children in both public and private schools.

Walker and Republicans have been supportive of expanding Milwaukee's voucher program, arguing it gives parents unhappy with public schools another option for educating their children.

Teachers College of Columbia University did a study that found the typical opt out activist — the target of the Long Island teachers group — is «a highly educated, white, married, politically liberal parent whose children attend public school and whose household median income is well above the national average.»

Please help us continue to educate parents, school faculty and staff, and public officials across the country about the serious problems posed by Common Core national education standards.

Educate and empower parents, teachers, and community members to demand excellent public schools;

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Yes, as he says in closing, «parents and policymakers might do a great deal to reverse the intensifying segregation of American public education simply by educating themselves about what test scores do and don't say about school quality... Questioning what they have long accepted, however, they might begin to create something different.»

Public schools across the country rely upon federal investments for key education programs such as Title I grants for disadvantaged students, special education under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), and also programs such as Impact Aid, which provides support to school districts educating students whose parents are enlisted in our Armed Forces and those who reside on tribal trust lands.

Families that Can educates, empowers and mobilizes parents to be the voice of public school students and hold our leaders accountable for ensuring every child has access to a high - quality public education.

A report last summer from Columbia University depicted the «the typical opt out activist» as «a highly educated, white, married, politically liberal parent whose children attend public school and whose household median income is well above the national average.»

The BPS EdTech Team is excited to announce the first Tech Savvy Parenting night which is a new «Digital Bootcamp Series» designed to educate and connect parents and community members of Burlington Public Schools.

typical opt out activist» as «a highly educated, white, married, politically liberal parent whose children attend public school and whose household median income is well above the national average.»

Scientifically proven programs are utilized by Harford County Public Schools» teachers that promote character education, build self - esteem, provide resiliency and protective factors as well as educate students and parents about the dangers of drugs and drug abuse.

Families That Can educates, empowers and mobilizes parents to hold our elected leaders accountable for ensuring every child has access to a high - quality public education.

In light of the many challenges that charter schools face, Families That Can educates, empowers and mobilizes charter parents to hold our leaders accountable for ensuring every child has access to a high - quality public education.

The group's mission is to educate, empower and mobilize parents to hold our leaders accountable for ensuring every child has access to a high - quality public education.

Anne Foster, the executive director of Parents for Public Schools, a national nonprofit group committed to educating, engaging, and mobilizing parents, said that school leaders can sometimes underestimate parents» ability to change sParents for Public Schools, a national nonprofit group committed to educating, engaging, and mobilizing parents, said that school leaders can sometimes underestimate parents» ability to change sparents, said that school leaders can sometimes underestimate parents» ability to change sparents» ability to change schools.

The deliberations have addressed various topics such as whether (a) parents should have to be state - certified teachers in order to home educate their children, (b) parents should have to have achieved a particular level of formal education in order to homeschool their children, (c) parents should have to pass teacher qualification examinations that states use for public school teachers, (d) homeschool students should be subjected to mandatory standardized achievement tests, (e) state officials should oversee the social activities of home - educated students (or homeschool socialization), and (f) parents should have to get approval from the state government in order to engage in home - based education with their children (see, e.g., Farris 2013; Yuracko, 2008).

States with ESAs (Arizona, Florida, Mississippi and Tennessee) provide parents with a debit card that has been pre-loaded with taxpayer dollars that that would have otherwise been spent educating a child in a public school.

In exchange for a parent's agreement not to enroll their special needs student in a public or charter school, the state agrees to make quarterly deposits into an educational savings account in an amount slightly less than the public school would have received to educate the child.14 Parents are required to «provide an education for the qualified student in at least the subjects of reading, grammar, mathematics, social studies and science.»