Sentences with phrase «educated at public school»

The President of the Supreme Court, Lord Neuberger, said recently that the judiciary is «male, white, educated at public school, and from the upper middle and middle classes».

Amid criticism that the profession is increasingly dominated by people who were educated at public school, he called for greater support for drama in the state school system and for youth theatre.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Over half of all MPs were educated at six leading public schools, and at least 813 went to university.

In a thinly - veiled swipe at Eton - educated David Cameron, the one - time leadership rival told a meeting on grammer schools the only winners from the death of the selective education system were the public school boys who now «dominate» Britain.

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health - led research also suggests that employing local community health educators instead of more formally educated nurses to counsel young at - risk mothers could be cost effective and provide badly needed jobs to high school graduates from the same impoverished communSchool of Public Health - led research also suggests that employing local community health educators instead of more formally educated nurses to counsel young at - risk mothers could be cost effective and provide badly needed jobs to high school graduates from the same impoverished communschool graduates from the same impoverished communities.

He developed an outreach program to educate the South Asian community about diabetes risk and preventive measures during a recent Bridging the Gaps Community Health Internship Program sponsored by the School of Public Health at the Shri Krishna Nidhi Foundation, an organization based in Hillsborough that promotes wellness among New Jersey's South Asian population.

Graduates are often highly active in educating the public through wellness workshops and seminars, in public and private schools, and at institutions of higher learning.

Heather Schoell, a white, college - educated, stay - at - home mom living in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C., was incredulous when a friend suggested that she should send her daughter to the local public school.

The arts at this public school are central to the mission of educating students in math, science, and the humanities.

To be sure, there are often good reasons to place children out of district at public expense — no district can serve all students equally well — but neither are there always clear and obvious distinctions to be made between who can be educated in a regular school, those who need alternative settings and those like Adrian who run afoul of the rules so frequently, or who are penalized so often and systematically, that they simply give up and leave.

One - quarter (26 %) of those living with school - age children have educated at least one of their children in a setting other than a traditional public school.

The Askwith Forum is a series of public lectures at the Harvard Graduate School of Education featuring a wide range of topics, including early childhood, civic and moral engagement, expanded learning models, educating for human rights, and international education among others.

• One - quarter of those living with school - age children have educated at least one of their children in a setting other than a traditional public school.

The issue is whether or not public schools, as currently constituted, are going to be able to educate all students at a preparatory level for college.

After reading the critics and examining many more studies than Klein names (some inevitably negative), I believe there is simply no doubt that under Klein's leadership, children attending public schools in New York City were, on average, being far better educated at the end of his eight years than they had been nine years before.

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 choice.

Greene and Buck note that in Florida, where the McKay Scholarship for Students with Disabilities program has offered vouchers to disabled students since 1999, vouchers allow nearly 7 percent of special education students to be educated in private schools at public expense, six times the national average for private placement.

Delisle was one of five panelists — also including Tufts University President - Emeritus and HGSE President in Residence Lawrence S. Bacow, Harvard Kennedy School Professor and Director of the Center for Public Leadership David Gergen, Harvard University Professor Emeritus Henry Rosovsky, and Vermont Department of Education Commissioner Armando Vilaseca — who discussed the goals and means to educating students in our times at the forum, «Defining the Educated Person.»

Using updated national numbers from the federal government, as of fall 2007 there were 67,729 disabled students ages 6 through 21 who were being educated in private schools at parental request and public expense.

Another key component is that we still have a massive hurdle in educating policy makers, the media, and the public at large about what's going on in today's after - school programs.

«Our public schools are unique because they are the only ones which are required to educate every child that arrives at the front gate — regardless of who that child is or where they come from.

This image of the teachers unions as part of our family is facilitated by the fact that virtually every college - educated household (the households with the greatest political influence) has at least one current or former public school teacher sitting at the dining table when they gather for Thanksgiving.

Teachers in U.S. public schools are educating students who more racially and ethnically diverse than at any other time in our history (Levin & Nolan, 2014); any other time in history.

In more than a dozen cities, charter schools educate 30 % of or more of all public school students, and are creating a ripple effect uplifting entire education systems, and seating supportive education leaders who helped create alternative opportunities in positions of authority at local and state levels.

Andrea Guengerich Education Policy and Management Hometown: Austin, Texas Experience: High school teacher in Brownsville, Texas, one of the largest cities along the Texas - Mexico border; position at Breakthrough Austin, a community - based organization that provides a path to college, starting in middle school, for low - income students who will be first - generation college students; director of University of Texas Programs for Breakthrough; chair of the College Advising for Undocumented Students Taskforce, a collaboration between six nonprofit organizations and the public school district in Austin Future plans: Teaching 6th grade at a project - based learning school in Mexico City that seeks to educate the whole child

Now, the NAACP will make a stop at Los Angeles Police Department headquarters this Thursday as part of a national tour to discuss the state of public education and how charter public schools are educating students of color.

But parochial schools are one of the largest (if not the largest) alternatives to the American public - education system, and their steady decline inordinately affects urban low - income minorities who would otherwise be left at the mercy of public schools that have proven incapable of educating them.

Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN): Since homophobia and heterosexism undermine a healthy school climate, GLSEN works to educate teachers, students and the public at large about the damaging effects these forces have on youth and adults alike.

Knowing that supportive public and social policies can advance our vision of every school a community school, NCCS partners with colleagues at the city, state and national levels to educate policymakers about the core components and results of this research - based strategy.

In a sign of the changing school choice landscape, 26 percent of adults living with school - age children have educated at least one of their children in an alternative setting that was not a traditional public school.

In fact, during the 2017 - 2018 fiscal year, YEP's adult education program is expected to educate students at a cost of $ 209 per student for the entire year, compared to the $ 10,556 that public charter high schools would receive in MFP funds for educating those same young people.

The new standardized test data show that in each of the five states examined in this report about 90 % of the ELL students who took the state assessment test were educated in public schools that had at least a minimum threshold number of ELL students.

It's effective, tub - thumping rhetoric, but it elides the myriad ways large and small in which charters are simply not the same as traditional public schools — at least those that deal with the hardest - to - educate students.

«Public education is the use of public dollars to educate our children at the schools that are best equipped to do so — public schools, magnet schools, charter schools, Baptist schools, Jewish schools, or other innovations in educPublic education is the use of public dollars to educate our children at the schools that are best equipped to do so — public schools, magnet schools, charter schools, Baptist schools, Jewish schools, or other innovations in educpublic dollars to educate our children at the schools that are best equipped to do so — public schools, magnet schools, charter schools, Baptist schools, Jewish schools, or other innovations in educpublic schools, magnet schools, charter schools, Baptist schools, Jewish schools, or other innovations in education.

But when they expect the state to educate their children at public expense, the public has a right to know whether those children are learning anything (no, not whether Johnny and Mary are learning, but whether the children of Waco — or Scarsdale — are learning); whether taxpayers are getting a decent ROI from the schools they're paying for; and whether their community, their state, their society will be economically competitive and civically whole in the future as a result of an adequately educated populace.

Coweta Charter Academy at Senoia is a tuition - free public charter school educating students in grades K - 8.

At a time when public schools are educating more students at a higher level than ever before in history — and doing so despite enormous financial challenges — recent statements by the Trump administration are troublesomAt a time when public schools are educating more students at a higher level than ever before in history — and doing so despite enormous financial challenges — recent statements by the Trump administration are troublesomat a higher level than ever before in history — and doing so despite enormous financial challenges — recent statements by the Trump administration are troublesome.

Opponents of charter schools argued that charter schools would take only the best and brightest students — and the funding that goes with them — leaving the public schools to educate at - risk and troublesome students.

In eight large school districts in California, charter schools educate at least 10 percent of the public school students.

But one new school board member has not been shy in supporting educational opportunities for families beyond public school, arguing that it should not matter where children are being educated at - as long as they are being educated.

«charter schools — public schools — are clearly laying out obstacles bigger than those in the applications of private universities, with requirements that put low - income students, foster children and those from poorly educated or immigrant families at a disadvantage.

In the Tigard - Tualatin School District (TTSD), it's about «never giving up; nothing matters as much as teaching every child to read at grade level,» said former district superintendent Rob Saxton, newly appointed in September 2012 as Oregon's first Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction.1 TTSD's mission to educate every child is operationalized through a collective commitment to focused work; continuous improvement and refinement in instructional practice on a district - wide basis; and a pervasive attitude on the part of district and school personnel to ensure that all students leave TTSD able to be highly successful aSchool District (TTSD), it's about «never giving up; nothing matters as much as teaching every child to read at grade level,» said former district superintendent Rob Saxton, newly appointed in September 2012 as Oregon's first Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction.1 TTSD's mission to educate every child is operationalized through a collective commitment to focused work; continuous improvement and refinement in instructional practice on a district - wide basis; and a pervasive attitude on the part of district and school personnel to ensure that all students leave TTSD able to be highly successful aschool personnel to ensure that all students leave TTSD able to be highly successful adults.

Her work, along with other alumni that attended KIPP's program has impressed officials at the nonprofit network of college - preparatory, public charter schools that educates elementary, middle and high school students.

But critics, including education historian Diane Ravitch, a New York University professor and former assistant U.S. secretary of education who is speaking at UW - Madison on Tuesday, say choice programs have drained resources from the traditional public school system without producing conclusive evidence that they are any better at educating students, particularly low - income ones.

While Yoder wanted to allow siblings of current voucher recipients to receive private school tuition dollars without entering the public school system, Kenley said at the time this would break an agreement that was central to the original voucher bill: public schools get the first chance at educating students.

Sylvia Lazos, policy director at Educate Nevada Now — a program launched by The Rogers Foundation to advocate for improving public education — called Nevada's school choice law «the most radical voucher program in the country.»

A product of Minnesota public schools, Jim is also President of the Choice Foundation, the governing board of three New Orleans turnaround public charter schools that educate nearly 2,000 students from low - income and at - risk backgrounds.

Are charter schools (taxpayer funded but privately operated) better at educating kids than traditional public schools?