Sentences with phrase «educated by public schools»

Like traditional vouchers, ESAs remove public funds from the public system, resulting in fewer resources for the 5 million + students who are still educated by public schools.

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Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

If you were to transport yourself to the El Paso of 1949 and take up a position as far south as possible — by the north shore of the Rio Grande, in a netherland not wholly of the U.S. but not of Mexico either — you'd be a cutoff throw from Bowie High School, the only public secondary school in the U.S. then dedicated to educating Mexican - AmerSchool, the only public secondary school in the U.S. then dedicated to educating Mexican - Amerschool in the U.S. then dedicated to educating Mexican - Americans.

As the mother of triplet sons, one of whom was forced by a history of concussions to stop playing football before his junior year of high school, educating the public about concussions and the cumulative effect of subconcussive head impacts is something about which I care passionately and to which I have been deeply committed for the past sixteen years.

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.

Their goods are transported by road, their workers are educated in schools, their customers are part of sophisticated networks taking in the private sector, the public sector and charities.

Yes, the pro-charter group StudentsFirstNY praised the budget: «New York made history by investing in... charter schools in a manner that will dramatically assist in educating public school children.»

The district has been fighting for some time over funding, with the Orthodox Jewish - controlled school board diverting funds to Yeshivas — religious private schools that educate a minority of students — and away from the public schools attended by a majority of students, many of whom are black and Latino.

«These kids are not dumb kids, it's just that they're kids who have been educated by the Buffalo Public Schools that don't prepare them for anything except McDonald's,» Termini said.

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.

Founded by Dr. Suzie Carmack, PhD, MFA, MEd, ERYT CWBE is dedicated to educating the public about the negative and long - term effects of work - and school - related stress, sitting disease, compassion fatigue and burnout, and to promoting the healing well - being benefits of mindfulness, mindful movement, and compassionate communication practices to address these social challenges.

Foster: Parents 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 pSchools (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 pschools by engaging, educating and mobilizing parents.

She is more determined than ever to work on behalf of the children that she feels are affected most by the failures of the current system: those educated in inner - city, lower - income, ethnic - minority majority public school districts.

Kids are generally educated in public schools operated by these districts.

This year the list is topped by four major research pieces: an analysis of how U.S. students from highly educated families perform compare with similarly advantaged students from other countries; a study investigating what students gain when they are taken on field trips to see high - quality theater performances; a study of teacher evaluation systems in four urban school districts that identifies strengths and weaknesses of different evaluation systems; and the results of Education Next's annual survey of public opinion on education.

In fact, by draining critical funds from public schools, the voucher program obstructs Brown «s mandate for states to educate all «on equal terms.»

By most accounts no one, not even the traditional public schools have enough funds to educate everyone and some charters, such as John W. Lavelle Preparatory Charter School, are pulling - off excellent results with some of the toughest sped kids and basically the same money as everyone else.

The amount of the voucher is equal to what would be spent by a public school to educate a student with the same type and severity of disability.

The first charter school was formed in Minnesota in 1992, and by 2007 charters were educating about 2 % of the public school population nationwide.

To quote from a famous interview given by James Coleman, cited in this book, «Catholic high schools educate students better than public schools do... students drop out four times more often than their Catholic school counterparts.»

Before the storm there were 5 charter schools in a district of 65,000 students; by May of 2006, ten months after the hurricane, there were 18 charters in a New Orleans Public School district educating just 12,000 students (see Figure 2).

Steve and Ann explore what our schools are teaching today about citizenship by interviewing and surveying those teachers most directly charged with educating and shaping America's new citizens — high school teachers of history and social studies in both public and private schools.

By mid-January, 14 charter and 3 traditional public schools were educating again, serving about 9,000 students.

As Susan Spicka, a Pennsylvania parent, wrote, «[H] igh stakes [tests] are being used as a tool by corporate school reform advocates to put public schools in the hands of private businesses, whose goal is to profitize our children, not to educate them.»

The other irony, as Tony Bryck and the co-authors of the now - classic 1992 study, Catholic Schools and the Common Good, discovered, is that by virtue of their rigor Catholic schools (once) did a better job educating ordinary kids, including the poor, than did public sSchools and the Common Good, discovered, is that by virtue of their rigor Catholic schools (once) did a better job educating ordinary kids, including the poor, than did public sschools (once) did a better job educating ordinary kids, including the poor, than did public schoolsschools.

As to the latter, the argument that the public benefits from private schools by educating students that the taxpayer doesn't have to is compelling.

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.

Personally, we have educated our four children (oldest is now 22) by using alternative educational options, including virtual public and virtual private schooling.

The earliest iteration of the public schools that educate roughly 90 percent of today's American students, common schools were the norm by 1920.

Arizona's legislature got around the voucher barrier by implementing a program in 20TK that allows eligible families to opt out of public schools and use the money the state would have used to educate them to pay for private school tuition, homeschool curricula, private tutoring, education therapy or other educational expenses.

Nevertheless, despite our greatly enhanced commitments to public education — and despite the fact that children are growing up in better - educated and smaller families than ever before — student performance during this period, as measured by NAEP test scores for high school seniors in math and reading, moved hardly a hair's breadth.

That is the promise of American public education — that all students will be well - educated — not just those chosen by lottery for a charter school that may not turn out to be better than the regular neighborhood school.

There no longer will be an achievement gap in public education since by using the scientifically proved method of value added analysis school will be able to determine all of the students that are ineffective and there no longer will be a need to waste resources in a totally futile effort to educate these students.

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 troublesome.

«I think there is a point to be made by the teachers,» he said, but many public schools in Washington don't do an adequate job educating the Latino community.

Public schools are funded by taxpayers and operated by the government in order to ensure an educated population.

A common knee - jerk reaction: «By supporting the public schools, you're helping ensure an educated society, even if your children don't benefit directly.»

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.

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.»

Obama Says the Future of U.S. Economy Depends on a Better Education System By Roger Runningen - Sep 27, 2010 President Barack Obama said U.S. public education systems should extend the school year and weed out the worst - performing teachers because the future of the nation's economy depends on a more educated workforce.

As a result, more children are being kept out of special education ghettos long - used by American public education to warehouse the children that adults in schools don't want to educate.

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.»

TFA, suitably representative of the liberal education reform more generally, underwrites, intentionally or not, the conservative assumptions of the education reform movement: that teacher's unions serve as barriers to quality education; that testing is the best way to assess quality education; that educating poor children is best done by institutionalizing them; that meritocracy is an end - in - itself; that social class is an unimportant variable in education reform; that education policy is best made by evading politics proper; and that faith in public school teachers is misplaced.

The overall net fiscal impact will be defined completely by the difference between the amount of financial assistance afforded by the program to participating Nevada families and the cost to educate students in public schools.

I just read all the way through a May 2012 Public Agenda report called «Community Responses to School Reform in Chicago» and was surprised by at least one of the report's recommendations for more effectively collaborating with the community in school reform: that CPS «consider re-engaging and strengthening the capacity of Local School Council (LSC) members» by «improving the way new members are educated and prepared for their role and responsibilities and by using this structure as a means to reach residents in local neighborhoods.&School Reform in Chicago» and was surprised by at least one of the report's recommendations for more effectively collaborating with the community in school reform: that CPS «consider re-engaging and strengthening the capacity of Local School Council (LSC) members» by «improving the way new members are educated and prepared for their role and responsibilities and by using this structure as a means to reach residents in local neighborhoods.&school reform: that CPS «consider re-engaging and strengthening the capacity of Local School Council (LSC) members» by «improving the way new members are educated and prepared for their role and responsibilities and by using this structure as a means to reach residents in local neighborhoods.&School Council (LSC) members» by «improving the way new members are educated and prepared for their role and responsibilities and by using this structure as a means to reach residents in local neighborhoods.»

Officials said the push to bring students with disabilities back into the public schools allows those children to be educated, as required by federal law, in the «least restrictive environment.»

Home schoolers, by definition, have chosen to educate by different as well as similar methods and curricula than the public schools.

«From the first day of kindergarten to my last day of college, I was educated in a public school by great teachers,» he said.

Ignoring Connecticut's collapsing fiscal situation, the Governor and legislature actually handed the charter schools even more scarce public funds, even though those schools discriminate against Connecticut children by refusing to accept and educate their fair share of students who require special education services and those who aren't proficient in the English language and therefore need additional English language services.

Charter schools were created to be laboratories of innovation, creating new, improved ways of educating students that could be copied by traditional, inclusive public schools.