Sentences with phrase «educating students in public schools»

This is about our entire way of educating students in public schools.

Moreover, many of the costs to educate students in public schools are fixed, and therefore less malleable to changes in student enrollment.

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.

The average cost to educate a student in public school is about $ 12,500, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

Not exact matches

The piece draws a comparison to Virginia's Fairfax County, which is similar in many ways to Westchester: They're both suburbs of big cities (New York and Washington, D.C.), they have similarly high home values, and they educate about the same number of students in public schools, which in both places have a good reputation.

With these for - profit universities pulling out all stops to get students to enroll in their programs, there isn't much room left for nonprofit schools like Georgetown and Stanford to educate the public about their offerings.

CHICAGO — In his new book, «Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why,» journalist Paul Tough investigates the challenge of educating low - income children, who now account for more than half of all public school students.

Taxpayer - funded charter schools should not have the right to choose to educate fewer high - needs students than public schools and then point to how successful they are in comparison.

Right now, 12,700 Bronx families are still on waiting lists for seats in public charter schools, and the Bronx has fewer gifted and talented programs than any of the other boroughs, with less than four seats for every 1,000 students.Two of our school districts — District 7 in the South Bronx and District 12 in the central Bronx — don't have a single gifted and talented program, and together they educate more than 45,000 students.

The non-profit state Sheriffs» Association says there are about 4,750 public schools and nearly 2,000 private schools in New York educating students in grades K through 12.

Holdren called on scientists and engineers to dedicate 10 % of their time educating policymakers and the public on issues such as climate change, protecting the world's oceans and public lands, continuing Arctic research and demonstrating the importance of investing in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programs for elementary and middle school students.

Many school districts, frustrated that they now had to pay an outside organization to educate students in their own districts, many of whom had not even attended public schools before, simply stopped making payments, causing WPCCS to lose nearly $ 1 million in 2001.

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.

The California Business Roundtable's report, «Restructuring California Education: A Design for Public Education in the Twenty - First Century,» is one of two new critiques that focus on the failure of the public schools to adequately educate minority students, who constitute nearly half of California's total enrolPublic Education in the Twenty - First Century,» is one of two new critiques that focus on the failure of the public schools to adequately educate minority students, who constitute nearly half of California's total enrolpublic schools to adequately educate minority students, who constitute nearly half of California's total enrollment.

Students with disabilities now have the right to be educated in public schools with their nondisabled peers and to be prepared for a positive and productive life after school.

Our new findings demonstrate that, while segregation for blacks among all public schools has been increasing for nearly two decades, black students in charter schools are far more likely than their traditional public school counterparts to be educated in intensely segregated settings.

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.

Even in our most struggling public schools, there are excellent teachers who are transforming the lives and futures of the students they are entrusted to educate.

An emotionally disturbed student who requires private placement, for example, is likely to be more challenging and expensive to educate than the average emotionally disturbed student who remains in public schools.

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 plStudents 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 plstudents 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 plstudents to be educated in private schools at public expense, six times the national average for private placement.

In most fields, prospective students can only make an educated guess about the payoff to a post-graduate degree, but, for public school teachers, it appears in black and white on the salary schedule for their districIn most fields, prospective students can only make an educated guess about the payoff to a post-graduate degree, but, for public school teachers, it appears in black and white on the salary schedule for their districin black and white on the salary schedule for their district.

I would acknowledge that, in general, public schools do a great job of educating students, and that America's teachers are doing their jobs and doing them well.

In a number of cities, charters educate a significant proportion of public school students (see Figure 1).

They save taxpayers money, because the average voucher ends up costing less than educating the same student in public school and because the voucher curbs public - school financial incentives to inflate the special education rolls.

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.»

As a result, Mike, and Fordham, thinks that schools educating voucher students should take the same standardized tests as traditional public schools and participate in a modified version of the accountability systems we have in place for public schools.

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).

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.

NEW YORK — Roman Catholic schools should launch an aggressive campaign to educate the «worst» students in every community and seek public and private funding once those students graduate, Secretary of Education William J. Bennett proposed here last week.

In September 2005, approximately 18 months after the School Funding Task Force report was released, the Association of Metropolitan School Districts, the Minnesota Rural Education Association, and Schools for Equity in Education contracted the services of APA to «examine the Task Force results and, using widely accepted methodologies, determine the costs necessary to ensure that each public school student is educated to meet the state's academic standards.&raquIn September 2005, approximately 18 months after the School Funding Task Force report was released, the Association of Metropolitan School Districts, the Minnesota Rural Education Association, and Schools for Equity in Education contracted the services of APA to «examine the Task Force results and, using widely accepted methodologies, determine the costs necessary to ensure that each public school student is educated to meet the state's academic standards.&School Funding Task Force report was released, the Association of Metropolitan School Districts, the Minnesota Rural Education Association, and Schools for Equity in Education contracted the services of APA to «examine the Task Force results and, using widely accepted methodologies, determine the costs necessary to ensure that each public school student is educated to meet the state's academic standards.&School Districts, the Minnesota Rural Education Association, and Schools for Equity in Education contracted the services of APA to «examine the Task Force results and, using widely accepted methodologies, determine the costs necessary to ensure that each public school student is educated to meet the state's academic standards.&raquin Education contracted the services of APA to «examine the Task Force results and, using widely accepted methodologies, determine the costs necessary to ensure that each public school student is educated to meet the state's academic standards.&school student is educated to meet the state's academic standards.»

Urban public school systems, no matter their structure, will educate the vast majority of students living in cities for generations to come.

In the District of Columbia, for example, where nearly 100 charter campuses are educating more than one - third of the public school students, charters are increasingly accepted as an integral part of the public education delivery system: Sixty - three percent of D.C. residents know they are public schools.

I visited a couple of successful Cleveland public schools during my visit — successful in educating poor children — and while principals in each of those schools said they could use more money, neither said that money — or their students» lack of it — was their major challenge.

The former — e.g. great teaching — is a hard nut to crack and Nocera is right to suggest, as does Brill, that there perhaps aren't enough great teachers in the pipeline (or in charter schools) to educate all 50 million public school students.

But a decade ago several trends in American education, and in the Catholic Church, made a Catholic - operated public school seem increasingly possible: 1) the traditional, parish - based Catholic school system, especially in the inner cities, was crumbling; 2) equally troubled urban public - school systems were failing to educate most of their students; and 3) a burgeoning charter school movement, born in the early 1990s, was beginning to turn heads among educators in both the private and public sectors.

Without these measurements, we really have no idea how private and public schools compare in how they go about educating students.

The effectiveness of public schools in developing engaged citizens has rarely been examined empirically,» notes a new Mathematica report on the impact on civic participation of Democracy Prep, a network of charter schools that educates more than 5,000 students, mostly in New York City.

Kaukauna, a city that educates more than 3,900 students in its public schools, quickly became Walker's shining example when it came to the benefits of his reform.

Charter schools now educate nearly 3 million students in 43 states and the District of Columbia — more than 6 percent of the total K — 12 public - school enrollment.

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.

But this essay is about the other half of public schools in DC, the 120 public charter schools educating 43,340 students — nearly half (47.5 percent) of the city's public school students.

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 levelIn 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 levelin 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 whostudents 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 whostudents; 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 whoStudents 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

Currently, IDEA Public Schools educates more than 36,000 students in 61 schools across three regions — the Rio Grande Valley, Austin and San ASchools educates more than 36,000 students in 61 schools across three regions — the Rio Grande Valley, Austin and San Aschools across three regions — the Rio Grande Valley, Austin and San Antonio.

As superintendent of the sixth largest school district in the nation and second largest in Florida, with nearly 270,000 students in 238 schools, centers, and technical colleges, and more than 30,000 employees — Broward County Public Schools Superintendent Robert W. Runcie is committed to educating today's students to succeed in tomorrow'sschools, centers, and technical colleges, and more than 30,000 employees — Broward County Public Schools Superintendent Robert W. Runcie is committed to educating today's students to succeed in tomorrow'sSchools Superintendent Robert W. Runcie is committed to educating today's students to succeed in tomorrow's world.

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 peoplIn 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 peoplin MFP funds for educating those same young people.

Most public schools today continue to follow an organizational design better suited for 20th century mass production than educating students in the 21st century.

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.