Sentences with phrase «entire state school»

In Rose v. Council for Better Education, the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled in 1989 that the entire state school system was so inadequate that it violated the constitutional mandate for an «efficient» school system.
Gov. Zell Miller asked Georgias entire state school board to resign last week, hoping to end months of bickering between the group and state Superintendent Linda C. Schrenko.
For them, the entire state school funding formula was at stake.

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The NCAA and / or the governor of PA since it is a state school, needs to shut down this schools football season and maybe even the entire sports department until this investigation is over.
(ENTIRE BOOK) As a pioneer in the development in the specialized ministry of pastoral counseling, and a teacher of Protestant ministers in various theological school settings, the author offers his assessment of the state of the ministry in the late 1960's, a critique of the various forms that ministry has taken, and an description of creative new forms of ministry.
It would be one thing if he were calling for the entire damn state or something to bow down to Islam, but if NYC has 12 % of its population following Islam and if he's only speaking to NYC schools, I think he absolutely has a point.
The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).
Nobody can name one school district in the entire United States where creationists have their agenda taught in the public schools.
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.»
Common worship tends to be highly valued and it is characteristic of schools with this ethos to include in the weekly schedule stated times for worship by the entire community.
Flippers Bakery products are proudly offered in hotels, resorts, restaurants, schools, and amusement venues throughout the entire state of Florida.
The city, the state, the school, the team and the fans, who mill about town in caps and sweatshirts with more BCS bowl logos than your power school's entire media guide.
As its stated in the title, it became public today that a New Hampshire school board member is calling for the entire town of Dover to cancel all of their football programs.
What started from humble beginnings, as an opportunity to get pre-season playing time for lots of young high school rugby squads, has blossomed into the largest Youth and High School Rugby Tournament in the United States (and likely the entire Western Hemisphschool rugby squads, has blossomed into the largest Youth and High School Rugby Tournament in the United States (and likely the entire Western HemisphSchool Rugby Tournament in the United States (and likely the entire Western Hemisphere!).
In 2007, Robert Pianta of the University of Virginia published in Science the results of a large - scale survey of American public schools that he and a team of researchers had undertaken, observing regular instruction over the course of an entire school day in 737 typical fifth - grade classrooms across the United States, as well as hundreds of additional first - and third - grade classrooms.
Hawaii is unique in that the entire state constitutes a single school district.
The simplest approach to funding - direct funding by your municipality, a government agency, or by the state (e.g., state department of public health, school department budget), or through a government grant - may be all that is needed, particularly if you are seeking to start a Community Access Defibrillation Program (CAD) serving your entire community, or a significant segment, such as the public schools.
If your state has a «parent trigger,» whereby a 50 percent plus one vote of a school's parent community can convert the entire school, irrevocably, into a charter, that's ALEC.
The House bill also proposed a a three - state block grant pilot for school meals, an idea which was seen by some as a precursor to dismantling the entire National School Lunch Prschool meals, an idea which was seen by some as a precursor to dismantling the entire National School Lunch PrSchool Lunch Program.
Just hours before the top - ranked Homewood - Flossmoor girls basketball team was to take the floor to begin its playoff march, the state high school athletic association delivered a bombshell Wednesday, suspending the entire team and its highly regarded coach for rules violations.
Ironically, this is an apt metaphor for Judt's entire life: the son of Eastern European Jews who never felt completely at home in England; an autodidact at Cambridge who never learned historiography or became part of a dedicated «school»; an expert by training in French social thought with serious and evolving interests in Eastern European history; and an American denizen and critic without the faintest bond to the United States.
See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-36674622 for example of an entire Borough with only a 2 % university admission rate, where the last state - funded school offering these qualifications has stopped doing so.
The state government in readiness for the action has ordered the immediate closure of all primary and secondary schools in the state as a way of protecting the lives and properties of the entire citizenry.
«The reason we saved Wadleigh's middle school is because the entire community worked together in unity to make sure that everyone knew, from the mayor to the Chancellor to the DOE, that we were going to stand and fight,» said State Senator Brian Benjamin, who had engaged in meetings with the DOE and helped organize a protest to prevent the school from becoming only a high school.
While awaiting word from the state education commissioner as to whether he'll retain his seat on the Buffalo School Board, Carl Paladino suggested the board be disbanded and an independent receiver take over the entire school sSchool Board, Carl Paladino suggested the board be disbanded and an independent receiver take over the entire school sschool system.
McDonough, the 46th New York State Teacher of the Year has been teaching first or second grade in the Newburgh Enlarged City School District for her entire career of 22 years.
QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz stated the following about the New York City Schools Chancellor's selection of a permanent principal at Townsend Harris High School: «Deep unrest over the principal selection process has upended the entire Townsend Harris High School community since September.
Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN)- Following the State Education Commissioner's removal of Carl Paladino from the Buffalo School Board, another board member is calling for the removal of the entire board in two years.
(WBEN) As she weighs whether to oust Carl Paladino from the Buffalo School board, State Education Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia is also taking up an idea that Paladino himself has put forth recently, to replace the entire board and just let the superintendent run things without them.
The students, who designed and delivered their own power point presentation to the entire student body at the schools» auditorium, say the town leaders, as well as state and federal governments, have been too slow to respond to water contamination deemed by the EPA to be so serious that they are no longer allowed to drink, cook or bathe with it.
And total school spending ($ 64.8 billion) was greater than the entire current state budgets of Massachusetts and Connecticut combined ($ 59.5 billion).
«Remember the Titans» (2001) Based on the true story of Virginia's first integrated high school football team (led by coach Denzel Washington), the Titans not only change the views of an entire town, but they go undefeated on their way to a thrilling state championship against an all - white team.
For the graduating class of 2012, 95 percent of Dozier - Libby Medical High School's economically disadvantaged students completed the courses required for UC / CSU eligibility, compared to 30 percent for the entire state.
With the threat of a state takeover looming, Philadelphia district leaders have adopted a $ 1.5 billion 1998 - 99 budget that ensures — despite earlier forecasts — that city schools will remain open the entire school year.
By serving an entire region or market's group of charter schools, the real - estate trust would look familiar to state officials and to lenders: a single entity that grasps the intricacies of real - estate finances and serves the individual needs of multiple schools, as school districts do.
primary and secondary, academy and local authority, mainstream and specialist; the entire state - funded school system is rapidly heading towards insolvency.
Few such studies exist, and indeed this approach is impractical for studying entire sectors of charter schools within a state, not all of which are consistently oversubscribed.
By the time the 79th Congress passed the National School Lunch Act in 1946 to formalize, subsidize, and make permanent a National School Lunch Program, 48 states — the entire country, at that point — were already on board, serving 6 million children in 42,000 schools.
Only two schools in the entire state earned the top designation under Arizona's school ratings system unveiled Oct. 15 — in a place that's home to 1,800 regular public schools and about 500 charter schools.
In the state under study, public schools that had failed to make AYP focused instruction on the entire range of low - performing students in the subsequent school year, and did so without negative impact on high - performing students.
Data for the entire population of 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th graders in public schools in the state of Texas during the 1990s were used.
State - level TFA executive directors are held accountable for raising their entire operating budgets (schools pay the corps members» salaries).
The assessment itself was first given in 1969, but the underlying political compromises meant that (a) students were tested by age, not grade level; (b) results were reported either as percentages of test takers getting individual questions right or (starting in 1984) on a psychometric scale that included no benchmarks, standards, or «cut points»; and (c) the «units of analysis» were the entire country and four big regions but not individual states, let alone districts or schools.
Some districts and, in some cases, entire states, are drafting new laws to ban junk food from school and encourage access to healthy offerings on campuses.
Seven months after the Kentucky supreme court held the state's entire school system unconstitutional, a task force is moving toward adoption of a comprehensive reform plan that, supporters say, could propel the state to the forefront of educational innovation.
These schools often serve entire states or at least multiple school districts.
The 40,000 - student Hamilton County district, which includes Chattanooga, began creating optional virtual courses aligned to state academic standards in 2002, and since then has converted its entire summer school program to online classes.
According to an Associated Press report on the Kansas decision, allowing individual jurisdictions to set their own tax «could bring down the state's entire school financing system.»
They also said the compensatory - education program should support more schoolwide projects — in which the money is used to upgrade the entire school, rather than to benefit only eligible students — and should be supplemented by a separate aid program designed to stimulate education - funding equalization within states.
Launching Principals Pursuing Excellence in partnership with our districts and watching those 84 schools, all historically low - performing, double and triple the statewide average in math and reading growth... and seeing entire districts in the northwest corner of the state be transformed because of their local leadership embracing change.
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