Sentences with phrase «even more public schools»

Nowadays, even more public schools climb onto the bandwagon with their own programs.

(And would that perversely encourage even more public schools to charge kids to play sports?)

Baldassare notes: «Even while the state's economy and budget situation have improved markedly this year, most adults and even more public school parents say that state funding is falling short of the needs in their local schools.»

Not exact matches

While several university presidents at both public and private schools make more than $ 1 million, there are even more investment managers at university endowments being compensated at that level of higher.

We haven't even touched upon how many people can save a ton of money going to a public school like I did or attend community college for two years and then transfer to a public school for even more savings.

gays are still despised today as they were in the 1960; s. maybe even more since they are pushing the public school system to teach that being gay is morally acceptable and an alrnative lifesyle.

A more recent study is even more striking: «The achievement of students in Catholic high schools was less dependent on family background and personal circumstances than was true in the public schools.»

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

But the purpose of those schools was even more cultural and religious than was that of the public schools.

Even people with less than a high school education today recognize the priority of the brain over the blood, so much so in fact, that in the movie, Hannibal (about a cannibalistic serial killer), the thought of slicing out tiny parts of a person's brain, cooking them in a pan, and serving the pieces to that person to eat has become in the public's mind a more disturbing image than, say, serving a person a glass of their own blood to drink, which appears relatively tame in comparison.

In light of DeVos's leadership and ESSA, I urge Christians to shoulder the responsibility of leading their public schools at the local level with even more intentionality, particularly with these three questions in mind:

About three thousand students are already benefiting from the latest wrinkle in five states, «education savings accounts,» which provide even more flexibility to families by allowing those who withdraw their children from public schools to receive a deposit of public funds into government - authorized savings accounts that can be used to pay for private school tuition, online learning programs, private tutoring, educational therapies, or college costs.

The more young, orthodox Catholics we can get on the faculties of parish or private schools — heck, even public schools — the better prepared our children will be for life as faithful and thoughtful Catholics.

He doesn't, it's Satan who is running wild in this country because GOD has been taken out of public places and prayer has been taken out of schools etc., when you take GOD out, you let evil in... this nation hasn't learned that yet... there will be more tragedies like this or worse unless GOD is bought back into every facet of the public as he was decades ago when prayer was allowed in school, the commandments were made visible and even on our money his name was present — BRING GOD BACK!!

Since we aren't a big public school with tons of resources, we have had to figure out ways to stretch an already thin budget even more.

Donna travels the world to promote Registered Dietitian Nutritionists and the Academy, but she is still happiest eating lunch with Burke County Public School students, out standing in collard fields with organic farmer Sam Adderson, or planning new ways to get even more local products, like grits, onto school lunch trays and farmers market shoppingSchool students, out standing in collard fields with organic farmer Sam Adderson, or planning new ways to get even more local products, like grits, onto school lunch trays and farmers market shoppingschool lunch trays and farmers market shopping bags.

In fact, most homeschool parents pay even more on average for their student's education than those subsidized within the public school system.

adolescent homeschooled students slept an average of 90 minutes more per night than public and private school students, who were in class an average of 18 minutes before homeschooled children even awoke.

Parents with young children in public schools were even more frustrated, with 63 percent of them voicing their disapproval to pollsters.

This year he testified for more than three hours, and faced detailed questions relating to city policing, public housing, taxes, the condition of school cafeterias and even a controversy over plans for an especially tall billboard in the Bronx.

Even as they promised more help for parents, both de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña reiterated Tuesday that they felt the city's public school system still remained the best place for most special needs students.

Public - school bureaucrats making $ 300,000 salaries — even more than New York pays its governor!

I am certainly open to negotiating a residency requirement with the police union, but even more so I than that, I think we should focus on promoting from within: we have the PSLA (Public Service Learning Academy) at Fowler, set up to train Syracuse City School District students who want to go into public service jobs (including poPublic Service Learning Academy) at Fowler, set up to train Syracuse City School District students who want to go into public service jobs (including popublic service jobs (including police).

This year, New York approved the first - ever free tuition program at the state's public colleges, putting even more pressure on schools like Saint Rose to compete for a declining pool of college - age students.

Since only a tiny fraction of Americans has lived through a state constitutional convention in their adult lifetimes, and since Americans are not taught about state constitutional conventions (as opposed to the federal constitutional convention of 1787) during their formal schooling (even those such as myself who received a Ph.D. in American government), Americans approach these referendums starting with a huge knowledge deficit, making local opinion leaders that much more influential in public debates.

Call me old school, but the fork doesn't do salad justice even though it probably looks a bit more refined if eating in public.

Much as weak signals from the outer realms of the universe are both hard to detect and even more difficult to interpret, so, too, preliminary findings about the ways in which new forms of school choice will shape the public schools are hardly definitive.

Even more of the control group members attended high - performing public charter schools in their communities after losing the lottery.

The Soviet Union, even more bureaucratized than American public schools, collapsed in a week.

Variables that measure student differences based on participation in government programs are problematic, however, especially when comparing different school sectors, since government - run public schools are much more likely to participate in such programs than are privately run schools, even if both types of schools have similar student populations.

Today, almost half of the city's public school enrollment is in charters, even more kids are on charter waitlists, and PCSB has the authority to continue growing its portfolio.

While many of the students transferred into Little Rock charter schools that were racially segregated, these students generally left traditional public schools that were even more heavily segregated.

If you look at the Fund's «990» tax form, you'll find even more reason to question the veracity of the mayor's concern about the malign influence of private money in public schools.

Data collected from 32 of the largest private and 50 of the largest public universities reveal that that more than a third of Pell grant recipients at those schools had not earned degrees even after six years, Sarah Butrymowicz reports.

Even voucher advocates would agree that, because private school choice is costly under the current system, parents who go private are likely to be more socially advantaged than parents who remain in the public schools.

And, in fact, parents of school - aged children are even more positive than other Americans about their local public schools, with 58 percent assigning them an «A» or «B» grade.

Charter enrollment is even more impressive if you look at the fine print: In 2008, charters enrolled 48 percent of public - school 6th graders, up from 36 percent a year earlier.

True, the revenue amounts received by charters and TPS are more even once you exclude all of the ways that district - run public schools are forced to be inefficient.

Diane Ravitch's lament that public schools no longer teach a common culture (see «Ex Uno Plures,» Forum, Fall 2001) is even more relevant after the events of September 11.

If the skeptics are right, Wood writes, Common Core «will damage the quality of K — 12 education for many students; strip parents and local communities of meaningful influence over school curricula; centralize a great deal of power in the hands of federal bureaucrats and private interests; push for the aggregation and use of large amounts of personal data on students without the consent of parents; usher in an era of even more abundant and more intrusive standardized testing; and absorb enormous sums of public funding that could be spent to better effect on other aspects of education.»

Charters are important for stimulating improvement in all public schools — and providing even more quality choices — as research has clearly shown that they do.

Keeping public buildings clean is a hugely important job, and that is even more so in our schools.

Drew Gilpin Faust, the current president of Harvard University, is right in insisting that «even as we as a nation have embraced education as critical to economic growth and opportunity, we should remember that [public schools], colleges and universities are about a great deal more than measurable utility.

Yes, black students who earn graduate degrees from public universities borrow less than their peers at for - profit schools, but the black students who earn graduate degrees from private nonprofit schools rack up even more debt than their for - profit - going peers, leaving with $ 55,414 on average (see Table 1).

While only 14 percent of students in traditional public schools made nonstructural transfers, the same is true of more than one - quarter of students in fifth - year charter schools and of an even larger share of students in newer charter schools.

As a teacher, administrator or school official, it's important to realize that anything posted on a social media site — even when you think you are only posting to your friends and family — may become more public than you intended.

Even though we are in the early stages of this work — we are only a little over a year old — we are working with researchers like Carol Dweck, Angela Duckworth, Greg Walton, David Yaeger, Walter Mischel, and many more; educational institutions like Denver Public Schools, Baltimore Public Schools, KIPP, and Riverdale Country School.

The Republican leaders in the executive and legislative branches, which once championed accountability, have turned to school choice as the primary strategy to produce reform (even as public opinion on choice, especially more extreme forms such as vouchers, has begun to sour).

Even for veteran education watchers, however, this is difficult, not only because the Trump administration's budget and policy proposals are more skeletal than those put forward by previous administrations, but because the Department of Education does not directly oversee the nation's 100,000 public schools.

These families were more likely to get what they needed from private schools, even though they had no legal rights to specific services from those schools; they were less likely to get what they needed from the public schools, where they were legally entitled to those services.