Sentences with phrase «excluded from public schools»

At the time, an estimated one million children with disabilities were excluded from public schools and were thus separate from their nondisabled peers.

Children with disabilities did not have a right to a free public education until after the passage of federal legislation in 1975 and were often excluded from public schools.

«Prior to 1975, children with disabilities were commonly excluded from public schools.»

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Further, if one removes the emotional aspect from whichever belief is held, it must be conceded that Ham did offer an objective and indisputable fact concerning how the public school system has intentionally excluded the intelligent design argument.

Stevens offered not a word of concern about whether religious students might feel themselves to be less than full members of the political community if, by order of the nation's highest court, their messages and only their messages are categorically excluded from the school's public arena.

Existing constitutional provisions against establishments of religion did not bar public spending on education from reaching schools with religious affiliations, and Blaine's amendment did not propose to alter this arrangement except by excluding Catholics.

Members of one church in Florida not only led the fight to exclude three hemophiliac boys with AIDS from public school but also decided not to admit persons carrying the AIDS virus into Sunday school, worship or other church activities (Florida Baptist Witness, September 17, 1987).

Access to public schools and to other institutions from which they had previously been largely excluded turns out to be less beneficial than they had expected.

Following this approach, we might exclude parochial schools but not nonreligious private schools from a school - voucher program, or bar religious student groups but not chess clubs and neighborhood - watch associations from meeting in public school classrooms.

But what a crazy system we have, if the people closest to the day - to - day reality of school are essentially excluded from the public debate over how we educate our kids.

Since historically, separationist rhetoric was used to pass Blaine Amendments that forced poorer Catholic parents to send their children to Protestant («public») schools, church - state separation may erroneously seem to exclude certain religious groups from the full benefits of citizenship.

«One year ago, with the promise of Education Tax Credits on the horizon, thousands of tuition - paying families were left out in the cold — excluded from a state budget that provides the nation's highest level of spending per pupil in public schools,» he said.

In a news release, Duran and Jones claimed that lawmakers were blindsided by provisions in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act, which excludes some school money from districts that opt out of a plan to arm non-teacher persSchool Public Safety Act, which excludes some school money from districts that opt out of a plan to arm non-teacher persschool money from districts that opt out of a plan to arm non-teacher personnel.

The final sticking points in the negotiations included providing extra funding for charter schools to hold classes in private facilities if they're excluded from sharing space in public - school buildings.

For this research, Kardos and Liu surveyed a random sample of 486 first - and second - year, K - 12 public school teachers (excluding arts and physical education) from 186 schools in California, Florida, Massachusetts, and Michigan.

New analysis of the Year 12 results «school ladder» compares 455 private and public schools (schools with fewer than 20 students at year 12 were excluded) based on their VCE ranking and then compares both their VCE results and school based data including funding available from MySchool website.

So, as new technologies — from radio to television, from telephones to cell phones, from cameras to video cams, or even Wikipedia — have come down the pike, American public schools have fearfully stood ready to exclude them.

For purposes of determining adequate yearly progress on the indicator set forth at subparagraph (15)(iv) of this subdivision, the graduation rate cohort for each public school, school district, and charter school for each school year from 2002 - 03 through 2006 - 2007 shall consist of all members of the school or district high school cohort, as defined in subparagraph (i) of this paragraph, for the previous school year plus any students excluded from that cohort solely because they transferred to an approved alternative high school equivalency or high school equivalency preparation program.

For instance, most private schools in the Milwaukee voucher program «lack the full complement of educational programs that students with disabilities are entitled to if they receive their education in the public sector,» and as a result, students with disabilities have been discouraged or excluded from participating.

Some traditional public schools are already looking to exclude themselves from the teacher contract system.

While we congratulate LAUSD on reaching an agreement with UTLA, we are disappointed that it will exclude charters from any transformation or reconstitution process over in the next three years, effectively dismantling Public School Choice and other reconstitution processes for charters.

Note: Table reports expenditures from all funds (General, State Special Education, Combined GF & Special Education, Total Governmental, Total State Grants, and Total Federal Grants); Statewide totals include expenditures from public charter schools Variable costs include expenditures for Instruction, Student / Instruction Support Services, Other Support Services, and Fringe Benefits; They exclude Operational Expenses, Total Property Expenses, Assets / Reserves, Debt Service, Transfers, and other miscellaneous expenses

Common's mother and longtime Chicago Public Schools (CPS) board member, Mahalia Hines, has the power to approve the school's opening — even though she says that she will exclude herself from the process — which is also a little sketchy.

School groups, led by the California School Boards Association and the Association of California School Administrators, argued in a suit filed in September that the 2011 - 12 budget agreement improperly reduced funding for K - 12 public education by excluding revenues from the general fund without adjusting the Proposition 98 minimum funding calculation.

It has long been suspected that high attrition in the «no excuses» charters results in part from codes of discipline that rely heavily on excluding students for what public schools would consider to be minor infractions.

The court reasoned that resources saved by excluding undocumented children from public schools were far outweighed by the harm to America's progress by doing so.

To be purposely excluded from a tax measure intended to benefit all public school students is disingenuous on behalf of the board, as it is in essence treating the almost 9,500 students who attend charters schools as second - class citizens and putting their needs on the back burner.

In a news release, Duran and Jones claimed that lawmakers were blindsided by provisions in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act, which excludes some school money from districts that opt out of a plan to arm non-teacher persSchool Public Safety Act, which excludes some school money from districts that opt out of a plan to arm non-teacher persschool money from districts that opt out of a plan to arm non-teacher personnel.

Charter schools that receive public funds should be prohibited from using any enrollment or registration procedures that exclude or discourage any students from enrolling at the school.

This legislative session, students and parents would like to see public charter schools able to compete for the competitive pre-kindergarten funds proposed by Governor Cuomo's Education Commission, something they are currently excluded from doing.

If the answer to that query is that private schools are paid for by the parents, so government should just stay out of the way, then another, even more important question arises: If the private school accepts public funds (i.e., vouchers), what legitimate reason then exists to exclude them from complying with the same requirements as public schools?

The letter concluded that because the school choice program is publicly funded, it must meet standards under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which states that «no qualified individual with a disability shall, by reason of such disability, be excluded from participation in or be denied the benefits of the services... of a public entity.»

Anyone concerned about how the futures of millions of children are jeopardized because of discipline practices that unfairly exclude students from U.S. public schools will be heartened by this story about how transformative change can happen.