Sentences with phrase «favor of school»

Make adjustments as necessary if you feel work is being ignored in favor of school, or vice versa.

Parents of two children in the Encinitas Union School district sued because they claimed the Ashtanga yoga classes being offered indoctrinate the children; however, the judge ruled in favor of the school district.

As a result, the court entered judgment in favor of the school.

Our survey last year found 59 percent of Americans supportive of charter schools; 56 percent in favor of school vouchers; and 49 percent backing education savings accounts or ESAs, a relatively new form of educational choice that allows families to go beyond private school tuition to customize a learning plan that works for each individual student.

Trump spoke in favor of school choice when «properly done» and declared that «millions of poor, disadvantaged students are trapped in failing schools.»

That's what our kids are up against,» said Wilson, who decided to move Ascend away from the «no excuses» charter school model, in which students are punished for even minor infractions under strict discipline codes, in favor of a school culture that embraces social and emotional learning.

Legislators will go into the next legislative session with bipartisan majorities in favor of school choice in both houses.

The jury ruled in favor of the school system, based on a lack of evidence.

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And like her boss, President Trump, wants deep cuts — as in billions of dollars to public school programs, in favor of school choice.

We're proud to partner with the New England Charter School Network to stand in favor of school choice.

Though a district court ruled in favor of the school district, the parents appealed to the Fifth Circuit.

Charter school advocates not only spoke up in favor of school petitions, but against some of the bond money being spent that should be shared with charter schools.

They point to his vote in favor of a school - improvement initiative that allowed charter school organizations and other outside groups to compete to run new and struggling campuses.

American Federation for Children, an advocacy group that spends heavily in favor of school choice, spent nearly $ 1 million on Wisconsin races in 2014 and has spent more than $ 4.5 million since 2010 to elect pro-voucher candidates.

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The results are what they are, and the scoreboard is overwhelmingly in favor of school choice policies.

When told that President Trump was strongly in favor of school choice, supporters were 42 percent more likely to support it.

Having a small endowment works in favor of the school as they do not have to replace the large endowment funds suddenly.

DeVos and Paul Peterson, the HKS moderator who himself possess a long track record of advocating for charter and choice, noted a recent study in favor of school tax credits, one method for allowing dollars to follow students.

The traditional arguments in favor of school choice - that it will allow children to escape failing schools; that it will improve public education through competition - are well known.

«Booker used that spectacle to pronounce that he was in favor of the school reform project,» says Junius Williams, a Newark attorney and civil rights veteran.

Courts continue to rule in favor of school choice programs, as North Carolina's Supreme Court ruled in favor of its relatively new and oversubscribed Opportunity Scholarship Program.

Similarly, the Second Circuit affirmed an order in favor of a school board in New York that suspended an eighth - grader after officials learned that he used an instant messaging icon on his parents» home computer to send an image of himself to fifteen friends depicting him shooting his English teacher (Wisniewski v. Board of Education Weedsport Central School District, 2008).

By making equal opportunity a central theme of the movement, organizations such as the BAEO, the Friedman Foundation (established by Milton and Rose Friedman and now known as EdChoice), Democrats for Education Reform, and other groups in favor of school choice have put Republican support at risk by emphasizing the role that vouchers can play in opening school doors to the disadvantaged.

The case that went in favor of a school administration was Morse v. Frederick, more engagingly known as «Bong Hits 4 Jesus.»

A handmade sign urges voters cast ballots in favor of a school bonding proposal in Albany on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015.

The reason that McMinnville Director Cindi Hiatt - Henry — and directors and managers just like her in schools around the country — rely on The Wellness Impact is simple: the report offers evidence - based strategies to improve school wellness, including the compelling case in favor of school breakfast.

A federal appeals court had ruled in favor of school officials in Plano, Texas, on the liability question, and the justices without comment let that decision stand.

«In May 2011, Rhee spoke in favor of school choice alongside the Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker at an event hosted by the American Federation for Children, a pro-school choice education organization founded and funded by Betsy DeVos.

I'm all in favor of a school holiday to remember Islam, let's have it on 9/11 to truly remember what this religion has given America

In The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and «Tougher Standards,» he argues in favor of schools in which students are intellectually engaged and encouraged to grapple with rigorous problems: schools, in other words, in which correct answers matter, but so does reaching those answers through a complex process that may involve making errors and misunderstanding concepts along the way.

For a time Winerip did a feature column called «On Sunday,» but in the Times online archive trajectory (a wonderful thing), you can begin to see his favoring of school stories — whether his choice or an assignment editor's is not known — with reporting on teen - age dropouts, disabled students, school taxes, P.S.A.T. tests, etc..

The results of this approach may also be biased in favor of schools serving more advantaged students if the test - score growth of disadvantaged students differs in ways not captured by the value - added model.

Rather, we selected them to represent the normal distribution of schools on such variables as size, student SES, and school level, but weighted more heavily in favor of schools serving high - needs students.

Not exact matches

The decision also weighs in the favor of entrepreneurs and investors who live outside places like Silicon Valley, where old - school networking and personal connections are how financing deals typically happen.

Calling it the «privacy paradox,» University of Michigan School of Information professor Cliff Lamp says in studying social computing he has found that people make a lot of noise when it comes to privacy, but push concerns aside in favor of convenience.

The result: Stanford tends to attract a very high percentage of prospective students who want to do their own thing and, once in Silicon Valley, the school serves up enough opportunities to push the odds in their favor.

In fact, boar bristle brushes are still heavily favored by many men in Italy, a country where old - school barber - style wet shaving never really went out of style.

In 2015, Gates spoke out in favor of national Common Core standards in grades K through 12 and charter schools.

After surveying 400 college and high school students and 400 parents, more than half of the people were in favor of using an ISA over a private student loan to pay for their degrees.

Washington (CNN) Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, facing an outraged constituent audience of school shooting survivors Wednesday, signaled a willingness to vote in favor of limited gun control measures.

When the lawsuit reached the Connecticut Supreme Court, gun control advocates, school officials and emergency doctors who treated victims of assault rifle fire submitted amicus briefs in favor of the lawsuit.

The U.S. House responded to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre on Wednesday by voting overwhelmingly in favor of legislation aimed at helping reduce school vioSchool massacre on Wednesday by voting overwhelmingly in favor of legislation aimed at helping reduce school vioschool violence.

«Amendments to the bill face an uphill battle, says John Coffee Jr., a professor at Columbia University Law School who testified in favor of bananas yesterday, «but they sometimes win.»

Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, facing an outraged constituent audience of school shooting survivors Wednesday, signaled a willingness to vote in favor of limited gun control measures.

The evidence for evolution is more than bones, but clearly you were so hellbent on not learning in school in favor of your own mumbo jumbo you decided to ignore the overwhelming amount of evidence that we have and are finding more everyday.

I think American Jesus would be in favor of hanging the Ten Commandments in state - run schools.

The government should not be permitted to create incentives for religious practice or belief (like giving favored status to religious organizations, as compared to other nonprofits), to facilitate the religious practices of some at the expense of others (like offering vocal prayers in public schools), or to accommodate one religion but not others with similar needs or problems (like limiting draft exemptions to members of traditional «peace churches») Within these guidelines, religious accommodations are fully in keeping with the First Amendment — albeit in conflict with strict separation.

Still a third national survey (1997) discovered not only that a strong majority of African - Americans (57 percent) and Hispanics (65 percent) favored vouchers, but also that it was precisely the black age group most likely to have children in the public schools (those 26 to 35) who supported vouchers most strongly (86.5 percent!).