Sentences with phrase «first public school in the nation»

Yu Ying, the first public school in the Nation's Capital to offer a Chinese language immersion program, delivered in combination with the International Baccalaureate Organization's Primary Years curricula, seeks to educate elementary students «to become bilingual and biliterate in an increasingly important world language» with «a world class education that opens doors to the future.»

It is the first school in New York City to do so, and possibly the first public school in the nation.

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Lead author Sara Chrisman of the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center in Seattle, Washington, viewed the finding that concussion education requirements for coaches under the state's first - in - the - nation «Lystedt Law» were being closely followed by public high schools in Washington State as «very encouraging but not surprising,» noting that schools had an incentive to follow the law because it provides legal immunity from litigation for schools that follow it correctly.

The Board of Education has agreed to move forward on a plan to eliminate sugary beverages and make Florida the first state in the nation to ban chocolate milk in public schools.

CSS achieved national and international prominence by spearheading the Los Angeles Unified Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Policy, the most stringent pesticide policy in the nation for K - 12 public schools — the first to embrace the «Precautionary Principle» and «Right to Know» and then the passage of California's Healthy Schooschools — the first to embrace the «Precautionary Principle» and «Right to Know» and then the passage of California's Healthy SchoolsSchools Act.

Ellen Haas has spent a good portion of her adult life trying to improve the nutrition of the nation's school lunch program, first as the founder and director of the consumer group Public Voice, and in the last two years as Department of Agriculture undersecretary of food, nutrition and consumer services.

New York City will become the nation's first major metropolis to close its public schools in observance of the two most sacred Muslim holy days, de Blasio announced — a watershed moment for a group that has endured suspicion and hostility since the Sept. 11 attacks.

New York just made history when the City Council approved the nation's first bills of their kind to provide free tampons and pads in all public schools, homeless

He had always been a One Nation Tory in the obvious sense that he believed that the NHS and state schools should be first - rate public services and not just a safety net.

Towson High School Teacher One of the First in the Nation to Achieve Geneticist - Educator Certification Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS) News - Sept 22, 2008

The hallmark document of the first decade of the 21st century was No child Left Behind, This legislation, passed by the U.S. Congress in 2001, sought to increase the accountability of the nation's public schools.

The suburban Denver schools in which we work are among the first large, comprehensive public high schools in the nation to convert to a performance - based system.

During the first half of the 20th century, when the New York City public schools composed one of the most successful systems in the nation, they were considered the jewels in the crown.

That is the conclusion reached in one of the first attempts to estimate the overall cost for schools of implementing the recommendations of the excellence commission, whose report — «A Nation at Risk» — was the first of a handful of major analyses of public education...

Vermont educators who have had their licenses revoked or suspended for any reason are now listed on a public Web site, believed to be one of the first of its kind in the nation, that aims to make such information more easily available to families and hiring school districts.

South Delta Elementary School is the kind of place Gov. Ronnie Musgrove of Mississippi had in mind when he announced that his state was the nation's first to provide an Internet - accessible computer in every public school clasSchool is the kind of place Gov. Ronnie Musgrove of Mississippi had in mind when he announced that his state was the nation's first to provide an Internet - accessible computer in every public school classchool classroom.

The Philadelphia Board of Education voted 5 - to - 3 last week not to appeal a court order that opened Central High School, the nation's second - oldest public high school, to female students for the first time in its 147 - year hiSchool, the nation's second - oldest public high school, to female students for the first time in its 147 - year hischool, to female students for the first time in its 147 - year history.

Enrollment in U.S. public elementary and secondary schools is expected to reach 50 million for the first time in the nation's history in 2009 - 10, the Department of Education reported last week.

A private Montessori school in rural Minnesota last week cleared a key hurdle on its way to becoming the nation's first «charter» school, able under state law to receive public funds while remaining free from most outside control.

The first charter schools were authorized in Minnesota in 1991, and more than twenty years later, despite all the excitement surrounding them, charters enroll less than 5 percent of the nation's public school children.

Initially they didn't have to serve many students, and certainly not the diverse pool that we have today, starting with the first public school, founded in Boston in 1635 to prepare a tiny group of the nation's elite sons to enter the ministry or, eventually, further study at Harvard.

Twenty years and billions of dollars since the first personal computers were plugged into the nation's schools, policymakers and the public are finally starting to demand evidence that their investments in education technology have been worthwhile.

In his new book, Special Interest: Teachers Unions and America's Public Schools (2011), he provides the first comprehensive study of America's teachers unions: exploring their historical rise to power, the organizational foundations of that power, the ways it is exercised in collective bargaining and politics, and its consequences for the nation's public schoolIn his new book, Special Interest: Teachers Unions and America's Public Schools (2011), he provides the first comprehensive study of America's teachers unions: exploring their historical rise to power, the organizational foundations of that power, the ways it is exercised in collective bargaining and politics, and its consequences for the nation's public scPublic Schools (2011), he provides the first comprehensive study of America's teachers unions: exploring their historical rise to power, the organizational foundations of that power, the ways it is exercised in collective bargaining and politics, and its consequences for the nation's public sSchools (2011), he provides the first comprehensive study of America's teachers unions: exploring their historical rise to power, the organizational foundations of that power, the ways it is exercised in collective bargaining and politics, and its consequences for the nation's public schoolin collective bargaining and politics, and its consequences for the nation's public scpublic schoolsschools.

Last month, Hartford, Conn., became the first district in the nation to turn over control of its 32 public schools to a private corporation, Education Alternatives Inc..

In coming months, The Times will publish a series of articles and a database analyzing individual teachers» effectiveness in the nation's second - largest school district — the first time, experts say, such information has been made public anywhere in the countrIn coming months, The Times will publish a series of articles and a database analyzing individual teachers» effectiveness in the nation's second - largest school district — the first time, experts say, such information has been made public anywhere in the countrin the nation's second - largest school district — the first time, experts say, such information has been made public anywhere in the countrin the country.

What came next was the 2010 launch of HISD's Apollo 20 program, the nation's first large - scale effort to implement high - performing charter school practices in a traditional public school environment.

Because of Glenn, we started the first public Montessori school in the nation, the first arts magnet going from elementary through high school, and the first foreign language immersion magnets beginning in the primary grades.

Alone among the 50 states, California stopped reporting accountability ratings for public schools in 2013 and was the first state in the nation to hit pause on accountability.

In that role, he helped build the nation's first mayor - run office to authorize public charter schools, creating a high bar for charter school quality and a rigorous accountability system.

Animosity between school districts and charter schools has been the norm since the nation's first public charter school opened in 1992.

Desert Trails Preparatory Academy in Adelanto, Calif., will open for the academic year on Monday as the first school in the nation to have been remade under a law that gives parents the power to take over a low - performing public school and fire the principal, dismiss teachers or bring in private management.

Director Davis Guggenheim first started his research ten years prior while covering a public school classroom and from there gained insight into the problematic system now in place to educate the nation's children.

In that same year but with much less publicity, Tacoma Public Schools launched the nation's first magnet school, McCarver Elementary School, in an attempt to diversify its segregated school systeIn that same year but with much less publicity, Tacoma Public Schools launched the nation's first magnet school, McCarver Elementary School, in an attempt to diversify its segregated school sschool, McCarver Elementary School, in an attempt to diversify its segregated school sSchool, in an attempt to diversify its segregated school systein an attempt to diversify its segregated school sschool system.

When Miami - Dade public schools rolled out their performance pay plan to fanfare and cheering last year, it was the first district in Florida to get a head start on what will become a mandated policy in 2014 and felt like it took on frontrunner status in the nation.

It was former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson who notoriously recounts returning from an ALEC convention with the idea of diverting public money to private schools in Milwaukee — the first state voucher scheme in the nation — which he misleadingly touts as his own.

In South Texas, for example, the first PTA Comunitario in the nation was begun with IDRA support by the women leaders of ARISE, a community - based organization in the colonias working to make sure their children get a good education in their neighborhood public schoolIn South Texas, for example, the first PTA Comunitario in the nation was begun with IDRA support by the women leaders of ARISE, a community - based organization in the colonias working to make sure their children get a good education in their neighborhood public schoolin the nation was begun with IDRA support by the women leaders of ARISE, a community - based organization in the colonias working to make sure their children get a good education in their neighborhood public schoolin the colonias working to make sure their children get a good education in their neighborhood public schoolin their neighborhood public schools.

Originally established by the SF Sheriff's Department (2003) as the first charter school in the nation to operate inside of a county jail, today Five Keys is a charter management (non-profit) corporation that operates three public charter schools within the Sheriff's Department, the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, and 26 community satellite campuses in partnership with the reentry and workforce development community in SF and LA.

LOS ANGELES — When classes resume in Southern California in coming weeks, three public schools will be the first in the nation to reopen under new management spurred by a controversial education law dubbed the «parent trigger.»

The first charter school in the nation opened in Minnesota in 1992 as a laboratory of innovation for the public sector, and since then thousands of these «schools of choice» have materialized across the nation.

A quarter - century has passed since the nation's first charter - school law was enacted in Minnesota, leading to arguably the most fundamental shift in public education in my lifetime.

1912: NEA endorses Women's Suffrage 1919: NEA members in New Jersey lead the way to the nation's first state pension; by 1945, every state had a pension plan in effect 1941: NEA successfully lobbied Congress for special funding for public schools near military bases 1945: NEA lobbied for the G.I. Bill of Rights to help returning soldiers continue their education 1958: NEA helps gain passage of the National Defense Education Act 1964: NEA lobbies to pass the Civil Rights Act 1968: NEA leads an effort to establish the Bilingual Education Act 1974: NEA backs a case heard before the U.S. Supreme Court that proposes to make unlawful the firing of pregnant teachers or forced maternity leave 1984: NEA fights for and wins passage of a federal retirement equity law that provides the means to end sex discrimination against women in retirement funds 2000s: NEA has lobbied for changes to the No Child Left Behind Act 2009: NEA delegates to the Representative Assembly pass a resolution that opposes the discriminatory treatment of same - sex couple

Chaos ensued, but Bay State leaders didn't back down, and seven years later Massachusetts» public - school students began a streak — still intact — of finishing first in every test and on every grade - level in the National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as the Nation's Report Card.

Boston public schools become the first in the nation to ditch Mercator Projection maps in favor of the Gall - Peters Projection.

Since the school reform law went into effect in 2002 and Pennsylvania's Governor appointed Paul G. Vallas the first Chief Executive Officer of the Philadelphia school district, «reform» has been aimed to bust unions and impose massive privatization on the nation's eighth largest public school system.

The Davidson Academy, the first free public school of its kind in the nation serving profoundly gifted students, will open August 28 with an inaugural class of more than 35 students ranging in age from 10 to 16.

As classroom teachers, they founded one of the nation's first professional development schools to link colleges and public schools in partnerships for the preservice education of teachers as well as the ongoing professional development of veteran teachers.

A replication site of High Tech High in San Diego, HTLA became the nation's first charter school on the campus of another public school — Birmingham High — and opened the 2002 - 2003 school year in temporary quarters.

The first public school of its kind in the nation, the Academy opened in August 2006 with an inaugural class of 35 students that increased last year to 44 students.

California's educational establishment suffered a rare blow in 2010, when the state became the first in the nation to allow parents of students in underperforming schools to pull a «parent trigger,» a mechanism that allows a majority of dissatisfied parents to compel reform up to and including conversion of a failing public school into a charter.

Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley used the opportunity of the dedication of the nation's first Marine Corps military academy public high school to attack critics of militarization of the Chicago public schools during the 11:00 a.m. dedication ceremony at the former Grant Elementary School at 145 S. Campbell in Chicago school to attack critics of militarization of the Chicago public schools during the 11:00 a.m. dedication ceremony at the former Grant Elementary School at 145 S. Campbell in Chicago School at 145 S. Campbell in Chicago today.