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.
Not exact matches
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 Schoo
schools — 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 clas
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 clas
school 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 hi
School, the
nation's second - oldest
public high
school, to female students for the first time in its 147 - year hi
school, 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 school
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 sc
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 s
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 school
in collective bargaining and politics, and its consequences for the
nation's
public sc
public 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 countr
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 countr
in the
nation's second - largest
school district — the
first time, experts say, such information has been made
public anywhere
in the countr
in 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 syste
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 s
school, McCarver Elementary
School, in an attempt to diversify its segregated school s
School,
in an attempt to diversify its segregated school syste
in an attempt to diversify its segregated
school s
school 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 school
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 school
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 school
in the colonias working to make sure their children get a good education
in their neighborhood public school
in 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.