Sentences with phrase «first public schools in the state»

The Sunburst funds are meant to help fund renewable energy projects at public buildings throughout the state, and the University of Maryland is one of the first public schools in the state to receive funding through the program.

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He therefore proposed a constitutional amendment in late 1875 that would have rewritten the First Amendment — applying it to the states, and adding that «no money raised by taxation in any State for the support of public schools... shall ever be under the control of any religious sect.»

In a Florida state survey conducted from 1995 to 1996, for example, «dissatisfaction with public schools» edged out «religious» motivations for the first time as the leading reason for home schooling.»

He previously carried Woodcreek High - Roseville to the CIF state title game, making history in the process for public schools and claiming the Timberwolves» first Division I section title.

On Monday, Nov. 9, four days before the Mighty Ducks were scheduled to take on Franklin in the first round of playoffs, Baltimore City Public Schools contacted the executive director of the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association to announce they were withdrawing Douglass from the state regional tournament.

The Mustangs became just the county's second public school boys team to win a state title, and the first since Northgate - Walnut Creek won in 1995 behind coach now - De La Salle coach Frank Allocco.

In 2007, Robert Pianta of the University of Virginia published in Science the results of a large - scale survey of American public schools that he and a team of researchers had undertaken, observing regular instruction over the course of an entire school day in 737 typical fifth - grade classrooms across the United States, as well as hundreds of additional first - and third - grade classroomIn 2007, Robert Pianta of the University of Virginia published in Science the results of a large - scale survey of American public schools that he and a team of researchers had undertaken, observing regular instruction over the course of an entire school day in 737 typical fifth - grade classrooms across the United States, as well as hundreds of additional first - and third - grade classroomin Science the results of a large - scale survey of American public schools that he and a team of researchers had undertaken, observing regular instruction over the course of an entire school day in 737 typical fifth - grade classrooms across the United States, as well as hundreds of additional first - and third - grade classroomin 737 typical fifth - grade classrooms across the United States, as well as hundreds of additional first - and third - grade classrooms.

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 correstate'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 correState 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.

Yuba River Charter School is the first public charter school guided by the principles of Public Waldorf Education in the United SSchool is the first public charter school guided by the principles of Public Waldorf Education in the United Spublic charter school guided by the principles of Public Waldorf Education in the United Sschool guided by the principles of Public Waldorf Education in the United SPublic Waldorf Education in the United States.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

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.

«I am running to build a real Democratic State Senate majority that finally fully funds our public schools, protects tenants from being thrown out of their homes and strengthens our loophole ridden rent laws, passes badly needed ethics reforms, election reforms and real criminal justice reforms and makes Andrea Stewart - Cousins the first woman Senate Majority Leader, breaking up the so - called «three men in a room.»

Gabay, who grew up living in public housing and attended public school in the Bronx, was a graduate of Harvard Law School, an assistant counsel to Cuomo and first deputy general counsel at Empire State Development Corp. at the time of his school in the Bronx, was a graduate of Harvard Law School, an assistant counsel to Cuomo and first deputy general counsel at Empire State Development Corp. at the time of his School, an assistant counsel to Cuomo and first deputy general counsel at Empire State Development Corp. at the time of his death.

It was a cross between football pep rally and awards ceremony yesterday as the South Park High School Sparks — the first Buffalo public school to win a state football championship — were feted in City Hall for bringing pride to their school, their parents and theirSchool Sparks — the first Buffalo public school to win a state football championship — were feted in City Hall for bringing pride to their school, their parents and theirschool to win a state football championship — were feted in City Hall for bringing pride to their school, their parents and theirschool, their parents and their city.

The ruling, by the Appellate Division, First Department, in Manhattan, upheld a lower court finding that the city's Education Department did not comply with the 2009 state law on mayoral control of the city schools because it failed to adequately notify the public about the ramifications of the closings.

He won bipartisan approval of a law setting testing and safety standards for drinking water in every public school — the first law of its kind in the United States.

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.

New York City schools chancellor Carmen Fariña and new state education department commissioner MaryEllen Elia will visit a struggling school in Bronx on Tuesday, in their first public appearance together since Elia took office in July.

In his first budget address to the legislature, Murphy said he would use the extra revenue to ramp up state aid for school districts, increase funding for the beleaguered NJ Transit and a make a larger payment into the cash - strapped public worker pension system.

On Saturday: «Newly appointed New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia will give her first public address in New York City on Nov. 14 at the Council of School Supervisors & Administrators» (CSA) 48th Educational Leadership Conference... Elia will deliver the keynote at CSA's Professional Development Plenary.»

«Many studies deserve praise for being the first of their kind, but if we actually began relying on the claims made by big data surveillance in public health, we would come to some peculiar conclusions,» said John W. Ayers, San Diego State University Graduate School of Public Health research professor and senior author of the public health, we would come to some peculiar conclusions,» said John W. Ayers, San Diego State University Graduate School of Public Health research professor and senior author of the Public Health research professor and senior author of the study.

In late May, a Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health panel estimated it will cost six southern states where the virus is expected to first impact the United States more than $ 2 billion in medical care and lost wages, an economic model that assumes the virus will infect only 2 % of the region's populatioIn late May, a Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health panel estimated it will cost six southern states where the virus is expected to first impact the United States more than $ 2 billion in medical care and lost wages, an economic model that assumes the virus will infect only 2 % of the region's populstates where the virus is expected to first impact the United States more than $ 2 billion in medical care and lost wages, an economic model that assumes the virus will infect only 2 % of the region's populStates more than $ 2 billion in medical care and lost wages, an economic model that assumes the virus will infect only 2 % of the region's populatioin medical care and lost wages, an economic model that assumes the virus will infect only 2 % of the region's population.

The study team — which also included Pierre Azoulay of the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and Joshua S. Graff Zivin of the University of California, San Diego — used public records to reconstruct the careers of 10,004 elite life scientists in the United States from the moment they earned their first independent position until 2006.

Local and religious authorities fought back, but in 1852, the public - school lobby, eager to destroy what they saw as popery and other forms of orthodox religious bigotry, crowned their considerable achievements by passing the first state law compelling children to go to school.

In the study, respondents were first asked to guess the average amount of money spent per child in their school district and the average salary of a public school teacher in their statIn the study, respondents were first asked to guess the average amount of money spent per child in their school district and the average salary of a public school teacher in their statin their school district and the average salary of a public school teacher in their statin their state.

In 2014 — 15, Arizona, Colorado, and Utah were respectively ranked first, second, and third among states in the percentage of K — 12 public school students attending charter schoolIn 2014 — 15, Arizona, Colorado, and Utah were respectively ranked first, second, and third among states in the percentage of K — 12 public school students attending charter schoolin the percentage of K — 12 public school students attending charter schools.

Murphy High, the school she attended in Mobile, was one of the first in Alabama to begin integrating black and white students in 1963, despite public protests by the state's then - governor, George Wallace, who famously said during his inaugural address that same year, «Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.»

Since the first law authorizing charter schools was passed in Minnesota in 1991, 39 other states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico have all adopted legislation supporting public charters.

In the fall of 2006, Clarence R. Edwards Middle School («the Edwards» as it is known locally within Boston Public Schools) became one of the first schools in the state of Massachusetts to implement the Expanded Learning Time (ELT) InitiativIn the fall of 2006, Clarence R. Edwards Middle School («the Edwards» as it is known locally within Boston Public Schools) became one of the first schools in the state of Massachusetts to implement the Expanded Learning Time (ELT) InitSchools) became one of the first schools in the state of Massachusetts to implement the Expanded Learning Time (ELT) Initschools in the state of Massachusetts to implement the Expanded Learning Time (ELT) Initiativin the state of Massachusetts to implement the Expanded Learning Time (ELT) Initiative.

South Carolina was among the first states to pass a charter school law, in 1996; today it has 44 charters (2 percent of total public school enrollment), as compared to hundreds of charter schools in some other states, such as California, Arizona, and Florida.

Dr Hinz says that while standardised testing has existed in Australia for some time, NAPLAN is the first test where the results of schools in different states could be easily compared and were also available to parents and the public.

For example, some have noted the state's participation in the federal Reading First program, in which public schools received grant money to implement instructional and assessment tools.

Arkansas is the first state in the country to require yearly body - mass index, or BMI, screening for all of its 450,000 public school students, and this was the first year those measurements were taken by school nurses across the state and analyzed.

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.

Currently, textbooks used in public schools in states like Texas and California must first be approved at the state level, a process in which various stakeholders get the chance to pressure publishers into addressing their concerns.

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.

California's public schools received a record - high 12.5 percent funding increase in the first state budget passed since voters approved Proposition 98, a constitutional amendment that governs education spending.

And on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS)- the state's standardized test, first administered in the spring of 1998 - Worcester public school students in different grade levels were 8 to 20 percentage points less likely to score at or above proficiency than were students statewide.

This was possible because the children originally randomized were subject to the state tests required of all children in public schools that are administered for the first time at the end of third grade.

The measure, which was signed last month by Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, a Republican, requires the state school board and the commissioner of health to set regulations to ensure swim teachers in public schools have «appropriate swimming and first aid skills necessary to protect the health and safety of students.»

We first limited our attention to the 92 percent of public school students in the state attending schools with a private competitor within a five - mile radius.

(That same year, Massachusetts Governor William Weld passed a bill that made the state the first in the country to outlaw discrimination against gay and lesbian students in public schools.)

First, Common Core's standards are vastly different from those in the one state — Massachusetts — whose pre-Common Core standards led to greatly increased student achievement in reading, mathematics, and science in its common public schools and in its vocational / technical high schools.

The first public schools to open were 2 that had been chartered by the state board of education long before the hurricane and were in the relatively undamaged Uptown area of the city.

Most twenty - first - century public schools in the United States are structured pretty much as schools have been since the nineteenth century.

In 2000, WHEA became the state's first charter public high school and now has a student population of 131, a staff of 15, including eight teachers, and about 15 volunteer mentors.

Founded in 2000 as the state's first independent public charter school, Highlander was named after the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee, a historic institution that has served as a training ground for grassroots activists — including Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. — since the earliest days of the civil rights movschool, Highlander was named after the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee, a historic institution that has served as a training ground for grassroots activists — including Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. — since the earliest days of the civil rights movSchool in Tennessee, a historic institution that has served as a training ground for grassroots activists — including Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. — since the earliest days of the civil rights movement.

First, we assess whether the private schools attended by students using state - funded vouchers offer more or less racially segregated environments than those available to students who remain in public schools.

Her kids go to public school in New York, one of the first states to test students on Common Core.

In 2011, she led New York State's first successful public charter school turnaround as executive director of Harlem Prep, which grew from the third percentile citywide to the 96th percentile in just one academic yeaIn 2011, she led New York State's first successful public charter school turnaround as executive director of Harlem Prep, which grew from the third percentile citywide to the 96th percentile in just one academic yeain just one academic year.