Sentences with phrase «for more public school»

Hamilton County is seeing a significant demand for more public school options, greater choices for parents, and new approaches to boost student achievement.

This is much needed relief for charter schools in California, which continue to grow every year due to parent demand for more public school choices.»

More than 800 UFT members boarded buses headed for Albany at dawn on March 27 to lobby state lawmakers for more public school funding, charter school accountability, an extended and enhanced millionaire's tax, support for Community Learning Schools and other important education initiatives.

And in that vein, Camardella and other educators are hoping that a milestone this week — one that grew from efforts out of Prospect High School — will be a springboard for more public schools to teach religious studies.

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Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

By 2040, say data scientists at three leading health research centers — Seattle's Institute for Heath Metrics and Evaluation, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the World Bank Group — that bill will more than double, to $ 18 trillion.

These are obvious questions to ask, but according to a massive new analysis of more than 45 million public school students nationwide from Stanford's Sean Reardon (hat tip to Business Insider for the pointer), they can actually be misleading cues to focus on.

The Clinton platform also focuses heavily on education, including a call to broaden computer science education in public schools, revamp job training programs, and provide more funds for minority colleges to help tackle tech's diversity problem.

For a recent study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health analyzed the eating habits of more than 200,000 health care workers over the course of more than 20 years.

With promises of more transparent government, better - trained police and improved public schools, four of the leading candidates for Baltimore County executive made their pitch to voters at a forum Saturday in Woodlawn.

The research, compiled by the Harvard School of Public Health's Injury Control Research Center, is pretty clear: After controlling for variables such as socioeconomic factors and other crime, places with more guns have more gun deaths.

We haven't even touched upon how many people can save a ton of money going to a public school like I did or attend community college for two years and then transfer to a public school for even more savings.

His words have made me a more thoughtful person — always trying to pay for the bill, cleaning up after others long after a high school tennis match is over at a public park, and giving consulting clients more time without charging more.

The NRA, bolstered by Trump, has been a vocal proponent of allowing more guns in public places, including schools, but the exception for the convention has raised eyebrows and prompted skepticism among students and at least one parent who lost his child in the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in which 17 people were killed and others injured.

If you're out - of - state, that public school starts to look like more of a private school at nearly $ 25,000 for each year of education.

On the question of whether public funding for elite private schools that charge more than $ 10,000 per year per student in tuition should be eliminated, 75 per cent of respondents agreed and more than half, 53 per cent, agreed strongly.

Our society desperately needs more advocates for public schools who deeply believe in the God - given potential of every single student.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

Question: Are families that choose private schools and home education for their children more likely than families involved in public schools to be socially isolated and withdrawn from participation in civic life?

The loss of biblical language in public rhetoric or in public education may have telling effect (Lincoln might be incomprehensible today) Sunday school and other agencies of biblical education, where the texts can be restored and minds can as well be re-stored, are neglected, signaling that citizens are not really serious when they ask for more religion in the schools.

In contrast, my own Chicago parish church and elementary school are located on two city blocks that together take up ten acres, but those blocks include — in addition to the church and school — over 100 dwelling units in a variety of buildings two - to - three stories tall, more than 15 businesses, and nearly 200 on - and off - street parking spaces for the public.

It will require hard stands at key moments — harder and more costly than merely pulling kids out of public schools, for example.

«More difficult, I think, is the question of whether home schooling poses any sort of a problem for society; a threat to social cohesion, for example, or a brain drain from the public schools.

The federal government has assisted the movement through a grant of the National Institute of Health for more than $ 20,000, to educate public school teachers in TM.

If the sexual abuse of minors is so grievous» and it most certainly is» why should its punishment be harsh for Catholic and other private institutions, but soft for public schools where it occurs more frequently?

The popular clamor for more science and mathematics in the public schools lest the Russians outdistance us in military achievements and in the conquest of outer space is a symptom of the common assumption that science has the answer.

While pledging allegiance to the flag (with a more subdued physical salute) continues to this day to be routine in America's public schools, for the seventy years since Barnette it has been unlawful to compel any student to participate, and no student who elects not to participate is obliged to give any reason for that choice.

Catholics who graduate from Catholic schools, for example, may be more tolerant than Catholics who attended public schools.

The question of whether Catholic parochial - school children were to ride public school buses free of charge drew more ink and blood than the cause of justice for women or blacks.

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Keep it at home, practice it all you want in your heart, but when it comes to voting for prayer in public school, or more military funding of Israel, make that vote with everyone in mind, not just your narrow religious world view.

Crucifixes are all over Italy in public places and it will be hard for that person not to notice a crucifix in any public place INCLUDING the public schools there... so I don't know why this person would suddenly sue the government for having a crucifix at a walking or sitting at a PUBLIC school which does not teach religion any more than a walking at a PUBLIC pedestrian where you would probably find more crucifixes as you wapublic places and it will be hard for that person not to notice a crucifix in any public place INCLUDING the public schools there... so I don't know why this person would suddenly sue the government for having a crucifix at a walking or sitting at a PUBLIC school which does not teach religion any more than a walking at a PUBLIC pedestrian where you would probably find more crucifixes as you wapublic place INCLUDING the public schools there... so I don't know why this person would suddenly sue the government for having a crucifix at a walking or sitting at a PUBLIC school which does not teach religion any more than a walking at a PUBLIC pedestrian where you would probably find more crucifixes as you wapublic schools there... so I don't know why this person would suddenly sue the government for having a crucifix at a walking or sitting at a PUBLIC school which does not teach religion any more than a walking at a PUBLIC pedestrian where you would probably find more crucifixes as you waPUBLIC school which does not teach religion any more than a walking at a PUBLIC pedestrian where you would probably find more crucifixes as you waPUBLIC pedestrian where you would probably find more crucifixes as you walk by.

Without major public efforts in this field, the global super information highway is not likely to include the two billion people who live on less than $ 300 a year, or the more than 1 billion people who are illiterate and some 500 million children for whom there are no schools.

About three thousand students are already benefiting from the latest wrinkle in five states, «education savings accounts,» which provide even more flexibility to families by allowing those who withdraw their children from public schools to receive a deposit of public funds into government - authorized savings accounts that can be used to pay for private school tuition, online learning programs, private tutoring, educational therapies, or college costs.

As the general quality of public education has declined, at least in public perception, and as the power of the youth culture in public schools has increased, many more parents seek private schools for their children, and many of these schools are connected with churches.

The more young, orthodox Catholics we can get on the faculties of parish or private schools — heck, even public schools — the better prepared our children will be for life as faithful and thoughtful Catholics.

Nord devotes more pages to the process of public school secularization than his neutrality thesis requires and fewer than would be necessary for a thorough cultural history of religion and education.

Perhaps more serious in the long run is the tendency of Catholics in some places to oppose needed bond issues or appropriations for the public schools.

Baird's contemporary advocate of «an earnest ministry» noted that the Sunday School, the cheap tract, and the religious periodical had become «competitors» with the pulpit «for the public mind,» and concluded that the ministers would have to turn on more heat.112 Charles G. Finney, always more blunt in saying what many of his Congregational and Presbyterian brethren really thought, openly advocated the creation of excitement in order to attract the attention of the unconverted — a view with which, as we have noted, Horace Bushnell was inclined to agree.

«The public school business now represents about 23 percent of our overall business, and not only is it a little more surefire in a difficult economy, but also a great offset to what has always been a seasonal business for us,» Barstow notes.

America's Test Kitchen is well - known for its top - rated television shows with more than 4 million weekly public television viewers, bestselling cookbooks, magazines, websites, and cooking school.

The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf ®, Los Angeles» homegrown specialty coffee and tea retailer for more than 50 years, is partnering with the Adopt the Arts Foundation, a locally - based non-profit organization that works to preserve arts programs in L.A. public schools.

At the same time, Kitchens was more than ably supported by athletic director Bob Wilson, who is the best athletic director I've ever worked for in a public school (I only make that distinction because I don't want to upset my present, private school, athletic director).

But that fact has way more to do with the CIF not having state basketball playoffs from 1929 - 1980, than it does for the City's public schools not being able to compete.

For example, a contest between Alabama and Auburn may receive more than ten times the number of bets as a game between two smaller schools which greatly amplifies the impact of public betting.

I hope there will be more options available when the time comes in the way of tax breaks or vouchers for those who decide not to send their kids to public schools.

AP courses are typically plentiful and public schools often offer more opportunities for international baccalaureate and dual - enrollment courses.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

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