Sentences with phrase «for parents of public school students»

At Kno's recent launch of a dashboard and pricing schedule that makes it possible for parents of public school students to purchase digital editions of their children's textbooks for no more than $ 9.99 apiece, the iOS platform was the only one able to interact with the K - 12 digital texts.

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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.

Comparing national test scores, Catholic schools in general (as with most private schools) perform better in both reading and math than public schools although the advantage is stronger in reading than in Math though the difference in Math was still statistically significant; however, this could be due to the self selecting nature of the students in Catholic schools where the parents have made the decision to value education to the extent of paying for it.

Concussion and Sports - related Head Injury: Statute 115C - 12 (23)(2011) requires the Department of Public Instruction, along with other organizations outlined in the statute, to develop an athletic concussion safety training program for the use of coaches, school nurses, school athletic directors, volunteers, students who participate in interscholastic athletic activities in public schools and their paPublic Instruction, along with other organizations outlined in the statute, to develop an athletic concussion safety training program for the use of coaches, school nurses, school athletic directors, volunteers, students who participate in interscholastic athletic activities in public schools and their papublic schools and their parents.

The WRDSB Parent Involvement Committee (PIC) and Waterloo Region Assembly of Public School Councils (WRAPSC) are excited to announce this seventh annual parent conference SATURDAY APRIL 7 at Bluevale Collegiate Institute: Parent Engagement for Innovative Education and Student SuParent Involvement Committee (PIC) and Waterloo Region Assembly of Public School Councils (WRAPSC) are excited to announce this seventh annual parent conference SATURDAY APRIL 7 at Bluevale Collegiate Institute: Parent Engagement for Innovative Education and Student Suparent conference SATURDAY APRIL 7 at Bluevale Collegiate Institute: Parent Engagement for Innovative Education and Student SuParent Engagement for Innovative Education and Student Success.

The parents of a private school student participating in a public school sport under this subsection are responsible for transporting their child to and from the public school at which the student participates.

Silver told AQE members that he «respectfully» disagreed with Cuomo's claim in the State of the State last week that New York's public school students lack a lobbyist, adding: «The most powerful lobbying group for our students is their parents.»

«Maintaining mayoral control of city schools is critical to students, parents and employers who all depend on high quality public schools,» said Kathryn Wylde, President & CEO of the Partnership for New York City.

«I applaud those students for speaking up, I applaud the students for taking action and I think the calls of the students and parents have captured the attention of the administration of the Buffalo Public Schools and the teacher's union and I'm hoping that those two entities can come together in the best interest of the education of the children at City Honors,» he said.

Also at noon, NYC Councilman Ben Kallos Liz Accles, the executive director of Community Food Advocates and Monique Lindsay, a public school parent leader and food advocate hold conversation on universal free lunch, food access and nutrition for New York City's public school students, NYSHealth's office, 1385 Broadway, 23rd floor, conference room, Manhattan.

«New York State United Teachers today issued early endorsements to three incumbent state senators who have reliably stood with parents and educators in fighting for fair and equitable funding while vigorously opposing the climate of over-testing that is harming students and public schools,» NYSUT said in a statement.

The Parental Choice in Education Act would provide tax credits for those who donate to private and parochial schools for purposes of scholarships, tax credits to parents who pay tuition to private and parochial schools and tax credits to teachers - in both public and private schools - who make personal purchases of school supplies and food to support their underprivileged students.

Mona Davids, President of the New York City Parents Union (NYCPU) recalled that as a New York City public school student being marked absent when observing Muslim Holidays and until recently her own children have been marked absent for observing those holidays.

I urge my public school colleagues and parents of Connecticut students to write in a vote for Jonathan Pelto, the only true proponent of public school education.

«Maintaining mayoral control of city schools is critical to students, parents and employers who all depend on high quality public schools,» said Kathryn Wylde, the president of the Partnership for New York City.

On Thursday, with the New York State Board of Regents hearing testimony regarding the newly approved teacher evaluation system, leading education reform organization StudentsFirstNY and public school parents offered recommendations and sent letters calling for a system that ensures all public school students have access to high - quality teachers.

Parents worry about funding and standards for their public school students and remain least concerned about the amount of testing in classrooms, a survey released by High Achievement New York and Achieve found.

Joined by area politicians and community leaders, the parents, students and teachers rallied in support of the Education Investment Tax Credit which would increase support for public and religious schools by creating a tax incentive for individuals and corporations to donate to scholarship programs administered by nonprofit educational organizations.

New York, NY About Blog This is a place for parents, teachers, students — and anyone who has a stake in the improvement of our public school system — to offer ideas, share experiences and advice, and weigh in on policies and educational politics.

Chapters take on a variety of work, including: Regularly scheduled events for the public to discuss public education, school board candidate forums, monitoring school board meetings, translating proposed school board policies into other languages for various language groups, providing tours of schools for prospective students and families, working for adequate funding for public schools, engaging with bond elections, helping parents navigate enrollment policies, and in general, being involved in the issues of public schools in their communities.

The prediction comes from both proponents and opponents of the tuition - voucher measure, which, by providing parents with $ 900 for each student enrolled in a private or out - of - district public school, would be the most extensive choice program yet adopted by any state.

Despite these large numbers — which indicate a huge systemic change — and despite the long - standing practice of social promotion in public schools, the rationale for holding students back seemed readily apparent to many parents.

Despite the united front of opposition, with studies like Carol Klein's 2006 Virtual Charter Schools and Home Schooling finding high levels of parent satisfaction and student achievement at virtual schools, it is highly unlikely that independent home schoolers and advocates for traditional public schools will be able to stoSchools and Home Schooling finding high levels of parent satisfaction and student achievement at virtual schools, it is highly unlikely that independent home schoolers and advocates for traditional public schools will be able to stoschools, it is highly unlikely that independent home schoolers and advocates for traditional public schools will be able to stoschools will be able to stop them.

Janice K. Jackson's journey through the Chicago Public Schools as a student, teacher, principal, administrator, parent, and now, chief executive officer, has prepared her for one of the toughest jobs...

He advocated for state databases containing college and career outcome information of public school graduates, so parents can see the life outcomes of former students of their children's current or future schools.

Adoption of a statewide choice plan in California, with its 4.6 million public - school students, would be by far the most significant victory yet for proponents of allowing parents to select their children's public schools.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

If the skeptics are right, Wood writes, Common Core «will damage the quality of K — 12 education for many students; strip parents and local communities of meaningful influence over school curricula; centralize a great deal of power in the hands of federal bureaucrats and private interests; push for the aggregation and use of large amounts of personal data on students without the consent of parents; usher in an era of even more abundant and more intrusive standardized testing; and absorb enormous sums of public funding that could be spent to better effect on other aspects of education.»

Such bricolage arrangements are simple guesswork and no substitute for a rational student - based funding policy that treats the same student similarly regardless of the local public school their parent chooses for them.

Meanwhile, more parents in D.C. neighborhoods west of Rock Creek Park are sending their kids to public schools, resulting in fewer spots for «out of boundary» students in the most sought - after neighborhood schools such as Lafayette, Murch and Eaton elementary schools or Deal Middle School.

A large number of mostly undeserving disabled students and their clever parents, critics allege, have managed to get public schools to pay for attendance at expensive private schools.

In a recent Public Agenda survey, parents of public high - school students supported the idea that reducing class sizes was a better way to improve schools than raising salaries for teaPublic Agenda survey, parents of public high - school students supported the idea that reducing class sizes was a better way to improve schools than raising salaries for teapublic high - school students supported the idea that reducing class sizes was a better way to improve schools than raising salaries for teachers.

Gatlin says she is proud of Romney's education plan, particularly its focus on increasing choice for parents, which would allow for expanded access to highquality public charter schools, and make Title I and IDEA funds portable, so that low income and special needs students can choose which schools to attend and bring the funding with them.

As Linda Erdos, spokesperson for Arlington, VA public schools, says, apps are «the next generation» of communication between parents, students and schools.

Lucian Boyd Harte, director of finance and operations at Chelsea Academy in London, noted that parents were supporters of the change because it reduces risks: «This removes the students» need to carry cash into school on public transport, and makes paying for school items more secure and safer for our students.»

In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced (under pressure from the state legislature) changes that will make it easier for special - needs students to attend private school at public expense when their parents believe that public schools are not meeting the needs of their children.

Allison Hertog is a member of the Step Up for Students governance board and is the founding attorney of Making School Work, a private law firm whose mission is to help parents access the right placement — public or private — for their special needs children.

• As many as twenty states are considering «parent trigger» legislation, which closes failing schools upon a majority vote of parents and replaces the staff, charters the school for private management, or allows the students to attend private or other public schools.

Much has changed since the fledgling Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE), 14 New York City community school boards, and 23 individual parents and their children lodged the initial complaint charging the State of New York with denying «thousands of public school students in the City of New York their constitutional rights to equal educational opportunities.»

Then, as conceptions of youth rights began to shift, and as institutions that provided support for the expansion of these rights emerged, students and parents, with the support of public - interest lawyers, began to question and challenge school disciplinary practices in court.

2 - 4 African - American history: «African - American History: Destroying the Myths Teaching the Truth,» fifth annual conference, sponsored by the Indianapolis Public Schools» Office of African - American History / Multicultural Education, for educators, parents, and students, to be held at the Marriott Hotel, 21st and Shadeland Avenue, Indianapolis, Ind..

In terms of services, only 18 percent of choice parents said that a program for students learning to speak English was made available to them, compared with 50 percent of public - school parents.

For public schools, following their lead would mean paying closer attention to that segment of the population who are not the parents of current students, the general tax - paying public, who provide the majority of support for the schooFor public schools, following their lead would mean paying closer attention to that segment of the population who are not the parents of current students, the general tax - paying public, who provide the majority of support for the schoofor the schools.

AFT president Randi Weingarten commented, «Not only do parents overwhelmingly believe in the promise of public education to help all children reach their dreams, their prescription for how to reclaim that promise matches what America's teachers want for their students and schools.»

The only requirement for this ploy is that the person with whom I'm talking has to be the parent of a student at a public secondary school.

On average in top performing private school parents paid over $ 25, 000 per student (Geelong Grammar with an ICSEA of 1149 ranked 124 in Victoria out of 455 schools and was the most expensive school in Victoria charging $ 36000 in 2017 just for school fees for year 12 (non-boarding) while parents in high performing public schools paid less than $ 1300.

NEA Leader Stresses Goal of Great Public Schools for All Kids National Education Association president Dennis Van Roekel wants to give all students access to a quality education in part by working to close the achievement gap, seeking more funding for public schools, and increasing parent and community involvPublic Schools for All Kids National Education Association president Dennis Van Roekel wants to give all students access to a quality education in part by working to close the achievement gap, seeking more funding for public schools, and increasing parent and community involSchools for All Kids National Education Association president Dennis Van Roekel wants to give all students access to a quality education in part by working to close the achievement gap, seeking more funding for public schools, and increasing parent and community involvpublic schools, and increasing parent and community involschools, and increasing parent and community involvement.

He applauds the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program for arming parents with choice, and allowing students to enroll in a program that graduates 26 % more DC students than traditional public schools and places 90 % of its graduates on the path to college.

A board of education or board of cooperative educational services may adopt any revision to the code of conduct only after at least one public hearing that provides for the participation of school personnel, parents, students and any other interested party.

«And this poll makes clear that not only do parents overwhelmingly believe in the promise of public education to help all children reach their dreams, their prescription for how to reclaim that promise matches what America's teachers want for their students and schools.