As
a former public children's librarian, I have always wanted kids to read whatever they wanted to read: magazine, non-fiction, higher level, lower level, following along with audiobooks, etc...
Not exact matches
Since his last re-election, Clarke has openly supported Republican causes on local and national right - wing media outlets; proudly trumpets on official Milwaukee County letterhead his 2013 award from the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, whose leader suggested using women and
children as human shields during Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's standoff with federal agents; accused Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele of having «penis envy» and being on heroin when crafting the county budget and needing to be drug tested; blasted Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm and Chief Judge Jeffrey Kremers for being «soft on crime»; provided minimal protection for President Obama during his 2012 visit; employs
former Scott Walker spokeswoman Fran McLaughlin, who was given criminal immunity over her role in Walker's mixing of campaign and county business; and created pro-gun
public service announcements.
Former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey resigned as honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Oxford after the
public inquiry into
child sex abuse last year heard he delayed a «proper investigation» into Ball's crimes for two decades by failing to pass information to police.
John Dickie, the director of
Child Poverty Action Group in Scotland, and Sir Harry Burns, the
former chief medical officer for Scotland who is now Professor of Global
Public Health at the University of Strathclyde, will also be at the campaign launch.
Former public school teacher Dayna is behind Lemon Lime Adventures and you'll find educational crafts that will teach your
children important academic concepts in a way that sticks and is engaging.
My suggestion — as a parent of
public school
children and as a
former public and private school teacher — is that we individuals who are «outside» school culture (i.e. not administrators or teachers) become invested in whatever ways we can.
I am a
former public school teacher and I think
children do learn best by engaging with their environment.
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Standards in
public life are in the gutter when Tory activists, councillors and at least one MP, Tim Loughton, a juvenile
former children's minister, are prepared to assert falsely that they «support the aims and values of the Labour Party» and are «not a supporter of any organisation opposed to it» to make an unwitting # 3 donation when they're rumbled as registered supporters.
The development team behind the planned reuse of the
former Women &
Children's Hospital of Buffalo site in the Elmwood Village has fine - tuned their proposal for a mix of condos, townhomes, apartments and retail space, and wants to unveil it to the
public at the end of this month.
Slattery agreed that while «they [
public schools] haven't had overtly bad sex education, its covertly and without
former curriculum: tie - ins and programs to escort school
children to planned parenthood, it's been happening for 40 years.»
We need to bring common sense to Common Core because New York is wasting too much time and money stressing
children out to prepare for these tests which are of questionable educational value instead of focusing on supporting teachers so they can do their job and teach
children what's really important,» said Assemblyman Jim Tedisco, a
former public school special education teacher and guidance counselor.
Parents should be the primary decision makers on what is best for their
children's educational futures and not penalized by state and federal bureaucrats,» said Tedisco, a
former public school special education teacher.
Tedisco, a
former public school special education teacher, is the sponsor of the bi-partisan Common Core Parental Refusal Act (A. 6025 / S.4161), to require that school districts notify parents of their rights to refuse without penalty to have their
children in grades 3 - 8 participate in the Common Core standardized tests.
Elaine Becker, retired Director of
Public Health Nursing, Erie County Jim Sampson, CEO, Gateway - Longview Kevin Kumor, CSEA Joan Guarino,
former First Deputy Commissioner of Social Services Jeff Pirrone, Supervisor, Oishei Foundation's Mobile Safety - Net Team Dr. Thomas Rosenthal, MD, Chairman, UB Department of Family Medicine Denise Krause, Clinical Professor and Associate Dean for Community Engagement and Alumni Relations, UB School of Social Work Gaen Hooley, NYSNA Belle Walls Montree, Vice President, Behavioral Health Services,
Child and Family Services
Off the top of my head the biggest ones are: (1) corruption within the Buildings & Grounds Department (2) corruption involving school district vendors over-billing and paying bribes and kickbacks that led to those two Federal indictments and convictions; (3) corruption involving police harassment of a woman on behalf of the manager of a local beach club; (4) a
child rapist operating out of a
public middle school; (5) an illegal gambling and pornography web site operated by members of the New Rochelle Police Department; (6) a retired police officer defrauding charities including St. Jude's
Children's Research; (7) illegal asbestos handling and asbestos removal at an elementary school; (8) an effort to artificially inflate the salaries and pensions of senior police commanders; (9) the relationship between the New Rochelle Police Commissioner and a corrupt contractor, a man who has since been convicted on Federal corruption charges; (10) the sordid history of
former New Rochelle Schools Administrator Freddie Dean Smith.
Connect Communications has unveiled two Labour hires, including an aide to
former children's minister and Commons
public accounts select committee chair Margaret Hodge.
Nieves is the
former State Assemblymember for the 51st Assembly District and Valdes is a
children's advocate who has never held
public office before.
Visa Fraud Peter Kwaku Amoabeng,
former NPP MP for Lower West Akim fraudulently attempted to obtain an Austrian visa for a woman and two
children who he falsely represented as his wife and
children respectively, and in the process committed the offences of fraud by false pretences, forgery, perjury, impersonation and deceit of
public officer
Councilmember Greenfield, a
former vice president of the Sephardic Community Federation, heads an outside organization that is dedicated to securing government funds for religious schools, and he boasts in his online Council bio that he has been successful in securing $ 600 million in tax credits for parents of school
children not in the
public schools.
While walking to her car out of city hall, Farina, now
former schools chancellor, said while she'll miss her job, she's confident Carranza is the right choice for the city's 1.1 million
children in
public schools.
«Rob Astorino is a product of
public schools, a father of three
children in the
public education system and a
former school board member who was recruited to serve by teachers,» spokeswoman Jessica Proud said in a statement.
If you really want to know, it was a product called «AidsVax» from a tiny South San Francisco start - up company called VaxGen Inc, which had been spun off by the DNA juggernaut Genentech (a
child of Roche) and a group of
former public health service employees.
Former D.C.
Public Schools chancellor Kaya Henderson has not denied that she used her power to place the
children of government officials in high - demand schools, even though those schools had long wait lists.
In Washington, D.C., a report by the Inspector General's office has found that the
former schools chancellor allowed some well - connected parents with political clout to bypass the lottery and enroll their
children in D.C.
public schools of their choosing, Peter Jamison and Aaron Davis report in the Washington Post.
Jack Shonkoff,
former dean of Brandeis's Heller School for Social Policy and Management, has joined Harvard as the Julius B. Richmond FAMRI Professor of
Child Health and Development at HGSE and the Harvard School of
Public Health.
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.
Inherent in the incentive concept is the assumption that parochial schools are so superior to
public schools that the opportunity to attend the
former is irresistible, even to those parents who do not want their
children educated in a religious environment.
by Brett Wigdortz, founder and CEO, Teach First; Fair access: Making school choice and admissions work for all by Rebecca Allen, reader in the economics of education at the Institute of Education, University of London; School accountability, performance and pupil attainment by Simon Burgess, professor of economics at the University of Bristol, and director of the Centre for Market and
Public Organisation; The importance of teaching by Dylan Wiliam, emeritus professor at the Institute of Education, University of London; Reducing within - school variation and the role of middle leadership by James Toop, ceo of Teaching Leaders; The importance of collaboration: Creating «families of schools» by Tim Brighouse, a
former teacher and chief education officer of Oxfordshire and Birmingham; Testing times: Reforming classroom teaching through assessment by Christine Harrison, senior lecturer in science education at King's College London; Tackling pupil disengagement: Making the curriculum more engaging by David Price, author and educational consultant; Beyond the school gates: Developing
children's zones for England by Alan Dyson, professor of education at the University of Manchester and co-director of the Centre for Equity in Education, Kirstin Kerr, lecturer in education at the University of Manchester and Chris Wellings, head of programme policy in Save the Children's UK Programme; After school: Promoting opportunities for all young people in a locality by Ann Hodgson, professor of education and director of the Learning for London @IOE Research Centre, Institute of Education, University of London and Ken Spours, professor or education and co-director of the Centre for Post-14 Research and Innovation at the Institute of Education, University of
children's zones for England by Alan Dyson, professor of education at the University of Manchester and co-director of the Centre for Equity in Education, Kirstin Kerr, lecturer in education at the University of Manchester and Chris Wellings, head of programme policy in Save the
Children's UK Programme; After school: Promoting opportunities for all young people in a locality by Ann Hodgson, professor of education and director of the Learning for London @IOE Research Centre, Institute of Education, University of London and Ken Spours, professor or education and co-director of the Centre for Post-14 Research and Innovation at the Institute of Education, University of
Children's UK Programme; After school: Promoting opportunities for all young people in a locality by Ann Hodgson, professor of education and director of the Learning for London @IOE Research Centre, Institute of Education, University of London and Ken Spours, professor or education and co-director of the Centre for Post-14 Research and Innovation at the Institute of Education, University of London.
As both a
former schoolteacher and a parent of two
children who went through
public schools, I am convinced that we need more effective ways to hold educators accountable, and I believe that testing has to be a part of an effective accountability program.
She said a common complaint from
former Cincinnati
Public School parents is that they don't want their
child on an Individualized Education Plan (IEP), which they see as a stigma.
The
public spends $ 12,000 per
child on the
former and $ 0 per
child on the latter.
«I would definitely wait for test scores before making a decision,» said Rice - Thurston,
former executive director of Parents United for the Washington, D.C.,
public schools, «but more important, I would visit the schools and talk to
children and teachers.
In Washington, D.C., a report by the Inspector General's office has found that the
former schools chancellor allowed some well - connected parents with political clout to bypass the lottery and enroll their
children in popular D.C.
public schools.
Also onboard is Marshall Tuck,
former president and chief operating officer of Green Dot
Public Schools, which has built a chain of charter schools in the district while organizing a parents» «union» and constantly pushing district officials to take bolder steps to improve the performance of
children from poor families.
Sarah Wollaston, a
former GP who chairs the health select committee, called for the remaining revenue from the levy that is not spent in schools to be ring - fenced for
children's
public health programmes, rather than funding the expansion of academies as part of the Department for Education's general budget.
As a
former New York City
public school teacher, it is important for me to be involved with C3S because I believe all
children should have access to educational options which are as unique as they are.
In the Tigard - Tualatin School District (TTSD), it's about «never giving up; nothing matters as much as teaching every
child to read at grade level,» said
former district superintendent Rob Saxton, newly appointed in September 2012 as Oregon's first Deputy Superintendent of
Public Instruction.1 TTSD's mission to educate every
child is operationalized through a collective commitment to focused work; continuous improvement and refinement in instructional practice on a district - wide basis; and a pervasive attitude on the part of district and school personnel to ensure that all students leave TTSD able to be highly successful adults.
The panel, with Kaya Henderson,
Former Superintendent of DC
Public Schools; Dr. Mahalia Hines, CEO of ThinkCommon Foundation; and Jessie Woolley - Wilson, President, CEO and Chair of DreamBox Learning, discussed the importance that proximity plays in developing effective and innovative solutions in education, as well as serving
children and communities of high need.
But at an October event in Sacramento organized by Advancement Project California as part of its «Birth to Five Water Cooler» gathering, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom,
former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, State Treasurer John Chiang and
former State Superintendent of
Public Instruction Delaine Eastin all agreed that universal preschool was essential not only for
children, but for the state.
I write this as a
former DC resident whose three
children attended Washington
public schools (Oyster, Alice Deal, and Woodrow Wilson) and as a long - time Education Correspondent for the PBS NewsHour; in the latter capacity, I chronicled Michelle Rhee's time as Chancellor (12 reports over 3 years) and later produced «The Education of Michelle Rhee» for the PBS series, «Frontline.»
Thanks to No
Child, the work of researchers such as Robert Balfanz, Jay P. Greene, and Christopher Swanson, the efforts of policymakers such as
former Indiana Commissioner of Higher Education Stan Jones and Congressman - Elect Luke Messer, and the National Governors Association, states revamped their graduation rate calculations and admitted the abysmal state of American
public education.
However, one of the
former principals of Princeton Regional
Public Schools told me in a meeting that is not realistic for a school to support all
children.
In the course of reporting a story about Michelle Rhee, the controversial
former District of Columbia chancellor seeking to take her brand of education reform to statehouses across the country, the Los Angeles Times asked her spokeswoman a simple question: Do Rhee's
children attend
public or private school?
Ramona Edelin,
former director of the D.C. Association of Charter
Public Schools spoke to the importance of charter school leaders, «A charter school leader is someone who has a vision to really improve the education of
children.
LaFonda Willis,
former administrator for D.C.
Public Schools and education chair for the NAACP D.C. chapter, agreed that the conversation shouldn't have been centered around traditional versus charter but rather how can district and charter schools collaborate «to ensure Black
children have access to high - quality education and that we're helping them to achieve achieve self - sufficiency and reach their full potential.»
According to Diane Ravitch,
former Undersecretary of Education for Research in the Bush administration, neither No
Child Left Behind or the new Race to the Top are good for
public education.
As a
former public school teacher for gifted
children I never thought I would send my
child to a private school.
Watch the bouncing ball... as the Corporate Education Reform Industry, Families for Excellent Schools, the Coalition for Every
Child, Governor Malloy's
former press secretary Andrew Doba, Achievement First Inc. and the other charter school lobby groups try to divert even more
public funds away from Connecticut's
public schools and into the coffers of charter school companies...
They fail to mention that Connecticut's Attorney General George Jepsen, a
former state representative and state senator from Stamford, is fully aware of the problems with Connecticut's school funding formula and yet is spending massive amounts of
public funds and staff time in an immoral and unethical fight against the interests of Connecticut's
children and property taxpayers.