Sentences with phrase «former public school»

The mix is former public school students and some from private or home school situations.

Even current and former public school employees favor them by a margin of nearly two to one; public school employees oppose vouchers by a two - point margin.

Indeed, current and former public school employees are 21 percentage points more likely to claim that they voted in their last school board election than is everyone else (see Figure 8).

Many charters are established by former public school teachers who left those jobs in part because they chafed under certain aspects of union contracts.

Yet, according to Atkinson and other former public school leaders who spoke to Policy Watch, much of the so - called «reversion» money cited by Johnson last month could only be spent by local governments, and not the state department.

Former public school educators found guilty of racketeering in test - cheating scandal, Reuters

North Carolina's former public school superintendent June Atkinson says the state's new K - 12 leader «misled» the public when he blasted the Department of Public Instruction last month over $ 15 million in unspent Read to Achieve dollars.

Many former public school students have seen their test scores drop, not improve, after transferring to private schools with Indiana's tuition assistance.

Edmonton - Riverview: Taleb Choucair, Edmonton Police Officer Steve Young, and former Public School Trustee Bev Esslinger are seeking the PC nomination on January 27, 2012.

Schimizzi replaces former Public School Forum Program Director James Ford as BTLN leader.

With an influx of 40 - plus new students (the law requires this year's Opportunity Scholarship holders to be former public school attendees, meaning that last year's group of students attending Greensboro Islamic Academy would not qualify for vouchers), it's not clear how the prior financial needs of GIA will be met, given that a larger student population will demand even more resources.

Education consultant and former public school assessment director Nick Dussault worries about how politicians, business leaders, parents, and the general public will interpret failure with these next - generation assessments.

And while Mr Cameron's cabinet, with so many prominent former public school pupils, might have been vulnerable to accusations of elitism in education, Mrs May will have much more room to manoeuvre.

Interviews and observations were chosen primarily because we are former public school teachers who currently spend numerous hours working in public school settings and have what Mischler (1986) called «ordinary language competence» (p. 7).

Mission New York Collective of Radical Educators (NYCoRE) is a group of current and former public school educators and their allies committed to fighting for social justice in our school system and society at large, by organizing and mobilizing teachers, developing curriculum, and working with community, parent, and student organizations.

Support for additional spending is highest among African Americans, Hispanics, and current and former public school employees, with more than 60 percent of each of those groups calling for increases in public school budgets (Q. 22).

(Tom Vander Ark, Executive Director, Education, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and former public school superintendent) Passion for Learning is an excellent blend of analysis of project - based learning and concrete examples of how to create the conditions for students» passionate learning.

I am a former public school teacher and I think children do learn best by engaging with their environment.

Susan, a former public school English teacher, authored the multi-level, Christ - centered English & composition curriculum Understanding Writing.

Rachel is a former public school teacher turned homeschool mommy to four little ones.

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.

City Councilman Daniel Dromm, a fellow Democrat and former public school teacher whose district includes Jackson Heights, played host and moderator.

In early 2015, the City lifted deed restrictions on the former public school, then AIDS hospice center, and the building was subsequently sold to a luxury condo developer, at the outrage of the general public.

If a grade has five or six classes today and one is eliminated, class sizes in that grade would spike by five or six students, said Queens Councilman Daniel Dromm, a former public school teacher.

The former public school teacher said that he views his lack of Albany experience as a good thing.

His running mate, Brian Jones, is a former public school teacher.

After nearly 20 years of trying to redevelop the former public school he bought from the city at an auction for $ 3.15 million in 1999, Singer on Wednesday filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming local elected officials and neighborhood groups have conspired to block the project.

-- David J. Ferrero, a former public school teacher, is the director of evaluation and policy research at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The group gave a President's Award last month to Gladys Noel Bates, the former public school teacher and social activist.

The former public school teacher, principal, and recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, has written several books, including Learning by Heart and Improving Schools from Within.

A former public school leader and educator with 32 years of experience, Jewell - Sherman became the first woman to hold the title of professor of practice at the Ed School.

This image of the teachers unions as part of our family is facilitated by the fact that virtually every college - educated household (the households with the greatest political influence) has at least one current or former public school teacher sitting at the dining table when they gather for Thanksgiving.

Current and former public school employees, however, consistently register lower levels of support for NCLB.

Teacher Leigh Ann VanSchaick, a former public school teacher, has also woven math into the unit (calculating castle perimeters, for example), along with historic concepts like the feudal system.

When we examine the impact of transfers on sending schools by race, the majority of transfers by African American and Hispanic students improve integration in their former public schools.

A former public school leader and educator with 32 years of experience, Jewell - Sherman became the first woman to hold the title of professor of practice at the Ed School in 2013.

But Mr. Goodling, a former public school teacher and administrator, was less sanguine about other aspects of the...

He's even a former public school teacher himself.

A former public school leader and educator with 32 years of experience, Jewell - Sherman becomes the first woman to hold the title of professor of practice at the Ed School.

Lawndia White Venerable, Citizen 2000's founder and a former public school teacher and administrator, sent a letter home with students on Nov. 18 explaining that the school would not open again.

«States still have to collect student information and do standardized tests as part of ESSA,» said Dr. Lisa Andrejko, strategic advisor for PeopleAdmin, and former public school teacher, principal, director of technology and superintendent.

Requires the former public school or private school to perform a transfer of the pupil's permanent record or copy of it no later than 10 school days, as defined, following the date the request is received.

To do this, they matched up the charter students with all the students at their former public school who closely matched them in terms of test scores, ethnicity, family income and other factors.

Prior to joining our team, Monica worked as program manager of educational services for Goodwill Industries, project director at the Maryland State Department of Education, and as a former public school administrator in the Washington metropolitan area.

Former public school teacher Mary sits down with Lake Effect's Rachel Morello, to discuss her decision to leave the classroom.

The researchers determined that restarting a former public school as a charter school had no significant impact on math or reading test scores, high graduation or college enrollment.