Sentences with phrase «free public school called»

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A group of religious leaders, parliamentarians, education experts, and prominent public figures have signed a joint letter calling on the new Education Secretary Damian Hinds to reconsider a proposal to allow fully segregated intakes in new and existing religious free schools.

He ran against Hillary Clinton for Senate in 2006, receiving 1.2 percent of the vote, and his platform calls for «universal single - payer health care, fully funded public schools, tuition - free SUNY and CUNY, building a carbon - free clean energy system — all paid for by restoring progressive tax rates on Wall Street and the rich.»

The rest of the ad is made up of calls for progressive policies, including the expansion of Medicaid, funding for affordable housing and making community college and public trade school free.

Her State of the City will also call for free birth control for all women in the five boroughs, universal free school lunch, $ 22 million for the Emergency Food Assistance program and new diversity and sex education programs in public schools.

The plan also calls for free tuition at SUNY and CUNY schools, a transit system on par with Europe's and public investments to help make a transition to carbon - free energy.

The United Federation of Teachers, in a proposed amendment to a City Council resolution, today called for charter schools seeking free space in New York City public school buildings to be required to make public financial data and political donations, along with student demographics, suspension rates, and teacher and student attrition.

One of those is a network of free, public charter schools in San Jose, California, called Rocketship Education, who just this week crossed a very important milestone.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was a leading member of the school choice advocacy community, and Donald Trump has called for a congressional bill that would fund school choice for disadvantaged youth, stating that «families should be free to choose the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school that is right for them.»

The suit, filed on behalf of eight school districts and 25 individual families, contends that the funding scheme violates the state constitution's call for an «efficient system of public free school.»

Muskegon Heights, where about 95 percent of the students are African - American and the entire district is directly certified for free school meals, is now a self - managed K - 12 charter district calling itself the Muskegon Heights Public School Academy System, with 900 stuschool meals, is now a self - managed K - 12 charter district calling itself the Muskegon Heights Public School Academy System, with 900 stuSchool Academy System, with 900 students.

WHEREAS, the billionaires funding Students First and Democrats for Education Reform are supporting candidates and local programs that would dismantle a free public education for every student in California and replace it with company run charter schools, non-credentialed teachers and unproven untested so - called «reforms»;

The ACT has had a history in Illinois starting in 2001, when then - state schools Superintendent Glenn W. «Max» McGee launched the first free college entrance exam at public schools as part of what was called the Prairie State Achievement Examination.

Meanwhile, this week, Brandon called North Carolina's public school sector a «horrible system,» urging the state to pursue a decidedly more «free - market» approach.

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The call for «revised school choice arrangements» will have resonance in the UK, where the coalition government's programme to launch free schools funded by public money was in part inspired by Sweden.

«People can call themselves Democrats for Education Reform — it's a free country — but if your agenda is to shut teachers and school employees out of the political process and not lift a finger to prevent cuts in education, in my book you're not a reformer, you're not helping education, and you're sure not much of a Democrat,» said state Supt. of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson, a registered Democrat whose office is nonpartisan.

The NAACP, in October 2016, recognized the racism inherent in the concept of charter schools and called for «a moratorium on charter school expansion and for the strengthening of oversight in governance and practice» because «the NAACP has been in the forefront of the struggle for and a staunch advocate of free, high - quality, fully and equitably funded public education for all children».

Vanessa Assoko, 13, attended a public school in New York City for a year before switching to a charter school called Harlem Village Academies, a free, publicly funded but independently managed school.

However, heads and academy principals might feel a little apprehensive about his call to bring free schools and academies «back into the orbit of public education and local authorities».

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)(formerly called P.L. 94 - 142 or the Education for all Handicapped Children Act of 1975) requires public schools to make available to all eligible children with disabilities a free, appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment appropriate to their individual needs.

The original charter called for free instruction at night in the sciences, a day school of design for «respectable» females, a free reading room, and free public lectures.

The lobby of the new building contains a small gallery tucked between the staircase and the restaurant, open free to the public, which is currently featuring a show called «Eight West Eighth,» dedicated to the museum's founder, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, and its first incarnation at 8 West 8th Street in Greenwich Village (the current address of the New York Studio School, which celebrated its 50th anniversary last year).