Sentences with phrase «from most public schools»

Now, with most states adopting new national standards that don't require such instruction, cursive could soon be eliminated from most public schools.

Not exact matches

Most users have come from public school districts; high - school coaches use the service to stay connected with student athletes, and teachers employ it to elicit participation from shy students.

But after a Bushmaster rifle was used in 2012 to kill 26 people, most of them young children, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., public anger at Remington drove some investors to try to divest from the company.

Wealthy families start buying their children's way into elite colleges almost from the moment they are born: music lessons, sports equipment, foreign travel («enrichment» programs, to use the all - too - perfect term)-- most important, of course, private - school tuition or the costs of living in a place with top - tier public schools.

A client asked me the other day why in the world he should care about getting links from a few K - 12 public school library Web sites, most of which look horrible, have very few visitors, and live way out in the middle of nowhere in the.

Or, most recently, you might have heard the rumor from Bryan Fischer, from Mike Hucakbee or a friend on Facebook, saying that God abandoned the children at Sandy Hook because, though children have every right to pray in public schools, those schools can not sponsor prayer events out of deference to religious freedom.

His most recent study, comparing 1,025 public and Catholic high schools, shows not only that the Catholic schools were more effective overall, but that they were especially beneficial to children from economically disadvantaged homes or where relationships between parents and children were disturbed.

I have been to the most prestigious independent and public schools as well as those that range from the notable to the unexceptional.

It's probably not an possibility for most city dwellers, but our second homebirth was just on the other side of the fence from a public school (and recess ended just as active labor came on...)

So far at least, the data, says Dawn Comstock, PhD, an associate professor of Epidemiology for the Pediatric Injury Prevention, Education, and Research (PIPER) program at the Colorado School of Public Health, MomsTeam Institute Board of Advisor and a co-author of a 2014 study on injuries in high school lacrosse [5], «is quite clear - boys most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 75 %) from athlete - athlete contact, the kind of mechanism we all know helmets don't always do a great job preventing - while girls most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 64 %) from being struck by the ball or the stick, the kind of mechanism that helmets are actually quite good at preveSchool of Public Health, MomsTeam Institute Board of Advisor and a co-author of a 2014 study on injuries in high school lacrosse [5], «is quite clear - boys most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 75 %) from athlete - athlete contact, the kind of mechanism we all know helmets don't always do a great job preventing - while girls most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 64 %) from being struck by the ball or the stick, the kind of mechanism that helmets are actually quite good at preveschool lacrosse [5], «is quite clear - boys most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 75 %) from athlete - athlete contact, the kind of mechanism we all know helmets don't always do a great job preventing - while girls most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 64 %) from being struck by the ball or the stick, the kind of mechanism that helmets are actually quite good at preventing.

In truth, what I'm most worried about is not deep fryers, since schools may not want to invest in equipment they only just got rid of a few years ago, but instead the clear message coming from the TDA, through Mr. Miller's public statements, that junk food is not a big deal.

Although many question the hope for public policy to affect that national girth, removing sweet milk from schools may be one of the most direct tools policymakers have at their disposal to reduce juvenile sugar consumption — at least on the taxpayer's dime.

He is known as a committed advocate for public education, and co-founded the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which won billions of dollars for city schools from the state, though most of that money has never materialized.

Ms. Teachout blamed Mr. Cuomo for the «most segregated schools in the nation» and accused him of seeking to privatize education and take resources away from public classrooms.

Some of the most successful Buffalo Public School students are refugees from across the globe.

Reed was ranked as the 32nd most bipartisan member of the U.S. House of Representatives during the 114th United States Congress (and the seventh most bipartisan member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York) in the Bipartisan Index created by The Lugar Center and the McCourt School of Public Policy that ranks members of the United States Congress by their degree of bipartisanship (by measuring the frequency each member's bills attract co-sponsors from the opposite party and each member's co-sponsorship of bills by members of the opposite party).

Every one of the state's 728 public school districts must run lead tests on the water coming from drinking fountains and most of the sinks in every school building.

It's a cruel thing to do to children, not to mention the moms and dads who see charters as escapes from the traditional public schools that are failing most of the city's other schoolchildren.

Eighty - eight students, most from highly selective public and private schools including Phillips Academy Andover, Stuyvesant High School, and top private schools in California and Texas, competed in the LD division.

According to the most recent data from the state Education Department, charters had a nearly 40 percent annual turnover rate of teachers, versus a 14 percent rate for public schools.

Hawkins said that Cuomo's hostility to public school teachers and their unions and his support for charter schools must be understood in light of his large campaign contributions from wealthy hedge fund managers who profit from the favorable tax treatment of investments in charter schools and who like the fact that most charters are non-union.

«We need a budget proposal from the governor and legislature that finally pays the money owed to our children and prioritizes schools that need funding the most,» said Zakiyah Ansari, the advocacy director of the Alliance for Quality Education, at a Jan. 10 press conference outside City Hall to kick off a new push for public school funding in Albany.

What this approach ignores, to be frank, is that most victims of crime in New York City belong to Mark - Viverito's «communities of color» — just as black and Hispanic students suffer most from disruptions in the city's 70 % - plus black and Hispanic public - school system.

Out of all age groups, children are still most likely to live in poverty, according to new research from the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.

So far, I've been leaning towards things that are generally more formal than the dress code for teachers in most public schools just to further differentiate myself from the students, and I've mostly been wearing heels (which also give me a slight height advantage, because I'm petite).

Better than the performances themselves, though, is their broader purpose: all proceeds from Miscast help to fund MCC in its continual efforts to produce some of New York's most ambitious and original works of theater, as well as support its MCC Youth Company and in - school partnerships that serve public schools across New York City.

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.

The MTC's work is not entirely original, though, and takes its lead from a number of public schools — most notably in New England — that have been rethinking traditional methods of assessing students for more than a decade.

Most students graduate from high school without any significant experience in public speaking.

A new analysis from the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center finds that the graduation rate for America's public schools stands just shy of 75 percent for the class of 2010, the most recent year for which data are available.

We have long known from polling data that the public is concerned about the quality of American education, but most parents are satisfied with their own children's school.

Although Commonwealth charters are authorized by BESE and subject to most state laws and regulations governing public schools, they are exempt from certain regulations related to teacher certification and tenure, and they are free from the confines of any preexisting collective - bargaining agreements.

It might be the most common mistake in education writing and policy analysis today: declaring that a majority of public school students in the U.S. hail from «low income» families — or, even worse, that half of public school kids are «poor.»

Then, of course, there is the most common tactic for sorting out the hardest to teach: the iron reality of the real estate market, which prohibits low - income families, statistically the lowest achieving, from any hope of moving to affluent neighborhoods with «high performing» public schools.

While the nation seemed transfixed by No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, and Common Core State Standards, «one of the most wide - ranging reforms in public education» during that time, according to a group of researchers from Duke and MIT, «was the reorganization of large comprehensive high schools into small schools» in New York City.

The research team used data from more than 1,300 8th graders attending 32 public schools in Boston, including traditional public schools, exam schools that admit only the city's most academically talented students, and oversubscribed charter schools.

Like district schools, charter schools receive most of their funding from public sources and are subject to state regulation.

The net effect of growing charter schools, closing under - enrolled traditional public schools, and only hiring back the best and most desired teachers from those schools is a true merit pay system.

You wouldn't know it from the discourse over public schools, but according to the most recent results, public education has some of the lowest rates of job turnover in our economy.

Some of the nation's most innovative teacher - quality programs could be in jeopardy as decisionmakers for the Cincinnati public schools scramble to identify $ 20 million to cut from next year's budget.

The end result of this controlling regime of finance capital and religious and conservative fundamentalism is an all - out cleansing of critical thinking from most educational books now being used in the schools, especially the public schools.

«I grew up having a huge amount of anger, frankly, at the local public schools — that what we were trying to do from 3 to 8 p.m. at night wasn't in most cases happening during the school day,» Arne Duncan says in an interview.

A private Montessori school in rural Minnesota last week cleared a key hurdle on its way to becoming the nation's first «charter» school, able under state law to receive public funds while remaining free from most outside control.

Most accounts of the history of schooling take us from fee - based schools in ancien Athens, to the first tax - funded public schools in our land in Boston in 1635, to the compulsory education of Horace Mann's «common school» in the mid - 19th century.

For - profit firms are most effective when they focus on tight objectives rather than the normally diffuse activities that we demand from public schools.

Through this initiative, students from six local public middle schools monitor the waters around Mount Desert Island by regularly testing phytoplankton for toxic species, particularly the most prevalent one, Alexandrium, which is known to trigger red tide events — toxic discoloration of ocean waters — that can result in poisoning shellfish.

Massachusetts education officials have released data that they hope will counteract what they say is a false public perception that most students in the class of 2003 who haven't yet passed the state's high school exit exams are members of minority groups or come from poor families.

The chief complaint Duvall said he hears from school public relations directors is dealing with television reporters, who often have no background about the district and incomplete information, because most local stations don't have education reporters.

Most importantly, she was better suited to respond to the public attacks from the union and the near - constant media criticism that would come during 2012 — 13 as CPS moved to close schools for underenrollment (see Figure 3).

This useful video from the Schools That Work package about Mesquite Elementary School in Tucson offers practical tips for making the most of limited resources — something every public school teacher School in Tucson offers practical tips for making the most of limited resources — something every public school teacher school teacher needs.