Sentences with phrase «from public classrooms»

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.

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, an educational gaming platform used by 50 million monthly users in grades K - 12, includes in its new report responses from 580 US teachers, primarily from public schools, who answered questions about technology in their classrooms.

«School districts are currently being forced to cut money from classrooms to pay for the Liberals» failure to take action on improving the energy efficiency of public school buildings.

Meanwhile, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, has ruled that the government of Italy must remove crucifixes from public school classrooms throughout that country.

That means talking about androcentrism, patriarchy, sexism and misogyny in the scriptures and in the church from the pulpit, in the theological classroom, in congregational conversations, in public theology and the scholarly literature.

Morrison's modernist approach to religion in 1912, tinged by both cultural and religious anti-Catholicism, still had room for a spirited defense of Bible reading in public schools when the Supreme Court of Illinois banned the Bible from the classroom.

In short, the major cause for alarm is not the broadside from the public, nor the sniping from classroom sharpshooters, but the increasing number who are going AWOL from the pulpit.

Essentially, part of the point of the campaign is to let «secularists» know that (in AiG's opinion) when creationism is removed from the classroom or «Christian symbols from public places,» the First Amendment is being violated.

This from the same evangelical Christians who cry «censorship» when the public schools won't permit the Bible in the classrooms.

I've never heard of a public classroom where creationism is taught, I believe the only way to get away from secular teaching is private schooling.

Following this approach, we might exclude parochial schools but not nonreligious private schools from a school - voucher program, or bar religious student groups but not chess clubs and neighborhood - watch associations from meeting in public school classrooms.

They already get all the science they need from their pastors then they get on public school boards and try to stamp out all critical thought and reason in the classroom since it's a direct threat to their cult.

These programs are designed to provide a free and appropriate education for students who have behavioral, physical, mental or cognitive needs that prevent a child from gaining any benefit from a regular public education classroom.

From walking classrooms to spinach smoothies and organic gardens, Triangle public schools public schools are forging a path to health and wellness.

We sat down to talk to two principals from McMinnville Public Schools about the breakfast - in - the - classroom program at their schools.

Thanks to a grant from Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom, George Wythe is among seven schools in the Richmond Public School District rolling out breakfast - in - the - classroom for its students.

To recap, the reader's child has just entered public school and she's dismayed by the cafeteria food, the snacks in the kindergarten classroom (Rice Krispie Treats and Cheetos), and the fact that her son is receiving Dum - Dums as rewards from the gym teacher.

If public schools are in crisis, it may well be because school reform lurches from cause to cause, from standardized testing to differentiated classrooms, from all - inclusive public schools to charter schools and everything in between.

Well, good for you for sticking to your guns, but prepare to be furious when your child comes home on the last day before the winter break vibrating like a tuning fork from all of the «holiday» (read «Christmas») treats that well meaning parents send for the traditional pre-break party that happens in virtually every public school classroom on the last school day of the calendar year.

Hershey Montessori School invites the public to a grand opening celebration and open house for its new Upper School classroom building on Feb. 10 from 3 to 5 p.m..

Our bid was rejected because the Teachers Union stooped common - sense education reforms like allowing more charter public schools and demanding more accountability from teachers in the classroom.»

The proclamation recognizes the bureau for receiving seven Silver Key Awards, from the New York State Farm Bureau, for exhibiting excellence in a variety of categories relating to effectiveness in policy implementation, promoting agriculture among the public and in classrooms, leadership development, and membership building.

His announcement drew a rare public critique from the city teachers union, which said it would lead to more classroom disruption and the department didn't provide...

• What I've picked up from the Liberal Democrat conference so far is that Nick Clegg wants to cut the pay of classroom assistants, home helps, lollipop men and women and other low - paid public sector workers, to means test middle - class mums to decide whether they deserve child benefit, and to keep tuition fees.

The program has been controversial in New York, where parents and teachers have confronted the state's Education Commissioner, John King, in public meetings, saying the children are stressed from all of the new tests being administered as part of the transition, and that too much time is being taken away from classroom learning.

Teachers from the Buffalo Public and Cheektowaga Central School Districts heard from a best - selling author about how to relate students of color in the classroom.

Parents said the charter school, which is a public school, would take classroom space and resources away from non-charter students.

Parents and teachers have confronted state Education Commissioner John King in public meetings, saying children are stressed from all of the new tests being administered as part of the transition, and that too much time is being taken away from classroom learning.

In addition to research, all of these laboratories also engage in a number of forms of public engagement and outreach, ranging from media relations to classroom education.

Even as a child, Rosa stands separate from her fellow African - Americans; instead of being shipped off to a shabby public school, she is enrolled in a private classroom run by Quakers, who encourage the girl to transcend the severe limitations of legalized segregation in her home state of Alabama.

Public school teachers from every corner of America post classroom requests, from pencils for a poetry writing unit, to violins for a school recital, to microscope slides for a biology class.

Solutions to the epidemic of gun violence from parts of the political right include increasingly arming public places (a gun in every classroom) in order to prevent that very same gun violence: a kind of domestic arms race.

Broward Sheriff's Detective Zachary Scott told the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission that teachers trying to lock down their students as the gunman began his attack couldn't lock classroom doors from the inside, but had to grab a key, open the door, and turn the lock from the outside.

As a proof of concept, a small group of classroom teachers joined me for the very first STEMbite Live, a public broadcast from my kitchen exploring crazy science found in the refrigerator.

Thousands of schools — public and private, from kindergarten to college — are installing webcams in classrooms and streaming live on websites that are open to the public, betting that round - the - clock supervision, even from strangers, will help motivate students.

IBM Watson, Sesame Workshop Do Learning in the Cloud (IT - Online) Todd Rose was an adviser for a collaboration between IBM Watson and Sesame Workshop in Georgia Public Schools, which was announced this week, and sought to built a new platform incorporating content from Sesame Workshop for use by students and in classrooms.

NLNS pledged, for example, «to identify classroom spaces for the courses» that the New Leaders would take during their yearlong training, while the school system promised to «identify outstanding practitioners from the D.C. Public Schools who could serve as faculty or guest lecturers in these courses.»

I mean, right from day one the more distracting and disruptive students who tend to be attentionally insecure do need a fair bit of guidance from their teachers about their behaviour, both in the public sphere of the classroom itself and also following up with students one - to - one who've been particularly difficult in those first few lessons.

The 13 master's programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Education attract extraordinary students from every imaginable background: classroom teachers, district leaders, nonprofit workers, public policy researchers, social entrepreneurs, and software engineers.

Do you run from any mention of religion in your public school classroom?

These services bring great benefits to schools as they enable them to extend learning outside the classroom, either at home or from public spaces via a mobile network.

Students per instructional computer located in classrooms: Market Data Retrieval, «Technology in Education 2004,» and unpublished tabulations from MDR's 2003 - 04 Public School Technology Survey.

Unlike many public schools, where kids purchase bottled water from vending machines, Namaste provides a water cooler in each of its six classrooms.

The playground and associated classrooms are separated from the main school building by a road and public footpaths and the playground is, therefore, by necessity also an arrival and departure space for the children and their parents.

The high court also rejected appeals involving the observance of Earth Day in public schools and the duty of school officials to protect a student from ongoing classroom bullying.

Today, students from every definable race and ethnic category study and squirm shoulder to shoulder in the same public school classrooms, learning about something called segregation — as a vocabulary word on a pop quiz, a chapter in their history textbooks, or a topic for the debate team.

The percentage of schools with at least one connection to the Internet increased from 89 percent to 95 percent between 1998 and 1999, according to «Internet Access in U.S. Public Schools and Classrooms: 1994 - 1999,» released by the U.S. Department of Education.

Participants tended not to be classroom teachers, but to come from a network of public agencies, nonprofits, and academic centers, such as the Arts in Education Program at Harvard University.

As the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee (UWM) considered authorizing charter schools for the first time in 1999, the local teachers union and top administrators in the Milwaukee Public Schools threatened to ban the college's student teachers from obtaining required classroom experience if UWM approved any charter schools that would be managed by the for - profit firm Edison Schools.

Proposition 300 Would direct earnings from public lands that are above the 2000 - 01 level to be deposited in the state classroom - site fund, to be used for such things as class - size reduction, teacher raises, and school facility bond...