Sentences with phrase «from public school settings»

She was glad she kept him home, so that he could avoid the negative feedback from a public school setting.

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According to my interpretation of data from meta - analyses and a nationwide data set, both racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps are 25 percent narrower in Christian schools than in public schools.

Our numbers have expanded to 45 known schools and initiatives, and we've started to see the Public Waldorf Education impulse move from its spiritual home in the West towards its historical roots in the East... with a few stops in between: schools based on the principles of Public Waldorf Educationwere granted charters in Colorado, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Idaho and Florida this year and are set to open in the fall.

Several schools and hospitals in the Chicago area use sensory equipment to help people with disabilities regulate their emotions or stimulate their senses but the equipment is rarer in public recreational settings like a park district, said local occupational therapists and a representative from Flaghouse, the company that sold the sensory equipment to SEASPAR and other Chicago organizations.

Next week, my school will host a public screening of the new documentary Lunch Line, which follows six Chicago kids from disadvantaged neighborhoods as they as they set out on a mission to fix school lunches — ending up at the White House.

(2014) Directs each local school board to adopt a policy to set aside, in each school in the school division, a non-restroom location that is shielded from the public view to be designated as an area in which any mother who is employed by the local school board or enrolled as a student may take breaks of reasonable length during the school day to express milk to feed her child until the child reaches the age of one.

A New York City proposal to diversify middle schools on Manhattan's Upper West Side, by setting aside seats for children with low test scores, is facing stiff resistance from parents worried their high - achieving children might lose access to the popular public schools.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — The Westchester County Department of Public Works and Transportation (WCDPW&T) will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, July 29, from 6:00 — 9:00 p.m., prior to setting the Student MetroCard farefor the 2015 - 2016 schooPublic Works and Transportation (WCDPW&T) will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, July 29, from 6:00 — 9:00 p.m., prior to setting the Student MetroCard farefor the 2015 - 2016 schoopublic hearing on Wednesday, July 29, from 6:00 — 9:00 p.m., prior to setting the Student MetroCard farefor the 2015 - 2016 school year

Currently, those abused in a public setting, such as a school, have 90 days from the incident to formally file an intent to sue.

When state Supreme Court Justice Joseph Teresi of the Third Judicial District retired from his second 14 - year term half way through on June 26, the Albany Democrat and former public defender set up a race that's pitting his fellow Albany Law School alumni, Democratic Albany County legislator and private attorney Justin Corcoran, against Greene County - based Republican Lisa M. Fisher, an attorney with the Ulster County Public Defender's opublic defender set up a race that's pitting his fellow Albany Law School alumni, Democratic Albany County legislator and private attorney Justin Corcoran, against Greene County - based Republican Lisa M. Fisher, an attorney with the Ulster County Public Defender's oPublic Defender's office.

I am certainly open to negotiating a residency requirement with the police union, but even more so I than that, I think we should focus on promoting from within: we have the PSLA (Public Service Learning Academy) at Fowler, set up to train Syracuse City School District students who want to go into public service jobs (including poPublic Service Learning Academy) at Fowler, set up to train Syracuse City School District students who want to go into public service jobs (including popublic service jobs (including police).

The next governor and Legislature could create a set of new retirement - plan options for local governments, school districts and public authorities to choose from.

A prospective study from Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) / Harvard Medical School (HMS), and Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) set out to evaluate the association between the intake of these vitamins and EG.

The psychologists studied two sets of sixth - graders from a Southern California public school: 51 who lived together for five days at the Pali Institute, a nature and science camp about 70 miles east of Los Angeles, and 54 others from the same school.

Set in 1980s Dublin, Sing Street follows a teenage boy named Conor (Ferdia Walsh - Peelo) who moves from a cushy private school to a rough public school.

The Dublin - set feature follows 14 year - old Conor (Ferdia Walsh - Peelo) who is looking for a break from his parents» strained relationship and money troubles while trying to adjust at the inner - city public school where the kids are rough and the teachers are rougher.

Library leaders from multiple settings and contexts including colleges, universities, professional schools, K — 12 schools, public libraries, research organizations, and historic preservation / archives

This program is designed for library leaders from multiple settings and contexts including colleges, universities, professional schools, K — 12 schools, public libraries, research organizations, and historic preservation / archives.

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 included a provision that allowed parents to transfer students from «persistently dangerous» public schools, but many states have set the legal threshold so high that very few schools qualify.

And from the start, the efforts to create public buzz set it apart from previous high - school - reform initiatives.

«The rhetoric we hear from the Trump people, «Choice is good, and school districts are bad,» sets us back a decade,» Robin Lake, director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education, told journalist Richard Whitmire.

Karen received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011 from the Mildred Levenson Dance Foundation, a Coldwell Bankers Cares Award, A Citizen Interested in the Arts Award, CEF APAP Travel Award to set a new work in Sarajevo, Bosnia in 2012 and KPD earned its first John and James L Knight Foundation Challenge Award in 2012 to support the company's work in the Miami Dade Public Schools.

The National Center for Education Statistics projected that each year from now through 2017, total public school enrollment will set records.

A special public - school district set up to serve students with disabilities from a Hasidic Jewish village in New York State represents an unconstitutional government establishment of religion, a state judge has ruled.

If the host is a governmental agency responsible for school quality — and those range from national ministries to local school administrations — it has a considerable amount of time, effort, public funds, and political prestige wrapped up in a particular set of policies.

Some, for example, are incorporating parent / carer codes of conduct into school policies to set expectations around the use of social media.Others ask parents and carers to refrain from discussing the business of school or children attending school in any public forum, while many request that complaints are made via official school channels rather than social networking sites.

The Black Panthers set up weekend classrooms to deprogram children of the racism they imbibed from the public schools during the week, while Bill Ayers, a cofounder of the Weather Underground, worked to set up «alternative schools.»

In short, the takeaway from the charter literature seems to be that they are, on average, more effective than traditional public schools in urban settings and perhaps should be encouraged there, but that authorizers and policy contexts matter tremendously in determining whether these schools succeed or not.

For students such as Lopez, who has since graduated from a public school in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Oxbow achieves everything it sets out to do.

But like Williams, she credited her family's decision to enroll her in a Catholic school, as one of a few Jewish students, with setting her on her life's course, from Stanford University into public life and to the U.S. Senate.

Though some observers, including multiple - intelligences guru Howard Gardner, point to schools as the «conservators» of our culture, and therefore instinctively conservative in what they do, the resistance comes more from the fact that our public school system has evolved an extremely delicate balance between many sets of pressures — political, parental, social, organizational, supervisory, and financial — that any technological change is bound to disrupt.

For purposes of determining adequate yearly progress on the indicator set forth at subparagraph (15)(iv) of this subdivision, the graduation rate cohort for each public school, school district, and charter school for each school year from 2002 - 03 through 2006 - 2007 shall consist of all members of the school or district high school cohort, as defined in subparagraph (i) of this paragraph, for the previous school year plus any students excluded from that cohort solely because they transferred to an approved alternative high school equivalency or high school equivalency preparation program.

Accountability groups shall mean, for each public school, school district and charter school, those groups of students for each grade level or annual high school cohort, as described in paragraph (16) of this subdivision comprised of: all students; students from major racial and ethnic groups, as set forth in subparagraph (bb)(2)(v) of this section; students with disabilities, as defined in section 200.1 of this Title, including, beginning with the 2009 - 2010 school year, students no longer identified as students with disabilities but who had been so identified during the preceding one or two school years; students with limited English proficiency, as defined in Part 154 of this Title, including, beginning with the 2006 - 2007 school year, a student previously identified as a limited English proficient student during the preceding one or two school years; and economically disadvantaged students, as identified pursuant to section 1113 (a)(5) of the NCLB, 20 U.S.C. section 6316 (a)(5)(Public Law, section 107 - 110, section 1113 [a][5], 115public school, school district and charter school, those groups of students for each grade level or annual high school cohort, as described in paragraph (16) of this subdivision comprised of: all students; students from major racial and ethnic groups, as set forth in subparagraph (bb)(2)(v) of this section; students with disabilities, as defined in section 200.1 of this Title, including, beginning with the 2009 - 2010 school year, students no longer identified as students with disabilities but who had been so identified during the preceding one or two school years; students with limited English proficiency, as defined in Part 154 of this Title, including, beginning with the 2006 - 2007 school year, a student previously identified as a limited English proficient student during the preceding one or two school years; and economically disadvantaged students, as identified pursuant to section 1113 (a)(5) of the NCLB, 20 U.S.C. section 6316 (a)(5)(Public Law, section 107 - 110, section 1113 [a][5], 115Public Law, section 107 - 110, section 1113 [a][5], 115 STAT.

[n8] The Permanent School Fund, its predecessor established in 1854 with $ 2,000,000 realized from an annexation settlement, [n9] was thereafter endowed with millions of acres of public land set aside to assure a continued source of income for school suSchool Fund, its predecessor established in 1854 with $ 2,000,000 realized from an annexation settlement, [n9] was thereafter endowed with millions of acres of public land set aside to assure a continued source of income for school suschool support.

The nation is very likely to be better served in the long term by public schools that afford students the opportunity to be exposed to peers from a diverse set of backgrounds.

Carrell and Hoekstra worked with a confidential student - level data set that consists of observations of students in grades 3 through 5 from 22 public schools over the period 1995 — 2003 in a district of roughly 30,000 students.

11 While the ruling called for more urgent action from districts to desegregate their schools, the ambiguity of the phrase provided ample leeway for officials such as those in Prince Edward County to implement delaying tactics.12 In fact, in the years following the Brown rulings, Virginia's NAACP chapter continuously fought county officials in court as they refused to set a start date for integrating the public schools.

This work set the stage in 2010 for a $ 200 million investment in both district and charter public schools from Mark Zuckerberg and other matching partners.

PROSE, which stands for Progressive Redesign Opportunity Schools of Excellence, allows traditional public schools to break from some traditional restrictions set by the city and state in order to bring forth innovative school improvement straSchools of Excellence, allows traditional public schools to break from some traditional restrictions set by the city and state in order to bring forth innovative school improvement straschools to break from some traditional restrictions set by the city and state in order to bring forth innovative school improvement strategies.

graduated from high school and both enrolled and persisted in four - year colleges at rates that were four to seven percentage points higher than a carefully matched set of students in Milwaukee Public Schools.

School Board Leadership Resource Center and Center for Public Education Briefing Room: These two resources bring you school improvement research, best practices and examples from high - performing school systems, and expert guidance that can help your school board set a course for improving student achievement and district excelSchool Board Leadership Resource Center and Center for Public Education Briefing Room: These two resources bring you school improvement research, best practices and examples from high - performing school systems, and expert guidance that can help your school board set a course for improving student achievement and district excelschool improvement research, best practices and examples from high - performing school systems, and expert guidance that can help your school board set a course for improving student achievement and district excelschool systems, and expert guidance that can help your school board set a course for improving student achievement and district excelschool board set a course for improving student achievement and district excellence.

But now a few private schools and charter schools, which are independent public schools exempt from ordinary rules and procedures, have set themselves up as boarding schools for low - income students who want many of the advantages and the support given to bankers» and lawyers» children at Groton and St. Mark's.

«Given the massive amount of money funneled from the pro-school privatization lobby to Republican legislators, l am afraid that we will see yet another effort to decimate our local public schools and allow unaccountable private voucher schools to play by a substandard set of rules.»

But critics in Georgia, including a set of school systems that filed suit, charged that the law establishing that state's commission usurped the local authority of school districts and inappropriately drained public money from those systems.

Nothing is stopping them from setting up private academies — but they not only want public money they actually want to shift money from public schools to their «public» charter academies... public except for the fact that they violate the most fundamental issues of Brown vs. Board of Education, they have not unions, they have discipline policies that are draconian and the out - migrate anyone who doesn't meet their criteria.

Absent from observable factors are contributions teachers of highly specialized subjects make outside the classroom setting such as teachers of music, drama, dance, or physical education who interact frequently with various publics outside of the traditional school schedule.

What happens when public schools are set free to innovate and function independently from other schools in their jurisdiction?

In order to be a proof point for what public schooling can and should, Democracy Prep does three things that set it apart from other high - performing charter networks.

This year's eight fellows were selected from a pool of over 1200 applications from teachers and instructional specialists serving in traditional public and charter schools, as well as alternative and private schools; from nearly every state, grade level and instructional area, and who teach in a wide variety of urban, rural and suburban settings.

Let's face it, public schools are far from perfect, especially in poor inner city settings.