Sentences with phrase «general system of public schools»

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Land is still its largest component — and some 80 percent of «capital» gains in the U.S. economy are land - price gains Site values are increased by public investment in streets, water and sewer facilities and transportation hubs, in school systems, by zoning restrictions, by the general level of prosperity, and most of all, by whatever bankers will lend.

The country is $ 70 billion in debt, schools are closing by the hundreds, and infrastructural services — like the overburdened electricity system — have been overlooked in order to make way for debt payments to Wall Street creditors, according to Juan Cartagena, President and General Counsel of LatinoJustice PRLDEF, a public interest law firm.

For much of the past few years, reflecting general concerns about the quality of public schooling, discussions of magnet schools have centered on their potential for providing intensive instruction in such subjects as science and mathematics, serving as models of effectiveness, and increasing family choice within the public system.

The 22,395 - student Federal Way district, located between Seattle and Tacoma, declared in its lawsuit — filed Nov. 21 in King County Superior Court — that the formula violates the state constitutional requirement that the state create a «general and uniform» system of public schools.

Some of the legislators who voted against the bill expressed uncertainty about the impact it would have on the public school system and the state's general fund.

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The measures of teacher quality that are used by most public school systems to screen candidates and determine compensation — certification, experience, and education level — have been well researched, but there is little definitive empirical evidence that these characteristics, defined in general terms, are associated with higher student achievement.

(A representative clause, borrowed from the Arkansas Constitution, reads, «Intelligence and virtue being the safeguards of liberty and the bulwark of a free and good government, the State shall ever maintain a general, suitable and efficient system of free public schools and shall adopt all suitable means to secure to the people the advantages and opportunities of education.»)

Pennsylvania Auditor General Jack Wagner called last week for a moratorium on new charter and cyber charter schools, pending an overhaul of a funding system that he said has resulted in serious inequities in how taxpayers finance those alternatives to regular public schools.

November 6, 2012 General Elections Results for Initiative Measure No. 1240 which Concerns creation of a public charter school system Dear Friends,

The intent of the support services is to enable all students with disabilities to make progress in the general education curriculum, to participate in enrichment activities, and to be educated and participate with non-disabled peers in the public school system.

An agenda embracing the Tennessee Constitution's requirement (Article XI, Section 12) that the General Assembly provide for and support a system of free public schools.

It's how the General Assembly proposes to provide for that system of free public schools the Constitution requires.

North Carolina is in the thick of the school voucher debate, with two bills moving through the General Assembly now that would siphon at least $ 90 million out of the public school system and into voucher programs intended for low - income and disabled students.

This case has helped raise awareness among policymakers and the general public about Arizona's broken, antiquated system of funding public schools.

North Carolina's largest public school system may be warning of «enormous disruptions» without speedy action from state lawmakers on a looming class size funding crisis, but key education leaders in Raleigh tell Policy Watch there's little sign Republican lawmakers in the General Assembly will act soon.

Having invalidated the programs on these grounds, the court declined to address whether the programs also violate the Arizona Constitution's requirement for the «establishment and maintenance of a general and uniform public school system.»

What California's Schools Can Learn From Chicago's Officials in California are still peddling the idea that the state's public - school system — which receives 40 percent of the general - fund budget, by constitutional edict — is struggling because it lacks money.

Two federal agencies and the D.C. Office of the Inspector General are investigating the District's public school system following revelations of inflated graduation rates, according to a current and a former D.C. government employee with direct knowledge of the probe.

«Providing high - quality correctional education that is comparable to offerings in traditional public schools is one of the most powerful — and cost - effective — levers we have to ensure that youth are successful once released and are able to avoid future contact with the justice system,» wrote Education Secretary Arne Duncan and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.

Karvonen will lead the DLM project's test development and measurement team during the next phase of development of the Dynamic Learning Maps Alternate Assessment System, a computer - based assessment for the 1 % of the K - 12 public school student population with significant cognitive disabilities for whom, even with accommodations, general state assessments are not appropriate.

A General Assembly that understood its own budget also wouldn't be considering scrapping the entire public school funding system on the basis of a report that failed to assess whether North Carolina's public school funding system worked well or not.

While there are shortcomings to the Local Control Funding Formula that will need to be revisited in future years, we recognize that, as the new system is phased in over the next eight years, charter schools will achieve growing levels of funding equity, something we know that parents and the general public support and that charter school students clearly deserve.

It said, «[t] he Meredith court distinguished the Bush decision because the Indiana Constitution contained no «adequate provision» clause and no restriction on the mandate to provide a free public school system, and instead contained two distinct duties — «to encourage... moral, intellectual, scientific, and agricultural improvement,» and «to provide... for a general and uniform system of Common Schools.

The new school voucher system that the General Assembly passed into law last July will provide low - income students currently enrolled in public schools with up to $ 4,200 annually to use at state - recognized private schools (the list of endorsed schools is viewable here).

The new school voucher system that the General Assembly passed into law last July will provide low - income students currently enrolled in public schools with up to $ 4,200 annually to use at state - recognized private schools (the list of endorsed schools is viewable

Rather than being seen as a problem, charter school closures should be viewed as an indication of a healthy public school system committed to meeting parent demand for high quality school choice options, and providing the transparency and accountability that parents and the general public wish to see in place for all public schools.

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The North Carolina General Assembly can use its general revenue fund to create educational programs outside of the public school General Assembly can use its general revenue fund to create educational programs outside of the public school general revenue fund to create educational programs outside of the public school system.

The state's constitution does have a «uniformity clause,» however, requiring that the state provide a general and uniform system of free public schools.

So he called for the prohibition of new charter school applications and for the state attorney general Chris Koster to look into the possibility of requiring all operating charter schools to fall under the auspices of the St. Louis public school system.

Don't quote me on this part — I'm on shakier research ground here — but I believe originally charter schools were even meant to be schools - within - schools and incorporated fully into the general administration of the public system.

The General Assembly shall provide for the maintenance, support, and eligibility standards of a system of free public schools.

Moreover, the Connecticut Attorney General has acknowledged in these same court papers that to fund a system of magnet and charters would be more expensive than providing adequate support to the existing traditional public school system.

In 1826 Massachusetts formally established the system of school committees by requiring each town to elect a separate school committee to have «the general charge and superintendence» of all the public schools of the town.

Presenters: Lester B. Johnson, III, Assistant School Board Attorney, Savannah - Chatham County Public School system, and Chair of the Georgia Council of School Attorneys, and Phillip L. Hartley, Managing Partner, Harben, Hartley & Hawkins, LLP, Gainesville, Georgia and General Counsel for the Georgia School Boards Association

To counter criticism of the business community from college campuses, business organizations such as the Chamber of Commerce should support scholars who will defend the free enterprise system, develop speakers and support speakers» bureaus that will counter the liberal rhetoric coming from college campuses, subject textbooks to ideological review, insist on equal time for speakers exposing the views of the business community for speakers on campuses, insist that college faculties be balanced by those who will defend the free enterprise system, request that graduate schools of business include courses that support the free enterprise system, encourage local chambers of commerce to provide the views of the business community in high schools, establish staff who work with the media to communicate to the general public the views of the business community, monitor and criticize television programs that unfairly criticize the free enterprise system and where appropriate file complaints with the Federal Communications Commission, monitor radio and other media and pressure them to cover the views of defenders of the free enterprise system, support scholars who support the free enterprise system to publish in scholarly journals, establish incentives for scholars to publish defenses of free enterprise in books, papers, and pamphlets, spend more money on advertising that expressly supports the free market system.

The ACLCO serves its members as the voice of the clinic system to various stakeholders, including: Legal Aid Ontario, the Law Society of Upper Canada, all levels of government, law schools, the media, and the general public.

The General Assembly shall provide by taxation and otherwise for a general and uniform system of free public schools, which shall be maintained at least nine months in every year, and wherein equal opportunities shall be provided for all stGeneral Assembly shall provide by taxation and otherwise for a general and uniform system of free public schools, which shall be maintained at least nine months in every year, and wherein equal opportunities shall be provided for all stgeneral and uniform system of free public schools, which shall be maintained at least nine months in every year, and wherein equal opportunities shall be provided for all students.

To accomplish this we need to do a much better job of connecting A2C and other outcomes in the minds of the general public: under - clothed citizens» health will decline from overexposure to the elements (both cold and sun), further taxing the health care system; families may fall apart under the stress and embarrassment of making and wearing their own clothing; those children forced to attend school in their birthday suits may be permanently traumatized or choose to play hookey rather than be subjected to the shame of conspicuous under - consumption.

My next step in the following weeks will be to begin work on organizing a forum on the issue to be held at Emory University School of Law, to which I will invite by publication invitation members of the statewide judiciary and criminal justice system, as well as representatives of low income minority churches and groups, and the general public.

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