Sentences with phrase «general than other public schools»

We do not receive facilities funding, and we receive less funds in general than other public schools.

Not exact matches

To find out, we at the Harvard Program on Education Policy and Governance have asked nationally representative cross-sections of parents, teachers, and the general public (as part of the ninth annual Education Next survey, conducted in May and June of this year) whether they support or oppose «federal policies that prevent schools from expelling or suspending black and Hispanic students at higher rates than other students.»

Though no one at the school was willing to say that Whitefield youth are perfect, there seemed to be a general agreement that, as biology teacher Christopher McDonald puts it, «You would find a much lower incidence of drug use and sexual promiscuity here» than at other local private and public schools.

The opinion, issued Thursday, found current law «indicates the General Assembly intended to treat the Chicago Public Schools differently than other Illinois school districts with respect to financial oversight by the State Board of Education.»

In general, private school teachers have more resources than public school teachers do, and they also enjoy smaller class sizes and other benefits.

(a) Whenever the Attorney General receives a complaint in writing signed by an individual to the effect that he is being deprived of or threatened with the loss of his right to the equal protection of the laws, on account of his race, color, religion, or national origin, by being denied equal utilization of any public facility which is owned, operated, or managed by or on behalf of any State or subdivision thereof, other than a public school or public college as defined in section 401 of title IV hereof, and the Attorney General believes the complaint is meritorious and certifies that the signer or signers of such complaint are unable, in his judgment, to initiate and maintain appropriate legal proceedings for relief and that the institution of an action will materially further the orderly progress of desegregation in public facilities, the Attorney General is authorized to institute for or in the name of the United States a civil action in any appropriate district court of the United States against such parties and for such relief as may be appropriate, and such court shall have and shall exercise jurisdiction of proceedings instituted pursuant to this section.

He is a recognized leader in education law and serves as general counsel to more than 25 Virginia Public School Boards and conflict counsel to others.

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.

It is difficult to compare our findings with studies of general population youth because rates vary widely, depending on the sample, the method, the source of data (participant or collaterals), and whether functional impairment was required for diagnosis.50 Despite these differences, our overall rates are substantially higher than the median rate reported in a major review article (15 %) 50 and other more recent investigations: the Great Smoky Mountains Study (20.3 %), 56 the Virginia Twin Study of Adolescent Behavioral Development (142 cases per 1000 persons), 57 the Methods for the Epidemiology of Child and Adolescent Mental Disorders (6.1 %), 32 and the Miami — Dade County Public School Study (38 %).58 We are especially concerned about the high rates of depression and dysthymia among detained youth (17.2 % of males, 26.3 % of females), which are also higher than general population rates.51,56 - 61 Depressive disorders are difficult to detect (and treat) in the chaos of the corrections milieu.