Sentences with phrase «great public schools in»

Chicago, IL About Blog The Chicago Public Education Fund (The Fund) is a nonprofit organization working to build a critical mass of great public schools in Chicago.

If you are a city - based nonprofit or foundation, primarily focused on increasing the number of great public schools in your city, you may be eligible to join the Education Cities network.

We have some great public schools in this country.

This builds on our work helping the Missouri Board of Education develop a plan to grow great public schools in Kansas City.

Our research offers recommendations about how we can grow the supply of great public charter schools in a community with constrained resources and tremendous need for more great public schools in our low - income communities.

In 2008, Tony cofounded FirstLine Schools, to create and inspire great public schools in New Orleans not only by directly operating schools but also by supporting education across the city with training programs for teachers and school leaders in open - admission public schools.

More families across our state deserve the opportunity to send their children to these great public schools in our communities.

«We have some great public schools in LA, but we don't have enough of them.

They all have one thing in common: They undermine our capacity to create great public schools in every neighborhood, by diverting scarce resources that public schools desperately need.

From 2000 to 2010, Arthur worked at CityBridge Foundation, a family foundation dedicated to creating and sustaining great public schools in Washington DC.

Example projects: Ms. Hargrave's work includes co-authoring the forthcoming The Secret to Sustainable School Transformation: Slow and Steady Wins the Race, and co-authoring Teachers Supporting Teachers: State Policies for Non-Classroom-Based Instructors; Growing a High - Quality Charter School Sector: Lessons from Tennessee; The Achievement School District: Lessons from Tennessee; Student Achievement in Charter Schools; Raising the Bar: Why Public Charter Schools Must Become More Innovative; and The Conditions for Success: Ensuring Great Public Schools in Every Neighborhood.

Other recent work includes developing a school funding model to simulate the impact of student - based budgeting at the state level, evaluating a rural school grant, and providing strategic and research support for a nonprofit working to build the supply of great public schools in a Western state.

What people are saying is that they want a great public school in their neighborhood.

At DFER we work closely with our city's elected officials to advance the policies that move us closer to a great public school in every neighborhood, whether East of the River or West of the Park.

Not exact matches

The pair's solutions to the alleged problems of CEO - speak are greater government control of markets, more bureaucracy in the private and public sectors, an end to CEOs» duty of care to shareholders and — get this — more snore - inducing courses on critical textual analysis in business schools so students can know exactly how many times a CEO says «our company» versus «the company.»

My greatest objection to the presence of religion in schools is that public schools are supposed to be about providing education for everyone — not religious instruction.

In addition to civil rights for people of color, women and LGBT, there has been an expansion of religious liberty for minority sects, enforcement of viewpoint neutrality with respect to access to various public and non-public forums (e.g. religious student groups must be granted equal access to school facilities as their secular counterparts, etc) greater protections against age and disability discrimination, and recognition of habeas corpus rights even for enemy combatants.

For one thing, these failures and problems describe the public schools as well, especially if you think some of the ideological commitments that animate a great deal of the educational establishment are dangerous in themselves.

A paper that thinks hermaphrodite rights one of the important questions of our time, a paper that editorially endorses the worship of the great nature goddess Gaia, a paper that advocates the demonstration of condoms to fourth graders in public school, a paper that condemns as religious fanatics those who favor the protection of the unborn, a paper that derides as extremist the views of a majority of Americans and of two Presidents they elected, this is simply not a serious paper.

This concept has kept instruction in the world's greatest literary masterpiece and its most influential body of literature out of the public schools and hence out of the primary channel for the transmission of our cultural heritage.

Like Malcolm X, DuBois did extremely well in the public schools of the town of Great Barrington, Massachusetts, where he grew up.

The greatest present bar to a mature religious orientation in public education is the assumption that the church and the synagogue are the only appropriate channels for religion, and that anything done about religion in the schools must be accomplished through these channels or at least with the official approval and sanction of the recognized religious officials.

Moses is often portrayed as a great stutterer, timid of speaking in public, but in the game he is soon called a man schooled in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, molded into a Moses «powerful in speech and in action.»

Barnard served many years as secretary of the Connecticut Board of Education, but his impact on the public school movement was perhaps greatest in the American Journal of Education, which he began in 1855 and edited for twenty - six years.

It is telling, perhaps, that the Boston Marathon bombers, the man who assassinated Theo van Gogh in Amsterdam, the London bombers, and the great majority of young men and women seeking to join ISIS in Syria received a public - school education.

The Church (and please note I am not saying Jesus) ordered witch - hunt for centuries to continue, the Church has been the greatest impediment to Science and Scientific Revolution, the Church wants to influence scientific teachings (as in the Creationist theory) in public schools in a secular country — hence the bashing.

The issue that aroused the greatest public interest and a good deal of irrational zeal on both sides involved the problem of Bible - reading and the saying of prayers in public schools.

The resolution goes on to defend voluntary prayer in schools and religious displays on public property because they reveal «the positive role that Christianity has played in this great nation of ours.

«The public school business now represents about 23 percent of our overall business, and not only is it a little more surefire in a difficult economy, but also a great offset to what has always been a seasonal business for us,» Barstow notes.

Too bad NYC has banned bake sales in public schools, especially when they can really be a great way to raise money and get kids and parents into the kitchen.

We think it is a great priority and can not wait to continue working with Director Brackett to get more salad bars in Dalton Public Schools!

Victoria Temple interviews the educators at Cairn Hill, on their support of Public Waldorf education via after school and pre-school programs in the greater Boston Area.

Student - to - Nurse Ratio: Code § 49-3-359 (2004) provides funding to public school systems for school nurses at the ratio of one per 3,000 students or one per school system, whichever is greater, and allows school systems to employ school nurses or contract them through the Public School Nurse program established in public school systems for school nurses at the ratio of one per 3,000 students or one per school system, whichever is greater, and allows school systems to employ school nurses or contract them through the Public School Nurse program established in school systems for school nurses at the ratio of one per 3,000 students or one per school system, whichever is greater, and allows school systems to employ school nurses or contract them through the Public School Nurse program established in school nurses at the ratio of one per 3,000 students or one per school system, whichever is greater, and allows school systems to employ school nurses or contract them through the Public School Nurse program established in school system, whichever is greater, and allows school systems to employ school nurses or contract them through the Public School Nurse program established in school systems to employ school nurses or contract them through the Public School Nurse program established in school nurses or contract them through the Public School Nurse program established in Public School Nurse program established in School Nurse program established in Tenn..

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.

We think it is a great priority and can not wait to continue working with Director Brackett to get more salad bars in Dalton Public Schools!

Polk County Public Schools have lot of great programming, including breakfast - in - the - classroom (Polk County received Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom grant back in SY 2012 - 13) and a «What's That Wednesday» program where students learn about new foods; additionally, Polk has implemented CEP at 109 sites which has had a positive impact on participation.

Chicago Public Schools has increased property taxes the past two years, a move Emanuel has justified in part by talking about cost - cutting initiatives at the central office and the need to emphasize greater spending on the city's children.

The USA Today piece has a great map showing that in great swaths of the country, upwards of 77 percent of public - school kids rely on reduced - price or free lunches.

Volunteer Margarita Roman, left, dispenses oranges to a parent at Calmeca Academy during the Brighton Park school's weekly «Healthy Kids Market,» a food pantry run by the Greater Chicago Food Depository in conjunction with Chicago Public Schools.

To see what such a miserly outlay means for the nation's public - school kids, see Ed Bruske's great recent series of posts; or check in on the Fed Up blog, which features snapshots of the daily offerings at a school in Illinois.

He argued that the public should have a greater say in the services government provide such as the NHS and schools.

The case stems from the contribution from the New Yorkers for a Brighter Future to the Fund for Great Public Schools, the latter of which has been heavily involved in state legislative campaigns on behalf of Democratic candidates, primarily for the state Senate.

The Fund for Great Public Schools's listed treasurer is Andy Pallotta, a vice president at the union, while the Brighter Future group's website is listed as the union's main office in the Albany suburbs.

New Yorkers for a Brighter Future transferred the money to another entity called the Fund for Great Public Schools, which has been operating in several hotly competitive state Senate races.

In public life — driving people to do great things, like setting up schools, creating public services, leading the way in charitable actIn public life — driving people to do great things, like setting up schools, creating public services, leading the way in charitable actin charitable acts.

At the same time, public schools, teachers, and local governments who hold great sway in Albany have in the past opposed the idea of getting rid of the requirement that sex abuse victims file a notice of intent to sue within 90 days of their attacks.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

Mr Brown continued: «We need responsible parents and empowered local communities working in partnership with our great public institutions - schools, colleges, children's centres - to provide a shared response.»

«I have enjoyed a great relationship with Gary over the years, from interning in his office when I was a high school student to having his support in all of my campaigns for public office, and I'll be supporting Gary this year in the new Sixth congressional district.»

There has been no greater champion of charter schools in a public role than I have been for years now.»