Sentences with phrase «half of the public school parents»

Back in the spring, the PAC (which consists of public school parents selected by school board trustees from each district) was invited to a three - hour brainstorming session hosted by HISD / Aramark Food Services.

The survey found that 97 percent of voters and 96 percent of public school parents think serving nutritious foods in schools is important to «ensure that children are prepared to learn and do their best.»

Seventy - five percent of Kentucky voters overall and 76 percent of public school parents back the National School Lunch Program's enhanced nutritional guidelines, now in their third year.

At 4:15 p.m., hundreds of public school parents and teachers from Kenmore, Lakeshore, Hamburg and across WNY are expected to rally at Sen. Mark Grisanti's office to «hold him accountable for breaking his promise to fully fund public education,» 65 Court St., # 213 (Corner of Court & Niagara Square), Buffalo.

A group of public school parents has gone to court in hopes of prying from New York State money that they say they were promised for improving their schools.

In addition to meeting and talking with groups of public school parents, StudentsFirstNY is building a team of organizers to spread the word within communities.

«We wouldn't have universal pre-K without mayoral control,» she said, to applause from the audience of public school parents.

53 % of public school parents give the schools either excellent or good marks.

Only 22 percent of public school parents first heard about the Common Core from school communications such as a website or newsletter.

Fifty percent of the parents of voucher students said they were doing «very well» as compared to 52 percent of public school parents.

In a 2010 PDK / Gallup poll, only 18 percent of Americans surveyed graded our public schools nationally at an «A» or «B.» By contrast, 77 percent of public school parents gave their oldest child's school an A or B, a percentage that grew by eight points over the prior five years.

In big cities where poor residents and minorities are concentrated, as many as 80 percent of public school parents say they would send their children to private schools if they could afford the tuition.

A 2014 Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) survey found that while 55 percent of public school parents participated in choice, nearly one - third of families had some difficulty understanding which schools their children were eligible to attend, a quarter had trouble getting information to choose a school, and one in five reported difficulty in transporting their child to the school of their choice.

An August 2013 PDK / Gallup poll found that just 45 percent of public school parents had heard of the Common Core.

The 185,000 - plus students who opted out of the state English Language Arts [ELA] test last week did so because of more than three years of organizing by a genuinely grass - roots movement of public school parents.

Ninety - four percent of public school parents and guardians approve of expanding access to career and technical education as a strategy to improve public education, according to the AFT poll.

PDK found that 61 percent of public school parents and guardians expect their children to attend college full - time (47 percent at a four - year school, 7 percent at a two - year, 4 percent at a vocational program, and some uncertain), with 22 percent of families expecting part - time work and study.

Fewer than half of public school parents (47 %) expect their child to enroll in a four - year college full time.

In response to a separate question, a slim majority of public school parents (54 %) say that if they had a choice to send their child to a private or religious school using public funds, they would still send their child to a public school.

One perspective that is heard too rarely in the nation's education debates is that of public school parents.

Only slightly more than half of public school parents (54 %) say they'd stick with a public school if they were offered public funds to send their child to a private or religious school.

58 % of public school parents are confident that standardized tests do a good job measuring how well their child is learning, but a mere 19 % are very confident of this.

A New York City - based nonprofit organization working to improve teacher quality, the commission conducted two polls late last year: one of 807 adults, including an oversampling of public school parents, and one of 533 public school teachers.

These findings are echoed in a July 2013 poll of public school parents by the American Federation of Teachers, which found that 77 percent support strong public schools over expanded vouchers and charters.

(New York, NY)-- Hundreds of public school parents joined education reform organization StudentsFirstNY and other advocates on the steps of City Hall today to urge new Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza to hit the reset button on Mayor Bill de Blasio's failing education agenda.

The LSU survey found that 58 percent of public school parents support for providing vouchers to help pay for students in underperforming public schools attend private schools.

As Congress considers the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA, aka No Child Left Behind), Parents Across America, a national network of public school parents, will be calling on our U. S. Senators and Congressmen this week to share our concerns about the direction of federal education policy, and offer our proposals in a new position paper (attached).

The PPIC survey reported a similar finding — 57 percent of public school parents support the new standards.

Based on interviews with 1,706 adults — of which 501 were parents — the poll found just 8 percent of public school parents who said they knew a lot about the Common Core assessments.

The poll, a survey of education issues conducted every year by the Public Policy Institute of California, found 55 percent of public school parents said they knew nothing about the new Common Core testing.

Perhaps even more telling, 42 percent of public school parents said they expect the scores to be about the same as in the past, despite all the changes; only 6 percent said they expect the scores will be lower.

A Gallup poll from April found that 37 percent of public school parents had never heard of the new standards or had no opinion on them.

When a subset of public school parents were asked a similar question - «How confident are you that these tests do a good job measuring how well your child is learning?»

In addition to the career and technical education findings, 81 percent of public school parents did believe «their child's school provides students with a safe place to learn.»

Fifty - five percent of Americans and 63 percent of public school parents oppose including student scores on standardized tests as part of teacher evaluations.

More than 70 percent of public school parents said that they believed the scores will likely be the same or higher than previous years» scores on the completely different California Standards Tests that students had been taking for over a decade.

The majority of public school parents oppose these strategies, and we know that

The AFT recently conducted a poll of a broad array of public school parents.

Read about the disconnect between how well parents think their children are performing academically in school and how students score on tests nationally as our «Parents 2016: Hearts and Minds of Public School Parents in an Uncertain World,» research findings are highlighted in this Edweek blog.

A somewhat higher share of public school parents (65 %) have heard at least a little about the new standards.

Half of likely voters (49 %) and 57 percent of public school parents are at least somewhat confident.

Speaking of public school parents, 84 % give their children's schools an A (53 %) or B (31 %) grade.

Knowledge of the new standards that California and 44 other states have adopted has grown in California, with 56 percent of respondents overall and 65 percent of public school parents now saying they know at least a little about Common Core; that compares with only 45 percent of parents a year ago.

The results of the 1992 Gallup Poll indicated that 71 % of public school parents favored requiring public schools to use standardized tests to measure the academic achievement of students.

But only about half of the public school parents (52 %) in the survey said that their child's school or district has provided information about how to become involved, while 45 percent said they have received no information.

The LSU survey found that 58 percent of public school parents support for providing vouchers to -LSB-...]

Forty - nine percent of public school parents and 46 percent of all of those asked said they were somewhat confident this would happen.

Hundreds of public school parents joined education reform organization StudentsFirstNY and other advocates on the steps of City Hall today to urge new Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza to hit the reset button on Mayor Bill de Blasio's failing education agenda.

Parents Across America is committed to bringing the voice of public school parents — and common sense — to local, state and national debates.

PAA is committed to bringing the voice of public school parents and common sense to local, state, and national education debates.