Sentences with phrase «happening at the public school»

Amid the outcry over the agents» visit, the city and the federal government issued contradictory accounts about what happened at Public School 58, also known as the School of Heroes, on Thursday.

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Good examples of topics where this tends to happen are abortion, school funding, pray at public events, and so on.

When your playing a silly game with a bat and ball you bring him out, you thank him when you move a pig skin across a line, you stamp his name on my currency, you tell my children about him in our public schools, you trot him out like a prized pig at a fair anytime something good or bad or even mediocre happens, and even when you stub your toe.

Which happened when I sat in an Atlanta public school room tutoring three illiterate sixth graders or when I heard stories of refugees who'd suffered loss of home, family separation and violence or when I stood at the U.S. - Mexico border in Tijuana and looked at the endless crosses adorning the wall with the names of those missing or lost after they headed north to the United States.

What happens when you offer a two - week introduction to the business world; then add museum visits, swimming, outdoor and social activities; and host it all at a top - ten business school at the world's premier public university?

Labor of Lunch (5 min) Making from - scratch meals for 5,000 kids is hard work for everyone, and it happens every day at the Berkeley Public Schools Central Kitchen.

«The interaction with the antibodies might be happening, but it never fully explained all cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever,» said study lead author P. Robert Beatty, an assistant research scientist at UC Berkeley's School of Public Health.

About 40 percent took place on school playgrounds, whereas another 25 percent happened at home, and about 9 percent occurred in public parks or recreation areas.

«There's growing recognition that what happens to you as a child is carried with you throughout life,» said Dr. Michel H. Boudreaux, lead researcher and assistant professor in the Department of Health Services Administration at the University of Maryland School of Public Health.

«A recent WHO report on IPV recommended that there is a clear need to scale - up efforts to both prevent IPV from happening in the first place and to provide necessary services for women experiencing IPV,» says senior author Peter A. Muennig, MD, MPH, associate professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health.

This newsletter spotlights and promotes public health practice happenings at the Bloomberg School.

«What happens to 19 people on a metabolic ward may not apply to the general population out in the real world who are trying to lose weight,» says Lydia Bazzano, MD, PhD, professor in nutrition research at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.

When Margery Yeager, special assistant for transformation management for the D.C. public schools, attended her first school closing meeting in 2008 — she's now helped close 28 schools — the meeting was so contentious that, she recalls, «I honestly thought at the time, «I don't know how we will make this happen because there is just such vocal opposition.

In the case of private school choice, you're right that there's a mixed track record, though I would say mostly positive if you look at the full body of evidence about what happens when you allow a student to move from a public school to a private school using a voucher.

New research published by Education Next last week looks at what has happened with public schools in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina.

A study by Matt Chingos and Paul Peterson that was published in Ed Next in 2009 looked at what happened when for - profit firms, including Edison Schools, were given control of some public schools in PhiladSchools, were given control of some public schools in Philadschools in Philadelphia.

But he doesn't think this can happen until states adopt policies providing such organizations with access to capital for facilities at rates comparable to those available to traditional public schools.

Over at Eduwonk Maria Fenwick explains why she's leaving Boston Public Schools: «The best way I can describe what happened over the course of four years is a gradual wearing down of my spirit.»

«I grew up having a huge amount of anger, frankly, at the local public schools — that what we were trying to do from 3 to 8 p.m. at night wasn't in most cases happening during the school day,» Arne Duncan says in an interview.

They will look at issues of meaning, identity, and interpretation amongst musicians of diverse backgrounds, and the ways these challenging yet profound experiences mirror what often happens in public school classrooms.

Sherpa Kids continues to push at the tendering door of the public education system but Ms Prout says most of the company's growth is happening in the private or church school arena.

U.S. Schools Are Too Focused on Standardized Tests, Poll Says Washington Post, 8/23/15» «Clearly, there is anxiety about what's happening in teaching and learning,» said Andres Alonso, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a former chief executive of Baltimore City Public Schools.»

It was Gwen Samuel, a mother from Connecticut bereft of shiny public policy credentials, who led the passage of the nation's second Parent Trigger law and has spurred the current efforts at reforming teacher quality and expanding school choice happening in the Nutmeg State.

If you happen to find yourself in Nashville next week for the National Charter Schools Conference, hosted by our friends at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, go see our very own Jill Shahen present!

Caprice Young, founder of the California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) and CEO of Magnolia Public Schools: «If I did a Lexus Nexus Google search of every abuse at every school district in the state of California, the list would be about 40 times that long... What I would say in response to (the ACLU report) is that charters are required to have their entire enrollment procedure approved by whoever their authorizer happens to be.

Under I - 1240, conversion charters could happen in Washington, if a majority of teachers or parents at an existing public school sign a petition to initiate an application for charter status.

With significant strains already on general fund resources at the school level, we really have no reason to believe these activities will continue to happen without reimbursement,» said Katie Valenzuela, spokeswoman for Public Advocates, a non-profit representing the interests of low - income families.

It will follow up the event later in the spring with a publicity campaign aimed at telling stories about the good things happening in public schools.

Now, think about this: How many parents have been frustrated at one time or another with something that happened in their public schools?

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan was the CEO of Chicago Public Schools at the time, and later described Hurricane Katrina as «the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans.»

So one of the things I'm hoping will happen at the federal level is that we need an annual requirement that all public schools and districts report this data to the public.

Well, I think Newark needs good schools, period... This idea of «we have to build charters at the expense of public school» is a ridiculous notion... That's an argument that people are having about real estate, about space, about money and finances, when on the ground, the thing that improves education is what happens in the classroom — is teacher development, staff development, and extended days and, you know, curriculum...

He pointed to the positive changes happening in public schools across the country — including several teacher - led reforms implemented in California schools that are helping at - risk students and closing achievement gaps, which drew national attention yesterday.

Raphael Sonenshein, executive director of the Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs at Cal State Los Angeles, said that he thought there will be an increase in charter schools, but doubted that it would happen very quickly.

«More questions than answers remain at this point, not the least of which include who will be part of the planning team, how the new system will be designed, and what will happen to the collective bargaining rights of employees of the Detroit Public Schools and the Education Achievement System,» DPS union leaders wrote in a joint statement.

As it currently stands, clear insight into what is happening with this funding can only be obtained through extraordinary efforts such as reports produced by Bruce Fuller, professor of education and public policy at UC Berkeley, on the Los Angeles Unified School District and Marguerite Roza, director of the Edunomics Lab and a research professor at Georgetown University, on eight California school distSchool District and Marguerite Roza, director of the Edunomics Lab and a research professor at Georgetown University, on eight California school distschool districts.

«What happens in public education is a lot of initiatives come through, a lot of information gets thrown at schools.

For the public - school teachers to attend a group meeting after hours with the principal (as happens at least once a week on the charter side) would cost $ 41.98 extra per hour for each attendee, and attendance would still be voluntary.

There are other situations students and parents can investigate before signing up for a loan — cost of in - state schools vs. out — of - state; public vs. private; stay - at - home vs. going away; interest rates for various student loans — but nothing is going to happen until you fill out the FAFSA.

Obviously a massive resource of everything games development / programming related over the last 20 years, very cheap to access (even if that happens to be at a public facility like a school or library) and available everywhere with modern mobile devices.

When bus accidents happen, whether they are school bus accidents, commercial bus accidents, long - haul bus accidents or public transit the victims of these accidents need an experienced bus accident lawyer who knows the intricacies of this complex area of law as different legal factors are usually at play.

Plymouth has 14 public schools - including Plymouth North High School and Plymouth South High School - and accidents can happen when drivers do not follow school buses and other vehicles at a safe diSchool and Plymouth South High School - and accidents can happen when drivers do not follow school buses and other vehicles at a safe diSchool - and accidents can happen when drivers do not follow school buses and other vehicles at a safe dischool buses and other vehicles at a safe distance

Apple wants to position its new entry level 2018 iPad as an education - focused tablet, but given the cemented position more affordable Chromebooks and Windows devices have in educational institutions across North America — especially in often cash - strapped Canadian public school boards — it's unlikely this will happen at a vast number of educational institutions.