Sentences with phrase «help public school families»

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Waqfs were established to furnish trousseaux for orphan girls, for paying the debts of imprisoned or bankrupt businessmen, for clothing for the aged, to help pay village and neighborhood taxes, to help the army and the navy, to found trade guilds, to give land for public markets, to build lighthouses, to help orphans and widows and the destitute, to care for the needs of poor school children and to give them picnics, to pay for the funerals of the poor, to provide holiday gifts for poor families, to build seaside cottages for holidays for the people, to distribute ice - cold water during the summer, to create public playing fields, to distribute rice to birds, and to give food and water to animals.

, we work hard every day to get more kids and their families cooking in the kitchen, help fight the battle against hunger, and help more public school students have an opportunity toward education in the restaurant and foodservice industry.

Good schools — private and public — also attract and keep families, while a wealth of community services allows residents to look no further than their back yard for help and fun.

To obtain the best education for your child research into your local public school system as well as research about homeschooling will help you to make a decision that makes sense for your own family.

One of her websites, the Partnership Educational Justice, says its goal is to help students, and their families «advocate for the great public schools they deserve,» with a particular focus on low income students.

NEW YORK (AP)-- A former state senator pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges she embezzled nearly $ 88,000 from a taxpayer - subsidized program that helps low - income families navigate the city's public school system.

Parochial and independent schools provide essential learning opportunities and help students grow just like public schools, and we should be doing everything we can to support them and the families that depend on them.

During an announcement that was attended by dozens of friends, family, supporters and local officials, Killian, a Republican, laid out a reform platform that included enacting term limits, providing tax and mandate relief, improving public schools, promoting substance abuse prevention and helping small businesses.

The Partnership for New York City, the city's preeminent business group, on June 27 joined the UFT and the New York City Council in awarding a total of $ 600,000 in grants designed to help six public schools create strategies that will tie specific health and social services directly to the schools» students and their families.

«For women to have timely access to services that can help to save her life she still needs the community, husband and family to be able to provide access and transportation,» explains Grace Kodindo, an assistant clinical professor of population and family health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.

According to Anthony Lehman, chairman of psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, «The real value here is that the program is bolstering public awareness about prodromal symptoms, and it's providing venues for kids and their families who have these problems to get help.»

A national study by researchers at the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP), Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health — shows an uneven picture of states» use of Medicaid to help families with young children gain access to mental health services.

«PittVax will continue collecting, analyzing and reporting on flu cases and flu vaccine effectiveness in the Pittsburgh region, helping guide flu immunization recommendations,» said senior author Richard K. Zimmerman, M.D., M.P.H., professor in Pitt School of Medicine's Department of Family Medicine and Pitt Graduate School of Public Health's Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences.

Chapters take on a variety of work, including: Regularly scheduled events for the public to discuss public education, school board candidate forums, monitoring school board meetings, translating proposed school board policies into other languages for various language groups, providing tours of schools for prospective students and families, working for adequate funding for public schools, engaging with bond elections, helping parents navigate enrollment policies, and in general, being involved in the issues of public schools in their communities.

Supporters of school vouchers rally in Austin, Texas, on Jan. 24, in hopes of persuading state lawmakers to approve a voucher program that would provide public money to families to help pay tuition at private and religious schools.

«We would like all teachers and schools, both public and private, to be aware that the SchoolNotes.com service is available to help facilitate family - school - community partnerships that strengthen education by improving communication,» said Bocinsky.

Tiffany Anderson, the superintendent of Jennings Public Schools in Missouri, cited a program that put washers and dryers and a food bank into Jennings schools in order to help families with their basic needs — and to make it easier for them to attend PTO meSchools in Missouri, cited a program that put washers and dryers and a food bank into Jennings schools in order to help families with their basic needs — and to make it easier for them to attend PTO meschools in order to help families with their basic needs — and to make it easier for them to attend PTO meetings.

Kim Graham, a kindergarten teacher at Rockway Public School in Ontario, Canada, discovered the program after being given the task to help develop a family engagement program for her high - needs sSchool in Ontario, Canada, discovered the program after being given the task to help develop a family engagement program for her high - needs schoolschool.

To one group of respondents we presented the issue as follows: «A proposal has been made that would give low - income families with children in public schools a wider choice, by allowing them to enroll their children in private schools instead, with government helping to pay the tuition.

EdNext: A proposal has been made that would give families with children in public schools a wider choice, by allowing them to enroll their children in private schools instead, with government helping to pay the tuition.

I am pleased that there is a clear consensus emerging in this area — a consensus that moves away from the divisiveness of vouchers and toward support for partnership and investment in our public schools and helping families pay for college.

Riley cited the defeat of voucher initiatives in California and Michigan, stating that he is pleased by «a consensus that moves away from the divisiveness of vouchers and toward support for partnership and investment in our public schools and helping families pay for college.»

The news from the Education Next poll had become so bad we were accused of asking an unfriendly voucher question (it referenced the «use» of «government funds to pay the tuition»), so we agreed to split our respondents into two equivalent groups and ask the second group a «friendly» voucher question instead: «A proposal has been made that would give low - income families with children in public schools a wider choice, by allowing them to enroll their children in private schools instead, with government helping to pay the tuition.»

Told about a proposal «that would give low - income families with children in public schools a wider choice, by allowing them to enroll their children in private schools instead, with government helping to pay the tuition,» 50 percent of the American public comes out in support and 50 percent expresses opposition.

Schools That Work: YES Prep North Central The educators at Houston's YES Prep Public Schools are on a mission to transform lives — and ultimately whole families and communities — by helping kids conquer their disadvantages and complete college.

Other projects created during the class include an organization that will provide free public libraries in India; an online platform to help students make more informed decisions when applying to college; an app that gives students fun, game - based content that shows what real scientists are like; a cellphone - hosted service for rural teachers in the Philippines that provides direct training and tips; and a nonprofit that will train and employ parent liaisons to develop stronger bonds between families and middle schools in an effort to improve dropout rates.

Overall, 43 percent of the uninformed American public support «a [universal voucher] proposal that would give families with children in public schools a wider choice by allowing them to enroll their children in private schools instead, with government helping to pay the tuition,» while just 37 percent oppose the idea, with the remainder taking no position on the issue.

In a symbiotic and mutually reinforcing way, a robust public school choice system can help to attract young families to an urban area while an influx of young families can also create political momentum around more robust systems of public school choice.

We found that opposition to vouchers declined by 7 percentage points between 2016 and 2017 when we asked respondents whether they favored giving «all families with children in public schools a wider choice by allowing them to enroll their children in private schools instead, with the government helping to pay the tuition.»

School voucher programs, which allow eligible families to send their children to private schools with the help of public funds, have sparked controversy since the first such initiative was launched in Milwaukee in 1991.

One program offers a tax credit to help offset the cost of tuition for families who move their children from public schools designated as «failing» by the state to a private school.

SCHOOLS THAT WORK: YES PREP NORTH CENTRAL The educators at Houston's YES Prep Public Schools are on a mission to transform lives — and ultimately whole families and communities — by helping kids conquer their disadvantages and complete cSCHOOLS THAT WORK: YES PREP NORTH CENTRAL The educators at Houston's YES Prep Public Schools are on a mission to transform lives — and ultimately whole families and communities — by helping kids conquer their disadvantages and complete cSchools are on a mission to transform lives — and ultimately whole families and communities — by helping kids conquer their disadvantages and complete college.

• Overwhelming parental support for the following elements of an education agenda: Provide extra resources to turn around struggling neighborhood schools; hold charter schools accountable; provide more support / training for struggling teachers; expand / improve new - teacher mentoring; reduce class sizes, especially in the early grades; make public schools hubs of the neighborhood with longer hours, academic help and health services for families; provide extra pay for teachers in hard - to - staff schools; and ensure access to high - quality preschool for all 3 - and 4 - year - olds.

No less than 56 % favor a school voucher that would «give families with children in public schools a wider choice, by allowing them to enroll their children in private schools, instead, with government helping to pay the tuition.»

** 14 — Home schooling: Workshop: Helping Children Achieve Academic Success: Building Powerful Home - School Partnerships that Yield Results, sponsored by the Lesley University Center for Children, Families, and Public Policy, for K - 3 administrators and principals, in Cambridge, Mass..

On the importance of government, for example, Brian Eschbacher, executive director of Planning and Enrollment Services in Denver Public Schools, described policies and systems in Denver that help make choice work better in the real world: a streamlined enrollment system to make choosing easier for families, more flexible transportation options for families, a common performance framework and accountability system for traditional and charter schools to ensure all areas of a city have quality schools, and a system that gives parents the information they need to choose schools confiSchools, described policies and systems in Denver that help make choice work better in the real world: a streamlined enrollment system to make choosing easier for families, more flexible transportation options for families, a common performance framework and accountability system for traditional and charter schools to ensure all areas of a city have quality schools, and a system that gives parents the information they need to choose schools confischools to ensure all areas of a city have quality schools, and a system that gives parents the information they need to choose schools confischools, and a system that gives parents the information they need to choose schools confischools confidently.

This new research aims to help policymakers and the public better understand military families» perspectives on school choice policies, the military profession and more.

Imagine Andrews Public Charter School has formed a partnership with Lynne Michael Blum, PhD, a leading clinical psychologist and an adjunct faculty member at The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, to conduct a series of workshops and training sessions designed to help Imagine Andrews teachers and administrators improve the way they meet the needs of children from military families.

Ms. Anderson had argued that One Newark would offer more parents the opportunity to opt out of failing schools, and that by improving the smaller number of public schools that remained, it would ultimately help retain the families that might otherwise leave the district for charter schools.

To help those students, Quitman County has joined other rural districts to form the Mississippi Public School Consortium for Educational Access to provide advanced coursework for all high school students, regardless of where they live or their family circumstSchool Consortium for Educational Access to provide advanced coursework for all high school students, regardless of where they live or their family circumstschool students, regardless of where they live or their family circumstances.

This private school choice is somewhat ironic, given that New York Public School officials originally established gifted and talented programs to help keep more white and middle - class families in public scschool choice is somewhat ironic, given that New York Public School officials originally established gifted and talented programs to help keep more white and middle - class families in public scPublic School officials originally established gifted and talented programs to help keep more white and middle - class families in public scSchool officials originally established gifted and talented programs to help keep more white and middle - class families in public scpublic schools.

An online tool kit to help schools identify and monitor mental health problems has been launched by Public Health England and the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families.

Government and nonprofit leaders in cities like Cleveland, DC, New Orleans, Baltimore, and even Detroit have been able to make progress on these issues via voluntary agreements on citywide systems for enrollment and information to help families navigate public school choice.

As the head of family engagement in Washington state's Federal Way Public Schools, Trise Moore helps parents navigate a large bureaucracy and puts them at the center of the district's decisionmaking.

Share this page with your family and friends, and help us achieve our vision of every public school student in DC attending a quality public traditional or charter school.

With his «teach them all» ethos, Superintendent Jim Rollins is on the leading edge of helping immigrant students and their families find a foothold in Arkansas» Springdale Public Schools and the broader community.

Milwaukee Public Schools needs the support of families, students and the community to help students and key to securing that help is providing a great customer service experience every time someone interacts with MPS staff.

A year later, Education Next asked, «A proposal has been made that would give all families with children in public schools a wider choice, by allowing them to enroll their children in private schools instead, with government helping to pay the tuition,» the general public was evenly split, 45 percent in favor and 44 percent against.

«This bill will help ensure that students and families who chose a public charter school because it best meets the needs of their children will not be financially penalized.

As a longtime school choice advocate, DeVos applauds that disruption, believing that choice helps families and can spur improvement in traditional public schools.