Sentences with phrase «in local public schools»

As a mother of seven children, I've spent a lot of time involved in my local public schools.

As community leaders, school board members serve as advocates for the children in local public schools and must study, evaluate and decide what actions are in the best interest of those students.

It hurts both the children going to the remote cyber school and also the children who remain in the local public school system.

We provide 120 (110 to 6th grade only) instructional minutes in literacy and math daily — over twice the amount provided in local public schools.

Many non-traditional educational options exist for children who would otherwise be enrolled in local public schools.

They discovered a major change in how parents, educators, community and business leaders, and public officials come together to direct changes in local public schools.

We compare the average funding amounts for these programs to the average funding for the entire student body in local public schools.

Of course attrition occurs in local public schools as well.

The most important responsibility of school boards is to work with their communities to improve student achievement in their local public schools.

Students who apply to attend charter schools are a self - selected group, and simply comparing them with all other students in local public schools is likely to be misleading.

Thanks to Malloy, Wyman and the General Assembly, most school districts will now be forced to raise local taxes and make deep cuts to existing education programs in local public schools.

I'm Matt and I'm a teacher in a local public school district here on Long Island.

School vouchers of $ 4,200 a year, formally known as «Opportunity Scholarships,» are touted as a way to help low - income and minority children who are falling behind in their local public schools by providing access to better options in private ones.

In the mid-1990s, a highly contentious debate erupted over whether a couple of hundred voucher students in several private schools in Milwaukee performed higher on standardized tests than their peers in local public schools.

A 2017 national poll on education issues found, among other things, that most Americans underestimate how much money is being spent to educate kids in their local public schools.

The Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Nest program at New York University has shown that by providing training and support to teachers who serve children on the autism spectrum, those students can be successfully mainstreamed in local public schools.

Romero also did his schooling in the local public schools, later his parents sent him to study under a teacher named Anita Iglesias.

While raising three daughters, Pam worked only part - time, took adult education classes, and followed what was happening in the local public school system.

The Orfalea Fund School Food Initiative (SFI) worked with a wide array of stakeholders in local public schools to help them prioritize healthy food and activity practices for students.

If they believe a quality education is not possible in their local public school, they should be given the opportunity and resources to set their child up for success through other educational choices.»

The producers of Family Movie Night reported that according to a recent Public Agenda survey, nearly three - quarters (74 %) of Americans consider bullying harassment a serious problem in their local public schools and more than 45 percent of students admitted to having been bullied, teased or taunted at school, as noted by a Josephson Institute of Ethics survey.

They were determined to get Caleb back in the local public school, with a paraprofessional to help manage his behavior.

As my Choice Watch report (Cotto & Feder, 2014) demonstrated, charter schools in Connecticut tend to serve a relatively more advantaged group of (mostly) Black and Latinx children including fewer children with disabilities, emerging bilingual children, and children eligible for free and reduced priced meals compared to the students in local public schools in the same cities as the charter schools.

This bill would keep more local tax dollars in local public schools.»

It is not perfect, but it is a pretty robust apparatus that allows the public to understand how their tax dollars are being spent in our local public schools (and identify areas that need improvement).

Forstmann and Walton found out quickly that low - income parents were desperately seeking a quality education they couldn't find in their local public schools.

This program will allow those children who are not being well served in their local public school the opportunity to attend a school that will help them thrive and succeed.»

I have two children currently in our local public school district and a fourth grade student here at Brass City Charter School.

The grant also will provide $ 400,000 for TFA's Indianapolis Principal Fellowship program, which trains new administrators who commit to serving for four years in local public schools.

In spearheading what he calls the «Bilingual Revolution,» Jaumont has put his expertise at the service of multiple linguistic communities by helping them develop quality dual language programs in their local public schools.

This national database allows Project Appleseed to directly send parents important information about how to become more involved in their local public schools.

that students attending private schools thanks to this program have equal or better academic performance than their peers in the local public schools, and have significantly higher graduation rates.

By Steve Buckstein A 2017 national poll on education issues found, among other things, that most Americans underestimate how much money is being spent to educate kids in their local public schools.

What do Americans think about the quality of the teachers in their local public schools?

The Wall Street Journal pointed out that, under the reforms, parents «can keep their children in their local public school, but they can also try to get Johnny into a more demanding charter school, or a virtual school, or into special language or career - training courses, among other options....

My firstborn Hannah is now 5 years old, and we have decided to enroll her in our local public school for kindergarten.

South Carolina Virtual Charter School was started in response to parents and educators statewide who wanted an alternate educational program for their children and students than what was available to them in their local public school.

Asked whether students enrolled in state online public charter schools are prohibited from participating in JROTC programs in their local public school, Gary Mealer, program specialist at the Georgia Department of Education, told the Georgia Public Policy Foundation, «Yes, JROTC students must be enrolled at the high school where the approved JROTC program is being offered in order to participate.

I was thrilled to share some ideas with this group as well as help them understand what steps to follow in order to create a Korean dual language program in a local public school — Brooklyn's first.

Nationwide, students in charter schools have similar demographic characteristics to students in the local public schools.