Sentences with phrase «instruction in public schools»

In the first place, ethical instruction in public schools must necessarily be administered from a purely «secular» standpoint — that is, without reference to religious belief or authority.

The board asserted that the statute gives the state board of education more powers than the Colorado state constitution permits and infringes on the state constitution's provision that the local school board «shall have control of instruction in the public schools of their respective districts.»

Children ages 8 to 12 who receive English - language instruction in public school around the Houston and Austin metropolitan areas

requires that professional development programs shall be made available to teachers to improve instruction in the public schools, and shall include instruction in incorporating character education throughout the curriculum.

A resolution passed the House of Representatives of the 85th Legislature of South Dakota specifying astrology as a topic for instruction in the public schools related to global warming.

He presses for Bible instruction in public schools, school prayer, public displays of the Ten Commandments, impeachment of «activist» judges, antiabortion statutes, prohibition of gay marriage and a host of other conservative positions.

Spain had acted to protect the important principle of church autonomy, specifically, the right of the Catholic Church to designate which people could offer Catholic instruction in the public schools.

Later, opposition to this point of view developed both from those opposed to all forms of religious instruction in public schools and from Roman Catholics who upheld the right to instruct their children in their faith.

Edutopia magazine editor in chief James Daly spoke with the man who discovered the wreck of the RMS Titanic and other submerged vessels about what science instruction in the public schools is and what it could be:

Today, we are dealing with a deteriorating situation in a declining institution, namely widespread ineffective instruction in the public schools.

Reduction of class size in Tennessee cost roughly $ 12,000 per student, whereas the SCSF voucher intervention cost the foundation about $ 4,200 per student, but reduced costs to the taxpayer by lowering the number of students who required instruction in public schools.

Jennifer F., Endrew's mother, said that while the judge's ruling Monday was important to her and her family specifically, it was the opinion handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court last year — one raising the bar for special needs instruction in public schools — that was critical on a wider level.

Van Roekel's statement suggests quite a rocky road ahead for the Common Core standards, which are meant to instill more rigorous language - arts and math instruction in public schools — and which have been a priority of the Obama administration.

The court held that by failing to give local school boards any «input whatsoever into the instruction to be offered by the private schools» that accepted voucher students, the state had violated the constitutional provision that grants local boards «control of instruction in the public schools of their respective districts.»

Nor do they subsidize language instruction in the public schools themselves.

Character Education: KRS 156.095 requires that professional development programs shall be made available to teachers to improve instruction in the public schools, and shall include instruction in incorporating character education throughout the curriculum.

The medium of instruction in the public schools is Urdu, although the working language in this multilingual society is English.

A majority of the districts want to keep control of academics, despite a few highly publicized experiments in which private companies have taken over instruction in public schools.

One could reasonably argue that requiring school districts to provide some financial support to students attending private school does not directly interfere with the state constitution's mandate that local school boards have control over «instruction in the public schools» (emphasis added).

The plaintiffs alleged, and the court narrowly concurred, that the program violated a provision of the state constitution that school boards «shall have control of instruction in the public schools of their respective districts.»

In fact, the federal government is prohibited by law from directing, supervising or controlling curriculum or instruction in public schools.

Opponents filed suit in May 2003, alleging that the program ran afoul of the Colorado state constitution's guarantee that local school boards «shall have control of instruction in the public schools of their respective districts.»

(12) In 1923, thirty - four states passed laws mandating English as the language of instruction in public schools.