Sentences with phrase «kids in public schools take»

Reading tests — of the standardized variety that kids in public schools take — are certainly supposed to test reading skills.

Not exact matches

'' it's perfectly legal to take pictures in a public area» Hang around a grade school taking pictures of the kids and we'll see how your «internet law degree» holds up in court.

Guns are in schools because quite obviously kids are able to get them with relative ease, not because the govt took forced prayer out of public schools.

One public school recently took kids on a field trip to a Christian festival and left all the other kids on campus in a day long study hall.

The ones that begin in Sixth, often take public school kids starting at Sixth Grade.

For those interested, the White House has now released the complete transcript of First Lady Michelle Obama's remarks yesterday at the presidential signing of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act, which took place at a public school in Washington, D.C.

I was team mom for little league, cheer mom, pta mom, chaperoned school field trips, volunteered as a classroom helper and parent at their schools (when in public school) attended toddler tumbling and mom classes, was a homeschooling parent for one of my kids with leaning disabilities, I didn't have to scramble to figure out what to do about work or where to take my kids for child care if they were sick, I led and was involved with the church groups with my kids, I spent summers with them doing all kinds of things like traveling, visiting grandparents out of town, amusement park trips, swimming, picnics, and hiking, instead of them being stuck with a sitter every summer.

After some jokes about the «lived - in quality» of his own house, but said the public school where he's taken his kids was the «house that's most important to us.»

The Daily News took a deep dive into the city's public schools in our five - part «Fight for Their Future» series — but now we turn the spotlight over to New York's political and educational leaders to learn what they believe is best for our kids.

«If you're an Italian who takes public transit and has kids in public school, you're angry at de Blasio,» Ryan said.

Nestle: Well, we will do it in the way these changes always take place — you do it through education of the public; you create demands for different kinds of foods; you teach parents to go into schools and look at what their kids are eating and then do something about it; you change policy so that it becomes more difficult for food companies to advertise to children; you stop them from marketing junk food to kids using cartoon characters.

«The Cartel» really took on the notion that public education in America operates solely and purposefully «for the kids,» and it showed exactly what can go wrong when you are consistently first or second in school spending every year (as New Jersey is) and lots of interest groups have placed the economic advancement and security of the adults above the kids.

«I've taken kids in who were terrible in a public school, and they're different kids here,» Pecchia said.

«In the public policies affecting our schools — state and federal — there's almost no incentive to boost a smart kid up the scale or take someone who's «proficient» and push them to «advanced.»»

And at the time, the original idea was that they would take in kids that the public schools were not able to help.

What kind of kids enroll in charter schools and do charters take all comers like traditional public schools?

Nor does the fact that vouchers have not only improved education for the kids who have taken advantage of them, but also help those kids who remain in nearby public schools.

In absence of free access to school buildings and reliable public funding for facilities, schools must take funding meant for teachers, social workers, kids and classrooms and instead pay for rent and building repairs.

Moreover, in practice, the «choice» program has been plagued by lack of accountability (no state testing requirements), fraud (private operators taking off with the state aid check, leaving the kids without a school to go to, and MPS to try to deal with it), refusal to accept handicapped children, continued leeching off public schools for lab courses, and — most significantly — absolutely no educational advantage whatsoever for the «choice» students compared to their public school counterparts, which was the ostensible justification for this whole fiasco in the first place.

«Milwaukee's Public Schools need full funding so our kids can get the quality education they deserve, not experiments in taking control away from our locally elected school board and handing it to an unaccountable political appointee.

This isn't to say that these officials don't care about these children, but that they are disinterested in taking on the tough work needed to overhaul districts and schools in order provide kids with the schools they deserve — which includes challenging the soft bigotry of low expectations for poor and minority kids held by far too many adults working in American public education in Virginia and the rest of the nation, and the affiliates of the National Education Association which has succeeded for so long in keeping the Old Dominion's status quo quite ante.

Cashing in on Kids conducts research and public education programs designed to help ensure that public schools put the students» interest above corporate interests that are increasingly taking control of public education policy and institutions.

One of my kids (now 29 years of age and very accomplished - ok I am his dad), was struggling in the 9th grade and the public high school was not responsive to his needs, and my wife and I — because we are lucky enough to be able to do so — took him out the public schools and sent him to a local private school.

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It may be time to take bus loads of kids from New Haven, Hartford, Waterbury, Bridgeport and anyone else who is willing to play a part in returning our public schools to their rightful owners.

Here's what really happened for My kids just took PARCC in MCPS (Montgomery COunty Maryland Public Schools).

That's just slightly higher than the 22 percent Algebra 1 course - taking rate for middle - schoolers in nearby D.C. Public Schools and lower than the 43 percent rate for kids in Alexandria's district, both of which serve mostly poor and minority populations.

Go Jen — of course — and I plan to operate on my neighbor tomorrow — it's only a little heart problem — should be able to do it — and if I fail well so what — then I can run a bank and make millions of dollars even if I fail — but teachers (gods chosen selfless few) care for all of our kids and are the real hero's in this world — I am so thankful that my two daughters attend public schools and have been nurtured by those who have chosen a profession of giving and not one of taking — if you can read this post — thank your teachers — I am grateful for mine everyday — Thanks Ms Weigh K - Ms Brown Gr1 - Ms Shea Gr2 - Ms.

It's very difficult if educators don't believe in the idea that we educate all kids, that public schools take all comers, kids with disabilities, and kids from poor backgrounds, and that our goal is to educate a whole child.