Sentences with phrase «leave the public schools with»

«If you take out the kids who have (parental) backing, that leaves public schools with a big hole.»

In a 2008 study, we examined whether the academic achievement of special education students was affected by the number of options they had to leave their public school with a voucher.

A third possibility is that, so long as only a few students leave a public school with scholarships, the program could have effects on resources.

The gains occur immediately, before any students leave the public schools with a scholarship, implying that competitive threats are responsible for at least some of the estimated effects.

Others are concerned that only the relatively more economically and academically advantaged students enroll in charters, leaving public schools with more concentrated poverty and students who tend to have more learning difficulties.

Students who leave the public schools with a voucher are considered to be parentally placed in the private school, and thus forfeit many of the protections provided to students under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), including a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE).

Students who leave the public schools with a voucher forfeit many of the protections provided to students under IDEA because they are considered parentally placed in private schools.

«The charter school comes in takes the best and brightest and leaves your public schools with those hard to teach students.

Contrary to the claims of the powerful charter school lobby, the charter initiative has left public schools with a higher and higher percentage of challenging students and fewer resources to offer them.

Students who leave the public schools with a voucher are considered to be parentally placed in the private school, and thus forfeit many of the protections provided to students under IDEA.

Not exact matches

«It makes sense to spin off the mobile - phone business using a public offering that would leave SoftBank in control and provide SoftBank with more cash to pursue its strategy of investing in companies with potentially high growth prospects,» Erik Gordon, a professor at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business.

With these for - profit universities pulling out all stops to get students to enroll in their programs, there isn't much room left for nonprofit schools like Georgetown and Stanford to educate the public about their offerings.

She contends that educational choice will create a «two - tiered system in urban districts, with charter schools for motivated students and public schools for those left behind.»

I once spoke with a young woman who was raised in a very liberal mainline tradition who told me she left the church because, «I wasn't learning anything there about tolerance, love, and good stewardship of the planet that I wasn't learning at my public high school, so what was the point?»

(I'd left a public high school with a total population of 1,000 and would later step into an enormous human ant bed crawling with 4,600 students.)

They tend to withdraw into gated communities, with private security guards and «enclaves of good schools, excellent health care, and first - rate infrastructures — all the while scoffing at almost all functions of government, thus cutting off the supply of taxes for most public undertakings — leaving much of the rest of the population behind.»

With one in three children now leaving primary school classed as obese (Public Health England), it's no surprise that the UK government is taking action.

-LSB-...] No Child Left Behind, public school lunch periods are shorter than ever, with some children getting as little as fifteen minutes to scarf down their entire -LSB-...]

Though they differ a bit in the years during which they require a child to be schooled — children may be required to start school at age 5 — 8 and not allowed to leave until age 16 — 18 — they all require public schooling or acceptable substitutes (for example, private school, homeschooling), with criteria set by the state for how this works.

Her public school internship had left her with the question of whether there was a form of education which would better meet the needs of children.

To qualify for leave under the FMLA, an employee must have worked for over 12 months for the state or federal government, a public school or private employer with more than 50 employees.

I also considered the fact that higher - risk foods like carrot sticks, hot dogs and grapes are commonly found in kids» lunches, and that, thanks to No Child Left Behind, public school lunch periods are shorter than ever, with some children getting as little as fifteen minutes to scarf down their entire meal.

Volunteer Margarita Roman, left, dispenses oranges to a parent at Calmeca Academy during the Brighton Park school's weekly «Healthy Kids Market,» a food pantry run by the Greater Chicago Food Depository in conjunction with Chicago Public Schools.

Four years later, Tough — now the proud parent of a public school first - grader — is back with a new book that picks up where its predecessor left off.

You take Dem votes, fool them with a light skim of progressivism, then let»em be screwed in their apartments and in their public schools, which matter more to them than a paid family leave program they're actually paying for.

When a student leaves a public school and enrolls at a for profit school all the money goes with that student.

«One year ago, with the promise of Education Tax Credits on the horizon, thousands of tuition - paying families were left out in the cold — excluded from a state budget that provides the nation's highest level of spending per pupil in public schools,» he said.

The No Child Left Behind Act previously required all public schools receiving Title I funding to administer statewide standardized testing with the stipulation that students make «adequate yearly progress.»

But it's precisely because we on the centre left believe that active government along with good schools, hospitals and other public services can transform lives, and make our country fairer and more prosperous, that we must ensure we pass the test of fiscal credibility.

Teacher and petitioner Emily James, United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew, and Brooklyn City Councilman Mark Treyger talk with In Focus Host Cheryl Wills about the efforts to get the city to provide paid family leave for city public school teachers.

Teacher and petitioner Emily James, United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew, and Brooklyn City Councilman Mark Treyger talk with In Focus Host Cheryl Wills about the problems public school teachers face because they do not receive paid family leave.

United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew sits down with In Focus Host Cheryl Wills to talk about the city's public school teachers not having paid family leave.

In the teeth of the worst recession in decades, more than one - third of the over 6,800 teachers hired in 2006 - 2007 left New York City public schools of their own accord, largely because of the DOE's mismanagement and its obsession with test prep rather than real education.

The new version would leave the state with the same result as did its predecessor: Charter school students would find themselves in classes taught by teachers whose training was far less rigorous than that demanded of regular public school teachers.

The sophomore lawmaker also broke with the president on arming teachers — «I don't support the mandatory arming of teachers,» she said — but left the door open to supporting armed resource officers at North Country public schools.

The days filled up with school visits, speeches, reports, and meetings with parents, farmers, and workers — an exhausting commitment to public service that left little time for his parents, with whom he shared a house.

«This is important to the public because impulsive behavior in adolescents is associated with many mental health problems and, when left unchecked, can result in violent acts, such as those resulting in tragedies recently observed on school campuses.

'' You could literally walk into entire villages that would be permeated with the smell of death just because of the extent of the destruction,» says David Bradt (pictured left), a disaster epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, recalling his visit to Gujarat, India, where in 2001 an earthquake killed thousands.

March 29, 2012 • Workers walked off the job in Spain on Thursday, halting public transport, closing schools and leaving hospitals with emergency staff only.

The more the public learns about the No Child Left Behind Act, the less it agrees with the annual testing requirements and other strategies used to implement it, an annual opinion survey on public schools suggests.

The court voted 5 - 2 to end the Opportunity Scholarships program, which provides students who decide to leave some of the state's lowest - rated public schools with about $ 4,350 in tuition aid they can use in private or religious schools.

These self - marginalizing alliances leave a numerical majority of American parents, who like their traditional neighborhood public schools (and who've had it with high - stakes testing) or who don't identify as political progressives, regarding reform with either indifference or as a threat.

CORE and its member districts have partnered with TransformEd to assist member districts to fulfill public reporting obligations under its federally - approved waiver from No Child Left Behind school accountability provisions (NCLB waiver), approved by the US Department of Education (USDOE) on August 6th, 2013.

Recipients are selected by lottery, with priority given to students applying to the program from public schools deemed in need of improvement (SINI) under No Child Left Behind.

«In the K - 12 public arena, school districts are expected to respond to mandates flowing from the No Child Left Behind legislation at the federal level, along with various state and local assessments,» he says.

Public school districts are thus left better off both academically and with respect to per - pupil funding.

For years, reformers of left and right have dueled over whether the best way to shake up poorly performing public schools is to provide parents with the opportunity to switch to private schools (through vouchers) or to allow parents to move their children to better public schools (through public school choice).

The best I could come up with at the end of last semester for my students, whom I absolutely adored, was that I felt like a bit less of a sellout for having left teaching in the Boston Public Schools in favor of the indulgences of Appian Way.

At the core lay a financial arrangement, with D.C. Public Schools paying the New Leaders» salaries during training and NLNS covering the program costs, leaving Davis to raise a $ 1.5 million annual operating budget.

Since leaving public service, Dr. Hovanetz has worked with a number of states on their accountability systems, and has established herself as one of the nation's leading experts on school rating systems.