Sentences with phrase «less about public schools»

They usually know considerably less about public schools than state legislators, who are at least in touch with their local constituents and who sometimes start their political careers on a local school board.

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An advocate for a local teachers union also expressed concern to the New York Times Magazine about the quality of the education, arguing Bridge focuses less on getting poor students to the baseline as enticing public school students to switch to Bridge schools.

Stevens offered not a word of concern about whether religious students might feel themselves to be less than full members of the political community if, by order of the nation's highest court, their messages and only their messages are categorically excluded from the school's public arena.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

Even people with less than a high school education today recognize the priority of the brain over the blood, so much so in fact, that in the movie, Hannibal (about a cannibalistic serial killer), the thought of slicing out tiny parts of a person's brain, cooking them in a pan, and serving the pieces to that person to eat has become in the public's mind a more disturbing image than, say, serving a person a glass of their own blood to drink, which appears relatively tame in comparison.

One of the most impressive things about Prince George's Public Schools» breakfast - in - the - classroom program is that it's managed to survive not one, not two, but three administrative changes in less than ten years, as well as quite a bit of principal turnover.

We should all be less concerned about supermarket shoppers being misled (though that's a real problem) and far more worried about the 32 million public school children participating in the National School Lunch Program and the 12 million in the School Breakfast Program, all of whom are offered milk — usually including a flavored milk option — each and every school day, sometimes multiple times school children participating in the National School Lunch Program and the 12 million in the School Breakfast Program, all of whom are offered milk — usually including a flavored milk option — each and every school day, sometimes multiple times School Lunch Program and the 12 million in the School Breakfast Program, all of whom are offered milk — usually including a flavored milk option — each and every school day, sometimes multiple times School Breakfast Program, all of whom are offered milk — usually including a flavored milk option — each and every school day, sometimes multiple times school day, sometimes multiple times a day.

However, the public are generally pessimistic about its ability to deliver in other areas — less than half have confidence in its ability to improve the NHS (32 %) and schools (32 %), cut crime (33 %) or immigration (39 %) and to protect the country against terrorism (42 %).

In 2011, the Harvard School of Public Health reported that in a 22 - year study of nearly 48,000 men, those drinking six or more cups daily were about 60 percent less likely to die from prostate cancer.

At the same time, the findings from the study, by the Geiger Gibson / RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, show that health centers working in restrictive states are hampered in their outreach and enrollment efforts and are significantly less optimistic about the impact of health reform in their communities.

For example, the Harvard School of Public Health talks about obtaining calcium from mainly beans and greens, and to limit milk and dairy products for various reason, including increase prostate cancer and to a lesser extent, ovarian cancer risk.

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.

Close to three - fourths of the public say their local schools are doing well at attending to the needs of more - talented students, but that percentage plummets to just 45 percent when asked about the effectiveness of local schools at meeting the needs of the less - talented (Fig. 3).

However, this represents less than 1 percent of the bond package, when charter schools account for 4.5 percent of California's public schools and serve about 2.5 percent of the state's K - 12 public school students.

Paul E. Peterson speaks with Patrick Wolf of the University of Arkansas about his study finding that students in Milwaukee who received vouchers to attend private schools were 2 - 5 percentage points less likely to be accused or convicted of crimes than comparable students who attended public schools.

But despite all the anecdotes about teachers being lured away from public schools to lucrative private - sector work, the available evidence shows that, if anything, teachers earn less when they leave teaching for another job.

The findings, available here, also reveal that poor, minority and less educated citizens are just as informed about school quality as the public as a whole.

Either estimate is nonetheless a good deal closer to, and a good deal less optimistic about, the truth than the wildly inaccurate estimates that the public offered about teacher salaries and school expenditures.

Base salaries in the St. Louis Archdiocese's elementary parochial schools are about 45 percent less than in their public school counterparts.

That amounts to $ 6,439 per student this year, or about $ 2,000 less, on average, than at other Nevada public schools, which receive money from federal poverty and special - education programs.

«There's a disparity in the number of schools that offer breakfast, and it's about 20,000 schools less,» says Jean Daniel, public affairs director for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service.

If the new information surprises respondents by indicating the district is doing less well than previously thought, the public, upon learning the truth of the matter, is likely to 1) lower its evaluation of local schools; 2) become more supportive of educational alternatives for families; 3) alter thinking about current policies affecting teacher compensation and retention; and 4) reassess its thinking about school and student accountability policies.

Taken as a whole, information about local school rankings has a less substantial impact on public thinking about teacher policy than it has on thinking about school choice policies.

Charters nationally are producing student achievement gains that are very similar to the levels in traditional public schools but receive about 30 percent less money per pupil.

Students who used their vouchers to switch from public to private schools were more likely to score less well in math, and were about the same in reading.

The challenge is expanding the students» excitement about native studies to all subjects while fighting the perception that the curriculum is less rigorous than in other public schools.

The public school population had fallen from about 100,000 to less than 50,000.

About half the city's public schools are led by someone with less than three...

But Mr. Goodling, a former public school teacher and administrator, was less sanguine about other aspects of the...

A group as large as teachers (there are about 3.1 million public school teachers) will include some who are more effective and some who are less effective, and ample evidence exists that teachers differ in their effectiveness.

GCI also found that charter schools paid teachers on average 20 % less than public school districts while paying administrators significantly more (about 50 % greater than their counterparts in similar - sized public school districts).

In fact, charter high schools serve about 17 % less children from poverty [eligible for FREE lunch] than do many of the public high schools from which charters take students.

Public charter school students already receive about $ 4,000 less in public funding than other public school stuPublic charter school students already receive about $ 4,000 less in public funding than other public school stupublic funding than other public school stupublic school students.

Not the back - to - school jitters kind of worried; she has deep - seated concerns about the challenges she will face this year as educators grapple with a public school budget that spends $ 500 million less than what was spent in 2008.

This is less about the Minneapolis Public Schools than it is about fueling the expansion of charter schools in the Twin Schools than it is about fueling the expansion of charter schools in the Twin schools in the Twin Cities.

This year's survey sought to learn more about last year's discovery of a desire among the American public for schools to focus less on honors classes and more on career and technical education.

(Less than 2 percent of students in voucher schools are identified as receiving special education services, compared to about almost 20 percent in the Milwaukee Public Scschools are identified as receiving special education services, compared to about almost 20 percent in the Milwaukee Public SchoolsSchools.)

It's not easy to do so much with about $ 1,000 less per student funding than traditional public schools, but Texas charters continue to amaze and impress.

In California, the study found that charters overall did about the same as regular public schools, with reading gains more or less balanced by the math deficit.

Cami Anderson, former superintendent of Newark public schools, talked about the way that current discipline policies negatively impact students of color, referencing research that shows that adults view black girls as less innocent than their white counterparts as early as kindergarten.

«There are far too many questions about their track record in other states, combined with how new these schools are to North Carolina, to already be proposing ways to make them less accountable,» Keith Poston, president and executive director of the nonpartisan, Raleigh - based Public School Forum of N.C., told Policy Watch this year.

Norcross told a Rider University audience of about 100 that some private schools educate students successfully for less money than failing public schools.

and all the advantages that go along with being a person whose family can pay for and cares about superior education — the exact kind of family that can help your crappy public school become less crappy.

So the average total per pupil spending in DC area private schools, some of the most elite private schools in the entire nation, is about $ 10,000 less than the comparable figure for DC public schools.

The thought of earmarking nearly $ 1 million for a marketing campaign — and during a budget crisis no less — was antithetical to everything they knew and understood about the virtues of public school spending.

When the pain subsided, I was more convinced than ever that DeVos knows little about public schools and even less about their mission.

Students spend a total of 54 BILLION hours in public schools in every year, and Americans» odds of dying in a mass shooting in any location are about 4 times less than the odds of choking to death on food.

Statewide, charter students receive about 25 % less in funding than other public school students.

When I look at school districts around the country, I see public education becoming more about politics and less about students and families.

The fact that Ferguson - Florissant has managed to retain its state accreditation while St. Louis was rated unaccredited until the 2011 - 2012 school year says less about the district's performance than about the slipshod approach Missouri has taken to overseeing its public education system.