Sentences with phrase «local public and private schools»

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Located in Santa Cruz, California, Spring Hill is an independent private school serving preschool through sixth grade students and sending graduates to top national and local public and private schools.

The Riekes program, nearly two decades old, is today affiliated with a number of local public and private schools that use the center's resources, and its philosophy, to expand their own PE classes.

My son starts high school next year and we've recently spent some time touring local public and private schools to find the best fit for him.

Not exact matches

You work for the federal government, a state or local government, a public or private elementary or secondary school, or any company that has 50 or more employees working 20 or more workweeks in the current or preceding calendar year and residing within 75 miles of your workplace.

I have three friends who withdrew from our local public elementaries this year and sent their kids to private schools.

Michael Gove, Sir Michael Wilshaw (head of Ofsted), the Department of Health, Public Health England, Jamie Oliver, charitable organisations and representatives from all the major school food providers — from private industry to local authority caterers — have agreed to do their bit to increase take - up and create a truly first class school food service.

Most public schools, and some private schools and local resources, participate in the National campaign but homeschools do not often consider Red Ribbon Week as part of their homeschool curriculum or activities.

Without exception, women should be able to breastfeed their babies in any and all public and private spaces, at work, in the park, the supermarket, on the subway, at school, in restaurants, on airplanes, and by the local swimming pool.

«Tioga Downs» expansion will foster hundreds of new jobs and spur much - needed economic development in the Southern Tier, plus generate millions of dollars for public schools and local governments — with all private money and zero taxpayer dollars,» Commission Executive Director Robert Williams said in a statement.

Cuomo and Senate Republicans have been aligned on a number of key issues, including keeping a cap on local property tax increases permanent, as well as a tax credit for donations to public schools and private school scholarship programs.

(2) to supplement and complement the efforts of States, the local school systems and other instrumentalities of the States, the private sector, public and private educational institutions, public and private nonprofit educational research institutions, community - based organizations, parents, and students to im - prove the quality of education;

New York State taxpayers should not be subsidizing private school transportation that is excessive and that financially benefits the private school investors, trustees, and parents who have chosen these as alternative to their local public school.

Hawkins» told local supporters that his platform includes guaranteeing jobs for all — be they private or public sector — a $ 15 per hour minimum wage, universal healthcare, fully funded public schools, eliminating the Common Core education standards and providing 100 percent clean energy by 2030.

Students were from local public, private, charter and MESA program schools, and as described by CSNE Co-director of Education at SDSU, Sweta Sarkar, these students were motivated, sharp and eager to learn.

They give a higher evaluation to private schools than to public ones in their local community, but opposition to market - oriented school - reform proposals such as performance pay for teachers and school vouchers seems to be on the rise.

Just 5 percent give private schools a «D» or an «F,» as compared to 16 percent giving one of those low grades to local public schools and 23 percent giving those grades to the nation's schools.

Similarly, in North Carolina, local «More at Four Committees» choose providers of state - funded pre-K to at - risk children, according to the state's eligibility guidelines, from among public schools, Head Start programs, community groups, and private providers.

The sun is shining on public schools throughout the United States thanks to federal, state, and local government funding and incentives and private assistance for installing solar - power systems.

PASA has taken on this role, acting as the liaison between the public and private sectors (for example, between the school system, the parks, and local business providers).

Interpretation: Although the scale on which parents are asked to grade schools are different in the two surveys, results are broadly similar in that local schools get a substantially higher rating than the nation's schools and private schools get a substantially higher rating than public schools.

A national coalition of peace activists — whose affiliates are already challenging local school policies - has set out to forge a comprehensive, and apparently unprecedented, effort to eliminate the influence of the U.S. military on public and private schools.

And still another asks them to compare the academic performance of the local public schools to private schools.

If the skeptics are right, Wood writes, Common Core «will damage the quality of K — 12 education for many students; strip parents and local communities of meaningful influence over school curricula; centralize a great deal of power in the hands of federal bureaucrats and private interests; push for the aggregation and use of large amounts of personal data on students without the consent of parents; usher in an era of even more abundant and more intrusive standardized testing; and absorb enormous sums of public funding that could be spent to better effect on other aspects of education.»

In addition, public funds went to local private schools in the form of land grants and taxes from local residents.

The product of a collaboration involving the local school system, a federal agency, a professional association, and private foundations and universities, the pilot effort is designed to both encourage young people to stay in school and gently nudge them toward careers in public service.

Though no one at the school was willing to say that Whitefield youth are perfect, there seemed to be a general agreement that, as biology teacher Christopher McDonald puts it, «You would find a much lower incidence of drug use and sexual promiscuity here» than at other local private and public schools.

Opponents of scholarship tax credit programs argue that private schools are not as accountable to state and local education achievement standards as public schools.

After graduating law school, Ms. Smeltzer worked in private practice representing local school districts and other public entities.

Public schools depend mainly on local, state, and federal funds, and private schools usually gain support mainly from tuition, with some funds coming from other nonpublic sources such as religious organizations, endowments, grants, and charitable donations.

expand the state's school voucher program, draining money from underfunded public schools for private and religious schools that are not accountable to taxpayers and exempt from state and local education standards.

In fact, Brookings Institution released an article stating that recent research on voucher programs in Indiana and Louisiana found that those students who took advantage of vouchers to attend private school, rather than their local public schools, received lower scores than their public school peers.

The trend of increasing racial and economic segregation is a nationwide trend — not just in Alabama and other Southern states.55 The South, however, was the only region in the country to see a net increase in private school enrollment between 1960 and 2000, and where private school enrollment is higher, support for spending in public schools tends to be lower.56 A growing body of rigorous research shows that money absolutely matters for public schools, especially for the students from low - income families who attend them.57 What's more, private schools in the South tend to have the largest overrepresentation of white students.58 In fact, research has shown that the strongest predictor of white private school enrollment is the proportion of black students in the local public schools.59

School systems — public and private - should continue to make allocation decisions based on their superior local knowledge and administrative capacity, but should be guided by the new model and be fully transparent and accountable.

President Trump is violating his pledge to respect state and local control of education by proposing to shift funds from regular public schools to charter schools and private schools.

Together with our local school districts, public school academies and private schools, we are preparing our students to successfully live in the new global economy and preparing our children for a time we can not know.

During the reauthorization process, there was a collective effort by NSBA and local school board members to advocate before Members of Congress for a modernized education law that underscores the importance of local governance, protects federal investments in Title I grants for disadvantaged students, and prevents the diversion of public tax dollars for private use.

Under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as amended, local educational agencies (LEAs) are required to provide services for eligible private school students as well as eligible public school students.

Private schools do not report to any public boards - there is no public oversight and private schools are not required to follow the rules and regulations of local school disPrivate schools do not report to any public boards - there is no public oversight and private schools are not required to follow the rules and regulations of local school disprivate schools are not required to follow the rules and regulations of local school districts.

They have announced the launch of a Small Schools Pilot, with the help of Annabel Karmel, The Local Authority Catering Association and an alliance of other public and private sector bodies, which will aim to develop a scalable a model that:

As we document in Public Impact's new report for the Charter School Growth Fund, Growing a High - Quality Charter Sector: Lessons from Tennessee, the state benefitted from the convergence of favorable policy conditions, political leadership, public - private grants, and an existing supply of local high - quality charter operPublic Impact's new report for the Charter School Growth Fund, Growing a High - Quality Charter Sector: Lessons from Tennessee, the state benefitted from the convergence of favorable policy conditions, political leadership, public - private grants, and an existing supply of local high - quality charter operpublic - private grants, and an existing supply of local high - quality charter operators.

It sure is, say local opt - out activists, who oppose so - called school reform measures — including high - stakes tests used to evaluate teachers — that they say are designed to foster private alternatives and ultimately dismantle public education.

«Given the massive amount of money funneled from the pro-school privatization lobby to Republican legislators, l am afraid that we will see yet another effort to decimate our local public schools and allow unaccountable private voucher schools to play by a substandard set of rules.»

In Washington, each charter school would be managed by a private nonprofit organization and overseen by a public sponsor, often the local school district.

The complaint says the law violates the state's constitution by «improperly diverting public school funds to private nonprofit groups» not subject to local voter control and creates another roadblock to funding basic education.

National IPA - Cooperative Purchasing for Public Schools, Private Schools, Charter Schools, Higher Education, Local Governement, County Government, State Government, and Non-Profits

Not having gifted education in a school district also often results in parents of gifted children removing them from those schools for other options: local public schools of choice, charter schools, magnet schools, private schools, parochial schools, and home schooling.

Existing local schools, private individuals, private organizations, and state and local public entities may organize a charter public school subject to a performance - based contract approved by both the state and local boards of education or by the state board of education alone.

Senate Bill 193 would allow parents to use 90 percent of the per - pupil grant the state gives to local public schools and instead put it toward alternative educational expenses, including private school tuition or homeschooling.

In order to improve rural schools, authors recommend federal policymakers stop promoting private school vouchers as a way to expand educational opportunities in rural areas, and to instead boost educational opportunities in local public schools by increasing efforts to modernize rural classrooms and integrate technology into teaching and learning.