Sentences with phrase «local public high schools»

One of our local public high schools.

Many will look for alternatives to their local public high schools, and private schools may be among their choices.

These students, and others from 14 local public high schools, were competing in Cooking Up Change, a healthy cooking contest in which teams were challenged to create nutritious school lunches on a tight budget — $ 1 per meal — and limited ingredients and prep work.

She used to teach in a local public high school but now devotes her time to the CMA and homeschooling her own four children — three girls and a boy under the age of eleven.

He's now a junior - at the local public high school.

I'm also a mother of two - one in college, who graduated from a public high school, and another just starting at our local public high school.

I was 15 - years old and rode a Honda Spree moped to the local public high school where I got an education on how to pilot an automobile.

Not exact matches

He attended a local Catholic high school and a big public college, the University of Massachusetts.

He worked with local businesses, citizens, government, realtors, and non-profits to revitalize southeast Charlotte, including the major public art project near East Mecklenburg High School, the Embrace sculpture.

Although the issue of homeschool student participation in public high school sports isn't exactly a pressing national concern, it hits pretty close to home in our family — both our kids are competitive club - level swimmers who could contribute to the success of our local high....

I arrogantly declined to attend the local high school and college games; and with eyes narrowed and brows aloft I flipped from the Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday TV battles to the public broadcasting channel for a film by Ingmar Bergman or a lecture from Chicago on recent trends in Bulgarian poetry.

She hoped to learn about how top students view their high school experience, and spent a year shadowing five high - achieving students at a top public high school (local, but unnamed).

Participating local schools include Castilleja, Menlo - Atherton, Mountain View, Los Altos and St. Francis high schools, as well as Palo Alto public schools Pope could not name because they had not signed publicity releases.

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.

Tentative deals have been reached on parts of a new state budget, including about $ 1 billion in additional funding for public schools, a work - around for some higher - income New Yorkers to reduce the impact of new federal tax deduction limits, and a freeze on what Albany sends to local governments around the state.

Q) What ever happened to the Merit and Fitness Civil Service System where aspiring Public Information Officers competed for the job in a local high school with a number 2 pencil and a calculator for a PS&T (PEF represented) Grade 18 and / or 23 permanent (non-political) position against a room full of highly qualified competitors?

Libraries Are Highly Valued Nearly half the public gave libraries an «A» - higher than public schools, the police and the local news media.

Currently employed by a local certified public accountant (whom she did not name), she is business manager for John A. Coleman Catholic High School and is secretary to the Spring Lake Fire Department.

Moreover, passage in December of a federal tax bill reducing deductions for state and local taxes has many experts warning of a probable rise in public resistance to higher school taxes.

Educate and train the public on how to recognize cardiac arrest, contact emergency responders, administer CPR, and use AEDs, as well as facilitate state and local education departments to include CPR and AED training as middle - and high - school graduation requirements.

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health - led research also suggests that employing local community health educators instead of more formally educated nurses to counsel young at - risk mothers could be cost effective and provide badly needed jobs to high school graduates from the same impoverished communSchool of Public Health - led research also suggests that employing local community health educators instead of more formally educated nurses to counsel young at - risk mothers could be cost effective and provide badly needed jobs to high school graduates from the same impoverished communschool graduates from the same impoverished communities.

This program for high school students underrepresented in STEM is implemented by the Space Telescope Science Institute's Office of Public Outreach in partnership with select local schools.

«Our findings present a need for broadening local food opportunities beyond the privileged, higher - income consumer, through alternative payment plans and strategic efforts that make fresh foods accessible to a diversity of people,» said James Farmer, assistant professor in the Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Studies in the IU School of Public Health - Bloomington.

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.

And in a number of other states, voters approved education - related ballot items, suggesting a high level of local support for public schools.

Florida's virtual school, university - run laboratory schools, schools for juvenile offenders, a school for «high risk» boys including sex offenders, and the state school for the deaf and blind would all count as «parallel» public schools uncontrolled by local boards.

Americans assign far higher grades to the public schools in their local community than to the public schools of the nation as a whole.

«The public generally has a fairly high opinion of its local schools,» Peterson said.

The percentage giving their local schools an «A» or «B» grade has risen 12 percentage points since 2007, when 43 % of the public awarded one of the two high grades.

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.

In today's low - return environment, the pension promises being made to state and local employees in general, and public school teachers in particular, have become very expensive and difficult to maintain largely because the largesse of the pension plans assumes long run returns on the order of 7.5 percent (or higher).

After the report appeared, stimulating a variety of reform efforts, public evaluations of their local schools climbed steadily to an all - time high of 51 % in 2000, just prior to the national debate over the passage of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, which held schools accountable for low performance.

In the decade prior to the 1983 release of «A Nation at Risk,» the landmark report by the National Commission on Excellence in Education, the percentage of the public giving local schools one of the two highest grades in the Phi Delta Kappan (PDK) poll had fallen from nearly 50 % to just above 30 %.

Academia has a set of standards that you move up based on the number of articles that you get published in the highest ranked publications, which cater to an exclusive audience of other academics that doesn't include the general public, community educators, and the people on the ground at local schools.»

However, as in the past, the public's assessment of the local schools is far higher.

Whatever the interpretation, the far higher ratings the public assigned to its local schools is a legitimate puzzle.

Excluding respondents who did not answer, only 45 percent of respondents gave an «A» or a «B» to their local public school compared with 78 percent who gave the highest two marks to their local private schools.

State and local funding for higher education has declined to $ 7,152 per student enrolled in a public two - or four - year school in 2015, down from $ 9,489 per student enrolled in 1987.

Similar to Prior Lake in both size and demographics, Bamberger's Pennsbury seems a throwback to a time when working folk led prosperous lives and built thriving communities around local institutions like the public high school.

Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) had traditionally been a target for reform efforts thanks to a history of low - performing schools, a seemingly insurmountable achievement gap between student groups, and a relatively high proportion of state funding relative to locSchools (MPS) had traditionally been a target for reform efforts thanks to a history of low - performing schools, a seemingly insurmountable achievement gap between student groups, and a relatively high proportion of state funding relative to locschools, a seemingly insurmountable achievement gap between student groups, and a relatively high proportion of state funding relative to local aid.

Over 60 percent of respondents give the post offices and police force in their local community an A or a B, and only 10 percent give them a D or an F. Even teachers assign the local post office and police force higher marks than local public schools (see Figure 2).

Quality Counts 2012, the 16th edition of Education Week's annual examination of issues and challenges facing America's public schools, takes aim at topics high on the policy agenda, from the White House and Congress down to the level of local school boards and chambers of commerce: the nation's international standing in education, and lessons to be drawn from high - performing countries.

Washington — The Environmental Protection Agency, by failing to place a high priority on the problem of asbestos in schools, is to blame for the low level of public awareness of the hazards of the substance and the consequent failure of many local school officials to act promptly upon identifying problems, an agency management team has concluded.

Forty percent of the public give the public schools in their community an A or a B, while a quarter give them a D or an F. African Americans assign lower marks: only a quarter give their local public schools an A or a B, while a third give them a D or an F. Public school teachers, meanwhile, offer the highest assessments of their local public schools: fully 61 percent give local schools an A or a B, while only 16 percent assign them a D or an F (public give the public schools in their community an A or a B, while a quarter give them a D or an F. African Americans assign lower marks: only a quarter give their local public schools an A or a B, while a third give them a D or an F. Public school teachers, meanwhile, offer the highest assessments of their local public schools: fully 61 percent give local schools an A or a B, while only 16 percent assign them a D or an F (public schools in their community an A or a B, while a quarter give them a D or an F. African Americans assign lower marks: only a quarter give their local public schools an A or a B, while a third give them a D or an F. Public school teachers, meanwhile, offer the highest assessments of their local public schools: fully 61 percent give local schools an A or a B, while only 16 percent assign them a D or an F (public schools an A or a B, while a third give them a D or an F. Public school teachers, meanwhile, offer the highest assessments of their local public schools: fully 61 percent give local schools an A or a B, while only 16 percent assign them a D or an F (Public school teachers, meanwhile, offer the highest assessments of their local public schools: fully 61 percent give local schools an A or a B, while only 16 percent assign them a D or an F (public schools: fully 61 percent give local schools an A or a B, while only 16 percent assign them a D or an F (Q. 2).

Support for keeping decision - making power local — a common feature of public attitudes — is higher among public school parents than nonparents (53 % vs. 47 %).

High - quality charter schools like these are the norm, giving families access to local, public, and effective educational options in communities where traditional district schools aren't meeting the needs of students.

In statistical modeling, public school parents who give higher grades to local schools are less likely to send a child to a nonpublic school when only half - tuition coverage is provided.

Thus, taking travel distance and local neighborhood demographics into account, a public school of choice that over represents white middle - class students based on the results of unconstrained lotteries might, instead, dispense offers of admission based on lotteries in which students from low - income families or families from neighborhoods in which blacks predominate have higher odds of selection.

A core group, consisting of a nurse, teacher, administrator, parent, nutritionist, and food service and district public relations employees coordinated contests, high school and community ambassadors programs, a milk and cookie break activity, posters, and publicity in the school and local media.

Copyright 1988 Editorial With an annual salary of $ 150,000, Schools Chancellor Richard R. Green of New York City is not only the nation's highest - paid public - school administrator but earns more than any other state or local public official in the country, according to a national survey.