Sentences with phrase «local public school because»

James V. Shuls, a blogger on education topics, pulled his son, a first grader, out of the local public school because of its interpretation of practice commensurate with the Common Core.

After hearing a brief description of the Common Core, criticized by some conservatives as a federal takeover of local public schools because the Obama administration is pushing for the change, 69 percent of California residents interviewed said they supported the standards, Baldassare said in a news release.

Not exact matches

Whether it is Lutheran social service agencies in the Midwest or Presbyterian parochial schools in New Mexico (founded because the Catholics so dominated the territory's few public schools) or Jewish philanthropies in New York or the ubiquitous Catholic hospitals and Protestant colleges throughout the land, religions have provided much of the social (and financial) capital for building local communities.

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.

Because our public school systems are local, one might assume that parents who want to school would take up their desire to homeschool with the same local organizations.

«Sometimes, some of these issues take a lot longer to negotiate and compromise with, and you shouldn't be holding up funding for our schools, and funding for our roads, and funding for local governments to keep property taxes down, because of some of these major, broader public policy issues that should be kept out of the budget.»

Many people believe education is best run at the local level because school boards and school officials better serve the public when they are able to be held accountable by the local community they serve; when the decision - makers have local roots, many believe they do a better job than a monolithic federal bureaucracy hundreds or thousands of miles away.

Her position is cheered by her liberal base — which plays an important role in a Democratic primary — because it has long sought more state and local funding for public schools and for progressive state programs.

«While offering free college tuition to low - income families is laudable, the reality is that many students» paths to college are limited because their local K - 12 public schools lack the resources to support them,» said Jasmine Gripper, Legislative and Policy Director of the Alliance for Quality Education in a statement.

Its School Construction Authority is the rare local entity that has soup - to - nuts responsibility for financing, building, and overseeing public schools, largely because it is now controlled directly by the mayor.

We found a lot of concern among government actors about unregulated, possibly ideologically motivated, schools operating under the radar, while local communities found these schools more open and accessible because they were close and taught lessons in Arabic, rather than in English and French, which are used in public Lebanese schools.

At the state and local level, these programs tend to be money savers because the average scholarship amount students receive is often considerably less than what is spent on them in total state and local spending in 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).

These parents made this decision primarily because of the schools» reputation for effective discipline, and in reaction to the observable disorder of their local public schools.

The chief complaint Duvall said he hears from school public relations directors is dealing with television reporters, who often have no background about the district and incomplete information, because most local stations don't have education reporters.

These teachers are presumably just as middle class, public spirited, and committed to education as other teachers are; but because they don't work in the district where they live, they do not have an occupational stake in their local school - board elections.

Though I am primarily a food critic, I have written a book about the traditions of American cooking (which included a chapter on school lunches) and can tell you that hot lunches in public schools were originally produced, with a few exceptions, early in the 20th century by local charities because immigrant children were coming to school hungry.

Maybe all urban public schools — perhaps even all schools — deserve a greater degree of deference because of characteristics associated with their «local - ness.»

When parents send their children somewhere other than the local public school, it's not because they believe that the private market is the best way to deliver education or that their child will benefit from a longer bus ride.

Still, she said she was shocked when the principal called a few days later to say Lucas could not enroll because staff had determined that he wasn't academically or developmentally ready for third - grade - even though he was enrolled in the third grade at his local public school, where he remains.

In public education, by contrast, local decisionmakers have few or no incentives to make good use of data in assessing their employees because public schools face no meaningful competition.

And school district administrators frequently oppose charter schools because the charter schools use public dollars but operate independently and out of the direct control of the local school board.

In a blog post, he contended that I - 1240 would be vulnerable to a constitutional challenge because it directed money from the «common school fund» to public charter schools outside the control of the local school board.

The large spending gap exists primarily because of the variation in property wealth across the state, which in large part determines how much local revenue can be generated to support public schools.

Tanner Jesso, Fifth - Grade Teacher ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS, FLORIDA «I quickly became active within my teacher's union because of its purpose as a crucial vehicle for education rights,» says Tanner Jesso, a third - year teacher and member of the Orange County Classroom Teachers Association, where he was recently named chair of Florida's Young Remarkable Educators (FYRE), a branch the local Association.

EAST LANSING, Mich. — The new head of the Michigan Education Association says the union became involved in a recall effort against a sitting legislator because voters are frustrated with public school funding and taxes, while a teacher and former local union president says teachers are frustrated with union spending on recalls, according to separate media reports.

And he walks because childhood matters, because children come first and we have to tell our nation's leaders that our children, their teachers and local public schools are more than test scores.

The court concluded that charter schools are not true public schools because they are «devoid of local control from their inception to their daily operation.»

The local school board fought them tooth and nail because the charters, of course, would receive school tax money based on how many students they «siphoned off» from the public school system.

For example, I read about a district in San Diego that was losing $ 65.9 M per year to charter schools because the kids are signing up and attending local charter public schools.

What the CT SDE and charter school lobbyists are not explicitly telling you in these claims is that charter schools often serve a relatively more advantaged group of Black and Latinx children compared to the local public schools where they are located and these children are likely to do relatively better on standardized tests because standardized tests favor more advantaged groups of people.

The Aurora Public Schools Board of locally elected officials voted to close HOPE Online campuses because of their chronically low performance, and the State Board overruled the local board's decision.

We have ASD because it was part of our RTTT application commitments and because it is what the progressives want in order to privatize education, destroy traditional public schools, destroy traditional public school teachers, eliminate elected school boards, destroy the voice of parents and local control.

«Today's signing of the Every Student Succeeds Act is a historic milestone for our nation's 90,000 local school board members because it underscores the importance of local governance and community ownership in public education,» stated Thomas J. Gentzel, Executive Director of the National School Boards Associschool board members because it underscores the importance of local governance and community ownership in public education,» stated Thomas J. Gentzel, Executive Director of the National School Boards AssociSchool Boards Association.

Charter schools have become a very popular instrument for reforming public schools, because they expand choices, facilitate local innovation, and provide incentives for the regular public schools

Because we work with public schools, the local school district must approve sites before the partnership begins.

A 13 - year veteran teacher from an underperforming public school in Oakland, where The Teaching Well is attempting to reverse the local 70 % turnover rate highlights a standard teacher response to norms: ``... [Leadership is] just pushing too much at once... I can't get anything done because [they're] pushing for this thing to start and this thing to start and this thing to start.

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.

Talbot said the measure ultimately will save the state money, because the voucher amounts will be less than what state and local government now spends on a child in public schools.

Under rules for traditional public schools, it would be difficult for a businessman like Jackson native Jim Barksdale, a former executive at FedEx and Netscape, to teach a business or computer science course at a local high school because he lacks state certification.

Currently that is something only local school boards can do, and the result has been that many worthy proposals have repeatedly been turned down because local boards see them as competing with the public schools rather than complementing them.

Tennessee has gained a substantial measure of reform success because of local and statewide public and policymaker awareness of the objectively measured increases in student achievement produced by local schools.

«North Carolina's wealthiest counties are able to invest much more in their local schools because they have a much higher property value base to generate revenue,» said Public School Forum President and Executive Director Keith Poston.

Carr also explained that local school districts aggressively engage in competitive grant programs because in a time of austerity, it's imperative they find other revenue streams to support the needs of their traditional public schools.

This large gap exists primarily because of the variation in property wealth across the state, which in large part determines how much local revenue can be generated to support public schools.

Public school advocates are concerned that states, cities, and counties will find it more difficult to fund school districts because state and local taxes will no longer be fully deductible.

Because they are public schools they are funded by local, state and federal tax dollars.

And while conflict is in many ways inevitable — because school districts often oversee the biggest local public budget, are significant purchasers of goods and services, and can set property (or parcel) taxes — it can be paralyzing nonetheless.

The Baltimore City school administrators who never raised a cent on their own and could never claim «I built that» even if it came to a teachers» lounge, recently wasted over $ 500,000 in public funds (that's taxpayer money) on expensive local hotel suites, lavish dinners and even wings at Hooters for students «because that was what they wanted,» and The Sun was so outraged by their indefensible waste of taxpayer money that it was called a «distraction» in an editorial.

It says that in the past five years, 56 charter schools in South Florida have closed because of mismanagement and / or other issues, and that «a handful» of them «owe a total of at least $ 1 million in public education money to local school districts» but because districts have a hard time documenting spending, the amount could be much higher.