Sentences with phrase «lot more public school»

There are a LOT more public school teachers per child today, so how can districts and states still claim to be facing teacher shortages?»

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Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

In one study of a fundamentalist Protestant academy (Bethany Bible Academy), a Jewish intellectual found the Bethany students more tolerant on issues of race, religion and freedom of speech and less concerned with making a lot of money than their public school peers.

«Schools became our focus because a lot of public schools have a green policy and want to be more sustaSchools became our focus because a lot of public schools have a green policy and want to be more sustaschools have a green policy and want to be more sustainable.

By contrast, public schools athletes and parents seem to be a lot more willing to complain about a coach unlike a coach at a private school.

You may end up putting your child in a worse setting than what you'd find in the public school - and you'd be paying a lot more for it!

Buffalo Public Schools are looking at a budget for next year with a lot more spending than revenue.

A key state senator says that if Mayor de Blasio wants Albany to extend mayoral control over the city's public schools, he's going to have to allow a lot more charter schools in the Big Apple.

Veronica Djiagu explained that, unlike basic education where parents enroll their wards in private schools, a lot of people prefer public second cycle institutions because they find it «more attractive.»

Professor Peter Kraft at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, USA, says: «Given the size of these studies, we expected that we would find a lot of new breast cancer risk variants, but the studies tells us a lot more about which genes are involved, revealing many previously unsuspected genes and genetic mechanisms underlying breast carcinogenesis.

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.

It will take a lot to make public schools more effective for all students: greater academic rigor, higher standards of conduct, more parental involvement, meaningful professional development for teachers, stronger incentives for the students themselves, and, of course, more access to health and social services for the many students who are in need of such.

The result is that good business managers can get a lot more money doing the same job outside of the public school system (see Figure 4).

There's surely a lot that can be learned from trying to uncover the secret formula that makes these high - performing charters do so well, ideas that can then be applied more broadly in public and charter schools alike.

Coleman found that Catholic schools achieve more educational equity than public schools because they follow a rich and demanding curriculum; provide a structured, orderly environment; offer lots of explicit instruction, including drill and practice; and expect every child to reach minimal goals in each subject by the end of the year.

I think there's a lot more credit that needs to be given to public school teachers.

... You're seeing charters more in communities where the district public schools have a lot of work to do to get better.»

But we know a lot more about these innovative public schools since the last failed measure in 2004.

«I think as we're going through these years of Common Core standards, we're going to see a lot more success for kids as they're exiting public school in the 12th grade.»

Since there are some 2 million homeschooled students and nearly 50 million public schooled students, it takes a lot more public than homeschool students to get an equal enrollment increase.

Clemons is not only a founding Board Member of the recently opened New Haven Montessori Charter School and served, up until last year, as a Board Member of one of the Achievement First, Inc. charter schools in New Haven, Clemons's company was given a no - bid contract that was approved and funded by the Connecticut Board of Education, a contract that has already netted Clemons» company more than $ 500,000 with a lot more public funds to come.

Dane County schools may have averted lay - off disaster, but like the rest of America's public schools, there is still a lot of work to be done and even more questions.

«In reference to issues on L.A.'s west side, Zimmer argues, «The parents buying up the houses, who have more resources, have a lot of fear about public schools... and when you give them the opportunity to really engage and create integration and diversity in their neighborhood public schools, they don't want to.»

«I think we have to keep in mind that what (the GOP lawmakers) are essentially proposing, which is more privatization of the Milwaukee Public Schools, has been tried for the last 25 years without a lot of success,» Peterson says.

And when all is said and done, Achievement First, Inc. looks and acts a lot more like a private school than a public school.

As a «regular public school» teacher, I'm a lot better than the KIPP teachers I've observed (and I've observed in more than one KIPP school).

Lots of golfers and corporate types from ConnCAN and RI - CAN are anxious to get more charter schools and to see more public taxpayer money.

The fact is charter schools are not being held accountable in the same way district public schools are and we can be pretty sure that now that one of Achievement First's founders is the Commissioner of Education — we won't be seeing a lot more criticism of Achievement First.

But they also operate with a lot more autonomy than traditional public schools.

In the past, a district serving lots of these students, like Indianapolis Public Schools, got more money than schools that Schools, got more money than schools that schools that didn't.

They're more likely to lead integrated lives as adults,» Frankenberg said; «a lot of these things that are really important outcomes of public schools that we want to help prepare our citizens for a diverse country and a diverse workforce.»

The nine middle schools in Springfield are operated by a public - private partnership in a model that more closely resembles what a lot of charter schools do.

Since I have been adding a lot of posts and comments to the Community lately, I thought it might be nice to tell you a little more about my background and my team's efforts to promote integrated, evidence - based social - emotional learning in Milwaukee Public Schools.

But, I digress... Pete had just tweeted a snarky put down of students protesting budget cuts in the Chicago Public Schools, and I asked him why he was always criticizing teachers and students, and why he never used his bully pulpit to critique any charter school operators — like Steve Ingersoll, who used his charter school as a personal ATM, committing fraud and embezzlement along the way — given that they are doing a lot more damage than teachers and kids.

And with more and more schools instituting Bring Your Own Device initiatives, ereading is gaining a lot of traction in public schools, meaning teachers can incorporate a lot of original content in the process.

Because we homeschooled for the last 5 or 6 years, I've gotten to spend a lot more time with her than I would if she'd been in public school, and I'm really going to miss her.

Your networks — You have a lot of private, legal and public connections: family, friends, school and workplace alumni, community, sports, present and past clients, associations and more.

So either pay a little (or a lot) more to move to a neighborhood with good public schools or research all your options; private schools, magnet or charter schools, home school, etc..

Well, in the Mississippi Delta, where a lot of this work is done, you have public schools that are sharply underfunded; that are predominantly African - American; and in which teachers and administrators tend to turn school infractions into criminal or youth court infractions more than they should.