Sentences with phrase «making the public schools»

We have christians fighting to make public school give them time to pray and have church clubs, but when jews or muslims do it in a public place it requires a call to the FBI and they claim the jews are being insensitive?

Their inaugurations and other ceremonies should be as bereft of Bibles and prayers and clergy as they wish to make our public schools.

It's all so perfect — fresh, healthful food for the same cost as processed junk — that it makes a public school parent like me want to cry out, «OK, Jamie, I'm sold!

If you want to make grants so everyone can attend a private school, you've just shuffled costs and names - you're effectively making a public school.

On education, Cuomo is proposing changes to the teacher evaluation system that he says will make public schools more accountable.

«We are working off of less money, being asked to do more, given less resources, and we're still making our public schools great,» Mazur said.

Squadron's only press release that day involved the demand that the Chinese Lunar New Year be made a public school holiday.

A day after winning re-election in a landslide, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said his «greatest passion» in his second term will be to make the public school system «look entirely different.»

-- A solid majority of voters surveyed — 62 percent — said they agreed with Cuomo's proposal to make public school teachers eligible for tenure after five years, instead of the current three - year requirement.

The boys swim team at Bronx Science made the Public Schools Athletic League semifinals.

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.

Making public school buildings available to charters,» will appear in the September issue of Education Next and is currently available at www.educationnext.org.

In order to make public schools more comparable to private ones, therefore, I exclude more than 90 percent of the public school teacher sample and retain public school teachers only in low - poverty (less than 5 percent eligible for free or reduced - price lunch) suburban schools.

(The remaining 5 percent were private schools that received a 100 percent state subsidy for teachers» salaries, making them public schools in all but name.)

The Republican Party's election gains will make public schools even more of a battlefield over social issues such as student prayer, participants in a forum here last week about church - state separation predicted.

So we thought, we... have to make public schools work.»

«Rather than using taxpayer dollars to provide vouchers to a few, we must focus our resources and efforts on concrete reforms that make our public schools better for all of the District's schoolchildren.»

The future of our state depends directly on how well we teach our kids today and I look forward to working together with the Commission to make our public schools the best in the nation.»

In these times of making education the foremost instrument of the global economy while making public schools the scapegoat for society's lack of will to tackle the messy issues of race and class, that mission has gotten lost.

The striking difference in the two main questions is not chiefly informed by a sense that vouchers would make public schools worse; only 21 % hold this view, while 34 % think they'd make them better, and 37 % expect no effect.

Reforms, Ravitch said, always ask, «How we can make the public schools better?

• Overwhelming parental support for the following elements of an education agenda: Provide extra resources to turn around struggling neighborhood schools; hold charter schools accountable; provide more support / training for struggling teachers; expand / improve new - teacher mentoring; reduce class sizes, especially in the early grades; make public schools hubs of the neighborhood with longer hours, academic help and health services for families; provide extra pay for teachers in hard - to - staff schools; and ensure access to high - quality preschool for all 3 - and 4 - year - olds.

Ravitch says that charter schools undercut the opportunities for public schools, making public school students feel like «second - class citizens.»

Seniority - based wage scales and a flat career trajectory make public schools an unwelcoming environment for entrepreneurial personalities.

Based on the findings presented in this report, CAP offers a series of recommendations for policymakers at the federal, state, and district level to facilitate the goal of making public schools more socioeconomically diverse.

If we want a bright future, we must focus national attention on making public schools as good as they can be.

The government would better serve our children by making the public schools safer, stronger, and more accountable.

BATs not only discuss the injustices taking place on the state level, BATs also address these issues and actively seek for positive ways to problem solve and make our public schools better for all students.

Raise Your Hand Texas — trains public school leaders to lead transformational change at the campus level and advocates for public policies that make public schools better for all Texas students.

Alan Hawkes, a member of the N.C. Charter School Advisory Board who holds close ties with NHA, told his colleagues upon approving relatively few new charter schools for 2015 that Sen. Jerry Tillman's intent was to have many more national charter school operators come into North Carolina and make public school districts feel «threatened and up their game.»

If public schools simply had advisors that would make public schools and school leaders the priority, kids could be better served by their schools.

Some people may continue to oppose OUSD's plans to make public school enrollment better for political or ideological reasons, and that's ok.

Dumping recess had everything to do with high - stakes testing and making public schools into dungeons of doom.

Congress would better serve ALL children by directing funds to make public schools stronger and safer instead of creating a new voucher or tuition tax credit program.

If you truly oppose charter schools, the most impactful thing you can do is work to make public schools places where students of color, particularly low - income Black and Latinx students, feel valued, welcomed and loved.

What makes a public school successful?

The purpose of parent trigger is to make public schools more public.

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«Assessment systems need to make public schools accountable to parents, students and the local community rather than to distant government bureaucracies,» the report concludes.

We must focus on making our public schools successful.

Education Minister Christopher Pyne has been committed to making public schools in Australia independent, saying the more control a principal has over a school the better that school performs.

As noted, there is no question that parents have the right to send their children to private schools, but we taxpayers don't directly pay the costs associated with parochial and other private schools, and we shouldn't be forced to syphon off scarce taxpayer funds in order to pay for schools like Achievement First, schools that fail to meet the most basic criteria of what makes a public school — public.

Remind them as they head into the next national debate, voters want to hear their plans to make our public schools strong.

«Together, we'll show what makes our public schools some of the best in the world: all of us, each of us,» says NEA President.

Make all public schools great.

The report card gives high grades to states for embracing policies that help make their public schools vibrant and strong — a well - trained, professional teaching force, adequate and equitable funding wisely spent, and social conditions that give all students a better opportunity for educational success.

And in 2013, U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R - TN), the former U.S. secretary of education, said, «I still wonder why we, over time, don't make every public school a charter school.»

In Wisconsin, a bill has been introduced in the state legislature that would make all public schools deemed to be «failures» become charter schools.

Please note that he filed legislation to make public school assessments more transparent, which would give parents greater power within the public schools.

Making public school students competitive nationally in basic academics, however, remains a herculean task in a poverty - stricken state.