Sentences with phrase «millions of public school students»

It takes a lot to change a status quo that's been accepted with few questions for generations, especially one that affects tens of thousands of California teachers, millions of public school students and so many parents.

In other words, while the political fighting continues outside the classroom, Common Core is already the daily reality for millions of public school students in more than 40 states.

Millions of public school students now take classes online.

Thanks to the fact that millions of Public School students were affected by Wunder's reviews, his importance, in the eyes of the movie companies, rose quickly.

For many of the millions of public school students, that's not far off mark.

Not exact matches

Stephen Schwarzman, Blackstone chairman and CEO, talks about why he gave a $ 25 million donation to his suburban public high school, and the need to prepare students for the workplace of the future.

These are obvious questions to ask, but according to a massive new analysis of more than 45 million public school students nationwide from Stanford's Sean Reardon (hat tip to Business Insider for the pointer), they can actually be misleading cues to focus on.

Parochial schools are supported by church funds in addition to tuition, not tax dollars, providing in many areas a reasonable alternative for working class and middle class parishioners and removing these millions of students from the public education system paid for by taxpayers.

That means, according to Shakeshaft, that «of the approximately 45 million students attending public and private K - 12 schools, more than 3 million will have been the target of physical sexual exploitation by an employee of the school by 11th grade.»

53 school districts — nearly one - third of all public school district in Georgia and reaching over 1 million students — are now participating in farm to school programs and recognized through the Golden Radish Awards.

More than half of public school districts in the United States are in rural communities where millions of students struggle with poverty and hunger.

Yesterday, the New York City department of education announced that all 1.1 million of the city's public school students will be offered free lunch starting this school year, regardless of their family's income level.

The standards also increased the portion sizes of fruits and vegetables and required students to select at least 1 serving of fruits and / or vegetables.4 Because the National School Lunch Program reaches more than 31 million students each day in 99 % of US public schools and 83 % of private schools, the new standards have the potential to significantly and consistently affect the nutritional health of children.5

Cuomo unveiled a revised version of the legislation on Tuesday, which would provide $ 150 million in tax credits annually for donations that benefit public and private schools, and encourage low - income students to attend either a private school or a public school in another district.

Lunch at New York City public schools will be available free of charge to all 1.1 million students beginning this school year, Carmen Fariña, the schools chancellor, said on Wednesday in the basement cafeteria of a Hell's Kitchen elementary school.

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De Blasio spokesman Wiley Norvell provided the following statement: «Mayoral Control is vital to the future of our 1.1 million public school students.

Taking no chances, the city's Department of Education canceled school for the 1.1 million - student system — marking the second time this winter public school kids took a powder break due to snow.

Buffalo Public Schools are buying more and more computers for students, as the district works on a $ 56 million technology plan to get one laptop or tablet to every student and install WiFi antennas on the growing network of community schools to serve the surrounding commuSchools are buying more and more computers for students, as the district works on a $ 56 million technology plan to get one laptop or tablet to every student and install WiFi antennas on the growing network of community schools to serve the surrounding commuschools to serve the surrounding communities.

As a fellow «vocal, voracious, passionate» supporter of public schools, I welcome Chancellor Carranza, and look forward to working with him to ensure that all of our city's 1.1 million students have an opportunity to excel,» Treyger said.

The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act, named for the high school where 19 - year - old Nikolas Cruz used an AR - 15 to kill 17 students and school officials, raises Florida's minimum age for purchasing guns to 21, requires a three - day waiting period for firearms purchases, bans the sale of bump stocks, and, controversially, sets aside $ 67 million to arm teaSchool Public Safety Act, named for the high school where 19 - year - old Nikolas Cruz used an AR - 15 to kill 17 students and school officials, raises Florida's minimum age for purchasing guns to 21, requires a three - day waiting period for firearms purchases, bans the sale of bump stocks, and, controversially, sets aside $ 67 million to arm teaschool where 19 - year - old Nikolas Cruz used an AR - 15 to kill 17 students and school officials, raises Florida's minimum age for purchasing guns to 21, requires a three - day waiting period for firearms purchases, bans the sale of bump stocks, and, controversially, sets aside $ 67 million to arm teaschool officials, raises Florida's minimum age for purchasing guns to 21, requires a three - day waiting period for firearms purchases, bans the sale of bump stocks, and, controversially, sets aside $ 67 million to arm teachers.

NYC's 1.1 million students have this week off, giving Richard A. Carranza, who, as of today, is the chancellor of the city's public schools, a chance to ease into running the country's largest school system.

ALBANY — The State Legislature has adjourned for the year without coming to an agreement on mayoral control of New York City's schools, leaving a looming question mark over the chain of command for the nation's largest public school system and its 1.1 million students.

During his testimony last week, De Blasio also complained that Cuomo's budget plan shifts $ 198.3 million from the city Department of Education to charter schools Cuomo noted that students who attend charters are public school students, too.

FES and organizers sought to draw attention to its report issued in July in which it cites that a «forgotten fourth,» or nearly 143,000 students of the 1.1 million public school students, were trapped in failing schools.

The parents of public school students say 66 - year - old Cathie Black lacks the required educational experience or academic credentials to be even a teacher, much less direct the 80,000 teachers of 1.1 million students.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio will visit schools in all five boroughs to mark the first day of school for over one million public school students.

TV host and cookbook author Rachel Ray announced the official launch of a petition urging de Blasio to make good on his 2013 campaign promise and expand universal free lunch to the city's 1.1 million public school students.

The city has been on a crash course to prepare computer science teachers ever since 2015, when the de Blasio administration dedicated $ 81 million to a 10 - year goal of providing computer science instruction to all public school students.

MIDTOWN — The city could be forced to shell out nearly $ 44 million in private school tuition after failing to place thousands of kindergarten students with special needs in public schools for next fall, according to a new report by Public Advocate Bill de Bpublic schools for next fall, according to a new report by Public Advocate Bill de BPublic Advocate Bill de Blasio.

The object of all this ire and satire was Pearson PLC, the company based in Great Britain that has a nearly $ 33 million contract with New York state to write and administer tests given to K - 12 public school students and to help run teacher training tests.

At 1:30 p.m., the Senate Standing Committee on New York City Education Subcommittee will meet to discuss various amendments to education law - including an act in relation to requiring certain public schools in any city with a population over one million to offer food options during lunch, an act to direct chancellors of city school districts, in cities having a population of one million or more, to examine and assess the feasibility of expanding the number and types of career and technical education schools and programs within such city school districts and an act in relation to improving educational outcomes for homeless students.

Buffalo public schools are proposing to spend $ 56 million over the next three years for major upgrades of the district's computer system and providing a computer for every student.

Public School 24 Assistant Principal Manny Verdi slapped state Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz with the $ 9 million suit Tuesday, claiming Dinowitz tried to push him out of his job and made false statements about him in retaliation for exposing an alleged scheme to block new students.

In New York City, there were nearly 240,000 students in private or parochial schools in the 2014 - 2015 school year — a fraction of the 1.1 million children in the city's public school system — according to the Independent Budget Office.

She estimated Buffalo schools would be owed more than $ 100 million in aid from the state, had Albany followed the decision that came out of a landmark school funding lawsuit won by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, a group Nixon got involved with when her oldest teenager began as a kindergarten student in a New York City public school.

This extrapolates to an estimated 301,000 students missing school because of feeling unsafe and $ 276 million in lost revenue each year in California public schools.

During this same period, the number of public school teachers rose from 2.2 million to more than 3.1 million, several times the rate of increase of the students they serve, whose numbers edged up only slightly, from 44.8 million to 48.4 million.

By 2001 the state had 93 cybercharters serving more than 30,000 students, which meant that over $ 200 million of California's public school budget was being paid to private firms offering home - school curricula and technology.

Many school districts, frustrated that they now had to pay an outside organization to educate students in their own districts, many of whom had not even attended public schools before, simply stopped making payments, causing WPCCS to lose nearly $ 1 million in 2001.

Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Hirokazu Yoshikawa recently was awarded a $ 1.2 million U.S. Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences grant to study the impact of prekindergarten on Boston Public School (BPS) students.

The goal was laudable enough: All 50 million students in nearly 100,000 public schools would be proficient in reading and math by the end of the 2013 - 14 school year.

In a recently published study in Economics of Education Review, we follow the trajectories of 2.9 million public school students in Florida over a seven - year time period and compare their standardized test scores in years when they had a teacher of the same ethnicity to school years when they did not.

Adoption of a statewide choice plan in California, with its 4.6 million public - school students, would be by far the most significant victory yet for proponents of allowing parents to select their children's public schools.

A quarter of Newark's 47,000 public school students attend 43 charter schools, diverting $ 226 million of the district's $ 990 million total budget.

Close to 5 million U.S. students — about 9 percent of public school enrollment — are ELLs.

The DOE in this case is the Department of Education in New York City, which the article points out «last year spent $ 116 million on tuition and legal expenses related to special - education students whose parents sued the DOE on the grounds that the public - school options were inadequate.

Mr. Kerr, 47, the new communications director for city Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein, has taken on one of the highest - profile school public relations jobs in the country, just as the 1.1 million - student system is working through a number of...

The NCES study also found that an estimated 6,093 students were expelled [of the 46 million public school students] for bringing a firearm to school during the 1996 - 97 school year.

Public and private school students stepped into their classrooms this fall 52.7 million strong, surpassing last fall's enrollment by a half - million students, according to a study released last week by the U.S. Department of Education.