Sentences with phrase «more about public school»

As I learn more about our public school system, I see inequities that prevent all children from reaching their full potential.

To find out more about Public School Choice and the role charters are playing, watch CCSA's recently - produced video.

Find out more about Public School Choice and read profiles on the other charter applicants.

I knew that museum education could be an exciting platform for the kind of work I wanted to do with young people, but I knew I first needed to learn more about the public school system, educational policy, and curriculum design.

Developed by the Georgia School Boards Association, VILLA (Volunteer Instructional Leadership Learning Academy) offers parents the opportunity to learn more about the public schools in their community.

Not exact matches

The Los Angeles Unified School District (LASUD)-- the second - largest school district in the country — closed its more than 900 campuses and 187 public charter schools Tuesday after receiving an electronic bomb threat, keeping about 640,000 students School District (LASUD)-- the second - largest school district in the country — closed its more than 900 campuses and 187 public charter schools Tuesday after receiving an electronic bomb threat, keeping about 640,000 students school district in the country — closed its more than 900 campuses and 187 public charter schools Tuesday after receiving an electronic bomb threat, keeping about 640,000 students out...

That said, families with children seem more determined to return than others; while the post-wildfire population dropped about 17 per cent, public school enrolment fell only by about five per cent this year.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

Even people with less than a high school education today recognize the priority of the brain over the blood, so much so in fact, that in the movie, Hannibal (about a cannibalistic serial killer), the thought of slicing out tiny parts of a person's brain, cooking them in a pan, and serving the pieces to that person to eat has become in the public's mind a more disturbing image than, say, serving a person a glass of their own blood to drink, which appears relatively tame in comparison.

Perhaps I'll say more on democratic greatness achieved by this little show, and particularly what it reveals about the unique social institution that the American public High School is, later on.

In light of varying perspectives about this appointment, Christian leaders will need to think afresh about their relationship to local public schools, where more than 90 percent of America's children are educated.

About three thousand students are already benefiting from the latest wrinkle in five states, «education savings accounts,» which provide even more flexibility to families by allowing those who withdraw their children from public schools to receive a deposit of public funds into government - authorized savings accounts that can be used to pay for private school tuition, online learning programs, private tutoring, educational therapies, or college costs.

I went to public policy school, not seminary, and although I loved Scripture and history and could write a bit, I was still learning more about Jesus every day.

«The public school business now represents about 23 percent of our overall business, and not only is it a little more surefire in a difficult economy, but also a great offset to what has always been a seasonal business for us,» Barstow notes.

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.

To learn more about the impact LAC can have, check out our piece with Dr. Josephine Martin and Sandi Walters on the impact school nutrition professionals can make in shaping public policy.

We should all be less concerned about supermarket shoppers being misled (though that's a real problem) and far more worried about the 32 million public school children participating in the National School Lunch Program and the 12 million in the School Breakfast Program, all of whom are offered milk — usually including a flavored milk option — each and every school day, sometimes multiple times school children participating in the National School Lunch Program and the 12 million in the School Breakfast Program, all of whom are offered milk — usually including a flavored milk option — each and every school day, sometimes multiple times School Lunch Program and the 12 million in the School Breakfast Program, all of whom are offered milk — usually including a flavored milk option — each and every school day, sometimes multiple times School Breakfast Program, all of whom are offered milk — usually including a flavored milk option — each and every school day, sometimes multiple times school day, sometimes multiple times a day.

So far about 93,000 schoolchildren, more than half the total public school population in Maine, are eating Let's Go!

Drawing an emotional response from the audience, more than a dozen Chicago Public School parents voiced complaints at Wednesday's school board meeting over how the district questioned their children about their decision to not to take the Illinois Standards Achievement Test when it was administered earlier this School parents voiced complaints at Wednesday's school board meeting over how the district questioned their children about their decision to not to take the Illinois Standards Achievement Test when it was administered earlier this school board meeting over how the district questioned their children about their decision to not to take the Illinois Standards Achievement Test when it was administered earlier this month.

I have struggled sometimes with conversations with other parents about what school is best, as my kids have moved from an amazing public elementary school to public middle school that has more challenges.

Because most of Chicago «s public schools have closed campuses and 88 percent of the children attending receive free or reduced - price lunches, Phillips is more concerned about getting the students to eat than losing them to outside competition.

As a parent to a toddler and a therapist who has worked in both private and public school settings, this book peaked my curiosity and my desire to learn more about the homeschooling lifestyle.

I briefly told you about the Get Food Education in Every School initiative when it was announced in May, but now you can read more about it in this week's Huffington Post editorial by Michael Jacobson of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (the folks behind Food day).

September is going to be back - to - school month, with posts on issues like: what on earth to pack in that empty lunch box every morning; how we all feel about making meals «cute» (heart - shaped sandwiches and the rest); an interview with some moms who've gone way beyond heart - shaped sandwiches — the Yum - Yum Bento moms; an interview with a public school teacher who has become a cause celebre in the school lunch reform movement; and more.

«Unfortunately, the Governor and the Assembly Speaker care more about keeping teenage drug gang members, murderers and rapists out of jail than they do about funding our public schools, providing tax relief for our families and rebuilding our infrastructure,» said Sen. Tom Croci, a Long Island Republican.

But while so many in the media and the glitterati are agog about charters, let's not forget that more than 95 percent of our students are in the regular public schools.

Though not related to contracting practices, Council Member Ben Kallos introduced a bill in February that would require the DOE to more thoroughly disclose information about applications and enrollment to New York City public schools.

We heard today from parents in public housing, in middle school deserts, from parents who are upset about the ATR pool and those who want more school choices.

Some members from the Buffalo Public School District will be in Albany Wednesday and Thursday to learn more about Receivership.

The UFT set out its 2011 legislative priorities [http://files.uft.org/priorities.pdf] in a document that sought to bust the myths about generous public employee pensions and pointed out how any progress that schools have made will be erased by more cuts.

Laura Franz, president of the Albany Public School Teachers Association, and Tim Kremer, executive director of the New York State School Boards Association, join the show to talk more about the issue.

Since only a tiny fraction of Americans has lived through a state constitutional convention in their adult lifetimes, and since Americans are not taught about state constitutional conventions (as opposed to the federal constitutional convention of 1787) during their formal schooling (even those such as myself who received a Ph.D. in American government), Americans approach these referendums starting with a huge knowledge deficit, making local opinion leaders that much more influential in public debates.

As evidence of the deep divisions on Raise the Age, Senator Thomas D. Croci, a Republican from Long Island, suggested that Mr. Heastie and Mr. Cuomo «care more about keeping teenage drug gang members, murderers and rapists out of jail than they do about funding our public schools, providing tax relief for our families and rebuilding our infrastructure.»

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Whether or not SUNY Poly actually has any confidential partnerships — Bob Megna, who runs the school's affiliated nonprofits, literally told the Times Union last year, «I don't know what deals Kaloyeros cut with people» — it seems noteworthy that a public university could mistakenly mark about a dozen (or more?)

And in May, more good news about your morning cup, courtesy of the Harvard School of Public Health.

This Childhood Stress study, led by Chilton with several Drexel graduates in the School of Public Health, used both quantitative and qualitative methods to gather information about 31 Philadelphia mothers» experience with deprivation, abuse, violence and neglect, as well as their experiences with hunger, education and employment and more.

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.

A new NPR / Robert Wood Johnson Foundation / Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health poll finds that more than six in ten people living in the U.S. (62 %) are concerned about their future health.

In 2011, the Harvard School of Public Health reported that in a 22 - year study of nearly 48,000 men, those drinking six or more cups daily were about 60 percent less likely to die from prostate cancer.

«As air quality standards become more stringent, people are going to be thinking about other technologies that can reduce pollution,» said Jonathan D. Raff, assistant professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at IU Bloomington and an author of the study.

Nestle: Well, we will do it in the way these changes always take place — you do it through education of the public; you create demands for different kinds of foods; you teach parents to go into schools and look at what their kids are eating and then do something about it; you change policy so that it becomes more difficult for food companies to advertise to children; you stop them from marketing junk food to kids using cartoon characters.

This project, Plant STEM for K - 12 Education, will incorporate STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) into activities that encourage children at eight public schools to learn more about plants» roles in ecosystems, their uses for medicine, materials and fuels.

«The day signified much more than these teachers learning about some instructional materials,» said Dan Gallagher, the Science Program Manager for Seattle public schools.

«It is always encouraging to see that more positive messages about health are being discussed and disseminated on Twitter,» Massey, an assistant professor in the School of Public Health at Philadelphia - based Drexel, said in a university news release.

We tapped expert Emily S. Barrett, PhD, associate professor of epidemiology at Rutgers School of Public Health, to answer these questions — and more — about phthalates.

The low fat school of nutrition benefits greatly from the fact that the public has only vague notions about vitamin A; for the family of water - soluble nutrients called carotenes are not true vitamin A, but are more accurately termed provitamin A. True vitamin A, or retinol, is found only in animal products like cod liver oil, liver and other organ meats, fish, shell fish and butterfat from cows eating green grass.

More recently (27 Oct 2014) Harvard School of Public Health issued a media release about a new meta - analysis which shows that replacing saturated fats with polyunsaturated fats reduces the risk of heart disease.

He told public health and medical school authorities about his discovery but they were more concerned about loss of their own profits and ended up instigating a government law that Boron be declared a poison in any concentration.

The Harvard School of Public Health tracked the diet and lifestyle of 120,000 men and women for about 20 years and found that people who increased their consumption of French fries and baked or mashed potatoes gained more weight over time — as much as 3.4 lbs.