Sentences with phrase «most public schools in the country»

CTD is accredited by the same agency that accredits most public schools in the country.

Not exact matches

The region checks off most of the boxes that Amazon is looking for: It has good public transportation, some of the best museums in the country, a progressive political climate, and elite schools and universities.

In most African countries, virtually all public development — schools, health centers, roads, power — is paid for by donors.

, who won the most expensive House race in the country, supported insertion of «Creationism» and «12 Christian principles» (akin to the Ten Commandments) in the curriculum of a public charter school whose board she served on, we are in danger.

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Cuomo during an appearance on «The Brian Lehrer Show» on WNYC public radio said the state spends the most in the country on school funding and twice the national average per pupil.

According to the authors, who are based at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK, the World Health Organization, Switzerland, and the University of Edinburgh, UK, «Despite remarkable progress at the level of global averages, at national level, MDG 4 will not be achieved in most countries in 2015.

All three public universities in the state made Seeking Arrangement's list of the 50 most popular schools for sugar babies — ASU actually comes in at number two in the country, just behind New York University, with well over 1,100 sugar babies.

Pressure Cooker (Unrated) Uplifting documentary chronicles the efforts of Wilma Stephenson, a demanding Culinary Arts teacher at an inner city, Philadelphia public high school, as she inspires underprivileged students to apply themselves in her class in order to earn college scholarships to some of the most prestigious cooking institutes around the country.

«It will put around $ 2300 per student on average into schools across the country, but delivers the fastest growth to the public schools who need it most and to the public schools who got the most unfair deals in the past,» he said.

Jewell - Sherman, among the faculty of the Ed School's Doctor of Education Leadership Program, earned a reputation as one of the most successful urban superintendents in the country in her former position as head of the Richmond, Va., public schools.

New Jersey's is a complex and troubled public school system: although the state ranks in the top 5 on most nationally normed tests (NAEP, SAT, ACT), it has one of the worst achievement gaps in the country — 50th out of 51 in 8th - grade reading, for example.

When asked to name a preferred private school, roughly half named independent private schools (the most popular being Worcester Academy and Milton Academy), with tuitions that eclipse the values of even the most generous school vouchers offered in public and private programs across the country.

Countries without such alternative systems, either because the public systems were acceptable to Catholic leadership (as in Italy, Spain, Austria, and most of Latin America) or because the Catholic share of the population was too small to create and sustain an alternative system competing across the board with public schools, have not experienced the benefits of such competition.

By bringing the local culture of Native students into the public schools they attend, Title VII has been one of the most important programs for reforming education in Indian Country, writes Corey Still, a student board member of the National Indian Education Association.

This is not to say that we should never increase public funding to schools; numerous states in this country allocate paltry sums of money to children who need it the most, and in these instances funding should be increased.

Washington D.C. is running one of the most agressive experiments in public school reform in the country under its school chacellor, Michelle Rhee.

There are public schools and charter schools serving some of the most disadvantaged students in the country, and yet they are recruiting great teachers, making the curriculum more rigorous, using data to see what works, and graduating students ready for college.

Boston Public Schools wins Broad Prize for Urban Education Fifth time the charm for national recognition as most improved urban school district; $ 1 million in total scholarship money awarded to students Mayor Thomas M. Menino, School Committee Chair Elizabeth Reilinger and Interim Superintendent Michael Contompasis today accepted the Broad Prize for Urban Education from Eli Broad and the Broad Foundation as the most improved urban school district in the coschool district; $ 1 million in total scholarship money awarded to students Mayor Thomas M. Menino, School Committee Chair Elizabeth Reilinger and Interim Superintendent Michael Contompasis today accepted the Broad Prize for Urban Education from Eli Broad and the Broad Foundation as the most improved urban school district in the coSchool Committee Chair Elizabeth Reilinger and Interim Superintendent Michael Contompasis today accepted the Broad Prize for Urban Education from Eli Broad and the Broad Foundation as the most improved urban school district in the coschool district in the country.

Every decade the federal government issues a large report on arts education throughout the country, Arts Education in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools, and the most recent data from 2010 confirms that low - income schools don't offer music and visual art as much as high - income schoSchools, and the most recent data from 2010 confirms that low - income schools don't offer music and visual art as much as high - income schoschools don't offer music and visual art as much as high - income schoolsschools do.

The empirical evidence simply does not support the use of one - size - fits - all curriculum standards and high stakes testing as effective tools to improve the education and life outcomes of over 56 million public school students in the third most populous country on the planet.

Nevada has the most expansive ESA program in the country, available to every student enrolled in public school (approximately 93 percent of students)

I believe we have a responsibility to show America that public schools are the most important institution that we have in our country.

Growth Public Schools is based on Summit Public Schools» model which has been nationally ranked as one of the highest performing and most innovative school networks in the country.

Most choose to take teaching jobs in the Greater Boston area, but some others teach in high - performing urban public schools elsewhere in the country, e.g. New York, Washington D.C., Chicago, Los Angeles.

April, 2014 — Program Day Four For the past four months, the 19 public and public charter school teachers in the CityBridge - NewSchools Education Innovation Fellowship have engaged in an in - depth study of the most promising practices in blended and personalized learning, traveling the country and hearing from the leaders in the field., Recently, the Fellows spent part of their...

Sylvia Lazos, policy director at Educate Nevada Now — a program launched by The Rogers Foundation to advocate for improving public education — called Nevada's school choice law «the most radical voucher program in the country.»

Boston Public schools is quickly becoming one of the most diverse school districts in the country: Our 57,000 students reflect Boston's vibrant blend of cultures, representing 140 countries and speaking 80 languages.

For the past four months, the 19 public and public charter school teachers in the CityBridge - NewSchools Education Innovation Fellowship have engaged in an in - depth study of the most promising practices in blended and personalized learning, traveling the country and hearing from the leaders in the field., Recently, the Fellows spent part of their school - year spring break on a whirlwind tour of four public schools in Detroit that are budding laboratories in personalized learning.

So, with New York City public school students returning next month, * the question is: Why isn't more being done to bring students of different races together in the most racially and ethnically diverse city in the country, one where the public schools have had little success closing a huge racial achievement gap?

The LA school board is one of the most powerful in the entire country, overseeing a budget of more than $ 7 billion and making decisions that impact 664,000 public school students, including 110,000 who attend charter public schools located within the district.

These included a strong vision of and value for public education in which almost Finnish children participate as the creator of Finland's future society; resulting high status for the country's teaching profession whose members are stringently selected through rigorous university - based teacher education programs that confer Masters degrees on all of them; a widespread culture of collaboration in curriculum development among teachers in each school district; an equally robust culture of collaboration among all partners in strong local municipalities where most curriculum and other policy decisions are made; and a system of widespread cooperation and trust instead of US - style test - based accountability.

For a variety of reasons, traditional public schools are and will remain the place that educates the most children in our country.

Silicon Valley is home to one of the most vibrant, effective charter public school systems in the country.

As a state that has long valued public school choice, Arizona now has some of the most remarkable public charter schools in the country.

They wring their hands about having some of the most segregated public schools in the country — both by race and income — then keep quiet about neighborhood unzoned schools, where middle - class parents send their children in order to avoid failing public schools.

We'll examine whether new policy ideas are likely to protect the most vulnerable learners in the public school system — low - income students, those with disabilities and the country's youngest learners.

Education Week reported: «Over the objections of teachers» unions and many Democrats, Louisiana's Republican governor and GOP - controlled legislature have crafted one of the most exhaustive education overhauls of any state in the country, through measures that will dramatically expand families» access to public money to cover the costs of both private school tuition and individual courses offered by a menu of providers.»

Stier added that Pennsylvania continues to operate the most unequal public school system in the country, with the biggest funding gaps between rich and poor.

Washington Post's Challenge Index measures which schools provide most opportunity for students to take tough courses that help prepare them for college LOS ANGELES — Six Green Dot Public Schools high schools are among the top 2 % most challenging to their students in the country, according to the Challenge Index, a survey by the Washinschools provide most opportunity for students to take tough courses that help prepare them for college LOS ANGELES — Six Green Dot Public Schools high schools are among the top 2 % most challenging to their students in the country, according to the Challenge Index, a survey by the WashinSchools high schools are among the top 2 % most challenging to their students in the country, according to the Challenge Index, a survey by the Washinschools are among the top 2 % most challenging to their students in the country, according to the Challenge Index, a survey by the Washington...

Agreed — strong public schools that are attended by most of the students in our country is a key value to our system and does make us unique in the world!

«Michigan has by far one of the most complex accountability systems in the country and that makes it really difficult for the public and educators and schools to really understand what's behind the calculation,» Joy said.

Columbia, SC — As schools around the country celebrate National Charter Schools Week (May 1 - 5), SC Whitmore School, a tuition - free public virtual charter high school, is celebrating another banner year in 2017 in what Principal John Loveday calls the school's most successful year tschools around the country celebrate National Charter Schools Week (May 1 - 5), SC Whitmore School, a tuition - free public virtual charter high school, is celebrating another banner year in 2017 in what Principal John Loveday calls the school's most successful year tSchools Week (May 1 - 5), SC Whitmore School, a tuition - free public virtual charter high school, is celebrating another banner year in 2017 in what Principal John Loveday calls the school's most successful year toSchool, a tuition - free public virtual charter high school, is celebrating another banner year in 2017 in what Principal John Loveday calls the school's most successful year toschool, is celebrating another banner year in 2017 in what Principal John Loveday calls the school's most successful year toschool's most successful year to date.

Advocates of public education in the United States have worried that President - elect Donald Trump would tap an education secretary who would speed up the privatization of public schools, a move that many fear could destroy America's public education system, the country's most important civic institution...

The number of Oxbridge offers made also exceeded those given this year to some of the most famous public schools in the country, including Gordonstoun, Sherborne, Bedales and Haileybury.

«New York has the most segregated schools in the country: in 2009, black and Latino students in the state had the highest concentration in intensely - segregated public schools (less than 10 % white enrollment), the lowest exposure to white students, and the most uneven distribution with white students across schools.

Chicago Public Schools CEO Jean - Claude Brizard adds that no one in the city is looking to mirror Wisconsin, which grabbed the country's attention for months after Gov. Scott Walker introduced contentious changes curtailing the collective bargaining ability of most public - sector uPublic Schools CEO Jean - Claude Brizard adds that no one in the city is looking to mirror Wisconsin, which grabbed the country's attention for months after Gov. Scott Walker introduced contentious changes curtailing the collective bargaining ability of most public - sector upublic - sector unions.

For most of her decadelong tenure as Hillsborough County School Board District superintendent, Elia enjoyed a glorious run, beloved by the local media and recognized by her peers across the nation as one of the top public school instructors in the coSchool Board District superintendent, Elia enjoyed a glorious run, beloved by the local media and recognized by her peers across the nation as one of the top public school instructors in the coschool instructors in the country.

• Michelle Rhee, former chancellor of DC Public Schools and one of the country's most well - known «education reformers,» knew early on about widespread testing irregularities and possible cheating — far earlier than she has claimed publicly to have known, according to a confidential memo that was sent to her back in 2009 and obtained by PBS» John Merrow.

In his «historic» call for «education reform», an end to teacher tenure and a disproportionate transfer of public dollars to charter schools the Governor failed to point out that (1) Connecticut already has one of the longest probationary periods for teachers in the country — four years — which gives school administrators more opportunity to judge a teacher's capability than do those in most other states and that (2) in 2010 the Legislature adopted major revisions to the teacher evaluation process that already gives Malloy's Department of Education the power to revamp how teachers are evaluated and require school administrators to actually conduct appropriate evaluationIn his «historic» call for «education reform», an end to teacher tenure and a disproportionate transfer of public dollars to charter schools the Governor failed to point out that (1) Connecticut already has one of the longest probationary periods for teachers in the country — four years — which gives school administrators more opportunity to judge a teacher's capability than do those in most other states and that (2) in 2010 the Legislature adopted major revisions to the teacher evaluation process that already gives Malloy's Department of Education the power to revamp how teachers are evaluated and require school administrators to actually conduct appropriate evaluationin the country — four years — which gives school administrators more opportunity to judge a teacher's capability than do those in most other states and that (2) in 2010 the Legislature adopted major revisions to the teacher evaluation process that already gives Malloy's Department of Education the power to revamp how teachers are evaluated and require school administrators to actually conduct appropriate evaluationin most other states and that (2) in 2010 the Legislature adopted major revisions to the teacher evaluation process that already gives Malloy's Department of Education the power to revamp how teachers are evaluated and require school administrators to actually conduct appropriate evaluationin 2010 the Legislature adopted major revisions to the teacher evaluation process that already gives Malloy's Department of Education the power to revamp how teachers are evaluated and require school administrators to actually conduct appropriate evaluations.