Sentences with phrase «mother of a public school child»

Union President Barbara Keshishian said the NJEA is pleased to support the measure: «It makes tenure harder to earn,» she said.Sangeeta Ranade, a Jersey City school board member who testified today — saying she was speaking as the mother of a public school child — called the bill «a gift to students and teachers alike.»

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She found the mother not only appreciative of her concern but already aware, from public school reports, of the child's problems.

«Since a large proportion of vitamin A — deficient children and their mothers reside in rice - consuming populations, particularly in Asia, Golden Rice should substantially reduce the prevalence and severity of vitamin A deficiency, and prevent at least hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths and cases of blindness every year,» said Dr. Alfred Sommer, professor and dean emeritus, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

We thank the North American Registry of Midwives Board for helping facilitate the study; Tim Putt for help with layout of the data forms; Jennesse Oakhurst, Shannon Salisbury, and a team of five others for data entry; Adam Slade for computer programming support; Amelia Johnson, Phaedra Muirhead, Shannon Salisbury, Tanya Stotsky, Carrie Whelan, and Kim Yates for office support; Kelly Klick and Sheena Jardin for the satisfaction survey; members of our advisory council (Eugene Declerq (Boston University School of Public Health), Susan Hodges (Citizens for Midwifery and consumer panel of the Cochrane Collaboration's Pregnancy and Childbirth Group), Jonathan Kotch (University of North Carolina Department of Maternal and Child Health), Patricia Aikins Murphy (University of Utah College of Nursing), and Lawrence Oppenheimer (University of Ottawa Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine); and the midwives and mothers who agreed to participate in the study.

She worked for years as a preschool teacher in the public school system until she had her 3rd child, and now she is a stay at home mother who keeps busy with her four children, exploring all of the nooks and crannies of their surroundings.

«As the mother of two young kids who attend New York City public schools, I know first - hand how important it is for children to eat lunch at school,» said U.S. Rep. Grace Meng, a Founder and Co-Chair of the Congressional Kids Safety Caucus.

(2014) Directs each local school board to adopt a policy to set aside, in each school in the school division, a non-restroom location that is shielded from the public view to be designated as an area in which any mother who is employed by the local school board or enrolled as a student may take breaks of reasonable length during the school day to express milk to feed her child until the child reaches the age of one.

Lisa Rudley, a mother of three school age children and part of the opt out group New York State Allies for Public Education, agrees.

«New York City public school parents are highly dissatisfied with the quality of education their children are receiving,» said Tenicka Boyd, StudentsFirstNY Director of Organizing and mother of a public school student in Brooklyn.

Ms. Nixon laid out her biography: the child of a single mother with whom she had lived in a fifth - floor walk - up, a graduate of New York City public schools who sends her own children to them, a young woman who paid for her college education herself.

The mother who accuses the Buffalo Public Schools of instigating her arrest for home schooling her children is now taking her case to the federal government.

Lisa Rudley, a mother of three school age children and part of the opt - out group New York State Allies for Public Education, agrees.

Stringer, whose mother was a public school teacher, pledged to «run a campaign that celebrates the teachers and children of this city.»

Among pregnant women infected with HIV, the use of antiretroviral (ARV) medications early in pregnancy to treat their HIV or to prevent mother - to - child transmission of HIV does not appear to increase the risk of birth defects in their infants, according to a new study led by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH).

Women exposed to high levels of fine particulate matter specifically during pregnancy — particularly during the third trimester — may face up to twice the risk of having a child with autism than mothers living in areas with low particulate matter, according to a new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH).

A New York City mother asked a state judge last week for public money to send two of her children to private school.

Dianne Payne, an adoptive mother and a PTA president from Queens, asked the judge overseeing the state's 13 - year - old school finance case for $ 26,000 to remove two of her five children from what she considers inadequate public high schools and place them in private schools, where she contends schooling is better.

Others are involved with parent - based community groups: the Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation (working to create a dialogue among parents on local education issues, including assignment processes for schools), the Black Ministerial Alliance (working to improve the quality of Boston public schools), and City Life / Vida Urbana (working with a group of Latina mothers advocating for their special - needs children).

Petitioners, an organization of Seattle parents (Parents Involved) and the mother of a Jefferson County student (Joshua), whose children were or could be assigned under the foregoing plans, filed these suits contending, inter alia, that allocating children to different public schools based solely on their race violates the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection guarantee.

Castañeda is the mother of two public school children and lives in Rhode Island.

Charter schools have made it more accessible to parents,» said Roshand Miller, a mother of three children in public schools.

As the mother of three children of color who attend Denver Public Schools (DPS), I appreciate the district's commitment to equity — raising the achievement of all...

Carmen Avalos, city clerk for the South Gate community of Los Angeles and a mother of six children, four of whom attend charter schools, said the Great Public Schools Now plan has been greatly anticipated by parents of color like herself who have endured what she called a «two - tiered system.schools, said the Great Public Schools Now plan has been greatly anticipated by parents of color like herself who have endured what she called a «two - tiered system.Schools Now plan has been greatly anticipated by parents of color like herself who have endured what she called a «two - tiered system.»

As a mother of seven children, I've spent a lot of time involved in my local public schools.

His drive, he said in an interview on Sunday, comes from a sense of urgency to create for other children the refuge he found as a fourth grader at Public School 276 in Canarsie, the year his mother died of heart failure.

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Annette Polly Williams, sometimes called the mother of the school choice movement, was dismayed by the public school options available to her four children.

As a mother of a child in public school, I know local teachers are best suited to teach local students, and that dedicated local principals — empowered by student - centric policies and supported by parents — have the most potential to run innovative and effective schools.

Mother of 3, desperate to get her children out of the neighborhood public school and into a private school where they will be challenged and encouraged to succeed.

A mother of two children, Maria McColgan has taught at three different Philadelphia public schools.

«As a mother of two children in Nashville public schools, I know firsthand the concerns of Tennessee's parents and how important education is not only to our kids but also to Tennessee's future,» said Kamrani.

I am holding you responsible for the 9 - year - old student who came to school with hardly any sleep after witnessing his mother administer Narcan to save his father's life, only to then take a three - hour test and I am holding you responsible for the autistic child whose parents opted him out of the test but the school counseled him back into... I hold you responsible for not passing legislation that allows for a public - school TEACHER to serve on the Board of EDUCATION, yet the chair of this Board, Paul Sagan can contribute $ 600,000 to a campaign that sought to charterize, segregate, and create a two - tiered system of privilege using high - stake test scores as the ammunition.»

For example, the mother of a child in Florida, who has «oral motor delays, including extreme feeding difficulties» could not find a traditional public school (TPS) that could accommodate her daughter and found a charter school that could.

By Laurie Benn As a mother of seven children, I've spent a lot of time involved in my local public schools.

My time as a teacher in the public school system, educational consultant, and mother of three children who attend a Denver area charter school has taught me that charter schools and the autonomy, choice, and diverse models of education they represent play an important role in making sure that each student and family has access to a high - quality school that is most suitable for them.

Wendy Lecker, a mother of three children in the Stamford Public Schools, says she wants her children, and all children, to have the best teachers possible, and that's why she strongly opposes using standardized test scores in any part of a teacher's evaluation.

Her mother, who raised her, and her father, who died before her birth, were children of slaves; both were teachers in the DC public school system.

As a wife of 24 years and a mother of three emerging adults, I am well versed in life transition as well as the challenges associated with private schools, public schools, and home - schooled children with a variety of educational and social needs.

It recommends specific steps that early childhood program and public health administrators can take to address the unmet mental health needs of mothers ultimately promoting the social and emotional health, school readiness, and future functioning of very young children.

I first got interested in public policy in graduate school, when I realized I had a unique perspective as a single mother and survivor of domestic violence who has utilized public assistance to raise my children through tough times.