Sentences with phrase «needs more public school»

Connecticut's students, parents, teachers and public school advocates needs more public school superintendents to follow Thomas Scarice's action and step up and speak out.

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Our society desperately needs more advocates for public schools who deeply believe in the God - given potential of every single student.

Government needs a more practical, less academic social policy aimed at the deficiencies of public authority» law enforcement, school standards, and work requirements» that the research itself suggests are central to poverty today.

The Church needs to find its way in a world where public school administrations are more preoccupied with transgender rights than restoring a rigorous academic curriculum.

In capitalist countries, if not in others also, what the poor urgently need is more cheap housing, bread and public facilities such as schools, medical services and transport.

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.

Perhaps more serious in the long run is the tendency of Catholics in some places to oppose needed bond issues or appropriations for the public schools.

Get started this summer when school lets out and act as if you're homeschooling 3 days a week, Kindergarteners don't need more than 1 — 2 hours a day sitting still, you have to get yourself out of the «school is an 8 hour a day» mind set, that was set up for public schools because parents work, that is the only reason the school day is so long.

«They (students) do n`t seem to care for the casserole - type foods any more, the hearty meals, so we have to cater to those needs, «says Phillips, who recently was named acting director of food services for Chicago Public Schools.

The Greens have called for Foundation Aid to be fully funded immediately, for the school aid formula to be reformed so it is more need - based, and for the state to support school desegregation programs such as intra - and inter-district public school choice, consolidation, and incentives (such as magnet schools).

The group praised Gov. Andrew Cuomo for his free college tuition plan announced Tuesday, but said more funding is needed for New York public schools.

WBFO's senior reporter Eileen Buckley says the union claims charter schools are «flush» with cash and do not need more public dollars.

WBFO's senior reporter Eileen Buckley says NYSUT is claiming charter schools are «flush» with cash and do not need more public dollars.

The Department of Education's proposal to amend ESSA would label most Westchester public schools as «in need of improvement» and would cut federal funding for any school where 5 percent of students or more opt out of Common Core testing.

«On behalf of our more than 13,000 parent members, we welcome the new Chancellor and hope that Alberto Carvalho will be the independent leader that public school children desperately need.

Kim says he no longer thinks it's the right priority, and that there needs to be more focus on fully funding public schools first.

Harlem Success Academy says the new school would provide more public school options for a district that desperately needs them.

These proposals are a reflection of the wide variety of community needs that delegates analyzed such as more access to technology in schools, senior - friendly spaces, safe public housing, quality recreation and parks.

Principals of local schools, parents and community board members emphasized the dire need for more schools Downtown, as the number of young families in the neighborhood continues to grow — thanks, in large part, to the reputation of the good public schools, they said.

Principals of local schools, parents and community board members emphasized the need for more schools Downtown as the number of young families in the neighborhood continues to grow — thanks, in large part, to the reputation of the good public schools, they said.

He also said the district needs to return to «neighborhood schools» and «promote charter schools which are generally more successful than the traditional public schools.»

The regulation — proposed by the U.S. Department of Education — would label most Westchester public schools as «in need of improvement» for any school where 5 percent of students or more opt out of Common Core testing.

Even as they promised more help for parents, both de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña reiterated Tuesday that they felt the city's public school system still remained the best place for most special needs students.

And it means giving public charter schools the resources they need to welcome more kids.

Both the #PathToPossible movement for more public charter schools and the Gifted & Talented Task Force are badly needed in our communities.

The Success Academy argues that opening on the Upper West Side will give more public school options to a district that desperately needs them.

«As a New York City public school teacher for 25 years, I've seen what our children need to succeed: smaller class sizes, more parental involvement, and balanced input in the education process from all members of the community,» Dromm said in a statement.

We need better schools with more accountability, public safety, and improved quality of life in the neighborhoods.

The governor says the money is needed to pay for a middle class tax cut, agreed to last year and which is scheduled to begin phasing in later this year, as well as a plan to provide free tuition at public colleges for New Yorkers earning less than $ 125,000 a year and to spend more on public schools.

In addition to potentially using library and NYCHA space, the mayor's office plans to generate the needed seats through a combination of converting the more than 27,000 existing half - day pre-K seats in public schools and community - based programs, as well as getting non-Universal Pre-K-compliant programs into the fold, sources said.

Hawkins said a debate focused on education is needed because both Astorino and Cuomo support programs to privatize public education, including more privately - managed charter schools and education tax credits for donations to charter and parochial schools.

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Indiana is at the forefront of providing mental health screening and services to juvenile offenders, but more efforts are needed to improve the services provided to detained youths, according to Indiana University School of Medicine research findings published in the October issue of the American Journal of Public Health.

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health - led research also suggests that employing local community health educators instead of more formally educated nurses to counsel young at - risk mothers could be cost effective and provide badly needed jobs to high school graduates from the same impoverished communSchool of Public Health - led research also suggests that employing local community health educators instead of more formally educated nurses to counsel young at - risk mothers could be cost effective and provide badly needed jobs to high school graduates from the same impoverished communschool graduates from the same impoverished communities.

Bloomberg has provided more than $ 1.2 billion, contributing to a school of public health, a physics building, a malaria institute and need - based financial aid programs.

«More work needs to be done to better understand the causes of these differences, so that steps can be taken to improve outcomes for mothers and babies,» study lead author Dr. Paul Aylin, of Imperial College London's School of Public Health, said in a college news release.

«While more research is needed, accumulating evidence exists to suggest that energy drink consumption is linked to adverse cardiovascular events, sleep disturbances, and other substance use among adolescents,» says Amelia Arria, director of the University of Maryland School of Public Health's Center for Young Adult Health and Development and co-author of the recent energy drink and alcohol study.

Men and teens need 30 to 35 grams per day or more, according to the Harvard School of Public Health.

In a constructive response to competition, school faculty and administrators may implement reforms that use resources more efficiently, improve the overall quality of education within the traditional public schools, and increase responsiveness to student needs.

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.

Close to three - fourths of the public say their local schools are doing well at attending to the needs of more - talented students, but that percentage plummets to just 45 percent when asked about the effectiveness of local schools at meeting the needs of the less - talented (Fig. 3).

More likely, the school is viewed as the appropriate vehicle in light of a child's needs, his personality, his experience at public schools, and available alternatives.

In the contentious world of education politics, the need to spend more on public schools stands out as a rare point of agreement.

The bottom line, as phrased by Education Next's Paul Peterson, Martin West, and Michael Henderson, is that «everyone wants more emphasis on just about everything in school, except athletics, though the general public is especially eager for more emphasis on reading and math, while teachers see greater needs in history and the arts.»

They saw that there were success stories but that further work would need to be done to ensure that more of the good charters flourished and fewer of the bad charters remained (just as the case with traditional public schools).

«Mind Shift» Urged for Public Schools (The Worcester Telegram) Paul Reville delivered a lecture at Clark University and discussed how we need to continue to improve schools, and the importance of a more holistic approach to instructing and nurturing stSchools (The Worcester Telegram) Paul Reville delivered a lecture at Clark University and discussed how we need to continue to improve schools, and the importance of a more holistic approach to instructing and nurturing stschools, and the importance of a more holistic approach to instructing and nurturing students.

With so many schools in need of improvement and so many parents demanding more public school options, how is this possible?

Another administrator, Dr. David Larson, executive director of the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents, said that although he applauds the release of a manual, to have a real effect, more training sessions are needed.

«There has never been more powerful evidence about the need for private school choice than the data that are coming out about public school choice,» says Clint Bolick, vice president of the Institute for Justice, a conservative legal group.

While the existing system of licensure for public school teachers is more rigorous than simply rubber - stamping someone's self - report on competence, most thoughtful people agree that the system is in need of a major overhaul.