Sentences with phrase «needs of public school»

This WFDD story considers the conflict between state support of charter schools and the needs of the public school system in advance a WFDD - hosted community forum on school choice, charters and vouchers.

DeVos «has spent her time in office meeting with school choice and privatization advocates, while largely ignoring the needs of public school students and teachers.»

«New Yorkers defied expectations by rejecting a State Senate that would have turned its back on the needs of all public school students across the state,» said Executive Director Jenny Sedlis.

To best serve public schools today, a law firm must structure itself to serve the specific needs of public schools and their leaders.

The Virginia Board of Education will hold a series of public hearings this summer to gather feedback from families, educators and community members on student expectations, how schools are accredited and the conditions and needs of public schools.

By failing to adequately address the needs of our public schools in the 2017 budget, General Assembly leaders have much work to do in 2018.

Annually, the Board of Education submits to the Governor a report on the condition and needs of public schools in Virginia.

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.

With 80 % of the world's farmable land already in use, Dickson Despommier, an ecologist at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, says that in 50 years we would need «another Brazil - sized landmass» to feed the three billion people expected to be added to the global population.

«At a minimum we need a law that protects the privacy of our children in our public schools,» Abbott said.

Because tax revenues are expected to exceed school building needs, Colorado public officials are already thinking of additional ways to use the tax windfall.

I like work flexibility because... I have a special needs child that I have to homeschool due to lack of public school support.

«It's obvious the world of public employees in Spain needs to become smaller and that'll create unemployment, it can't be helped,» said Javier Diaz - Gimenez, a professor of economics at IESE business school in Madrid.

This is certainly good news for our roads, bridges, schools and other public works, many of which are in sore need of a spit shine.

I was pleased to see the PCs move away from that short - sighted approach during their final years in government and that the NDP has continued to invest in building the type of public infrastructure — schools, hospitals, roads and public transit — that Alberta's growing population will need.

One need not be a historian of education or a theologian to assess the damage done to public education and then to society in general by how these cases were decided and what public school officials were empowered to do (or so they believed) despite the clearly given cautions from the Supreme Court itself.

I have to say, though, that things have improved considerably since the days when our public school music teacher felt the need to teach her largely Jewish students about the divinity of Jesus.

The government doesn't need to recognize marriage (I don't give a hang if they don't recognize my relationship with my wife); the government doesn't need to run public schools (and get into the fight about whether evolution truly explains the origin of species and the origin of life).

If a dozen different public school systems were to embark on a five - year experiment as part of a larger nation - wide experiment encouraged by federal dollars, local teams of educators, parents and community leaders would need to devise appropriate local models.

They would also need to report to state and federal educational officials so that the methods and results of the different local public school reforms could be compared to each other and to voucher experiments.

The government should not be permitted to create incentives for religious practice or belief (like giving favored status to religious organizations, as compared to other nonprofits), to facilitate the religious practices of some at the expense of others (like offering vocal prayers in public schools), or to accommodate one religion but not others with similar needs or problems (like limiting draft exemptions to members of traditional «peace churches») Within these guidelines, religious accommodations are fully in keeping with the First Amendment — albeit in conflict with strict separation.

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

For the present, the Supreme Court decision in the McCollum case of 1948 interposes barriers, but this need not be final.13 In the meantime, the churches should seize every opportunity to give weekday religious instruction on released time outside the public schools.

These worlds were needed hundreds and thousands of years ago to explain mysteries that today are explained and understood as nature in public school classes.

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.

With public schools fast becoming incubators of gender ideology, parents need to cast off their fears of entering the fray, speak out, and, most importantly, teach their children that their sex is a beautiful, biological reality.

The effort of Gruntvig and his school to whip up the national pride of Denmark by recalling it to the Nordic sagas and its glorious history, Kierkegaard felt to be so much public flattery and a violent poison to the real individual need of the soul.

Chance recently gave Chicago Public Schools $ 1,000,000 out of his own pocket, and argued that it's the schools and local students that need resources like a pool and museum — items that are apparently in the budget for the police aSchools $ 1,000,000 out of his own pocket, and argued that it's the schools and local students that need resources like a pool and museum — items that are apparently in the budget for the police aschools and local students that need resources like a pool and museum — items that are apparently in the budget for the police academy.

No teacher should be or need be at a loss to deal intelligently and fairly with most religious issues that might arise in public schools in a pluralistic society, and every teacher can be and ought to be prepared to grasp the religious dimensions in any subject of study and to use sectarian differences to clarify issues and enrich the learning of all.

But Bob also says that public schools now give demonstrations of gay s - x acts, so clearly he is delusional and needs some psych medication.

Religion (regardless of which) needs to be seperated from our public schools.

Now, writes his biographer, «Mann was about to preach a new religion and convince his constituency of the need for a new establishment, a nondenominational institution, the public school, with schoolmasters as a new priestly class, patriotic exercises as quasi-religious rituals, and a nonsectarian doctrine stressing morality, literacy and citizenship as a republican creed for all to confess.

There is no need to shrug and assume that current government - funded schemes of sex education or vague imitations of them are the only way forward: Catholic schools are popular and highly - regarded by the public in general in Britain and in a stand - off between them and officialdom the latter might find it had fewer allies than it imagines.

Waqfs were established to furnish trousseaux for orphan girls, for paying the debts of imprisoned or bankrupt businessmen, for clothing for the aged, to help pay village and neighborhood taxes, to help the army and the navy, to found trade guilds, to give land for public markets, to build lighthouses, to help orphans and widows and the destitute, to care for the needs of poor school children and to give them picnics, to pay for the funerals of the poor, to provide holiday gifts for poor families, to build seaside cottages for holidays for the people, to distribute ice - cold water during the summer, to create public playing fields, to distribute rice to birds, and to give food and water to animals.

We woefully underestimate the power of business leaders if we think they are engaged in private enterprise, for their decisions have huge public impacts not only on their stockholders but on the jobs we need, the neighborhoods in which we live, the water we drink, the air we breathe and the schools in which we learn.

I mean that a lot of Christians (primarily Christians) feel that they don't need to study something and the fundamental types will probably refuse to go to a public school because of this too, because they strongly believe in miracles, and in God that provides all answer's.

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.

With public schools fast becoming incubators of gender ideology, parents need to cast off their fears of entering the fray.

According to Edward J. Larson's scholarly, informative, Pulitzer Prize - winning book, Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion, the prosecution of young John Scopes for presumedly violating a state law restricting the teaching of evolution in the public schools need not have resulted in the now legendary high - pitched standoff between the atheistic radical Clarence Darrow and the robustly religious populist William Jennings Bryan.

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

Religion in the public - school classroom need not be as divisive as critics of the religious right allege.

There need not be an either / or situation, with education divided between Christian schools that teach religion and public schools that exclude it — all in the name of the separation of church and state.

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.

The collaboration of Madison Public Schools and Backyard Farms shows how communities can deliver creative solutions to health and wellness needs.

These are essentially questions of public policy, and if real solutions are going to be found to the problems of disadvantaged children, these questions will need to be addressed, in a creative and committed way, by public officials at all levels — by school superintendents, school - board members, mayors, governors, and cabinet secretaries — as well as by individual citizens, community groups, and philanthropists across the country.

However, if your child is a student who can finish at the top of his or her public school class while securing the support needed to navigate the college admissions process, then he or she may be better off as a giant gerbil in a pint - sized Habitrail.

Public schools must adhere to government special education requirements and must communicate in specific ways with the families of children with special needs.

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.

There is an entire population of twice - exceptional students who struggle to have their needs met in a public school setting.

With all of the talk of education reform and what's needed to revitalize public schools, it's refreshing to read Paul Tough's new book, Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why.