Sentences with phrase «news about public schools»

There's so much bad news about public schools.

You aim to take advantage of every opportunity to share good news about public schools — your school in particular.

Not exact matches

They only hear about politics from people who are on the left — Hollywood entertainers, mainstream news anchors, public school officials.

Sitting on the sofa, I show him a few items: newspaper and magazine pieces about the Liston fights; Ali's conversion to Islam; the arrest for refusing military induction; the epic first battle with Frazier; the Supreme Court overturning the draft conviction; Foreman being voodooed by Ali; the Thrilla in Manila; the boxing lesson he gave Spinks in their second contest; a recent article about Ali buying buses for Chicago - area public schools (immediately after seeing a TV news story about how Dade County had no money for new buses, Ali sat down, wrote a check and mailed it, not using the gift as a tax deduction); and one about helping a young man wearing a hooded dark sweatshirt and jeans who crawled out on a high window ledge of a Wilshire Boulevard skyscraper in Los Angeles to kill himself.

Sharing some news from our friends over at Chicago Public Schools about their new Farmers Market initiative that launches today!

Georgia Health News surveyed the state's 20 largest public school systems about their lead testing policies and found many differences in how school systems evaluated their water quality.

In other e.politics news, I'm doing a call - in show on Minnesota Public Radio tomorrow morning about YouTube debates, chatting with academics from Princeton and Wake Forest (hope my Palestine (Texas) High School degree is up to the challenge).

Asked by Sky News about the row, Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, who went to Westminster public school, said: «I don't care where someone went to school.

«Private schools have every right to exist,» veteran Daily News columnist Juan Gonzalez wrote this week about this Council bill, «but not at public expense.»

Syracuse City School District superintendent Sharon Contreras apologized Wednesday night for the way news about plans to phase out three of the city's schools was made public.

In this week's Press Pass conversation, WBFO's Eileen Buckley talks with Buffalo News Education Reporter Tiffany Lankes about her upcoming featured article for «How to Fix Buffalo Schools» that will focus on the Grabiarz School of Excellence Public School 79.

Speaking about the consultant's study predicting further decline in the population of Clarkstown's public schools, the Journal News reported: «The reality is, this report can not define the future of Clarkstown,» said parent Sean Magee, of Congers, a former school board candidate.

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

«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.

The poll results that Education Next released Tuesday carry mildly glum news for just about every education reformer in the land, as public support has diminished at least a bit for most initiatives on their agendas: merit pay, charter schools, vouchers, and tax credits, Common Core, and even ending teacher tenure.

(If it ain't broke, etc.) Yet all the news about flat NAEP results and bleak PISA and TIMSS scores, to say nothing of the hand wringing over international competitiveness and waning social mobility, don't seem to have penetrated very far into the public's continued faith in their local schools.

Judging from the steady stream of news reports about teachers in traditional public schools sleeping with students, it appears that no amount of background checks or government oversight can eliminate rare but regular instances of misconduct.

If you follow news about the District of Columbia Public Schools closely, you could be forgiven if you thought teacher turnover had increased since the schools were handed over to mayoral control iSchools closely, you could be forgiven if you thought teacher turnover had increased since the schools were handed over to mayoral control ischools were handed over to mayoral control in 2007.

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Billions in federal economic - stimulus dollars are slated to be spent to help improve public education, but Americans relying on traditional news outlets are likely to find out little, if anything, about what that effort might mean for the schools in their communities, a new report suggests.

First, none of these news stories has been about public charter schools.

Mr. Smith talked about the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools» upcoming news conference to discuss charter...

In a nutshell, the news — about the performance of NYC public high schools since 2003 — was almost uniformly very good.

«Here's the bad news about making America's next generation competitive in the global economy: Anything we do today to fix our failing public schools will take fifteen to twenty years to show significant results.

Using unflinching language, Ms. Feldman — who said she would remain president of the New York City teachers» union while heading the national union — spoke at a news conference about the importance of creating high standards and denounced using vouchers that channel students and dollars from public schools to private schools.

WakeEd's timely WakeEdge alerts keep you informed about breaking news in public education and the Wake County Public School Spublic education and the Wake County Public School SPublic School System.

Stay updated about the latest news regarding traditional public and charter public schools in DC.

In a blog entitled, «Steve Perry's School Scores Below Hartford Public Schools,» Diane Ravitch, country's leading national public education advocate provided her tens of thousands of readers with even more news about Capital Prep Principal Steve Perry's aPublic Schools,» Diane Ravitch, country's leading national public education advocate provided her tens of thousands of readers with even more news about Capital Prep Principal Steve Perry's apublic education advocate provided her tens of thousands of readers with even more news about Capital Prep Principal Steve Perry's antics.

New York's Department of Education plans to release performance ratings for about 18,000 public school teachers Friday, the largest such disclosure in the country and the climax in a battle that has pitted the teachers union against parents, taxpayers and news organizations that demanded the data.

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An analysis of the Christie campaign's May 1 ad by PolitiFact New Jersey, a news fact - checking organization, said that while its claim about record K - 12 funding was true, the ad left out the fact that Mr. Christie had previously made deep cuts to state public school aid of nearly $ 1 billion.

Marion County Public Schools create a «Rumor Control» web page to stop fake news being spread about the district.

A woman wants to teach children as young as eleven about oral sex, masturbation, and orgasms in a public school setting and it's not news!!??!!

The latest Gallup Student Poll of more than 700,000 U.S. public school students offers good news on young people's views about school and learning.

It is nearly impossible to turn on the news or open a newspaper without hearing about negative press for public schools these days.

DeVos has «not been shy about avoiding the media,» noted a recent AP article, citing lack of public announcement of her first school visit and her refusal to allow those who showed up anyway to join her on the school tour: «DeVos does not take reporters» questions after speeches and her few interviews were with conservative news outlets.»

«I really want the kids not mindlessly grabbing for the phone, but thinking about whether or not the phone... is going to be their source of entertainment,» Diana Smith, principal of the Washington Latin Public Charter School told ABC News.

The survey asked a nationally representative sample of Americans about the state of education and found that between May and June 2016 — over a year after news accounts about parents» opting their children out of school tests became commonplace — the public's commitment to the use of standardized tests to assess students and schools remains firm.

Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service reporter Kelly Meyerhofer speaks with Mitch Teich about the truancy rate of Milwaukee Public Schools.

Michael DeArmond is interviewed about CRPE's new report, How Parents Experience Public School Choice in this Salt Lake City Deseret News article.

It helps you win at the polls, boost parent involvement, build effective coalitions, spread good news about schools, find out what the public thinks about your schools, and much, much more.

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«Not a day goes by where you don't see some story in the news media about charter schools, (or) when some legislator is not having to discuss to how they feel about the state of public education in the state of Mississippi.

First, the good news: The context of Secretary Clinton's remarks were in a talk about supporting public schools in Iowa, specifically schools widely regarded as doing a good job but in danger because of Iowa's particular budgeting laws.

GO Deeper: Visit GO Public Schools Leadership Center's Linked Learning page for resources, including video of OUSD student and teacher testimony about Linked Learning and news articles about Linked Learning in Oakland.

Success Academy (SA) and the media blasted the News about the 17 students (out of 73 or more who started out in this group) that graduated from SA's first high school graduating class but do not mention the 31,400 African Americans that graduated with advanced regents and regents diplomas from New York City's traditional public schools.

In other news, another corporate education reform industry leader, Colorado Democratic Congressman Jared Polis, returned to twitter last night to continue his rant about the country's leading public school advocate, Diane Ravitch.

At Texas School Business, it's our job to spread the good news about Texas public schools, and this annual issue makes a great starting point for many conversations that can only help our mission and give your schools the recognition they deserve.

Arkansas News Burea, August 25, 2011, asserted the main role vouchers should have is «providing new models for regular public schools to emulate, not about replacing regular public schools.»

A leak of thousands of SAT questions, a stunning expose by Reuters News about myriad of problems associated with the standardized testing scheme, an FBI raid and now a broadside posted by a former SAT executive is focusing attention on the absurd use of the «NEW» SAT to evaluate Connecticut's public school students, teachers and schools.