Sentences with phrase «of children in the public school system»

«We need to reduce the number of children in the public school system.»

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Bottom line is this, keep it out of the public square; learn to respect others beliefs / disbeliefs; stop trying to tell LGBT they are wrong; stop trying to tell women what they can and can't do with their bodies; stop trying to push bogus creationism crap (backed with zero evidence) on innocent children in the public school system; just stop pushing it outside your home or church.

500k children have been abused in the public school system, millions have been abused in their own homes but hey the CC is the cause of it all according to the libs and media.

We have too short a school year already relative to the rest of the world and that, among other things, accounts for why are children are receiving woefully inadequate educations in the public school system.

Which is one very sensible reason why the majority of teachers in the big city systems do not send their own children to the public schools.

My partner who was the co-chair with me of the committee we worked on continued as she had children still in the public school system and I took my son out for a year to homeschool (we had already spent several years homeschooling before his 2nd grade year spent in the public system).

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.

Mr. Speaker, I am proud to report to this august House that after a few months of intense preparation, the Akufo - Addo Government has: • rolled out the destiny - changing free Senior High School policy across all public schools to ensure equal opportunities for every Ghanaian child • rolled - out the National Digital Property Addressing System to provide a unique address for all properties in Ghana • Launched the National Identification Scheme; and • Restored the teachers and nurses training allowances.

NYC workers assigned to help homeless students are desperately overwhelmed, leaving many of those children, among the most vulnerable in the public school system, to miss enormous amounts of school and fall far behind their classmates, two reports say.

One father of twins in the public school system commented on the differences he sees between the two teachers his children have, noting:

Battle of the Books is part of the overall Summer Reading initiative run by the 37 - site Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System where school age children are encouraged to read during the summer months in an effort to advance their academic performance.

Interestingly, parents of children in the often maligned New York City public school system gave Mayor Bloomberg a more positive rating, with 46 percent saying he'd succeeded and 48 percent saying he'd failed, according to the paper.

Then, he took those lightweight twinkletoes and gave poor and working class New Yorkers the chance to send their children to mostly superior charter schools intsead of leaving them in the cesspools of the public system (and, in the process, forced the public system to get much better because of the competition.)

«Rob Astorino is a product of public schools, a father of three children in the public education system and a former school board member who was recruited to serve by teachers,» spokeswoman Jessica Proud said in a statement.

«I can not imagine that David Steiner will sleep well tonight; he wrestled with his conscience and settled on a nightmarish scenario for the million - plus children in the New York City public schools — placing at the helm of the New York City public school system a person with zero educational credentials,» he said.

«Since her first child entered the City's public school system ten years ago, Ann Kittredge has immersed herself in learning about the many different facets of educational policy and has dedicated a great deal of her time and effort to volunteer projects aimed at improving the education experience of our children,» Borough President Katz said.

The charters have been used for tax breaks by hedge - fund operators; worse yet, he continued, is that they're siphoning away children in poorer neighborhoods whose parents are aware enough to seek something better for them than their local schools, in what he called «a cannibalization of our public - school system... We need to fully fund our schools.»

It's why I led the fight for mandatory kindergarten city - wide, it's why I increased the number of pre-K slots available in New York City, it's why I have been a staunch advocate for ensuring that children get access to breakfast at school, and it's why I have made reforming our public education system one of the cornerstones of my campaign.

In New York City, there were nearly 240,000 students in private or parochial schools in the 2014 - 2015 school year — a fraction of the 1.1 million children in the city's public school system — according to the Independent Budget OfficIn New York City, there were nearly 240,000 students in private or parochial schools in the 2014 - 2015 school year — a fraction of the 1.1 million children in the city's public school system — according to the Independent Budget Officin private or parochial schools in the 2014 - 2015 school year — a fraction of the 1.1 million children in the city's public school system — according to the Independent Budget Officin the 2014 - 2015 school year — a fraction of the 1.1 million children in the city's public school system — according to the Independent Budget Officin the city's public school system — according to the Independent Budget Office.

A recent study from the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital done in conjunction with researchers from Colorado School of Public Health at the University at Colorado and Temple University used data from a large, national sports injury surveillance system to determine the effect of state - level TBI laws on trends of new and recurrent concussions among US high school athSchool of Public Health at the University at Colorado and Temple University used data from a large, national sports injury surveillance system to determine the effect of state - level TBI laws on trends of new and recurrent concussions among US high school athschool athletes.

A mindfulness practitioner and a long - time champion of efforts to improve the health and well - being of American families and children, Congressman Ryan is also a public advocate for mindfulness - based programs in schools, the military, and the health - care system.

Now, as I reflect on 18 years in the public school system and, with four children, 58 combined years of Open Houses at many different schools, I offer this advice for educators to reinvent your Parent Open House and share some of your ideas.

She is more determined than ever to work on behalf of the children that she feels are affected most by the failures of the current system: those educated in inner - city, lower - income, ethnic - minority majority public school districts.

Linamen credits some of the school's achievements to the Somerset County Public Schools, which she says has the support of wonderful parents and community members, a central office staff that is supportive of new initiatives, and board members and a superintendent who care about each and every child in the system.

In a study of 90 English language learners in a Southern California public school system, Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Nonie Lesaux, along with then - doctoral students Michael Kieffer and Amy Crosson, took a closer look at why these children fall behind, and how new instructional strategies might redress the balancIn a study of 90 English language learners in a Southern California public school system, Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Nonie Lesaux, along with then - doctoral students Michael Kieffer and Amy Crosson, took a closer look at why these children fall behind, and how new instructional strategies might redress the balancin a Southern California public school system, Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Nonie Lesaux, along with then - doctoral students Michael Kieffer and Amy Crosson, took a closer look at why these children fall behind, and how new instructional strategies might redress the baschool system, Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Nonie Lesaux, along with then - doctoral students Michael Kieffer and Amy Crosson, took a closer look at why these children fall behind, and how new instructional strategies might redress the baSchool of Education Professor Nonie Lesaux, along with then - doctoral students Michael Kieffer and Amy Crosson, took a closer look at why these children fall behind, and how new instructional strategies might redress the balance.

Yet the United States already bears costs from our broken education system, including higher crime rates, additional expenses for health - care and public - assistance programs, and lost tax revenue as well as the untold costs of telling generations of children in chronically under - resourced, low - performing schools: «You don't matter!»

The language in the budget proposal says it would be an increase of $ 1 billion in Title I to encourage states and districts to adopt student - based funding systems where money, including state, local and federal funds, follows the child to the school that they attend within the public sector.

The state of Massachusetts introduced a system of standardized testing in its public schools three years before the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 mandated such practices for all 50 states.

But the 82 - year - old retired school administrator — whose 1977 move to charge the families of undocumented children here $ 1,000 per student to attend public schools sparked a federal lawsuit — has more than made his peace with the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling against him and the school system in Plyler v. Doe.

But observers in St. Paul believe two recent developments may create a favorable climate for the concept: the U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the state's 25 - year - old system of income - tax deductions for expenses incurred by families with children in private and public schools, and the endorsement of a generalized voucher...

Michelle Rhee, the chancellor of public schools in Washington, has turned education reform heads across the country by arguing, often loudly, that our current education system puts the interests of adults above the interests of children.

The conscience of a liberal should struggle with supporting a system in which the children of the poor are consigned to attend the school that is assigned to them by public officials, regardless of its quality, whereas more affluent parents can shop for the school they want for their children by purchasing a home in the vicinity of the public school they prefer or paying private school tuition.

And he answers, «certainly not because I have any direct self - interest — no... I'm not profiting from my involvement in charter schools (in fact, I shudder to think of how much it's cost me), and I have little personal experience with the public school system because I'm doubly lucky: my parents saw that I wasn't being challenged in public schools, sacrificed (they're teachers / education administrators), and my last year in public school was 6th grade; and now, with my own children, I'm one of the lucky few who can afford to buy my children's way out of the NYC public system [in] which, despite Mayor Bloomberg's and Chancellor Klein's herculean efforts, there are probably fewer than two dozen schools (out of nearly 1,500) to which I'd send my kids.»

Ravitch sees Winnetka as one of a few public school systems that made intelligent adaptations of progressive methods — individualizing instruction, motivating children by tapping into their interests, developing cooperative group projects — in order to achieve the traditional aims of producing knowledgeable and skilled students.

One wonders if those who brought this suit are willing to press their equality claims to their logical conclusions and challenge the vast array of inequalities poor and minority children might experience in public school systems.

While expanding parental options for children's education in Milwaukee, school choice has transformed public education into a multi-sector delivery system for the good of everyone.

In March Booker devoted half of his hour - long State of the City address (his fifth) to education, saying «More than anything, we must do better for our children's education... We know that there will never be a great Newark unless there is a great public school system for our city.»

While public schools in New Orleans educate mainly children from poor families, «several new schools are attracting families who could afford private or parochial school, the same type of families who started leaving the school system 45 years ago,» writes Danielle Dreilinger on nola.com.

Instead of arguing whether charter schools should be included in No Child Left Behind, a more fruitful question is how to ensure that state accountability schemes allow enough flexibility for boutique programs within the public system while not opening up loopholes that low - quality schools can slip through.

Children who were just entering the public school system when National Education Association (NEA) president Bob Chase addressed the National Press Club in 1997 are adults now, perhaps with children of thChildren who were just entering the public school system when National Education Association (NEA) president Bob Chase addressed the National Press Club in 1997 are adults now, perhaps with children of thchildren of their own.

Over the next decade, Success plans to expand to 100 public schools serving 50,000 children in grades K - 12, making it the size of the Atlanta or Boston school system.

All of which makes one thing obvious: The only system of learning compatible with a truly free society is not one of government domination, but one rooted in educational choice — public education, not schooling — in which the public assures that all people can access education, but parents are free to choose their children's schools and educators are free to educate how they wish.

Our state constitution mandates a «thorough and efficient system of free public schools for the instruction of all the children in the State.»

We oversee the state's diverse public school system, which is responsible for the education of more than six million children and young adults in more than 10,000 schools with 295,000 teachers.

The stars of the film are Geoffrey Canada, the CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone, which provides a broad variety of social services to families and children and runs two charter schools; Michelle Rhee, chancellor of the Washington, D.C., public school system, who closed schools, fired teachers and principals, and gained a national reputation for her tough policies; David Levin and Michael Feinberg, who have built a network of nearly one hundred high - performing KIPP charter schools over the past sixteen years; and Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, who is cast in the role of chief Children's Zone, which provides a broad variety of social services to families and children and runs two charter schools; Michelle Rhee, chancellor of the Washington, D.C., public school system, who closed schools, fired teachers and principals, and gained a national reputation for her tough policies; David Levin and Michael Feinberg, who have built a network of nearly one hundred high - performing KIPP charter schools over the past sixteen years; and Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, who is cast in the role of chief children and runs two charter schools; Michelle Rhee, chancellor of the Washington, D.C., public school system, who closed schools, fired teachers and principals, and gained a national reputation for her tough policies; David Levin and Michael Feinberg, who have built a network of nearly one hundred high - performing KIPP charter schools over the past sixteen years; and Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, who is cast in the role of chief villain.

This suit attacking the Texas system of financing public education was initiated by Mexican - American parents whose children attend the elementary and secondary [p5] schools in the Edgewood Independent School District, an urban school district in San Antonio, School District, an urban school district in San Antonio, school district in San Antonio, Texas.

Given the reality that we should be educating all children ~ it may surprise the uninformed observer that the market - based approach is alive and well in the education field driving a set of reforms that is slowly eroding our public school system and creating an even wider and more troubling achievement gap; ensuring that more affluent students have access to better schools and more resources ~ while low - income students receive a second - class education.

Washington — The nation's chief state school officials, in a markedly emotional meeting last week, voiced extreme displeasure with the Reagan Administration's posture towards public education, particularly its intention to seek legislation that would introduce a system of tuition tax credits for families with children attending private schools.

Every child in this state is, however, guaranteed access to a «thorough and efficient system of free public schools».

While the city's charter schools ran independently of Rhee's efforts to reform the public school system, the slow improvement in the schools overall paralleled the city's growth — as the city's population grew over the last decade, more parents chose to enroll their children in the city's school system, creating pressure for better schools and more schools.