Sentences with phrase «of public elementary»

But, NCES reports that only about 1.5 percent of all public elementary school teachers, and 0.6 percent of all public secondary school teachers are certified in either English as a second language or bilingual education.

Less than half of all public elementary schools offer before - and after - school care, with low - income schools actually less likely to offer after - school programs.

Provides state - by - state descriptions of public elementary and secondary finance policies and programs in effect during the 2014 - 15 school year.

In 2013, 23 % of public elementary schools and 15 % of public high schools required students to wear uniforms — up from 3 % of all schools in 1996 (NCES, 2016).

Over 25 percent of public elementary schools include garden - based learning.

* Twenty percent of all public elementary schools and 9 percent of public secondary schools were considered high - poverty schools, compared with 15 percent and 5 percent respectively in 1999 - 2000.

The survey was administered online to a nationally representative sample of public elementary, middle and high school teachers in November and December of 2015.

57 % of public elementary and secondary school principals stated that one or more incidents of crime or violence were reported to the police

But only around 45 percent of all public elementary schools actually offer before - and after - school care, according to CAP's analysis of federal data.

This new report, produced by the National Center for Education Statistics, covers six different areas: elementary and secondary enrollment; enrollment in degree - granting postsecondary institutions; high school graduates; degrees conferred; elementary and secondary teachers (including the number of teachers in elementary and secondary schools as well as student - teacher ratios and new teacher hires); and expenditures of public elementary and secondary schools.

To be eligible charter schools must serve a student population with at least 55 percent of their pupils eligible for free or reduced price meals (FRL), or they must be physically located in the attendance area of a public elementary school with 55 percent or more FRL qualified students.

Law enforcement already has a significant presence in U.S. schools — roughly 24 percent of public elementary schools and 42 percent of public high schools have sworn police officers, but these officers have not effectively improved student safety.

Numbers and types of public elementary and secondary schools from the Common Core of Data: School year 2010 — 11 (NCES 2012 - 325rev)

Local boards of education represent their community in overseeing local schools as part of the state system of public elementary and secondary education.

School property means in or within any building, structure, athletic playing field, playground, parking lot or land contained within the real property boundary line of a public elementary or secondary school, including a charter school; or in or on a school bus, as defined in Vehicle and Traffic Law section 142.

As of fall 2007, more than 6,000 elementary schools in 1,700 districts had received Reading First grants, about 10 percent of the public elementary school market.

Preston Smith is Co-Founder & CEO of Rocketship Education, a non-profit network of public elementary charter schools serving low - income communities in California, Tennessee, Wisconsin, and Washington, D.C..

Author Bio: Preston Smith is Co-Founder & CEO of Rocketship Education, a non-profit network of public elementary charter schools serving low - income communities in California, Tennessee, Wisconsin, and Washington, D.C..

But matters didn't look quite so clear - cut to the principal of the public elementary school where he teaches in Cupertino, Calif..

The average SAT score of public elementary teachers today is less than 1000; for secondary teachers a bit higher.

Nearly half of the public elementary and intermediate schools in Queens will receive some funding as part of a $ 5,145,000 allocation from Borough President Katz's portion of the New York City Fiscal Year 2016 Capital Budget toward the purchase of SMART Boards and laptops.

But in terms of the tone used by the lunch room volunteers — I will say that my two kids are now old veterans of public elementary school lunch rooms and they've certainly endured their share of barking lunch room monitors.

Not exact matches

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act approved expanded use of 529 plans to include tax - free distributions (after December 31, 2017) of up to $ 10,000 per year per student to pay for tuition at elementary or secondary public, private, or religious schools.

It used to be that around Christmastime (and Hannukah) there would be all sorts of stories about political and judicial conflicts about the various signs of the season: creches and menorahs in public spaces, carols and songs sung or not sung at «holiday» programs in elementary....

In mid-December, six - year - old Isaiah Martinez brought a box of candy canes to his public elementary school.

When Nicole Baker Fulgham met one of her fellow faith - based public school advocates for coffee once, he recounted a conversation he had with a friend who is a long - time elementary school principal in the Bronx.

In contrast, my own Chicago parish church and elementary school are located on two city blocks that together take up ten acres, but those blocks include — in addition to the church and school — over 100 dwelling units in a variety of buildings two - to - three stories tall, more than 15 businesses, and nearly 200 on - and off - street parking spaces for the public.

Bibles in every motel room God on our money Prayer before public events Christian cable networks 24/7 Discounts on insurance for being christian Churches every 6 blocks in every city over 100,000 Laws that prevent non-christians from holding public office Christian bookstores in every town over 12,000 God in the Pledge of Allegiance Televangelists 24/7 Christian billboards along the highway advertising Vacation Bible School and «Repent or go to He.ll» Federally recognized christian holiday Radioevangelists 24/7 Religious organizations are tax free 75 % of the population claims to be christian National day of prayer God in the National Anthem Weekday christian education for elementary students.

The development of universal free public education, beginning at the elementary levels and rising within recent years to the college and university levels, has been a direct consequence of the democratic impulse.

Experiments involving the measurement of blood sugar levels of elementary students in a public school revealed that the levels were characteristically high or low in certain classrooms.

Encourage the development of a course in media literacy in your public school system: at elementary, junior high, and high school levels.

In recent years there has been a considerable increase in the number of religious schools, religious instruction has been introduced in public elementary schools, and modern madrasas have been founded.

I have a friend who was a child integrating a white public elementary school after the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964.

For example, public spaces recycling captures the «last mile» of recyclables — items typically found in curbside and deposit recycling programs that are abandoned by consumers in park spaces and recreational facilities like arenas, street scapes, transit stops, bars and restaurants, elementary and secondary schools, convenience stores and gas stations.

In this country, at least, we tend to divide childhood into a series of discrete chapters, segmented like clothing sizes or the aisles in a public library: infants and toddlers over here, elementary school students over there, teenagers somewhere else entirely.

You work for the federal government, a state or local government, a public or private elementary or secondary school, or any company that has 50 or more employees working 20 or more workweeks in the current or preceding calendar year and residing within 75 miles of your workplace.

A Tribune investigation has found that nearly 32,000 Chicago students in public elementary schools - or roughly 1 in 8 - missed four weeks or more of class during the 2010 - 11 year, as the cash - strapped district does little to stem a devastating problem.

Concussion and Sports - Related Head Injury: Code 18 -2-25a (2013) requires the governing authority of each public and nonpublic elementary school, middle school, junior high school and high school, working through guidance approved by the department of health and communicated through the department of education, to do the following: (A) Adopt guidelines and other pertinent information and forms as approved by the department of health to inform and educate coaches, school administrators, youth athletes and their parents or guardians of the nature, risk and symptoms of concussion and head injury, including continuing to play after concussion or head injury; (B) Require annual completion by all coaches, whether the coach is employed or a volunteer, and by school athletic directors of a concussion recognition and head injury safety education course program approved by the department.

Four years later, the breakfast program had grown to serve 199 public elementary schools, and Esaian urged the school board to take it districtwide, crediting the program with improving the «intellectual, emotional, social and physical development» of schoolchildren from low - income families.

With 40 years of experience in public and private early childhood and elementary education, Betsy has directed and founded school programs, taught in both public and private schools, has been a school director and was the founding director of Wilshire Boulevard Temple's Early Childhood Center.

A report from the North Carolina Dept. of Public Instruction shows that paid lunch prices in Haywood County in 2011 - 12 were $ 2 in elementary and $ 2.25 in middle and high school.

As summarized by Reuters, the study's researchers peered into the lunch boxes of 626 third and fourth graders from 12 public elementary schools in Eastern Massachusetts, and found that only 34 % of lunches contained fruit, only 11 % contained vegetables, 42 % contained snacks and 28 % included dessert.

Today he posts about one D.C. public elementary school which may have its food services taken over this fall by a group of D.C. chefs — along with a lot of parent volunteers.

HIGHLAND PARK — Public hearings on the proposed merger of the three elementary school systems in Highland Park concluded Thursday in Waukegan after four days.

In contrast to the good news in public schools, the authors found that the academic skills of teachers going into private elementary education have fallen.

In other business, the district voted unanimously to renew its contract with the South Cook Organization for Public Schools, a group that has lobbyists in the Statehouse in Springfield to represent the interests of south and southwest suburban elementary schools.

Last night, my little public elementary school, Nettelhorst, hosted a public screening of the powerful new documentary Lunch Line, which follows six Chicago high school kids as they set out to fix school lunches — ending up at the White House.

She's also a child development and behavior specialist, parent educator and multiple birth parenting consultant with 40 years of experience in public and private early childhood and elementary education.

With over 40 years of experience in public and private early childhood and elementary education, Betsy has directed and founded school programs, taught in both public and private schools, has been a school director, and was the founding director of Wilshire Boulevard Temple's Early Childhood Center.

We go to a public elementary school, which means religious education is a family choice, and it is done outside of school.