Sentences with phrase «of public school parents think»

The survey found that 97 percent of voters and 96 percent of public school parents think serving nutritious foods in schools is important to «ensure that children are prepared to learn and do their best.»

Not exact matches

Deplore as we may the existence of the parochial school, its challenge to the separation of church and state, and its attempted inroads on the public treasury, the fact remains that parochial schools exist primarily because Catholic parents, who pay their public - school taxes, think it worth while to submit to additional cost and often to much inconvenience to see to it that their children receive the religious instruction denied them in the public schools.

I have been getting so much useful feedback and information for my book from two surveys I've been circulating: one asking you about the notion of «kid food» and your general thoughts about the role of junk food in your kids» lives, and a second survey just for public school parents, asking your thoughts about school meals, a la carte snacks and on - campus food fundraisers.

«I applaud those students for speaking up, I applaud the students for taking action and I think the calls of the students and parents have captured the attention of the administration of the Buffalo Public Schools and the teacher's union and I'm hoping that those two entities can come together in the best interest of the education of the children at City Honors,» he said.

«People are not paying attention if they think it's just about the money,» said Ansari, who is, as she regularly mentions, a public school parent, mother of eight, and grandmother of three.

Topics in the Q&A included the source of money for the City's planned pre-K advertising campaign, the City's target number of pre-K applicants, whether Speaker Silver thinks the proposed income tax surcharge should be pursued next year, how the pre-K selection process will work, how the City will cover the approximately $ 40 million annual gap between the estimated cost of pre-K and the amount provided in the state budget, when parents will learn whether their pre-K application has been accepted, how the City will collect data and measure success of the pre-K program, whether the existing pre-K application process will be changed, how the City will use money from the anticipated school bond issue, the mayor's reaction to a 2nd Circuit ruling that City may bar religious groups from renting after - hours space in public schools, the status on a proposed restaurant in Union Square, a tax break included in the state budget that provides millions of dollars to a Bronx condominium project, the «shop & frisk» meeting today between the Rev. Al Sharpton and Police Commissioner Bratton and a pending HPD case against a Brooklyn landlord.

School of Public Health researcher Akilew Adane said this and other maternal health research added to the evidence that parents and clinicians should think of pre-pregnancy health across the entire reproductive stage of women's lives, «not just the year before starting a family.»

In theory, the concept might appeal to those who think taxpayers who don't use public schools should get other benefits instead — and to proponents of allowing parents even greater flexibility and choice than vouchers offer them.

Education historian William Cutler explains in Parents and Schools that «educators and most school board members prefer to think of the parent - teacher association as an extension of the educational establishment, «an auxiliary to the public school,» as the Los Angeles County Board of Education put it in 1908.»

As the child of immigrants who counted public school access in their equation of the American Dream, I had minimal exposure to private schools growing up, and as a young parent I wanted my children to embrace diversity, thinking this would be found in public, not private, schools.

With painting, drawing, singing, and dance classes dwindling in public schools, Sarson hopes the half - hour special opens up a dialogue between administrators, policymakers, parents, and teachers about the importance of such activities and the potential consequences of raising generations of children that aren't encouraged to appreciate the arts or think outside the box.

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.»

But fewer members of the public and fewer parents think at least 30 % of the high school day should be devoted to students receiving instruction on a computer.

Almost three - quarters of respondents from the general public think school districts should be notified if parents intend to homeschool their children, however; 68 percent of parents feel the same way.

Our findings echo those reported by the 2016 Education Next survey, which examined the opinions of parents whose children attend public, charter, and private schools (see «What Do Parents Think of Their Children's Sparents whose children attend public, charter, and private schools (see «What Do Parents Think of Their Children's Sschools (see «What Do Parents Think of Their Children's SParents Think of Their Children's SchoolsSchools?

King thinks often of his parents, both educators in New York City public schools.

A typically thought - provoking and painful passage from Russakoff illustrates the perspective of a Newark public - school parent:

This whole district public school vs. charter public school — I don't think parents think of it that way.

Arne Duncan thinks that magnet schools are the answer, yet there is absolutely no evidence that they succeed better than regular public school despite the inherit advantage of having students of parents interested enough in their children's education to enroll them in one.

But in 2011, reformers set ambitious goals for how many options could be afforded to parents, so even if participation is light, the range of choices that parents and children have in education should cause everyone to think twice about how public schools have been operating.

A parent might think their child would benefit in other (harder to measure) ways by opting out of the local public school.

Faith - based schools, they assume, are in the business of «indoctrinating» their pupils, while public schools are by definition committed to critical thinking and to the emancipation of their pupils» minds from the darkness of received opinions, even those of their own parents.

In short, racially diverse, vibrant public school options in which teachers think of student diversity as an asset to explore and build upon in the classroom would keep more affluent parents and their resources in public schools.

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Forty - nine percent of public - school parents thought tests don't measure things that are important to them about an education (46 percent said tests do).

Some public school superintendents and principals are using Commissioner Pryor's instructions to mislead, lie and intimidate parents into thinking they can't opt their children out of the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Field Test.

Instead of fulfilling their legal, moral and ethical duty as a superintendent of a public school system in Connecticut, yet another public school superintendent has decided to join the Malloy's administration's ongoing efforts to mislead Connecticut parents into thinking that they do not have a right to opt their children out of the absurd, unfair and inappropriate Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Test of a test.

After all, neither Brill nor Guggenheim (or even other reformers, including those in the Parent Power movement) hold ed school degrees, are ensconced in think tanks, or have spent a day in a classroom — even though it doesn't take the possession of either credential to know that American public education is in crisis.

However, for a good analysis of why, in practice, parent trigger petitions are most likely to aim for charter schools, see Thoughts on Public Education, by John Fensterwald.

I think there will be all kinds of public schools throughout my lifetime, because many parents will feel those are the institutions that serve their children best, and public schools will continue to improve, personalize their offerings for students and anchor their communities.

I think there should be a variety of options, within public school districts, for parents and students to choose.

«I think anyone who watched Standardized, especially parents with children still in public school, came away appalled at what is being done to the nation's children through uncontrolled testing, and enraged that these policies are supported by leaders of both major parties,» he says.

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Since they're starting the process of turning around a public school — and got stuck with a chronically failing one for years — it seems only smart to ask parents who are on the front lines about their thoughts and experiences, don't you think?

The movie features five children and their parents — including a middle - class family from Redwood City — who have applied to independently run public charter schools in search of an education they don't think their neighborhood school will afford them.

Like: If public school isn't good enough for Muldrow's child, why does she think it should be good enough for children whose parents aren't capable of sending them to private schools?

Starting with a meeting on Sunday evening, March 30th, the public and private funded groups promoting Friendship Charter Schools, Inc. met with a small group of Clark parents to scare them into thinking that if they did not choose Friendship Charter Schools immediately, they would lose out on the Malloy administration's promise to allocate $ 1.5 million to help enhance the Clark Elementary School.

DCPS builds teacher - parent relationships with home visits Although some parents were at first wary at the thought of school officials coming into their homes, the District of Columbia Public Schools and the Flamboyan Foundation worked with the community to get both teachers and families comfortable with the idea of home visits.

, the public and private funded groups promoting Friendship Charter Schools, Inc. met with a small group of Clark parents to scare them into thinking that if they did not choose Friendship Charter Schools immediately, they would lose out on the Malloy administration's promise to allocate $ 1.5 million to help enhance the Clark Elementary School.

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And think of the message that «we need to make all public schools great» sends to parents like me who are making decisions for their children's education right now.

State Commissioner John King and the Board of Regents dismissed parent complaints, and Secretary Arne Duncan brushed them off as the whining of «white suburban moms» who were disappointed to learn that their child was not as brilliant as they thought and their public school was not as good as they thought.

«We think we are bolstering the public school system by creating new options within it and showing that it can be reinvented in ways to better serve parents and communities,» said Jed Wallace, chief executive of the California Charter Schools Assn..

I think some parents feel the need to justify spending a lot of money on private school by putting down the public schools.