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Based on interviews with 1,706 adults — of which 501 were parents — the poll found just 8 percent of public school parents who said they knew a lot about the Common Core assessments.

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I was born to two parents in South Carolina who went into debt to send us to private school because South Carolina's public school system is ranked 49 out of 50.

The NRA, bolstered by Trump, has been a vocal proponent of allowing more guns in public places, including schools, but the exception for the convention has raised eyebrows and prompted skepticism among students and at least one parent who lost his child in the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in which 17 people were killed and others injured.

She says the typical Waldorf parent, who has a range of elite private and public schools to choose from, tends to be liberal and highly educated, with strong views about education; they also have a knowledge that when they are ready to teach their children about technology they have ample access and expertise at home.

Less than half (48.7 percent) of parents whose children were assigned to a public school were satisfied, but 82.5 percent of parents who chose a private school were.

Evrything this man has done has damaged our national security and compromised our freedoms, from suing states who want to initiate simple voter safeguards to working to help the public «schools» usurp the role of child - rearing from parents.

Christian parents who care about the values of their children are rightly concerned about the moral and social values communicated through the public schools.

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.

There are millions of poor kids who only eat because of free and reduced - cost meal programs at public schools, and still tons of kids are running meal account deficits because their parents can't or won't pay their account balances, and it's the kids who suffer in that case.

The school was started by a group of committed parents and teachers who believed they could offer a distinct educational alternative by forming a school guided by the Core Principles of Public Waldorf education.

Concussion and Sports - related Head Injury: Statute 115C - 12 (23)(2011) requires the Department of Public Instruction, along with other organizations outlined in the statute, to develop an athletic concussion safety training program for the use of coaches, school nurses, school athletic directors, volunteers, students who participate in interscholastic athletic activities in public schools and their paPublic Instruction, along with other organizations outlined in the statute, to develop an athletic concussion safety training program for the use of coaches, school nurses, school athletic directors, volunteers, students who participate in interscholastic athletic activities in public schools and their papublic schools and their parents.

My suggestion — as a parent of public school children and as a former public and private school teacher — is that we individuals who are «outside» school culture (i.e. not administrators or teachers) become invested in whatever ways we can.

Even parents who are homeschooling children or have sent them to private schools are entitled to ancillary services courtesy of their public school district if it's been determined that the children have a learning disability or other disorder that requires intervention for them to function optimally in school.

The parents of a young Brooklyn boy who dresses like a girl filed a lawsuit last week with the NYC Commission on Human Rights that says Public School 107 in Park Slope created a hostile environment for their son, in violation of his rights.

After making her remarks at the Hilton Albany, Nixon, who has made education one of her key issues in her campaign, held a roundtable discussion with public school parents to talk about the conditions their students face.

«Maintaining mayoral control of city schools is critical to students, parents and employers who all depend on high quality public schools,» said Kathryn Wylde, President & CEO of the Partnership for New York City.

Patrick Roach, deputy general secretary of the teacher's union NASUWT, brands free schools a costly and unnecessary experiment which will produce misery for children: «We are on the side of parents and public who are opposed to free schools.

Who in their right mind would even want the job of school superintendent: parents hate you, teachers hate you (if you're doing your job)-- and the pay scale for superintendents is absurdly below what would be paid to a private sector CEO / COO managing the people and contracts and mandates that public school superintendents manage.

«I'm really excited to introduce this man who is outer - borough working dad, a public school parent, a lifelong progressive reformer and a leader who champions New York as a city of neighborhoods and families,» she said.

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ALBANY — Teachers» unions are leveraging an unprecedented statewide protest of standardized testing in public schools as their latest weapon in a war with Governor Andrew Cuomo over education reform — whether the parent activists who began the so - called «opt out» movement like it or not.

«Parents of public school children who object to curriculum changes this fall?»

«I urge local authorities to join with schools, parents and the public, who are outraged by the cuts to the school building programme, and support the NASUWT's lobby of Parliament on Monday 19 July.»

«New York State United Teachers today issued early endorsements to three incumbent state senators who have reliably stood with parents and educators in fighting for fair and equitable funding while vigorously opposing the climate of over-testing that is harming students and public schools,» NYSUT said in a statement.

At 11 a.m., the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and parents of children who attend Bronx public schools call on Albany for equal funding to their children's schools, Girls Prep Bronx Middle School, 890 Cauldwell Ave., the Bronx.

The Parental Choice in Education Act would provide tax credits for those who donate to private and parochial schools for purposes of scholarships, tax credits to parents who pay tuition to private and parochial schools and tax credits to teachers - in both public and private schools - who make personal purchases of school supplies and food to support their underprivileged students.

Wadleigh librarian Paul McIntosh, who has secured West, Liu and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio as part of a speakers program at the school, said students, faculty and parents know they are facing a difficult to nearly impossible fight to keep their middle school open.

Children and parents should not suffer because they choose to send their child to a religious or independent school - the rights and needs of a student at one of these schools should be treated as equally as those of a child who attends public school.

The CCHS has 10 elected members, two from each borough, who must be the parents of students currently attending a public high school.

«Maintaining mayoral control of city schools is critical to students, parents and employers who all depend on high quality public schools,» said Kathryn Wylde, the president of the Partnership for New York City.

He is a public school parent, he was a school board member, he really understands the lives of people who are struggling and need help from Washington,» Mr. de Blasio said.

The video features State Assemblyman Karim Camara, New York City Councilman Robert Cornegy, StudentsFirstNY parent advocates, and NYCAN Executive Director Derrell Bradford who spoke at a rally of 400 district public school parents in support of the Governor last week.

In January 2013, then the public advocate, de Blasio launched his first campaign as an outer - borough working dad and public school parent who would bring a populist, progressive fight against the policies of then - Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Prisco's concerns echo the concerns of parents who have blasted Bloomberg's failure to include parents in the city's public schools since winning mayoral control over the Education Department in 2002.

He's a community organizer and education reformist who works with groups including Syracuse's chapter of the National Action Network and Parents for Public Schools.

An at - large voting system for electing members to the East Ramapo school board — long dominated by Orthodox Jews whose children attend private yeshivas — has prevented public school parents who are largely black and Latino from electing candidates of their choice, according to a lawsuit filed by NYCLU.

«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.

As the Oct. 7 deadline fast approached, educators at almost 350 public schools across New York City prepared themselves and their school communities for the crushing loss of more than 700 school support staff — including school aides, parent coordinators, lunchroom workers, crossing guards and others — who were set to be let go by the city in the largest layoff at a single city agency since Mayor Michael Bloomberg took office in 2002.

His guests will include two Michigan residents who will talk about the damage to their state's public schools caused by the DeVos privatization agenda — Detroit parent activist Wytrice Harris and outgoing president of the Michigan State Board of Education John Austin.»

The off - color quip came in response to concerns by public - school dad Eric Greenleaf, who said at a meeting of parents and officials at state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's downtown office that there will be «huge shortages» of classroom space in lower Manhattan in coming years.

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Nixon, who is openly gay, highlighted her public school roots and being a parent of New York City school children.

So vaccination is clearly on the minds of doctors, public health officials and all those parents who will be sending their kids back to school in September.

New York, NY About Blog This is a place for parents, teachers, students — and anyone who has a stake in the improvement of our public school system — to offer ideas, share experiences and advice, and weigh in on policies and educational politics.

SING STREET takes us back to 1980s Dublin seen through the eyes of a 14 - year - old boy named Conor (Ferdia Walsh - Peelo) who is looking for a break from a home strained by his parents» relationship and money troubles, while trying to adjust to his new inner - city public school where the kids are rough and the teachers are rougher.

These self - marginalizing alliances leave a numerical majority of American parents, who like their traditional neighborhood public schools (and who've had it with high - stakes testing) or who don't identify as political progressives, regarding reform with either indifference or as a threat.

The other public schools are of such poor quality that any parents who can afford to do so send their children to expensive private schools.

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.

But the poll results on the issue for public school parents - those who interact with schools on a near - daily basis for most of the year — are still disheartening.

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.