Sentences with phrase «of public schooling these kids»

But far more importantly, this plan upsets me as a parent of public school kids.

It might be the most common mistake in education writing and policy analysis today: declaring that a majority of public school students in the U.S. hail from «low income» families — or, even worse, that half of public school kids are «poor.»

Today, fourteen cities have at 30 percent of their public school kids in charters.

«Sixteen percent of our kids graduate from four - year colleges, compared to less than 5 percent of public school kids in our neighborhoods; and it's only 3 percent of CPS Latinos and 4 percent of CPS blacks who graduate from college.»

He said, you know, in the 12 years of public schooling these kids have been given, taxpayers have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars getting them ready to go to college.

Not exact matches

One recent (if small study) that followed a diverse group 183 teens who attended public high school for a decade, starting in middle school, found that «by the age of 22, these «cool kids» are rated as less socially competent than their peers.

«We're staffed to really support not just independent private schools like ourselves, but in the future, public schools where the majority of kids are educated,» said AltSchool CEO Max Ventilla.

If you're looking to raise one of the most powerful business leaders in the world, you might want to send your kid to Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet, in India.

Bill Gates was the most public face of Microsoft, but of course the company started as a partnership with the kid Gates met one day in a group of students crowded around a teletype machine in a Seattle high school.

Redirects education dollars to give parents the right to send their kid to the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school of their choice.

«They still want good restaurants, but now it's also about space, affordability and being able to send their kids to a good public school,» said Paternite, 45, who said that about 70 percent of her business now comes from young families who are making the move from Brooklyn or Manhattan.

'' it's perfectly legal to take pictures in a public area» Hang around a grade school taking pictures of the kids and we'll see how your «internet law degree» holds up in court.

Although the issue of homeschool student participation in public high school sports isn't exactly a pressing national concern, it hits pretty close to home in our family — both our kids are competitive club - level swimmers who could contribute to the success of our local high....

The secular humanist public schools are always on about persecution, hoping to entice kids into believing that if they leave their faith they will be part of the «majority» and therefore safer.

Would you want your kids subjected to his kind of religious influence at a PUBLIC school?

In fact I bet you're one of those hypocrite teabagger trolls who are happy to have the government pave their roads, provide public schools for their kids, provide a mortgage credit, etc. then whine about all those fictional people getting so much for free.

Would you want your kids feeling that kind of religious pressure and invasion at a PUBLIC school??

A vast majority of both inner - city poor and advantaged whites agreed that school choice would be «especially helpful to low - income kids, because their public schools tend to have the most problems.»

More and more public schools are defying the low expectations of kids in low - income communities.

Especially, if belief in Santa was affecting their behavior — like demanding that my kids pray to Santa in the public schools, and that certain people's rights must be curtailed because of their belief in Santa.

Jonathan Kozol is celebrated in educator - land for his tear - jerking accounts of how poor kids get cheated by the tightwad public schools and the miserable, selfish, capitalist society of the United States.

It will require hard stands at key moments — harder and more costly than merely pulling kids out of public schools, for example.

However teaching creationism in public schools as a scientific reality on the order of evolution damages kid's critical thinking.

However, you should really also add the percent of kids who ever have contact with a Catholic priest (maybe 25 %) and the relative number of contact hours (at most 20:1 compared to public schools).

one of the things that drew me to my current church was that the pastor's kids went to school with mine at the local public school ---- good kids but not perfect, and they are okay with that.

After all, implicit in Ms. Rhee's statement is the suggestion that if you have the wherewithal to get your kids out of the D.C. public schools, you have a parental obligation to do it.

How are you about using tax money to put a big fat elephant - headed Ganesh on top of your kid's public school, or to buy new Qurans for every single student to study?

Guns are in schools because quite obviously kids are able to get them with relative ease, not because the govt took forced prayer out of public schools.

I want to introduce my kids to a God who is both personal and public, a God who hears their prayers about being afraid to go down the slide at school and who also cares about the systems of injustice and oppression in this world.

Kim looks at SGKAs who are students at one highly selective public university and asks why, given their proficiency in English, impressive educational credentials earned in interracial high schools, and rosy occupational prospects — the attributes that make them «whiz kids» or a «model minority» in the eyes of some — they so often prefer to worship with their own kind.

At the public charter school where she used to teach, she said, «I had a lot of students comment, «I can't really feel bad for this rich kid with a weekend free in New York City.»»

When saying Merry Christmas has become a bad thing, when we can no longer have the peoples vote counted and respected by judges and elected officials, when health care for aids and other associated dieses is covered, when kids in school have to be subjected to demonstrations of gay bedroom life when the mayor of NY will no longer without reason and against the law rent churches public buildings, when teen pregnancies up 45 percent will be paid for by us the people of the US with all the cost completely covered.

Unless it comes down to trying to force kids in public school to pray today I don't think it's that big of a deal.

The beauty of private school is that my children routinely outperform the public school kids and remain free to hear the word.

I just know I personally would not send my kid to an all - day government - run pre-K and the state of the U.S. economy and public schools such as they are right now, I don't think adding more responsibilities to them and throwing more money at them is something I'm on board with.

Part of the reason for this is that so many choose to send their kids to private school and have no interest whatsoever in improving the public schools.

i know a lot of people who have regretted starting their kids in public school because it either makes it harder for them to get used to the idea of learning from mom or because they form attachments at school and don't want to be homeschooled.

I hope there will be more options available when the time comes in the way of tax breaks or vouchers for those who decide not to send their kids to public schools.

Although my heart wants to home school or unschool Ava, I'm not giving in and instead am leaving her in public school for kindergarten (in a class of 25 kids) this year.

Of course, I was a public school kid, who had a crazy family life, and here I am, a decent human being:) This is an important decision, although your child won't necessarily be «ruined» whichever choice you make:) That was more like a dollar's worth of advicOf course, I was a public school kid, who had a crazy family life, and here I am, a decent human being:) This is an important decision, although your child won't necessarily be «ruined» whichever choice you make:) That was more like a dollar's worth of advicof advice!

What are N.C. Public Schools doing to improve meals kids eat at school in the wake of new regulations and programs designed to improve childhood health.

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.

I'm glad Jezebel got a hold of this and made it public so at least we can all know what we're potentially up against when sending our own kids to high school.

Many of the schools we serve are private schools, and the public districts we do serve have Free and Reduced rates below 10 % [i.e, fewer than 10 % of the kids qualify for free or reduced price lunch.]

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.

We have friends whose kids are going to the public kindergarten (only 1/2 day) with the «wraparound» enrichment program for the rest of the day; their little ones are already stressed out because they have just 2.75 hours in school, during which they're basically being trampled on with mountains of «instruction,» and the wraparound program gives just 20 minutes for lunch while foregoing rest time in favor of «reading instruction» and «homework help.»

But what a crazy system we have, if the people closest to the day - to - day reality of school are essentially excluded from the public debate over how we educate our kids.

By Laura PeuquetWhile the health of America's youth has been part of political and public conversations for some time, the Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA) brought school food nutrition to the national forefront and paved the way for significant progress towards better school food.

Janis Groomes, food service director at Northport Public Schools, knows the power of school gardens to get kids interested in eating fruits and vegetables, even ones that are unusual...

As Chicago Public Schools pushes ahead with a district - wide roll - out of its Breakfast in the Classroom program, concerns are mounting from some parents worried about kids» allergies