Sentences with phrase «of public schools across the state»

WakeEd has previously advocated for creating a single accountability tool that meets the federal standards and fairly reports the performance of public schools across the state.

The State of Arizona initially instituted an «A-F» rating system in order to provide parents and families with easy - to - understand information about the relative performance of public schools across our state.

The State of Arizona initially instituted an «A-F» rating system in order to provide parents and families with easy - to - understand guidance regarding the relative performance of public schools across our state.

Not exact matches

Pupils of all age ranges in about 40 schools across New York have already joined Meatless Monday, including public (state - run), private and charter schools, and the Brooklyn announcement was made at a school that serves only meat free meals — every day of the week.

In 2007, Robert Pianta of the University of Virginia published in Science the results of a large - scale survey of American public schools that he and a team of researchers had undertaken, observing regular instruction over the course of an entire school day in 737 typical fifth - grade classrooms across the United States, as well as hundreds of additional first - and third - grade classrooms.

This document illustrates the trends and test results at Golden Valley Charter School in Sacramento where test results exceed state requirements, as they do at charter schools across California working out of the principles of Public Waldorf Education.

«New Yorkers defied expectations by rejecting a State Senate that would have turned its back on the needs of all public school students across the state,» said Executive Director Jenny SeState Senate that would have turned its back on the needs of all public school students across the state,» said Executive Director Jenny Sestate,» said Executive Director Jenny Sedlis.

Nearly 80,000 public school students in 100 districts across Long Island refused yesterday to take the state mathematics exam given in grades three through eight, in a fifth straight year of boycotts driven by opposition to the Common Core tests, according to a Newsday survey.

The programme which will kick off in April this year, with three hundred (300) Coding Centers across six (6) Education Districts in Lagos State to be commissioned, marking the beginning of the CodeLagos after - school programme in both public and private schools — primary, secondary & tertiary.

«In states across America, legislators have been pressured into a toxic game of cross-border business poaching that drives millions of dollars in tax breaks and subsidies to wealthy executives — draining funds we need to invest in infrastructure, schools, parks, and other public goods that is the bedrock of economic health.»

«By rewarding donations that support public schools, providing tax credits for teachers when they purchase classroom supplies out of pocket, and easing the financial burden on families who send their children to independent, parochial or out - of - district public schools, we can make a fundamental difference in the lives of students, families and educators across the state,» he said.

Thirty - two percent of public school students between the ages of six and 12 across the state are either overweigh or obese.

A new, more rigorous curriculum was put in place in public schools in 2012 and the impacts of that exploded in classrooms across the state this past year.

«This is the state where I have been a vocal advocate for LGBTQ equality and for women's health and women's rights, including a woman's right to choose, and in the last 17 years, I have been traveling across this state fighting for better public schools for my kids but also for all of New York's kids,» Nixon said.

For lawmakers to truly curb government spending across New York State they need to get public school teacher and administrator salaries, as well as the five - and six - figure payouts many of them receive upon retiring, back into the realm of what's normal for middle - income earners.

«As children begin another school year, I'm proud to sign this legislation, which marks a major step forward in protecting the public health and ensuring the future growth and success of students across the state.»

CodeLagos will officially launch this April, with a roll out of coding centers across 350 public and private schools as well as public libraries across the State.

According to him, the upgrade of the public libraries in schools across the six education districts in the State was in line with the commitment of the present administration to expand access to knowledge for Lagosians.

The Muslim Students» Society of Nigeria has commended the Lagos State government on the improvement in security in public schools across the sState government on the improvement in security in public schools across the statestate.

Governor of the state of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has inaugurated a community based management committee to see to the effective maintenance of public school facilities across the state.

Public school districts across Long Island and the state are bracing for what many educators and parents expect to be a fifth consecutive year of Common Core test boycotts in grades three through eight, even as eight districts in Nassau and Suffolk counties and dozens elsewhere introduce computerized versions of the exams.

Now, it's up to citizens across the state to hold the commission accountable and encourage its members to recommend real reforms to elevate the teaching profession and improve the quality of our public schools.

Now, parents and education advocates from across New York City are asking state legislators to ensure the future of high - performing public charter schools by supporting the Governor's proposal.

There are numerous private nonprofit organizations and foundations across the state, many at SUNY schools, that contend they operate outside the state's open government laws, keeping their records out of reach from the public and journalists.

In line with this vision, the governor recently approved the recruitment of 2000 tutorial staff across the 291 public secondary schools in the state, under the Post Primary Schools Management Board (PPSMB) and one is glad to note that the jobs were advertised, accorschools in the state, under the Post Primary Schools Management Board (PPSMB) and one is glad to note that the jobs were advertised, accorSchools Management Board (PPSMB) and one is glad to note that the jobs were advertised, accordingly.

A dozen public schools across the state, including two on Long Island, risk losing their chance to win coveted national «Blue Ribbon» awards for academic excellence because of the drop in the number of students who took standardized Common Core tests this spring.

Peneston was one of seven New York teachers of the year who signed an open letter to Cuomo saying his education reform proposals would hurt rather than help public schools across the state.

«I've come here with organizers and public school parents and students from across the state to demand public schools in every district get the resources they need regardless of the students» zip code, regardless of the students» skin color.»

They have offices in six cities across the state, and now regularly advocate for an agenda that includes ending the school - to - prison pipeline, increasing funding for community schools and pre-kindergarten programs, and railing against the expansion of privately - run charter school networks, what Easton calls the «privatization» of public education.

Governor Aregbesola disclosed that the distribution of the computer device will cut across the SSS 3 students in all the public schools in the state.

The Governor was commended by the students of Adventist High School, Ede during the second phase of flag - off and distribution of tablets of knowledge across the public secondary schools in the state.

Since the turmoil that saw public school advocates protest across the state — New York State United Teachers decried he tests as an «erosion of local control» — the state Department of Education has revised the controversial testing, reducing the number of questions on the exams, encouraging more teacher involvement in developing them, no longer timing the tests and reducing potential teacher penalstate — New York State United Teachers decried he tests as an «erosion of local control» — the state Department of Education has revised the controversial testing, reducing the number of questions on the exams, encouraging more teacher involvement in developing them, no longer timing the tests and reducing potential teacher penalState United Teachers decried he tests as an «erosion of local control» — the state Department of Education has revised the controversial testing, reducing the number of questions on the exams, encouraging more teacher involvement in developing them, no longer timing the tests and reducing potential teacher penalstate Department of Education has revised the controversial testing, reducing the number of questions on the exams, encouraging more teacher involvement in developing them, no longer timing the tests and reducing potential teacher penalties.

The group says it has filed 2,500 public records requests with government agencies across the state, including tiny villages and school districts, asking for their «checkbooks» — records of all expenditures in a given year.

«$ 4.8 billion dollars is a tremendously large amount of resources that would go a long way in ensuring our ability to address the inequities which remain across our public school system across our state,» Perry said.

While nearly 100 parcels are pending classification, the Boreas Tract dominated discussion at the Nov. 16 public hearing, the third in a series of eight planned sessions across the state held at Newcomb Central School.

The team, which also included David A. Rotholz, Ph.D., of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Anne M. Kinsman, Ph.D., of the Greenville Health System, and Kathi K. Lacy of the South Carolina Department of Disabilities and Special Needs (SC DDSN), as well as other leaders from key public and private stakeholder organizations from across the state, saw a way to remove this barrier.

«This is also a very important example of the benefits of the Gonski schools funding system — $ 224 million of additional Gonski funding is going to greatly benefit public schools right across the state and this is yet another example of the importance of all governments around Australia committing to fully funding the Gonski model.»

«We are so lucky to have one of the world's best teachers right here in the NSW public schools system and now we would like to see Eddie's magic rubbing off on our educators across the State,» Ms Berejiklian said.

This is in addition to the $ 692 million recently announced to upgrade 91 public schools across the State as part of the Building Better Schools program, as well as investment in four new public sschools across the State as part of the Building Better Schools program, as well as investment in four new public sSchools program, as well as investment in four new public schoolsschools.

Thus, its decision to authorize charter schools riled many of its alumni who were teaching in traditional public schools across the state.

The CREDO study asks how well a typical charter school student across the sixteen separate state policy environments does compared to the counterfactual of attending a traditional public school.

The CREDO study assessed the performance of charter schools compared to traditional public schools across 15 states and the District of Columbia.

Arkansas is the first state in the country to require yearly body - mass index, or BMI, screening for all of its 450,000 public school students, and this was the first year those measurements were taken by school nurses across the state and analyzed.

In the most regulated environment, larger participants — those schools with 40 or more students funded through vouchers in testing grades, or with an average of 10 or more students per grade across all grade levels — receive a rating through a formula identical to the school performance score system used by the state to gauge public school performance, inclusive of test score performance, graduation rates, and other outcome metrics.

There are more than 4500 charter schools across the United States today, but in only a few cities do charter schools enroll a significant percentage of public school students.

During Alonso's tenure, students in the Baltimore City Public Schools reached their highest outcomes in state exams, across all categories of students.

At least since the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, this has been interpreted to give the federal government the power to intervene in cases of legally sanctioned discrimination, like the segregation of public schools across the country; to mandate equal access to education for students with disabilities; and, according to some arguments, to correct for persistently unequal access to resources across states and districts of different income levels.

The state had already required FTC scholarship students to participate in standardized testing using a nationally normed exam chosen by each private school; a study commissioned by the Florida Department of Education found that, in 2007 — 08, their academic gains were similar to students nationally across all income levels and to similar Florida students who remained in public schools.

While discipline policies vary across schools, districts, and states — and as the nation's largest school district the New York City public schools are likely more bureaucratized and formalized in matters of school discipline than smaller districts — the scale, scope, and level of complexity of the legal regulations affecting day - to - day school practices appear quite formidable.

In cities and towns all across my home state of Massachusetts, school administrators and teachers» unions are engaged, usually well out of public view, in the periodic and exhausting ritual of collective bargaining.