Sentences with phrase «of public schools in the nation»

Currently, about one - third of all public schools in the nation — more than 30,000 — have been stigmatized as failing because they did not make what the law calls «adequate yearly progress.»

Many schools «failed» year after year, and as 2014 approached, the majority of public schools in the nation had been declared failures, including some excellent, highly regarded schools (typically, the group that was not making sufficient progress toward 100 percent proficiency was students with disabilities, and the schools that were likeliest to be labeled as failing enrolled high proportions of poor and minority students).

When it comes to flagship universities, the University of Michigan (UM) is one of the most outstanding of all public schools in the nation.

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Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

What remained to be unraveled Thursday was what drove the shooter to bring his rage to a school in what would become the nation's second deadliest public school shooting with a toll of at least 17 deaths.

Over half of black children in public primary and secondary schools are concentrated in the nation's twelve largest central city school districts, where the quality of education is poor, and where whites constitute only about a quarter of total enrollment.

The site posted a recording of Benham talking to a talk show host about «homosexuality and its agenda that is attacking the nation» and «demonic ideologies» taking hold in colleges and public schools.

Teachers in Ecuador's public schools often must contend with overcrowding (60 students per class), a dearth of books — even at the university level — and students fainting from hunger (according to the government's own figures, half the nation's children suffer from malnutrition)

Likewise, the Protestant desire to make the Bible influential in American public life resulted in a series of skirmishes for the soul of the nation's public schools.

I think it is really sad that a CHRISTIAN nation, replaces almost all forms of it in the public schools, you can't have a Nativity scene anywhere in the school w / o it being «discriminating» to other people, but we can accept Muslim holidays.

In each case, the issue was compulsory performance of a flag salute by children in public schools, a sign of patriotic loyalty to the nation that implied obligations to defend iIn each case, the issue was compulsory performance of a flag salute by children in public schools, a sign of patriotic loyalty to the nation that implied obligations to defend iin public schools, a sign of patriotic loyalty to the nation that implied obligations to defend it.

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

She has 3 children and is the founder of the Redefine Positive Project, an initiative that is working to reform HIV / AIDS education in public schools across the nation.

It had been customary to pray or to read the Bible in public schools in many states throughout the Union from the founding days of the nation.

Indeed, nearly half of the nation's public school educators are practicing Christians and 95 percent of Protestant pastors believe Christians should get involved in helping public schools (Barna).

While some evangelical supporters of homeschooling, private school, and charter school options are celebrating a school choice advocate's appointment to this all - important role (and a graduate of the evangelical liberal arts school, Calvin College, at that), other conservative Christian public school parents and advocates are disheartened by DeVos's limited personal history with our nation's public schools (she has mentored in public schools but not attended, taught, or sent children to public schools).

The resolution goes on to defend voluntary prayer in schools and religious displays on public property because they reveal «the positive role that Christianity has played in this great nation of ours.

He doesn't, it's Satan who is running wild in this country because GOD has been taken out of public places and prayer has been taken out of schools etc., when you take GOD out, you let evil in... this nation hasn't learned that yet... there will be more tragedies like this or worse unless GOD is bought back into every facet of the public as he was decades ago when prayer was allowed in school, the commandments were made visible and even on our money his name was present — BRING GOD BACK!!

Think of it this way... if it can't be taught as fact in our public school system's or used in the making of law in a secular nation, then it truly doesn't stand its apparent ground to the manner it once might have.

Lead author Sara Chrisman of the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center in Seattle, Washington, viewed the finding that concussion education requirements for coaches under the state's first - in - the - nation «Lystedt Law» were being closely followed by public high schools in Washington State as «very encouraging but not surprising,» noting that schools had an incentive to follow the law because it provides legal immunity from litigation for schools that follow it correctly.

Public Waldorf schools across the nation are at the forefront of defining themselves as exemplary educational models that value measurement of growth in meaningful, developmental, and authentic ways.

A percentage of proceeds will help in providing a well - rounded education that includes music to public school students across the nation.

This action was taken despite the fact that our state ranks fifth in the nation for obesity among high school students, and despite public comments reportedly opposing the TDA's plan by an astounding margin of 105 to 8.

The Board of Education has agreed to move forward on a plan to eliminate sugary beverages and make Florida the first state in the nation to ban chocolate milk in public schools.

In this role, she is responsible for leading the efforts to improve public policies to end hunger, reduce poverty, promote nutrition and increase the availability of healthy affordable food in low - income areas; maximize participation in all federal nutrition programs (SNAP, school meals, early childhood nutrition, WIC, and summer meals); and educate the public about both the stark reality of hunger's existence in the nation's capital and the real opportunities for effective solutionIn this role, she is responsible for leading the efforts to improve public policies to end hunger, reduce poverty, promote nutrition and increase the availability of healthy affordable food in low - income areas; maximize participation in all federal nutrition programs (SNAP, school meals, early childhood nutrition, WIC, and summer meals); and educate the public about both the stark reality of hunger's existence in the nation's capital and the real opportunities for effective solutionin low - income areas; maximize participation in all federal nutrition programs (SNAP, school meals, early childhood nutrition, WIC, and summer meals); and educate the public about both the stark reality of hunger's existence in the nation's capital and the real opportunities for effective solutionin all federal nutrition programs (SNAP, school meals, early childhood nutrition, WIC, and summer meals); and educate the public about both the stark reality of hunger's existence in the nation's capital and the real opportunities for effective solutionin the nation's capital and the real opportunities for effective solutions.

CSS achieved national and international prominence by spearheading the Los Angeles Unified Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Policy, the most stringent pesticide policy in the nation for K - 12 public schools — the first to embrace the «Precautionary Principle» and «Right to Know» and then the passage of California's Healthy Schooschools — the first to embrace the «Precautionary Principle» and «Right to Know» and then the passage of California's Healthy SchoolsSchools Act.

Ellen Haas has spent a good portion of her adult life trying to improve the nutrition of the nation's school lunch program, first as the founder and director of the consumer group Public Voice, and in the last two years as Department of Agriculture undersecretary of food, nutrition and consumer services.

To see what such a miserly outlay means for the nation's public - school kids, see Ed Bruske's great recent series of posts; or check in on the Fed Up blog, which features snapshots of the daily offerings at a school in Illinois.

Once an icon of the Jewish community, Skokie since the 1980s has become something of a north - suburban United Nations, where 80 languages are spoken in the homes of its public school students.

CDC and ASCD developed this expanded model — in collaboration with key leaders from the fields of health, public health, education, and school health — to strengthen a unified and collaborative approach designed to improve learning and health in our nation's schools.

More than one - third of the nation's statehouses do not have the metal detector security systems that can be found in a range of public places, from middle schools to museums.

GBENGA ADENIJI and SIMON UTEBOR write about the hideous face of cultism which is dangerously polluting the academic milieu in the nation's public secondary schools Looking forlorn and weak, Miss Lillian Friday, a 16 - year - old pupil of Community Secondary School, Otuoke in the Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, has yet to get over her -LSB-...]

Ballston Spa is one of the 4 percent of public school districts across the nation receiving the award in 2018.

«One year ago, with the promise of Education Tax Credits on the horizon, thousands of tuition - paying families were left out in the cold — excluded from a state budget that provides the nation's highest level of spending per pupil in public schools,» he said.

He's also in favor of free tuition to CUNY colleges for low - and middle - income students, smaller class sizes in the city's public schools, and desegregation of the school system, which he noted is the «third most segregated in the nation.»

Ms. Teachout blamed Mr. Cuomo for the «most segregated schools in the nation» and accused him of seeking to privatize education and take resources away from public classrooms.

The circular released the fee items the government has absorbed for all day public senior high school students in the country in line with its commitment to implement the progressively free secondary education policy as expressed in President John Mahama's State of the Nation Address last year.

New York City will become the nation's first major metropolis to close its public schools in observance of the two most sacred Muslim holy days, de Blasio announced — a watershed moment for a group that has endured suspicion and hostility since the Sept. 11 attacks.

The report released Monday as part of a collaborative study between the Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health Policy, part of the School of Public Health and Health Services at George Washington University, and the RCHN Community Health Foundation, reveals that due to federal budget cuts through sequestration, the nation's 1,200 community health programs will lose $ 120 million in funding.

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The K - 12 budget's Foundation Aid increase of $ 700 million will help address the resource needs of New York's public schools, which remain among the most inequitably funded in the nation.

WBFO's senior reporter Eileen Buckley says several groups stood together in solidarity in full - support of Buffalo Public school students who join the nation - wide protest.

In his testimony at the hearing, Deputy Chancellor Josh Wallack admitted the city has a long way to go in integrating public schools, which are some of the most segregated in the natioIn his testimony at the hearing, Deputy Chancellor Josh Wallack admitted the city has a long way to go in integrating public schools, which are some of the most segregated in the natioin integrating public schools, which are some of the most segregated in the natioin the nation.

New York just made history when the City Council approved the nation's first bills of their kind to provide free tampons and pads in all public schools, homeless

«The crisis in Flint brought the true costs of a neglected infrastructure to the nation's attention, but in the finger - pointing there are deeper debates over public and private responsibility and the impact of dysfunctional politics on public health,» said David Rosner, PhD, co-director of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and author of the commentary, «Entry Point: A Lead Poisoning Crisis Enters Its Second Century,» which is available online in the May issue of the journal, Health Afpublic and private responsibility and the impact of dysfunctional politics on public health,» said David Rosner, PhD, co-director of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and author of the commentary, «Entry Point: A Lead Poisoning Crisis Enters Its Second Century,» which is available online in the May issue of the journal, Health Afpublic health,» said David Rosner, PhD, co-director of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and author of the commentary, «Entry Point: A Lead Poisoning Crisis Enters Its Second Century,» which is available online in the May issue of the journal, Health AfPublic Health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and author of the commentary, «Entry Point: A Lead Poisoning Crisis Enters Its Second Century,» which is available online in the May issue of the journal, Health AfPublic Health and author of the commentary, «Entry Point: A Lead Poisoning Crisis Enters Its Second Century,» which is available online in the May issue of the journal, Health Affairs.

Senior author A. David Paltiel, MBA, PhD, professor of Public Health (Health Policy) at the Yale School of Public Health, says, «Our aim is to confront donor nations with the clinical and economic consequences of any decision to substantially cut HIV program funding and to help recipient nations respond in the least harmful ways possible to the actions of countries in the developed world.»

«We have a major medical center and law school, and we have our own rich traditions rooted in the Carolina soil, such as being the nation's oldest public university with a strong history of diversity.»

According to Profile of Teachers in the U.S. 2011, a report from of the National Center for Education Information, 16 % of the nation's public school teachers entered the profession through an alternate route like the one Cruzan followed.

Stuart Shalat, director of the Division of Environmental Health at Georgia State University's School of Public Health, points out that the nation's aging infrastructure is making it increasingly difficult to protect kids from any number of environmental risks, particularly in poor communities.

In this year's «Best Graduate Schools» edition, U.S. News & World Report ranked the UC San Diego School of Medicine (5th) in the nation among public medical schools (14th among all U.S. medical schools), with its AIDS program ranked 6tIn this year's «Best Graduate Schools» edition, U.S. News & World Report ranked the UC San Diego School of Medicine (5th) in the nation among public medical schools (14th among all U.S. medical schools), with its AIDS program rankSchools» edition, U.S. News & World Report ranked the UC San Diego School of Medicine (5th) in the nation among public medical schools (14th among all U.S. medical schools), with its AIDS program ranked 6tin the nation among public medical schools (14th among all U.S. medical schools), with its AIDS program rankschools (14th among all U.S. medical schools), with its AIDS program rankschools), with its AIDS program ranked 6th.