Sentences with phrase «offered at the public school»

• SB 318, which would allow home - schooled students to participate in extracurricular activities offered at the public school that they would otherwise be required to attend.

It may just be a child that wants to do advanced Russian and it's not offered at the public school.

Not exact matches

«It makes sense to spin off the mobile - phone business using a public offering that would leave SoftBank in control and provide SoftBank with more cash to pursue its strategy of investing in companies with potentially high growth prospects,» Erik Gordon, a professor at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business.

The government should not be permitted to create incentives for religious practice or belief (like giving favored status to religious organizations, as compared to other nonprofits), to facilitate the religious practices of some at the expense of others (like offering vocal prayers in public schools), or to accommodate one religion but not others with similar needs or problems (like limiting draft exemptions to members of traditional «peace churches») Within these guidelines, religious accommodations are fully in keeping with the First Amendment — albeit in conflict with strict separation.

Vouchers — sometimes called public scholarships — would offer parents an «educational check» that could be cashed at any eligible school, whether public or private.

The locker room offers the appearance of privacy, but at the same time elicits public performance (as every awkward middle school student knows too well).

In Spain, public schools offer religious instruction at state expense.

I think public high schools ought to offer, at the senior level, a course in philosophy, including metaphysics.

What happens when you offer a two - week introduction to the business world; then add museum visits, swimming, outdoor and social activities; and host it all at a top - ten business school at the world's premier public university?

While some may look at the close relationship between premier high schools and elite colleges and bemoan the sad state of meritocracy, there is still evidence that public schools may offer an equal or even better chance at admission to an Ivy League school than spending four years at Groton School or another Hogwartz-esque boarding sschool than spending four years at Groton School or another Hogwartz-esque boarding sSchool or another Hogwartz-esque boarding schoolschool.

He suggested we specifically look at gifted schools because they offer differentiated instruction and teach to the top, whereas public schools teach to the bottom and conventional private schools teach to the middle.

I started my own family before acquiring a degree in education, and I felt at that time I wanted a school experience for my own children that was different than what the public school had to offer.

It is very important for TRCCS to have the ability to offer daily healthy lunches for families who would normally be provided these lunches at a traditional public school.

-LSB-...] of public - school children Chris Liebig offers the following explanation for what he calls the «incredible shrinking lunch period»: At a meeting with concerned parents, the school superintendent sympathized with our concerns, but -LSB-...]

-LSB-...] and parent of public - school children offers the following explanation for what he calls the «incredible shrinking lunch period»: At a meeting with concerned parents, the school superintendent sympathized with our concerns, but -LSB-...]

In an interview, CPS parent Joy Mollet said she was appalled by the classroom breakfast program offered by her children's public preschool and does not want to see it at their grade school, Hawthorne Scholastic Academy.

Fed Up With Lunch Appalled by cafeteria offerings at her Chicago public school, a teacher (aka Mrs. Q) resolves to endure the school lunch every day for a year and write about it anonymously in this blog.

I think city councils could do more good for kids by considering other food and kid scenarios like banning soda served to kids in public schools, or requiring food with nutritive value to always be served when refreshments are offered at a school, or requiring restaurants to offer kids real food choices on the kids menu.

Tina, there isn't a morsel of food offered in any public school lunch program at market prices.

Already, Shedd offers free admission to Chicago Park District youth groups and staffs, Illinois school teachers and K - 12 groups, active duty military personnel and first responders, and families with children using Kids Museum Passports available at Chicago Public Library branches.

Such strictures would preclude, for example, meals including pizza, cheeseburgers, white bread, tater tots, and most fruits and vegetables offered on the side — foods reportedly served to children at public schools in Richmond.

Chef Tim Cipriano, who heads the food services program for New Haven Public Schools and was named Advocate of the Year at the Share Our Strength conference, offered a more tempered outlook.

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.

State law requires that all public schools offer a free meal to eligible students even if the schools do not participate in the federal lunch program, said Mark Haller, who supervises child nutrition programs at the Illinois State Board of Education.

After Park District officials declined an offer to feature a Nativity scene in a public park, the Thomas More Society filed a complaint and the Illinois Nativity Scene Committee lobbied to place a privately funded depiction of the birth of Jesus at North School Park.

Supporters of strengthening charter schools say they offer children at failing public schools a chance out of poverty.

Heastie said the bill was aimed at offering «relief» to families with children in both public and private schools.

Losing the millionaire's tax would also torpedo the governor's plan to offer free tuition at CUNY and SUNY in the future to the students who attend our public schools now.

Mr. Felder — an Orthodox Jew who represents a large Orthodox Jewish constituency in Brooklyn — has expressed support in the past for allowing yeshivas leeway in complying with state law, which requires that private schools must offer students instruction that is «at least substantially equivalent» to that offered in public schools.

At 1:30 p.m., the Senate Standing Committee on New York City Education Subcommittee will meet to discuss various amendments to education law - including an act in relation to requiring certain public schools in any city with a population over one million to offer food options during lunch, an act to direct chancellors of city school districts, in cities having a population of one million or more, to examine and assess the feasibility of expanding the number and types of career and technical education schools and programs within such city school districts and an act in relation to improving educational outcomes for homeless students.

Just 10 % of seats at those schools were offered to black and Hispanic kids, who make up nearly 70 % of students in the public schools.

Classes at STREB — which range from founder Elizabeth Streb's POPACTION to parkour — cost money, but the organization regularly partners with public schools and nonprofits like the St. Nicks Alliance to fundraise and offer free sessions.

David Ozonoff, an epidemiologist at the Boston University School of Public Health, says that the reports «smear» the scientists involved in pandemic planning by «insinuating» that they would have offered different advice had they not had a relationship with drug companies.

Despite prices, promises and even ratings systems, all helmets approved for high school football players appear to offer similar protection against concussion, according to a new study from the Colorado School of Public Health at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Cschool football players appear to offer similar protection against concussion, according to a new study from the Colorado School of Public Health at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical CSchool of Public Health at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

«We became interested in studying the effects of economic downturns on public spending during the Great Recession of the late 2000s, when media outlets were filled with stories about states cutting optional Medicaid benefits, increasing school class sizes and reducing course offerings,» said Ho, who is also a professor of economics at Rice and a professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.

«Our findings offer new evidence for a potentially important social determinant of health that so far has not been recognized: sudden loss of wealth in late middle or older age,» said senior author Carlos Mendes de Leon, professor of epidemiology and global public health at University of Michigan's School of Public Hpublic health at University of Michigan's School of Public HPublic Health.

Analyzing millions of internet searches tied to major societal events offers a new way to understand public reaction to those events, according to new research from the Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health at Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapublic reaction to those events, according to new research from the Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health at Indiana University - Purdue University IndianaPublic Health at Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis.

at Cambridge in the United Kingdom and was a visiting scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health, turned down the offer.

The Johns Hopkins PhD program in Bioethics and Health Policy is a track within the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, offered in association with the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics.

The Roger C. Lipitz Center for Integrated Health Care at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is offering free technical assistance to help primary care practices and health care organizations, including accountable care organizations (ACOs), improve the quality and outcomes of health care for older adults with chronic illnesses.

«This offers a new way to keep an HIV - negative person HIV - free,» says Jared Baeten, M.D., an associate professor of global health at the University of Washington School of Public Health, in Seattle, who led one of the studies.

Right before my birthday 8 years ago, I went to volunteer at our local public school but they offered me a part time job.

Now, as I reflect on 18 years in the public school system and, with four children, 58 combined years of Open Houses at many different schools, I offer this advice for educators to reinvent your Parent Open House and share some of your ideas.

Counting the benefits Membership uptake has significantly increased since the renovations at both sites and much to the schools» and the council's delight, Wyedean and Five Acres are able to compete with private sector leisure centres, offering high - end quality facilities at public sector prices.

There is reason to believe that this might be the case: for instance, in prior research at the K - 12 level, Hart and I found that offering school vouchers to economically disadvantaged families improved the productivity of traditional public schools.

The National Association for Single - Sex Public Education reports that, as of April 2006, at least 223 public schools in the United States were offering gender - separate educational opportunities, up from just 4 inPublic Education reports that, as of April 2006, at least 223 public schools in the United States were offering gender - separate educational opportunities, up from just 4 inpublic schools in the United States were offering gender - separate educational opportunities, up from just 4 in 1998.

Guest blogger Robert Rosenberger, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Public Policy, offers a thoughtful examination of how dictation technology is likely to change the future of writing instruction.

But it could appeal to large numbers of students and be offered at such a low cost that it could be affordable even to low - income families without needing public subsidy or adoption by the public school system.

They rail against state standards and accountability systems, but offer few practical alternatives for ensuring that all public schools perform at a high level.

Harris instead offers two potential alternatives: 1) the improved public / charter school performance in New Orleans made the performance of the private sector look relatively worse; and 2) the curriculum at most private schools may not have been aligned to the state test, so the poor performance merely reflects that lack of alignment rather than poor performance.