Sentences with phrase «on public school kids»

In their letter to the union, the candidates, including City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, expressed their solidarity with the drivers, but said they were increasingly concerned about the impact the strike was having on public school kids, parents and drivers, as it entered its fifth week.

If you want to be blind to reality, I'm fine with that, as long as you don't try to put those blinders on public school kids (my Catholic school taught that evolution was a scientific fact, btw).

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If you have kids or are planning on starting a family, you've likely thought about how you can position yourself in an area with excellent public schools.

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.

and that's why the Republicans want to cut funding for public schools — so ghetto kids will never be able to leave the ghetto because they have no education — and they won't be able to get birth control either so they will proliferate and perpetuate their situation for generations — and this will never stop until America ends its dependence on fossil fools like Romney, McConnell, Cantor, Ryan, The Bohner, Limbaugh, etc..

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

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?

So if the public schools don't by default give the days off, parents should talk to the school (principals, teachers) about not having exams on days they plan to have their kids miss school.

One public school recently took kids on a field trip to a Christian festival and left all the other kids on campus in a day long study hall.

That's why I gave up on public schools (which are as fouled up as you say and getting worse) and sent my kids to a religious school.

Funds are used to raise awareness about child hunger in the U.S.; create public - private partnerships that align kids with the resources they need; support nutrition programs like school breakfast and summer meals; and educate kids and their families on how to cook healthy meals with limited resources.

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.

For example, one episode we're trying to focus on a homeschooling parent versus their sibling who enrolls their kids in public or private schools.

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.»

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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.

With the closing of USDA's period for public comment on the new proposed competitive food rules, we've had a lot of discussion here about the food and beverages offered to school kids via vending machines, school stores, and cafeteria snack bar or «a... [Continue reading]

Workers who serve meals in Chicago Public Schools say the majority of kids are not eating the healthful new foods on the cafeteria menu, according to a confidential survey released Tuesday.

If you homeschool and wouldn't send your kids to public school, you're saving money on tuition.

Since my kids are not yet in middle school, I have yet to fully experience the impact of «competitive» food in the public school setting — i.e., beverage vending machines stocked exclusively with Coca - Cola products (thanks to a multimillion dollar deal Coke struck with our district a few years back — more on that to come), snack vending machines, branded products like Papa John's pizza in the lunch room, and more.

The USA Today piece has a great map showing that in great swaths of the country, upwards of 77 percent of public - school kids rely on reduced - price or free lunches.

The program subsidizes lunch and breakfast for nearly 32 million needy kids in most public schools and many private ones, and those schools must follow guidelines on what they serve.

So if kids» school performance depends on full bellies, why aren't universal meals built into our public school system?

Public schools are required by law to make reasonable meal accommodations for celiac patients on a gluten - free diet or kids who are at risk of having a life - threatening allergic reaction to wheat.

The city had just built the Thorp Public School on the south side of Grace, making Schorsch's homes seem a good place to raise kids, and the price nicely accorded with a blue - collar worker's pay stub.

Mr. President, the new legislation awaiting your signature is a giant step in the right direction — on behalf of the students at my little public school, including my son, Zack: Thank you for putting kids first.

Next week, my school will host a public screening of the new documentary Lunch Line, which follows six Chicago kids from disadvantaged neighborhoods as they as they set out on a mission to fix school lunches — ending up at the White House.

In January 2012, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, or USDA, finalized its updated nutritional standards for school meals in keeping with the Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010 (Public Law No. 111 - 296), which reauthorized the school meal programs and placed an emphasis on the need to improve access to healthy foods in schools.

I have been getting so much useful feedback and information for my book from two surveys I've been circulating: one asking you about the notion of «kid food» and your general thoughts about the role of junk food in your kids» lives, and a second survey just for public school parents, asking your thoughts about school meals, a la carte snacks and on - campus food fundraisers.

If you're the kind of person who struggles to mind your own business when you see moms with their kids in public, don't say you weren't warned if a sassy mama decides to school you right on the spot.

For years Canada attempted to work with public schools in Harlem, attempting to provide the children with the education suburban kids are given on a daily basis.

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.

She says there are initiatives on the horizon, such as universal lunches like those recently passed in the Boston public schools that provide all kids, regardless off socioeconomic or racial background, with free school meals.

Most kids give up exploring in public around school age, when it dawns on them that they don't see other kids rooting around in their trousers.

Look for people with a medical background, or those with youngish kids in the public schools, or those who have fought similar battles in the past, especially battles based on the idea of social justice, that low income students deserve the same respect and services as higher income students.

«When the charter industry begins serving students with special needs and English Language Learners at the same rate as traditional public schools, and cracks down on the fraud, mismanagement and abuse prevalent at so many charters, perhaps its leaders can then join our longstanding fight for the equitable funding that all kids need.»

But a public school would never be allowed to close down for a day to send kids on a political mission.

The UFT is hitting the airwaves today with a 60 - second radio spot that slams for - profit charter school management companies as «more interested in making money and ducking accountability than fighting for our kids» and spending «millions on false attacks against teachers and public schools.»

NYC Kids PAC, a progressive consortium of public - school parents, pelted de Blasio with three F's, four D's and three C's in its annual report card on mayoral navigation of the school system.

But they had their revenge on the governor, undermining the new evaluation system by convincing thousands of parents to have their kids opt out of the tests — and the union's accompanying advertising campaign inflicted real damage on Mr. Cuomo's approval ratings, forcing him to drop some of his harsher rhetoric and tactics on public school teachers.

«There's no denying that charter schools have become a fundamental part of the overall success of New York City public schools, especially in those areas where moms and dads are looking to get their kids out of a failing school so they can have a fresh start on the future of their dreams,» Flanagan said in the statement.

Heastie might want to back the Cardinal off with a «Bingo Tax» or a tax on other chruch fundraisers — after all my kid pays sales tax on the candy bars he sells for his public school club fundraiser!

Anyta Brown, grandmother of seven public school students from East New York, said: «Governor Cuomo is fighting for our kids and it's time for the Legislature to get on board.

When kids in the Bronx have access to great public schools, with inspiring teachers and engaging classes, they go on to do amazing things.

The city could be on the hook for the cash after failing to place 2,500 special needs kindergarten kids in public schools.

He has countered that his focus remains on traditional public schools because they still enroll roughly 90 percent of city kids.

Senate Republicans, while opposing the DREAM Act, which would allow taxpayer - funded state tuition assistance programs to be used on the colege kids of illegal immigrants, support the education tax credit that would provide a benefit for those who donate to private and public schools.

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.

«Our study provides new insight on what kids are eating, or not eating, in Vancouver public schools,» says co-author Naseam Ahmadi, a M.Sc.

The findings, which involved hundreds of kids participating in musical training programs in Chicago and Los Angeles public schools, highlight the role learning music can have on the brains of youth in impoverished areas, according to presenter Nina Kraus, PhD, a neurobiologist at Northwestern University.