Sentences with phrase «on their public school system»

And that's going to put increasing challenges on the public school system.

Here in New York, vibrant movements opposing fracking and the growing corporate attacks on our public school system helped spur the Green Party gubernatorial campaign of Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones, which received almost 5 percent of the vote running against incumbent Democrat Andrew Cuomo, the best any independent third party campaign has done statewide in more than 80 years.

With increased funding for CUNY and SUNY, a new tax credit for teachers and an $ 800 million increase in universal pre-K programs, the governor is clearly focused on our public school system.»

That will in turn put greater pressure on public school systems to clean up their own acts, if only to retain students.

Some of the legislators who voted against the bill expressed uncertainty about the impact it would have on the public school system and the state's general fund.

Her research has been focused predominately on K - 12 public education fiscal policy, as well as the competitive and efficiency effects of school choice on the public school system.

«We don't have to give up on the public school system,» he says.

Those, like Louisiana's scholarship program, that require participating private schools to administer the same, uniform statewide assessment levied on the public school system.

Please do not force an unwanted, unneeded, destructive charter school on a public school system that is excellent although not perfect, but that is, nevertheless, the pride of our community.

In a Wednesday night statement, state Rep. Kate Segal (D - Battle Creek) called the passage of the bill «a complete assault on our public school system in Michigan.»

To what degree did the initial i3 program make progress toward those goals, and what can we learn from that experience to continue advancing innovation in public education for the benefit of the millions of students who rely on the public school system every day?

Dr. James Avington Miller, Jr. invites guests from all over who join the rising public resistance movement against the corporate greed taking on our public school system.

Detractors counter they are a financial drain on the public school system with no guaranteed ability to offer students any better education.

Many adult «humans» (this can be a stretch) spend 5 - 6 years imbuing toxic groundwork on their offspring, before dumping them on the public school system.

Not exact matches

While the public response to the report focused on the school's athletes, the report found that more than half of the students enrolled in the paper courses were nonathletes — many of them referred through the campus» fraternity system.

On Monday, just hours before a scheduled press event about GE's move, the industrial giant pledged to invest $ 25 million in the city's underfunded public school system by creating a career lab and other resources.

A Miami Herald series on abuses in the Florida juvenile justice system is a finalist for the 2018 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School announced Wednesday.

Apple, as part of its response, on Tuesday announced improvements in its iWork suite at an event in Chicago, where school bells and announcements over a public address system directed press and more than 300 teachers into an auditorium at Lane Tech College Prep High Sschool bells and announcements over a public address system directed press and more than 300 teachers into an auditorium at Lane Tech College Prep High SchoolSchool.

Details of the Cyberattack On April 14th, suspected hackers took over the computer system of the Leominster Public Schools District in Massachusetts, shutting it down.

Bottom line is this, keep it out of the public square; learn to respect others beliefs / disbeliefs; stop trying to tell LGBT they are wrong; stop trying to tell women what they can and can't do with their bodies; stop trying to push bogus creationism crap (backed with zero evidence) on innocent children in the public school system; just stop pushing it outside your home or church.

If the company was a publically traded company such as McDonalds, or a system like public schools where the public has a huge impact on how the business operates.

If a dozen different public school systems were to embark on a five - year experiment as part of a larger nation - wide experiment encouraged by federal dollars, local teams of educators, parents and community leaders would need to devise appropriate local models.

And will the system of public funding for Christian schools — centred on the fact that such schools existed long before those established by any other authority in Britain — cease if the schools insist on retaining their Christian identity?

Through circuitous routes, the idea caught on among conservative Christians worried about the militant secularism promoted by the public schools, and mainly among evangelical Christians who, unlike Catholics, did not have a school system of their own.

I'd challenge Mr. Latif's viewpoints and suggest that NY Muslims become a peaceful and faithful people by worshipping on their holidays irrespective of what the public school system says.

Kozol's description of the corporate presence in and influence on schools makes one wonder whether the public education system in the United States has become a domestic version of NAFTA: an effective way for companies to guarantee access to a steady supply of cheap, uneducated labor.

hmmmm like what people become in the lovely public school system with no focus on right and wrong?

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).

«you try to force your personal beliefs on others» It was one atheist that forced her personal belief system on an entire public school system.

This is small potatoes compared to the abuse that is going on in the public school system.

Education was being placed under the control of the state and was becoming secularized, but on the frontiers of white settlement, especially in the United States, those moved by their Christian faith were founding most of the institutions of higher learning and were even responsible for much of the public school system.

Education expert Andrea Ramirez on what the appointment means for the public school system and the church.

The closeness of the vote turns on the peculiarities of the Spanish public school system, in which state employees offer religious instruction.

Run by radicals for approximately twenty years, Berkeley has experienced the virtual ruin of its public school system, a vastly increased municipal bureaucracy, a greatly diminished housing stock (thanks to stringent rent controls and other restrictions on property rights), increased crime and drug abuse, widespread corruption, and wholesale waste of public funds.

Having taught for some years in the public school system of MS, I can say that in many of the rural schools in this state (likely the same in nearby states as well for rural schools) have many football players on free or reduced price school lunch programs and very poor training and weight room facilities.

This relatively new movement, which is also sometimes called student - centered learning, has its roots in the progressive strain of American educational thought, but its current incarnation is also based on the modern belief, common among corporate executives and other business leaders, that there is a major and potentially calamitous disconnect brewing between the historical structures and traditions of the American public school system and the labor - force demands of the 21st - century American economy.

In fact, most homeschool parents pay even more on average for their student's education than those subsidized within the public school system.

My partner who was the co-chair with me of the committee we worked on continued as she had children still in the public school system and I took my son out for a year to homeschool (we had already spent several years homeschooling before his 2nd grade year spent in the public system).

HIGHLAND PARK — Public hearings on the proposed merger of the three elementary school systems in Highland Park concluded Thursday in Waukegan after four days.

What an eye - opening social commentary on the environment of the public school system.

While I do not dismiss the recent grassroots efforts that have gained significant strength via a petition to get pink slime out of school cafeterias, I worry that the focus on it detracts from bigger and more important food system issues, and provides the meat industry with a convenient distraction and an easily fixable problem that can effortlessly be spun into a public - relations success.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel began pushing for a longer school day while he was on the campaign trail, saying Chicago's school day is the shortest in the nation when compared to public school systems in nine other large cities.

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

Here in Britain, however, Tough's central tenet appears less radical; our Public School system is founded on the importance of character, so much so that rounded individuals are fast becoming a key national export, as foreign students flock here and schools open satellite campuses overseas.

Unfortunately, Waldorf is beginning to modify and accommodate, little by little, and take on some of the dreadful errors of the public school system in order to survive.

Jeffrey Mills, former Director of Food and Nutrition Services for D.C. Public Schools is photographed at his home on April 30, 2014 in Washington, D.C. Mills was fired from his job after he reported mismanagement, fraud, and overfilling by one of the school system's largest contractors.

I am new to public school, but hope to take on this issue soon once I learn how to navigate the system a bit better.

As you'll recall, Cuomo said during his State of the State address that he would be the self - appointed «lobbyist» for public school students this year, taking on what he perceives to be the bloated bureaucracy in the education system.

Cuomo's Commission on education reform got an earful at a public hearing in Albany yesterday, as speaker after speaker complained about a statewide school system that they say is in disarray.

NYC Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña was in Albany for two days this week, updating the Legislature on the progress of the city's public school system.