Sentences with phrase «one's public school children»

In essence, they are trying to convince parents of public school children in the nation that their schools are failing.

What makes matters even more startling is the fact that charter school students in private space are the only public school children in the state whose schools are denied public funds for facilities.

We now have the nation's third - highest percentage of public school children attending charters.

My children should not be treated any differently than other public school children just because I found a better option for them.

Regardless of what public school a child goes to the per pupil funding for that child should be the same.

While the mayor is proposing some huge cuts, public school children stand to lose 1 out of every 12 teachers.

His standing as a parent of public school children gave him credibility.

-- A study of Danish public school children finds that test scores are likely to be lower when students take tests later in the day because their mental resources get taxed.

Whatever public school your child attends will receive money from the government to educate your child.

Our children are no different than all other public school children.

Additionally, I made it clear that the demographics of the country are changing and the majority of public school children are now of color.

July 27, 2017 • The NBA's all - time leading scorer talks about the importance of STEM, his education foundation and its support for a science camp for public school children in Los Angeles.

In light of the protests in Baltimore this week, we're leading with an update from our allies in the city who, against the backdrop of systemic inequities and discrimination, are fighting for the strong public schools all children deserve.

New York, NY About Blog The GO Project shapes the futures of low - income New York City public school children by providing critical academic, social and emotional support starting in the early elementary years.

A centralized command and control structure pervades many of the standards and high stakes testing initiatives currently imposed on public school children, their parents, and educators.

Ms. Kittredge is the parent of public school children who attend P.S. 101Q and The Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School and has been a strong advocate for -LSB-...]

Paula Gray, Director of Human Resources --» School choice is important because a parent should have the ability to choose which public school their child attends and not be restricted by their address or income.

Those seeking changes to the union contract say it's time to create «learning centers» for Buffalo Public School children.

Horizons at BFS is an academic enrichment program serving low - income public school children living in the Brooklyn Navy Yard area.

«If any of our Buffalo Public School children said any one of these offensive remarks... the student would be suspended,» said board member Paulette Woods.

Florida's public school children need an army of advocates who value high quality learning.

In May 2012, eight California public school children filed Vergara et al v. the State of California et al in an attempt to «strike down outdated state laws that prevent the recruitment, support and retention of effective teachers.»

SPLC's lawsuit is based on a belief that public charter school students — real public school children from some of the most underserved communities in the City of Jackson — do not deserve the public dollars raised in their own communities to support their education.

Leaders of the St. Louis school district are trying to piece together how a former Roman Catholic priest was allowed to work in counseling jobs with public school children for seven years after officials learned that he had been accused of sexual molestation.

With the state - sponsored Common Core SBAC testing scheme now in full - swing throughout the state, parents and guardians in numerous schools districts are reporting that Connecticut public school children continue to be abused by local school administrators, who are following orders from Governor Dannel Malloy, Lt. Governor Nancy Wyman, Education Commissioner Wentzell and the State Department of Education.

Charters only serve fewer than 3 % of US public school children; the remaining 97 % are compelled to attend traditional public schools.

The burden is on the applicant to show that it can meet the requirements for obtaining permission to educate public school children in a charter school setting.»

«In 2016 - 2017, approximately 72 percent of New York City public school children received free or reduced price lunch,» he said in a statement.

In May, Comptroller Scott Stringer released Dropping the Ball, an investigative report that found that thousands of city public school children do not receive adequate amounts of physical activity throughout the school year — and that there existed persistent disparities from one school to the next.

Ever since the federal government mandated annual testing for U.S. public school children in 2001, educators (and parents) have fretted over whether too much class time has been allocated to drilling and preparing students for standardized tests.

As of 2015, 51 percent of American public school children qualified for free or reduced priced lunch, he notes, quoting a Southern Education Foundation report.

Incredibly, the textbooks that Paul Vallas purchased aren't the only ones to fail the review, which means public school children across Connecticut and the nation are being taught with textbooks that don't prepare them for the Common Core testing program.

Each year public school children are subjected to standardized tests to measure their achievements in comparison to all other public - schooled kids.

Homeschoolers in certain states are required to take whatever standardized tests public school children take.

On Tuesday, April 14th, over 1 million New York City Public School children took the first of the required Common Core standardized tests.

«On behalf of our more than 13,000 parent members, we welcome the new Chancellor and hope that Alberto Carvalho will be the independent leader that public school children desperately need.

The group's executive director, Karen Scharff, tells The Associated Press that Nixon's advocacy for public school children helped to convince Citizen Action's 30,000 members that she would work for everyday New Yorkers if elected.

In January 2001, a state supreme court justice ruled that the state's school funding system is inequitable, creating «an adverse impact on minority public school children.»

As the demographic composition of K - 12 public school children continues to reflect the nation's growing racially diverse population, examining the important role that minority - serving institutions play in producing future minority teachers becomes an increasing national imperative.

The team's commitment to public service has had, and will continue to have, an enormous impact on Nevada public school children.

Corporate interests pushed the federal overreach of our laws in order to profit from public education, not to benefit public school children.

Some parents said that if the school building, located on Madison Street, isn't open on Aug. 3, they will consider re-enrolling their child into the Bibb public school their children came from.

A survey taken during the strike found that 66 percent of parents of Chicago public school children supported the strike.

In the brief, we argue that to meet its constitutional obligation to provide all children with the level of education to which they are entitled, the state must ensure adequate learning time for all students, especially those at risk of failing, by expanding the time public school children spend in productive learning environments.

What began as a single after - school guitar class has since exploded into a national movement that brings free, weekly music lessons to over 250,000 public school children through the efforts of more than 1,700 teachers in 124 school districts nationwide.

The teacher unions are running Tustin Councilmember Rebecca Gomez and Irvine School Board member Michael Parham against Hammond and Williams to replace the current majority with a board majority that will bring the OC Board back to the days when charter school application appeals are routinely denied no matter the quality and demand by parents for a viable alternative to sometimes failing public schools their children are enrolled in.