Sentences with phrase «only public school teachers»

Worst: Teachers who work in private schools for children with learning differences do not have qualifications to teach them, only public school teachers do

Not exact matches

The poll on education funding, done by Environics Research for the Alberta Teachers Association, dealt only with public attitudes about public funding for private schools.

And only about one in three know that a public school teacher is allowed to teach a comparative religion class - although nine out of 10 know that teacher isn't allowed by the Supreme Court to lead a class in prayer.

Child development is rarely considered in our state - mandated teacher training programs and only sparsely in our Common Core Standards, but it is alive and well in our Public Waldorf schools.

My two youngest have only been in public schools and it's just like you said, there are good teachers everywhere.

We're also one of the only public schools to have guaranteed recess for every kid, everyday — it's a gift from our teachers who voluntarily gave - up a union - mandated planning period in order to supervise it.

«I am disappointed by the decision of the Chicago Teachers Union to turn its back on not only a city negotiating in good faith but also the hundreds of thousands of children relying on the city's public schools to provide them a safe place to receive a strong education.

The United Federation of Teachers (UFT) has argued that nearly half of the city's college - ready students come from only ten percent of the city's public high schools, including Bronx High School of Science, Stuyvesant High School, Brooklyn Tech High School, and Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Art.

Certifications earned under these regulations will only be valid at charter schools authorized by SUNY, so teachers who want to transfer to other charters or to traditional public schools will need to take additional steps to earn a conventional state certification.

Buffalo, NY (WBEN) State Senator Chris Jacobs says he was surprised to learn only public schools were required to report claims of sexual abuse by teachers after reading the Nichols report on decades of inappropriate relationships between teachers and students.

Senate Republicans not only stuck it to NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio on mayoral control of the public schools, but also handed a victory to his nemesis, Success Academy charter school network founder Eva Moskowitz by allowing charters to hire more uncertified teachers.

«The Government not only needs to ensure that it is able to demonstrate that its funding reform proposals are fit for purpose, but it also needs to secure confidence from schools, teachers and the public that these are the right proposals in the circumstances.

State Board of Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa, who was featured Saturday as a speaker at the United Federation of Teachers annual Spring Conference in Midtown, told the Daily News it only makes sense for the mayor to continue calling the shots for public schools.

Though UFT and NYSUT leadership remain silent regarding the upcoming Gubernatorial race, we pledge go to the polls and vote for the only public school positive, teacher - and - student friendly candidates in this race.

Last night, during the race's only debate, Hawkins continued to push for teachers and public schools over Common Core and charters.

In remarks to the Daily News editorial board, Gov. Andrew Cuomo discussed imposing stricter standards for teacher evaluation and referred to public schools as «one of the only remaining public monopolies.»

Earlier this week Cuomo told the Daily News editorial board that, if he's re-elected, he intends to «to break what is in essence one of the only remaining public monopolies,» vowing to challenge public school teachers by supporting stricter teacher evaluations and competition from charter schools.

One Cuomo promise was «to break... the only remaining public monopoly,» referring to public schools and teachers unions, by promoting charter schools, private school tuition tax credits, and a new round of teacher evaluations based on Common Core - aligned high - stakes testing.

In the interview with the News, Cuomo said he intends to break «one of the only remaining public monopolies» with stricter teacher evaluations and competition from charter schools.

During this same period, the number of public school teachers rose from 2.2 million to more than 3.1 million, several times the rate of increase of the students they serve, whose numbers edged up only slightly, from 44.8 million to 48.4 million.

It is only to say that some potential applicants might be more effective teachers than the alternatives that are currently available to public schools.

The PDK / Gallup poll released last week shows 54 percent of Americans — a majority now — agree that «standardized tests are not helpful» in letting teachers know what to teach, a figure that jumps to an alarming 68 percent when you count only public school parents.

If the United States is ever to pay off its vast and rising public debt, as well as the growing deficits in its teacher pension accounts, it will have to fix not only the nation's schools but local ones, too.

Of the 813 teachers who responded to the poll, 64 percent gave public schools a grade of A or B. Only 42 percent of the general public, an3swering a similar question in a Gallup poll last spring, gave schools those marks.

A White House proposal to bring math, science, and engineering professionals into public high schools to teach those subjects could bypass the «highly qualified» teacher mandate under the No Child Left Behind Act, while only temporarily easing the shortfall of mathematics and science teachers, education observers say.

Only half of the state's public school teachers typically remain teaching after five years.

Some organizations direct their activities only to district and / or charter school issues, such as improving teacher quality and effectiveness, developing new public charter schools, or closing and transforming failing district schools to create new high - quality schools of choice.

Teacher attrition rates are especially bad in Hawaii, where only about half of the state's public school teachers remain teaching after five years.

But because the law applied only to schools and not to other public employers, such as police and fire departments, teachers unions argued that it engaged in unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination.

It comes from Ingersoll's report, and it shows the percentage of teachers who are age 50 or older (the chart includes public and private teachers, but private school teachers tend to be much younger, so a similar chart for public school teachers only would likely be even higher).

The Lebanese government opened its public schools to Syrian students, but immense obstacles, including a language barrier, overcrowding, and the high cost of transportation, have made the transition a difficult one not only for students, but for teachers as well.

The net effect of growing charter schools, closing under - enrolled traditional public schools, and only hiring back the best and most desired teachers from those schools is a true merit pay system.

Prior to the ruling, unionized Seattle teachers went on strike just as the school year began, leaving charter schools the only public schools in the city open for business.

It was sometimes encouraging, sometimes troubling, and always fascinating to pause — occasionally as the only TEP person in the room — and to listen to others talk about who teachers are and the work that teachers do, especially in the context of public schools.

In most fields, prospective students can only make an educated guess about the payoff to a post-graduate degree, but, for public school teachers, it appears in black and white on the salary schedule for their district.

Furthermore, nearly all public school teachers are certified, while only 87 percent of charter school and 65 percent of private school teachers are.

For the comparison among charter, public, and private school teachers, I assumed that charter and private schools face more competition than public schools, since a greater share of charter and private schools get funding only if they attract students.

While 81.4 percent of public school teachers remained in the same school the following year, only 79.5 percent of public school principals stayed put.

Accountability's edge is undoubtedly due not only to widespread public support for the idea (see «What Americans Think about Their Schools,» Fall 2007), but to the fact that, as practiced, it has posed only a minimal threat to the great vested interests of American education: local school boards, state departments of education, schools of education, and teacher Schools,» Fall 2007), but to the fact that, as practiced, it has posed only a minimal threat to the great vested interests of American education: local school boards, state departments of education, schools of education, and teacher schools of education, and teacher unions.

In order to make public schools more comparable to private ones, therefore, I exclude more than 90 percent of the public school teacher sample and retain public school teachers only in low - poverty (less than 5 percent eligible for free or reduced - price lunch) suburban schools.

About 97 percent of public school teachers claim to be certified in their teaching area, while only 83 percent of charter school and 54 percent of private school teachers do (see Figure 2).

As a teacher, administrator or school official, it's important to realize that anything posted on a social media site — even when you think you are only posting to your friends and family — may become more public than you intended.

The organization, which recruits recent college graduates to teach for two years in inner - city and rural public schools with shortages of credentialed teachers, has raised only $ 3.8 million of its $ 7 million budget for this year, TFA officials said last month.

In a 2011 issue of Science magazine (summarized without a paywall here), Penn State political scientists Michael Berkman and Eric Plutzer surveyed a nationally representative sample of public high - school biology teachers and found that only 28 percent of them consistently implement National Research Council standards for the teaching of evolution.

But this claim needs to be tested, for there is clearly a plausible alternative: that teachers are not only better educated and more middle class than the average citizen, but also more public spirited, more committed to public education, and thus more likely to vote in school - board elections regardless of their personal stakes.

There are teachers and a brutal amount of schools that we could fit under the umbrella of innovation and then there are centers with very few resources, especially in the case public education; these have to be invented and renewed only from the good intention of the teachers for their students.

«The format was introduced by Walter McKenzie, creator of The One And Only Surfaquarium, who conducted a WebQuest workshop for the teachers at our school as well as teachers at the Academy for the Middle Years, a nearby public school.

Crystal Hoel, a former middle school language arts teacher at a school in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, said, I think public schools can implement the same strategies, but only if the principal and / or curriculum director truly believe that all kids can achieve and teachers are held accountable.

And schools are getting better at turning: The first turnaround school took four years to halve the gap; the newest batch took only two, all with a unionized workforce of public school teachers.

Only 41 percent of Americans say they have either «a lot» or «complete» trust and confidence in public school teachers.