Sentences with phrase «other public school systems»

Moreover, the statewide schedule is typical of teacher compensation in most other public school systems nationwide.

Teachers with more experience are automatically paid more in North Carolina, and in virtually every other public school system in the country.

State and federally driven mandates for curriculum, state testing, teacher certification, and fiscal management are no different for charter schools than they are for any other public school system.

«We are delighted to award the first Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools to YES Prep because they serve as an example for other public schools systems across the country,» said Eli Broad, founder of The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, who congratulated YES Prep via video.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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?

We noted that no other major institution in American society» notably the public school system, social workers, Boy Scouts, athletic associations» has been subjected to similar scrutiny, and that some experts believe that the incidence of sex abuse by priests and bishops is relatively small by comparison.

We have too short a school year already relative to the rest of the world and that, among other things, accounts for why are children are receiving woefully inadequate educations in the public school system.

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.

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.

Roland Fryer, a celebrated young professor of economics at Harvard University, has spent the past decade testing out a variety of incentive schemes in experiments with public school students in Houston, New York, Chicago, and other American cities that have school systems with high poverty rates.

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.

There could be other factors involved as well, such as school - family incompatibility, multiple intelligences (where certain children learn best within environments that aren't offered in either public or private schools), as well as religious convictions and beliefs that aren't welcome in the public school system (creationism, for example).

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.

(2) to supplement and complement the efforts of States, the local school systems and other instrumentalities of the States, the private sector, public and private educational institutions, public and private nonprofit educational research institutions, community - based organizations, parents, and students to im - prove the quality of education;

There was one other element: Boris Johnson concluded that the coalition was, in fact, a triumph for the English public school system, a credit to its training of young men for office and for the skills of collaboration.

The state Senate returned to session on Aug. 6 and passed a bill to renew mayoral control of the city's public schools, along with other related bills to increase parental input in the school system and address some of the other flaws in the original legislation.

Parker and other presidents have said embedding the state college system in the Constitution would put the colleges on equal footing with universities and public schools, which are already authorized in the document.

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proposition bond proposal to fund facilities / infrastructure projects and athletic facilities / fields upgrades), Rye City School District (There is only one Polling Place: The Rye Middle School Gymnasium at 3 Parsons StSchool District, New Rochelle Public Schools (One (1) full Five - year term and one (1) Two - year term [unexpired portion of a vacant term]-RRB-, Scarsdale Public School District, the Mamaroneck Union Free School District (which includes public school system for Village of Larchmont residents), Port Chester Public Schools, Tuckahoe Union Free School District (one (1) board seat), Pelham Public School District (Eligible Pelham voters may vote on a two - proposition bond proposal to fund facilities / infrastructure projects and athletic facilities / fields upgrades), Rye City School District (There is only one Polling Place: The Rye Middle School Gymnasium at 3 Parsons StPublic Schools (One (1) full Five - year term and one (1) Two - year term [unexpired portion of a vacant term]-RRB-, Scarsdale Public School District, the Mamaroneck Union Free School District (which includes public school system for Village of Larchmont residents), Port Chester Public Schools, Tuckahoe Union Free School District (one (1) board seat), Pelham Public School District (Eligible Pelham voters may vote on a two - 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In 1994, her daughter, Pamela Corley, set up a nonprofit at the family home called the Parents Information Network «to disseminate information to parents and others regarding the inner workings of the New York City public - school system.»

Fariña recently told Capital she believes some charter schools can have a positive effect on the public system, while knocking others (without naming specific schools) for touting high test scores, but not accepting special education or English Language Learner students.

Other topics Epstein wants to tackle in Albany include more funding for public schools, strengthening gun control laws and establishing a single - payer healthcare system.

In New York City and many other cities, there is a political divide in the public school system.

«The system could also be adapted for use with other respiratory viruses, and with some modification, for infectious diseases more broadly,» says lead author Sen Pei, a postdoctoral scientist in Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health.

The team, which also included David A. Rotholz, Ph.D., of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Anne M. Kinsman, Ph.D., of the Greenville Health System, and Kathi K. Lacy of the South Carolina Department of Disabilities and Special Needs (SC DDSN), as well as other leaders from key public and private stakeholder organizations from across the state, saw a way to remove this barrier.

The success of schools also depends on other individuals and institutions to provide the health, intellectual stimulus, and family support on which public school systems can build.

Many public and private schools, like Martin's, are still years away from full implementation, and others are grappling with the nuts and bolts of how to implement dramatically new systems for student learning and assessment.

He talked about Newark's universal enrollment system, which includes all of the city's public schools (both district and charter), noting that 75 % of families chose a school other than their neighborhood school and that 42 % of families listed their first choice as a «high - performing charter school.»

By 2006, 21 other states and several local districts had begun similar programs, both to service homebound or other special - needs students and as an effort to lure home schoolers (and the tax dollars they represent) back into the public education system.

Our analysis of these data reveals that teachers transfer from one school to another — or exit the Texas public school system altogether — more as a reaction to the characteristics of their students than in response to better salaries in other schools.

The court claimed that other Florida programs that permit such spending «are structurally different from the OSP, which provides a systematic private school alternative to the public school system.

«Nearly all states are building high - tech student data systems to collect, categorize and crunch the endless gigabytes of attendance logs, test scores and other information collected in public schools,» reported the New York Times in a front - page story last May, confirming the scope of the trend.

As the recent comparative studies have shown, these results pale in comparison to Boston's high - performing charter sector but are stronger than those in most other urban public school systems.

It stipulated that a teacher coming into the system from any other school district (either public or private) could not be given salary credit for more than five years of previous teaching experience.

Seizing also on the requirement of uniformity, the court asserted that private schools are not uniform when compared with each other or with the public system.

This year the list is topped by four major research pieces: an analysis of how U.S. students from highly educated families perform compare with similarly advantaged students from other countries; a study investigating what students gain when they are taken on field trips to see high - quality theater performances; a study of teacher evaluation systems in four urban school districts that identifies strengths and weaknesses of different evaluation systems; and the results of Education Next's annual survey of public opinion on education.

The district made its materials available to other K - 12 systems, and it's had some takers, including the Denver public schools, which recently adopted its English / language arts curriculum for grades 9 - 12.

Other people have avested interest in the public school system and resist the competition for students and funds that comes with private school choice.

Indiana teachers and other public - school employees feel they have little influence in shaping the state's educational system, a researcher's survey has found.

In the most regulated environment, larger participants — those schools with 40 or more students funded through vouchers in testing grades, or with an average of 10 or more students per grade across all grade levels — receive a rating through a formula identical to the school performance score system used by the state to gauge public school performance, inclusive of test score performance, graduation rates, and other outcome metrics.

Ryan and other defenders of «benign» racial sorting, in contrast, insist that the use of remedies originally available only to judges charged with dismantling an entrenched racial caste system in the South should also be available to public officials presiding over school systems that have not violated the Fourteenth Amendment.

The system hosts the nation's single largest public - works program, a $ 27 billion effort to build more than 130 new schools and renovate countless others.

But as Gonski's Panel notes Australia's public school system is underfunded compared to most other OECD countries.

If voters and parents get behind these systems, and we implement them with fidelity, we will be able to use test results — and other measures — to dramatically improve our public schools.

In other words, nurturing educated citizens won't be delegated as solely the purview of school systems, but rather the mission of various community stakeholders with an emphasis on public - private partnerships (PPP).

Colorado requires that 95 percent of students be in a high - risk group before a school can be labeled an AEC and the D.C. Public Charter School Board is considering a proposal based on a «gap» model that would set the threshold at 60 percent high - risk students, while some other states allow schools to bypass conventional accountability systems if their missions focus on serving alternative student populaschool can be labeled an AEC and the D.C. Public Charter School Board is considering a proposal based on a «gap» model that would set the threshold at 60 percent high - risk students, while some other states allow schools to bypass conventional accountability systems if their missions focus on serving alternative student populaSchool Board is considering a proposal based on a «gap» model that would set the threshold at 60 percent high - risk students, while some other states allow schools to bypass conventional accountability systems if their missions focus on serving alternative student populations.

The real culprit of the school systems» troubles, Weingarten says, has been state governments» support for expanding charter schools, voucher plans and other school choice policies, which she argues has eaten into the budget for traditional public schools.

Here's the core proposition: If all U.S. public schools embraced the same rigorous standards (for their curricular core), were assessed on the same tests, and had their results made public via a transparent system, then everybody would know how their own schools are doing and could decide for themselves whether to (a) leave things be, (b) demand a makeover, or (c) move their kids to other schools.