Sentences with phrase «out of the public schools because»

Muldrow told me she moved her older child out of the public schools because of «experiences that were not only negative, but were particularly racialized» and that with vouchers, «private schools retain the ability to discriminate and don't have to provide the same services to students as public schools.»

My mother took me out of public school because it wasn't a good fit for me academically or socially.

Not exact matches

I was born to two parents in South Carolina who went into debt to send us to private school because South Carolina's public school system is ranked 49 out of 50.

Or, most recently, you might have heard the rumor from Bryan Fischer, from Mike Hucakbee or a friend on Facebook, saying that God abandoned the children at Sandy Hook because, though children have every right to pray in public schools, those schools can not sponsor prayer events out of deference to religious freedom.

Guns are in schools because quite obviously kids are able to get them with relative ease, not because the govt took forced prayer out of public schools.

As silly as this article is, my 4th grader's public school recently pulled «Superfudge», a book by Judy Bloom, out of the curriculum because the characters talk about the fact that Santa isn't real.

He doesn't, it's Satan who is running wild in this country because GOD has been taken out of public places and prayer has been taken out of schools etc., when you take GOD out, you let evil in... this nation hasn't learned that yet... there will be more tragedies like this or worse unless GOD is bought back into every facet of the public as he was decades ago when prayer was allowed in school, the commandments were made visible and even on our money his name was present — BRING GOD BACK!!

Get started this summer when school lets out and act as if you're homeschooling 3 days a week, Kindergarteners don't need more than 1 — 2 hours a day sitting still, you have to get yourself out of the «school is an 8 hour a day» mind set, that was set up for public schools because parents work, that is the only reason the school day is so long.

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.»

«Which of course is a problem, because every dollar that has to be supported by the general fund is a dollar out of the classroom,» said Ed Wilkins, the school nutrition director for the San Francisco Public Schools.

A brouhaha is currently brewing because the USDA sends the stuff to public schools, and currently is planning to ship out another 7 million pounds of pink goo for children to consume.

«Sometimes, some of these issues take a lot longer to negotiate and compromise with, and you shouldn't be holding up funding for our schools, and funding for our roads, and funding for local governments to keep property taxes down, because of some of these major, broader public policy issues that should be kept out of the budget.»

We need to bring common sense to Common Core because New York is wasting too much time and money stressing children out to prepare for these tests which are of questionable educational value instead of focusing on supporting teachers so they can do their job and teach children what's really important,» said Assemblyman Jim Tedisco, a former public school special education teacher and guidance counselor.

Cuomo said his plans to extend public tuition assistance to undocumented immigrants — the Dream Act — and a plan proposed tax credit offsetting donations to private and parochial school scholarship funds (as well as public schools) were «highly likely» to fall out of talks because the State Senate and Assembly were «dug in» in their respective opposition.

We may be living in an information age, but New York City's public school students are being cheated out of the skills they need to evaluate, process and analyze information because school libraries and librarian positions are drastically underfunded, UFT Assistant Secretary Robert Astrowsky told a City Council hearing on May 6.

And he answers, «certainly not because I have any direct self - interest — no... I'm not profiting from my involvement in charter schools (in fact, I shudder to think of how much it's cost me), and I have little personal experience with the public school system because I'm doubly lucky: my parents saw that I wasn't being challenged in public schools, sacrificed (they're teachers / education administrators), and my last year in public school was 6th grade; and now, with my own children, I'm one of the lucky few who can afford to buy my children's way out of the NYC public system [in] which, despite Mayor Bloomberg's and Chancellor Klein's herculean efforts, there are probably fewer than two dozen schools (out of nearly 1,500) to which I'd send my kids.»

Boston — Hispanic youths here have difficulty getting jobs because of «the disproportionate way in which they are dropping out of the Boston Public Schools» before they have acquired the requisite education and skills.

Lee said that an increasing number of public school teachers are enthusiastic about reforming public schools because hagwons are hollowing out the purpose and value of the classroom.

These are the public school students most in need of after - school programs that PASA coordinates, because, as PASA executive director Hillary Salmons notes, «When the afternoon bell rings, early teens are the ones most likely to go out and have an adventure» on the sometimes unfriendly streets of Providence.

We've known since the days of the one - room schoolhouse and dunce caps that student behavior issues eat up classroom time (the BBC reported a survey suggesting that it's five weeks out of the school year) and frustrate teachers (a report by Public Agenda [PDF] suggests that one in three teachers want to quit because of them).

The 185,000 - plus students who opted out of the state English Language Arts [ELA] test last week did so because of more than three years of organizing by a genuinely grass - roots movement of public school parents.

Our graduation rates check out — because for years the DC Public Charter School Board has audited the transcript of every graduating senior.

«We tried to push that, and it never really got done because I don't think anyone understood how the federal government could create carrots,» says Kress, pointing out that the feds contribute a small portion, about 12 percent, of the public school budget.

Lastly, the National Education Association points out that moving students from public to private schools harms school districts because they can not reduce their fixed facilities and transportation costs in proportion to the number of students who leave.

James V. Shuls, a blogger on education topics, pulled his son, a first grader, out of the local public school because of its interpretation of practice commensurate with the Common Core.

It turns out that these schools are more effective than the public schools they replace, partly because the teachers in the public schools rarely show up for work and partly because more teachers can be purchased for the same amount of money.

And school district administrators frequently oppose charter schools because the charter schools use public dollars but operate independently and out of the direct control of the local school board.

Sun, October 23 — Teach - In 11:00 am — 2:00 pm 417 N. Lexington Street, Durant Students, parents, elected and public officials, and child - servicing agencies in Holmes County will learn about the experiences of Black girls and their increasing rate of incarceration, dropout, and alternative school placement because of zero - tolerance policies that disproportionately push them out of school.

A really thought out plan where now less than two years later public schools are laying off teachers because of lack of funds.

Also, are Westbrook High School, North Haven High School, Hartford Public High School's Law and Government Academy, Daniel Hand High School in Madison, and E.O. Smith High School in Storrs places where the emphasis is on real learning because more than 85 % of the juniors in those schools opted - out of the 2105 SBAC math test?

While voucher usage is higher in big cities, the financial effect is felt in every school district because the voucher dollars come out of Tuition Support, in effect reducing the dollars supporting students in all public schools.

I think that after November, we were talking internally, because there was a lot of discussion out there in the public domain about, what's the role of the federal government, especially when it comes to advancing school choice.

Obama Says the Future of U.S. Economy Depends on a Better Education System By Roger Runningen - Sep 27, 2010 President Barack Obama said U.S. public education systems should extend the school year and weed out the worst - performing teachers because the future of the nation's economy depends on a more educated workforce.

Because of this tight timeline, the public needs to reach out to the school board now.

«I think the biggest winners out of this will be innovative public school districts because they'll have more freedom.»

The Education Law Center argues that it's an important factor because when wealthy families opt out of public education, schools are left with higher concentrations of poor children, and there is less political will to boost funds for public schools.

Parent Jenny Ball moved her two children out of public school and to Blackfoot Charter Community Learning Center because of the smaller class sizes and schedule.

Enrollment at out - of - boundary schools is higher in high schools in part because 20 percent of all public high school students attend DCPS application high schools, which require students to submit an application and admit students based on specific criteria or eligibility requirements.

Instead, testing misuses must end because they cheat the public out of accurate data about public school quality at the same time they cheat many students out of a high - quality education.»

The increase in state funding would not take money away from other public school students, he said, because it would not come out of the $ 9 billion state education budget dictated by the school funding formula.

Skyway «Network» elementary schools came out strong on Thursday, February 7, 2013 to defend their schools against the claim that many of them should be closed because Chicago Public Schools face an «underutilization crisis&schools came out strong on Thursday, February 7, 2013 to defend their schools against the claim that many of them should be closed because Chicago Public Schools face an «underutilization crisis&schools against the claim that many of them should be closed because Chicago Public Schools face an «underutilization crisis&Schools face an «underutilization crisis».

I am focusing on magnet schools in this essay because these schools are designed to have a specific racial balance in order to achieve the goal of desegregating Connecticut's public schools, yet demographics play out differently depending on the school, and some schools are struggling to maintain their required desegregation standards.

One of my kids (now 29 years of age and very accomplished - ok I am his dad), was struggling in the 9th grade and the public high school was not responsive to his needs, and my wife and I — because we are lucky enough to be able to do so — took him out the public schools and sent him to a local private school.

Superintendents must make this choice because Governor Malloy, Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor and their Corporate Education Reform Industry thugs are on a mission to convince parents and guardians that they do not have a right to opt their child out of the unfair, ill - conceived and ludicrous standardized testing fiasco that is enveloping Connecticut's Public Schools.

Parent Jeanetta White told StateImpact in September she pulled her four adopted kids out of South Bend public schools and enrolled them in parochial school with the help of Indiana's new voucher program because she was fed up with the public schools» performance.

He kept likening charters to the consciousness - expanding «red pill» in The Matrix while calling for an all - out assault on public schools and public school educators who were irredeemable because they had taken the «blue pill» of complacent resignation.

Jeanetta White said in September she pulled her four foster kids out of South Bend public schools and enrolled them in parochial school with the help of Indiana's new voucher program because she was fed up with the public schools» performance.

Maria Morelli - Wolfe, a lawyer with Greater Hartford Legal Aid Inc., which last year filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights on behalf of children with disabilities at the public charter school, said that very often those students spend too many hours out of the classroom — suspended in school or out of school — because of behaviors they weren't necessarily able to control.

Arne Duncan, Obama's Secretary of Education, is infamous for his claim that Hurricane Katrina was, «the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans,» because it wiped out the existing public school system which allowed it to be replaced with one that is totally privatized, completely made up of charter schools rather than public schools, and no longer employs teachers who belong to unions.

I'm sure there are a number of reasons why this solution may not be feasible, but it sure would provide a disincentive to charters to NOT cull the cream of the crop from public schools then push the more challenging cases out of their schools and into neighborhood public schools, at least not midway through the academic year when the negative consequences of such outcomes are compounded because of the disruption this transience evidently brings to the student and her new schoolmates.