Sentences with phrase «over education in our public schools»

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Over half of black children in public primary and secondary schools are concentrated in the nation's twelve largest central city school districts, where the quality of education is poor, and where whites constitute only about a quarter of total enrollment.

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Even people with less than a high school education today recognize the priority of the brain over the blood, so much so in fact, that in the movie, Hannibal (about a cannibalistic serial killer), the thought of slicing out tiny parts of a person's brain, cooking them in a pan, and serving the pieces to that person to eat has become in the public's mind a more disturbing image than, say, serving a person a glass of their own blood to drink, which appears relatively tame in comparison.

The Special Olympics Northern California Schools Partnership Program is a unique education program active in over 300 K - 12 public schools, positively impacting 36,560 general and special education stSchools Partnership Program is a unique education program active in over 300 K - 12 public schools, positively impacting 36,560 general and special education stschools, positively impacting 36,560 general and special education students.

She graduated from the University of Washington with a B.A. in Art Education and over three decades taught Art in grades 7 - 12 in public schools, Waldorf schools and Public Waldorf scpublic schools, Waldorf schools and Public Waldorf scPublic Waldorf schools.

Liz Beaven has over 30 years experience in Waldorf education, spanning class teaching, school administration, adult education, research, consulting, and public speaking.

In fact, according to the Education Market Association, an estimated 99.5 percent of all public school teachers» use their own money to equip their classrooms - to the tune of over $ 400 per year out of their own pocket.

PT: One of the ones I'm most excited about is Expeditionary Learning Schools [now known as EL Education]-- about 150 schools spread out over the country in both public and charter schools, some with well - off kids, some with kids in pSchools [now known as EL Education]-- about 150 schools spread out over the country in both public and charter schools, some with well - off kids, some with kids in pschools spread out over the country in both public and charter schools, some with well - off kids, some with kids in pschools, some with well - off kids, some with kids in poverty.

With over 40 years of experience in public and private early childhood and elementary education, Betsy has directed and founded school programs, taught in both public and private schools, has been a school director, and was the founding director of Wilshire Boulevard Temple's Early Childhood Center.

Belluck has used his own Twitter handle in recent days to dog the State Education Department over the results of third - through eighth - grade English and math test scores that showed charter school students performing slightly better than their public school counterparts.

Failure to act would mean the city legally reverts to the old Board of Education and community school boards, which presided over the deterioration of public education in the five Education and community school boards, which presided over the deterioration of public education in the five education in the five boroughs.

The schools minister is in the midst of a public row with education secretary Michael Gove over the sacking of Ofsted chief Sally Morgan.

The former education secretary was hugely unpopular with teachers and other cabinet ministers, and ended his education reign in a surprisingly public spat with May, whom he tried to publicly embarrass over extremism in schools.

A proponent of charter schools, Cuomo is in a protracted battle with teachers unions over the direction of public education — as well as spending — in the state.

Cabrera's «war for our children» led him to lead a 2012 march over the Brooklyn Bridge demanding that the Department of Education end its policy barring church congregations from meeting in public schools.

ALBANY — Teachers» unions are leveraging an unprecedented statewide protest of standardized testing in public schools as their latest weapon in a war with Governor Andrew Cuomo over education reform — whether the parent activists who began the so - called «opt out» movement like it or not.

«The truth is that New York dedicates more money per pupil to education than any other state — including over $ 25.8 billion in this year's budget,» Rich Azzopardi, a spokesman for Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, said in a statement, «and we'll continue to work to strengthen our public schools and provide New York children with the education they deserve.»

BY ANDY HUMM Out gay City Councilmember Daniel Dromm of Queens, on October 30, presided over a hearing of the Committee on Education he chairs that heard more than six hours of testimony on bullying in the city public schools, with representatives from the Department of Education (DOE) on the defensive and students and advocates -LSB-...]

With little new education policy expected in the remainder of NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's first term — and a quiet session on education concluding in Albany — the debate over traditional public schools versus charter schools has shifted to a new battleground: school safety.

That is an aim we're fulfilling through public service reform — as in schools, where parents are getting more control than ever before over their children's education.

Prisco's concerns echo the concerns of parents who have blasted Bloomberg's failure to include parents in the city's public schools since winning mayoral control over the Education Department in 2002.

After Senate Republicans proposed a one - year extension last weekend with an independent inspector with new oversight powers over city schools, the bill was met with such dissent that Flanagan was forced to publicly defend his belief in public education over multiple days at the Capitol.

In her education career, she went from teacher, to principal, to superintendent and finally schools chancellor in 2014, overseeing over 1,800 public schoolIn her education career, she went from teacher, to principal, to superintendent and finally schools chancellor in 2014, overseeing over 1,800 public schoolin 2014, overseeing over 1,800 public schools.

Public opinion surveys reveal that over 75 % of parents want their religious values reflected in school - based sex education curricula.

At 1:30 p.m., the Senate Standing Committee on New York City Education Subcommittee will meet to discuss various amendments to education law - including an act in relation to requiring certain public schools in any city with a population over one million to offer food options during lunch, an act to direct chancellors of city school districts, in cities having a population of one million or more, to examine and assess the feasibility of expanding the number and types of career and technical education schools and programs within such city school districts and an act in relation to improving educational outcomes for homeless Education Subcommittee will meet to discuss various amendments to education law - including an act in relation to requiring certain public schools in any city with a population over one million to offer food options during lunch, an act to direct chancellors of city school districts, in cities having a population of one million or more, to examine and assess the feasibility of expanding the number and types of career and technical education schools and programs within such city school districts and an act in relation to improving educational outcomes for homeless education law - including an act in relation to requiring certain public schools in any city with a population over one million to offer food options during lunch, an act to direct chancellors of city school districts, in cities having a population of one million or more, to examine and assess the feasibility of expanding the number and types of career and technical education schools and programs within such city school districts and an act in relation to improving educational outcomes for homeless education schools and programs within such city school districts and an act in relation to improving educational outcomes for homeless students.

In the teeth of the worst recession in decades, more than one - third of the over 6,800 teachers hired in 2006 - 2007 left New York City public schools of their own accord, largely because of the DOE's mismanagement and its obsession with test prep rather than real educatioIn the teeth of the worst recession in decades, more than one - third of the over 6,800 teachers hired in 2006 - 2007 left New York City public schools of their own accord, largely because of the DOE's mismanagement and its obsession with test prep rather than real educatioin decades, more than one - third of the over 6,800 teachers hired in 2006 - 2007 left New York City public schools of their own accord, largely because of the DOE's mismanagement and its obsession with test prep rather than real educatioin 2006 - 2007 left New York City public schools of their own accord, largely because of the DOE's mismanagement and its obsession with test prep rather than real education.

At a subsequent panel on education, Liu slammed Mayor Michael Bloomberg's record on school closures and called for an end to the practice of allowing charter schools to take over space in traditional public schools.

Despite a recent uproar over the validity of civic - minded groups such as co-op and condominium organizations being allowed to meet in public schools, the city Department of Education assured them that the doors would remain open.

The state's Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) has decided to grant the UFT's request for the appointment of a mediator to help break the impasse between the union and the Department of Education over teacher evaluations in 33 schools.

«This represents a further disinvestment in neighborhood public schools and confirms parents» belief that CPS has a larger plan to close neighborhood schools or turn them over to a private operator and privatize public education in Chicago's African American and Latino communities.»

«Our research found that illegal cigarettes are regularly available over the counter in New York City,» said study author Diana Silver, associate professor of public health at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and College of Global Public Hpublic health at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and College of Global Public HPublic Health.

As the debate over school choice heats up once again, in the halls of Congress and in many state capitals, a favorite gambit of defenders of the status quo is to damn such changes as «sure to undermine public education» or «bad for the public schools.»

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Hit, New Poll Finds (The Christian Science Monitor) New Poll Shows Sharp Decline in Support for Public Charter Schools Over Past Year (The 74) National Support for Charter Schools Has Dropped Sharply in Last Year (Chalkbeat) People Think Teachers Are Underpaid — Until You Tell Them How Much Teachers Earn (Time) Marty West co-authors the annual EducationNext survey of American public opinion on timely education issues such charter schools, higher education, and the impact of the current administration, among Schools Take a Hit in Nationwide Poll (EdSource) Public Support for Charter Schools Plummets, Poll Finds (Education Week) Enthusiasm for Charter School Formation Takes Hit, New Poll Finds (The Christian Science Monitor) New Poll Shows Sharp Decline in Support for Public Charter Schools Over Past Year (The 74) National Support for Charter Schools Has Dropped Sharply in Last Year (Chalkbeat) People Think Teachers Are Underpaid — Until You Tell Them How Much Teachers Earn (Time) Marty West co-authors the annual EducationNext survey of American public opinion on timely education issues such charter schools, higher education, and the impact of the current administration, among oPublic Support for Charter Schools Plummets, Poll Finds (Education Week) Enthusiasm for Charter School Formation Takes Hit, New Poll Finds (The Christian Science Monitor) New Poll Shows Sharp Decline in Support for Public Charter Schools Over Past Year (The 74) National Support for Charter Schools Has Dropped Sharply in Last Year (Chalkbeat) People Think Teachers Are Underpaid — Until You Tell Them How Much Teachers Earn (Time) Marty West co-authors the annual EducationNext survey of American public opinion on timely education issues such charter schools, higher education, and the impact of the current administration, among Schools Plummets, Poll Finds (Education Week) Enthusiasm for Charter School Formation Takes Hit, New Poll Finds (The Christian Science Monitor) New Poll Shows Sharp Decline 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Over the past 15 years, private corporations have made their mark on public schools in America, but whether this will be education reform's salvation remained an unanswered question for many educators at the Askwith Education forum on Wednesday, Oceducation reform's salvation remained an unanswered question for many educators at the Askwith Education forum on Wednesday, OcEducation forum on Wednesday, October 11.

(In other words, the Colorado State Board of Education had shut down only one public school for poor performance over the preceding two decades.)

Public - education officials in three states expressed relief last week over the resounding defeat of tax - limitation measures they said posed a dire threat to local schools.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a new investment of $ 1.7 billion for K - 12 education over the next five years, with the bulk of the funding aimed at existing traditional public schools that show progress in improving educational outcomes, the development of new curricula, charter schools focused on students with special needs, and «research and development» for scalable models that could inform best practices.

In a recently published study in Economics of Education Review, we follow the trajectories of 2.9 million public school students in Florida over a seven - year time period and compare their standardized test scores in years when they had a teacher of the same ethnicity to school years when they did noIn a recently published study in Economics of Education Review, we follow the trajectories of 2.9 million public school students in Florida over a seven - year time period and compare their standardized test scores in years when they had a teacher of the same ethnicity to school years when they did noin Economics of Education Review, we follow the trajectories of 2.9 million public school students in Florida over a seven - year time period and compare their standardized test scores in years when they had a teacher of the same ethnicity to school years when they did noin Florida over a seven - year time period and compare their standardized test scores in years when they had a teacher of the same ethnicity to school years when they did noin years when they had a teacher of the same ethnicity to school years when they did not.

You wouldn't know it from the discourse over public schools, but according to the most recent results, public education has some of the lowest rates of job turnover in our economy.

High Schools: Nearly a third of Americans believe that the quality of education in public high schools has fallen over the past five years, according to a Schools: Nearly a third of Americans believe that the quality of education in public high schools has fallen over the past five years, according to a schools has fallen over the past five years, according to a survey.

Eventually, President Bush may use the bureaucratic resistance to public school choice to revive the proposal for private school vouchers that he dropped early in the negotiations over the education bill in 2001.

If the skeptics are right, Wood writes, Common Core «will damage the quality of K — 12 education for many students; strip parents and local communities of meaningful influence over school curricula; centralize a great deal of power in the hands of federal bureaucrats and private interests; push for the aggregation and use of large amounts of personal data on students without the consent of parents; usher in an era of even more abundant and more intrusive standardized testing; and absorb enormous sums of public funding that could be spent to better effect on other aspects of education.»

Secretary of Education Rod Paige reaffirmed his support for public schools and the traditional separation of church and state last week, attempting to quell a furor over earlier, published remarks in which he praised the «strong value system» at Christian schools.

That question currently looms over the national conversation about school reform... [and] it is time for educators and policymakers to rethink the boundaries distinguishing the public and private in education.

Carillion is a market leader in the education sector, having delivered some 150 schools over recent years, many of which were Public Private Partnership projects.

The goal of these school choice «patriots» was to free teachers to practice their craft in new and innovative ways, including by opening their own public or private schools, and to empower parents with greater choice and influence over their children's education.

The decision was unusual in that the court relied not on traditional separation - of - church - and - state concerns, but instead on a provision of the Colorado state constitution that vests control over public education in local school boards.

In the 1999 Booth decision, the Colorado Supreme Court rejected the Denver board's position, finding that the constitution's grant of «general supervision» over public education to the state board was broad enough to encompass the power to approve local charter schools.

He promised to be a more prominent backer of the 1993 law that provided $ 800 million in new education money for public schools, put forth a plan for higher standards and assessments, and moved to equalize school funding over...

The nation's most extensive experiment in private management of public schools sputtered to an end last week as the Hartford, Conn., school board said it would end its partnership with Education Alternatives Inc. in a dispute over finances.