Sentences with phrase «parents and public officials»

Less than two weeks into her new gig, Schools Chancellor Cathie Black has riled parents and public officials by jokingly suggesting that «birth control» was the solution to school overcrowding.

In announcing the postponement in a statement, Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott said, «After reviewing concerns raised by parents and public officials about this year's Citywide and Community Education Council elections, I have concluded that the process could and should have been handled better.»

The cost of going to college is an issue of growing concern among students, their parents and public officials.

Not exact matches

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

(A) kin to a public marriage contract, we need an official «co-parenting agreement» and associated civil status, which not only enshrines the rights and responsibilities of each parent in respect of their children, but also sets out the principles by which they relate to one another and make decisions.

Concussion and Sports - Related Head Injury: SB189 (2011) requires the governing authority of each public and nonpublic school to provide information to all coaches, officials, volunteers, youth athletes and their parents / guardians about the nature and risk of concussion and head injury, including continuing to play after a concussion or head injury.

But while faculty and parents were thrilled, Chicago Public Schools officials...

But public outcry from consumers, parents and school district officials, triggered by YouTube videos and online petitions, drove industry and government to respond.

In addition to helping parents make the best and most appropriate decision for themselves, the information provided here should also be of use to educators, health professionals, public health officials, the media, sleep researchers, child protective services, coroners, forensic pathologists, anthropologists, psychiatrists, psychologists and other social scientists, as well as researchers in a variety the developmental fields including human biology.

FEW examples of families safely cosleeping provide public officials with a license to assume authority over this issue when in fact, its only parents that can and should.

However, despite opposition from medical authorities, public health official and the police, many parents in Western socieities are increasingly adopting night - time infant caregiving patterns that include some cosleeping, especially by those mothers who choose to breastfeed.

But while faculty and parents were thrilled, Chicago Public Schools officials were not.

Trump's plan — coming from the NRA's talking points — to «harden» schools and arm teachers received a failing grade from parents, educators, school safety experts and public officials.

They're out now in draft form, but officials are still seeking more input from parents, teachers and member of the public.

De Blasio, who formerly served as a City Councilman and a federal housing official, stressed his role as a public school parent and his background volunteering on the local school board.

Greater public visibility and scrutiny combined with a desire to tell their story has meant that the intelligence and security services have sought to publish «authorised» if not «official» histories, using academic historians who were made members of the parent organisation.

Advocates and city parents have filed a lawsuit calling on state Education Department officials and city schools Chancellor Richard Carranza to reduce class sizes in the public schools.

As another school year comes to a close, education and education funding remain among the top concerns for parents, teachers and public officials.

Parents, citizens and local officials gathered in Buffalo Wednesday to demand that New York State provide more funding for public schools.

At recent public meetings, the DOE did not give parents and leaders enough assurances that construction of the Beacon School's new Hell's Kitchen campus is on schedule, Community Education Council 3 members said in a Dec. 9 letter to DOE officials.

Those in support of the plan — including the current principal and PTA from the playground's adjoining school P.S. 166, elected officials, Community Board 7, parents and nearby residents — shared perspectives, bringing the commission up to speed on past debates and public meetings.

The off - color quip came in response to concerns by public - school dad Eric Greenleaf, who said at a meeting of parents and officials at state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's downtown office that there will be «huge shortages» of classroom space in lower Manhattan in coming years.

About the Parent Advisory Board The Parent Advisory Board gives Queens public school parents an opportunity to be heard on education issues and concerns and provides a forum to meet with senior city and state DOE officials.

Upper West Side public school parents, elected officials and Community Board 7 fought for months to keep Upper West Success Academy from moving into an existing public school building.

So vaccination is clearly on the minds of doctors, public health officials and all those parents who will be sending their kids back to school in September.

Educators could also collaborate with public transportation officials to coordinate routes and schedules, allowing parents and students to commute together to school and work in new job centers.

By cutting red tape and promoting transparency, Congress can help equip parents, voters, taxpayers, and public officials to do the real work of school improvement.

Whether this means providing more learning time, coaching, arts instruction, or anything else is a determination that will be made by educators, parents, and public officials.

President Clinton challenged public officials, business leaders, universities, schools, teachers, parents, and students to take the steps necessary to boost student achievement in math and science.

Others ask parents and carers to refrain from discussing the business of school or children attending school in any public forum, while many request that complaints are made via official school channels rather than social networking sites.

Parents can influence school board members and public officials by participating in meetings, voting, and engaging in discussions of education matters and child advocacy issues.

If schools failed to make adequate progress, officials had to explain themselves to reporters, parents, and the public at large.

So here, in this collection, I have drawn from various sources and experiences over time and around the world, ideas from inspectors and their reports, leadership training course tutors and candidates, school improvement ambassadors, union officials, faculty leaders, headteachers and principals in all their guises, governors, government officials, civil servants, councillors, parents, students, current, aspiring, ex and retired teachers, in the public, private, Academy, Charter, free, not - for - profit, voluntary and charitable sectors.

San Antonio parent Kerri Smith sent a two - page letter to every Texas official overseeing charters, explaining, «Had my children not been given the opportunity to attend a BASIS school, I truly fear that they would have continued to go through traditional public school in the middle of the pack, not reaching their full potential and not being fully prepared to go off to college one day.»

The systematic evidence clearly shows that school officials dominate special education, parents rarely challenge school officials» decisions, schools win most of those challenges from parents, and parents very rarely get their children placed in private schools at public expense.

The authors hypothesize that if state and local governments empower parents to choose the schools of their choice, a «spontaneous education order» — a state in which parents seek information about schools and in which schools make available the necessary information without public officials» intentional intervention — will arise.

Some, for example, are incorporating parent / carer codes of conduct into school policies to set expectations around the use of social media.Others ask parents and carers to refrain from discussing the business of school or children attending school in any public forum, while many request that complaints are made via official school channels rather than social networking sites.

More than 100 members of cef, a Washington - based coalition of parents, educators, clergymen, and public officials who support and actively lobby for public aid to private schools, gathered on Sept. 21 to celebrate the recent progress of their cause and to discuss strategies for continuing that momentum.

They discovered a major change in how parents, educators, community and business leaders, and public officials come together to direct changes in local public schools.

Fiske and Ladd find that almost everyone - parents, teachers, principals, and public officials - likes the new system better than the old one; overweening bureaucratic control has no defenders.

The fractures within social studies and the ambivalence of parents will tend to deter public officials from even trying very hard.

Almost everyone - parents, teachers, and public officials - likes the new system better than the old one.

Eva's experience as a teacher, college professor, elected official, Chair of the New York City Council's Education Committee and public school parent make her uniquely qualified to effectively lead the organization in establishing high - performing schools and pioneering for educational excellence.

• Who has right ideas for public education: 81 percent of parents said they believe teachers have the right ideas for their public schools; 77 percent said principals have the right ideas; 70 percent gave the nod to parent organizations; 39 percent said their governor has the right ideas; 37 percent had confidence in mayors / local officials; and 33 percent said business owners / corporate executives have the right ideas.

An industry has grown up around courting public - school decision makers, and tech companies are using a sophisticated playbook to reach them, The New York Times has found in a review of thousands of pages of Baltimore County school documents and in interviews with dozens of school officials, researchers, teachers, tech executives and parents.

Having the Secretary of Education, state boards, and a bunch of DC advocacy groups declare a particular approach to be best and cram it into place in the middle of a financial crisis with virtually no public debate or input from educators or parents did not convince local officials, educators, and parents to change their minds.

In an article for Education Next, Stuart Buck and Jay Greene argue in favor of special ed vouchers that would give all parents of special needs students the ability to enroll their children in private schools without having to convince public school officials of the need for a private placement.

Leadership for American education has increasingly been provided by big - city and state superintendents, professors of education, and officials of the education associations and teacher unions who see little need to respond to the uninformed views of the general public and of parents.

After Lynchburg (Virginia) City Public Schools officials learned in fall 2007 that a middle - school student had MRSA, school officials cleaned desks and common areas and alerted parents about the causes of the infection and ways to stop transmission, said Anne Bond - Gentry, the districts coordinator of student services.

Also onboard is Marshall Tuck, former president and chief operating officer of Green Dot Public Schools, which has built a chain of charter schools in the district while organizing a parents» «union» and constantly pushing district officials to take bolder steps to improve the performance of children from poor families.