Sentences with phrase «parents of public school students»

At Kno's recent launch of a dashboard and pricing schedule that makes it possible for parents of public school students to purchase digital editions of their children's textbooks for no more than $ 9.99 apiece, the iOS platform was the only one able to interact with the K - 12 digital texts.

As parents of public school students, we encourage you to be proactive in discussing your child's assessment data with their teachers.

On behalf of parents of public school students across Connecticut, I am writing to request that you add an agenda item to the April 6, 2015 State Board of Education Committee meeting to review and address the actions taken by your Interim Commissioner of Education and other State Department of Education staff as they relate to the issue of a parent's fundamental and inalienable right to opt their children out of the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing program and how local school districts should deal with children whose parents have opted them out of the SBAC testing.

Parents of public school students in a number of Connecticut school districts continue to report that there are superintendents and principals who are not only misleading parents about their fundamental and inalienable right to refuse to have their child participate in the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) tests and / or the NEW SAT, but are actually telling parents that it is «illegal» for them to opt their child or children out of these tests.

Parents of public school students at Lorena Street Elementary School were furious that the school was forced to relinquish space to accommodate Extera 2, a charter school, because of Proposition...

For more than two years many Connecticut teachers, public school advocates, parents of public school students and others have been warning about the dangers that will result from Governor Malloy's corporate education reform industry initiative.

When asked whether they were confident that the money would be spent wisely, 53 % of all adults and 57 % of the parents of public school students answered affirmatively.

On Sunday, Helen Gym, a member of ParentsUnited, a volunteer group made up of parents of public school students, criticized the congressman as well as his stance on school choice.

The Education Practices Commission consists of 25 members, including 8 teachers; 5 administrators, at least one of whom shall represent a private school; 7 lay citizens, 5 of whom shall be parents of public school students and who are unrelated to public school employees and 2 of whom shall be former district school board members; and 5 sworn law enforcement officials, appointed by the State Board of Education from nominations by the Commissioner of Education and subject to Senate confirmation.

At the start of each school year, parents of public school students in New York City receive a 28 - page pamphlet titled Citywide Standards of Discipline and Intervention Measures: The Discipline Code and Bill of Student Rights and Responsibilities, K — 12.

Parents of public school students have grown distrustful of the board, whose meetings have at times devolved into shouting matches between members and the public.

The parents of public school students say 66 - year - old Cathie Black lacks the required educational experience or academic credentials to be even a teacher, much less direct the 80,000 teachers of 1.1 million students.

Rosenthal is the chair of ParentJobsNet, a non-profit that helps parents of public school students join (or rejoin) the workplace.

I attended public schools from kindergarten through 12th grade, as well as a public university, and I am the parent of public school students.

ENN was instrumental in supporting plaintiff - parents of public schools students who, in Lopez v. Schwartz, viewed the voucher program as undermining and shortchanging public schools.

By Tenicka Boyd, the senior director of organizing at StudentsFirstNY and the parent of a public school student.

Not exact matches

The NRA, bolstered by Trump, has been a vocal proponent of allowing more guns in public places, including schools, but the exception for the convention has raised eyebrows and prompted skepticism among students and at least one parent who lost his child in the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in which 17 people were killed and others injured.

Comparing national test scores, Catholic schools in general (as with most private schools) perform better in both reading and math than public schools although the advantage is stronger in reading than in Math though the difference in Math was still statistically significant; however, this could be due to the self selecting nature of the students in Catholic schools where the parents have made the decision to value education to the extent of paying for it.

Likewise, homeschooling seems to mitigate the negative effects of low levels of parents» education on student achievement — a finding that's especially intriguing since these parents are the educators — as well as the negative effects of family socioeconomic variables and race displayed in public schools.

Roland G. Fryer, Jr., «Aligning Student, Parent, and Teacher Incentives: Evidence from Houston Public Schools,» NBER Working Paper 17752 (Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, January 2012)

Finally, in Houston in 2010 — 11, he gave cash incentives to fifth - grade students in 25 low - performing public schools, as well as to the parents and teachers of those students, with the intent of increasing the time they spent on math homework and improving their scores on standardized math tests.

Concussion and Sports - related Head Injury: Statute 115C - 12 (23)(2011) requires the Department of Public Instruction, along with other organizations outlined in the statute, to develop an athletic concussion safety training program for the use of coaches, school nurses, school athletic directors, volunteers, students who participate in interscholastic athletic activities in public schools and their paPublic Instruction, along with other organizations outlined in the statute, to develop an athletic concussion safety training program for the use of coaches, school nurses, school athletic directors, volunteers, students who participate in interscholastic athletic activities in public schools and their papublic schools and their parents.

It also requires the Department of Education to develop an educational fact sheet about sports - related concussions and other head injuries, and requires public and non-public schools that participate in interscholastic sports to distribute the information annually to parents and guardians of student athletes, along with a signature acknowledging receipt.

Concussion and Sports - Related Head Inury: SB 771 (2011) defines concussion, student athlete, and youth recreational sports program, and requires the Departments of Education and Health, county boards of education, Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association, Maryland Athletic Trainers Association and the Brain Injury Association of Maryland to develop policies and implement a concussion program to provide awareness to coaches, school personnel, student athletes and parents and guardians of student athletes.

In 2009, Bellingham Public Schools in Washington state brought together a coalition of district employees, parents, students, foodservice workers, community organizations and food advocates to talk about school food.

Supporters of the Tim Tebow laws believe homeschooled students should have the same rights as public school students, after all parents of homeschooled children pay the same amount of taxes as all the public school students» parents.

Parents of new students are often surprised at the hidden costs of attending public school.

Parents, pastors and some Chicago Public School students gathered in front of CPS headquarters to demonstrate.

The WRDSB Parent Involvement Committee (PIC) and Waterloo Region Assembly of Public School Councils (WRAPSC) are excited to announce this seventh annual parent conference SATURDAY APRIL 7 at Bluevale Collegiate Institute: Parent Engagement for Innovative Education and Student SuParent Involvement Committee (PIC) and Waterloo Region Assembly of Public School Councils (WRAPSC) are excited to announce this seventh annual parent conference SATURDAY APRIL 7 at Bluevale Collegiate Institute: Parent Engagement for Innovative Education and Student Suparent conference SATURDAY APRIL 7 at Bluevale Collegiate Institute: Parent Engagement for Innovative Education and Student SuParent Engagement for Innovative Education and Student Success.

How does the parenting public effect change in the school lunch program that benefits the health of the students?

by Shawna Cohen, October 8, 2014, Today's Parent Magazine As a former chair of student council at her daughter's Toronto public school, Stacie Smith helped raise more than $ 40,000.

As the chairperson of the nutrition committee of HISD's School Health Advisory Council (SHAC), I'm working with a dedicated group of parents and public health professionals to address the issue of a la carte foods in HISD — both the items sold by the district itself (like the Flaming Hot Cheetos above) and items sold by parent and student groups (usually in violation of state rules) as campus fundraisers.

The parents of a private school student participating in a public school sport under this subsection are responsible for transporting their child to and from the public school at which the student participates.

Silver told AQE members that he «respectfully» disagreed with Cuomo's claim in the State of the State last week that New York's public school students lack a lobbyist, adding: «The most powerful lobbying group for our students is their parents.»

After making her remarks at the Hilton Albany, Nixon, who has made education one of her key issues in her campaign, held a roundtable discussion with public school parents to talk about the conditions their students face.

The Post's interviews with parents and staffers at JHS / MS 80, as well as public documents, painted a picture of a school where students are allowed to shirk their studies, hurt each other and play on computers in rat - infested buildings, while administrators turned a blind eye and even discouraged staffers from reporting violence.

«Maintaining mayoral control of city schools is critical to students, parents and employers who all depend on high quality public schools,» said Kathryn Wylde, President & CEO of the Partnership for New York City.

(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;

Question: Do the students and parents of Buffalo Public Schools talk to administrators?

My name is Joanna and I am the parent of third grader Oumar, a student at a public elementary school in Canarsie.

«I applaud those students for speaking up, I applaud the students for taking action and I think the calls of the students and parents have captured the attention of the administration of the Buffalo Public Schools and the teacher's union and I'm hoping that those two entities can come together in the best interest of the education of the children at City Honors,» he said.

«New York City public school parents are highly dissatisfied with the quality of education their children are receiving,» said Tenicka Boyd, StudentsFirstNY Director of Organizing and mother of a public school student in Brooklyn.

Also at noon, NYC Councilman Ben Kallos Liz Accles, the executive director of Community Food Advocates and Monique Lindsay, a public school parent leader and food advocate hold conversation on universal free lunch, food access and nutrition for New York City's public school students, NYSHealth's office, 1385 Broadway, 23rd floor, conference room, Manhattan.

«New York State United Teachers today issued early endorsements to three incumbent state senators who have reliably stood with parents and educators in fighting for fair and equitable funding while vigorously opposing the climate of over-testing that is harming students and public schools,» NYSUT said in a statement.

The Parental Choice in Education Act would provide tax credits for those who donate to private and parochial schools for purposes of scholarships, tax credits to parents who pay tuition to private and parochial schools and tax credits to teachers - in both public and private schools - who make personal purchases of school supplies and food to support their underprivileged students.

Wadleigh librarian Paul McIntosh, who has secured West, Liu and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio as part of a speakers program at the school, said students, faculty and parents know they are facing a difficult to nearly impossible fight to keep their middle school open.

Children and parents should not suffer because they choose to send their child to a religious or independent school - the rights and needs of a student at one of these schools should be treated as equally as those of a child who attends public school.

Mona Davids, President of the New York City Parents Union (NYCPU) recalled that as a New York City public school student being marked absent when observing Muslim Holidays and until recently her own children have been marked absent for observing those holidays.

I urge my public school colleagues and parents of Connecticut students to write in a vote for Jonathan Pelto, the only true proponent of public school education.

The CCHS has 10 elected members, two from each borough, who must be the parents of students currently attending a public high school.