Sentences with phrase «private school entities»

We provide comprehensive legal services to Pennsylvania public and private school entities, and have extensive experience as school solicitor throughout the Commonwealth.

Not exact matches

According to those officials present, despite the fact that Houston is the seventh largest school district in the country and therefore a major consumer of milk, the profit margins for dairies supplying schools (as opposed to private entities) is extremely low and would be wiped out by the manufacturing costs associated with making such changes.

Title III of the ADAAA requires that private, non-religious schools take necessary steps to make sure that no child, due to his disability, is «excluded, denied services, segregated or otherwise treated differently than other individuals because of the absence of auxiliary aids and services, unless the entity can demonstrate that taking such steps would fundamentally alter the nature of the good, service, facility, privilege, advantage, or accommodation being offered or would result in an undue burden.

But most entities, even a private school like Shipley, do not have the resources for such an undertaking.

Public schools are prohibited from membership in any organization or entity which regulates or governs interscholastic extracurricular activities and discriminates against eligible students in public, private, or home education.

The list of entities eligible to spend SMFP money also would be expanded under the new budget to include «special act school districts, schools for the blind and deaf and other students with disabilities subject to article 85 of the education law, and private schools for students with disabilities authorized pursuant to chapter 853 of the laws of 1976.»

His stance on education would be to fund charter schools as independent non-profit entities, allowing them to expand throughout the states and eventually take over private schools.

Following series of reports by Citi News on the dire need for desks by first - year students of the La Presbyterian Senior High School, government and private entities moved in to address the problem.

Public and private investment: The state helped back long - term debt taken on by both public and private entities to build new schools, hospitals and housing to accommodate the growth of Fort Drum.

UFT lawyers argue that «while charter schools may receive some funding from private entities, they are overwhelmingly funded by public tax dollars and they are subject to the disclosure requirements applicable to government agencies under the New York state Freedom of Information Law.»

But, like private schools, charter schools are operated by nongovernmental entities, and students attend only if their family selects the school.

One entity that embraced — and then discarded — leasing was the Province of Nova Scotia in Canada, calling the products public - private partnership, or P3 schools.

Initiated in 1991 by a Minnesota law allowing private non-profit entities to receive public funding to operate schools if authorized by a state agency, the idea has spread to more than 40 states, and some 1.5 million students today attend charter schools.

As executive director of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform, at Brown University, Simmons pushes for what he calls smart education systems: a network of public and private schools tied to businesses, nonprofit organizations, and government entities to provide students with a holistic range of solutions for helping them succeed.

However, it's not clear that a separate government entity charged with regulating private schools would be much better.

The law provides a number of restructuring options, including turning over the school's management to a private for - profit or nonprofit entity.

Working with school districts and private entities, Johannes coordinates the national, at - scale implementation of researched interventions that reduce chronic absenteeism.

Florida has 4,200 K - 12 public schools, of which 650 are charter schools that receive taxpayer funding but are managed by private entities not under the purview of the school district.

In that sense, charters will operate far more like traditional schools than private entities.

After graduating law school, Ms. Smeltzer worked in private practice representing local school districts and other public entities.

These would be state - approved entities whose only job would be to oversee private schools participating in public programs.

In a move of potential significance to public schools nationwide, the U.S. Supreme Court last week accepted an appeal involving the right of individuals to sue when government entities fail to protect them from violence by private citizens.

• Extension of the school year or school day • Replacement of staff members relevant to the school's low performance • Significant decrease in management authority at the school level • Replacement of the principal • Restructuring the internal organization of the school • Appointment of an outside expert to advise the school • Replacement of all or most of the school staff (which may include the principal) • Reopening the school as a public charter school • Entering into a contract with a private entity to operate the school • Takeover the school by the State

As amicus curiae in many federal and state courts, NSBA continues to urge courts to refrain from joining a troubling wave of nationwide efforts to divert public tax dollars away from public schools to fund private entities.

Varies: authorizers may include state or local school board, local university and / or private entity

Most of them center, as former State Board of Education Vice Chair Thomas Ratliff puts it, on the question, «Is a charter school a public school or a private entity?»

Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Lee said he supports spending more public money on private school tuition around Tennessee, and that restrictions should be placed on lobbying by government entities that oppose school vouchers.

«Although the current dialogue about school choice is generally focused on charter schools, vouchers, and the overall diversion of taxpayer monies to private entities, it misses a fundamental reality: Most public school districts already offer a wide range of choices to their students.»

According to a 2016 Gallup poll, Millennials rate the opportunity to «learn and grow» as an extremely important aspect of jobs to which they might consider applying.31 Eighty - seven percent of Millennials said that «development» was an important part of a job.32 Unlike many school districts, various entities elsewhere in the public sector and in the private sector have responded to their interests and are increasing the amount of feedback, professional development opportunities, and support they provide to employees.33

They can outsource school operations to private entities that can evade transparency laws for open meetings, public access to records, and financial disclosures.

Charter schools are governed by a private entity and district tax dollars...

Nationwide the charter school sector has grown over the past few decades amid a debate about its virtues and drawbacks — and even whether the publicly funded schools are public or private entities.

Heading toward its first hearings, Florida's proposed «Parent Empowerment Act» came uder blistering criticism from parent groups saying the initiative was a «scheme» to hand neighborhood schools over to private entities.

Existing local schools, private individuals, private organizations, and state and local public entities may organize a charter public school subject to a performance - based contract approved by both the state and local boards of education or by the state board of education alone.

According to s. 1002.332, F.S., a high - performing charter school system is a municipality, other public entity, private non-profit corporation with tax - exempt status under s. 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or a private for - profit education management corporation that meets each of the following criteria:

Rather, the (First Amendment's) Free Exercise Clause protects such schools as private entities offering individual parents options at their own expense...»

The report describes a variety of public and private entities, including Connections Education, a commercial provider of online education; the Michigan Virtual School; the National Association of Independent Schools, and the Texas Education Agency.

While schools operating under charter are considered public education, the charter developers are often private entities that own the school facilities, leaving the question of whether such an arrangement could fit within the state's definitions for where eminent domain is permissible.

(PDF)(https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oii/nonpublic/titlethree.pdf) is intended to assist school divisions and other entities in providing Title III services for ELs enrolled in private schools.

He speaks a jargon that is virtually nonsense by the standards of ordinary language; but his overall message is clear: we are coming after public schools and we mean to get them any we can and turn them into private entities.

(Word) is intended to assist school division and other entities in providing Title I, Part A services specifically to private school children.

«When we can not adequately fund public schools and their teachers, we have no business diverting funds that could help us to private entities instead.»

The State of Utah Office of Education offers a typical definition of a private school: «A school that is controlled by an individual or agency other than a governmental entity, which is usually supported primarily by other than public funds, and the operation of whose program rests with someone other than publicly elected or appointed officials.»

Despite receiving millions in additional funds from CPS and private entities that regular public schools do not get access to, AUSL «results» are little better than — and in some cases lag behind — district averages.

... now you have a failing school to hand over to a private entity who can now deny admissions even if you live in the neighborhood.

Public or private nonprofit organizations, including faith - based and other community groups; schools or districts; institutions of higher education; cities and counties; Indian Tribes; and labor organizations are eligible to apply, along with partnerships and consortia of these entities.

This is contradictory to the language in DOJ's own manual, which states that private entities are not subject to the same disability laws as public schools (Title II) and rather they are subject to a different, less burdensome part of the ADA which exempts religious institutions (Title III).

As a taxpayer and parent with a child in the school system, I'm skeptical that the right mechanisms, meaning those that can not be corrupted, could be put in place to monitor private entities operating public school systems.

Threatened only a week ago with closure by Oct. 1, the center now will remain open until June as Los Angeles school officials seek bids from a nonprofit or private entity to operate the facility, school officials announced.

At the school level, stories of charters founded by groups of teachers and parents recall the early days of the movement, but increasingly, private companies and management entities are taking responsibility for opening and running charter schools.