Sentences with phrase «provide good public schools»

«I believe that it is a public duty to provide a good public school with adequate resources and a rich curriculum in every neighborhood.»

Quality authorizing is essential for charter schools to play a vital role in providing better public schools for children.

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Parents are increasingly interested in providing private school funding for their children 1) because they see the value and importance of good education and 2) because of frequent public school closings.

In the remedial education case, New York City provided remedial teachers to parochial (as well as public) school students.

This is consistent with the research on Catholic and other faith - based schools, suggesting that religious instruction provides a better standpoint for critical engagement with the dominating culture than does a public school immersed in that culture.

With the zeal of a reformer and the heart of a dreamer, she calls for turning off the television at home, providing better funding for public schools and public media, and enacting laws that forbid marketing to children altogether.

There is now a clear consensus that this type of education provides a far better source of Jewish identity for Jewish children in America than education that can only supplement the education offered in the public (that is, state) schools.

It provides in - depth programming that helps grow local food procurement capacity; educates the public about the importance and impact of Good Food; engages local school districts; and illuminates local, statewide and national food policy.

We are making these again this year for our family and also providing the GF dough for our synagogue's Purim Carnival (where many hamantaschen will be made) as well as the recipe for our older daughter's 3rd grade (public Waldorf) class, which is studying Judaism this year, and learning about Purim, in part by making hamantaschen as a school activity.

The SoCal High School Cycling League was organized in 2008 to provide a well defined race season for high school student - athletes and to promote the formation of teams at public and private high scSchool Cycling League was organized in 2008 to provide a well defined race season for high school student - athletes and to promote the formation of teams at public and private high scschool student - athletes and to promote the formation of teams at public and private high schools.

Deering is a public high school, and Craig was unsure of the best way to get money to provide the sports hijabs as part of the uniforms, because that would mean using taxpayer money for religious garments.

«I have great respect for the researchers at Harborview and think this was a good study, and was great to see somebody providing data on youth younger than high school age,» said Dawn Comstock, an epidemiologist at the Colorado School of Public Health who has studied extensively sports injuries at the high school school age,» said Dawn Comstock, an epidemiologist at the Colorado School of Public Health who has studied extensively sports injuries at the high school School of Public Health who has studied extensively sports injuries at the high school school level.

Franklin County Public Schools wants to give every student the best chance to succeed academically, and providing universal breakfast and lunch is part of that strategy.

A percentage of proceeds will help in providing a well - rounded education that includes music to public school students across the nation.

Her advocacy for youth includes providing an educational alternative in the form of Edge Hill University, where she is a Professor of Public Understanding of Science, as well as serving as the school's first chancellor.

Your membership also provides the Village with the support necessary to care for our historic buildings, priceless collection of early American artifacts, heritage breed animals and heirloom gardens as well as our expert costumed interpreters and outstanding educational programming for both the general public and school children alike.

The developments at D.C. Central Kitchen converge precisely with the public school system's recent efforts to introduce fresher, healthier foods, as well as the «Healthy Schools Act» approved earlier this year by the D.C. Council, which not only raises nutritional standards for school food but provides bonus funding for every meal that contains a locally grown component.

«I am disappointed by the decision of the Chicago Teachers Union to turn its back on not only a city negotiating in good faith but also the hundreds of thousands of children relying on the city's public schools to provide them a safe place to receive a strong education.

The compromise would have yoked the Dream Act — which provides tuition assistance to the children of undocumented immigrants — to the tax credit for donations to private and parochial school scholarships as well as public school programs.

Halloran also said he would continue to make sure the community's public schools provide students with the best education.

btw, charters provide a better education than the NYC public schools and they make money to boot.

The mayor also started the «Mayor's Heroin and Prescription Opioid Public Awareness Task Force,» gave $ 70,000 to expand the «Too Good for Drugs» anti-drug program in schools and set up a dedicated fund to provide 7,000 free naloxone kits to community - based organizations.

A library in the Broadalbin - Perth Central School District did not fare as well: a proposition that would have taxed each parcel in the district $ 1.56 every year to provide a $ 10,000 annual contribution to Amsterdam Free Public Library went down.

The Buffalo Public Schools» graduation rate has improved, providing a glimmer of good news for the many failing city sSchools» graduation rate has improved, providing a glimmer of good news for the many failing city schoolsschools.

The governor says the money is needed to pay for a middle class tax cut, agreed to last year and which is scheduled to begin phasing in later this year, as well as a plan to provide free tuition at public colleges for New Yorkers earning less than $ 125,000 a year and to spend more on public schools.

They plow some of their profits into promotional industry groups that fund research studies, they make alliances with medical organizations to educate the public about milk, and they provide free materials to schools suggesting that milk is vital to good nutrition.

This contributes to policy discussion on Medicaid expansion by providing evidence that public outlays on Medicaid are well spent,» said Kimberly Johnson, associate professor at the Brown School and co-author of the study, «The Effect of Health Insurance on Childhood Cancer Survival in the United States,» published Sept. 11 in CANCER, a peer - reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society.

One of the best ways to fix the issues in this country is to provide every child who attends public school with the same and equal education.

About Blog The NWFA (The National Wood Flooring Association) provides training, technical schools, technical support, education and networking to the wood flooring industry as well as the general public.

Opening up school premises for public use can create better engagement between schools and their communities, provide greater commitment to the schools from local residents and create additional funding.

Aimed at senior leadership teams, school business managers and governors, the bite size modules provide a cost effective route to improving school procurement skills by sharing knowledge of public procurement legislation and effective best practice.

April 7, 2016 — To better meet the unique needs of different students, urban districts are increasingly expanding the options available to families by providing a variety of public schools: traditional, magnet, charter, and hybrid models.

But any comparison of the demographics of students in charter and traditional public schools provides at best an incomplete picture of segregation because segregation resulting from school choice policies would occur primarily across schools, not within schools.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

The law thus established a nationwide test of public school choice as a means of both providing better opportunities for individual kids and creating pressure on schools that are performing poorly.

For years, reformers of left and right have dueled over whether the best way to shake up poorly performing public schools is to provide parents with the opportunity to switch to private schools (through vouchers) or to allow parents to move their children to better public schools (through public school choice).

Taken together, these results give no reason to suspect that private schools do a worse job of providing a civic education than assigned public schools and some reason to think they do a better job.

More broadly, Harvard University professor Robert Putnam's research on civic participation provides reason to think that private schools should be better able to deliver civic education than are public schools.

Many high - performing public schools employ strategies to screen out such students as well, either by not providing the services needed for special education students, or by employing admissions policies that make it difficult or unlikely for such students to gain access.

Day one provided conference participants with insight into why we can and must narrow achievement gaps, and ways in which our home and institutional lifestyles, as well as our schooling and public policies, affect achievement gaps.

Polls show overwhelming bipartisan support for the common - sense idea that schools receiving public dollars to educate children should be accountable for providing a good education.

Program knowing that we really need to improve the public school system to provide better outcomes for kids.

Having learned these lessons firsthand as a business owner, I am determined as a governor to apply them to the single greatest challenge facing our public schools today — the challenge of providing the best possible teachers to students in our lowest - achieving schools.

There is also the worry that even the best public schools provide a superficial...

By providing access to private and parochial schools as well as charter and other public schools, vouchers begin to level the playing field for families from lower income backgrounds.

(p. 222) It does not seem unfair to expect the authors to provide evidence, other than the fact of differentiation, to support these assertions, or to say what is being done in traditional public schools that better prepares students for life in a democratic society.

Recruiting for the UAE public school system we want to provide the very best candidates and service to a thriving education reform taking place.

To school choice movement veteran Nina Rees, the decision to provide more funding for public schools as well as vouchers for private tuition was a virtue.

«Rather than using taxpayer dollars to provide vouchers to a few, we must focus our resources and efforts on concrete reforms that make our public schools better for all of the District's schoolchildren.»

The question is whether simply providing vouchers to students, who can use them to attend better public schools or private schools, is sufficient to satisfy the legislature's obligation to provide a high - quality education to all students.