Students moving to or living in the Reno area can attend the Davidson Academy's free
public day school.
The Davidson Academy offers two educational options for profoundly gifted students — a full - time, online high school option and a free
public day school for middle and high school students.
Not exact matches
Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard
days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's
public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.
He touted the company's volunteerist culture and $ 25 million in funding for Boston
public schools over five years announced earlier in the
day.
Can you handle eight hours at the office,
school at night, and multiple legs of New York City
public transportation travel all in the same
day?
«We respectfully ask all parents to acknowledge that students need to be in class every
day to benefit from the education they are guaranteed and to avoid falling behind in
school and life,» Albuquerque
Public Schools principals wrote in a letter to parents, USA Today reports.
What it's like: «I never know what my
day will bring,» says Jennifer Zurba, principal of William Burgess
Public School in Toronto.
Last year, Ontario imposed a contract on
public -
school teachers that eliminated bankable sick
days, while back in June, Treasury Board president Tony Clement vowed to fight federal employee absenteeism, which he said was costing taxpayers millions.
Bill Gates was the most
public face of Microsoft, but of course the company started as a partnership with the kid Gates met one
day in a group of students crowded around a teletype machine in a Seattle high
school.
From 1966 to the Valentine's
Day that my
school proved to be less than bulletproof, nearly 1,100 people have been killed in mass
public shootings in the U.S..
Prosecutors are joining the Broward
School Board in moving to block the
public release of footage captured by security cameras outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High
School during Nikolas Cruz's deadly Valentine's
Day rampage.
A client asked me the other
day why in the world he should care about getting links from a few K - 12
public school library Web sites, most of which look horrible, have very few visitors, and live way out in the middle of nowhere in the.
«It is a
day you pray every
day you don't have to see,» said Broward County
Public Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie, reflecting on one of the nation's deadliest
school shootings.
The answer is that the Christian right in our country is constantly trying to force their religious beliefs into the
public sphere (science education,
school prayer at
public schools, Decalogue displays at court houses, nativity scenes on city hall property, crosses in all kinds of
public places, national
days of prayer, etc.)-- if these things stopped, the outcry from us non-believers would be greatly diminished.
I have to say, though, that things have improved considerably since the
days when our
public school music teacher felt the need to teach her largely Jewish students about the divinity of Jesus.
Could one be a
public school teacher — or a teacher of any government accredited
school for that matter — without subscribing ex animo to whatever the creed of the
day happens to be?
Thus, in recent years the Supreme Court has invalidated a Connecticut law (passed to replace the prior Sunday closing law) allowing workers to select their Sabbath
day as their
day off from work, struck down a Massachusetts statute allowing churches and
schools to object to the issuance of liquor licenses in their near vicinity, and abolished an Alabama law allowing students in
public schools a moment of silence.
Bibles in every motel room God on our money Prayer before
public events Christian cable networks 24/7 Discounts on insurance for being christian Churches every 6 blocks in every city over 100,000 Laws that prevent non-christians from holding
public office Christian bookstores in every town over 12,000 God in the Pledge of Allegiance Televangelists 24/7 Christian billboards along the highway advertising Vacation Bible
School and «Repent or go to He.ll» Federally recognized christian holiday Radioevangelists 24/7 Religious organizations are tax free 75 % of the population claims to be christian National
day of prayer God in the National Anthem Weekday christian education for elementary students.
The parental state, extending the smothering accomplished by Johan's possessive parents, does to him what the parental corporation does to people we know, or the
public schools to children, or the machinery of welfare to modern -
day paupers.
Bibles in every motel room God on our money Moments of silence (prayer) before
public events Christian cable networks 24/7 Discounts on insurance for being christian Churches every 6 blocks in every city over 100,000 Christian bookstores in every town over 12,000 God in The Pledge of Allegiance Televangelists 24/7 Christian billboards along the highway advertising Vacation Brainwashing
School (VBS) for your children Federally recognized Christian holiday Radioeveangelists 24/7 Religious organizations are tax free 75 % of the population claims to be Christian National
day of prayer God in the National Anthem
I'm a graduate of NYC
public schools and we always had off for the Jewish high holidays, which was very nice as otherwise I would have missed class those
days.
I guess we should just close
schools because if
public schools begin to observe muslim holidays, then
public schools would have to observe all other religion's holy
days — Judaism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Asatru, Pastafarianism.
While it's probably acceptable that
public schools should go out of their way to blacklist MAJOR religious holy
days from exams or deadlines (some kind of authoritative national list would be required, but I'll bet even with community involvement it won't please everyone, sheesh) I don't buy having our
public school system bend over backwards for religion.
I say that as a
public school teacher because our students need to be in
school everyday all
day!
Those two Holidays should be added to the laudry list of
days NYC
public schools are closed, It is all but fair.
Maybe LJ Has a point, Lets celebrate all the holidays and every
day will be a
day off, that way students will might learn something by avoiding
public schools alltogether.
So if the
public schools don't by default give the
days off, parents should talk to the
school (principals, teachers) about not having exams on
days they plan to have their kids miss
school.
We may one
day decide to send Tomas and his brother to be
schooled at a church, a
public building, a textbook sitting on our kitchen table, or wherever.
Are they asking for all NYC
public schools to be closed those
days or that those
days are approved religious absences?
While pledging allegiance to the flag (with a more subdued physical salute) continues to this
day to be routine in America's
public schools, for the seventy years since Barnette it has been unlawful to compel any student to participate, and no student who elects not to participate is obliged to give any reason for that choice.
One
public school recently took kids on a field trip to a Christian festival and left all the other kids on campus in a
day long study hall.
If Santa Clausism became the dominant «religion» of the country, tried to influence the government, inst / itute laws and
public policies and demand that it be taught in
public education - start every
school day with a reading from «Twas the Night Before Christmas» and have «Ho Ho Ho» on your money - I'm just betting that you would have something to say about it on an internet forum and elsewhere!
It had been customary to pray or to read the Bible in
public schools in many states throughout the Union from the founding
days of the nation.
Tried to talk with them about it, but they're too busy asking me for things, and they never get around to listening... wouldn't like what I'd say if they did shut up for moment... think I'll send a mass email... (no, did that the other
day to another group of my followers, the ones who continue to blame Satan and the Atheists for getting prayer and «God» out of the
public schools... they just deleted the email as SPAM: 0 -LRB-...
Yet at least one student, in every Bible - as - literature course I have taught in a
public high
school, looks around conspiratorily the first
day and asks in a stage whisper, Can we get away with this?»
Non-christians should no sooner be made to sit in a
public school room looking at a cross all
day than Jews should be made to sit looking at a swastika all
day.
Highly publicized reactions to science and social science on the part of religious conservatives, as evidenced by lawsuits concerning the teaching of evolution in
public schools and court cases challenging the influence of «secular humanism» on
school textbooks, suggest that Habermas's forces of «secular rationality» have by no means carried the
day.
A full - time Christian youth minister, I wouldn't care in the slightest if
public schools opened on Christmas
Day.
And as far as socialism goes, I bet there are millions of those evangelicals who wallow in it every
day:
public schools, state highways, medicare, medicaid, libraries.
«I hope I will live to see the
day when... we won't have any
public schools.
I believe she is refering to the very Vocal Churches and Christians who have for 30 years been hollaring and screamin about the issues of prayer in
public schools abortions and the anti- gay verbage we been hearing for so long... nearly every
day somthing is beign said on these issues you must be mr. van winkle..
A
public school teacher may offer a motivational or inspirational speech but not a prayer; the town council may erect a Memorial
Day display but not a Nativity scene; Congress may set up the National Endowment for the Arts, but a National Endowment for Religion would raise eyebrows, to say the least.
I went to
public policy
school, not seminary, and although I loved Scripture and history and could write a bit, I was still learning more about Jesus every
day.
«My daughter goes to
public school and I can see the impact breakfast — or lack thereof — has on children in starting their
day right,» she told us last year.
Researchers at the Harvard
School of
Public Health, found that eating red meat once a
day gives you a 20 % greater chance of death by heart disease or cancer.
Alison Moore Smith recently posted...
Public School Fail: Mother's
Day Report Card
Fed Up With Lunch — For a year, one woman blogged about her
school lunch every
day at a
public school in Chicago... then she wrote a book.
Pupils of all age ranges in about 40
schools across New York have already joined Meatless Monday, including
public (state - run), private and charter
schools, and the Brooklyn announcement was made at a
school that serves only meat free meals — every
day of the week.
Simple way how to make the best eating choices every
day according Harvard
School of
Public Health: 1/2 vegetables dark green (such as spinach and broccoli) orange (such as pumpkin and carrot) leafy green (such as cabbage and Brussels sprouts) starchy (such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, taro and corn) salad (such as lettuce, tomato, capsicum...
Madison
Public Schools in Madison, ME teamed up with their local tomato farmer to bring the Farm to
School movement to the district, giving students access to fresh and healthy options every
day.