Sentences with phrase «public education our kids»

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The need for internet safety education that kids can relate to is undeniable, and that focus resonates in the public markets, resulting in what was once my little idea growing into a $ 100 million market cap company!

«Education used to be thought of as a teacher sort of opening up a kid's brain and pouring in the knowledge,» Dr Meghan Groome, Executive Director of Education and Public Programs at the New York Academy of Sciences, said.

Redirects education dollars to give parents the right to send their kid to the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school of their choice.

Then I factored in private education costs for two kids to be conservative given I may not have two kids and public schools are often good enough.

Again, @AGuest9, perhaps the solution first and foremost is to understand that public education belongs to the public at large, not just YOUR kid.

and that's why the Republicans want to cut funding for public schools — so ghetto kids will never be able to leave the ghetto because they have no education — and they won't be able to get birth control either so they will proliferate and perpetuate their situation for generations — and this will never stop until America ends its dependence on fossil fools like Romney, McConnell, Cantor, Ryan, The Bohner, Limbaugh, etc..

because the religious lobbyists garner ridiculous influence over public policy, especially education, and we're a little concerned that our kids are going to be taught silly crap like the planet is 6000 years old.

Are there no Madrassa in New York where kids can get an education equal to the public school and yet observer the religious holidays?

The word went out in education, mass communications, public philosophy and political life: «Be the first kid on your block to reappropriate the values of the Judeo - Christian tradition.»

Perhaps public education needs to be replaced with the more affluent private education, where kids are still being taught effectively, and passing entrance exams in record numbers over the public kiddos.

Author of Educating All God's Children: What Christians Can — and Should — Do to Improve Public Education for Low - Income Kids

, we work hard every day to get more kids and their families cooking in the kitchen, help fight the battle against hunger, and help more public school students have an opportunity toward education in the restaurant and foodservice industry.

It's really pretty simple: Georgia Organics coordinates the #GoldenRadish Awards with the Georgia Department of Education, Georgia Department of Agriculture, and Georgia Department of Public Health, a powerful team to make the dream of local food for local kids work.

Safe Kids Connecticut is a multi-faceted organization that works to reduce death and injury rates of children through community education, public policy change, creating safe environments, and conducting research.

PT: One of the ones I'm most excited about is Expeditionary Learning Schools [now known as EL Education]-- about 150 schools spread out over the country in both public and charter schools, some with well - off kids, some with kids in poverty.

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For years Canada attempted to work with public schools in Harlem, attempting to provide the children with the education suburban kids are given on a daily basis.

«We try to help kids understand they «ve got to take that step forward, to take more responsibility for their own development, «said Don Hellison, a University of Illinois at Chicago physical education professor who developed a basketball program for children living in the Cabrini - Green public housing complex.

But although Cuomo has railed against he belief that the public education system has grown to become more about protecting the administrative bureaucracy and less about educating kids, the focus of his wrath has been the teachers unions and not — so far, anyway — superintendents, who I'm sure are breathing a sigh of relief.

Taking no chances, the city's Department of Education canceled school for the 1.1 million - student system — marking the second time this winter public school kids took a powder break due to snow.

Critics have carped that the Bloomberg - led system fails to give parents sufficient voice — whatever that means — but the current arrangement is a night - and - day improvement over the old Board of Education, which was not only less accountable to the public, but failed at its most basic mission: improving our schools and teaching our kids.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's accusation this morning that school districts and their allies are playing politics with kids by using the threat of teacher layoffs to try to scare lawmakers — and the public — into opposing the governor's education funding cuts hasn't stopped them from doing... well... just that.

«It affords parents a choice especially in districts where the public education system is failing them and there kids.

While technically the money side of social welfare is indeed not payable to illegal aliens, (1) They still get an incredibly costly (to taxpayers) set of benefits such as free public school education for their kids; law - and - order which is a public good; and medical care in ER facilities who have to treat everyone, with or without insurance.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan and Assemblyman Robert Rodriguez today rallied with religious school parents, kids and administrators in East Harlem for the passage of the controversial education investment tax credit — which would incentivize private donations for scholarships at parochial schools and other private schools, as well as public school scholarship funds.

Instead of hand picking which kids get the best possible public education, the de Blasio administration should pursue policies that give every student this opportunity.

That's why I think Bronx residents should do everything we can to give our kids better public education options, from bringing more world class public charter schools to our borough to supporting programs like Borough President Diaz's Gifted & Talented initiative.

(WBEN) The Erie County Sheriff's Dept. has launched a public education campaign to try and combat underage drinking this summer with an effort to tell parents in stores, not to buy alcohol for kids The initiative, done in conjunction with Consumers Beverages and WNY United against Drug and Alcohol...

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He also supports education tax credits for parents who send their kids to private schools, and is against «dumbing down» admission standards to the city's elite public high schools.

Noah Gotbaum, president of the Community Education Council which covers the Upper West Side and Harlem, said, «We don't want someone to spend the next three years learning on the job, someone who spent the past 66 years showing zero interest in our kids or in public eEducation Council which covers the Upper West Side and Harlem, said, «We don't want someone to spend the next three years learning on the job, someone who spent the past 66 years showing zero interest in our kids or in public educationeducation.

Senate Republicans, while opposing the DREAM Act, which would allow taxpayer - funded state tuition assistance programs to be used on the colege kids of illegal immigrants, support the education tax credit that would provide a benefit for those who donate to private and public schools.

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-- Launch a public education campaign at the tanning salons to warn New Yorkers — particularly kids — of the dangers of too much UV radiation.»

Now the union is calling the public - education shots, and it has decreed that the charter baby be drowned in the bathtub - and, again, never mind the kids.

«While this has been an emotional debate with marked differences in public policy, there is no doubt that Commissioner King remains a public servant devoted to improving the education and welfare of New York's kids.

And the reality is that we have to make sure that our public schools are strong and giving the kind of education that our kids need to compete in this global economy.

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«It's really important that we are making sure that not only our students are benefiting from their education system, it's really about ensuring that my parents feel confident about bringing their kids to our local public schools,» she said.

Nestle: Well, we will do it in the way these changes always take place — you do it through education of the public; you create demands for different kinds of foods; you teach parents to go into schools and look at what their kids are eating and then do something about it; you change policy so that it becomes more difficult for food companies to advertise to children; you stop them from marketing junk food to kids using cartoon characters.

Now that I'm a grown up and no longer have Back to School shopping I still like to celebrate the occasion just as a small symbol of my support for public education (I'm kidding of course).

When his father can no longer cover the bill for Aidan's kids» private school education and their only public school option is a school «on its last legs,» Aidan opts to give home - schooling a shot.

Education Next's Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. talk this week about a new Fordham Institute report identifying 2800 public schools that only prosperous kids can attend.

Non-poor, non-minority families love their kids and have every right to participate in the public debate about public education.

«The Cartel» really took on the notion that public education in America operates solely and purposefully «for the kids,» and it showed exactly what can go wrong when you are consistently first or second in school spending every year (as New Jersey is) and lots of interest groups have placed the economic advancement and security of the adults above the kids.

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09, believes in public education's promise for every kid to be successful in life.

It might be the most common mistake in education writing and policy analysis today: declaring that a majority of public school students in the U.S. hail from «low income» families — or, even worse, that half of public school kids are «poor.»

Let's not kid ourselves that «creaming» and «counseling out» are rarities in American public education.

If they are going to take public funds, they have to be rated the same way and take everyone — special education kids, for example.