Sentences with phrase «public school arena»

The St. Paul Open School pioneered student - centered, community - based learning in the public school arena.

They are now known as Lincoln - King Academy and Washington - Parks Academy, respectively, and bring Cornerstone's rigorous academic standards to the public school arena.

Fact: Charter public schools have the same opportunity as district - run schools to raise funds to bring more resources to the public school arena.

Taking a potshot at NYC school superintendent Joel Klein, Weingarten said, «This kind of effort, this kind of potential, is what we should be unleashing on the school system every single day, and the Klein administration will not let us do this anymore in the public school arena.

Others dispute the wisdom of applying an extensive regulatory regime — one that has been ineffective in the public school arena — to private schools receiving half the taxpayer support provided to Milwaukee's public schools.

The potential for change is happening not just in the private school sector, but in the public school arena.

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Stevens offered not a word of concern about whether religious students might feel themselves to be less than full members of the political community if, by order of the nation's highest court, their messages and only their messages are categorically excluded from the school's public arena.

@SeanNJ, I would think the meetings would primarily be about educating the public on the separation of church and state and opposing religious encroachment on the public / government arena, e.g. creationism / ID in the science classroom, ten commandments displays in government buildings, school sanctioned prayer or religious activities.

Their discomfort with cultural issues is reflected in their protests that matters such as partial - birth abortion, school prayer, or same - sex marriage are not proper items for political debate; they are rather «wedge issues» that conservatives illegitimately bring into the public arena in order to divide the nation (read: in order to cost Democrats votes).

@chad, you have some valid points, until late 20th century Christians were able to pray in schools, have the Ten Commandments displayed and mention God in the public arena.

Josh wrote: «until late 20th century Christians were able to pray in schools, have the Ten Commandments displayed and mention God in the public arena»

For example, public spaces recycling captures the «last mile» of recyclables — items typically found in curbside and deposit recycling programs that are abandoned by consumers in park spaces and recreational facilities like arenas, street scapes, transit stops, bars and restaurants, elementary and secondary schools, convenience stores and gas stations.

The AHA strongly supports having AEDs in public areas such as sports arenas, office complexes, schools, doctors» offices, shopping malls, airports, and other public places.

Now, as Waldorf - methods schools enter the public arena, a broader population of children will benefit from and succeed with this exceptional child - centered educational experience.

The devices should be installed and maintained in public places, sports arenas and schools, the recommendations» authors say.

The bill's demise, says Vaughan Rees, director of the Center for Global Tobacco Control at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts, also highlights the rise of intensive political lobbying in this arena.

«In the K - 12 public arena, school districts are expected to respond to mandates flowing from the No Child Left Behind legislation at the federal level, along with various state and local assessments,» he says.

Now, as he assumes the role of chief academic officer of the nation's largest school system, Polakow - Suransky, who very few people, including educators, have heard of, will have to get used to being on a brightly - lit stage in the klieg - light capital of the world; just as private industry CEO Cathie Black travels from the well - insulated corporate board room to the decidedly raucous arena of a sprawling public school system.

NCLB is in many respects the latest in a long line of efforts in the policy and legal arenas to promote equity and opportunity in the public schools, including desegregation cases, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the original ESEA, and school finance and adequacy cases in the states.

«Sometimes that is evident in the way our children present themselves in public arenas, such as school, church, shopping, and other public places.

One educational arena where it is easier to employ public - private partnerships is charter schools, which are not subject to district regulations.

I am an ex-superintendent of schools who has left the arena of public service for the relative calm of running my own business.

The President's America 2000 plan has been alternately characterized as a political agenda, a strategy for reforming public schools, a call to involve the private sector, an attempt to bring choice into the educational arena, and a crusade.

Sherpa Kids continues to push at the tendering door of the public education system but Ms Prout says most of the company's growth is happening in the private or church school arena.

«We spend a lot of time getting students to speak in different arenas, forums, and environments,» says Rachael Futo, a Year 7 coach, «so that they're ready and prepared for things like interviews where students who come from public schools often don't do as well.»

Our success in passing school reforms has had more to do with prevailing in legislative bodies than prevailing in the public arena.

When the term «public charter school» is discussed in the education arena, some might think of college preparatory courses, a focus on STEM, or dual - language programs.

Courts will be the new arena where it will be demonstrated that Title I charters are not keeping pace with Title I traditional public schools and for every one of the few and isolated successful Title I charter schools, we will provide dozens of successful traditional Title I public schools.

The partnership provides a unique opportunity for public school educators to learn theory and best practices from both the business and university arenas.

There's a rare opportunity in New Orleans to show local and national arenas that constant community engagement matters, as the city's new public schools superintendent revisits the facilities master plan for education.

In the world of public education that has now turned into a political arena for unions, school boards, state capitols, and ed reformers, parents often...

While it is good for the public to be on the lookout for these issues such as «creaming the crop» of students in choice programs such as magnet or charter schools, the Windham STEM is not arena for this argument.

Although some educators, including many of our members, might see school choice as foreboding for the public school outlook, school choice encompasses empowerment for the parent to choose an environment that employs teachers in all arenas.

Even supporters of Obama can not claim that the problem of unsafe schools with mayhem in classrooms that characterizes the poverty public schools in urban areas is outside the educational arena.

The awards were announced at NSBA's Advocacy Institute in Washington, which focuses on building year - round advocates for public education and local school governance in public, legal, and legislative arenas.

Janet Vaughan Robertson's practices focuses on the public finance arena and she is a highly respected bond counsel, underwriter counsel, credit bank counsel, borrower counsel, issuer counsel and trustee counsel in connection with multi-million dollar municipal and conduit bond issues for school districts, charter schools, private schools and local government.

Jones also spoke to GoodeReader about the possible reasons why digital textbooks have seen a greater adoption at the higher education level than in the public schools, namely that in those arenas that students are accustomed to paying for content, as well as the fact that they see the means to an end in this kind of investment towards their degrees and ultimately their careers.

One educational arena that has been slow to adopt digital textbooks has been the public school sector for grades K through twelve, partly due to the technology required to utilize the textbooks, but also because of the mandated adoption of specific texts at the school system level, if not the state level.

PSLawnet - The online resource connecting public interest law job - seekers with their ideal opportunities in the public interest arena, in government, and at law schools.

Along with my Associate Degree in Hospitality and six years of hands - on experience in food service arena, I am confident in my ability to become a key member of Lawrence Public School.