Sentences with phrase «public school children across»

The most recent statistics show that nearly half of New York State's public school children, and public school children across the country, qualify for free and reduced price lunches.

Incredibly, the textbooks that Paul Vallas purchased aren't the only ones to fail the review, which means public school children across Connecticut and the nation are being taught with textbooks that don't prepare them for the Common Core testing program.

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Brinig and Garnett argue that, given their demonstrably positive impact across society, these schools should be given a fighting chance through mechanisms like tuition tax credits or vouchers, with public funds going to the child to enable students to attend an inner - city Catholic school.

She has 3 children and is the founder of the Redefine Positive Project, an initiative that is working to reform HIV / AIDS education in public schools across the nation.

When your playing a silly game with a bat and ball you bring him out, you thank him when you move a pig skin across a line, you stamp his name on my currency, you tell my children about him in our public schools, you trot him out like a prized pig at a fair anytime something good or bad or even mediocre happens, and even when you stub your toe.

Public school systems across the nation are instituting «Common Core» educational standards so as to program children to think along the same lines.

Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools is a public health campaign to increase salad bars in schools across the country so that every child has the choice of healthy fruits and vegetables every day at Schools is a public health campaign to increase salad bars in schools across the country so that every child has the choice of healthy fruits and vegetables every day at schools across the country so that every child has the choice of healthy fruits and vegetables every day at school.

These are essentially questions of public policy, and if real solutions are going to be found to the problems of disadvantaged children, these questions will need to be addressed, in a creative and committed way, by public officials at all levels — by school superintendents, school - board members, mayors, governors, and cabinet secretaries — as well as by individual citizens, community groups, and philanthropists across the country.

Through their influence, the school health consultants collaborate with multidisciplinary representative specialists across the Division of Public Health and with local communities to promote maximum physical, social, emotional, and educational growth of children and adolescents in the school setting.

When the school lunch program was institutionalized across the country in 1946, Congress voted 9 cents for every child in the country eating school lunch, according to Victoria Leonard, director of Children «s Nutrition for the Center for Science and Public Interest, a Washington - based consumer activist group.

She has provided play therapy or play - based interventions across a number of contexts including: public elementary schools, childrens hospitals, non-profits, as a consultant and in private practice.

Mr. Speaker, I am proud to report to this august House that after a few months of intense preparation, the Akufo - Addo Government has: • rolled out the destiny - changing free Senior High School policy across all public schools to ensure equal opportunities for every Ghanaian child • rolled - out the National Digital Property Addressing System to provide a unique address for all properties in Ghana • Launched the National Identification Scheme; and • Restored the teachers and nurses training allowances.

«By rewarding donations that support public schools, providing tax credits for teachers when they purchase classroom supplies out of pocket, and easing the financial burden on families who send their children to independent, parochial or out - of - district public schools, we can make a fundamental difference in the lives of students, families and educators across the state,» he said.

«As children begin another school year, I'm proud to sign this legislation, which marks a major step forward in protecting the public health and ensuring the future growth and success of students across the state.»

SEX ED IDEOLOGY VS. THE NEEDS OF CHILDREN AND TEENS Beginning last month, the Bloomberg Administration's new sex education mandate was rolled out across all city public middle and high schools.

«[W] e have gross inequities across the system... Will Governor Cuomo continue to punt on fully funding all of New York's public schools while children still don't have adequate resources?

Standing in front of the Great Western Staircase, parents from across the city spoke to their children's life - changing experiences in public charter schools.

«The impacts of both Smart Start and More at Four on children persist across the entire elementary school period,» said the study's lead author Kenneth A. Dodge, founding director of the center, William McDougall Professor of Public Policy and a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke.

In the middle of the last decade, in urban communities across America, middle - class and upper - middle - class parents started sending their children to public schools again — schools that for decades had overwhelmingly served poor and (and overwhelmingly minority) populations.

Public health minister, Steve Brine, also commented: «Investing in school facilities such as sports halls, playgrounds, kitchens and dining facilities will undoubtedly make a significant difference to children's health across the country.

As the authors themselves note, across the country only 2.5 percent of public school children roam the halls in charter schools each day; the remaining 97.5 percent are compelled to attend traditional public schools.

Michelle Rhee, the chancellor of public schools in Washington, has turned education reform heads across the country by arguing, often loudly, that our current education system puts the interests of adults above the interests of children.

The United States is engaged in an ongoing, public discussion about how to best expand afterschool time and opportunities for children and youth, to support their learning and development across the day, throughout the year, and from kindergarten through high school.

This past spring, the U.S. Department of Education released data showing that approximately 1,700 public schools across the country were eligible for «restructuring» under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) for 2005 — 06.

Public Health Minister Steve Brine said: «Investing in school facilities such as sports halls, playgrounds, kitchens and dining facilities will undoubtedly make a significant difference to children's health across the country.

Tenth - grade world history students interview Chinese immigrants and record their stories; ninth - grade physical science students design and strength - test mock airplane wings; junior English students research, write, and illustrate children's nonfiction picture books; algebra students of all grades investigate a public - transit problem and propose solutions to city officials; sophomore geometry students build scale models of museums they've designed; students across the grades in an environmental - stewardship class raise public awareness of a polluted river — all are examples of academically challenging projects that also manage to engage the minds, hands, and hearts of most high school students across a wide range of abilities and interests.

Fifty - one percent of children in public schools live in low - income households, and when poverty levels exceed 50 percent, there's a significant drop in academic performance across all grade levels.

«The survey also found that more than two - thirds of public charter schools, 67 percent, across the nation reported having children on their waitlist, with an average waiting list of 214 students.

Let's be clear, if they do the latter, communities across this country will stand up and defend their public schools and our children — like hundreds of thousands have done so far in open letters and petitions, and like AROS will on Jan. 19.

Brinig and Garnett argue that, given their demonstrably positive impact across society, these schools should be given a fighting chance through mechanisms like tuition tax credits or vouchers, with public funds going to the child to enable students to attend an inner - city Catholic school.»

There are schools across the country — some are charter, some are private, and many are traditional public — that have shown us that it is possible for poor children to achieve at high levels when we respond to their needs and create conditions that are conducive to learning.

Those first public charter schools opened in the fall of 1997, educating more than 1,000 children across the state.

Strong Schools (Sumner County) Williamson Strong (Williamson County) SPEAK (Students, Parents, Educators Across Knox County) SOCM (Statewide Organizing for Community eMpowerment) Momma Bears Blog Gideon's Army, Grassroots Army for Children (Nashville) Advocates for Change in Education (Hamilton County) Concerned Parents of Franklin County (Franklin County) The Dyslexia Spot Parents of Wilson County, TN, Schools Friends of Oak Ridge Schools (City of Oak Ridge Schools) TNBATs (State branch of National BATs) East Nashville United Tennessee Against Common Core (Statewide) Coalition Advocating of Public Education (CAPE)

White parents who could not afford public schools, but wanted their children to socialize only with others of their race and caste, could simply move across the district line to avoid desegregation.

Alexandria, VA (08/15/11)-- ASCD's Whole Child Initiative is pleased to announce a new map tool that enables the public to locate examples of schools from across the United States and Canada that are implementing the whole child approach to educaChild Initiative is pleased to announce a new map tool that enables the public to locate examples of schools from across the United States and Canada that are implementing the whole child approach to educachild approach to education.

As Congress considers the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA, aka No Child Left Behind), Parents Across America, a national network of public school parents, will be calling on our U. S. Senators and Congressmen this week to share our concerns about the direction of federal education policy, and offer our proposals in a new position paper (attached).

Together, they produce and use an award - winning instructional model that is implemented at all AppleTree public charter preschools, and at nine other schools and child development organizations across Washington, DC.

A 2016 national study by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools reports that there are currently over three million children enrolled in charter schools across the cSchools reports that there are currently over three million children enrolled in charter schools across the cschools across the country.

States across the country are draining funds from public schools that educate the vast majority of our children and diverting it to a few students in private schools.

This law was similar to the federal No Child Left Behind law governing public schools across the US since 2002.

«We're encouraged that independent observers of public education share our support for legislative and school board candidates across California who support parental choice and who are working to provide high quality education to all children,» said Gary Borden, Executive Director of CCSA Advocates.

Now educators are worried that the No Child Left Behind mandate that all students meet proficiency standards by 2014 will result in the dismantling of public schools across the nation.

• Hurricane Katrina in 2005 destroyed schools across the Gulf Coast states and radically reshaped the education landscape in New Orleans, where more than 60,000 children attended public schools before the storm.

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On behalf of the children of Wake County Public Schools and across the state, we stand in support of HB 13 to preserve funding for arts education teachers.

Public schools around the country are returning from summer break to face a challenge: integrating and paying for the influx of migrant children who have streamed across the Mexican border this year.

Public charter schools across the country were started with the promise of being alternative, quality options for parents to choose for their children.

Ball also reported that officials with the N.C. School Boards Association have identified private schools across the state that openly discriminate against students and families despite receiving public funding, putting gay parents in the position of having their tax dollars paying for schools that have a policy of refusing admission to their children.

Cities with long - troubled school systems — think Newark and Camden just across the Hudson — have successfully partnered with public charters to offer opportunities to needy kids, particularly poor children of color.

Meanwhile, the parents of nearly 10 million school children across America have opted out of the traditional public school system in favor of private schools, charter schools or homeschooling.