Sentences with phrase «public school settings also»

More - closely monitoring the academic progress of students, essentially subjecting schools to the same Value - Added analysis that is now being applied to teachers and schools in traditional public school settings also makes sense, as does monitoring their graduation rates; a private school that doesn't make the grade shouldn't be a school that families should send their kids.

Not exact matches

It's not that I disagree with you about keeping religion out of schools (public schools, ones not set up specifically by a religious community for their community and paid for by that community), but dogma is what you also both adhere to and propagate, so you might want to rephrase.

It is within the province of public schools not only to see that students are correctly informed about religious matters, but also to provide a setting in which older young people may learn to recognize and sift out irreligious and idolatrous tendencies and perversions in the various religious systems of mankind.

MCC - SF also strives to educate people outside the gay and lesbian community about AIDS, through letter - writing campaigns, public presentations and workshops on AIDS, which have been given in a variety of settings, including the San Francisco AIDS Interfaith Conference, the United Methodist Consultation on AIDS Ministries, the Presbyterian Ministers Association, and Pacific School of Religion's AIDS Awareness Week.

For example, the School Food Initiative set out to improve food on the plate at local public schools, and soon learned that such improvements also required us to influence cultural shifts within school districts as well as increasing food literacy throughout the commSchool Food Initiative set out to improve food on the plate at local public schools, and soon learned that such improvements also required us to influence cultural shifts within school districts as well as increasing food literacy throughout the commschool districts as well as increasing food literacy throughout the community.

The mayor also predicted dire consequences if he loses his showdown with state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, who wants to lift the cap on the number of privately run public schools in the city, now set at 23 new charters.

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.

«As the price and accuracy of rapid diagnostic tests and other diagnostic instruments improve, I think we have a chance to really make a difference in clinical settings facing huge burdens of acute undifferentiated febrile infections that I believe are being misdiagnosed,» said Stoler, who also holds a position in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the UM Miller School of Medicine.

They also seem to be willing to accept some propositions with highly circumscribed causal contingency — for instance, that reducing class size increases achievement (provided that it is a «sizable» change and that the reduction is to fewer than 20 students per class); that Catholic schools are superior to public ones in the inner - city but not in suburban settings.

While we encourage readers to be cautious about applying our findings without qualification to all public schools, we also encourage school districts to support research that can identify middle - school effects in other settings, especially since we find the consequences of attending a middle school for student achievement to be substantial and troubling.

Anecdotal data also suggest that, even setting aside the enormous benefit of the job security that accompanies tenure, the fringe benefits of public school teachers compare favorably with those in the private sector.

That legislation, which also passed the House 95 - 21 and which Gov. Jeb Bush, a Republican, was expected to sign, would impose a new set of accountability requirements, including mandating standardized tests for thousands of voucher students attending private schools with public money.

«Many of the teachers — who worked at all grade levels in both public and charter schools, in urban and suburban settings — did their best to cobble together lessons on their own, while also managing the intense demands of the first years of teaching,» says Pforzheimer Professor Susan Moore Johnson, director of the Project on the Next Generation of Teachers.

The school district also has set up computers in the district office, the public library, and other locations, where students and parents who don't have computers can still check grades online.

Charter schools can also set policies that are not possible in public schools - policies such as requiring parent participation in the school, requiring longer school days (such as at KIPP), requiring longer shool years (KIPP again), etc..

The authors suggested that the design of the LSP may attract a negatively - selected set of private schools struggling to maintain enrollment, noting that these findings imply that these schools also provided lower educational quality compared to the public schools.

If the vouchers were set at a reasonable level, entrepreneurs would be willing to open new schools, not only giving children the opportunity to leave the public schools but also providing schools at which to spend the voucher.

Built around the use of an embedded set of connected, web - based data tools, the OIP is being used by well over half of the 612 traditional public school districts and 100 + charter schools in the state to enact essential leadership practices as identified by the Ohio Leadership Advisory Council (OLAC), a broad - based stakeholder group jointly sponsored by the Ohio Department of Education and the Buckeye Association of School Administrators.1 It is also a key component of the state's Race to the Top (RttT) strschool districts and 100 + charter schools in the state to enact essential leadership practices as identified by the Ohio Leadership Advisory Council (OLAC), a broad - based stakeholder group jointly sponsored by the Ohio Department of Education and the Buckeye Association of School Administrators.1 It is also a key component of the state's Race to the Top (RttT) strSchool Administrators.1 It is also a key component of the state's Race to the Top (RttT) strategy.

We hope the courts will also understand the importance of the 20,000 DACA teachers in public K - 12 schools who bring a unique set of skills to the classroom and serve as role models and navigators for students — especially students of color — who consistently perform better when taught by teachers of color, leading to better attendance, fewer suspensions and higher test scores.

Founded in 1997 as one of the original charter school networks and awarded as a leader in education reform, Mosaica has since expanded to also serve students in public, private and online school settings.

We support providing options for a quality public education and make no mistake, we also support closing poor performing charter schools that do not meet the accountability and compliance standards set out in the law.

A second suit brought by a coalition of taxpayer groups also challenged the program, claiming that the Nevada Constitution requires the legislature to set apart money to be used to fund the operation of public schools «to the exclusion of all other purposes.»

From there Tracey supported the needs of students in the homebound community for Owendale - Gagetown Public Schools and developed a skill - set in delivering alternative education, and also served as a substitute teacher for White Pine Middle School.

Our analysis makes key findings — such as that while charter schools consistently enroll fewer students with disabilities than do traditional public schools, charters also serve special education students in more inclusive settings than do those traditional schools.

Mothers with school - age children also have more confidence in private school settings than in traditional public schools.

While charter schools are required to comply with certain state laws and the policies of an elected state or local board, they also possess a level of autonomy not seen in the traditional public school setting.

We will continue to respect and support parents who choose public charter schools for their children, while also continuing to support a regulatory environment that provides robust safeguards and standards to ensure a high - quality education for children in these settings.

Chicago Public Schools officials are set to authorize $ 200 million of new borrowing to manage a cash crunch through the end of June while also taking out a separate line of credit to borrow nearly a billion dollars to get through the coming fiscal year.

Education policy circles are filled with people who think the schools are in desperate need of major reform, but who also believe that collective bargaining and unions are necessary components of public education (and work life generally)-- and they know the two sets of beliefs are in tension.

The panelists — including Arkansas's Fort Smith Public Schools Superintendent Benny Goodman and the National Center for Learning Disabilities's Laura Kaloi — also advocated for using multiple assessment measures to judge school quality, adding more flexibility for improving low - performing schools, maintaining a focus on holding schools accountable for the performance of student subgroups, tracking student growth, and ensuring states set high staSchools Superintendent Benny Goodman and the National Center for Learning Disabilities's Laura Kaloi — also advocated for using multiple assessment measures to judge school quality, adding more flexibility for improving low - performing schools, maintaining a focus on holding schools accountable for the performance of student subgroups, tracking student growth, and ensuring states set high staschools, maintaining a focus on holding schools accountable for the performance of student subgroups, tracking student growth, and ensuring states set high staschools accountable for the performance of student subgroups, tracking student growth, and ensuring states set high standards.

(Colo.) As lawmakers take a stronger role in defining school success, more and more legislatures and state educational agencies are also trending away from setting certification goals around operations and programs as a means of communicating competence to the public, according to new research.

They also argued the rankings set a low bar for academic quality by comparing charter schools with local public districts, many of which are struggling urban schools, rather than with top - performing schools elsewhere.

Robert also serves as a Facilitator for the NSF funded eMSS (E-mentoring for Student Success) science and math teacher support program Robert has taught a variety of technology and science courses in a variety of public high school, middle school and university settings for about 20 years.

«While these are essential steps toward improving K - 3 quality, they are also just that: first steps in a long line of work that can be done to ensure that the foundational years of public schooling set students on a path to becoming lifelong learners who experience academic and social success,» the report suggested.

Our union value can also be witnessed in our proud representation of more than 15,000 professionals in public and private health care settings, including but not limited to school nurses, hospital and community nurses, physical therapists and occupational therapists, guidance and school counselors, social workers and speech and language pathologists.

The pro-charter camp also suffered set backs at the Democratic National Convention this summer when the education portion of the platform was amended with language explicitly supporting democratically governed public schools and making some actual demands of charter schools:

The Public Service program also recognizes a broader set of eligible schools.

Many law schools have developed programs for study abroad — not just the summer - abroad programs that have been standard fare for decades (that may or may not include instruction in foreign or international law), but also semester - abroad programs, exchange programs with law faculties in other countries, and special legal institutes with a comparative or international focus, including some that are situated in foreign jurisdictions.18 For example, Temple operates year - round programs with full - time faculty in Tokyo and Beijing; as well as a summer program in Rome; exchange relationships with the Universities of Cork, Tel Aviv, and Utrecht; and an Institute for International Law and Public Policy in Philadelphia.19 One of the more unusual efforts of this kind has been Georgetown's undertaking to create a completely new institution in London that is cooperatively run by several leading world universities and that brings together equal numbers of students from several different nations to study law together for a semester in a setting that is not tied to any single legal culture.20

These range from working with victims of domestic violence, including children, to feeding and clothing the impoverished families in the heart of the city, working with Chicago's overnight homeless women's shelters, teaching at - risk high school students in Chicago Public Schools and also working in other elementary school settings.

She also has experience working in the public school setting and child protective services that includes family services and adoptions.