Sentences with phrase «public school side»

I think you're seeing not only greater innovations on the public school side through partnerships but also greater accountability from their partners, and therefore a greater concern for marrying excellence and equity.

Not exact matches

«My guess is pharma is waiting to see how it plays out and which side the public opinion goes,» said Hank Greely, director of the Center for Law and the Biosciences at Stanford Law School.

In August, the same judge sided with 13 Republican - controlled states to block transgender protections in public schools sought by the Obama administration.

And Brown is surely right that our public schools are, in the main, a national embarrassment; I would add that their failures in our inner urban areas are a crisis of justice lamentably unaddressed on the port side of American politics.

Christians have voted to put their God's name on everyones money, add «Under God» to the flag salute, force schools to teach intelligent design with absolutely no scientific basis along side the sciences, voted to write their moral laws on the fronts of public courthouses and tax funded buildings, voted to ban certain people from living together, being intimate or raising children because their orientation didn't fit with their bible beliefs.

Now, on the other side, look up what the Texas board of education has been trying to do in Texas public schools for the past several years.

Sunday school rooms all around spilled into a sanctuary where pews were arranged on either side of a central aisle that led to a pulpit and an altar — for to us education led to worship, and worship to public confession and commitment.

After hearing both sides or all sides (grandparents and the public school teacher occasionally appear, too), the director and audience offer a number of suggestions to try during the forthcoming week.

Afraid of being branded as moralists, or even worse, proselytizers, politicians cling to surface arguments that remain in the public's comfort zone, choosing sides in the familiar debates on school prayer, pornography, media immorality and abortion.

The issue that aroused the greatest public interest and a good deal of irrational zeal on both sides involved the problem of Bible - reading and the saying of prayers in public schools.

I have myself taken part in a demonstration against a public policy that was later described by «the other side» as being violent and hateful, with the intent to intimidate the school board into breaking the law.

In previous chapters I have suggested what concerned citizens can do to deal with television without censorship: create local television councils and community action to get stations to accept their responsibility for the public welfare; introduce media education courses in the schools and churches to create media literacy; organize community groups to develop programs relating to community issues on the «narrowcast» media of cable - TV, videocassettes, low - power TV, public - broadcasting facilities, and commercial side - band channels; employ stockholder action and other economic measures.

In the public schools, even the reciting of the Lord's Prayer or the Bible involves taking sides for or against the supersessionary claims.

Mehta acknowledged in his essay that some of this inequity is on the supply side: Schools that have the freedom and resources to adopt the techniques of deeper learning are more likely to be well - funded independent schools or public schools in wealthy suburbs or neighboSchools that have the freedom and resources to adopt the techniques of deeper learning are more likely to be well - funded independent schools or public schools in wealthy suburbs or neighboschools or public schools in wealthy suburbs or neighboschools in wealthy suburbs or neighborhoods.

On the other side of the equation, numerous leading public health advocates and organizations are strongly opposed to weakening school meal standards.

In many ways, Lewis, 58, a brash, tough - talking South Side product of Chicago's public school system, is an unlikely foil to Emanuel and CPS leaders in the national push toward longer school days.

A typical breakfast in Chicago's public schools includes an entree and one side dish.

It's probably not an possibility for most city dwellers, but our second homebirth was just on the other side of the fence from a public school (and recess ended just as active labor came on...)

Chicago Public Schools Inspector General James Sullivan recently found more than a dozen instances of falsified lunch applications among city and school employees at one West Side high school.

At his public school, Little Village Academy on Chicago's West Side, students are not allowed to pack lunches from home.

A desire to become more involved in the public policy and advocacy side of school nutrition provided Droszcz with that motivation.

I will also add that we spent two years in South Arlington, VA just outside of D.C. and people gave us all sorts of side - eye about sending our oldest to public school there... but hands down, one of the top school experiences we have ever had.

The two sides came together on the issue as public pressure to remove junk foods from schools increased.

The city had just built the Thorp Public School on the south side of Grace, making Schorsch's homes seem a good place to raise kids, and the price nicely accorded with a blue - collar worker's pay stub.

Such strictures would preclude, for example, meals including pizza, cheeseburgers, white bread, tater tots, and most fruits and vegetables offered on the side — foods reportedly served to children at public schools in Richmond.

The principal and assistant principal of a high school on Chicago's Northwest Side face disciplinary charges after a yearlong investigation by Chicago Public Schools» inspector general revealed abuses ranging from nepotism to fraud, district officials confirmed Wednesday.

«Those rallying in Albany next week should stand together with the city and advocate — side by side — for our children, particularly the most underserved, and all of whom are public school students.»

The Graduate School of Political Management at George Washington University believes that is high time that the discussion needs to take place in public, with all sides represented.

A New York City proposal to diversify middle schools on Manhattan's Upper West Side, by setting aside seats for children with low test scores, is facing stiff resistance from parents worried their high - achieving children might lose access to the popular public schools.

But Mingott, who considers himself part of the old school of gentleman politics, believes if «they said they mailed it, then they must have mailed it» and that the public humiliation of either side is ungentlemanly.

«Holding the public - school system hostage for charter - school expansion isn't right,» said Kallos, who represents the Upper East Side.

Since 2011, Keith has worked for City Council Speaker Peter Vallone, Sr. helping to advocate for after school funding, expanded Advanced Placement, prevent bullying of LGBT students in public schools, secure funding for employment and workforce programs, create new affordable housing, and preserve the quality of life on the Upper East Side, In 2006, Keith was the tenant organizer for the «Preserve Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village» campaign during the sale of the neighborhood to Tishman Speyer.

Patrick Roach, deputy general secretary of the teacher's union NASUWT, brands free schools a costly and unnecessary experiment which will produce misery for children: «We are on the side of parents and public who are opposed to free schools.

New York City can do much more to address deep segregation in its public schools, such as using more magnet grants to attract a diverse group of parents to segregated schools or moving ahead with an admissions plan aimed at lowering segregation on the Lower East Side, according to a new report.

They and Harig say Buffalo's public schools have suffered under the usually divided nine - member school board, whose majority typically sides with Paladino.

Walcott became chancellor in 2011, but he'd been at Bloomberg's side since the mayor wrested control of the city's public school system from the state in 2002.

In her speech, Ms. Nixon touched only briefly on her own biography — born in New York City, attended public schools, the mother of public school attendees — as her wife, Christine Marinoni, looked on from the side of the room.

Assemblyman Ryan has unveiled proposed legislation standing along Plymouth Avenue in front of former Buffalo Public School 77 on the city's west side.

The Fund for Great Public Schools, a teachers union backed SuperPAC has weigh in support of Senator Rivera, while New Yorkers for Independent Action have sided with CM Cabrera because of his strong support for charter schools and education tax credits for individuals and corporations that donate to public, private and parochial scPublic Schools, a teachers union backed SuperPAC has weigh in support of Senator Rivera, while New Yorkers for Independent Action have sided with CM Cabrera because of his strong support for charter schools and education tax credits for individuals and corporations that donate to public, private and parochial sSchools, a teachers union backed SuperPAC has weigh in support of Senator Rivera, while New Yorkers for Independent Action have sided with CM Cabrera because of his strong support for charter schools and education tax credits for individuals and corporations that donate to public, private and parochial sschools and education tax credits for individuals and corporations that donate to public, private and parochial scpublic, private and parochial schoolsschools.

On the opposite side of the check is a «voided» version made out for $ 1.5 billion to New York's public school students.

He urged Principals and Head teachers of public and private schools to mobilize their students and pupils to participate actively in all the events, including Cultural Display, Novelty March, Cycling and other side attractions.

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.

On one side are powerful and wealthy figures who see our public schools as a potential source of profit.

Across the street, on the west side of Broadway, StudentsFirstNY, the local branch of Michelle Rhee's school - reform group, organized public school parents in favor of the Common Core.

Sources said the issue is personal to Silver, who was infuriated when city officials, over his objections, sought to put the Ross Global charter school in a public - school building in his Lower East Side district.

And it's not just that: The de Blasio administration has lied about everything from Lower East Side nursing - home conversions to the city's surging and increasingly aggressive street population to Central Park carriage horses to deteriorating public school performance to campaign finance violations to... well, the list is virtually endless.

HARD TO MISREAD THIS MESSAGE — DeVos, in first visit to NYC schools, picks yeshivas, by POLITICO's Azi Paybarah, Eliza Shapiro and Caitlin Emma: U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos came to New York City, whose 1.1 million public school children represent the country's largest school district, and walked into an all - girls private yeshiva in Manhattan's tony Upper East Side.

Intro 65 - A was vigorously opposed by out LGBT Councilmembers Daniel Dromm of Jackson Heights, a former public school teacher and head of the Education Committee, and Rosie Mendez of the Lower East Side, who said in a joint statement, «Yeshivas, private schools, and parochial schools — unlike public schools — are not subject to Council oversight or much of the NYC Human Rights Law.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN)- Members of the Buffalo Public Schools Board of Education gave their side of the story following a controversial tweet by Carl Paladino last week.

Serving in the public realm since 1999 also as a member of Buffalo's Common Council, a member of the Buffalo School Board, and 2017 mayoral candidate, Grant has made East Side redevelopment a priority.