Sentences with phrase «public school systems nationwide»

We wanted to recognize and reward the most outstanding academic performance among charter management organizations so that public school systems nationwide — whether district or charter — could learn from their success.

Moreover, the statewide schedule is typical of teacher compensation in most other public school systems nationwide.

As a devout Christian, Karen is faced with an internal battle that has resonated in the public school system nationwide for the past two years: the belief in intelligent design versus evolution, and the consequent undermining of the latter.

Not exact matches

A recent study from the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital done in conjunction with researchers from Colorado School of Public Health at the University at Colorado and Temple University used data from a large, national sports injury surveillance system to determine the effect of state - level TBI laws on trends of new and recurrent concussions among US high school athSchool of Public Health at the University at Colorado and Temple University used data from a large, national sports injury surveillance system to determine the effect of state - level TBI laws on trends of new and recurrent concussions among US high school athschool athletes.

As part of the School's focus on using research findings to improve classroom practice nationwide, Murphy established a dedicated office to work with Massachusetts public school sySchool's focus on using research findings to improve classroom practice nationwide, Murphy established a dedicated office to work with Massachusetts public school syschool systems.

It is time to take what is going on in these states to the next level by transforming our K — 12 system of free public schools to pre-K through 16 nationwide.

The decision, which the state plans to appeal, is likely, the experts say, to increase the use of the comparable - worth concept in job - evaluation schemes of private and public employers — including public - school systems — nationwide.

The district in 2014 was one of two nationwide awarded the annual Broad Prize for Urban Education, then considered by some to be the Nobel Prize for large public school systems.

Either because of public opposition, lawsuits, or the modest scope of voucher and tax - credit scholarship laws, only some 200,000 students nationwide attend private schools through choice systems, a paltry figure compared to the 50 million students in public schools across the United States.

Fast forward to 2017: President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos have championed a plan to provide federal funding for private school voucher systems nationwide, which would funnel millions of taxpayer dollars out of public schools and into unaccountable private schools — a school reform policy that they say would provide better options for low - income students trapped in failing schools.

Since 2007, the number of districts strongly committed to socioeconomic integration has more than doubled, from 40 to 100 nationwide.75 These districts tend to be large and urban, and today, roughly 4 million students reside in a school district or charter school that considers socioeconomic status in their student assignment system — representing about 8 percent of total public school enrollment.76

From an experience perspective, I thought it was important to bring experience growing up in public schools on Vandenberg Air Force Base in Lompoc, serving as a senior leader in the central office of a large, complex public school system in Chicago — with over 600 schools serving almost 400,000 students — and as an executive at a nationwide nonprofit working through state agencies and local districts to support public education.

A report the same year by the Miami - Dade public school system found that cursive instruction has been slowly declining nationwide since the 1970s.

It would involve forcibly transferring ownership of all existing private schools to the school district in which they reside, and readjusting local tax schemes to capture the tuition parents currently pay (the nationwide average is $ 8,549 per year, which means a total of $ 47 billion is spent each year on opting out of the public education system).

Remember how we trained a generation for a new, industrial economy by building a nationwide system of public high schools; how we laid down railroad tracks and highways across an entire continent; how we pushed the boundaries of science and technology to unlock the very building blocks of human life.