Sentences with phrase «public schools exercise»

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Now, writes his biographer, «Mann was about to preach a new religion and convince his constituency of the need for a new establishment, a nondenominational institution, the public school, with schoolmasters as a new priestly class, patriotic exercises as quasi-religious rituals, and a nonsectarian doctrine stressing morality, literacy and citizenship as a republican creed for all to confess.

By striking down religious exercises in the public schools on the grounds that they were an establishment of religion and therefore in violation of the First Amendment.

Some see the issue in communism, some in devotional exercises in public schools, some in concern over pornography, some in issues of social justice.

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

141017 Response to Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Healh calling for exercise data APPROVED

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

I have a daughter in public school, but I've exercised the option and do not want to begrudge anyone the same opportunity.»

Taxpayers spent $ 1.4 billion over a decade to rebuild dozens of Buffalo's public schools, but how roughly $ 549 million of that was spent hasn't been specified, raising questions about how much profit the developer made and what kind of scrutiny a local oversight board exercised.

«The operational influence and control exercised by Andrew Pallotta and Carl Korn and the capacity in which he serves each entity strongly suggest the activities of the Fund for Great Public Schools constitute «coordination» under NYS election law,» Cox said in the complaint.

«We must reward donations to support public schools, give tax credits to teachers who pay for classroom supplies out of pocket, and ease the financial burden on families who exercise choice in sending their children to a nonpublic school.

«Local authorities should continue to exercise their arm's - length support for all state schools funded wholly or partially with public funds with particular emphasis on their work with disadvantaged pupils.»

«We wanted to find out if exercise lowered the risk of developing MS in women,» said study author Kassandra Munger, ScD, of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, Mass. «Our study did not provide evidence to support it.»

Researchers surveyed 66 head soccer and basketball coaches from 15 Oregon high schools and found that only 21 percent of the coaches were using an injury prevention program, and less than 10 percent were using the program exactly as designed, said the study's lead author, Marc Norcross, an assistant professor of exercise and sport science in OSU's College of Public Health and Human Sciences.

A study conducted at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health analyzed the traditional model of education versus an increasingly popular approach to learning in the health sciences fields — the flipped classroom model — where pre-recorded lectures are viewed outside of the classroom and in - person class time is devoted to interactive exercises, discussions, and group projects.

GENERAL HEALTH Steven N. Blair, PED Professor, department of exercise science and department of epidemiology and biostatistics, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina; former president and CEO, Cooper Institute; author of Active Living Every Day.

The research from Harvard School of Public Health and the University of Southern Denmark found that the chance of developing Type 2 diabetes was cut by between 30 and 40 per cent with just 3.5 hours of yoga and other muscle - strengthening activities along with aerobic exercise a week.

The daily weighers were more likely to leap whole - heartedly into a weight - loss program while adopting additional healthy habits, like cutting between - meal snacks, restaurant meal and TV time and adding exercise, says lead author Kristine Madsen, MD, of the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health.

Experts say that the trend may be due to greater public awareness about healthy diets and the importance of regular exercise, and to the various school - and community - based programs that have been launched to fight the obesity epidemic.

«School districts can continue their graduation exercises as planned before this litigation began,» state Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell said during a conference call with reporters following the much - anticipated ruling.

Rather, voucher users are exercising private school choice, while control group members are exercising a small amount of private school choice and a substantial amount of public school choice.

Students in secular private, Catholic, and other religious schools are more likely than students in assigned public schools to have confidence in their ability to exercise civic skills if called upon to do so.

The First Amendment does provide that «Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or the free exercise thereof,» but this did not apply to the states (or to public schools as presumed organs of the state) for the first 150 years of the Union.

(Unlike many public schools, Taylor does not provide exercise uniforms.)

WASHINGTON — The inclusion of prayer at a public - school graduation exercise is consistent with the nation's long tradition of invoking God's name during ceremonial events and should be upheld as constitutional, lawyers representing the Bush Administration and a Rhode Island school district told the U.S. Supreme Court last week.

According to figures released by Public Health England (PHE), less than a fifth of primary children get the recommended amount of exercise by the time they leave school.

The relevant circumstances are that the participating public bodies co-operate to perform public services they must provide, meeting common objectives and that the public body exercises the same kind of control over the service provider as it does over its own schools.

I believe that choice should be exercised within the public school system.

The Supreme Court ruling giving families an exit out of public schools with choice means that parents will be able to exercise their voice and choice.

All three are part of a single, important exercise: figuring out what role the state department of education must play in public schooling.

But six hundred parents armed with $ 500 each can exercise $ 300,000 in consumer power at a public middle school.

Through efforts such as the «Newark Enrolls» universal enrollment system and the New Jersey Special Education Collaborative, Newark Public Schools and most of the charter schools that operate within its borders are working to make sure that all students have an equal opportunity to exercise choice when it comes to selecting their sSchools and most of the charter schools that operate within its borders are working to make sure that all students have an equal opportunity to exercise choice when it comes to selecting their sschools that operate within its borders are working to make sure that all students have an equal opportunity to exercise choice when it comes to selecting their schoolsschools.

Whatever adjustments might be warranted to ensure alignment of the SOL with the Common Core State Standards can be made within the process through which the Board of Education exercises its constitutional authority to establish standards for the commonwealth's public schools.

In his new book, Special Interest: Teachers Unions and America's Public Schools (2011), he provides the first comprehensive study of America's teachers unions: exploring their historical rise to power, the organizational foundations of that power, the ways it is exercised in collective bargaining and politics, and its consequences for the nation's public scPublic Schools (2011), he provides the first comprehensive study of America's teachers unions: exploring their historical rise to power, the organizational foundations of that power, the ways it is exercised in collective bargaining and politics, and its consequences for the nation's public sSchools (2011), he provides the first comprehensive study of America's teachers unions: exploring their historical rise to power, the organizational foundations of that power, the ways it is exercised in collective bargaining and politics, and its consequences for the nation's public scpublic schoolsschools.

I watch higher - income parents, mostly white, buy their way into high - performing suburban districts while demanding a «moratorium» on public charters in order to deny the school choice they exercise to low - income families, primarily of color.

In 1969, the U.S. DOJ intervened for the plaintiffs who sued the state of Mississippi in Coffey v. State Educational Finance Commission.45 In the five years before the case made it to the Supreme Court, the state offered vouchers for students to exercise «individual freedom in choosing public or private school,» which provided them with the opportunity to choose to attend racially segregated schools.46 Originally only offering $ 180 per student in 1964, the state Legislature increased the amount of each voucher to be $ 240 per student in 1968.47

That's why, more than 2.5 million students are exercising some form of public or private school choice.

Our goal here is to centralize all the information you need so that you can exercise your power to choose the best - fit public school for each of your children.

This was a yin - and - yang exercise — as the federal role grew, the opportunity for states to exercise their constitutional oversight of public education and for local school boards to effectively supervise its delivery diminished.

Achieving equitable funding for your public charter school will not happen without you exercising your voice and encouraging other parents to do the same.

Bloomberg and New York City Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott are fresh off the public release of the flawed «value - added ratings» of teachers, a controversial move that Bill Gates called «a capricious exercise in public shaming» in a recent New York Times op - ed.

And at Public School 24 in the Riverdale neighborhood in the Bronx, a fifth - grade teacher, Walter Rendon, has found himself soothing tense 10 - and 11 - year - olds as they pore over test prep exercises.

All told, nearly 300,000 of Los Angeles» 664,600 students are exercising some type of public school choice.

«In other words, if the public school delivers and succeeds, no one will seek, will exercise this choice,» Daniels said.

Federal «No Child Left Behind» legislation, which enables students of low - performing schools to exercise public school choice, exemplifies a widespread belief that competing for students will spur

Increased accountability can be beneficial for the special needs population if public school IEP team members heed the voice of reason, employ the sensibilities of the special education profession, remember and reflect on why they became special educators, and exercise humanity by listening to the people who know students best, parents.

And parents will exercise their power to hold schools accountable for results — both public district schools and public charter schools.

The A + Denver education advocacy group has released results of a Denver Public Schools board candidate survey, but several candidates didn't consider it a valid exercise.

If the legislation in its previous state had passed, a new «NC Public Charter Schools Board» would have been established and empowered to «exercise its powers and duties independently of the State Board of Education and Department of Public Instruction.»

«Sadly, too many teachers have been trapped in mindless data exercises that irresponsibly neglect the story behind the numbers, turning children into faceless numbers,» Madison Public Schools Superintendent Thomas Scarice writes in an opinion piece for CT Viewpoints today.

«We must reward donations to support public schools, give tax credits to teachers who pay for classroom supplies out of pocket, and ease the financial burden on families who exercise choice in sending their children to a nonpublic school.