Sentences with phrase «public schools in the country»

But such offerings are still rare in public schools in this country.
The bottom 5 % of public schools in the country have chronic low - achievement and need dramatic change.
For over a quarter of a century, the number one concern facing public schools in this country has been discipline.
«I think public education is the infrastructure of democrac, y and we should have the best public schools in the country here.»
In his new book, Time to Learn, Gabrieli calls this schedule, which most public schools in the country follow, a «relic from the past.»
What makes Boston's resistance to expanding charter schools so remarkable is that the city's charter sector includes some of the best urban public schools in the country, of any kind.
Also in April, an Arizona public charter school was named the top public school in the country by U.S. News & World Report.
We are surrounded by some of the best - performing public schools in the country, yet some of our parents drive more than an hour to bring their children to St. Benedict.
The Federal Government shifted the resumption dates for all private and public schools in the country till Monday as a result of the recent outbreak of the Ebola Disease Virus in some southern states.
Bev Grant, School Administration Manager of Goulburn South Public School in country NSW is responsible for keeping her school running smoothly.
An Education Week Research Center analysis of federal data found that while there are more all - boys public schools in the country, more girls attend single - gender public schools.
If we want to «do something» about the very worst public schools in the country, we have to pursue a «both, and» strategy, not an «either, or» one.
In Reign of Error, Diane Ravitch argues that the crisis in American education is not a crisis of academic achievement but a concerted effort to destroy public schools in this country.
The educational policies of this country are geared to the public schools that have the highest failure rates and it is no wonder that these policies are incorrect for many public schools in this country.
The studies show that as public schools in the country are growing more segregated, school choice is moving students from more segregated to more integrated classrooms.
In fact, charter schools in Arizona are now competing with the most highly regarded public schools in the country.
They wring their hands about having some of the most segregated public schools in the country — both by race and income — then keep quiet about neighborhood unzoned schools, where middle - class parents send their children in order to avoid failing public schools.
The number of Oxbridge offers made also exceeded those given this year to some of the most famous public schools in the country, including Gordonstoun, Sherborne, Bedales and Haileybury.
On October 15, the NAACP Board of Directors ratified a resolution calling for a moratorium on new charter public schools in our country.
The very court that terminated the act of organized prayer in public school in this country in the 1960s also stated the foundation for the teaching of religion in the public classroom.
The students each identified a societal problem, such as the Syrian refugee crisis or the lack of equitable funding of public schools in this country, researched it thoroughly, analyzed causes and possible solutions, and proposed a way to remedy the problem.
When he was in his prime, Greenville, MS had perhaps the best public schools in the country, where Walker Percy and Shelby Foote had to struggle to get Bs in English.
Peyser notes that political opposition to charters remains even though numerous studies, «regardless of the sponsoring organization or the research design,» show that Boston's charter schools are among the best - performing urban public schools in the country.
Classified as an R1 by the Carnegie Foundation, Mizzou is widely regarded as one of the top public schools in the country and is a member of the Association of American Universities.
CTD is accredited by the same agency that accredits most public schools in the country.
At one time, the public schools in this country were one of the finest educations in the world.
And only allow the science into government decisions and public schools in this country.
Only science, not religion, should be used by our political leaders and taught in our public schools in this country.
But public schools in this country have rarely engaged in the study of religion as such.
The threats come from the mindless educational potentates who have captured control of the best public schools in the country.
As anyone at the company would freely admit, Edison does not foresee making money until it assumes management of many more schools; it would do well, say company sources, to capture around 1 or 2 percent of the 92,000 public schools in the country.
Given that public schools in the country are not completely free — it costs families significantly less than do private options but there is still some out - of - pocket cost — there could be interesting opportunities for disruption that are not available in a country where public education appears to be free to the general populace.
Last year, under the NCLB rules, more than 8,600 schools around the country were listed as «in need of improvement» by state departments of education-less than 10 percent of all public schools in the country.
And at Lady Bird Johnson Middle School in Irving, Texas, the biggest net - zero public school in the country — it generates more energy than it consumes — the building itself is a laboratory for learning.
And although the case only involved six public schools with a Christian ethos, it will affect all 24,000 public schools in the country.
The National Center for Education Statistics released in October 2013 a preliminary report on all the public schools in the country during the 2011 - 12 school year.
If you listen to firsthand accounts of African Americans who were in public schools in this country in the»50s and»60s, they were separated from white students into separate schools, and in African American schools, they typically only had a teacher funded by the school district.
Not all school districts have middle schools in fact, of the over 97,000 public schools in the country, only around 13,100 are middle schools.
I am angry about what Coleman's statement says about what he has unleashed on the public schools in this country that misguidedly follow the Common Core curriculum.
However, it was not until the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education that the doors of every public school in our country were opened to all students, regardless of their race or socio - economic circumstances.
«Our students deserve the best public schools in the country, and Marshall knows what it will take to get them there, because he has done this work before.
The conversation about race and public schools in our country is one that people in the education community rarely want to have.
The students had each identified a societal problem, such as the Syrian refugee crisis or the lack of equitable funding of public schools in this country, researched it thoroughly, analyzed causes and possible solutions, and proposed a way to remedy the problem.
KIPP Raíces Academy was one of only 285 public schools in the country to receive the 2015 award.
Today the majority of students in public schools in the country's West and South are students of color.
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