Sentences with phrase «public schools in the nation»

We were interested in building a movement to built the best public schools in the nation.

That's the first of many anecdotes in Richard Whitmire's fast - moving chronicle of Rhee's life and career that impart the strange, dismaying world of public schools in the nation's capital.

As they have in previous years, Americans believe that their local schools are better than public schools in the nation as a whole.

Despite years of efforts to boost the number of black and Hispanic students who qualify for admission at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, a selective public school in Virginia that has been rated the top public school in the nation, this year's freshman class includes only 4 black students and 13 Hispanic students.

Though New Hampshire has some of the highest - performing public schools in the nation, performance across school districts is uneven.

The differences were striking: Fifty - one percent of respondents said they would give the public schools in their neighborhood a grade of A or B, but only 19 % would give public schools in the nation A or B.

For the second year in a row, researchers have found little to no overall difference in the standardized - test scores of students who are enrolled in private schools under the District of Columbia's federally funded voucher program and their peers who attend public schools in the nation's capital.

Yu Ying, the first public school in the Nation's Capital to offer a Chinese language immersion program, delivered in combination with the International Baccalaureate Organization's Primary Years curricula, seeks to educate elementary students «to become bilingual and biliterate in an increasingly important world language» with «a world class education that opens doors to the future.»

Our research, in partnership with Public Impact, found that the best urban public schools in the nation share two distinguishing characteristics.

New York state has the most segregated public schools in the nation, according to UCLA researchers.

Mrs. DeVos's decision to skip public schools in the nation's largest district, with 1.1 million students, upset some public - school advocates.

In other words, the geographic placement of charter schools practically ensures that they will enroll higher percentages of minorities than will the average public school in the nation, in states, and in large metropolitan areas.

Ed TrustAnnounces 2012 Dispelling the Myth Award Winners Brooke Roslindale was one of the three public schools in the nation selected to receive the 2012 Dispelling the Myth award presented by the Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan.

Serving students in kindergarten through 12th grade, the Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School (PA Cyber) is one of the largest, most experienced, and most successful online public schools in the nation.

The Math and Science Leadership Academy is among the first teacher - run public schools in the nation, and was proposed by the Denver Classroom Teachers» Association.

Many schools «failed» year after year, and as 2014 approached, the majority of public schools in the nation had been declared failures, including some excellent, highly regarded schools (typically, the group that was not making sufficient progress toward 100 percent proficiency was students with disabilities, and the schools that were likeliest to be labeled as failing enrolled high proportions of poor and minority students).

Newsweek and U.S. News and World Report have ranked Summit among the top public schools in the nation.

New Jersey is already home to some of the top - performing public schools in the nation.

This is one of the lowest percentages of white students attending public schools in the nation — and remember that the majority of Mississippi's population is white.

It is the first school in New York City to do so, and possibly the first public school in the nation.

This is often due to the poor quality of urban public schooling in our nation, and reflects recruiting practices and priorities that privilege athletics and not academics, thus putting young people in situations where it is extremely challenging for them to excel academically.

«California's students deserve the very best public schools in the nation, but for too long, our schools have been stuck near the bottom.

The public is also famously and enduringly off the mark regarding the academic performance of their local schools, still sipping the warm waters of Lake Wobegon and giving honors grades to «the public schools in your community,» even while conferring far lower marks on «the public schools in the nation as a whole.»

• What grade would you give the public schools in the nation as a whole?

Currently, about one - third of all public schools in the nation — more than 30,000 — have been stigmatized as failing because they did not make what the law calls «adequate yearly progress.»

The 262 charter schools within the Los Angeles Unified School District are among the highest performing in the state, and they are also among the highest performing of all public schools in the nation, based on the state's most recent Academic Performance Index scores, on graduation rates and on college readiness indicators (such as the percentage of graduates who complete college prep classes).

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos shot back at protesters who last week temporarily blocked her from entering a public school in the nation's capital, saying Wednesday that the incident showed how «hostile» some are to change.

But there are nearly 15,000 school districts and 100,000 public schools in the nation, and the vast majority of them don't have their capacity to innovate stymied by Big Bad Teachers Unions.

Never before has the federal government reached so deeply into each and every public school in the nation.

US News & World Report has consistently ranked Summit Schools among the top public schools in the nation.

Two activists sought to block her from visiting a public school in the nation's capital on Friday in a sign of protest.

About half of all public schools in the nation have been stigmatized as «failing» because they couldn't meet its utopian mandates, and the proportion is certain to grow every year.

When it comes to flagship universities, the University of Michigan (UM) is one of the most outstanding of all public schools in the nation.