Sentences with phrase «public schools in the nation as»

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?

Not exact matches

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

Alongside the best public school reform proposals outlined above, as a nation we should invest equal resources in testing a voucher plan.

Their discomfort with cultural issues is reflected in their protests that matters such as partial - birth abortion, school prayer, or same - sex marriage are not proper items for political debate; they are rather «wedge issues» that conservatives illegitimately bring into the public arena in order to divide the nation (read: in order to cost Democrats votes).

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

He doesn't, it's Satan who is running wild in this country because GOD has been taken out of public places and prayer has been taken out of schools etc., when you take GOD out, you let evil in... this nation hasn't learned that yet... there will be more tragedies like this or worse unless GOD is bought back into every facet of the public as he was decades ago when prayer was allowed in school, the commandments were made visible and even on our money his name was present — BRING GOD BACK!!

Think of it this way... if it can't be taught as fact in our public school system's or used in the making of law in a secular nation, then it truly doesn't stand its apparent ground to the manner it once might have.

Lead author Sara Chrisman of the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center in Seattle, Washington, viewed the finding that concussion education requirements for coaches under the state's first - in - the - nation «Lystedt Law» were being closely followed by public high schools in Washington State as «very encouraging but not surprising,» noting that schools had an incentive to follow the law because it provides legal immunity from litigation for schools that follow it correctly.

Public Waldorf schools across the nation are at the forefront of defining themselves as exemplary educational models that value measurement of growth in meaningful, developmental, and authentic ways.

Ellen Haas has spent a good portion of her adult life trying to improve the nutrition of the nation's school lunch program, first as the founder and director of the consumer group Public Voice, and in the last two years as Department of Agriculture undersecretary of food, nutrition and consumer services.

The circular released the fee items the government has absorbed for all day public senior high school students in the country in line with its commitment to implement the progressively free secondary education policy as expressed in President John Mahama's State of the Nation Address last year.

The report released Monday as part of a collaborative study between the Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health Policy, part of the School of Public Health and Health Services at George Washington University, and the RCHN Community Health Foundation, reveals that due to federal budget cuts through sequestration, the nation's 1,200 community health programs will lose $ 120 million in funding.

«We have a major medical center and law school, and we have our own rich traditions rooted in the Carolina soil, such as being the nation's oldest public university with a strong history of diversity.»

The number of people in Bangladesh dying from chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes and hypertension — long considered diseases of the wealthy because the poor didn't tend to live long enough to develop them — increased dramatically among the nation's poorest households over a 24 - year period, suggests new research from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

According to the official government count, the program now operates in more than 101,000 public and private schools as well as residential childcare facilities across the nation.

Ron Zimmer, of the RAND Corporation, and two colleagues studied the impact of charters in Michigan, one of the most chartered states in the nation, and determined that private schools were taking as big a hit as traditional public schools because of charters.

But if the public thinks better of local public schools than it does of those in the nation as a whole, it is definitely more satisfied with local private schools than with public ones.

If the United States is ever to pay off its vast and rising public debt, as well as the growing deficits in its teacher pension accounts, it will have to fix not only the nation's schools but local ones, too.

By contrast, evangelicals tend to believe that Christians should keep their children in public schools as witnesses and as sources of influence on non-Christians, the school, and the nation.

When Rudolph «Rudy» Crew took over as superintendent of Miami - Dade County Public Schools in 2004, he launched the most comprehensive large - scale school reform plan that the state — and arguably the nation — had ever seen.

As a long - time student of school choice (and, full disclosure, an adviser to Romney's education team) I anticipate the governor is in for a bit of moral outrage — for undermining, threatening, jeopardizing, disrespecting — or, insert verb of offense here — our nation's public schools.

Americans assign far higher grades to the public schools in their local community than to the public schools of the nation as a whole.

Now, as he assumes the role of chief academic officer of the nation's largest school system, Polakow - Suransky, who very few people, including educators, have heard of, will have to get used to being on a brightly - lit stage in the klieg - light capital of the world; just as private industry CEO Cathie Black travels from the well - insulated corporate board room to the decidedly raucous arena of a sprawling public school system.

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Some of the nation's most innovative teacher - quality programs could be in jeopardy as decisionmakers for the Cincinnati public schools scramble to identify $ 20 million to cut from next year's budget.

Drew Gilpin Faust, the current president of Harvard University, is right in insisting that «even as we as a nation have embraced education as critical to economic growth and opportunity, we should remember that [public schools], colleges and universities are about a great deal more than measurable utility.

The nation's most extensive experiment in private management of public schools sputtered to an end last week as the Hartford, Conn., school board said it would end its partnership with Education Alternatives Inc. in a dispute over finances.

Whether measured on a per - pupil basis or as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product, support for public schools is stronger in the United States than in most other nations.

Responding to what they perceive as growing public disillusionment with their profession, 19 deans from some of the nation's leading schools of education are meeting in Wisconsin this week to consider forming a new organization to promote higher standards in the field.

Public schools all over the nation — but especially in cities — are grappling with difficult problems of strikes, decreasing enrollment and increasing costs, as well as the perceived threat of tax credits for private - school tuition and voucher plans.

While discipline policies vary across schools, districts, and states — and as the nation's largest school district the New York City public schools are likely more bureaucratized and formalized in matters of school discipline than smaller districts — the scale, scope, and level of complexity of the legal regulations affecting day - to - day school practices appear quite formidable.

If CCSS were to enhance public knowledge of the performance of local schools as compared to schools elsewhere in the state and nation, the impact on the school reform debate could be substantial, especially (but not exclusively) in those districts that are ranked below average nationally.

For instance, in the 1900s as waves of immigrants swept the nation, the American public wanted schools to assimilate students into American life, combining the basics of English and arithmetic with emphasis on patriotism, hard work, fair play, and honesty.

«Our results suggest that students in public schools profit nearly as much from increased private school competition as do a nation's students as a whole,» West and Woessman note.

As Whitehurst goes on to state, the expansion of public school choice «is not a repudiation and abandonment of the role of government in the provision of an adequate education for the nation's K - 12 students.

The high court declared, «In view of our decision that the Constitution prohibits the states from maintaining racially segregated public schools, it would be unthinkable that the same Constitution would impose a lesser duty on the federal government,» which as a legal and practical matter controlled the affairs of the nation's capital.

Why do American public schools spend more of their operating budgets on non-teachers than almost every other country in the world, including nations that are as prosperous and humane as ours?

Known as the CREDO study, it evaluated student progress on math tests in half the nation's five thousand charter schools and concluded that 17 percent were superior to a matched traditional public school; 37 percent were worse than the public school; and the remaining 46 percent had academic gains no different from that of a similar public school.

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.»

They amount to less than 1 percent of the Class of 2014 at the selective public school in Fairfax County, regarded as among the nation's best.

English High touts itself as the oldest public high school in the nation, and for a time it was one of Boston's most prestigious schools.

As the debate on school choice heats up next week, I share this post as a voice in support of the nation's public schools, which remain the number 1 choice, a great option for families and communities across the countrAs the debate on school choice heats up next week, I share this post as a voice in support of the nation's public schools, which remain the number 1 choice, a great option for families and communities across the countras a voice in support of the nation's public schools, which remain the number 1 choice, a great option for families and communities across the country.

For those of us who cover the nation's education crisis, it is easy to joke about the ranting and raving of some defenders of traditional public education, who have what they consider to be clever names for charter schools and impugn the motivations of reformers with wealth (even as they defend teachers unions who bring in $ 622 million every year through dues collected forcibly from teachers who may or many not even support their aims).

The recent sales of four vacant schools to private school operators could stir more competition for the public school system as school choice initiatives gain support in the state and nation.

All free public Alliance charter schools outperform their neighborhood schools and have been recognized as among the best in the nation...

As superintendent of the sixth largest school district in the nation and second largest in Florida, with nearly 270,000 students in 238 schools, centers, and technical colleges, and more than 30,000 employees — Broward County Public Schools Superintendent Robert W. Runcie is committed to educating today's students to succeed in tomorrow'sschools, centers, and technical colleges, and more than 30,000 employees — Broward County Public Schools Superintendent Robert W. Runcie is committed to educating today's students to succeed in tomorrow'sSchools Superintendent Robert W. Runcie is committed to educating today's students to succeed in tomorrow's world.

NCLB required that all of the nation's public school teachers be «highly qualified» by the end of 2005 — 06 and set as a standard that they have a bachelor's degree, meet state licensure requirements, and demonstrate competence in a core subject.

In December 2015, President Barack Obama signed the Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA, which replaced No Child Left Behind, or NCLB, as the nation's major law governing public schools.

Nine California public schools serving military families - considered to be among the most dilapidated facilities in the nation - are likely to lose out on badly - needed funding for long - overdue upgrades as a result of sequestration.