Sentences with phrase «really being in public schools»

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«We're staffed to really support not just independent private schools like ourselves, but in the future, public schools where the majority of kids are educated,» said AltSchool CEO Max Ventilla.

«Right now, it's really hard to get a firm handle on a total figure [for] what kind of economic activity the sharing economy encompasses in Canada,» notes Sunil Johal, policy director at the Mowat Centre, an Ontario - focused public policy think - tank at the University of Toronto's School of Public Policy and Goverpublic policy think - tank at the University of Toronto's School of Public Policy and GoverPublic Policy and Governance.

The loss of biblical language in public rhetoric or in public education may have telling effect (Lincoln might be incomprehensible today) Sunday school and other agencies of biblical education, where the texts can be restored and minds can as well be re-stored, are neglected, signaling that citizens are not really serious when they ask for more religion in the schools.

I think it is really sad that a CHRISTIAN nation, replaces almost all forms of it in the public schools, you can't have a Nativity scene anywhere in the school w / o it being «discriminating» to other people, but we can accept Muslim holidays.

Hi, We are 12 years old and go to public school in Italy and we want to let you know that no one in our class really pays any attention to the cross on the wall.

Baird's contemporary advocate of «an earnest ministry» noted that the Sunday School, the cheap tract, and the religious periodical had become «competitors» with the pulpit «for the public mind,» and concluded that the ministers would have to turn on more heat.112 Charles G. Finney, always more blunt in saying what many of his Congregational and Presbyterian brethren really thought, openly advocated the creation of excitement in order to attract the attention of the unconverted — a view with which, as we have noted, Horace Bushnell was inclined to agree.

Too bad NYC has banned bake sales in public schools, especially when they can really be a great way to raise money and get kids and parents into the kitchen.

This has had the effect of making those teams really good (2 of the top 3 teams according to MaxPreps were private Catholic high schools in LA, including clear # 1 Mater Dei), while hurting the public schools around them.

20 years ago when we started our public school adventure with our severe allergy child there were really no rules in place for allergy kids like ours.

Then, not long after Louis was born in 2013, I was going through a really intense season trying to be a mom, and work, and transitioning my kids to public school, and dealing with a husband having a broken leg, and shutting lights off in a house that had a dark basement.

«When students come to school hungry, it's really hard for them to pay attention and learn,» said Jill Kidd, the director of nutrition services at Pueblo City Public Schools in Colorado.

«I think it was a way for him to con the public into saying that he really supports our students and parents and teachers and school districts, when in reality, he did not.»

What they really mean is tax cuts for the 1 % and cuts in schools and public services for the 99 %,» Hawkins said.

Is that really such a bad thing to be though — some Labour MPs may retain a visceral hatred of the 11 - plus, but what do the public think about academic selection in schools?

«The reason why [the current influenza outbreak] getting so much attention is that it started really early, which really speaks to the susceptibility in the population,» said Jeffrey Shaman, a professor at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University who studies influenza and climate.

«There are still many parts of the world where the mode of delivery is the home, and it's difficult to really deal with emergencies in that setting,» says Robert Black, a professor of international health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

«The science is really moving,» says Seth Berkley, a professor in the Department of Epidemiology at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and who is also president of IAVI.

«As the price and accuracy of rapid diagnostic tests and other diagnostic instruments improve, I think we have a chance to really make a difference in clinical settings facing huge burdens of acute undifferentiated febrile infections that I believe are being misdiagnosed,» said Stoler, who also holds a position in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the UM Miller School of Medicine.

So anyway, we headed down the canyon, and I should say that the reason we did this particular trip was because it was put together by the National Center for Science Education, which is the Oakland based group that really does the frontline work with protecting evolution education in the nation's public schools.

Yeah, so I actually as a young person, I had a really interesting opportunity, went to public schools; and my high school German teacher, who was all of 24 years old at that time, brought a group of his university friends for a camping trip in Russia, and one person canceled, so they had an extra slot.

«It's not really meaningful to say that saturated fats are good or bad,» said Frank Hu, a professor of nutrition and epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, who wasn't involved in the new study.

The public release of these ratings — which attempt to isolate a teacher's contribution to his or her students» growth in math and English achievement, as measured by state tests — is one important piece of a much bigger attempt to focus school policy on what really matters: classroom learning.

When I was a kid I had been lucky enough to get a scholarship to an all - boys private high school just outside of the city, and that happened right when things were getting really difficult for me in the public school I attended.

«The Cartel» really took on the notion that public education in America operates solely and purposefully «for the kids,» and it showed exactly what can go wrong when you are consistently first or second in school spending every year (as New Jersey is) and lots of interest groups have placed the economic advancement and security of the adults above the kids.

«We really tried to tell the story as, «We are not getting rid of this horrible institution» — although it was failing kids and was a huge injustice — but we tried to tell the public that, «We are revitalizing the school to restore its proper place in the community,»» he says.

There are an endless number of interesting stories that could be told with this information, but the one that really stood out to us is that achievement in many of our affluent suburban public school districts barely keeps pace with that of the average student in a developed country.

Now for the really eye - opening math: There are roughly 100,000 public schools in the United States, with over 3 million public school teachers and at least 50 million students.

«Until those five big CMOs made the announcement of big plans for growth, serving a significant portion of the low - income population in Los Angeles, I didn't feel anybody was really paying attention to us,» said Marco Petruzzi, who oversees Green Dot Public Schools National.

I've seen really sad situations in public schools where air quality was poor and schools were questionable in terms of safety, and it breaks my heart to see that.

«Folks like this use comedy and music and are fun, but in the midst of their humor, they have really good substance,» said Fred Morton, superintendent of the Henrico County Public Schools in Richmond, Virginia, who has used Wavelength in his current and former district.

«They are really pushing the envelope on religion in public schools,» Joseph Conn of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, said of the department's guidelines.

Here are a few highlights of what I've learned ELLs really need from more than 20 years of working closely with them in public schools.

«In Boston public schools, we really see that family engagement is a strategy toward whole - school improvement,» Mapp says.»

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Putting her in charge of the Department of Education really is an insult to all of the many teachers and educators and principals and so many Americans who have come through our public schools, who have had a chance in this economy to make it in their lives in part due to this commitment of America to public schools, which we need to invest in more versus the sort of alternatives that Betsy DeVos has pushed, including charter schools that have sucked billions out of our public education system and that have resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars of fraud.

Over the last decade, research in public education has led us to three conclusions about the teaching profession: teachers are the most important in - school factor in determining student achievement; there is wide variation in teacher effectiveness; and those differences really matter for kids.

In fact, since traditional public schools ought to be subject to the same constraints, a commonsense reformer is really agnostic about whether traditional publics serve 90 % or 40 % of students in a districIn fact, since traditional public schools ought to be subject to the same constraints, a commonsense reformer is really agnostic about whether traditional publics serve 90 % or 40 % of students in a districin a district.

In New Orleans, where essentially all schools are charters, the comparison schools have to come either from a handful of district schools (which aren't really traditional public schools) or from the suburbs — whereas, in Detroit, the comparison schools are apparently within the citIn New Orleans, where essentially all schools are charters, the comparison schools have to come either from a handful of district schools (which aren't really traditional public schools) or from the suburbs — whereas, in Detroit, the comparison schools are apparently within the citin Detroit, the comparison schools are apparently within the city.

A key tool in the campaign, it says, is a 90 - minute film called «IndoctriNation: Public Schools and the Decline of Christianity in America» which was released in 2011 which features the producer, Colin Gunn, traveling around the United States in a bus with his family and talking to various «education authorities» who are really extreme libertarians, evangelical preachers, teachers who have left public schools because they couldn't bring Jesus Christ into the classroom and politicians who oppose public scPublic Schools and the Decline of Christianity in America» which was released in 2011 which features the producer, Colin Gunn, traveling around the United States in a bus with his family and talking to various «education authorities» who are really extreme libertarians, evangelical preachers, teachers who have left public schools because they couldn't bring Jesus Christ into the classroom and politicians who oppose public sSchools and the Decline of Christianity in America» which was released in 2011 which features the producer, Colin Gunn, traveling around the United States in a bus with his family and talking to various «education authorities» who are really extreme libertarians, evangelical preachers, teachers who have left public schools because they couldn't bring Jesus Christ into the classroom and politicians who oppose public scpublic schools because they couldn't bring Jesus Christ into the classroom and politicians who oppose public sschools because they couldn't bring Jesus Christ into the classroom and politicians who oppose public scpublic schoolsschools.

Rothstein is a great choice for this one in that indeed he is an economist, but one of a few, really, who is deep into the research literature and who, accordingly, has a balanced set of research - based beliefs about value - added models (VAMs), their current uses in America's public schools, and what they can and can not do (theoretically) to support school reform.

«If policymakers are really interested in improving education, they should invest in the public schools that serve all students.»

Focusing on them as individuals really gives the public an opportunity to see what the teaching profession is like and the excellent work that goes on every day in our public schools.

«Math is really culturally neutral in so many ways,» said Scott Shirey, executive director of KIPP Delta Public Schools in Arkansas.

As an educator who has taught in public schools for nine years, I can tell you something that only other teachers and professional educators really understand: You're mistaken.

Scafidi: It was really a bunch of conversations with my children's teachers (they're in public schools) and with other public school teacher friends of mine.

... Few ardent supporters of public education really understand what it takes to provide high - quality learning opportunities for children in a public school classroom, and for that reason few are aware of the vast chasm between public school systems that are well provisioned to do so and those that aren't.

I am fed up with Mayor de Blasio's stonewalling — it's time for him to provide basic information to parents about what's really going on in our public schools.

It's the people who really care about ALL students and refuse to let rhetoric and random celebrities (who do NOT have children in school, let alone public school) drive reform.

«I really feel like all legislators should be required as part of their service to spend a full day in a public school,» she added.

Then he really stepped in it, making the claim that class sizes are too big in the state's public schools and that the new law does not address this.