Sentences with phrase «relied on its public schools»

Such flippant remarks are not fair to those who do not have resources for private schools and must rely on public schools.

Prior to her grandchildren's participation in the Louisiana Scholarship Program, Shari relied on public schools she felt were leaving her grandchildren behind.

Historically, this country has relied on its public schools to help level the playing field for children born into different circumstances.

«Heather represents both ends of the talent attraction and retention spectrum — students in need of an education that prepares them for college and careers, and the business community that relies on our public schools to produce that talent,» said Doug Maibach, Chairman of the Barton Malow Enterprises Board of Directors and Executive Vice President of Barton Malow Co. «We are fortunate to have her on board to help us bridge that talent divide so all students are prepared for the competitive 21st century workforce.»

Schools in Westchester, Putnam and the Upper Counties that rely on public school districts for bus transportation will follow the delayed opening or closing policy of the local district.

We must support Nevada's 460,000 children that rely on public school.

To what degree did the initial i3 program make progress toward those goals, and what can we learn from that experience to continue advancing innovation in public education for the benefit of the millions of students who rely on the public school system every day?

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They are much more likely to leave of school; receive inadequate prenatal care; rely on public assistance to raise a child; develop health problems; or end up divorced.

I've heard or read varying degrees of that same attitude when it comes to some of the conversations about «biblical» womanhood as people heap guilt on mothers or fathers for everything from choosing public school education to relying on babysitters or daycare, from Sunday School to family strucschool education to relying on babysitters or daycare, from Sunday School to family strucSchool to family structures.

The only instances in which it has relied on the secular purpose requirement of Lemon to invalidate a school policy have been with regard to the posting of the Ten Commandments and the teaching of evolution in public schools.

This effort, like that of the NCBCPS, relies heavily on the distinction made by Justice Thomas Clark in the 1963 Supreme Court decision forbidding devotional reading of the Bible in public schools: «Nothing we have said here indicates that such study of the Bible or of religion, when presented objectively as part of a secular program of education, may not be effected consistently with the First Amendment.»

The USA Today piece has a great map showing that in great swaths of the country, upwards of 77 percent of public - school kids rely on reduced - price or free lunches.

«I am disappointed by the decision of the Chicago Teachers Union to turn its back on not only a city negotiating in good faith but also the hundreds of thousands of children relying on the city's public schools to provide them a safe place to receive a strong education.

«Public transportation is vital to the communities of eastern Queens, where most live in a transit desert, having limited access to trains and relying heavily on buses to get to work, school or important appointments,» Rozic said.

The flagship free schools policy has been riddled with financial mismanagement and poor management, relying on whistleblowers to raise concerns, according to the Public Accounts Committee.

«We need a New York that works for all of us, where big corporations are responsible for paying their fair share of taxes to support our schools, roads, public transit and the services that we all rely on,» said Tomas Garduno, political director of ALIGN.

«Many studies deserve praise for being the first of their kind, but if we actually began relying on the claims made by big data surveillance in public health, we would come to some peculiar conclusions,» said John W. Ayers, San Diego State University Graduate School of Public Health research professor and senior author of the public health, we would come to some peculiar conclusions,» said John W. Ayers, San Diego State University Graduate School of Public Health research professor and senior author of the Public Health research professor and senior author of the study.

Our basic assumption was that K12's model — which relied on parents or other caretakers doing most of the instruction — wouldn't be feasible for kids living in poverty, most of whom would need the custodial care offered by traditional public schools.

Numerous studies, including six separate analyses by the U.S. Department of Education (each of which relied on state - level data), have concluded that charter schools are more segregated than traditional public schools.

We relied on the NAEP Data Explorer to generate our charts, and we used NAEP's national sample, which includes public and private schools.

Any voucher - type proposal that relies on funds currently appropriated to Title I would not simply shift funds from public to private schools — it would significantly redistribute federal funds within states across school districts, and within districts across public schools, reducing progressivity.

Most of those private schools rely on public money, since large proportions of their students receive federal financial aid.

Assessment is at the heart of education: Teachers and parents use test scores to gauge a student's academic strengths and weaknesses, communities rely on these scores to judge the quality of their educational system, and state and federal lawmakers use these same metrics to determine whether public schools are up to scratch.

To examine implementation the CEP relies exclusively on surveys of state education officials and interviews with public school staff.

The authorizer can remove it from the public system — meaning no more public funds; per Pierce, the school has the right to stay open, but it must, as it had before, rely on its own streams of funding.

However, OPPAGA's 2010 report and 2012 revenue estimating conference relied on U.S. Census data and found that their previous estimate of switchers had been too low, since 94.6 % of scholarship - eligible low - income students were attending public schools in the year before the STC program took effect.

As they did in the 2008 report, Allegreto and Mishel rely on the weekly wages reported by public school teachers in the Current Population Survey, leading to confusion about whether the wage data refer to annual salary divided by 52 weeks or by some smaller number of weeks that reflects teachers» shorter work year.

The College Board relies on K - 12 schools, both public and private, to determine students» eligibility for accommodations, and it is widely acknowledged that, from district to district or state to state, there is no consistency regarding the identification or assessment of students with learning disabilities.

The issue of the relative quality of private and public schools was at the core of our research, and we relied on both data on school resources and day - to - day operations and on student achievement scores.

The numbers cited in the report are sobering: High school graduates earn an average of nearly $ 290,000 more than dropouts over their lifetime, and they are 68 percent less apt to rely on public assistance.

The decision was unusual in that the court relied not on traditional separation - of - church - and - state concerns, but instead on a provision of the Colorado state constitution that vests control over public education in local school boards.

Schools however with the exception of the public school sector, have had to rely mainly on what is termed within the security industry as «physical security» gates, fences, and turnstiles usually supported by some means of electronic security equipment such as access control and intruder alarm systems.

Conceived in the colonial period and evolving well into the 21st century, public education in the United States has relied on 50 distinct state systems that, in turn, delegate selected dimensions of operational authority to more than 13,000 local school districts.

Plaintiffs have relied on these provisions to seek increases in the financial resources devoted to public schools, especially those serving disadvantaged students.

Standard value - added analyses, which are often used to evaluate charter schools, rely entirely on an unusual group of students who switch from regular public schools to charter schools late in their elementary - school careers.

Parents use test scores to gauge their children's academic strengths and weaknesses, communities rely on these scores to judge the quality of their teachers and administrators, and state and federal lawmakers use these scores to hold public schools accountable for providing the high - quality education every child deserves.

In fact, Trump's cuts would harm even the public charter schools he purports to support: charters rely on Title II teacher - preparation grants to train their educators, and Trump wanted to eliminate the federal appropriation for that program.

The vast majority of respondents with school - age children in the home (87 %) have experience with traditional public schools, and most rely on them exclusively (see Figure 4).

Billions in federal economic - stimulus dollars are slated to be spent to help improve public education, but Americans relying on traditional news outlets are likely to find out little, if anything, about what that effort might mean for the schools in their communities, a new report suggests.

His theory of change relied on rewards and sanctions for schools along with an informed public agitating for improvement.

To isolate the effect of the recessionary spending cuts from that of the general ill - effects of the recession, Cora Wigger, Heyu Xiong and I rely on the fact that states that relied heavily on state taxes to fund public schools experienced the deepest education revenue cuts during the recession, on average.

The Manhattan middle school relies on public funds for everything but its facilities, cutting costs by eliminating admin positions and increasing class size.

Your show relies on the false premise that American public schools are failing.

Any data that rely on official reports of disability will under - count the percentage of students in private schools who would have been identified as in need of special education had they attended public schools.

The better of our two methods relies on information from those students who attended schools in both the public and the private sectors during the course of our study.

The proposal redirects hundreds of millions of dollars from public schools — often, school districts that rely most heavily on federal aid, forcing them to cut vital services or raise local property taxes.»

In a new series of vignettes and an accompanying video from Public Impact, the principals tell what they did and how their roles as principal changed when they could rely on their MCL teams to spread great instruction throughout the schools.

In 1965, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District in Virginia found in Griffin v. State Board of Education that vouchers from the state's tuition grant program could not lawfully be used to fund schools that discriminate based on race.27 While not citing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as a legal basis for its ruling, the court nonetheless relied on the law's definition of a public school — any institution that was «operated wholly or predominantly from or through the use of governmental funds or property.»

[Charters] draw students from all over but we have to provide our own transportation, or parents rely on public transportation, because school districts do not make their buses available to charter schools.

Rep. David Lewis (R - Harnett) defended the move, saying that this version of SB 793 relies on state law that protects all students who attend public schools.