Sentences with phrase «run public schools as»

You can wish that educators were free to spend public funds and run public schools as they see fit.

Vallas had floated the idea of the Christian Brothers running a public school as early as 1997, recalls Ed Siderewicz, a young Christian Brother who helped start the San Miguel Back of the Yards School, «but we shrugged it off as compromising our mission.»

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Mormons do not run religious schools that take public aid from the state, such as secular textbooks, though that is a practice approved by the Supreme Court in states with substantial numbers of parochial schools.

So the Jesuits running this little school are opposed to public health measures that are as sound and reasonable as indoor plumbing?

Here's a thought — so long as schools are «public», e.g. run by the government, which is supposed to NOT favor any religion, how about we not have ANY religious holidays.

One of the issues here that never gets discussed when these fights erupt is that since schools are public, ie gov» t run, they SHOULD be viewed as a part of gov» t that requires strict separation, but also WILL be under local majority rule.

In its first statement of principles, the AAUP declared that schools run by churches or by businesses as agencies for propagandizing a particular philosophy were free to do so, but that they should not pretend to be public institutions.

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!!

I just know I personally would not send my kid to an all - day government - run pre-K and the state of the U.S. economy and public schools such as they are right now, I don't think adding more responsibilities to them and throwing more money at them is something I'm on board with.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

This ensures that the group is running on the day you have in mind as it breaks for public and school holidays.

Nina Hansen, vice president of operations for the Enosburg Falls - based Abbey Group, which runs the food service programs at 70 Vermont public and private schools, as well as schools in New York and New Hampshire, said these unpaid bills are a problem in many districts, but none of the schools her company serves would stop a student from eating because of it.

Sal Albanese, 68 Party: Reform Party (previously ran as a Democrat in the primary election) Current role: Former city councilman and public school teacher Brief bio: Albanese was born in Calabria, Italy, on Aug. 29, 1949, and immigrated to Brooklyn when he was 8 years old.

Though he has since tempered his rhetoric, Mr. de Blasio was often hostile toward charter school expansion and Ms. Moskowitz when he served as public advocate and ran for mayor.

Candidates listen as Prasad Srinivisan speaks during a debate between Republican candidates running for governor at Windsor Public High School.

Steiner was roundly criticized for heeding Mayor Bloomberg's request to grant Black a waiver to run the nation's largest public school system even though she had no experience as an educator.

I'm proud of my role as Miranda, and if the popularity of the series will help me to raise awareness of the critical problems I'm running to fix in New York — like inequality, underfunded public schools, mass incarceration, and racial injustice — then I'm comfortable with that.

The session runs through June, and lawmakers will also have to consider an extension of rent control regulations for New York City as well as mayoral control of public schools.

But even that school, like other public schools back then, was run as a «secular» school, hinged on Euro - Christian tradition!

NYC's 1.1 million students have this week off, giving Richard A. Carranza, who, as of today, is the chancellor of the city's public schools, a chance to ease into running the country's largest school system.

Syracuse Post-Standard: New York City public school advocate to run as lieutenant governor with Green Party's Hawkins

Mr. Ruland has run a low - key campaign, focusing on his record of public service, a great deal of which he has done without compensation as a school board member.

NEC members praised his conference speech and drew attention to Tory attacks on employment rights including access to tribunals, the paradox under which British railways can be run by states as long as they are foreign states, the need for good jobs not just any jobs, further cuts in public service pay, the threat of a new European / United States trade agreement, excessive warmth towards free schools, and expansion of food banks and payday loans into mainstream society.

Schneiderman grew up on the Upper West Side, graduated from Amherst College and Harvard Law School and worked as a public - interest lawyer before successfully running for the Legislature in 1998.

Charter schools are privately run with taxpayer money and promoted as an alternative to traditional public schools.

Miner, who this week begins a spring semester teaching positions at the pring semester as a «visiting distinguished urbanist» at the New York University Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service, said Sunday she is still considering options for her political future, including a possible Democratic primary challenge this year against Cuomo or a run for Congress.

Cuomo's education budget was notable this year for not including «school aid runs» that specify how much state aid school district administrators can assume as they craft their budgets for public votes May 19.

These include teaching in studios, teaching adults and children, writing, public speaking, teaching in special «non-studio settings» (such as corporate yoga, privates, schools, and training centers) and running my mentorship program.

Even as a child, Rosa stands separate from her fellow African - Americans; instead of being shipped off to a shabby public school, she is enrolled in a private classroom run by Quakers, who encourage the girl to transcend the severe limitations of legalized segregation in her home state of Alabama.

The public release of value - added scores for 18,000 New York City teachers last week should not be taken as a model for how to run the human resource departments of the schools.

Melissa Zaikos began experimenting with online learning in the Chicago Public Schools, where she spent nine years as a Broad Fellow, most notably, running a group of high - performing schools on the southwest side of thSchools, where she spent nine years as a Broad Fellow, most notably, running a group of high - performing schools on the southwest side of thschools on the southwest side of the city.

Public schools as we know them today didn't exist at the time, and the historical record makes clear that most of the founders would not have supported a government - owned and government - run school system.

The compact brought 21 new charter schools into Denver Public Schools, including 11 run by three of Denver's charter stars: DSST Public Schools (which began in 2004 as the Denver School of Science and Technology), STRIVE Preparatory Schools (which began in 2006 as West Denver Prep), anschools into Denver Public Schools, including 11 run by three of Denver's charter stars: DSST Public Schools (which began in 2004 as the Denver School of Science and Technology), STRIVE Preparatory Schools (which began in 2006 as West Denver Prep), anSchools, including 11 run by three of Denver's charter stars: DSST Public Schools (which began in 2004 as the Denver School of Science and Technology), STRIVE Preparatory Schools (which began in 2006 as West Denver Prep), anSchools (which began in 2004 as the Denver School of Science and Technology), STRIVE Preparatory Schools (which began in 2006 as West Denver Prep), anSchools (which began in 2006 as West Denver Prep), and KIPP.

Florida's virtual school, university - run laboratory schools, schools for juvenile offenders, a school for «high risk» boys including sex offenders, and the state school for the deaf and blind would all count as «parallel» public schools uncontrolled by local boards.

Just as nothing affects opinion about an ongoing war as quickly as communiqués from the front, so too a better understanding of the facts about the public schools could in the long run shape American education.

Are government run institutions such as the public school really the best way for society to preserve its common destiny?

No one group or entity has exactly the same interest as children, and each can be expected, in the long run, to pull schooling, and the uses of public funds, in directions that meet its own interests.

States would be allowed to continue restricting public funding to government - run public schools, as most do now.

As a young girl from Queens, Natasha Daniella Rivera participation in programs run by Prep for Prep — a leadership development organization for gifted students of color in New York City public schools — opened doors to many opportunities including a scholarship to an elite private school and paid internships.

A young Michigan man who runs a Web site that supplies information about public schools sent hundreds of e-mails this fall to superintendents in four states, demanding that they reveal their sexual orientation and threatening to list them as gay if they did not respond.

In recent decades, public - private partnerships (PPPs) and private providers have emerged as major forces in education in the less - developed and developing worlds, often supplying the lion's share of education services where scarce resources have crippled state - run schooling.

Following graduation, he went back to the classroom to help run several afterschool programs, including one at the Fletcher Maynard Academy, a public school in Cambridge where he now serves as the extended day director.

Equally important, privately run schools that had not charged tuition began receiving the same per - student voucher as the public schools.

Smith, who used to be president of the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools and is now a senior advisor to the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, provides and fair and accurate description of our book's thesis: that we should return to Albert Shanker's original vision of charter schools as institutions that provide flexibility to experiment with new approaches, that enhance the role of teachers in running schools, and that integrate students of different racial and economic backgSchools and is now a senior advisor to the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, provides and fair and accurate description of our book's thesis: that we should return to Albert Shanker's original vision of charter schools as institutions that provide flexibility to experiment with new approaches, that enhance the role of teachers in running schools, and that integrate students of different racial and economic backgschools as institutions that provide flexibility to experiment with new approaches, that enhance the role of teachers in running schools, and that integrate students of different racial and economic backgschools, and that integrate students of different racial and economic backgrounds.

In fact, the idea that one of the Catholic Church's most respected religious orders might run a public school sounded odd, maybe even, as Francis Cardinal George, head of the Archdiocese of Chicago, conjectured, illegal.

As a last grasp at hope, Darius enrolled in a new program called «Back on Track,» that joins the public Decatur High School with a nearby innovative private school, Ben Franklin Academy (BFA), run by Headmaster Wood Smethurst, Ed.D.» 70, and Dean of Studies Martha BurSchool with a nearby innovative private school, Ben Franklin Academy (BFA), run by Headmaster Wood Smethurst, Ed.D.» 70, and Dean of Studies Martha Burschool, Ben Franklin Academy (BFA), run by Headmaster Wood Smethurst, Ed.D.» 70, and Dean of Studies Martha Burdette.

As a young girl from Queens, Natasha Rivera participation in programs run by Prep for Prep — a leadership development organization for gifted students of color in New York City public schools — opened doors to many opportunities including a scholarship to an elite private school and paid internships.

To develop and run the OneApp, the RSD contracted with the Institute for Innovation in Public School Choice (IIPSC), an organization for which Roth has served as an adviser and board member.

When public schools integrate these elements — as in a pilot project run by Harvard economist Roland Fryer in Houston, early evidence suggests those schools are seeing the same gains as high - performing charters.

New Orleans has long been in the spotlight for its near - total conversion from a traditional school district to a collection of schools run autonomously as public charters.