Sentences with phrase «run public schools at»

Edison, which tried to run public schools at a profit, faltered.

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Justin Wolfers, an associate professor of business and public policy at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, argued those working in the field of happiness economics mistakenly imagine that the world is run by legions of politicians and economists whose love of GDP approaches religious fervor.

«You would think that common sense would dictate that we choose someone who is well versed in business and has experience running a company for president,» said Barbara Kellerman, a James MacGregor Burns Lecturer in Public Leadership at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

But here's what this data really means: Each year, nearly every student at an American public school is trained to cower under a desk or run for their lives to avoid being murdered by a gunman.

At Kendall College, our School of Culinary Arts runs an open - to - the - public fine - dining restaurant to provide our students with real - life experience.

Pupils of all age ranges in about 40 schools across New York have already joined Meatless Monday, including public (state - run), private and charter schools, and the Brooklyn announcement was made at a school that serves only meat free meals — every day of the week.

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.

There are millions of poor kids who only eat because of free and reduced - cost meal programs at public schools, and still tons of kids are running meal account deficits because their parents can't or won't pay their account balances, and it's the kids who suffer in that case.

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.

«If President Clinton came in from his running and ate french fries that are baked, healthy and low in fat, that would capture the imagination of the American public,» said Peter Kwiterovich, professor of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Volunteer Margarita Roman, left, dispenses oranges to a parent at Calmeca Academy during the Brighton Park school's weekly «Healthy Kids Market,» a food pantry run by the Greater Chicago Food Depository in conjunction with Chicago Public Schools.

Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks to reporters at City Hall in Manhattan after Miami - Dade County Public Schools Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho announced abruptly that he will not accept the job of running the New York City school system on Thursday, March 1, 2018.

The mayor also predicted dire consequences if he loses his showdown with state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, who wants to lift the cap on the number of privately run public schools in the city, now set at 23 new charters.

Many people believe education is best run at the local level because school boards and school officials better serve the public when they are able to be held accountable by the local community they serve; when the decision - makers have local roots, many believe they do a better job than a monolithic federal bureaucracy hundreds or thousands of miles away.

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

At many New York City - run public schools, a majority of students are not passing statewide tests.

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.

Instead, they can consider running a hackathon, at which tech - savvy members of the public come together to create apps and other digital tools that promise to enhance the provision of healthcare, schools or policing.

«If you look at your own bill across the year, you'll probably see that your usage is highest in the summer, when you're running the air conditioning,» said Catherine Hausman, assistant professor at U-M's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

The founder and leader of Education Post is Peter Cunningham, who was an assistant secretary for communication at the U.S. Department of Education under Arne Duncan, with whom he also served when Duncan ran Chicago Public Schools a decade ago.

In that way, the disaster can actually be an impetus for educational progress, which was also the case for MacPhee at her school in New Orleans, which initially ran a half - day program to supplement other public schools.

Jenna Bush, one of the twin daughters of President Bush and first lady Laura Bush, is rumored to be in the running for a job at the Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School in Washington, according to a report last month in The Washington Post.

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.

To be sure, there are often good reasons to place children out of district at public expense — no district can serve all students equally well — but neither are there always clear and obvious distinctions to be made between who can be educated in a regular school, those who need alternative settings and those like Adrian who run afoul of the rules so frequently, or who are penalized so often and systematically, that they simply give up and leave.

Landry principal Dianne Powell is now running alternative programs for the St. Charles Parish Public Schools at the site of her old school.

A plan to transfer Head Start programs run by the Chicago public schools to community - based centers has put the popular preschool program for disadvantaged children at the center of an emotional dispute pitting agency against agency and parent against parent.

Public revenue for charter schools is typically 10 to 20 percent below per - pupil funding levels at neighboring district - run schools.

The city of Baltimore has agreed to continue its contract with Education Alternatives Inc. to run nine public schools there and help manage three others for at least one more year.

While student - achievement data run counter to rising public optimism, the change in public thinking corresponds with the new mood that emerged on Capitol Hill in 2015 when Congress passed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which stripped the federal government of much of its authority to direct school reforms at the local level.

Researchers at the Scott S. Cowen Institute for Public Education Initiatives at Tulane University also found that conditions at campuses in the state - run Recovery School District...

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.

About 70 percent of participants are traditional public schools, 25 percent are charters, and 5 percent are private schools, said Lizzie Choi, chief program officer at Summit, who runs the SLP.

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.

The day after Election Day, students at Capital City Public Charter School in Washington, D.C., ran «equity day,» based around themes ranging from identity to living with a single parent.

But for at least a subset of charter schools, researchers can come fairly close to running a clinical trial where some applicants are enrolled at charters and others are left in the public system purely by chance.

I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it, but at Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School in Washington D.C., chef Lisa Dobbs runs a food program that has young students relishing broccoli, tilapia encrusted with panko, boureks with beef or vegetables, and other foods not commonly embraced by kids.

Twenty - five years isn't a long time relative to the history of public and private schooling in the United States, but it is long enough to merit a close look at the charter - school movement today and how it compares to the one initially envisaged by many of its pioneers: an enterprise that aspired toward diversity in the populations of children served, the kinds of schools offered, the size and scale of those schools, and the background, culture, and race of the folks who ran them.

However, as private organizations have begun to manage some public schools, a number of questions have been raised: Are these organizations better at running schools?

There, high school students can take an algebra course online from Florida Virtual School (FLVS), a public state - run school, and their history course at a district - run public high sschool students can take an algebra course online from Florida Virtual School (FLVS), a public state - run school, and their history course at a district - run public high sSchool (FLVS), a public state - run school, and their history course at a district - run public high sschool, and their history course at a district - run public high schoolschool.

PAA opposes efforts to privatize public education through the expansion of charters, vouchers or other privately - run programs at the expense of regular public schools.

A while back I brought to your attention the great analysis of my current research heroes — those delightful debunkers at the the National Education Policy Center — of the Public Agenda report explaining to self - described «education reformers» how they can give us stupid, stupid parents the run - around on school turnarounds despite our natural opposition.

As it is, Quall said, the state's Running Start program, which allows high - school students to earn credit at community colleges, effectively transfers $ 20 million a year from public school districts to the colleges.

She previously managed data and analytics at San Jose Unified School District, ran service - learning programs at Chicago Public Schools, and launched a high school - university leadership program in GuatSchool District, ran service - learning programs at Chicago Public Schools, and launched a high school - university leadership program in Guatschool - university leadership program in Guatemala.

Grant Design Team members are all Oakland public school employees and include at least two full - time Oakland public school teachers (PreK - 12 in district - run or charter - run Oakland schools)

They brought with them pro-school choice literature that — while paid for by a little - known, at least in North Carolina, nonprofit called Public School Options — almost exclusively plugs the controversial N.C. Virtual Academy, an online school run by for - profit operator K12 Inc. that's been troubled by high dropout rates and flagging academic numbers in its first two years of operschool choice literature that — while paid for by a little - known, at least in North Carolina, nonprofit called Public School Options — almost exclusively plugs the controversial N.C. Virtual Academy, an online school run by for - profit operator K12 Inc. that's been troubled by high dropout rates and flagging academic numbers in its first two years of operSchool Options — almost exclusively plugs the controversial N.C. Virtual Academy, an online school run by for - profit operator K12 Inc. that's been troubled by high dropout rates and flagging academic numbers in its first two years of operschool run by for - profit operator K12 Inc. that's been troubled by high dropout rates and flagging academic numbers in its first two years of operation.

It isn't, at least, to anybody paying attention to the past decade of school «reform,» which has attempted to run America's public education system as a business.

Draw it back from oblivion for just so long as needed: When a privately run charter school adopts the exact same measures public schools wanted but you rejected, now call it «innovation» and throw money at the charter.

Charter schools are independently - run public schools that have served at - risk students in New York State since 1999.

Just 53 parents at Desert Trails, a school of about 600 kids, made the final call to turn the building — and the public funds to run it — over to a nonprofit group that runs a charter school in a nearby town.

Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino today announced that Partners HealthCare, and its founding hospitals Brigham and Women's and Massachusetts General Hospital, is committing $ 1 million to the Boston Public Health Commission for a collaborative effort among the two organizations and the Boston Public Schools to implement Open Circle, a social and emotional learning program developed and run out of the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College, for 7,000 students in 23 Boston public elementary and K - 8 scPublic Health Commission for a collaborative effort among the two organizations and the Boston Public Schools to implement Open Circle, a social and emotional learning program developed and run out of the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College, for 7,000 students in 23 Boston public elementary and K - 8 scPublic Schools to implement Open Circle, a social and emotional learning program developed and run out of the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College, for 7,000 students in 23 Boston public elementary and K - 8 sSchools to implement Open Circle, a social and emotional learning program developed and run out of the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College, for 7,000 students in 23 Boston public elementary and K - 8 scpublic elementary and K - 8 schoolsschools.