Sentences with phrase «school than other public schools»

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«I took it very, very seriously and quickly realized that this was even tougher than any of the other challenges in the public domain because it was my hometown, and it was my school,» says Alexander.

That said, families with children seem more determined to return than others; while the post-wildfire population dropped about 17 per cent, public school enrolment fell only by about five per cent this year.

Three commissioners may grant some of the nation's largest refineries a tax refund of more than $ 135 million — money Texas» cash - strapped schools and other local governments have been counting on to help pay teachers and provide other public services.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

Nobody thought much of religions other than Christianity; as was obvious by our public school pledge — which admonished us all to be good Christian citizens... Sure, I had questions too, but our church was pretty low - key so I was safe from some of the more radically - minded (read: brainwashed) of my peers.

1) seperation of church and state; state funded public schools can't teach anything that is directly influenced by religion other than just touching on that kind of topic.

Teachers and other staff in public schools are often moved from school to school when allegations emerge, rather than the school attempting to remove the teacher from the district.»

Private school students, on average, score better than public school students in reading, math and a host of other subject areas, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

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).

This is consistent with the research on Catholic and other faith - based schools, suggesting that religious instruction provides a better standpoint for critical engagement with the dominating culture than does a public school immersed in that culture.

Access to public schools and to other institutions from which they had previously been largely excluded turns out to be less beneficial than they had expected.

Children in public schools are being used to achieve an agenda other than literacy.

The attitude of public and nonpublic school personnel to each other has become one of cooperation rather than hostility.

Through the years, zealous legislators have, among other things, forced Catholics to fund Protestant public schools, Jews to conform to sectarian Sunday laws, non-Christians to recognize the national holiday of Christmas, and Mormons and Indians to observe laws of the state rather than the requirements of their faith.

At the other end of FBS, 35 public schools spent less than $ 2 million each.

But for other secular homeschoolers, those who do not follow a particular philosophy — which may either mean that they fall into the group of homeschoolers known as eclectic or that they use many public school methods — they don't or don't seem themselves as having a single, shaping vision that guides all their choices other than providing their children with an excellent, safe education.

Acts, P.A. 87 requires public school boards to adopt a policy to require each school to provide an appropriate, private room, other than a restroom, that may be used by an employee to express breast milk.

Philip Blonde takes an almost Democratic Republican ideology towards public service reform in advocating using social entreprises to manage schools, hospitals, sure start centres etc, which would be democratically connected to all other schools etc through out the country and collectively elect the central management who allocate budget spending to each and every school etc. http://www.respublica.org.uk/publications/ownership-state It sounds more like a radical libertarian socialist solution to public services than a free market conservative solution to public services.

«More than 30 percent of potential voters this year were either not old enough to vote in 2008, or resided somewhere other than New Hampshire,» according to the University of New Hampshire's Carsey School of Public Policy.

However, he noted that there are public schools in some regions of the state that perform better than others.

Our one - of - a-kind energy is what has been attracting innovators, freedom riders, and immigrants from every other place on Earth, what has more than 2.6 million people waking up here every day, what has young scholars selecting our schools, and what has the public and private sectors investing billions of dollars here.

He is now testing that approach to the limit and his membership, which reads The Guardian more than any other newspaper, is getting to see him portrayed as Pinocchio, public school fag to the Bullingdon boss and Private Pike for his trouble.

«New York public schools now spend more per pupil than any other state and 87 percent above the national average.»

«And we're hearing that those proposals may end up containing significantly less than the $ 2.2 billion required to fully fund all of New York's public schools and provide our kids with the small class sizes, full curricula, and other resources they need to succeed.»

«There is no more important effort than the protection and expansion of the rights and liberties of the people,» said Richard Brodsky, a political scientist at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and a former assemblyman who is working with other groups supporting a convention.

Loeb's donations to Gov. Cuomo and other New York Democrats and Republicans have come under scrutiny since last week because of a since - deleted Facebook post accusing Stewart - Cousins, who is black, of having done «more damage to people of color than anyone who has ever donned a hood» by supporting public teacher unions over charter schools.

«The truth is that New York dedicates more money per pupil to education than any other state — including over $ 25.8 billion in this year's budget,» Rich Azzopardi, a spokesman for Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, said in a statement, «and we'll continue to work to strengthen our public schools and provide New York children with the education they deserve.»

However, the public are generally pessimistic about its ability to deliver in other areas — less than half have confidence in its ability to improve the NHS (32 %) and schools (32 %), cut crime (33 %) or immigration (39 %) and to protect the country against terrorism (42 %).

But though 80 percent of the charters in her home state perform worse than traditional public schools, DeVos — a billionaire whose family has also opposed workers» rights, gay marriage and has contributed heavily to a variety of other right - wing causes — has led the way in resisting any attempts to regulate or improve Michigan charter performance.

Pensions and health costs for teachers and other staff are substantially higher for the traditional, unionized public schools compared to charters, which offer their employees 401ks rather than more generous defined benefit plans.

Right now, 12,700 Bronx families are still on waiting lists for seats in public charter schools, and the Bronx has fewer gifted and talented programs than any of the other boroughs, with less than four seats for every 1,000 students.Two of our school districts — District 7 in the South Bronx and District 12 in the central Bronx — don't have a single gifted and talented program, and together they educate more than 45,000 students.

Education Week is reporting on an Empire Center's report that says over the past decade «public schools hired nearly 15,000 teachers and almost 9,000 administrators, guidance counselors and other support workers over the last 10 years as enrollment dropped by more than 121,000 students.

More than 800 UFT members boarded buses headed for Albany at dawn on March 27 to lobby state lawmakers for more public school funding, charter school accountability, an extended and enhanced millionaire's tax, support for Community Learning Schools and other important education initiatives.

«No fewer than 10,000 houses were destroyed, in addition to over 86 public buildings, comprising schools, and hospitals among others,» he said.

As the Oct. 7 deadline fast approached, educators at almost 350 public schools across New York City prepared themselves and their school communities for the crushing loss of more than 700 school support staff — including school aides, parent coordinators, lunchroom workers, crossing guards and others — who were set to be let go by the city in the largest layoff at a single city agency since Mayor Michael Bloomberg took office in 2002.

That's a huge jump from the 16,119 full - time seats currently available inside public schools, as well as the more than 3,000 full - time seats available in community - based organizations, according to the joint report prepared by the mayor's office, the Education Department and other agencies.

They were following up on the results of a long - term study from the Harvard School of Public Health that had suggested yogurt, more than any other food, helped to prevent age - related weight gain.

When the White House thought advanced technology meant little more than Stealth bombers and smart missiles, Al Gore was a senator from Tennessee seeking $ 500 million to study how the Internet could be extended for use by schools, hospitals and other public organisations.

«Metabolic syndrome in women may be more closely related to coronary artery disease than other cardiovascular outcomes,» noted Elizabeth Barrett - Connor, MD, corresponding author and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health at UC San Diego School of Medicine.

«School choice is enhanced when voucher schools or other alternatives supported on the public dime report more rather than less information,» said Cowen, associate professor of education policy and teacher education.

«We found that HbA1c was systematically lower in African - Americans with sickle cell trait than those without sickle cell trait despite similar blood sugar measurements using other tests,» says lead author Mary Lacy, a doctoral candidate at the Brown School of Public Health.

And according to Harvard Public School of Health, risk of dying of those diseases is higher with excess red meat than other lean protein such as poultry and fish.

This was particularly the case because many societies remain highly segregated: the average American public school student has less than one interracial friend, and around 90 % of people who attend religious services do so only with others of their own race.

Protestants, secularists, and public - school advocates proposed (and sometimes enacted) regulations that charged children with truancy if they attended Catholic schools; taxes on Catholic school property; bans on private schools that taught children in a language other than English; and constitutional amendments forbidding the use of public dollars to support even the secular instruction provided by a Catholic school.

He talked about Newark's universal enrollment system, which includes all of the city's public schools (both district and charter), noting that 75 % of families chose a school other than their neighborhood school and that 42 % of families listed their first choice as a «high - performing charter school.»

The Public Account Committee, highlighted where differences in school funding resulted in «some schools receive about # 3,000 a year more than others per disadvantaged pupil».

While the vast majority of the 965 candidates seeking certification through the so - called «alternative route» are nonteachers «looking for a career change,» an estimated 25 percent are people «currently teaching in a setting other than the public schools,» said Leo F. Klagholz, director of teacher preparation and certification for the state department of education.

Polling by Education Next and others continues to find that the public prefers universal programs to means - tested approaches — responding more positively, for instance, to the notion of vouchers for all than to vouchers for low - income families only (see «The 2015 EdNext Poll on School Reform,» features, Winter 2016).

Our analysis of these data reveals that teachers transfer from one school to another — or exit the Texas public school system altogether — more as a reaction to the characteristics of their students than in response to better salaries in other schools.

In the last decade, at least 15 state legislatures and boards of education have adopted policies incentivizing their public schools to prioritize measures other than grades when assessing students» skills and competencies.