Sentences with phrase «schools in the hands of parents»

But «I don't spend a lot of time on vouchers or even tax credits because I think charters are a faster way to get great schools in the hands of parents.»

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When you see a bunch of frazzled parents wandering around the school supplies section of Wal Mart with long, printed lists in their hands, you know that summer is drawing to a close.

Before meeting Pauline, I had survived a life of considerable loss, first at the hands of parents who viciously abused all three of their children and then in a fight with cancer while in law school.

It may be that, given Milwaukee's present mix of private providers, the bulk of the aid to parents would have wound up in the hand of schools that promote religion; but this is not something in itself forbidden by federal law.

Dawn says, «We want to work with and support at grass roots the education of the next generations (and their parents and grandparents) about the importance of living sustainably and responsibly and Australian Organic Schools does this in an interactive, informative and hands - on way.»

It also sets off a bureaucratic chain of events which backs up the message that fathers can treat parenting as optional, as health visitors talk to mothers rather than fathers, children centres build their services around what they perceive to be mothers» (rather than families») needs, schools fail to record contact details of fathers and, when a young person ends up in court for misbehaviour, magistrates hand down parenting orders to mothers rather than fathers, even when the father is resident in the household and present in the courtroom.

I was lucky enough to get my hands on a manuscript of the book a few months ago and I can attest to the fact that it's bursting with information, stories, studies and more to guide parents in helping to improve their children's school food environment.

On the one hand, parents understand the unique bond that many twins have and are eager to avoid the trauma of separation, particularly in the early school years.

Many parents have referred to the time spent in our community as «two educations for the price of one,» meaning that a Waldorf school not only develops the heads, hearts, and hands of our children, but also those of our partners, families, and selves.

Many of us know first hand that school classrooms can be an unexpected source of sugar in our kids» daily lives, whether due to parents bringing in birthday cupcakes, junk - food - heavy classroom celebrations or teachers handing out candy rewards.

On the one hand, you have administrators and parents supporting the inclusion of milk in school cafeterias, «amid concerns that dairy consumption is waning among older children who have more beverage choices, from flavored water to energy drinks.

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The kids tell me the food sucks now lol but they do nt see the bigger picture either... while it was a different era for us when us parents were in school; the fundamental rights shouldve remained the same... which is give the kids their choices... the Federal Gov can INCLUDE nutritious items on the free lunch menus while including more choices for them instead of reducing them to avoid social stigmas within the student body of the schools... Kids can be so cruel... Ive lived that first hand... I'm wondering who to contact to protest these changes.

And yes, I get it that we don't let kids make decisions about the most important things in life; on the other hand, we didn't have a whole lot of support from school admins, or even from parents (who relied on the sale of soda and junk at school events to fund enrichment programs) at that time to eliminate junk from schools.

FoodCorps is best known for our deployment of 225 full - time AmeriCorps service members to 350 schools in 17 states and Washington, D.C. FoodCorps AmeriCorps service members deliver hands - on cooking and gardening lessons to students, steer students toward healthier options in the cafeteria, and bring teachers, parents, administrators and food service teams together to promote healthy food throughout schools (we call this a «schoolwide culture of health»).

Dozens of charter schools were closed for the morning; parents and children, the vast majority from Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy network, were handed matching oversize T - shirts, granola bars and water bottles, and encouraged to chant and dance for about two hours in a show of strength and enthusiasm.

The next week, UFT members at more than 500 schools came together with parents and other members of the school community to join hands in front of their schools to show their commitment to protecting schools against the governor's attacks.

So now, here we are, barely ten years into this huge reform, with our little platoon of teachers and administrators and parents fighting feverishly on the front, beginning to make some progress on test scores and feel some confidence about improving our kids» academic opportunities — and I look up from my trench and, instead of seeing the school house door thrown open with garlands of WELCOME signs, I see teachers back to cheering from the windows as the reform generals scurry away, white flags in hand.

And Tuesday's interminable «expose» of state - level tax - credit scholarship programs certainly deepens one's impression that the writer (and, presumably, her editors) is in love with anything that smacks of «public dollars» or «public schools» and at war with anything that might be seen as diverting even a penny from state coffers into the hands of parents to educate their kids at schools of their choice.

Thirty Chicago public schools agreed to hand out the parent report cards along with student grades last week, in an effort led by United Neighborhood Organizations of Chicago.

On the other hand, in higher - income schools these parents seem to respond to the relative abundance of academic resources by seeking out teachers who also increase student satisfaction.

If the skeptics are right, Wood writes, Common Core «will damage the quality of K — 12 education for many students; strip parents and local communities of meaningful influence over school curricula; centralize a great deal of power in the hands of federal bureaucrats and private interests; push for the aggregation and use of large amounts of personal data on students without the consent of parents; usher in an era of even more abundant and more intrusive standardized testing; and absorb enormous sums of public funding that could be spent to better effect on other aspects of education.»

Grateful parents swoon, while bright, cheerful students meet their academic manifest destinies as their awesome teachers reject the discredited orthodoxies of industrial - age schooling in favor of hands - on projects and authentic, real - world tasks.

For the physical activities that make up so much of the school year, parents must ensure they have the necessary products and treatments to hand in case their child catches a cold, grazes their knee or sees pre-existing conditions flair up.

Electronic payments solve the problem for both parents and the school of having to get a cash or cheque into school via the child, alleviating this hassle, or having to get parents to take time out to go into school, queue at reception, and hand in the money themselves.

This summer, Raise Your Hand Texas (RYHT)-- an education coalition composed of business and community leaders, parents, and tax payers dedicated to strengthening and improving Texas public schools — sent 125 educators from throughout the state to four leadership institutes at the Programs in Professional Education.

Once again, a controversial proposal to require Georgia's public school students to obtain a parent's permission before joining an extracurricular club is back in the hands of the state legislature.

On the one hand, schools need a high degree of autonomy in order to respond to the demands of parents — a prerequisite for competition.

Any effort to revolutionize American education by putting more power in the hands of parents should not overlook the country's rich resource of private schools.

As Susan Spicka, a Pennsylvania parent, wrote, «[H] igh stakes [tests] are being used as a tool by corporate school reform advocates to put public schools in the hands of private businesses, whose goal is to profitize our children, not to educate them.»

Project Reach Offers Outstretched Hand to Community When teachers at one Georgia elementary school recognized the need for more frequent and meaningful dialogue with the parents of their students, they decided to take the conversation directly to the parents in the form of «Project Reach.»

Administrators, child nutrition staff, and parents in participating schools, who experience the benefits of community eligibility first hand, have enthusiastically embraced the option.

Once upon a time, in the not too distant past, school officials and parents feared the worst if smartphones and digital tablets fell into the hands of children at school.

In response, Julie Woestehoff, PAA co-founder and executive director of Chicago's Parents United for Responsible Education, countered, «Mayor Emanuel and his hand - picked Board of Education have just closed or turned around 17 schools despite vehement protests of parents who were already deeply committed to their children's sParents United for Responsible Education, countered, «Mayor Emanuel and his hand - picked Board of Education have just closed or turned around 17 schools despite vehement protests of parents who were already deeply committed to their children's sparents who were already deeply committed to their children's schools.

Practices that didn't seem to affect student achievement, on the other hand, were class size, parent contracts, or the number of years schools were in operation, according to the report.

Parents will be offered advice on how to promote responsible internet - use at home, and will gain first - hand experience of the online safety lessons pupils receive in school.

«The budget places power in the hands of parents and families to choose schools that are best for their children,» Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said in a statement.

For the first time in history, parents who vote and love their children held the conversation about Florida Public Schools in the palm of their hands.

Parent Trigger or «Parent Empowerment,» depends on professional lobbyists and outside forces to persuade 51 % of the parents in a struggling school to «pull the trigger,» and transfer a valuable public asset from the jurisdiction of a duly elected school board into the hands of a proprietary corporation.

On the day of the vote, we saw first - hand the incredible power of collective advocacy as 1,500 charter school parents rallied in front of LAUSD with the board ultimately voting down this misguided resolution.

I agree that poorly prepared teachers is one cause of the high dropout rate, but as with most problems, many causes exist, including an anti-intellectual culture that values over-paid athletes and celebrities w / no obvious talent (e.g. Kim Kardashian); parents who think all their male children will grow up to be Yankees so never put books in the kids» hands; pseudo education reformers who sell a narrative that a first year teacher is no different from a veteran with a grad degree and thirty years teaching experience, administrators who hire based on coaching rather than teaching, school boards that cut library programs rather than sports, etc..

Acquire powerful, research - based teaching techniques to cultivate a classroom of willingness, wisdom, wonder, warmth, and worth so parents gain the confidence that their child is in caring, capable hands while at school.

In the course of working with thousands of children in the public schools, giving lectures, teaching at the university level, and consulting with parents, we have experienced first hand the importance of learning to reaIn the course of working with thousands of children in the public schools, giving lectures, teaching at the university level, and consulting with parents, we have experienced first hand the importance of learning to reain the public schools, giving lectures, teaching at the university level, and consulting with parents, we have experienced first hand the importance of learning to read.

The Alameda County district attorney, along with district staff and members of the Education Cabinet, hand - delivered «Every Day Counts» attendance toolkits — which contained letters to parents, awards certificates, and other materials — to school principals and encouraged them to make attendance a priority in their schools.

In Chicago, state law places significant authority in the hands of local school councils and defines their makeup: six parents, two community representatives, two teachers, and the principaIn Chicago, state law places significant authority in the hands of local school councils and defines their makeup: six parents, two community representatives, two teachers, and the principain the hands of local school councils and defines their makeup: six parents, two community representatives, two teachers, and the principal.

They are right in saying that all too often results from standardized tests do not get into the hands of schools (and parents) for too long a time.

At Weigand Avenue Elementary School in Watts, about 12 miles southeast of 24th Street Elementary, a large group of faculty members is already expressing concerns about another parent trigger petition handed over to the district last week.

In schools like McKinley Elementary in Compton — where an early attempt to invoke the law fizzled after a heated court battle between the district and parents — and Desert Trails Elementary in Adelanto — the first parent - trigger school handed to a charter operator — the trigger campaigns led to costly litigation and accusations of intimidation and harassment from both sideIn schools like McKinley Elementary in Compton — where an early attempt to invoke the law fizzled after a heated court battle between the district and parents — and Desert Trails Elementary in Adelanto — the first parent - trigger school handed to a charter operator — the trigger campaigns led to costly litigation and accusations of intimidation and harassment from both sidein Compton — where an early attempt to invoke the law fizzled after a heated court battle between the district and parents — and Desert Trails Elementary in Adelanto — the first parent - trigger school handed to a charter operator — the trigger campaigns led to costly litigation and accusations of intimidation and harassment from both sidein Adelanto — the first parent - trigger school handed to a charter operator — the trigger campaigns led to costly litigation and accusations of intimidation and harassment from both sides.

As seen in Adelanto, where the Desert Trails parents have eschewed handing over the school to a charter school operator, more parents are willing to do the hard work of running schools so they can help their kids achieve better lives.

Pennsylvania can easily start by embracing the approach taken by Louisiana and its so - far successful reform effort in New Orleans, handing over control of traditional schools to an array of Parent Power groups, community organizations, and charter school operators.