Sentences with phrase «schools over public schools»

When students choose charter schools over public schools, their per pupil funding doesn't go with them.

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Some see in her an opportunity for innovation under the U.S. Department of Education while others worry she will favor private schools over public schools.

Hawkins had harsh criticisms for Cuomo's education agenda for shortchanging funding for public education, pushing high - stakes testing linked to the Common Core Standards to evaluate schools and teachers, undermining teachers» professional autonomy, and favoring private charter schools over public schools.

Find out if you should choose a private school over a public school, despite the added tuition fees.

Parents choosing a private school over a public school should examine whether the school offers a substantially different program than the public schools to meet the special needs of their gifted child.

Not exact matches

He touted the company's volunteerist culture and $ 25 million in funding for Boston public schools over five years announced earlier in the day.

Three consortia have been shortlisted to come up with detailed proposals for Western Australia's first public private partnership for schools, with the winner to design, build, finance and maintain eight new public schools over 25 years.

The University of Calgary's School of Public Policy recently pointed out that Canadian corporations actually do more taking over than getting swallowed.

«It used to be that Silicon Valley had the attitude that Washington was inconvenient,» Vivek Wadhwa, an entrepreneur and researcher of public policy at Stanford Law School, says, but over the last few years Silicon Valley has reached a turning point, and that perspective has changed drastically.

Today, the 150 - person New Jersey - based company collects trash in 24 countries and two thirds of public schools in America, and recycles over one million pounds of garbage per week that would otherwise be in a landfill.»

Her reputation as a conciliator was part of her appeal during the 2013 leadership contest, a skill she's used to make peace with public school teachers angry over wage - freeze legislation and appointing herself agriculture minister to mend fences with communities upset over decisions to cancel the slots - at - racetracks program and the installation of industrial wind turbines.

BOSTON, March 28 - A member of a Harvard University oversight board made a rare public call for the school to divest itself from fossil fuel stocks, a move that shows continuing divisions on the issue as a new president takes over at the institution and its leading $ 37.1 billion endowment.

Tuition and fees at for - profit colleges averaged over $ 15,000 for the 2013 - 2014 school year versus about $ 8,900 for in - state tuition at a four - year public college, according to the College Board.

While he doesn't believe MEC has any control over that debate, the organization can help advance the public conversation around the Feb. 14 shooting that resulted in 17 deaths at a high school in Parkland, Fla., he said.

For a recent study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health analyzed the eating habits of more than 200,000 health care workers over the course of more than 20 years.

Paul Boothe, a former senior public servant who now is a professor at the University of Western Ontario's Ivey Business School, chastised «amateur» deputy ministers for making a fuss over a contingency that amounts to a sliver of the total budget.

She was a substitute teacher for over 20 years, she volunteered at the local library, she helped raise grants for the public school system, and was a key contributor to Keep Dickinson Beautiful.

His words have made me a more thoughtful person — always trying to pay for the bill, cleaning up after others long after a high school tennis match is over at a public park, and giving consulting clients more time without charging more.

Moderator: William V. Harris, William R. Shepherd Professor of History and Director, Center for the Ancient Mediterranean, Columbia University Speaker 1: L. Randall Wray, Research Director of the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability and Professor of Economics, University of Missouri - Kansas City Speaker 2: Michael Hudson, President, Institute for the Study of Long - Term Economic Trends and Distinguished Research Professor, University of Missouri - Kansas City Tuesday, September 11, 2012 About the Seminar Series: Modern Money and Public Purpose is an eight - part, interdisciplinary seminar series held at Columbia Law School over the 2012 - 2013 academic...

Over the next several months, amid signs that his emotional state was deteriorating, Cruz bounced among several Broward County public schools, including one for students with disabilities, before ending up at an adult education center to get his GED.

Apple, as part of its response, on Tuesday announced improvements in its iWork suite at an event in Chicago, where school bells and announcements over a public address system directed press and more than 300 teachers into an auditorium at Lane Tech College Prep High Sschool bells and announcements over a public address system directed press and more than 300 teachers into an auditorium at Lane Tech College Prep High SchoolSchool.

Over the past decade, it has funded the right's assault on labor unions, climate scientists, public schools, economic regulations, and the very premise of activist government.

Flanked by his team of public defenders and over a half dozen Broward Sheriff's Office deputies, suspected Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz appeared in a Broward County courtroom Wednesday afternoon for a status hearing into whether he can afford to pay for his own defense.

The extraordinary public exchange with the president gave voice to an intensely emotional debate over how to respond to the latest gun massacre in an American school.

The 340 - student school took over $ 10 million in public funding since 2010.

The first budget of Premier Rachel Notley «s NDP government includes a 15 percent increase in capital spending over the next five years, with a goal to create jobs and tackle the province's aging and neglected hospitals, schools, roads and other public infrastructure.

Details of the Cyberattack On April 14th, suspected hackers took over the computer system of the Leominster Public Schools District in Massachusetts, shutting it down.

Officious social engineers of both the right and the left abuse the public schools to promote parochial agendas, whether by sanctioning the recitation of prayers over the school loudspeaker or by the distribution of contraceptives despite parental objections, thereby undermining parental authority and impairing the ability of parents to form their own family values.

Over half of black children in public primary and secondary schools are concentrated in the nation's twelve largest central city school districts, where the quality of education is poor, and where whites constitute only about a quarter of total enrollment.

Indeed, over the years, Georgetown has been perhaps the clearest example of what many such schools practice: the whipsaw of «Catholic tradition,» in which the strongest declarations of Catholic identity come from the fund - raisers, the alumni association, and the public - relations office ¯ all the people trying to sell the university in a tight economic situation that requires a good bit of niche marketing.

Fifty - five percent of public school students are in schools in which over 90 percent of all students are white or minority.

This study found that «the achievement advantage of white over minority students... increases in public schools during the last two years of schooling, whereas the minority gap actually decreases in Catholic schools.»

Seventy - two percent of all families with incomes over $ 50,000 have their children in private schools, public schools they specifically chose (e.g., magnet schools) or schools selected through a conscious choice about where to live.

And, historically, the evangelical community has taken several steps back from public schools over the last few decades — particularly since prayer was removed from schools.

Nova, a highly rated public charter school with a classical curriculum, had educated six of my seven children over the years.

In contrast, my own Chicago parish church and elementary school are located on two city blocks that together take up ten acres, but those blocks include — in addition to the church and school — over 100 dwelling units in a variety of buildings two - to - three stories tall, more than 15 businesses, and nearly 200 on - and off - street parking spaces for the public.

Writing for the court in Abington v. Schempp (1963), Justice Tom Clark held that public schools can not establish a «religion of secularism,» preferring «those who believe in no religion over those who do believe.»

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I went through 5 years of Catholic school before my parents moved me to public school (rather nasty disagreement over the Catholic school management and lay staff behavior).

I attended public school in New Jersey; over half my class were Jews.

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While it's probably acceptable that public schools should go out of their way to blacklist MAJOR religious holy days from exams or deadlines (some kind of authoritative national list would be required, but I'll bet even with community involvement it won't please everyone, sheesh) I don't buy having our public school system bend over backwards for religion.

There is a prohibition against promoting one religion over another in public schools.

Is there a solution to the perennial conflict over the values presented in public schools?

As indicated by the recent debates (in Kansas and elsewhere) over the public school teaching of evolution, they are persuading many conservatives to join them in their attack on evolution.

This line of separation has become less acute than it was fifty years ago when the famous Dayton trial over the right to teach evolution in the public schools took place, and in the same year of 1925 Harry Emerson Fosdick had to leave the pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church of New York City because of his theological views.

When a speaker failed to show up at a Sunday school convention, he undertook his first public exhortation — over 60 were converted.

Even people with less than a high school education today recognize the priority of the brain over the blood, so much so in fact, that in the movie, Hannibal (about a cannibalistic serial killer), the thought of slicing out tiny parts of a person's brain, cooking them in a pan, and serving the pieces to that person to eat has become in the public's mind a more disturbing image than, say, serving a person a glass of their own blood to drink, which appears relatively tame in comparison.

Yet, if the only alternative is to turn pre-schoolers over to the same people who run the public schools, we seem to be caught between a rock and a hard place.