Sentences with phrase «see more public schools»

If we don't continue to have real conversations about the state of education, we'll see more public schools closed and utilized for detention centers and jails.

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On the field trip we toured Portland Public School District's central offices and central kitchen, Portland State University's food services department, and OSHU's (Portland Hospital) food and nutrition services all to see how they are adapting their menus, staffing, purchasing and more to include sustainable foods into their offerings.

«We worked collaboratively for more than a year to do this and Chicago Public Schools and the Department of Public Health were the first school district and park district outside of California to see the power and potential of these guidelines,» he said.

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.

The bottom - line is: we want to see more of a focus on K - 12,» said StudentsFirstNY Senior Organizer and public school parent DeWayne Murreld.

In October, I met Wiley at her office at the New School to discuss what inspired her to get into public service in the first place, whether progress is actually possible in such a divisive time in history, and why it's so essential we see more women in office.

Everyone I know in my home borough is thrilled to see major revitalization efforts taking place, and everyone is eager to see this transformation include more great public school options.

«As a New York City public school teacher for 25 years, I've seen what our children need to succeed: smaller class sizes, more parental involvement, and balanced input in the education process from all members of the community,» Dromm said in a statement.

A collaborative effort between Western New York STEM Hub, AT&T and the Girl Scouts will allow more than 200 Buffalo Public School students, Girls Scouts and teachers to see the movie» Hidden Figures» Saturday.

Since the turmoil that saw public school advocates protest across the state — New York State United Teachers decried he tests as an «erosion of local control» — the state Department of Education has revised the controversial testing, reducing the number of questions on the exams, encouraging more teacher involvement in developing them, no longer timing the tests and reducing potential teacher penalties.

«The agreement worked out among the governor, Speaker Silver and Majority Leader Skelos — a stark contrast with the political deadlock in Washington — will bring more fairness to the state tax code and help ensure that children in our public schools will begin to see restorations from the devastating education cuts of recent years,» he said.

More than 8 million broadcast and cable TV viewers in the New York area are expected to see a new television ad sponsored by the UFT that highlights the dedication of New York City public school educators.

«It is always encouraging to see that more positive messages about health are being discussed and disseminated on Twitter,» Massey, an assistant professor in the School of Public Health at Philadelphia - based Drexel, said in a university news release.

Whether or not more brands will adopt Public School's thinking by showing off - season remains to be seen.

For more on the Fordham Institute report, please see ««Public» Schools in Name Only» by Michael Petrilli.

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).

Another 18 school districts enroll more than 20 percent of public school students in charter schools (see Figure 1).

The bottom line, as phrased by Education Next's Paul Peterson, Martin West, and Michael Henderson, is that «everyone wants more emphasis on just about everything in school, except athletics, though the general public is especially eager for more emphasis on reading and math, while teachers see greater needs in history and the arts.»

They saw that there were success stories but that further work would need to be done to ensure that more of the good charters flourished and fewer of the bad charters remained (just as the case with traditional public schools).

«People are hungry for this,» says producer Hillary Wells, noting that when they initially put out feelers last year to see if public schools in Eastern Massachusetts would be interested in such a competition, more than 70 signed on in just two days.

Strong unions are more successful than weaker ones in opposing liberal charter legislation, but once a charter law is adopted, it seems that parents see charters as an avenue for reform in districts where unions have a strong hold on traditional public schools.

And the later figure may be further inflated by the likelihood that the media were more apt to report school shootings after the topic vaulted to public attention (see Figure 1).

Because most public charters, like Aspire, have more freedom to innovate than large public school systems do, I see promise that in the right set of circumstances charter schools can achieve greatness for special ed students.

Among the study population of charter 8th graders, students who attended a charter high school in 9th grade are 8 to 10 percentage points more likely to attend college than similar students who attended a traditional public high school (see Figure 1).

Diane Ravitch's lament that public schools no longer teach a common culture (see «Ex Uno Plures,» Forum, Fall 2001) is even more relevant after the events of September 11.

With my own children in both public and religious schools, I have seen significantly more emphasis on understanding and being active in government in the religious schools, including yearlong studies in preparation for major trips to Washington, D.C., and the state capital.

Between 2005 and 2012, Detroit Public Schools (DPS) lost two - thirds of its enrollment or more than 84,000 students (see Figure 1).

Not only are people inclined to like their local schools more than schools across the nation, but we see a clear upward trend in the percentage of the public awarding their schools either an A or a B. Over the course of the decade, the shift upward has been from 43 % to 55 %.

Looking separately at the effect of attending a charter school for exiters reveals that the effect of attending a charter school is, in fact, considerably more negative than for students who were observed first in a traditional public school and remained in a charter school throughout the study period (see Figure 2).

Yes, black students who earn graduate degrees from public universities borrow less than their peers at for - profit schools, but the black students who earn graduate degrees from private nonprofit schools rack up even more debt than their for - profit - going peers, leaving with $ 55,414 on average (see Table 1).

On the flip side we're also seeing a rise in cyber attacks in the education and public sectors with the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on the NHS making national headlines last year and more recently hoax bomb phishing emails demanding money from schools.

Students placed in private schools are more likely to be autistic, have multiple disabilities, or suffer from emotional disturbances than those students who receive services in the public schools (see «Debunking a Special Education Myth,» check the facts).

Both the affluent and teachers pay more attention to public education and participate more actively in school politics than the general public, making their views worthy of close scrutiny (see sidebar).

For more on this topic, please see «The 2012 Republican Candidates So Far: What they've said and done on education in the past, and what they might do about our public schools if elected,» by Allison Sherry, which will appear in the Fall 2011 issue of Education Next and is now available online.

Clearly, school transparency is more popular with the public than with those who work inside the schools (see Figure 7).

Specifically, we look to see whether test scores showed greater improvement in the wake of the new policy for students attending public schools with more (or more varied) nearby private options that suddenly became more affordable for low - income students than did scores for students attending schools with fewer (or less varied) potential competitors.

But Moe is careful to note that a more «benign» interpretation exists: that inner - city whites who choose private schools simply don't value diversity as much as do whites who see diversity as a strong reason to stay in the public schools.

The result is that good business managers can get a lot more money doing the same job outside of the public school system (see Figure 4).

Smith, who has taught for more than a decade in both D.C.'s public charter and traditional district schools, immediately saw the benefit for students, but says she was most captivated by the opportunity to elevate teaching practice and the profession as a whole.

They will resist such moves because they see the purposes of public schools as more than efficiency and working to bolster a growing economy through supplying skilled graduates.

«Many people go there to see what they'd like in their own green schoolyard,» she says about this «Mercedes model,» but the Tule Elk outdoor redo cost a half - million dollars more than it did a decade ago, far beyond the means of most public schools today.

Indeed, current and former public school employees are 21 percentage points more likely to claim that they voted in their last school board election than is everyone else (see Figure 8).

Florida has the third - largest charter sector in the nation, with more than 650 schools serving almost 300,000 students — over 10 percent of the state's public - school population (see Figure 2).

As other surveys have shown, the public's evaluations become somewhat more favorable when the subject turns to the public schools in their own communities (see Figure 1).

(see Figure 3) And graduate students at for - profit colleges are vastly more likely to be studying exclusively online as opposed to their counterparts at public and nonprofit schools.

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There are public schools and charter schools serving some of the most disadvantaged students in the country, and yet they are recruiting great teachers, making the curriculum more rigorous, using data to see what works, and graduating students ready for college.

• None of us should think that most bureaucrats and school personnel in Illinois» public education industry want to see more good charters: Those schools, like many parochial and other privately run schools, are thriving proof that when schools have to excel to stay in business, many of them will... find ways to excel.

Unlike other industries that often offer higher pay to compensate for less desirable working conditions or to attract more desired applicants in high - need areas (like STEM fields), public school systems are generally limited by collective bargaining agreements or state law in their ability to offer differential compensation (see Goldhaber et al., 2015).

For years, conservatives properly accused traditional urban school systems of being stubbornly resistant to change, but recent years have seen far more innovation in urban public education than in urban Catholic education.