Sentences with phrase «serve only public schools»

Our mission is to serve only public schools and as a result, we share the priorities, values, character and sense of purpose of our school leaders.»

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PS1, in the borough's Sunset Park area, is one of only three public schools in New York that don't serve meat to pupils; the others are Peck Slip School in Manhattan and The Active Learning Elementary School in Queens.

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.

City public and charter schools would have to meet the federal «gold standard» for lunches, which requires that a different fruit and vegetable be served every day and that only low - fat or non-fat milk and whole grains be offered.

I received a media advisory yesterday from my friends at School Food FOCUS indicating that Chicago Public Schools and its food service provider Chartwells will announce today a first - of - its - kind initiative to serve only * chicken raised without antibiotics to the city's K - 12 students.

I only wish that more freshly made soups and stews were served in public schools, where the kids get a steady diet of processed convenience foods.

He noted that he would be the only mayor in recent history to serve with young children in public schools, and promised a more inclusive approach, where parents are treated as partners when it comes to their education.

While I recognize that it is not the Board's nor the district's role or responsibility to take such things into consideration, I do believe that we have an obligation to utilize community resources whenever possible as that only serves to strengthen the community in which the children served by the Buffalo Public Schools live.

There's only one Libertarian currently serving in public office in New York, a school board director in the Alfred - Almond Central School District in the Southern Tier, according to the national Libertarian Party's weschool board director in the Alfred - Almond Central School District in the Southern Tier, according to the national Libertarian Party's weSchool District in the Southern Tier, according to the national Libertarian Party's website.

During this same period, the number of public school teachers rose from 2.2 million to more than 3.1 million, several times the rate of increase of the students they serve, whose numbers edged up only slightly, from 44.8 million to 48.4 million.

Only in D.C. can one test whether the Hyde model can be applied to a public school rather than to a private residential one and to a school that serves disadvantaged kids rather than financially privileged ones.

State policymakers who wish to switch over to portability should think carefully not only about reporting requirements and accountability for private schools under portability, but also about the details of the fiscal transition, such as hold harmless rates, that could allow high poverty public schools now served with Title I time to adjust.

Key to this model is understanding the role that public schools play, not only in educating our youth, but also in serving as the mediating institution to successfully transition immigrant families into the American way of life, into making American values, culture, norms, and language their own.

Whereas a business can focus mainly on serving its customers, public schools serve a multiplicity of stakeholders, of which parents and students are only two.

They claim that alternatives serve only to steal time and attention away from solving the real issues that face public schools.

Likewise, in «Finishing Touches,» Robert Maranto states, «The animating theory of school choice has always been that it will not only serve as an escape hatch from dysfunctional public schools but also will spark public schools to improve.

A wide cultural and geographic chasm separates Mobile, Ala., a Gulf Coast city where 86 public schools serve some 65,000 students, and the Lower Kuskokwim River region of Alaska, an Ohio - size tract of wilderness where 22 of the 23 communities have only one small school apiece, with student populations ranging from 10 to 190.

It has gained attention because of 1989 and 1994 state laws that allowed creation of a special public school district serving only the small community's children with disabilities.

As noted above, in Ga and Hyderabad we were comparing public and private schools that were located in similar, low - income areas, while in Kibera, private schools served only slum children, and public schools served middle - class children as well as slum children.

For example, Montgomery County Public Schools is one of the largest school districts in the country with more than 100,000 students, but its alternative school programs serve only about 125 students at a time.

Only 67,729 were being served by private schools at parental initiative, a mere 1.1 percent of disabled students, and a trivial 0.14 percent of the 49.6 million students in public education.

For instance, Huntington Learning Centers, which have the distinct honor of having served the only Worcester student to obtain supplemental services from outside of the public school system, typically contract with families for 100 to 150 hours of individual tutoring.

AppleTree Early Learning Public Charter School, a pre-K — only charter school that serves more than 800 students on eight campuses, has used its flexibility — as well as a federal Investing in Innovation grant — to develop an integrated model that combines evidence - based curriculum, early childhood assessments, and aligned professional development to help teachers deliver effective instruction focused on improving children's language and social - emotional sSchool, a pre-K — only charter school that serves more than 800 students on eight campuses, has used its flexibility — as well as a federal Investing in Innovation grant — to develop an integrated model that combines evidence - based curriculum, early childhood assessments, and aligned professional development to help teachers deliver effective instruction focused on improving children's language and social - emotional sschool that serves more than 800 students on eight campuses, has used its flexibility — as well as a federal Investing in Innovation grant — to develop an integrated model that combines evidence - based curriculum, early childhood assessments, and aligned professional development to help teachers deliver effective instruction focused on improving children's language and social - emotional skills.

Much of the public still knows little about charter schools, which today serve only 2 percent of the population.

Hillary for America senior policy adviser Maya Harris said the «proposal could strip funding from up to 56,000 public schools serving more than 21 million children» and it «might only serve 1.4 million students, while stripping funding from the other 10.5 million low - income students in America.»

«The current system not only discriminates against low - income kids, but it also stops these great public schools from serving more students.»

Boston Arts Academy (BAA) is the city's only public high school for the visual and performing arts, serving more than 450 students who reflect the diversity of Boston's neighborhoods.

For instance despite the constant refrain from choice opponents that private schools would cream and that public schools take «everyone» (i.e. everyone who can afford to live in their attendance boundary) the McKay Scholarship program has been statewide in FL since 2001, was still the nation's largest voucher program last time I checked, and only served special needs children.

For the animating theory of school choice has always been that it will not only serve as an escape hatch from dysfunctional public schools but also will spark public schools to improve.

Unfortunately, it appears that this method is complicated, will surely be misrepresented in the press, and will only serve to further alienate the public from their public schools.

Kelly Edington, head of the Idaho Virtual Academy, released a statement sharing that virtual schools serve only about one percent of public school students in the state (1.7 or so), and pointed to the new federal guidelines requiring a four - year cohort graduation calculation as the reason for the overall drop in graduation rates from previous years.

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Denver Public Schools, the largest school district in Colorado, 90,000 plus students, has been expanding these programs but even their work internship program only served 212 internships last year.

Forget about the hundreds of hours that children have already spent prepping or the absurd Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Field Test and forget that instead of informing towns that only 10 % of their students need serve as rat labs for this test, Malloy and Pryor decided that ALL Connecticut public school students should be used a guinea pigs — test subjects for a testing that will run from March through June — all without the approval of their parents.

ISAAC, a public charter middle school serving grades 6 - 8, is one of more than 150 EL Education model schools nationwide, but one of only 18 chosen to be a part of the project.

At the same time, he has dramatically increased public funding for privately owned charter schools, which only serve 1 percent of Connecticut students, without imposing any accountability.

Clemons is not only a founding Board Member of the recently opened New Haven Montessori Charter School and served, up until last year, as a Board Member of one of the Achievement First, Inc. charter schools in New Haven, Clemons's company was given a no - bid contract that was approved and funded by the Connecticut Board of Education, a contract that has already netted Clemons» company more than $ 500,000 with a lot more public funds to come.

In the Clifton - Fine school district, only 25 % of the children are poor, but 100 % of their 4 year olds are served in the public schools.

KIPP LA Prep is an independent public charter middle school that serves a primarily Latino student body and was one of only two schools from LA Unified to receive the honor, along with Wonderland Elementary, a traditional district school.

Tennessee will include all public schools within this framework, excluding schools that only serve K — 2 students, or adult high schools, or schools that only serve students with special needs and / or disabilities, or alternative schools, or CTE schools.»

The gap between traditional K - 12 public school special education enrollment and charter special education enrollment in LEA and LEA - like charter schools is only 1.5 % (LEA charter schools enroll 8.7 % of students with disabilities compared to 10.3 % statewide; LEA - like charter schools serve 10.2 % compared to 11.7 % in Los Angeles Unified School Distschool special education enrollment and charter special education enrollment in LEA and LEA - like charter schools is only 1.5 % (LEA charter schools enroll 8.7 % of students with disabilities compared to 10.3 % statewide; LEA - like charter schools serve 10.2 % compared to 11.7 % in Los Angeles Unified School DistSchool District).

Most public schools served only the students unable to escape the system, which, in New Orleans, means poor black kids.

The «restorative justice» concept to avoid conducting responsible classrooms and schools only serves to continue the degradation of US public schools and communities that need it most.

The Milwaukee Public Schools is the only institution in the city with the capacity, commitment and legal obligation to serve all our students.

In Lee County Schools system in rural Alabama, for example, which had years earlier convinced a federal court that it had eliminated the effects of segregation, one of the four public high schools served more than 90 percent black students — even though the district student population was only 23 percentSchools system in rural Alabama, for example, which had years earlier convinced a federal court that it had eliminated the effects of segregation, one of the four public high schools served more than 90 percent black students — even though the district student population was only 23 percentschools served more than 90 percent black students — even though the district student population was only 23 percent black.

For all of the attention given to charter school reform by the media, philanthropists, politicians, researchers, and other interest groups, the schools serve only 6 percent of public school students nationwide.

Four years ago, Brian joined Larchmont Schools, the only public charter network in L.A. whose mission is to serve a racially, ethnically, and socio - economically diverse student population.

Pedro Noguera, a New York University education professor, cautioned the new mayor not to devote too much time to making decisions about charter schools, which serve only about 6 percent of the city's public school students.

That only makes conditions worse in the public schools and the surrounding community, as they typically lose more resources while having to serve more high - need students, and eventually quality educators get driven away.

By 2007, Green Dot had built 10 public charter schools in the Los Angeles area, but we were only serving 3,000 students in a district that was responsible for 700,000.