Sentences with phrase «students in our public»

The piece draws a comparison to Virginia's Fairfax County, which is similar in many ways to Westchester: They're both suburbs of big cities (New York and Washington, D.C.), they have similarly high home values, and they educate about the same number of students in public schools, which in both places have a good reputation.

«Despite the much higher costs of attendance, earnings effects are smaller in the for - profit sector relative to the effects for comparable students in public community colleges — a result that holds for all but one of the top 10 fields of study,» according to the study abstract.

Operating expenditures per student in public elementary and secondary schools, «Summary Elementary and Secondary School Indicators for Canada, the Provinces and Territories, 2006/2007 to 2010/2011,» Statistics Canada.

Thus, in recent years the Supreme Court has invalidated a Connecticut law (passed to replace the prior Sunday closing law) allowing workers to select their Sabbath day as their day off from work, struck down a Massachusetts statute allowing churches and schools to object to the issuance of liquor licenses in their near vicinity, and abolished an Alabama law allowing students in public schools a moment of silence.

And transgenderism, let alone questions of bathroom access for transgender students in public schools, was so far off the policy radar it was inconceivable that it would receive presidential attention.

Experiments involving the measurement of blood sugar levels of elementary students in a public school revealed that the levels were characteristically high or low in certain classrooms.

«Carrie Forrest is a graduate student in public health nutrition, author of the popular blog, Carrie on Vegan, and creator of the best - selling app for iPhones and iPads, Vegan Delish, featuring healthy recipes using whole food ingredients.

A Tribune investigation has found that nearly 32,000 Chicago students in public elementary schools - or roughly 1 in 8 - missed four weeks or more of class during the 2010 - 11 year, as the cash - strapped district does little to stem a devastating problem.

But we don't insist on it for students in public schools and especially students in low - income public schools.

«The goal now should be to extend those effective strategies to all students in our public schools.»

Public schools are prohibited from membership in any organization or entity which regulates or governs interscholastic extracurricular activities and discriminates against eligible students in public, private, or home education.

The meal programs, which feed about 32 million students in public and private schools, will have to reduce sodium, saturated fat and trans fats.

With the current ruling, students in public primary and secondary schools in Lagos State can now wear hijab to school without harassment unless the Supreme Court rules otherwise.

The Governor of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, on Monday disclosed that neither his Government nor himself has ever ordered the use of Hijab by female Muslim students in public schools in the state.

The NYC Department of Education is failing miserably at caring for homeless students in public schools, according to an audit released by Comptroller Scott Stringer's office.

So if the government is committed and the allowance restoration isn't about amassing political capital to maximise the electoral prospects of the ruling government then that commitment should be extended to cover all nursing students in public universities.

The scholarship will supplement government's newly launched Free Senior High School Education programme being enjoyed by the current first - year students in public second cycle institutions.

Since 2011, Keith has worked for City Council Speaker Peter Vallone, Sr. helping to advocate for after school funding, expanded Advanced Placement, prevent bullying of LGBT students in public schools, secure funding for employment and workforce programs, create new affordable housing, and preserve the quality of life on the Upper East Side, In 2006, Keith was the tenant organizer for the «Preserve Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village» campaign during the sale of the neighborhood to Tishman Speyer.

The final budget will change some elements of Common Core, but will keep intact, for now, teacher evaluations tied partly to standardized test results of students in public schools.

The city Department of Education is failing miserably at caring for homeless students in public schools, according to an audit released on Thursday.

The free SHS policy implies the absorption of all approved fees currently charged to students in public SHS and TVET Institutions.

An Osun State High Court on Friday ruled that Muslim female students in public primary and secondary schools in the state are now free to wear...

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia told a conference of private - school leaders this month that her agency is clarifying guidance that says children in these schools must receive a «substantially equivalent» education to students in public schools.

The court had held that the Muslim female students in public primary and secondary schools in the state are free to wear hijab in their schools.

Trump will issue «further guidance» on an Obama administrative policy aimed at protecting transgender students in public schools, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said.

And because I was in public school and I was one of the first legally blind students in public school, the message I got was, «Don't say anything and you won't get into trouble.»

Most of the students in the public schools are black or Latino.

Students in public Secondary Schools in Rivers State have staged a protest to register their grievances over the unavailability of teachers in their Schools.

This year we built upon those numbers by investing a record $ 1.2 billion, a $ 700 million increase, in Foundation Aid which is critical to our students in public schools.

School nurse positions funded through the city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene will be downsized, affecting some 33,000 students in public, private and parochial schools.

A new mandate from the city requires students in public middle and high schools to take sex education classes.

«Some 96 percent of students in public education attend traditional public schools,» Magee said.

Just 10 % of seats at those schools were offered to black and Hispanic kids, who make up nearly 70 % of students in the public schools.

Should we keep increasing total spending on education as we face a steep decline in the number of students in our public education system?

The government's free secondary education policy should have been targeted at deprived families and areas instead of the blanket coverage of all students in public schools, the Vice President of the National Association of Graduate Teachers, Angel Carbonu, has said.

Not only did they find that students in public pre-K were significantly more likely to take the gifted and talented test, regardless of demographic background, but they also found that attending public pre-K may play an important role in helping to reduce test - taking disparities among different groups of children.

The researchers tracked down pairs of students in public spaces — the student union or the cafeteria — and asked them to fill out a questionnaire designed to measure a wide swath of social attitudes, behaviors and values that might matter in a friendship.

Racial and ethnic minority students make up the majority of students in public schools, especially in urban areas.

An increase in slave concentration is related to greater underrepresentation of white students in public schools.

Gladstone scientists collaborate with teachers to facilitate career discussions and lab lessons for students in public high schools in San Francisco.

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She suggests schools take advantage of the expertise available from adult literacy and military educators who have developed programs for older, at - risk students in public schools who reach the secondary level without basic skills.

We also find that the students applying to charter schools in New York City are more likely to be black and eligible for a free or reduced - price lunch program than students in the public schools in the district.

Education and Child Development Minister Susan Close said the targeted funding — for students in public primary schools — is designed to lift achievement and modernise the state's public education system.

Florida and Milwaukee compared private choice participants with similar students in public schools, but the possibility remains that unmeasured differences could affect results.

Blake Heller is a doctoral student in Public Policy at Harvard University.

Another literature review, conducted by economists Jeffrey Grogger and Derek Neal, found few clear - cut gains for white students, while «urban minorities in Catholic schools fare much better than similar students in public schools.»

(A few years later, using survey data from the second round of «High School and Beyond,» the team showed that students in private schools had greater learning gains between their sophomore and senior years than did students in public schools.

Students in public charter schools receive $ 5,721 or 29 % less in average per - pupil revenue than students in traditional public schools (TPS) in 14 major metropolitan areas across the U. S in Fiscal Year 2014.

This would guarantee that private placement costs the public no more than serving the student in the public school.