Sentences with phrase «students in public school today»

More broadly, as the Southern Education Foundation reported in January 2015, the majority of students in public schools today are eligible for free and reduced lunch.

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«We respectfully ask all parents to acknowledge that students need to be in class every day to benefit from the education they are guaranteed and to avoid falling behind in school and life,» Albuquerque Public Schools principals wrote in a letter to parents, USA Today reports.

Chicago Public Schools today launched its plan to extend students» time in the classroom by 90 minutes each and by two weeks each year and set up an advisory committee to figure out how it'll be done.

Today, thousands of Worcester Public School students visit Broad Meadow Brook annually, engaged in programs that complement STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) curriculum objectives:

WASHINGTON — Almost half (48 percent) of Ohio voters with children in K - 12 public schools think that students do not have enough time to eat lunch at school, according to a statewide survey released today by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts.

«Today in Ekiti State, public primary and secondary school students, including those in private schools are now paying taxes.

To ensure that every child can learn the skills required to work in New York City's fast - growing technology sector, Mayor Bill de Blasio will announce today that within 10 years all of the city's public schools will be required to offer computer science to all students.

«New York State United Teachers today issued early endorsements to three incumbent state senators who have reliably stood with parents and educators in fighting for fair and equitable funding while vigorously opposing the climate of over-testing that is harming students and public schools,» NYSUT said in a statement.

New York, NY — As final negotiations wrap up on the state budget, public school parent activists and students today rallied outside Tweed Courthouse to urge legislators to pass the meaningful education reforms outlined in Governor Cuomo's education Opportunity Agenda.

As public school students in New York state sit at their desks today taking the Common Core based English Language Arts tests, a nationally known opponent to the core is in Syracuse.

Modest improvements in the financial condition of some of New York's public schools are not keeping pace with growing needs among the students they serve, warns a new report released today by the New York State Council of School Superintendents.

If a grade has five or six classes today and one is eliminated, class sizes in that grade would spike by five or six students, said Queens Councilman Daniel Dromm, a former public school teacher.

Attendees at today's kickoff included: City of Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, Buffalo Public Schools Interim Superintendent Donald Ogilvie, SUNY Trustee Dr. Eunice Lewin, University at Buffalo President Dr. Satish K. Tripathi, SUNY Buffalo State President Dr. Katherine Conway - Turner, Erie Community College President Jack Quinn, Regional Economic Development Council Co-Chair, businessman and developer Howard Zemsky, Staff Scientist Mwita Phelps of Life Technologies / Thermo Fisher Scientific, Director of the Buffalo and Erie County Public Libraries Mary Jean Jakubowski, Dr. Norma J. Nowak, Director of Science and Technology, UB's NYS Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, as well as a number of invited guests, including elected leaders, teachers and students.

The United Federation of Teachers, in a proposed amendment to a City Council resolution, today called for charter schools seeking free space in New York City public school buildings to be required to make public financial data and political donations, along with student demographics, suspension rates, and teacher and student attrition.

Playworks began in two Berkeley, California, elementary schools and today serves more than 50,000 students in 131 low - income public schools.

It might be the most common mistake in education writing and policy analysis today: declaring that a majority of public school students in the U.S. hail from «low income» families — or, even worse, that half of public school kids are «poor.»

There are more than 4500 charter schools across the United States today, but in only a few cities do charter schools enroll a significant percentage of public school students.

The program's effect on today's participants may differ due to changes in which private schools participate in the program, which students participate, and the quality of the public schools that FTC students would otherwise attend.

It's not the fault of anyone in the system today, but patterned after the dominant factory model of the era in which public schooling scaled, our education system functions as though all students learn at the same pace and have the same learning needs, which we know is not true.

Today, HCZ works with all seven of the traditional public elementary schools in the Zone, serving more than 2,400 students.

Today, America's public education system gets a «gentleman's C.» Our public school students consistently rank average or below average in international comparisons of student achievement.

This is obviously a ripe area for further investigation and analysis, but today it's legitimate to observe, even on the basis of this limited research, that the burden is shifting to the schools and their supporters to measure and make public whatever academic benefit they do bestow on their students versus what similar young people learn in other settings.

A national study released today casts doubt on whether the academic performance of students in charter schools is any better than that of their peers in regular public schools.

It might be the most common mistake in education writing today: declaring that a majority of public school students hail from «low income» families.

Having learned these lessons firsthand as a business owner, I am determined as a governor to apply them to the single greatest challenge facing our public schools today — the challenge of providing the best possible teachers to students in our lowest - achieving schools.

Initiated in 1991 by a Minnesota law allowing private non-profit entities to receive public funding to operate schools if authorized by a state agency, the idea has spread to more than 40 states, and some 1.5 million students today attend charter schools.

Today, students from every definable race and ethnic category study and squirm shoulder to shoulder in the same public school classrooms, learning about something called segregation — as a vocabulary word on a pop quiz, a chapter in their history textbooks, or a topic for the debate team.

Today, more than 1 million students are enrolled in public charter schools in the 41 states (and the District of Columbia) that have charter laws, with almost 4,000 charter schools in all.

Initially they didn't have to serve many students, and certainly not the diverse pool that we have today, starting with the first public school, founded in Boston in 1635 to prepare a tiny group of the nation's elite sons to enter the ministry or, eventually, further study at Harvard.

The K — 12 school would be much different today but for Ohio's adoption of EdChoice vouchers — state money given to students, beginning in 2006, so they could escape failing public schools and instead attend private schools.

79, president of the foundation, «when we developed the conviction that dramatic structural change was going to be necessary in Boston and other urban public school systems in order to generate broad improvement in the academic achievement of the mostly low - income, minority students who populate these districts today.»

Today, convoluted Title I formulas coupled with policies in some states that assign students to public schools based on their parents» zip code, do not make Title I a vehicle conducive to achieving its primary purpose of «provid [ing] a good education for every boy and girl — no matter where he lives.»

Boston Public Schools wins Broad Prize for Urban Education Fifth time the charm for national recognition as most improved urban school district; $ 1 million in total scholarship money awarded to students Mayor Thomas M. Menino, School Committee Chair Elizabeth Reilinger and Interim Superintendent Michael Contompasis today accepted the Broad Prize for Urban Education from Eli Broad and the Broad Foundation as the most improved urban school district in the coschool district; $ 1 million in total scholarship money awarded to students Mayor Thomas M. Menino, School Committee Chair Elizabeth Reilinger and Interim Superintendent Michael Contompasis today accepted the Broad Prize for Urban Education from Eli Broad and the Broad Foundation as the most improved urban school district in the coSchool Committee Chair Elizabeth Reilinger and Interim Superintendent Michael Contompasis today accepted the Broad Prize for Urban Education from Eli Broad and the Broad Foundation as the most improved urban school district in the coschool district in the country.

As superintendent of the sixth largest school district in the nation and second largest in Florida, with nearly 270,000 students in 238 schools, centers, and technical colleges, and more than 30,000 employees — Broward County Public Schools Superintendent Robert W. Runcie is committed to educating today's students to succeed in tomorrow'sschools, centers, and technical colleges, and more than 30,000 employees — Broward County Public Schools Superintendent Robert W. Runcie is committed to educating today's students to succeed in tomorrow'sSchools Superintendent Robert W. Runcie is committed to educating today's students to succeed in tomorrow's world.

They started 20 years ago with a few dozen fifth - graders in Houston; today KIPP is a nationwide network of public schools with more than 58,000 students.

But I'm writing today about the other half of public schools in DC, the 120 public charter schools serving 43,340 students — nearly half (47.5 %) of DC's public school students.

Most public schools today continue to follow an organizational design better suited for 20th century mass production than educating students in the 21st century.

This report, co-authored by The Mind Trust and Public Impact, calls on all involved in charter schools to make the sector better, broader, and bigger in order to expand its reach and meet the students» needs — which will require innovation that breaks the mold of most schools today.

«We are here today because every public school student deserves to be treated fairly, but right now that's not happening, said La'Quita Boles, a mother of two students who attend public charter schools in Bridgeport.

Today, more than 2 million students are taking advantage of this robust public school choice option in over 5,600 charter schools across the country.

One of the biggest debates raging in education policy today is whether schools of choice are serving their fair share of the hardest - to - educate students or abandoning them to traditional public schools.

Consequently, it is hard to assess how today's public schools compare with their predecessors (with their stratified, segregated, often exclusionary educational structures), with contemporary Catholic schools (that sometimes abandon problem students), or with experiments in school choice and vouchers (all still relatively new and limited).

An oft - repeated statistic in recent weeks is that prior to Katrina, 64 percent of public school students were attending «failing» schools; today it's in the single - digits.

While a majority of kids in American public schools today are students of color, more than 80 percent of teachers are white.

Since 2007, the number of districts strongly committed to socioeconomic integration has more than doubled, from 40 to 100 nationwide.75 These districts tend to be large and urban, and today, roughly 4 million students reside in a school district or charter school that considers socioeconomic status in their student assignment system — representing about 8 percent of total public school enrollment.76

Maryland's Broadening Options and Opportunities for Students Today (BOOST) Program (NEW) Voucher 14 % of average per - pupil spending in Maryland public schools $ 1,943

* UPDATED A massive undertaking to increase access to high - quality education for tens of thousands of low - income students in Los Angeles was revealed today in a long - awaited plan by Great Public Schools Now, a well - funded nonprofit organization formed last year.

In advance of today's consideration of the Student Success Act (H.R. 5), NSBA sent a letter to the House expressing appreciation for members» commitment to strengthen local governance and promote the success of our nation's public school students.

The Northeast Charter Schools Network today congratulated the hard - working students and staff of New Haven's Amistad Academy on being named among the top public high schools in America, according to U.S. News & World Schools Network today congratulated the hard - working students and staff of New Haven's Amistad Academy on being named among the top public high schools in America, according to U.S. News & World schools in America, according to U.S. News & World Report.

With new state standards coming into effect, Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) is in the midst of revamping its entire social studies curriculum to better prepare today's students for the future.