Not exact matches
Didn't support the Burnaby
School Board's policy banning homophobia and transphobia: The premier didn't stand up for the board's progressive policy, missing a key opportunity to
take a strong
public stance
in favour of protecting LGBT
students.
The 340 -
student school took over $ 10 million
in public funding since 2010.
A family with a child who does not have an IEP but who might qualify for one should contact their local
public school system about setting the IEP process
in motion as soon as possible, since it
takes time for the
public school system to determine each
student's eligibility.
The dairy industry's desire to increase its flavored milk sales
in public schools is not a sufficient justification for
taking potential risks with
students» long term health.
This action was
taken despite the fact that our state ranks fifth
in the nation for obesity among high
school students, and despite
public comments reportedly opposing the TDA's plan by an astounding margin of 105 to 8.
-LSB-...] have been
taking notice too;
in April this year,
students from Minneapolis
public schools wrote an Op - Ed about lunchtime, describing their -LSB-...]
(2014) Directs each local
school board to adopt a policy to set aside,
in each
school in the
school division, a non-restroom location that is shielded from the
public view to be designated as an area
in which any mother who is employed by the local
school board or enrolled as a
student may
take breaks of reasonable length during the
school day to express milk to feed her child until the child reaches the age of one.
As you'll recall, Cuomo said during his State of the State address that he would be the self - appointed «lobbyist» for
public school students this year,
taking on what he perceives to be the bloated bureaucracy
in the education system.
Nearly 80,000
public school students in 100 districts across Long Island refused yesterday to
take the state mathematics exam given
in grades three through eight,
in a fifth straight year of boycotts driven by opposition to the Common Core tests, according to a Newsday survey.
Zellnor then went to Cornell Law
School where he served as
student body president, an editor on the Cornell Journal of Law and
Public Policy, a constitutional law instructor
in prison, and as a Pro Bono Scholar — a position that allowed him to
take the New York Bar early and spend his last semester working full - time at Justice 360, a criminal justice reform organization.
«I applaud those
students for speaking up, I applaud the
students for
taking action and I think the calls of the
students and parents have captured the attention of the administration of the Buffalo
Public Schools and the teacher's union and I'm hoping that those two entities can come together
in the best interest of the education of the children at City Honors,» he said.
Students enrolled
in public pre-kindergarten programs
in New York City are more likely to
take the city's exam for entry into gifted and talented programs, according to a new study by researchers at NYU's Steinhardt
School of Culture, Education and Human Development.
More than half of Long Island
students eligible to
take the state Common Core test
in English Language Arts refused to
take the exam this week, according to a Newsday survey of
public school districts ending Thursday, the third and final day of the assessment.
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.
In the wake of last week's shooting in Parkland, Florida, where 17 people were killed, the students planned to take public transportation to the U.S. Capitol to hold a rally demanding legislation to curb gun violence in school
In the wake of last week's shooting
in Parkland, Florida, where 17 people were killed, the students planned to take public transportation to the U.S. Capitol to hold a rally demanding legislation to curb gun violence in school
in Parkland, Florida, where 17 people were killed, the
students planned to
take public transportation to the U.S. Capitol to hold a rally demanding legislation to curb gun violence
in school
in schools.
U.S. Education Secretary John B. King Jr., a former New York education commissioner, is pushing new regulations that would designate
public schools in which large numbers of
students refuse to
take Common Core tests as
in need of improvement.
A dozen
public schools across the state, including two on Long Island, risk losing their chance to win coveted national «Blue Ribbon» awards for academic excellence because of the drop
in the number of
students who
took standardized Common Core tests this spring.
Albany, N.Y. (WBEN / AP)- New York
public school students will spend less time
taking the unpopular Common Core assessments that have been boycotted by large numbers of parents
in recent years.
Mayor Bill de Blasio
took heat over his tough stance on charter
schools during an appearance on MSNBC's «Morning Joe» on Monday, and countered that he's acting
in defense of the many more
students who go to traditional
public schools.
A new mandate from the city requires
students in public middle and high
schools to
take sex education classes.
The changes, which Education Commissioner John King said are already under way, include increasing
public understanding of the standards, training more teachers and principals, ensuring adequate funding, reducing testing time and providing high
school students the option to
take some traditional Regents exams while Common Core - aligned tests are phased
in.
WHEREAS Victory Inc.
takes in management fees exorbitant amounts of the
public money provided to these
schools for the education of their
students; and
The tensions between parental expectations and
students» goals and between teaching test -
taking and fostering learning provide focal points of an embedded journalist's chronicle of a year
in an academically rigorous
public high
school.
Attending
public preschool is linked to an increase
in students taking the admissions test for gifted and talented programs, reducing the disparity
in test
taking between disadvantaged
students and their peers, finds a study of New York City
students by NYU's Steinhardt
School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.
In recent years we've seen states cut funding for public universities at the same time those schools are taking on additional students, which has furthered the need for federal financial assistance to offset this shift in cost
In recent years we've seen states cut funding for
public universities at the same time those
schools are
taking on additional
students, which has furthered the need for federal financial assistance to offset this shift
in cost
in costs.
In 2016, only 4 in 10 eight grade public school students were proficient in science and 97.9 % of middle school students who took the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) test, where Puerto Rico ranked 64 out of 70, exhibited low abilities interpreting scientific information and working on complex problem
In 2016, only 4
in 10 eight grade public school students were proficient in science and 97.9 % of middle school students who took the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) test, where Puerto Rico ranked 64 out of 70, exhibited low abilities interpreting scientific information and working on complex problem
in 10 eight grade
public school students were proficient
in science and 97.9 % of middle school students who took the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) test, where Puerto Rico ranked 64 out of 70, exhibited low abilities interpreting scientific information and working on complex problem
in science and 97.9 % of middle
school students who
took the Program for International
Student Assessment (PISA) test, where Puerto Rico ranked 64 out of 70, exhibited low abilities interpreting scientific information and working on complex problems.
Many
students try to compensate for other bad habits (like binge drinking) by
taking these drugs, says Amelia Arria, PhD, director of the Center on Young Adult Health and Development at the University of Maryland
School of
Public Health,
in College Park.
Chapters
take on a variety of work, including: Regularly scheduled events for the
public to discuss
public education,
school board candidate forums, monitoring
school board meetings, translating proposed
school board policies into other languages for various language groups, providing tours of
schools for prospective
students and families, working for adequate funding for
public schools, engaging with bond elections, helping parents navigate enrollment policies, and
in general, being involved
in the issues of
public schools in their communities.
The first to examine the effects of financial incentives among urban
public school students, it found that rewards can produce excellent results
in closing the achievement gap — if they are tied to specific steps the
students take rather than to grades or test results.
The Seminole County, Fla.,
school district is
taking steps to reassure the
public that its
schools are safe after a
student was fatally wounded
in a standoff with police at a middle
school.
First, they compare the 10th - grade test scores of
students with similar 8th - grade test scores and demographics, some of whom
took the algebra and English courses online with FLVS and others who
took the same courses
in person at their local
public school.
Such
students receive an annual allocation of $ 2,600 that can be
taken to any
public school in the district.
In particular, we take advantage of the lottery - based admissions process for charter schools to compare the academic performance of two groups of students: those who wanted to attend a charter school and were randomly admitted and those who wanted to attend but were not admitted and remained in traditional public school
In particular, we
take advantage of the lottery - based admissions process for charter
schools to compare the academic performance of two groups of
students: those who wanted to attend a charter
school and were randomly admitted and those who wanted to attend but were not admitted and remained
in traditional public school
in traditional
public schools.
It will
take a lot to make
public schools more effective for all
students: greater academic rigor, higher standards of conduct, more parental involvement, meaningful professional development for teachers, stronger incentives for the
students themselves, and, of course, more access to health and social services for the many
students who are
in need of such.
The MTC's work is not entirely original, though, and
takes its lead from a number of
public schools — most notably
in New England — that have been rethinking traditional methods of assessing
students for more than a decade.
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.
Any
school in the UK can
take part
in the challenge, which tasks
students with designing one building to live
in; and designing a
public building for one of a range of purposes, including social, sport, education or health.
In a study of 90 English language learners in a Southern California public school system, Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Nonie Lesaux, along with then - doctoral students Michael Kieffer and Amy Crosson, took a closer look at why these children fall behind, and how new instructional strategies might redress the balanc
In a study of 90 English language learners
in a Southern California public school system, Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Nonie Lesaux, along with then - doctoral students Michael Kieffer and Amy Crosson, took a closer look at why these children fall behind, and how new instructional strategies might redress the balanc
in a Southern California
public school system, Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Nonie Lesaux, along with then - doctoral students Michael Kieffer and Amy Crosson, took a closer look at why these children fall behind, and how new instructional strategies might redress the ba
school system, Harvard Graduate
School of Education Professor Nonie Lesaux, along with then - doctoral students Michael Kieffer and Amy Crosson, took a closer look at why these children fall behind, and how new instructional strategies might redress the ba
School of Education Professor Nonie Lesaux, along with then - doctoral
students Michael Kieffer and Amy Crosson,
took a closer look at why these children fall behind, and how new instructional strategies might redress the balance.
Forty - six percent of the
public and private
school students who
took all four tests got a merit award
in 2000.
In a new report, Smith explores policy initiatives that some states and cities have taken to make taxpayer - funded facilities available to serve all public school students, whether they are enrolled in traditional or charter public school
In a new report, Smith explores policy initiatives that some states and cities have
taken to make taxpayer - funded facilities available to serve all
public school students, whether they are enrolled
in traditional or charter public school
in traditional or charter
public schools.
Michael Petrilli called the Department's recent warning that it would
take a closer look at these within - district allocations «meddling,» but it's shameful that our
public policies disproportionately place
students of color
in schools with poor lighting, unsafe or temporary structures, and unequal access to technology and curriculum.
Our
school is unique
in Philadelphia
in that it's one of the few
public schools with a 1:1 program that allows
students to
take devices home.
Mathematica, the firm that did the study, chose to study only those
students who entered a charter middle
school after having first
taken a standardized test
in a
public school.
Arkansas is the first state
in the country to require yearly body - mass index, or BMI, screening for all of its 450,000
public school students, and this was the first year those measurements were
taken by
school nurses across the state and analyzed.
The New
Public is a documentary that
takes a personal look into the lives of teachers, parents, and
students who are part of a new high
school community
in Bedford - Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
This year the list is topped by four major research pieces: an analysis of how U.S.
students from highly educated families perform compare with similarly advantaged
students from other countries; a study investigating what
students gain when they are
taken on field trips to see high - quality theater performances; a study of teacher evaluation systems
in four urban
school districts that identifies strengths and weaknesses of different evaluation systems; and the results of Education Next's annual survey of
public opinion on education.
Also, instructional per - pupil spending has increased
in all affected
public school districts, contradicting the belief that
school choice programs
take money away from
public school students, the report says.
Officials for the West Haven (Conn.)
Public Schools are considering plans to extend the
school day for high -
school students who want to
take courses
in addition to those now being offered.
Granted, the fabulous standardized test scores of those high - performing charter networks who
take on this special ed challenge may not be as uniformly high — at least
in the short term, but when one
in every twenty
public school students now attends a charter, the movement is mature and entrenched enough to move to the next stage of reform for both moral and political reasons.
Mr. Kerr, 47, the new communications director for city
Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein, has
taken on one of the highest - profile
school public relations jobs
in the country, just as the 1.1 million -
student system is working through a number of...