Sentences with phrase «there about public schools»

There are many misconceptions out there about public schools, too.

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With these for - profit universities pulling out all stops to get students to enroll in their programs, there isn't much room left for nonprofit schools like Georgetown and Stanford to educate the public about their offerings.

«Jim's been very public about not necessarily wanting to have a family transition, so I'm not sure the expectation is there,» says Daniel Muzyka, dean of the University of British Columbia's Sauder School of Business.

I once spoke with a young woman who was raised in a very liberal mainline tradition who told me she left the church because, «I wasn't learning anything there about tolerance, love, and good stewardship of the planet that I wasn't learning at my public high school, so what was the point?»

Can we reconceive theological education in such a way that (1) it clearly pertains to the totality of human life, in the public sphere as well as the private, because it bears on all of our powers; (2) it is adequate to genuine pluralism, both of the «Christian thing» and of the worlds in which the «Christian thing» is lived, by avoiding naiveté about historical and cultural conditioning without lapsing into relativism; (3) it can be the unifying overarching goal of theological education without requiring the tacit assumption that there is a universal structure or essence to education in general, or theological inquiry in particular, which inescapably denies genuine pluralism by claiming to be the universal common denominator to which everything may be reduced as variations on a theme; and (4) it can retrieve the strengths of both the «Athens» and the «Berlin» types of excellent schooling, without unintentionally subordinating one to the other?

There are about 12 % Muslim kids in NewYork's public schools.

There can be neutral teaching about religion, which is proper in American public schools, although it approaches a spectator sport.

Although there has been some push back on the new sex ed curriculum for public schools, which would see teaching about family diversity that includes LBGT families, anti-homophobia instruction including that being gay is normal, and — at long last!

They are not only getting a * far * better academic education, they are also getting a far better moral education than can be had in a public school, where morality may not even be mentioned and there is little or no talk about ethics, either.

The school was famous in 1995 when a movie called «Dangerous Minds» featuring actress Michelle Pfeiffer was based on a true story about Carlmont HS during a time when East Palo Alto was the murder capital city in the nation and there were 4 regions that segregated each students to attend (4) public high schools in the Sequoia District: Menlo - Atherton, Woodside, Sequoia and Carlmont.

But truthfully, there are people out there who are very under - educated about food and can benefit from laws that stop tobacco being sold to minors and keep junk out of tax - funded public school lunches.

Is there anything else you want people to know about Cincinnati Public Schools» school breakfast programs?

Whether you're thinking about enrolling your child in a traditional public or private school, a DoDEA school or you're currently homeschooling your child (or considering the possibility), there are many resources available to help you make informed decisions about your child's education.

There is always an anxiety when people talk about character education in the public school context.

I will also add that we spent two years in South Arlington, VA just outside of D.C. and people gave us all sorts of side - eye about sending our oldest to public school there... but hands down, one of the top school experiences we have ever had.

There was once an NPR segment a few years ago about the school lunch program at the Berkeley public schools that was great.

(d) in the above process booth capturing, fake voting, impersonification of votng can't take place.only genuine voters will cas votes.3 - to check the proliferation of BPL and other benefits / subsidies the account no, property deeds, vehicles and other valuables bought and sold by the head of the family and the dependants (unmarried) be united into single account.4 - Private engineering college, medical college, international schools, public schools should be marginalised, they should be there but to be strictly controlled about capitation fee and in matter of salary to employees.5 - Every corruption starts in village on CONSTRUCTION WORK (drain, approach road, swearege, deepening of ponds and wells, indira awas, boundaries and rooms of club, schools, community hall, drinking water pipeline drainage etc).

There have not been any angry public walkouts from the negotiating room to this point, but there have been the usual grumbling about the stickiest issues, which this week include talks on «Raise the Age,» workers compensation reform and support for charter schThere have not been any angry public walkouts from the negotiating room to this point, but there have been the usual grumbling about the stickiest issues, which this week include talks on «Raise the Age,» workers compensation reform and support for charter schthere have been the usual grumbling about the stickiest issues, which this week include talks on «Raise the Age,» workers compensation reform and support for charter schools.

There are about 4,500 school buildings in the 733 public school districts across the state.

Aside from funding, there's a lot of anticipation about what Cuomo will propose regarding charter schools, to which public education advocates say he is overly beholden due to the big money he has received from deep pocketed charter boosters.

Roughly 9,000 students, the vast majority of them black or Latino, attend public schools in the district, while about 24,000 students who live there attend yeshivas.

Charter schools, which receive public financing but are run by nonprofit groups, flourished under Mr. Bloomberg, and there are currently 183 in New York City, serving about 70,000 children, or 6 percent of students citywide.

The non-profit state Sheriffs» Association says there are about 4,750 public schools and nearly 2,000 private schools in New York educating students in grades K through 12.

«There has been widespread confusion in the biomedical community and the general public in the last couple of years about the health effects of specific types of fat in the diet,» said Dong Wang, a doctoral candidate, SD» 16, in the Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology at Harvard Chan School and lead author of the study.

«There had been little known at the population level about detailed aspects of women's sexual pleasure and orgasm,» said Debby Herbenick, lead author of the study and professor at the IU School of Public Health - Bloomington.

«While both bills are improvements — and people may argue about that — it doesn't create a system where we're going to be able to efficiently get the answers about risks of all the chemicals out there,» says David Konisky, an associate professor of public policy at Indiana University Bloomington's School of Public and Environmental Afpublic policy at Indiana University Bloomington's School of Public and Environmental AfPublic and Environmental Affairs.

While data from the Harvard School of Public Health indicates that olive oil is clearly a healthier choice for heart outcomes than butter and lard, there is concerning data about olive oil and arteries.

In fact, there are about 10,000 different proteins that help your body work the way it's supposed to, according to the Harvard School of Public Health.

In the United States, there are about 44 Waldorf - inspired public schools, most of them K - 8 charter schools located in the West.

There was public criticism about the project, and the school district refused to give the fledgling Anglers Club money for the planned restoration.

Learn about School 21 — a public, urban school in London, U.K. — and how educators there bring cross-curricular, arts - infused project - based learning into the clasSchool 21 — a public, urban school in London, U.K. — and how educators there bring cross-curricular, arts - infused project - based learning into the classchool in London, U.K. — and how educators there bring cross-curricular, arts - infused project - based learning into the classroom.

«And, while I think there is strong support in our communities for both folks» local schools and the concept of public education, I worry about it.»

There are about 350,000 students in the Chicago public schools, and each of their families had to scramble for seven days to adapt to the strike dislocations.

In the case of private school choice, you're right that there's a mixed track record, though I would say mostly positive if you look at the full body of evidence about what happens when you allow a student to move from a public school to a private school using a voucher.

«There is nothing extra about the extracurriculum whether schools are rich or poor, public or private, large or small,» the authors write.

The slim man in the gray suit is there, at a meeting of the New York chapter of the Young Presidents» Organization, to talk about something that many of these financiers and business people don't often talk about because they can afford not to: fixing public schools.

«There has never been more powerful evidence about the need for private school choice than the data that are coming out about public school choice,» says Clint Bolick, vice president of the Institute for Justice, a conservative legal group.

The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools estimates there are 6,002 charter schools in the U.S., about 6 percent of all sSchools estimates there are 6,002 charter schools in the U.S., about 6 percent of all sschools in the U.S., about 6 percent of all schoolsschools.

About one - third of public schools reported that there were too few computers with alternative input / output devices for students with disabilities, and insufficient evaluation and support services to meet the special technology needs of students with disabilities.

If there was any doubt that Tisch and Steiner weren't serious about bringing change to New York's hidebound public school system, that ended when they tapped John King to be NYSED's number two.

In Ohio alone, some 250,000 current pupils — about 15 percent of all children in public education there — have been identified by their school districts as «gifted» (using the several metrics that the Buckeye State employs for this purpose, including superior «visual or performing arts ability»).

I'm not just talking about the unions, but there is a tremendous and deep resistance — here we are in the center of capitalism, right — there is a very deep resistance to the private sector that's embedded in the culture of public schools.»

An additional finding described in the book is that — though there are exceptions — the average cost of private schools in the United States is about half the cost of nearby public schools.

«There's a disparity in the number of schools that offer breakfast, and it's about 20,000 schools less,» says Jean Daniel, public affairs director for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service.

There are proposals for new approaches to public governance, research findings on the efficacy of decentralized systems, comparisons of cities that are expanding choice, ideas for accountability and school supply, and disagreements about who should have ultimate authority.

«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.

On average, U.S. teachers earn only about two - thirds of the salaries of other professions with comparable preparation, there is little room for advancement within the profession, and the working conditions in many public schools are challenging at best.

And there is some truth to that: as the school's chief public relations representatives, members of the office staff frequently know more about what's going on in the building than anyone else.

«When you think about leadership in public education, you soon realize that there are many practices used in business that could be brought to K — 12 schools,» said Grossman.

Surely there are risks associated with drawing private schools into public accountability systems, but empirical evidence shows that downsides can be mitigated if policymakers are smart about how they design results - based accountability in choice programs of this kind.