Sentences with phrase «thing about public schools»

The good thing about the public schools is the variety of students and the openness of it all.

That's the other thing about public schools — not any teacher can decide to use this punishment, or implement it.

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I have to say, though, that things have improved considerably since the days when our public school music teacher felt the need to teach her largely Jewish students about the divinity of Jesus.

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?

Tried to talk with them about it, but they're too busy asking me for things, and they never get around to listening... wouldn't like what I'd say if they did shut up for moment... think I'll send a mass email... (no, did that the other day to another group of my followers, the ones who continue to blame Satan and the Atheists for getting prayer and «God» out of the public schools... they just deleted the email as SPAM: 0 -LRB-...

One of the most impressive things about Prince George's Public Schools» breakfast - in - the - classroom program is that it's managed to survive not one, not two, but three administrative changes in less than ten years, as well as quite a bit of principal turnover.

I was team mom for little league, cheer mom, pta mom, chaperoned school field trips, volunteered as a classroom helper and parent at their schools (when in public school) attended toddler tumbling and mom classes, was a homeschooling parent for one of my kids with leaning disabilities, I didn't have to scramble to figure out what to do about work or where to take my kids for child care if they were sick, I led and was involved with the church groups with my kids, I spent summers with them doing all kinds of things like traveling, visiting grandparents out of town, amusement park trips, swimming, picnics, and hiking, instead of them being stuck with a sitter every summer.

The best thing about Lansing «is the harmony and the quality of education in the private and public schools, «says Paul Burris, president of the Lan - Oak Park District.

«Independent - minded people — bringing them together in such a way that we're talking about relevant things, and I believe that should be good union jobs and public schools and health care and [the] prescription crisis,» Vaid said.

«I'm pleased that we finally have the opportunity to sit down and talk about these things before a fair and neutral arbitrator,» said Nate Kuzma, Buffalo Public School District legal counsel.

Is that really such a bad thing to be though — some Labour MPs may retain a visceral hatred of the 11 - plus, but what do the public think about academic selection in schools?

«What we are saying is that, all the things that you have put to me are things that I am very concerned about — extending the school feeding programme, establishing a nurses training college — but a lot of them depend on the state of our public finances.

We homeschool our kids, but I attended public and private schools at different times when I was growing up and remember one thing very clearly about school lunches (besides how bad most of them tasted): the rotating lunch schedule.

I'm a public school teacher, and I'd enjoy my job far more if it weren't for those holy terrors who don't know a thing about manners!

Magnet schools are many - splendored things, however, and we sought to know more about them — their themes, whether they have selective admissions criteria, whether they are co-located with a traditional public school (TPS), etc..

For one thing, it has asked the same question about the nation's schools and local schools every year since the 1980s — and I am making use of that poll in my forthcoming Brookings book, Teachers vs. the Public, by Michael Henderson and Martin West and myself.

-- that by offering a viable alternative to the values of contemporary society, the Catholic high school has a unique niche in the educational scheme of things, especially given the lack of consensus about educational goals characteristic of so many public urban schools.

In this excerpt, they explain how blended learning makes it possible to organize schools around the things students care most about: accomplishing something and having fun with their friends, and how Summit Public Schools, a California charter network, has reimagined middle and high school along theseschools around the things students care most about: accomplishing something and having fun with their friends, and how Summit Public Schools, a California charter network, has reimagined middle and high school along theseSchools, a California charter network, has reimagined middle and high school along these lines.

I know that teachers are natural adventurers: I'm the proud daughter of a lifelong public school teacher, and one of the things my mom loved best about being an educator was the opportunity to travel in the spring and summer.

Resources include: INFORMATION FILES: The Roman Empire — how Rome began, how it was ruled, Caesar, Pompey, the Army, Enemies Daily Life in Rome: family life, jobs, schooling, food, clothing Citizens and Slaves: Patricians, Plebeians, Slaves, Rebellions, Rights, Spartacus Colosseum: information and photos The Emperors: Augustus, Trajan, Hadrian, Nero, Constantine, Vespasian Roman Gods pictures and information Calendar information Italy today information Pompeii information Public baths and toilets information Roads and aqueducts information Roman army information sheet Large key word cards with definitions Timeline posters pack PHOTO PACKS: Roman ruins around Britain Roads and aqueducts Pompeii Public baths and toilets Italy today QUESTION SHEETS: Army worksheet Buildings of Ancient Rome worksheet Emperors worksheet Julius Caesar worksheet Italy today quiz People of Rome question sheet The roman Empire worksheet MAPS: Maps of the world, Europe, italy today, Roman Empire, Roman Britain, Europe outline to colour LARGE FLASHCARD SETS: Ancient Rome Italian cities Italian things ACTIVITIES AND OTHER Acrostic poem All about Rome — writing and drawing booklet to make Alphabetical order worksheet Ancient Rome colouring pages Draw your own Roman shield Draw a roman villa Find the definitions Flag colouring page Week diary booklet Draw a roman feast Dress the roman soldier Draw and write facts about a roman landmark or building Draw and list the things romans gave us Mae a presentation, with cue cards to complete Roman children lunchbox Make emperor photo flashcards Mind map Notes pad Roman soldier worksheet — label the different armour Task cards Word search Blank thought and speech bubbles for display Write sentences for topic evaluation Work booklet cover to keep topic work together Themed borders for written work DISPLAY A4 flags of Europe, display borders, buntings, extra large lettering, long banner, useful images, plus other display resources LANGUAGE Months, days and common phrases flashcards in English and Italian flashcards

The most remarkable thing about the Ph.D. in Education is open access to faculty from all Harvard graduate and professional schools, including the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Harvard Kennedy School, the Harvard Law School, Harvard Medical School, and the Harvard School of Public Health.

Client Albemarle County Public Schools, Walton Middle School Location Charlottesville, VA Year 2015 If you don't know about the great things happening in Albemarle County Schools in Virginia, you should.

Per you point about getting the «same» amount of money, first AF schools are not unionized and AF got a bill passed last year that allows charter schools to have up to 30 % of its teacher staff not certified — those two things raise the costs in district public schools.

So that was just one school district and I read later about another school district doing the same thing, also complaining about how much money it was «losing» by having the kids enroll in charter schools versus staying in the traditional public schools (TPS).

One of the great things about charter schools is that public school teachers can take on a much greater role in the ownership, vision, operation, and leadership of a charter school than they can in a traditional public school.

Raise awareness about the good things happening in our public schools every day.

Forty - nine percent of public - school parents thought tests don't measure things that are important to them about an education (46 percent said tests do).

for school year 2017 - 2018 has received little backlash, which could mean one of three things: either the district has done an effective job communicating and engaging the public, or charter schools have taken top billing — again, or everyone is just silly happy about the proposed salary increases.

The $ 902 million budget for school year 2017 - 2018 has received little backlash, which could mean one of three things: either the district has done an effective job communicating and engaging the public, or charter schools have taken top billing — again, or everyone is just silly happy about the proposed salary increases.

«It's not about public schools failing, it's about the idea that people are meddling and public schools aren't allowed to use and do the things we're supposed to do,» he said.

Perhaps the most striking thing about charters is how, with smaller budgets than public districts — they get no capital funds — several have created schools with 15 or 16 in a class.

10 Things Schools Need to Know about Building ADA Compliant Websites Source: Michigan School Public Relations Association (MSPRA)

«Parents are looking for a place where students feel welcome, they feel like a part of the family, they feel a part of a community, they are able to develop closer relationships with teachers, and they want them to know who they are,» says Evelyn Castro, Principal of Ednovate College Prep charter school when speaking about one of the most important things parents want in a school and how sometimes a smaller charter public school can provide that.

It will follow up the event later in the spring with a publicity campaign aimed at telling stories about the good things happening in public schools.

Well, I think Newark needs good schools, period... This idea of «we have to build charters at the expense of public school» is a ridiculous notion... That's an argument that people are having about real estate, about space, about money and finances, when on the ground, the thing that improves education is what happens in the classroom — is teacher development, staff development, and extended days and, you know, curriculum...

As a Minneapolis Public Schools graduate myself (1978) and now as a proud parent, I will gladly tell people about the great things I see happening in MPS every day.

Over the past three decades, Chicago Public Schools have been improving; here are a few things to know about Chicago as we search for answers about how and why.

Unless our citizenry elects some leaders with principles, who actually care about our public institutions rather than wealthy donors, things are looking grim for the over 95 percent of Connecticut's children who attend our public schools.

Whether like Jennifer Alexander who lobbies for charter schools, you see thousands of Connecticut public school students «trapped in failing schools» or, like me, you see the possibilities for curriculum design and professional development in those schools, what we have before us and before the Connecticut legislators in the future is a key moral question about what is the right thing for citizens in a democracy and their elected representatives to do.

This story is the third in a four - part series about how things are going so far in Michigan's first fully privatized public school district.

This story is the first in a four - part series about how things are going so far in Michigan's first fully privatized public school district.

If there's one thing that people know about public school funding, it's that a majority of the money comes from local property taxes.

Rather than making a series of empty, unfilled promises, these policies would actually improve teachers» working conditions, students» learning conditions, and school funding; would protect public schools from inequities of funding caused by the proliferation of charter schools; and would «encourage» the decision makers who currently establish public education policy to play within the rules, or forfeit the thing they are really most concerned about: those sweet, sweet campaign contributions.

June Atkinson, superintendent of public instruction in North Carolina, is talking about the latest cut to the Department of Public Instruction (DPI), a $ 300,000 reduction that, all things considered, will deal relatively minor damage to the state department charged with providing support and oversight for local scpublic instruction in North Carolina, is talking about the latest cut to the Department of Public Instruction (DPI), a $ 300,000 reduction that, all things considered, will deal relatively minor damage to the state department charged with providing support and oversight for local scPublic Instruction (DPI), a $ 300,000 reduction that, all things considered, will deal relatively minor damage to the state department charged with providing support and oversight for local schools.

Selected exhibitions include; Beyond the Nation Station State I want to Dream, solo exhibition, Decad, Berlin, 2018; A Farewell to Progress, performance, South London Gallery, London, 2018; A Farewell to Progress, performance, KW, Berlin, 2017; Ideology Meets Implementations, group exhibition, W139, 2017; Gentle Dust, group exhibition, Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam, 2017; Southern Summer School, summer school and public programme, BAK, Utrecht, 2017; Northern Winter Workshops, collective events programme across, the Netherlands, South Africa and the UK, 2017; duo exhibition at Kunstraum, London; The Things We Talked About, group exhibition at St PAUL St Gallery, Auckland; Wilderness, group exhibition at New Shelter Plan, Copenhagen;... instead to meet strangers who might change our minds, solo exhibition at the Swiss Church, London (2014); A Space of No Exception, group exhibition at Sokol Space, Moscow (School, summer school and public programme, BAK, Utrecht, 2017; Northern Winter Workshops, collective events programme across, the Netherlands, South Africa and the UK, 2017; duo exhibition at Kunstraum, London; The Things We Talked About, group exhibition at St PAUL St Gallery, Auckland; Wilderness, group exhibition at New Shelter Plan, Copenhagen;... instead to meet strangers who might change our minds, solo exhibition at the Swiss Church, London (2014); A Space of No Exception, group exhibition at Sokol Space, Moscow (school and public programme, BAK, Utrecht, 2017; Northern Winter Workshops, collective events programme across, the Netherlands, South Africa and the UK, 2017; duo exhibition at Kunstraum, London; The Things We Talked About, group exhibition at St PAUL St Gallery, Auckland; Wilderness, group exhibition at New Shelter Plan, Copenhagen;... instead to meet strangers who might change our minds, solo exhibition at the Swiss Church, London (2014); A Space of No Exception, group exhibition at Sokol Space, Moscow (2014).

One thing that has occurred to me in debating those who fall for anti-science propaganda is that there is a need for public school science curricula to include more emphasis on the basic principles of the scientific method, and how one can go about figuring out what's true and what isn't when faced with media controversies about science.

Art Robinson is the founder of a group called the «Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine» (OISM), which markets, among other things, a home - schooling kit for «parents concerned about socialism in the public schools» and books on how to survive nuclear war.

«Legal custody» means the right to make decisions about your child — things like education (public, private, or home - schooling?)

For public interest lawyers like Mirenda and myself who went to law school, after it cost about $ 8 million, things can get a little disheartening.

Another positive thing about attending a defensive traffic school is that you can learn how to become a more responsible and safe driver on the public roads in Utah.