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08/23/16: Georgia Network for Educational and Therapeutic Support / U.S. v. Georgia (N.D. Ga. 2016): The United States filed a lawsuit against the State of Georgia in federal district court to remedy violations of the ADA pertaining to the State's failure to provide thousands of public school students with behavior - related disabilities with appropriate mental health and therapeutic educational services and supports in the most integrated setting appropriate to their needs.

On August 23, 2016, the United States Department of Justice filed suit against the State of Georgia for discriminating against thousands of public school students with behavior and emotional disabilities Continue Reading →

While the National Center for Education Statistics does not release the exact number of students given the reading test, Best said it was between 3,600 and 4,200 students, a very small percentage of the tens of thousands of public school students in the state who are taking the Maryland School Assessments.

The program was initially piloted in New Orleans in 2008; Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal and the state legislature expanded the LSP statewide in 2012, allowing thousands of public school students to transfer out of their residentially assigned schools and into private schools of their choosing.

Much has changed since the fledgling Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE), 14 New York City community school boards, and 23 individual parents and their children lodged the initial complaint charging the State of New York with denying «thousands of public school students in the City of New York their constitutional rights to equal educational opportunities.»

And, while it is not a charter school, it was the country's first state - wide Internet - based public high school and has enrolled hundreds of thousands of public school students since 1997.

Thousands of public school students whose favorite meal is french fries and chicken nuggets might end up eating something else for lunch under legislation the state Senate passed Thursday to bans trans fats from Illinois schools that participate in the state lunch program.

Thousands of public school students whose favorite meal is french fries and chicken nuggets would eat something else for lunch under legislation the state Senate passed Thursday to ban trans fat from Illinois schools that participate in the state lunch program.

SPRINGFIELD — Thousands of public school students whose favorite meal is french fries and chicken nuggets might end up eating something else for lunch under legislation the state Senate passed Thursday to bans trans fats from Illinois schools that participate in the state lunch program.

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About three thousand students are already benefiting from the latest wrinkle in five states, «education savings accounts,» which provide even more flexibility to families by allowing those who withdraw their children from public schools to receive a deposit of public funds into government - authorized savings accounts that can be used to pay for private school tuition, online learning programs, private tutoring, educational therapies, or college costs.

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:

Last year, Republicans pushed to introduce a bill that could have stopped thousands of schools from offering free lunch to all public school students.

Buffalo Public Schools, always strapped for cash, missed out on hundreds of thousands of dollars when it underbilled for providing special education services to students from other school districts, a new state audit found.

While thousands of students have left rural public districts, poverty rates in these schools have increased, according to the analysis by the New York State Association of School Business Officials.

NEW YORK — Twenty city public schools will implement longer school days for thousands of high - need students across the city as part of a pilot program this fall, the Department of Education and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced Monday.

Thousands of young Buffalo Public Schools students fell further behind in key literacy benchmarks as they progressed through the district's early grades, according to a study from 2006 to 2011 ordered by a former superintendent.

About a thousand Asian Americans, most of Chinese heritage, converged on the Legislative Office Building Thursday to support a bill that would ban the separation of data about Connecticut's students into ethnic subgroups in the public school system unless...

The trailers were meant to be a short - term solution to address overcrowding at public schools, but more than a decade after they were placed around the city, thousands of students still use them.

«Tonight, the chancellor cut funding for thousands of students who attend excellent public schools,» Jeremiah Kittredge, the executive director of Families for Excellent Schools, said in a staschools,» Jeremiah Kittredge, the executive director of Families for Excellent Schools, said in a staSchools, said in a statement.

The public school system continues to fail hundreds of thousands of students, because the mayor remains in thrall to the teachers union.

Many of the council's lofty budget aims — adding a thousand cops to the police force and instituting free lunch for every public school student — were pared down in the final budget.

In September, he joined thousands of Bronx families and advocates like me at the #PathToPossible rally in Prospect Park, giving an inspiring speech about the power of a great public education and supporting our effort to grow New York City's public charter schools to 200,000 students by 2020.

MIDTOWN — The city could be forced to shell out nearly $ 44 million in private school tuition after failing to place thousands of kindergarten students with special needs in public schools for next fall, according to a new report by Public Advocate Bill de Bpublic schools for next fall, according to a new report by Public Advocate Bill de BPublic Advocate Bill de Blasio.

With the beginning of the school year only a little more than a month away, thousands of New York City public school students remain unsure whether they'll be promoted to the next grade in the fall.

NEW YORK — Public schools in New York City are losing track of thousands of homeless students and thus depriving them of their education, according to a months - long study carried out by the city comptroller, the findings of which were released on Thursday.

WBFO's senior reporter Eileen Buckley reports a new nation - wide study says there is a high rate of students arriving at school hungry, but the Buffalo Public School District is serving thousands of free meals to cityschool hungry, but the Buffalo Public School District is serving thousands of free meals to citySchool District is serving thousands of free meals to city kids.

Thousands of schools — public and private, from kindergarten to college — are installing webcams in classrooms and streaming live on websites that are open to the public, betting that round - the - clock supervision, even from strangers, will help motivate students.

Fifty years ago, the U.S. Office of Education released James S. Coleman's «Equality of Educational Opportunity» report, an immense analysis of data from around 600,000 public school students and tens of thousands of teachers.

That legislation, which also passed the House 95 - 21 and which Gov. Jeb Bush, a Republican, was expected to sign, would impose a new set of accountability requirements, including mandating standardized tests for thousands of voucher students attending private schools with public money.

And tens of thousands of New Orleans residents, their homes and livelihoods destroyed, fled the city; Houston public schools alone absorbed more than 5,000 of the refugee students.

Since 2005, dozens of Chicago's public schools have been closed and thousands of students reassigned to campuses outside their neighborhoods — and often across gang lines — as part of Renaissance 2010, a program launched by Mayor Richard Daley when Duncan was Chicago Public Schools public schools have been closed and thousands of students reassigned to campuses outside their neighborhoods — and often across gang lines — as part of Renaissance 2010, a program launched by Mayor Richard Daley when Duncan was Chicago Public Schoolsschools have been closed and thousands of students reassigned to campuses outside their neighborhoods — and often across gang lines — as part of Renaissance 2010, a program launched by Mayor Richard Daley when Duncan was Chicago Public Schools Public SchoolsSchools chief.

Different districts choose different strategies: according to NCES Public School Universe data, thousands of Title I schools nationally have fewer than a third of their students eligible for free lunch, while at the same time thousands of non-Title I schools have over half their students eligible.

Several years ago, Janie Scull and I identified several thousand of what we called «private public schools» — public schools that serve virtually no poor students.

They need to advocate for policies that promote cooperative problem solving among school providers, including districts in cities where thousands of students still attend traditional public schools.

At a time when charter schools account for 10, 25, even 45 percent of public school enrollment in urban areas, this represents thousands of students across the country who won't start the school year with the teachers they need.

Today, forty - four states and Washington, D.C. contain some seven thousand of these independently operated public schools, serving nearly 3 million students.

Known as the CREDO study, it evaluated student progress on math tests in half the nation's five thousand charter schools and concluded that 17 percent were superior to a matched traditional public school; 37 percent were worse than the public school; and the remaining 46 percent had academic gains no different from that of a similar public school.

The rush to privatize education will also turn tens of thousands of students into guinea pigs in a national experiment in virtual learning — a relatively new idea that allows for - profit companies to administer public schools completely online, with no brick - and - mortar classrooms or traditional teachers.

It's time for the state's leaders to justify to Connecticut parents why our education system limits the size and expansion of quality public schools, while thousands of students languish on waitlists with no access to an adequate education.

«The proposed increase in the budget through giving thousands of charter schools the funding needed to open new charter schools, and expand and replicate their successful models will go a long way toward providing those students and their families with a much - needed, high - quality public school education.

The Idaho Charter School Network advocates, supports and gives voice to its members to ensure charter schools have the flexibility, public support, and funding to deliver high - quality education to their students and to the thousands of students on Idaho's charter school wait School Network advocates, supports and gives voice to its members to ensure charter schools have the flexibility, public support, and funding to deliver high - quality education to their students and to the thousands of students on Idaho's charter school wait school wait lists.

We estimate racial / ethnic achievement gaps in several hundred metropolitan areas and several thousand school districts in the United States using the results of roughly 200 million standardized math and reading tests administered to public school students from 2009 - 2013.

While impressive data sets were assembled on the achievement levels of thousands of students in public and private schools, statisticians could not be sure whether observed differences reflected the quality of the schools or the students who self - selected into them.

Since 1997, public charter schools have been a high - quality option for thousands of Connecticut students and families.

Hundreds of thousands of students in Kentucky and Oklahoma had no class Monday while their public - school teachers protested at state capitols during strikes for higher pay.

After thousands of parents, educators and students held «walk - ins» at over 100 Milwaukee public schools in September, Abele started to back down.

By 1969, more than 200 private segregation academies were set up in states across the South.38 Seven of those states — Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana — maintained tuition grant programs that offered vouchers to students in an effort to incentivize white students to leave desegregated public school districts.39 Between the 1969 - 70 and the 1970 - 71 school years, Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi saw tens of thousands of students flee to newly opened segregation academies.40 In a single school year, Mississippi led the trio with almost 41,000 students having left the state's public schools.

* 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.

If the De Blasio administration takes away funding for construction along with access to vacant space in public school buildings, the cold hard reality is that tens of thousands of New York City students will be denied a chance for a better education.»

«These results reinforce what thousands of Arizona parents, families, educators and school choice champions have known for years: when it comes to academic performance, Arizona's public charter school students are setting the pace,» said Eileen B. Sigmund, Arizona Charter Schools Association President and CEO.