Sentences with phrase «time public school students»

Students enrolled into this program became full - time public school students and were required to take the FCAT.

He pledged that this year we'd reduce the amount of time public school students spend taking standardized assessments.

If the ambitions of the Common Core are realized, for the first time every public school student in the United States will be exposed to roughly the same content, especially in grades 1 — 8.

Not exact matches

The pair's solutions to the alleged problems of CEO - speak are greater government control of markets, more bureaucracy in the private and public sectors, an end to CEOs» duty of care to shareholders and — get this — more snore - inducing courses on critical textual analysis in business schools so students can know exactly how many times a CEO says «our company» versus «the company.»

An advocate for a local teachers union also expressed concern to the New York Times Magazine about the quality of the education, arguing Bridge focuses less on getting poor students to the baseline as enticing public school students to switch to Bridge schools.

Released time to allow public school students to attend religious education at a church - owned building was specifically confirmed by the US Supreme Court as consistent with the First Amendment decades ago.

He said federal law, under the Establishment Clause, is clear that public schools can not «approve in advance a student's prayer» or «carve out time specifically for religious expression.»

As a former NYC public school student, I can not remember the last time I pledged allegance to this wonderful country, and you want students to pray to Allah??! The God our enemy kills for?!

The locker room offers the appearance of privacy, but at the same time elicits public performance (as every awkward middle school student knows too well).

No Jewish organization supported the Equal Access Act, which wrote the equal time principle into law and allowed religious students a platform from which to inject religion into the public high school environment.

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.

Finally, in Houston in 2010 — 11, he gave cash incentives to fifth - grade students in 25 low - performing public schools, as well as to the parents and teachers of those students, with the intent of increasing the time they spent on math homework and improving their scores on standardized math tests.

For the first time, a majority of the country's public school students — 51 percent of them, to be precise — fell below the federal government's threshold for being «low income,» meaning they were eligible for a free or subsidized school lunch.

They are full of student discussions and group activities large and small; teachers guide the conversation, but they spend much less time lecturing than most public school teachers do.

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.

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.

Chicago Public Schools CEO Jean - Claude Brizard tries to make a case for longer school days in «A push for longer school days; It is time for adults to deliver more to Chicago students» (Commentary, June 10).

In late March, Chicago public school students complained to the school board about the «slop» served at lunch time.

In 2013, for the first time, a majority of public - school students in this country — 51 percent, to be precise — fell below the federal government's low - income cutoff, meaning they were eligible for a free or subsidized school lunch.

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.

This news comes at a time when healthy vending is a hot issue, especially as the USDA recently launched its proposed guidelines for competitive foods (i.e. foods sold in school vending machines, a la carte and in student stores), which are currently undergoing public comment.

A student who transfers from the Florida Virtual School full - time program to a traditional public school before or during the first grading period of the school year is academically eligible to participate in interscholastic extracurricular activities during the first grading period if the student has a successful evaluation from the previous school year pursuant to paragrapSchool full - time program to a traditional public school before or during the first grading period of the school year is academically eligible to participate in interscholastic extracurricular activities during the first grading period if the student has a successful evaluation from the previous school year pursuant to paragrapschool before or during the first grading period of the school year is academically eligible to participate in interscholastic extracurricular activities during the first grading period if the student has a successful evaluation from the previous school year pursuant to paragrapschool year is academically eligible to participate in interscholastic extracurricular activities during the first grading period if the student has a successful evaluation from the previous school year pursuant to paragrapschool year pursuant to paragraph (a).

In 2013, for the first time, more than half of the USA's public school students fell below the federal government's poverty threshold.

Around the same time, Chicago Public Schools students protested their school lunch menu, and district officials agreed to overhaul the menu for the next school year to reduce or eliminate things such as nachos, doughnuts and cookies.

Pretty soon the public school students won't have any time left to actually LEARN something!

According to the department, 80.2 percent of public school students graduated on time.

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.

At the same time, minority students in the area make up nearly half of the public school student population.

Taking no chances, the city's Department of Education canceled school for the 1.1 million - student system — marking the second time this winter public school kids took a powder break due to snow.

It's time our elected officials stand up for public school students and fight for this funding in the current state budget.»

The district has been fighting for some time over funding, with the Orthodox Jewish - controlled school board diverting funds to Yeshivas — religious private schools that educate a minority of students — and away from the public schools attended by a majority of students, many of whom are black and Latino.

Anyta Brown, grandmother of seven public school students from East New York, said: «Governor Cuomo is fighting for our kids and it's time for the Legislature to get on board.

He added, «And at a time when public schools are struggling with budget shortfalls and student loan debt is increasing, these tablets would go a long way for high school students here in the Capital Region and could also help those trying to get through college.

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.

September is Library Card Sign - up Month, a time when the Buffalo & Erie County Public Libraries join with the American Library Association and public libraries nationwide to encourage every student to have the most important school supply of all — a free libraryPublic Libraries join with the American Library Association and public libraries nationwide to encourage every student to have the most important school supply of all — a free librarypublic libraries nationwide to encourage every student to have the most important school supply of all — a free library card.

Parents of public school students have grown distrustful of the board, whose meetings have at times devolved into shouting matches between members and the public.

Critics, including Upper Manhattan City Councilman Robert Jackson, said charter students at the schools are getting illegal, preferential treatment, while public students are being treated like «second class citizens,» forced to learn in lesser classrooms and loosing out on their fair share of library, auditorium and lunchroom time.

Attacking new teacher evaluation systems that are, for the first time, enabling district public schools to make decisions based on teacher quality, does violence to the cause of improving the quality of education for the overwhelming majority of students who don't attend charter schools.

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.

Around the same time, she became involved with a program in which university students and researchers visited local public schools to give presentations.

«The video lectures allowed for flexibility, as students could repeat sections they didn't understand for clarification and prepare questions to send to section leaders ahead of time, although the video lectures did make it difficult for students to engage directly with the lecturers,» said Stephanie Shiau, PhD, a post-doctoral student in Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health, and co-first author.

Holdren called on scientists and engineers to dedicate 10 % of their time educating policymakers and the public on issues such as climate change, protecting the world's oceans and public lands, continuing Arctic research and demonstrating the importance of investing in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programs for elementary and middle school students.

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 costs.

«These tweets provide real - time information that researchers can use to understand transgender individuals» health and wellbeing,» said Krueger, a doctoral student in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.

Prospective students and members of the public are welcome to visit the School at any time.

During this same period, the number of public school teachers rose from 2.2 million to more than 3.1 million, several times the rate of increase of the students they serve, whose numbers edged up only slightly, from 44.8 million to 48.4 million.

Increasing numbers of U.S. students, over time, are attending public schools of choice rather than their neighborhood schools, a federal study concludes.

They found that the achievement gap between black and white students with similar background characteristics is small or nonexistent at the time children enter kindergarten and grows steadily and significantly each year they attend public school.

During the years I spent as a public school student in the city, my time teaching social studies to public school students, and now my experience as a public school parent, I have seen a great deal.

And, as has been true for all public schools since the beginning of time, the online schools get paid whether their students are learning or not.