Sentences with phrase «united system of public schools»

In retrospect, it will mark a turning point in creating a more united system of public schools and blurring the difference between OPSB and RSD schools in New Orleans.

Not exact matches

Kozol's description of the corporate presence in and influence on schools makes one wonder whether the public education system in the United States has become a domestic version of NAFTA: an effective way for companies to guarantee access to a steady supply of cheap, uneducated labor.

Education was being placed under the control of the state and was becoming secularized, but on the frontiers of white settlement, especially in the United States, those moved by their Christian faith were founding most of the institutions of higher learning and were even responsible for much of the public school system.

That strategy pins the blame for failing schools solely on the de Blasio administration, the United Federation of Teachers and New York State United Teachers, who are caught in a bind of defending a public school system that objectively contains many low - performing schools, most of which have been struggling for decades.

Scientists at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health developed a system to accurately predict the geographic spread of seasonal influenza in the United States, as reported in a paper published in the journal PNAS.

Waiting For Superman Premise: The United States public - school system is all kinds of fucked - up.

After greatly increasing desegregation of public schools a generation ago, the United States public education system is now steadily consolidating a trend toward racial resegregation that began in the late 1980s, according to a new study by The Civil Rights Project and researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Yet the United States already bears costs from our broken education system, including higher crime rates, additional expenses for health - care and public - assistance programs, and lost tax revenue as well as the untold costs of telling generations of children in chronically under - resourced, low - performing schools: «You don't matter!»

One challenge facing the education system in the United Kingdom is that students from non-selective state (public) schools are underrepresented in institutions of higher education.

Conceived in the colonial period and evolving well into the 21st century, public education in the United States has relied on 50 distinct state systems that, in turn, delegate selected dimensions of operational authority to more than 13,000 local school districts.

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In education, she studies the effectiveness of senior leadership teams in large urban school districts across the United States and the conditions that enhance organizational learning in public school systems.

Many states had such systems in place before NCLB took effect, but, since 2001 - 2002, every state in the United States has had to develop and implement an SBA system that met the requirements of the law, and its provisions have affected every public school and district in the nation.

It's over 50 years since the historic Supreme Court vote that ushered integration into public schools into the public school system of United States of America.

-- The Seventy Four «Washington Post reporter Russakoff's fascinating study of the struggle to reform the Newark school system reveals the inner workings of a wide range of systemic and grassroots problems (charter schools, testing, accountability, private donors) plaguing education reform today... Russakoff's eagle - eyed view of the current state of the public education system in Newark and the United States is one of the finest education surveys in recent memory.»

They demand public accountability for education systems across the nation, and many, many public - school systems and educators in the United States simply reject the concept out of hand.

We have seen urban public schools successfully adopt many charter school «secrets,» including the nine - hour school day (e.g., United for Success Academies in Oakland); a rigorous, standard curriculum (e.g., the more than a dozen Chicago public schools that offer the International Baccalaureate); merit pay (e.g., the Washington, D.C., system); and the regular use of teacher video in professional development and evaluation (e.g., the Houston system, which was using video in this way as early as the 1980s).

The study of middle school students in the Wake County, North Carolina public school system (WCPSS), the 16th - largest public school district in the United States (146,687 current students), was conducted by economist Finley Edwards.

Either because of public opposition, lawsuits, or the modest scope of voucher and tax - credit scholarship laws, only some 200,000 students nationwide attend private schools through choice systems, a paltry figure compared to the 50 million students in public schools across the United States.

If Edison, which now works in various ways in nearly 1,000 schools and serves more than 300,000 students, were a public school district, I would be one of the longest - serving heads of a major school system in the United States (average tenure for the superintendent of a major system is less than four years).

«Across the United States, school districts have relied on this template to build strong systems that provide a solid education for their students, and the model makes great sense for Puerto Rico as well,» said David Kirp, a public policy professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

This fact sheet provides an overview of the differences between strong policies for public charter schools and other forms of public school choice and President Trump and DeVos» plan to use vouchers to decimate the United States» public education system.

Mimi Herman, a Kennedy Center teaching artist and past Piedmont Laureate, and the staff at United Arts Council lead this successful and popular week - long workshop, which also fulfills one of the requirements of membership with the Partners in Education program of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. United Arts Council and Wake County Public School System have been Partners in Education members since 1993.

Many schools around the United States have already adopted the rotation model of blended learning, including Rocketship Education, which is a charter public school system for low - income students.

So no one should be surprised that the AFT's Big Apple local, the United Federation of Teachers, has allegedly been caught engaging in such activity as part of its effort against moves by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his school reform allies to expand school choice and transform the Empire State's public education systems.

United Arts sends a list of cleared artists to the Wake County Public School System's main office, which then makes the list available to public schools via the in - school intPublic School System's main office, which then makes the list available to public schools via the in - school intSchool System's main office, which then makes the list available to public schools via the in - school intpublic schools via the in - school intschool intranet.

Carranza announced earlier this month is leaving the district to become chancellor of New York City Schools, the largest public school system in the United States.

Forty - eight of the 100 largest public school systems in the United States in 2008 - 09 reported enrollment declines compared with the previous year's numbers.

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In her book, Reign of Error, The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools, Diane Ravitch claims the United States is facing an orchestrated and well - funded effort to destroy its public education sPublic Schools, Diane Ravitch claims the United States is facing an orchestrated and well - funded effort to destroy its public education spublic education system.

When he was the chief executive of Chicago's public school system, Arne Duncan, the former United States secretary of education, opened 150 community schools.

The panel stressed that «the most powerful system of indicators will start from the perspective of what consumers and the public expect and need from education» understanding that «the people of the United States also clearly expect the nation's schools and colleges to advance certain national values above and beyond the benefits education provides to individual students.»

Advocates of public education in the United States have worried that President - elect Donald Trump would tap an education secretary who would speed up the privatization of public schools, a move that many fear could destroy America's public education system, the country's most important civic institution...

Hawaii's first government - sponsored public school system was established in 1841 by King Kamehameha III, more than 100 years before the group of islands would join the United States.

In 2012, the New York City Department of Education, or NYCDOE — the largest public school system in the country — and the United Federation of Teachers, or UFT, designed a teacher career ladder to extend educators» skills beyond their individual classrooms and allow teachers to be powerful levers of change in school communities.

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The government puts considerable resources toward a national public school system as an investment in the future of the United States.

a site dedicated to the United States» public school system: examining the impact of the Common Core, the free market, and privatization on education

If you had a child in the Madison, Connecticut public schools you'd have a superintendent, school administrators and Board of Education that was committed to telling the truth about the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) Testing System and dedicated to putting children, parents, teachers and their public schools above the Corporate Education Reform Industry's ongoing attempt to undermine public education in the United States.

Although it's been two years since Ms. Moskowitz, as chair of the Council's education committee, ran a series of high - profile hearings about work - rule abuses in the city's public - school system, the United Federation of Teachers still hasn't forgotten.

The guide shares insight into the design and delivery of NYCLA's Aspiring Principals Program, which has prepared more than 500 principals for the New York City public school system and which has been adapted by state and district programs around the United States.

The City School District of the City of New York (the New York City public schools) is the largest school system in the United States, with over 1.1 million students taught in more than 1,800 separate scSchool District of the City of New York (the New York City public schools) is the largest school system in the United States, with over 1.1 million students taught in more than 1,800 separate scschool system in the United States, with over 1.1 million students taught in more than 1,800 separate schools.

The single - salary system, which operates in 95 percent of all public schools in the United States (Protsik, 1996), rewards teachers financially on the basis of each teacher's years of experience and number of degrees.

Last fall, the NAACP called for a moratorium on the expansion of school choice in the United States, viewing the charter sector as a threat to our hallowed system of public education — as though it's ever been what it claims to be for Black students and families — and drawing an inexplicable line in the sand between two parts of itself.

He told the audience of more than 50 people that public school systems across the United States have, for various reasons, failed to keep pace with advances in technology and the changing social and educational needs of youth, especially in inner - city neighborhoods.

One way this issue is managed is by partnering with an e-book distributor such as OverDrive, which manages an array of digital content for 18,000 libraries and schools in 21 countries, including 15,000 in the United States.47 OverDrive generally charges public libraries a set fee for use of their checkout system, as well as a fee per title for patrons to borrow.48 The OverDrive catalog for libraries now includes 700,000 copyrighted e-book, audiobook, music, and video titles in 52 languages.

West Hartford's public education system has been ranked by Money magazine as the 10th most educated town in the United States while Connecticut Magazine ranked its public schools as one of the top three in Connecticut towns.

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