Sentences with phrase «upon the public school»

Mann's erstwhile Calvinism and his belief that education was to reform the world became civil religion as it emerged in the schools, most of all in Mann's insistence upon public schools for all people.

He describes vividly the resilient and curious spirits of children growing up in adversity; he asks that we examine the priorities of our society which has seized upon their public schools as a profit center, instead of a sheltering, supportive center of learning.

They are accustomed to look upon public schools from the standpoint of centralization, which produces uniformity, conformity and evenness, so that the endless variety, the total lack of uniformity, the innumerable differences which our schools present, is to them almost incomprehensible.

(6) incur temporary debt in anticipation of receipt of funds; provided that a Horace Mann school shall obtain the approval of the local school committee and appropriate local appropriating authorities and officials relative to any proposed lien or encumbrance upon public school property or relative to any financial obligation for which the local school district shall become legally obligated; and provided further, that notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the terms of repayment of any charter school's debt shall not exceed the duration of the school's charter without the approval of the board;

These different forms of punishment inflicted upon the public school system by high stakes testing have been called accountability.

However, for the first time in my career I am disheartened with the current reform efforts that have been foisted upon public schools by education outsiders − businessmen and politicians.

Not exact matches

CNBC's Jim Cramer loves the public school system, but the truth is that it can't be relied upon to teach children about money.

We haven't even touched upon how many people can save a ton of money going to a public school like I did or attend community college for two years and then transfer to a public school for even more savings.

It wasn't until a public servant took it upon themselves to test the water in Prince Rupert schools this year that it was revealed that children and staff are being exposed to elevated lead levels.

Tell me, if the school charged the actual market value for the use of this space and the use of equipment, etc. and if that market value actually reflected the cost to the public, then the issue might become clearer to you because these religious people would scream at having to pay full price and the cost of any damages they may inflict upon the public property they are using illegally.

But they don't leave it there — they want to set laws based upon their religious beliefs, set school curricula based upon their religious beliefs, have their religious prayers in public meetings, put their religious texts on public buildings, etc..

The coalition recently sent out a booklet to all 14,700 public school districts in the country attacking those who contend that teenagers can and should resist or redirect, rather than act upon, their homoerotic desires.

The religious are always looking to put religion front and center in public life: displays and signs on public property, laws based upon their religious beliefs, their beliefs taught as science in schools, bells on Sunday, etc..

That's exactly why atheists don't want believers creating laws based solely upon their beliefs, why atheists don't want those beliefs taught in schools as science, why atheists don't want those beliefs posted on public buildings, etc..

One may certainly refrain from insisting, as some Jewish leaders have, upon mandated Holocaust studies in the public school curriculum: for many people, such «mandates» might appear as an effort to establish the passion of the Jews as the larger culture's defining story, thus, ironically, giving plausibility to anti-Semitic claims about Jewish power.

In reflecting upon Vashti McCollum's death, J. Brent Walker, executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, told the CENTURY: «The 1948 case that bears her name set the tone for the Supreme Court's view on the proper relationship between church and state in public schools.»

Upon graduation, our 8th Grade students routinely attend the most competitive independent and public high schools in New York City and beyond.

As a part of the newly enacted membership process of the Alliance for Public Waldorf Education, Schools must do a self - study based upon the 7 Core Principles of the Alliance.

His book, however, is actually based upon personal journeys and in - depth research in two radically different schools, neither of which is from the public school system.

While tooling around the Internet one day I stumbled upon the story of Sara Salo, a public health advocate in Bend, Oregon who is going to be biking across the country to bring attention to school food reform.

«Pupils and students of public schools have been at home for over four weeks due to the strike embarked upon by civil servants and teachers.»

Another major issue still unresolved, according to Tom Precious of The Buffalo News: whether to drive more money to charter schools, as Senate Republicans want, or into the traditional public school systems, as Assembly Democrats insist upon.

New York residents entering the state's public two - and four - year colleges are able to apply starting today for the new Excelsior Scholarship and, depending upon eligibility, could attend school tuition - free beginning as soon as the fall semester.

Segregation of white and colored children in public schools has a detrimental effect upon the colored children.

You could argue that public and charter schools are not that different, but that is dependent upon the locality and how rigidly and thoroughly the school board mandates every aspect of the school.

For lawmakers to truly curb government spending across New York State they need to get public school teacher and administrator salaries, as well as the five - and six - figure payouts many of them receive upon retiring, back into the realm of what's normal for middle - income earners.

This year we built upon those numbers by investing a record $ 1.2 billion, a $ 700 million increase, in Foundation Aid which is critical to our students in public schools.

«He has stopped the use of over 350 model schools constructed by Amaechi's Administration so that he can embark upon the construction of his 175 non-existent schools to enable him siphon public funds.

«We agree with the deputy mayor that preserving mayoral control of NYC's public schools should not be contingent upon the holder of the office,» the coalition's spokeswoman, Christine Nick, said in a statement.

In the interests of progress we call upon Mr. Paladino to resign and further suggest that board members that align themselves with his destructive agenda reconsider their support of an individual that jeopardizes the mission of the Buffalo Public Schools and the futures of this city's children.

Kalinichenko was among the more than 1,000 UFT members who descended upon Albany on March 9 to advocate for the city's public schools.

In fact, the BPCA was so adamant that the center be allowed to be public, they sued the Department of Education — and won — in 1993, because the department wasn't letting them use the space for the agreed - upon community time in the school, documents show.

Upon returning to the United States, Finucane pursued a Ph.D. with Chris Paciorek in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston.

Middle - aged people who experience temporary blood pressure drops that often cause dizziness upon standing up may be at an increased risk of developing cognitive decline and dementia 20 years later, new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health research suggests.

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health researchers are calling upon police in all states to improve their reporting of crashes involving vehicles and bicycles, according to a new study being published April 2, 2015.

The pledge for Detroit Public Schools agreed upon during the explosive «Real Housewives of Atlanta» reunion special has yet to come through

The results presented here are based upon a nationally representative, stratified sample of 1,138 adults (age 18 years and older) and representative oversamples of the following subgroups: public school teachers, parents of school - age children, African Americans, and Hispanics.

The Spokane (Washington) Public Schools, along with many other school districts, has made a living embracing this simple concept: If we assess our students beforehand, create a common curriculum based upon what the students need to have, then teach that curriculum and fill in what the students don't have, and then assess the students again to be sure they got it, we'll probably be okay.

Second, and perhaps more important, the fact that poor and minority students flee segregated traditional public schools for similarly segregated charters does not imply that charter school policy is imposing segregation upon these students.

A normative political philosopher who researches civic education, multiculturalism, youth empowerment, and educational ethics, Levinson draws upon scholarship from multiple disciplines as well as her eight years of experience teaching in the Atlanta and Boston Public Schools.

In doing so, she draws upon scholarship from multiple disciplines as well as her eight years of experience teaching in the Atlanta and Boston Public Schools.

Students in secular private, Catholic, and other religious schools are more likely than students in assigned public schools to have confidence in their ability to exercise civic skills if called upon to do so.

Last year, Congress passed the Every Student Succeeds Act, supplanting No Child Left Behind and placing responsibility for public school improvement squarely upon each of the 50 states.

Effective principals should recognize and acknowledge that the status of adult behavior at their public functions reflects positively, or negatively, upon their school — and upon them.

The union, led by Alex Caputo - Pearl, immediately seized upon the public relations opportunity to pursue the national anti-charter theme of billionaires trying to privatize public schools.

It has evaded standard rule - making procedures designed to collect evidence and encourage public participation; ignored the Supreme Court's interpretation of Title IX; pressured schools to adopt disciplinary proceedings that deny due process to the accused; insisted upon a definition of sexual harassment so broad that it threatens free speech on campus; and created within colleges units dedicated to reeducating students on all matters sexual and on the dictates of «social justice.»

Just as a draft of K - 12 common standards designed to prepare students for college and the workforce was set to be released for public comment this week, a new report finds that more than half the states have revamped their high school standards to emphasize such readiness upon graduation.

• As many as twenty states are considering «parent trigger» legislation, which closes failing schools upon a majority vote of parents and replaces the staff, charters the school for private management, or allows the students to attend private or other public schools.

Upon taking office in 1999, the governor pursued a multipronged strategy of education reform: an emphasis on reading, standards and accountability for public schools, and new choice options for students.

We ought not speculate upon the hypothesized risks of voucher programs in isolation, but ought to weigh their potential risks and benefits against the current condition of local public schooling.