Sentences with phrase «well public schools educate»

Fewer than a third of states and territories now comply with federal disability law under a change announced Tuesday in the way the Department of Education evaluates how well public schools educate students with disabilities.

He asserted, ``... where some of America's best public schools educating some of America's blackest and most disadvantaged kids are concerned, the NAACP's duplicitous engagement of black folks on the issue of charter schools is the worst kind of betrayal.»

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The piece draws a comparison to Virginia's Fairfax County, which is similar in many ways to Westchester: They're both suburbs of big cities (New York and Washington, D.C.), they have similarly high home values, and they educate about the same number of students in public schools, which in both places have a good reputation.

They should be able to take their child to the neighborhood public school as a matter of course and expect that it has well - educated teachers and a sound educational program.»

Keep our public schools a religion free zone and we have a much greater chance of creating better educated and more moral citizens.

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

It provides in - depth programming that helps grow local food procurement capacity; educates the public about the importance and impact of Good Food; engages local school districts; and illuminates local, statewide and national food policy.

We sit where we get the product of the, primarily, the public school system, and there are issues with what we get, even for those who, nominally, are well educated, who have high SAT scores, who've taken AP courses.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

You might live in a health - conscious, progressive city and / or your children might attend a school (public or private) in which the parent community is well educated about nutrition — or at least open to nutrition education.

They plow some of their profits into promotional industry groups that fund research studies, they make alliances with medical organizations to educate the public about milk, and they provide free materials to schools suggesting that milk is vital to good nutrition.

Educate and train the public on how to recognize cardiac arrest, contact emergency responders, administer CPR, and use AEDs, as well as facilitate state and local education departments to include CPR and AED training as middle - and high - school graduation requirements.

Founded by Dr. Suzie Carmack, PhD, MFA, MEd, ERYT CWBE is dedicated to educating the public about the negative and long - term effects of work - and school - related stress, sitting disease, compassion fatigue and burnout, and to promoting the healing well - being benefits of mindfulness, mindful movement, and compassionate communication practices to address these social challenges.

As our nation wrestles with the immigration issue more broadly, a concern raised across the political spectrum is how the public schools can best educate immigrant students.

The American public is quick to condemn the K - 12 schools, yet expresses confidence that colleges and universities are doing a good job educating students, a recent report found.

The intersection between public mission and private opportunity continues to get busier as schools search for better ways to educate students, and entrepreneurs work to create products and services to help educators achieve their goals.

To be sure, there are often good reasons to place children out of district at public expense — no district can serve all students equally well — but neither are there always clear and obvious distinctions to be made between who can be educated in a regular school, those who need alternative settings and those like Adrian who run afoul of the rules so frequently, or who are penalized so often and systematically, that they simply give up and leave.

The proper measure of whether proposals are consistent with public schooling ought not be whether power, politics, or finances shift, but whether we are doing a better job of educating all children so they master essential knowledge and skills, develop their gifts, and are prepared for the duties of citizenship.

After reading the critics and examining many more studies than Klein names (some inevitably negative), I believe there is simply no doubt that under Klein's leadership, children attending public schools in New York City were, on average, being far better educated at the end of his eight years than they had been nine years before.

I would acknowledge that, in general, public schools do a great job of educating students, and that America's teachers are doing their jobs and doing them well.

The nation's capital had become something of a magnet for well - educated, idealistic young teachers like Christopher, many of them drawn to the rapidly expanding network of public charter schools.

Public school leaders throughout the United States are approaching consensus about what it takes to educate all students well: more class time, smaller schools, a college preparatory curriculum, instructional coaching for teachers, and utilization of data to understand student needs.

«The extraordinary demands of educating disadvantaged students to higher standards, the challenges of attracting the talent required to do that work, the burden of finding and financing facilities, and often aggressive opposition from the traditional public education system have made the trifecta of scale, quality, and financial sustainability hard to hit,» concludes the report, «Growing Pains: Scaling Up the Nation's Best Charter Schools.»

Polls show overwhelming bipartisan support for the common - sense idea that schools receiving public dollars to educate children should be accountable for providing a good education.

To quote from a famous interview given by James Coleman, cited in this book, «Catholic high schools educate students better than public schools do... students drop out four times more often than their Catholic school counterparts.»

But this claim needs to be tested, for there is clearly a plausible alternative: that teachers are not only better educated and more middle class than the average citizen, but also more public spirited, more committed to public education, and thus more likely to vote in school - board elections regardless of their personal stakes.

And, most important, to the extent the charter schools did well, and we believed in our bones many would, they would put pressure on the public schools to stop making excuses about why they weren't successfully educating kids from poor communities.

The other irony, as Tony Bryck and the co-authors of the now - classic 1992 study, Catholic Schools and the Common Good, discovered, is that by virtue of their rigor Catholic schools (once) did a better job educating ordinary kids, including the poor, than did public sSchools and the Common Good, discovered, is that by virtue of their rigor Catholic schools (once) did a better job educating ordinary kids, including the poor, than did public sschools (once) did a better job educating ordinary kids, including the poor, than did public schoolsschools.

Schools exist not only to benefit their immediate clients but also to contribute to the public good: a well - educated society.

Americans as a whole believe private and parochial schools do a better job of educating students than public schools do, something that might be remedied with the right federal or state public school education policies.

Most public schools today continue to follow an organizational design better suited for 20th century mass production than educating students in the 21st century.

In California, we believe parents, as educated consumers and advocates for their children, want to know more about how public schools are performing, and that policymakers should ensure the public has the necessary tools to make good use of multiple measures.

Rather than educate the best and brightest for placement into top universities and success in work and public service, Dunbar became a standard comprehensive high school that educated everyone residentially zoned to attend it.

And because education is not just a «private good» — all of our welfare depends on an educated populace — isn't it appropriate for the public to demand that schools meet certain standards, especially when taxpayer dollars are involved?

And, in fact, Nocera ignores most of the last 150 years of American history, during which time our public school system did rather well educating poor people.

«Public education is the use of public dollars to educate our children at the schools that are best equipped to do so — public schools, magnet schools, charter schools, Baptist schools, Jewish schools, or other innovations in educPublic education is the use of public dollars to educate our children at the schools that are best equipped to do so — public schools, magnet schools, charter schools, Baptist schools, Jewish schools, or other innovations in educpublic dollars to educate our children at the schools that are best equipped to do so — public schools, magnet schools, charter schools, Baptist schools, Jewish schools, or other innovations in educpublic schools, magnet schools, charter schools, Baptist schools, Jewish schools, or other innovations in education.

Given the reality that we should be educating all children ~ it may surprise the uninformed observer that the market - based approach is alive and well in the education field driving a set of reforms that is slowly eroding our public school system and creating an even wider and more troubling achievement gap; ensuring that more affluent students have access to better schools and more resources ~ while low - income students receive a second - class education.

Many parents have noticed for some time that district - run public schools aren't educating students well.

Nevertheless, despite our greatly enhanced commitments to public education — and despite the fact that children are growing up in better - educated and smaller families than ever before — student performance during this period, as measured by NAEP test scores for high school seniors in math and reading, moved hardly a hair's breadth.

«Since this program saves taxpayers money and the legislature will need to appropriate more funding to return these students to the local public schools, which will lead to increase costs to the local district; the legislature should instead provide the funding for the scholarship program to allow parents to choose schools they believe will best educate their children,» Duplessis added.

That is the promise of American public education — that all students will be well - educated — not just those chosen by lottery for a charter school that may not turn out to be better than the regular neighborhood school.

Nationally, about 20 percent of charter schools have been found to do a better job of educating students than public schools.

He says Indianapolis Public Schools administrators understand the challenges of educating inner - city students, but officials» good intentions are often lost in ineffective action plans.

The Collaborative is planning to produce a comprehensive school adequacy study using multiple methodologies that will provide policymakers with the best, most complete and most accurate information on the true costs of educating all Michigan public school students.

Opponents of charter schools argued that charter schools would take only the best and brightest students — and the funding that goes with them — leaving the public schools to educate at - risk and troublesome students.

According to local educators, America's public elementary and secondary schools are on the path to a more rigorous curriculum, and in their view this will lead to a better educated citizenry.

«Charter schools are leading the way in ensuring that all public schools be held accountable for how well they educate kids,» said Young.

The real lesson to draw from these facts is that the future of the country is directly linked to how well the 90 percent of American students in public schools are being educated.

«But parents in the neighborhood who were middle - class parents and were educated people banded together and decided, «Well, if we all send our child to the local public school, it will get better.»

That passion has fed the highly polarized debate around how well charter schools educate students in comparison to traditional public schools.