Sentences with phrase «what public school officials»

One need not be a historian of education or a theologian to assess the damage done to public education and then to society in general by how these cases were decided and what public school officials were empowered to do (or so they believed) despite the clearly given cautions from the Supreme Court itself.

Not exact matches

What matters, of course, is how a school answers these questions in practice, not necessarily in its official public rhetoric about itself.

«We need only look as far as Michigan to see what happens when elected officials allow profiteers like Betsy DeVos to drain resources from public schools and weaken the regulations that govern private, religious and charter schools,» he said.

What the public should do with this information is get schooled up on the actual risk and make sure that their public officials do the same and then the answer will become clear: we need to get our power from another source and we can do it.»

New York — On a recent Friday morning, while legislators and other state officials were making financial decisions that would make the difference between retaining and immediately laying off 1,000 of New York City's public - school teachers, Frank J. Macchiarola did what, in almost any other case, would be described as switching hats a few times.

Massachusetts education officials have released data that they hope will counteract what they say is a false public perception that most students in the class of 2003 who haven't yet passed the state's high school exit exams are members of minority groups or come from poor families.

Another charter school administrator reported that an official with the Toledo Public Schools (TPS) often flags student entries, but doesn't make clear what is wrong.

«What has traditionally made this country great is that the leaders don't have to be the elected officials,» says Olson, the president of the Parents for Public Schools national board of directors.

But Audrey Spalding, education policy director at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, wondered what these state officials have done to bring accountability to Michigan's conventional school system.

What we do know, with considerable certainty, is that while the percentage of students in the voucher schools with disabilities is substantially lower than the disability rate in the public schools, it is at least four times higher than public officials have claimed.

We keep the public, business leaders and elected officials abreast of what is working in schools and classrooms — and what isn't.

Does Connecticut's Governor Malloy and the array of state and local officials who are saying that schools will lose money really not know what the federal law is or are their intentionally misleading, even lying, as a way to keep parents and the public from knowing the truth?

«The Third Circuit ruling forces school officials to jettison educational judgments for highly legalistic ones in a way that jeopardizes the day - to - day work of public schools and potentially harms students,» said NSBA General Counsel Francisco M. Negrón, Jr. «This ruling misreads Supreme Court precedent recognizing that school officials have the authority to determine what is appropriate speech in schools and to limit student expression that is contrary to their educational mission.»

But Alexandria school officials said the academy costs are met entirely from regular public education funds, plus an extra amount the federal government allots annually for every student designated an «English Language Learner,» no matter what public school they attend.

DENVER — Kansas education officials deny standards they adopted for teaching of science in public schools endorse what critics say is a «a non-theistic religious Worldview.»

The California Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) will be seeking an injunction in Los Angeles County Superior Court to stop what it says is illegal interference by officials at Alliance College - Ready Public Schools against a unionization effort by some of its teachers.

What: Parents, teachers and supporters of Perseverance Preparatory School and Promise Academy - two proposed charter public schools - will be at the SJUSD Board Meeting to discuss the charter school petitions and recent intimidation tactics used by District offiSchool and Promise Academy - two proposed charter public schools - will be at the SJUSD Board Meeting to discuss the charter school petitions and recent intimidation tactics used by District offischool petitions and recent intimidation tactics used by District officials.

Because when push comes to shove, our elected officials are simply unwilling to do what it takes to have quality, adequately funded public schools.

What California's Schools Can Learn From Chicago's Officials in California are still peddling the idea that the state's public - school system — which receives 40 percent of the general - fund budget, by constitutional edict — is struggling because it lacks money.

There's no way now to make the comparison perfect, but one preferred method would be comparing the choice payment to what public schools get from local property taxes and general state aids, we heard from researchers or other officials at DPI, the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance and School Choice Wisconsin.

What was about to be an extraordinarily brief public meeting of the state's top education officials at Walter L. Cohen High School became an unscripted dialogue about the transformation of that school and others into charters Wednesday evSchool became an unscripted dialogue about the transformation of that school and others into charters Wednesday evschool and others into charters Wednesday evening.

At a recent town hall held by Great Public Schools Now, Myrna Castrejón, the leader of the nonprofit seeking to expand excellent schools in Los Angeles, waded into the audience of parents, community members and LA Unified officials to ask what kind of schools they wanted for theiSchools Now, Myrna Castrejón, the leader of the nonprofit seeking to expand excellent schools in Los Angeles, waded into the audience of parents, community members and LA Unified officials to ask what kind of schools they wanted for theischools in Los Angeles, waded into the audience of parents, community members and LA Unified officials to ask what kind of schools they wanted for theischools they wanted for their kids.

Since Malloy introduced his «Education Reform» agenda, the charter school industry and the corporate funded «education reform» advocacy groups have hired dozens of lobbyists and spent nearly $ 7 million, or more, to «persuade» Connecticut officials to adopt policies that are diametrically opposed to what is in the best interests of Connecticut students, parents, teachers and public school system.

Their utter failure to do what is right has left parents and public school advocates with no choice but to take steps to hold state and local school officials accountable for their abusive strategies and tactics.

Lip service about change — and that's what most families will initially conclude when they hear from school officials about a desire to value parent feedback — will always be trumped by action in the public's eye.

But infectious - disease experts and public - health officials say those closings, and steps taken elsewhere by education officials to approve emergency - closure protocols for schools far from any Ebola cases, go beyond what is necessary.

The second largest public school system in Massachusetts is expanding early childhood education through what officials say is a unique partnership with the private sector.

Just a few days after University of Massachusetts officials announced a plan to take over the private, unaccredited Southern New England School of Law and give the state its first public law school, proponents and opponents are lining up for what promises to be a heated bSchool of Law and give the state its first public law school, proponents and opponents are lining up for what promises to be a heated bschool, proponents and opponents are lining up for what promises to be a heated battle.

[Footnote 3/76] To what extent, and at what points in the curriculum, religious materials should be cited are matters which the courts ought to entrust very largely to the experienced officials who superintend our Nation's public schools.