I'd just come from a parent engagement meeting
where public school officials challenged parents and staff to help children achieve beyond all expectations — and beyond those who believed they could not achieve.
Not exact matches
While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high
school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports,
where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected
officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising
public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.
The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High
School Public Safety Act, named for the high school where 19 - year - old Nikolas Cruz used an AR - 15 to kill 17 students and school officials, raises Florida's minimum age for purchasing guns to 21, requires a three - day waiting period for firearms purchases, bans the sale of bump stocks, and, controversially, sets aside $ 67 million to arm tea
School Public Safety Act, named for the high
school where 19 - year - old Nikolas Cruz used an AR - 15 to kill 17 students and school officials, raises Florida's minimum age for purchasing guns to 21, requires a three - day waiting period for firearms purchases, bans the sale of bump stocks, and, controversially, sets aside $ 67 million to arm tea
school where 19 - year - old Nikolas Cruz used an AR - 15 to kill 17 students and
school officials, raises Florida's minimum age for purchasing guns to 21, requires a three - day waiting period for firearms purchases, bans the sale of bump stocks, and, controversially, sets aside $ 67 million to arm tea
school officials, raises Florida's minimum age for purchasing guns to 21, requires a three - day waiting period for firearms purchases, bans the sale of bump stocks, and, controversially, sets aside $ 67 million to arm teachers.
At the community level, support for
schools might also be enhanced under a regime of
public school choice, because fewer people would feel compromised, silenced, or alienated in an environment
where well - intentioned
school officials are forced to accommodate conflicting constituent demands and wind up doing so in ways that favor the most vocal, affluent, or well - organized.
Officials at the Chicago
Public Schools have released a list of contingency sites
where parents can take their children on April 1, 2016, when teachers plan to participate in a walkout.
Indianapolis
Public Schools officials let students at the four buildings facing state - led takeovers choose
where they want to go to
school next year, so long as they made a decision by February.
I'm never one to doubt that local
school boards and
public safety
officials will find a way to hire even amid bad budget news, but the pressure on state and local budgets is so great and shows so little sign of abating that I couldn't help wondering
where the money might come from.
In the hysterically titled «GOP War On Learning Continues In Senate Tax Plan, State Funding Cuts,» he writes, «As the Republican - controlled Congress continues to advance tax plans that slash funding from
public education, a new report reveals how state and local government
officials, especially
where GOP leadership dominates, have continued a decade - long campaign to keep
school funding below levels that preceded the Great Recession.»
San Antonio's
public school officials could learn from their peers in other U.S. cities
where running
public schools like charters empowers teachers, administrators, and parents, author David Osborne said Monday night at a panel discussion on
public education.
«Traps to catch feral cats have been removed from two Santa Ana
school campuses,
where public health
officials have been trying to stop the spread of typhus, a city
official said Friday.