Sentences with phrase «which most public schools»

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«What public school have you worked with the most and which public school principal to do you personally have the best relationship with, and how has it impacted your viewpoint on K - 12 education?

Megan Randall, a researcher at the Urban Institute who studies economic development policy, said companies cared most about a talented work force, which requires good schools and colleges, and amenities like affordable housing, parks and public transit that make a place desirable.

A client asked me the other day why in the world he should care about getting links from a few K - 12 public school library Web sites, most of which look horrible, have very few visitors, and live way out in the middle of nowhere in the.

Our challenge is to present better educational offerings, using what - ever tools are most efficacious, which no doubt would include public schools.

Most raise their prices for kids who can pay, according to research by the nonprofit School Nutrition Association, which found that nearly 60 percent of public school districts raised lunch prices in 2009, the last full year for which national figures were avaiSchool Nutrition Association, which found that nearly 60 percent of public school districts raised lunch prices in 2009, the last full year for which national figures were avaischool districts raised lunch prices in 2009, the last full year for which national figures were available.

The majority of New Orleans children attend charter schools — 9 out of 10 — which leaves more room for choice than areas where public schools are most popular.

He is known as a committed advocate for public education, and co-founded the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which won billions of dollars for city schools from the state, though most of that money has never materialized.

«Now, because the climate of the school is going to be public, their incentive is to clean it up, actually fix the problem,» Gillibrand said — which may cause the most headaches for colleges under the proposed bill.

Lib Dems privately recognise the deeply illiberal record of the last three years of the coalition, but insist that they were wiser to spend political capital on measures with potentially big public support, like free school meals, rather than matters like legal aid or judicial review, which are completely alien to most people.

He's also in favor of free tuition to CUNY colleges for low - and middle - income students, smaller class sizes in the city's public schools, and desegregation of the school system, which he noted is the «third most segregated in the nation.»

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.

Critics have carped that the Bloomberg - led system fails to give parents sufficient voice — whatever that means — but the current arrangement is a night - and - day improvement over the old Board of Education, which was not only less accountable to the public, but failed at its most basic mission: improving our schools and teaching our kids.

Samual Radford is president of District Parent Coordinating Council, which has emerged the past several years as the most organized and vocal advocate of reforming Buffalo public schools.

In order to ensure that the best teachers are hired and retained in the classrooms in which they are needed most, he proposed offering full tuition as an incentive to top CUNY and SUNY students who pledge in return to serve as public school teachers for a minimum of 5 years.

The K - 12 budget's Foundation Aid increase of $ 700 million will help address the resource needs of New York's public schools, which remain among the most inequitably funded in the nation.

In his testimony at the hearing, Deputy Chancellor Josh Wallack admitted the city has a long way to go in integrating public schools, which are some of the most segregated in the nation.

President Nana Akufo - Addo last Friday said it is most appropriate to use a part of the country's oil revenue to fund the policy, which was rolled out last September to offer free education to persons who qualify into public senior high schools.

Public School, which is the ultimate cool girl street chic, had the most amazing collection with jumpsuits.

So far, I've been leaning towards things that are generally more formal than the dress code for teachers in most public schools just to further differentiate myself from the students, and I've mostly been wearing heels (which also give me a slight height advantage, because I'm petite).

Next year the company also expands into television with its limited scripted drama series Central Park Five, directed by Ava DuVernay, which will be released through Netflix, and acclaimed documentarian Steve James» unscripted series America to Me, a year - long look into one of America's most exemplary and diverse public schools in Chicago's suburban Oak Park.

Our basic assumption was that K12's model — which relied on parents or other caretakers doing most of the instruction — wouldn't be feasible for kids living in poverty, most of whom would need the custodial care offered by traditional public schools.

The prediction comes from both proponents and opponents of the tuition - voucher measure, which, by providing parents with $ 900 for each student enrolled in a private or out - of - district public school, would be the most extensive choice program yet adopted by any state.

The PLCs also don't accept English - language learners, kids with discipline problems or most disabilities, or those with elementary - level reading and math abilities, as other public schools must, which muddies the comparison.

The report also shows private school students outperforming public students in reading in most states for which comparisons were possible, but it urges caution in interpreting those results.

A new analysis from the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center finds that the graduation rate for America's public schools stands just shy of 75 percent for the class of 2010, the most recent year for which data are available.

If one's purpose is to evaluate the effects of a specific public policy, such as the District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP), then the comparison of the average outcomes of the treatment and control groups, regardless of what proportion attended which types of school, is most appropriate.

During the 2005 — 06 school year, the most recent year for which U.S. Department of Education data are available, the nation's public schools spent $ 187 billion in salaries and $ 59 billion in benefits for instructional personnel.

In A Democratic Constitution for Public Education, Hill and Jochim propose doing away with school boards and replacing them with «civic education councils» — democratic bodies with clear but limited responsibilities — which oversee schools with much more freedom than most enjoy today.

Then, of course, there is the most common tactic for sorting out the hardest to teach: the iron reality of the real estate market, which prohibits low - income families, statistically the lowest achieving, from any hope of moving to affluent neighborhoods with «high performing» public schools.

Most public school teachers participate in defined benefit (DB) pension plans, which because of different accounting rules contribute significantly less today for each dollar of future retirement benefits than private - sector DB pensions or defined contribution (DC) pension plans.

My concern is about most public schools in Africa and elsewhere that are forgotten and which face a lack of...

This multi-disciplinary approach could also be seen in the creation of collaborations between HGSE and other schools at Harvard, most notably the Public Education Leadership Project which brought together the management training of the Business School with the education leadership of the Ed School.

Choosing Schools «most unique contribution is to evaluate systems of school choice in terms of how they could serve various public interests - namely, the degree to which a system of choice can promote equity, student achievement, and social capital (or social connectedness).

The most commonly used national data file, the Schools and Staffing Survey, includes a survey in which roughly 42,000 public school teachers were asked about their education backgrounds and teaching credentials.

There is one area in which costs will most certainly be higher than for public schools: that of marketing and promotion.

Through this initiative, students from six local public middle schools monitor the waters around Mount Desert Island by regularly testing phytoplankton for toxic species, particularly the most prevalent one, Alexandrium, which is known to trigger red tide events — toxic discoloration of ocean waters — that can result in poisoning shellfish.

Most of the crucial decisions about how U.S. schools run and who teaches what to whom in which classrooms are still made in 14,000 semi-autonomous school districts, nearly all of them run by locally elected school boards, often with campaign dollars supplied by those with whom they negotiate collectively, and managed by professional superintendents, trained in colleges of education and socialized over the years into the prevailing culture of public education.

Most public schools do not use an SEL model, which Price believes is a mistake.

This message garnered the most negative reaction from likely Democratic primary voters: «The candidate sponsored charter schools, which take away significant funding from public schools.»

A behavioral argument could also be made: that the state's reform policies, its public shaming and sanctions for low - performing schools, would most strongly influence the behavior of urban districts, which tend to have a history of low performance and mismanagement.

Consistency may be the hobgoblin of small minds; yet the contrast between allowing taxpayer support of private schools, which are neither accountable nor transparent to the public, and imposing the most stringent reporting and accountability standards on all public schools should alarm the fair - minded.

In her article, she looks at research on the impact of the Kalamazoo Promise experiment, in which students attending public schools in Kalamazoo, Michigan can access funds from private donors to pay for all or most of the tuition at any of Michigan's public universities or community colleges.

And it's the small - to medium - sized districts — which serve nearly half of the nation's public school students — that could benefit the most from this initiative, as they don't have the scale to have much central - office capacity.

Since 1995, the board has approved plans for 159 charter schools, which are independently run public schools that operate free of most state regulations.

Most of the private schools at which students used the CSF scholarships operate with less than half as much per - pupil spending as the public schools.

My concern is about most public schools in Africa and elsewhere that are forgotten and which face a lack of eLearning materials; this will become a problem in the future.

Most of the private schools at which students used the scholarships operate with less than half as much per - pupil spending as the public schools.

Competition, whether it comes from vouchers, independent private schools, public charter schools, or the breaking up of oversize districts, is the tonic to which Hoxby's work most clearly points.

Here, John Dewey, no fan of the Catholics or their schools, which he pronounced «inimical to democracy,» may have had the last laugh: Once known for their rigorous academic and organizational structure, Catholic schools now implement many of the instructional theories and practices that predominate in Dewey - inspired progressive - education schools (the dominant principle of our public schools for most of the last fifty years).

In 2004 (the most recent year for which data are available) minority teachers were seriously underrepresented in the nation's public school classrooms.