Sentences with phrase «which type of public school»

«Regardless of which type of public school they attend, all Tennessee students deserve equitable funding.»

To ensure all children throughout the county are well served, regardless of where they live and which type of public school they attend, the compact establishes a local Advisory Committee to ensure that district and school leaders execute shared commitments and strategies, including supporting accountability, transparency, and adequate and appropriate access to services and resources; and providing parents and students access to high quality public school options.

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Can we reconceive theological education in such a way that (1) it clearly pertains to the totality of human life, in the public sphere as well as the private, because it bears on all of our powers; (2) it is adequate to genuine pluralism, both of the «Christian thing» and of the worlds in which the «Christian thing» is lived, by avoiding naiveté about historical and cultural conditioning without lapsing into relativism; (3) it can be the unifying overarching goal of theological education without requiring the tacit assumption that there is a universal structure or essence to education in general, or theological inquiry in particular, which inescapably denies genuine pluralism by claiming to be the universal common denominator to which everything may be reduced as variations on a theme; and (4) it can retrieve the strengths of both the «Athens» and the «Berlin» types of excellent schooling, without unintentionally subordinating one to the other?

To determine which type of football helmets and mouth guards are associated with a lower incidence and severity of concussions in high school football players, McGuine and his colleagues worked with certified athletic trainers (ATCs) to collect data on 2,288 players at 36 public and private high schools in Wisconsin during the 2012 and 2013 football seasons.

David Cameron «lectured a business audience in India» on the need to have 50 % of company directors as women while «just four of Cameron's 22 - strong Cabinet are women» while «as for the educational background of Cabinet ministers, God help any university which showed such a bias towards public school types.»

The majority of resistant strains of pneumococcus are of types which are included in the vaccine, for this reason, vaccine introduction in South Africa, has led to a substantial decline in antibiotic resistant invasive pneumococcal disease,» said Dr Cheryl Cohen, co-author of the paper, Clinical Epidemiologist at the NICD and senior lecturer in the School of Public Health at Wits.

A Harvard School of Public Health study found that a diet which included brown rice reduced the risk of type 2 diabetes by 16 %.

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.

Those choice district schools, which are attended by the 9 percent of students in chosen public schools who did not attend charters, can not be further classified by type.

Participation in these types of programs can improve students» English language proficiency, which in turn has been associated with improved educational outcomes.1 The percentage of public school students in the United States who were ELLs was higher in fall 2015 (9.5 percent, or 4.8 million students) than in fall 2000 (8.1 percent, or 3.8 million students).2

But when families are asked which type of school they would select in order to obtain the best education for their child, the numbers change dramatically: 41 percent would choose private school and 36 percent would remain in public school.

Over the years, Tanaisia has attended both public charter and traditional district schools, which has allowed me to fully see the differences in opportunities that are presented at each type of school.

Today, too many public, charter, and independent school sector leaders argue about which type of school is best able to serve children.

The spectrum of possibilities, for instance, might extend from a Debbie Meyers - type public alternative school, which has no principal and instead is staff - run, to a Sudbury Valley - type school that is entirely governed by the school's democratic meeting.

A little more checking, and I found that the study was paid for by a small endowment at Rutgers called the Daniel Tanner Foundation which describes itself as «advancing American public education, specifically with regard to the democratizing function and design of the curriculum of nonselective elementary schools and nonselective secondary schools of the comprehensive type.

I also sponsored the second portion, which would allow the state to create new types of public schools to meet the educational needs of the next generation.

«There is a compelling case to be made that this type of information does shed light on the performance of public schools, which is the goal of freedom of information laws,» said David Schulz, a media law expert in Washington, D.C.

Instead, he called out the state's current «whimsical» and «illusory» education funding decisions that are no longer guided by any clear rational formula, which leaves students with similar learning needs funded at radically different amounts based on where a student lives or the type of the type of public school a student attends.

Scheduled time during the contract year (e.g., weekdays in which students were not in school, allowing teachers to participate in professional development activities) was the most prevalent type of support that public school teachers received for professional development, provided to 79 percent of teachers.

As part of the innovateNJ community of school districts that shares best practices, Springfield Public Schools spent last year analyzing test score data over a four - year period to see which students struggled and what types of questions they had trouble with, said Sharon Nagy - Johnson, director of instructional technology.

OCI seeks to change the education policy conversation from one where labor, public, charter, and independent school sector leaders argue about which type of school is best able to serve children, to one where parents choose the best quality educational options for their child — no matter what form it comes in.

About 3 percent of the state's public - school students now attend both types of charter schools, which are concentrated in urban areas.

Great Public Schools Now supports the expansion of high - quality choices for students in high need neighborhoods, which includes charter schools as well as many other types of public opPublic Schools Now supports the expansion of high - quality choices for students in high need neighborhoods, which includes charter schools as well as many other types of public oSchools Now supports the expansion of high - quality choices for students in high need neighborhoods, which includes charter schools as well as many other types of public oschools as well as many other types of public oppublic options.

For parents who take time to compare their choices, the tendency thus far is toward choosing more back - to - basics types of schools or specialty schools, many of which are just as traditional in their approaches to learning as the public schools.

Previous work on the impact of philanthropy in education terms these types of status quo investments as «lower leverage» grants, which can include funding for efforts in professional development, unrestricted or general purpose grants to schools, or special - purpose grants to fund a particular program or activity (e.g. arts enrichment).4 The contrasting approach — the «higher leverage» investment — is investment with the potential to exert systemic influence on public education, which can be divided into two broad categories: 5

The bills are modeled after California's Parent Empowerment Act of 2010, which enables parents to force one of five types of major reforms on a low - performing public school if a simple majority of parents sign a petition seeking the change.

(b) Reductions in premiums shall be available if all named drivers who are 25 years of age or older: (1) Have committed no traffic offenses for the prior three years or since the date of licensure, whichever is shorter; (2) Have had no claims based on fault against an insurer for the prior three years; and (3) Complete one of the following types of driving courses: (A) A course in defensive driving of not less than six hours from a driver improvement clinic or commercial or noncommercial driving school approved by and under the jurisdiction of the Department of Driver Services; (B) An emergency vehicles operations course at the Georgia Public Safety Training Center; (C) A course in defensive driving of not less than six hours from a driver improvement program which is administered by a nonprofit organization such as the American Association of Retired People, the American Automobile Association, the National Safety Council, or a comparable organization and which meets the standards promulgated by the Department of Driver Services pursuant to subsection (f) of this Code section; or (D) A course in defensive driving of not less than six hours offered by an employer to its employees and their immediate families, which course has been approved by the Department of Driver Services.

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