Not exact matches
My partner who was the co-chair with me
of the committee we worked on continued as she had children still in the
public school system and I took my son
out for a
year to homeschool (we had already spent several
years homeschooling before his 2nd grade
year spent in the
public system).
«Earlier this
year, my office held a number
of community forums throughout New York City to discuss the future
of public schools and it became clear that New Yorkers will no longer allow their voices to be drowned
out of our
schools system.»
Fariña headed up the Big Apple's
public school system — the largest in the US — for four
years after coming
out of retirement in 2013.
But at 19, the Sudanese immigrant had just two
years to learn the language and pass five Regents exams before he would age
out of the traditional
public school system.
I served as a lead teacher for Bent On Learning for 6
years, which gave me the pleasure
of teaching Yoga to children from ages 4 to 18, through
out the NYC
Public School System.
Mr. Stanley had already done pioneering work in the design
of educational research when he was introduced in 1969 to a 13 -
year - old boy who had run
out of mathematics options available to him through his
public school system.
And he answers, «certainly not because I have any direct self - interest — no... I'm not profiting from my involvement in charter
schools (in fact, I shudder to think
of how much it's cost me), and I have little personal experience with the
public school system because I'm doubly lucky: my parents saw that I wasn't being challenged in
public schools, sacrificed (they're teachers / education administrators), and my last
year in
public school was 6th grade; and now, with my own children, I'm one
of the lucky few who can afford to buy my children's way
out of the NYC
public system [in] which, despite Mayor Bloomberg's and Chancellor Klein's herculean efforts, there are probably fewer than two dozen
schools (
out of nearly 1,500) to which I'd send my kids.»
In 2012, after
years of worsening test scores and abysmal graduation rates, the Lawrence
Public Schools system was taken over by the state
of Massachusetts — and the answer to all three
of those questions later turned
out to be «yes.»
There's a solid chance that the Kansas City
Public Schools Retirement
System (KCPSRS) could be
out of money in just 20
years.
Hosted by NYC Collaborates, «Diverse
Schools: Opportunities and Challenges in Integrating NYC's
Public Schools» discussed the historical roots
of school segregation; these continue to play
out across New York — even over 60
years after Brown v Board
of Education - as well as the current challenges our
school system faces and actionable solutions to spur integration.
Obama Says the Future
of U.S. Economy Depends on a Better Education
System By Roger Runningen - Sep 27, 2010 President Barack Obama said U.S.
public education
systems should extend the
school year and weed
out the worst - performing teachers because the future
of the nation's economy depends on a more educated workforce.
Nevertheless, Rep. Paul Stam has introduced a
school voucher bill that would move $ 90 million
out of the
public school system and into private institutions by offering eligible students $ 4,200 tuition reimbursements per
year.
Public school loyalists have seized on this and on a recent Legislative Fiscal Bureau (LFB) memo as proof the voucher system will suck hundreds of millions of dollars out of the public - school system — up to $ 800 million over 10 years, to be exact, according to the
Public school loyalists have seized on this and on a recent Legislative Fiscal Bureau (LFB) memo as proof the voucher
system will suck hundreds
of millions
of dollars
out of the
public - school system — up to $ 800 million over 10 years, to be exact, according to the
public -
school system — up to $ 800 million over 10
years, to be exact, according to the memo.
With 1
out of 4 living in poverty — far more than any other industrialized country (nearly double what it was 30
years ago); a more tattered safety net — more who are homeless, without health care, and without food security; a more segregated and inequitable
system of public education, in which the top
schools spend 10 times more than the lowest spending; we nonetheless have a defense budget larger than that
of the next 20 countries combined and greater disparities in wealth than any other leading country.
Last summer, lawmakers authorized a program that would provide 2,400 students with up to $ 4,200 each
year to attend private
schools, touting it as a «pilot» that would allow low - income students to seek
out alternative forms
of schooling to what the
public education
system has to offer.
This
school year, St. Louis
Public Schools barred
out -
of -
school suspensions for children in preschool through second grade, said Clay, adding that the
school system recognizes the intervention as clearly inappropriate and in conflict with a young child's long - term growth.
The Vallas
years saw the largest increase in the number
of children driven
out of the
public school system, thanks mainly to the testing programs
of Paul Vallas.
I am holding you responsible for the 9 -
year - old student who came to
school with hardly any sleep after witnessing his mother administer Narcan to save his father's life, only to then take a three - hour test and I am holding you responsible for the autistic child whose parents opted him
out of the test but the
school counseled him back into... I hold you responsible for not passing legislation that allows for a
public -
school TEACHER to serve on the Board
of EDUCATION, yet the chair
of this Board, Paul Sagan can contribute $ 600,000 to a campaign that sought to charterize, segregate, and create a two - tiered
system of privilege using high - stake test scores as the ammunition.»
And $ 2.5 million is allocated for each
year of the biennium to offset the cost
of the state's new virtual charter
schools, which are expected to draw 3,000 students
out of the
public education
system each
year.
Pryor has dedicated himself to hiring his personal friends, giving
out millions
of dollars in contracts to
out -
of - state, politically - connected companies, putting his «Turnaround Office» in the hands
of Morgan Barth, a person who illegally taught and worked for Pryor's charter
school management company (Achievement First, Inc.) for six
years and relentlessly and consistently doing the wrong thing for Connecticut's
system of public education.
It would involve forcibly transferring ownership
of all existing private
schools to the
school district in which they reside, and readjusting local tax schemes to capture the tuition parents currently pay (the nationwide average is $ 8,549 per
year, which means a total
of $ 47 billion is spent each
year on opting
out of the
public education
system).
The Florida
public -
school establishment is suing to repeal the Sunshine State's 13 -
year - old
school - choice tax credit and its new education savings accounts under the state's Blaine Amendment and its «uniformity clause,» which mandates that «Adequate provision shall be made by law for a uniform, efficient, safe, secure, and high quality
system of free
public schools...» The Florida Supreme Court previously struck down the state's voucher program under this provision in Bush v. Holmes (2006), on the grounds that the vouchers «divert [ed]
public dollars» from «the sole means set
out in the Constitution for the state to provide for the education
of Florida's children.»
She has been teaching in a
public school system for over 10
years, starting a career right
out of undergraduate
school.
Students assigned to special education programs often encounter significant challenges in obtaining an education in the New York City
public school system — some parents are sent back and forth between
schools and enrollment centers without their problems being resolved; some students are kept
out of school because they must wait for proper placements or special education services after the
school year starts; and some students with disabilities do not receive the special transportation they need to get to
school.