The first question has to do with the changing demographics here in our neighborhood as well as in the public school system.
Most parents have opted for local parochial schools, where the children are receiving a significantly better education than those in the public school system.
It took another 25 years or so, but when I was finally, by having two kids in the public school system, getting some value out of the real estate taxes I had been paying all those years, I learned that orange and black are our town colors.
Recent budget issues have raised the spectre of fare hikes, but Trimet provides free transit to all high school students in the Portland Public School District, while other students receive a reduced-fare Youth Pass.
An elementary school teacher in the Bronx public school system can buy one.
When Dalio was eight, the family bought a three-bedroom house in Manhasset, and enrolled Ray in the local public school.
Having worked as an elementary school teacher in the Los Angeles public school system, Liz was profoundly concerned with the lack of arts programming offered to inner-city children.
The two respective sons are enrolled in the same public school in Palo Alto.
It was a disgrace, she said, that black males in the Baltimore public school system had a 75 percent dropout rate.
He makes 13% more than he did in the traditional public school, and teacher salaries at Newark Collegiate are negotiated individually.
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In New York City, the largest public school system in the nation, schools are ordering Common Core-aligned materials now for the upcoming school year.
He graduated in 2006 from Westview High School, a public school in the San Diego area, school officials said.
"As far as we know, (Active Learning) is the only public school in the nation that offers an all-vegetarian menu, " Feinberg said.
State high school associations nationwide are debating whether to split public and private schools in the playoffs, particularly in football, because of private-school dominance that the public schools say is unfair because they, unlike their private colleagues, can recruit, er, attract players from outside a geographical boundary.
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Florida reveals the next stage: linking vouchers to the performance of public schools in order to shake up the public-school system throughout the state.
Taking the view that states should go along with the expansion is Sara Rosenbaum, the Harold and Jane Hirsh professor in the School of Public Health and Health Services at George Washington University, also in Washington.
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The foundation stone was laid in April last year and when I recently visited the Nalanda Public Shiksha Niketan School in Banka, I could see the temple walls had already been built.
Bushman's students, among the best and the brightest in the New York City public school system, notice that the index rarely rises above 10%.
Such an organization is significant, especially in the tough urban public school system of Philadelphia -- Asian boys often discount themselves from their high school tryouts and Asian girls sideline themselves as spectators.
The average public school building in the United States is over 40 years old.
Where we used to have the best public school system in the world, now our kids rank 21st in science and 25th in math.
In America, strong pressure for reform comes from blacks and Hispanics in big cities, who are deserting the public school system in unprecedented numbers.
The tough champion of the Second Amendment has been taking heat since the NRA came out strongly in favor of armed security in every public school in America, days after the deadly shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.
It is not a strong interest in the constitution that has fired the public-school teachers.
In my experience, most of the public school teachers I know, in their heart of hearts, after years of rough experience, believe this.
The cut represents roughly 10% of all elementary school facilities in Chicago Public Schools, the country's third-largest school district.
Mr. Holmes graduated in 2006 from Westview High School, a new public high school in one of the best school districts in the region.
S. 244 may be the first all-vegetarian public elementary school in the nation.
After Gill finished boarding school at the Yadavindra Public School in Punjab, India, he joined his father and eldest brother in Jakarta.
Which means, once again, introducing the discussion of religion (or the lack thereof in this case) into the public school science curriculum.
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