Public-school Sentence Examples

A law enacted in 1908 requires that children between eight and fifteen years of age shall attend school twenty-four weeks each year, provided the public school in their district is in session that length of time.

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The public school system was established in 1839, being based on the programme for state education prepared in 1816-1817 by Archibald Debow Murphey (1777-1832), whose educational ideas were far in advance of his day.

He graduated at Bowdoin College in 1840; and in 1847, at the request of Prof. Andrews Norton, went to Cambridge, where he was principal of a public school until 1856.

The public school system, however, was not established until 1825, and then it developed very slowly.

As early as 1831 an unsuccessful attempt was made to form an adequate public school fund; the first real effort to establish a common school system for the territory was made after 1835; in 1840 there were altogether 18 academies and 51 common schools, and in 1849 the state legislature made an appropriation in the interest of the public instruction of white pupils, and this was supplemented by the proceeds of land granted by the United States government for the same purpose.

Blow, he established in St Louis the first permanent public-school kindergarten in America.

Its public-school system was organized in 1871.

Education is given by a public-school system, which, while nominally providing for separate schools for Catholics and Protestants, makes it practically impossible at most points to carry on such schools.

Perry, erected in commemoration of his victory on Lake Erie in 1813, is in Wade Park, where there is also a statue of Harvey Rice (1800-1891), who reformed the Ohio public school system and wrote Pioneers of the Western Reserve (1882) and Sketches of Western Life (1888).

Cleveland has an excellent public school system.

The state supports a highly efficient public school system, organized through all the grades from the primary district and rural schools to the state university.

The schools are supported by a state tax, and by the proceeds of a permanent school fund amounting (in 1908) to $19,709,383; in the same year the total value of all public school property was $28,297,420.

Among the principal public buildings are the Whittemore Memorial Public Library (1892), a fine high school and the large Salem school (part of the public school system), all given to the borough by John Howard Whittemore of Naugatuck, who in addition endowed the library and the high school.

Deniliquin has a well-known public school.

Merchiston Academy, housed in the old castle of Napier, the inventor of logarithms, is another institution conducted on English public school lines.

There are a number of parochial and conventual schools, the church being hostile to the public-school system.

In modern times many of the convents have been devoted to educational work especially for girls, which is an obstacle to the successful development of a public school system in the country.

The public school system of Rhode Island was established in 1800, abolished in 1803, and re-established in 1828.

The total enrolment in the public schools in 1905 was 71,425 and the total expenditure for public school purposes was $1,987,751.

The university, organized in 1847, and occupying the old State Capitol grounds, is an integral part of the public school system of the state, and is under the control of a board of regents, consisting of the governor, the superintendent of public instruction and eleven members, elected - one from each congressional district - by the General Assembly.

This important public school was opened in 1843, originally for the sons of clergymen, by whom alone certain scholarships are tenable.

Campbell, a Belfast merchant, who left 200,000 for the building and endowment of a public school.

He was educated at the public school of Basel, and also received private instruction from the learned Hoffmann, then professor of Greek.

The first public school law, passed in 1829, was based largely on the principle of " local option," each school district being left free to determine the character of its own school or even to decide, if it wished, against having any school at all.

The permanent public school fund is the largest of any state in the Union; in 1908 it included $38,406,222 in land notes, $15,136,808 in bonds, $7,915,257 (estimated) in leased lands, and $67,956 in cash awaiting investment.

Since 1904 the public school system has been administered by a non-partisan Board of Education chosen from the city at large, and not by wards as theretofore.

The public school system includes common, high and normal schools, and various evening, industrial and truant schools.

Graduate courses are given in agriculture, business, domestic art and science, library methods, "matrons'" training, and public school teaching.

Until sixteen years of age no child is to be so employed without an employment certificate issued by a commissioner of health, and showing that the child has completed an eight years' course of study in a public school of the state or has had an equivalent schooling elsewhere.

The public school system is administered by a state superintendent of public instruction, a state board of education, regents or trustees of higher institutions of learning, a superintendent of the common schools and a board of education in each county, and a board of directors in each school district.

All children between eight and fifteen years of age, and all between fifteen and sixteen years of age who are not regularly employed in some useful or remunerative occupation, must attend the public school all the time it is in session or a private school for the same time unless excused by the city or the county superintendent because of mental or physical disability or because of proficiency in the branches taught in the first eight grades.

In this direction the principal buildings are the Wolfendahl church, a massive Doric building of the Dutch (1749); the splendid Roman Catholic cathedral of St Lucia (completed in 1904); and St Thomas's College (1851), which follows the lines of an English public school.

The public school system is administered by state, county and district officers.

At the head of the public-school system is a superintendent of public instruction chosen for two years.

The Milwaukee public school system comprises four high schools, a high school of trades, and in addition to the ordinary grades, a kindergarten department and day schools for the blind and deaf.

At the head of the public school system is a superintendent of public instruction, chosen for two years.

As parts of its public school system the city maintains twelve summer or vacation schools, evening schools, a normal and training school for the education of teachers, a school of drawing, and a technical school, the last for evening classes.

The city has an excellent public school system.

Scranton is the see of a Roman Catholic bishop, has a good public school system, and is the seat of the International Correspondence Schools (1891), which give instruction by mail in the trades and professions to large numbers of students; Mt.

Mexico adopted the metric system in 1862, and it is used in all official transactions, land measurements, railway calculations and public school work.

The city has a good public school system.

The Putnam Free School, now part of the public school system, was endowed early in the 19th century by Oliver Putnam of Newburyport and afterwards of Hampstead, New Hampshire.

In connexion with the public elementary schools throughout Canada, where the principles of agriculture are taught to some extent, manual training centres, provided out of funds supplied by the same public-spirited donor, are now maintained by local and provincial public school authorities.

Up to 1907 the state licensed the sale of liquor, and liquor licence fees were partly turned over to the public school fund; there was a dispensary system in some counties; and in 1907 one-third of the counties of the state (22 out of 67) were "dry."

The constitution of 1868 authorized " a thorough system of general education, to be for ever free to all children of the State," and in 1870 the first public school law was enacted.

The city has a good public school system, including, besides the usual departments, departments of manual training and domestic science.

Every child between the ages of six and fifteen must attend either a public school or a duly authorized private school.

A split among the Democrats in 1835, due to the opposition of the Germans to internal improvements and to the establishment of a public school system, resulted in the election as governor of Joseph Ritner, the antiMasonic candidate.

The educational institutions include the Mayo Rajkumar college, opened in 1875, for training the sons of the nobles of Rajputana, on the lines of an English public school.

Framingham Academy was established in 1792, and in 1851 became a part of the public school system.

Kingston Academy was organized in 1773, and in 1864 was transferred to the Kingston Board of Education and became part of the city's public school system; its present building dates from 1806.

The public school was founded here by Sir Thomas Phillips in 1847.

Notwithstanding this privation, he highly distinguished himself at the public school of Cahors, and in 1857 proceeded to Paris to study law.

The public school system of Manila includes, besides the common schools and Manila high school, the American school, the Philippine normal school (1901), the Philippine school of arts and trades (1901), the Philippine medical school (1907) and the Philippine school of commerce (1908).

The fine and extensive buildings, of which the nucleus is a mansion of the 17th century, contain a public school for boys and a house of studies for Jesuit ecclesiastics, while there is a preparatory school at a short distance.

De Land, above mentioned, who built a public school here in 1877 and a high school in 1883.

That it was the founder's intention to establish a great public school upon the model of Westminster and St Paul's, with provision for university training, is shown by the statutes; but for more than two centuries the educational benefits of God's Gift College were restricted to the twelve poor scholars.

In this capacity he was also ex officio the superintendent of common schools, and rendered valuable services to his state in perfecting and expanding the free public school system, and in establishing state normal schools.

In 1855 a second school law providing for a state school tax was enacted, and this is the foundation of the existing public school system; the constitution of 1870 also requires the legislature to provide a thorough and efficient system of public schools.

Among several other sites and buildings of historical interest the Charterhouse west of Aldersgate Street, stands first, originally a Carthusian monastery, subsequently a hospital and a school out of which grew the famous public school at Godalming.

The legal beginnings of a public school system date from 1843; in 1867 the first tax was imposed for its support.

The experiment of state-prepared text-books was expensive, and its effect was bad on the public school system, as such text-books were almost without exception poorly written and poorly printed.

All children between seven and fourteen years of age must attend a public, private or parochial school during the entire time that the public school of their district is in session unless excused by the district board.

The public school system, under the control of a Board of Education of six men and three women appointed by the supreme court judges of the District of Columbia, embraces kindergartens, primary schools, grammar schools, high schools, a business high school, manual training schools, normal schools and night schools.

All children between the ages of eight and twelve years are required to attend a public school at least twelve weeks in a year (six weeks consecutively) unless excused on account of weakness of mind or body, unless the child can read and write and is attending a private school, or unless the child lives more than two miles from the nearest school and more than one mile from an established public school wagon route.

The public school system of Colorado dates from 1861, when a school law was passed by the Territorial legislation; this law was superseded by that of 1876, which with subsequent amendments is still in force.

It is attractively situated, has a fine public school system, including a high school, a manual training school, a domestic science department, and kindergarten and day schools for the deaf.

At the head of the public school system is a Board of Education of seven members, including the governor and the superintendent of public instruction; this Board apportions the school fund among the counties, selects the text-books and prepares the examinations for teachers.

The public school buildings, high school and Alberta College are attractive.

Its schools are managed by an elected public school board.

The first city charter was obtained in 1850, and in 1857 the public school system was established.

Among them are the Mabel Tainter Memorial Library, the Dunn County School of Agriculture, the Dunn County Normal Training School, the Stout Institute for the training of teachers of domestic science &c., institutions in which public school children receive physical training.

Under the old conservative regime very little was done for the public school outside the larger towns.

The increasing influence of more liberal ideas greatly improved the situation with reference to popular education, and the government now makes vigorous efforts to bring its public school system within the reach of all.

The system includes the University of Chile and National Institute at Santiago, lyceums or high schools in all the provincial capitals and larger towns, normal schools at central points for the training of public school teachers, professional and industrial schools, military schools and primary schools.

At the beginning of the 10th century there were 41 public libraries in the republic, including public school collections, with an aggregate of 240,000 volumes.

At the beginning of Nnlrud-Din Shahs reign, a public school on the lines of a French lyce was opened in Teheran, principally with the object of educating officers for the army, but also of introducing a knowledge of Western.

The first public school was established in 1849.

Personal property to the value of $500 is exempt from the same liability, The public school system was established in 1871.

The city has a good public school system and various private schools, including the DearbornMorgan School (for girls) and the Carteret Academy (for boys).

His uncles, John Breckinridge (1797-1841), professor of pastoral theology in the Princeton Theological Seminary in1836-1838and for many years after secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, and Robert Jefferson Breckinridge (1800-1871), for several years superintendent of public instruction in Kentucky, an important factor in the organization of the public school system of the state, a professor from 18J3 to 1871 in the Danville Presbyterian Theological Seminary at Danville, Kentucky, and the temporary chairman of the national Republican convention of 1864, were both prominent clergymen of the Presbyterian Church.

The state supports the Michigan Asylum for the Insane (opened 1859), at Kalamazoo; the Eastern Michigan Asylum for the Insane (opened 1878), at Pontiac; the Northern Michigan Asylum for the Insane (opened 1885), at Traverse City; the Michigan Asylum for the Dangerous and Criminal Insane (established 1885), at Ionia; the Upper Peninsula Hospital for the Insane, at Newberry; a Psychopathic Hospital (established 1907), at Ann Arbor; a State Sanatorium (established 1905), at Howell; the Michigan State Prison (established 1839), at Jackson; the Michigan Reformatory (established 1887), at Ionia; the State House of Correction and Branch Prison (established 1885), at Marquette; the Industrial School for Boys, at Lansing; the Industrial Home for Girls (established 1879), near Adrian; the State Public School (opened 1874), at Coldwater, a temporary home for dependent children until homes in families can be found for them; the School for the Deaf (established 1854), at Flint; the School for the Blind, at Lansing; an Employment Institution for the Blind (established 1903), at Saginaw; the Home for the Feeble Minded and Epileptic (established 1893), at Lapeer; and the Michigan Soldiers' Home (established 1885), at Grand Rapids.

A public school fund was established in 1817.

The public school system is administered under the direction of a superintendent of public instruction and a state board of education.

The income from the state school fund is divided among the counties on the basis of the total number of days of attendance of the public school pupils; the legislative appropriation, however, is apportioned among the counties according to their assessed property values.

At the head of the public school system is the university of Maine, near the village of Orono in Orono township (pop. in 1900, 3257), Penobscot county.

Although Allegheny is now a part of Pittsburg, the two public school systems remain independent.

At the head of the public school system is a state superintendent of public instruction, elected for four years, and a board of education, composed of the state superintendent, the president of the state university, the president of the Agricultural College, and two appointees of the governor serving for four years.

The idea of providing a university and free local schools as parts of a public school system occurs in the constitution of 1820 (and in the Acts of Congress that prepared the way for statehood), and the occurrence is noteworthy; but the real beginnings of the system scarcely go back further than 1850.

The maintenance of a free public school system was placed on a firm and broad foundation by the constitution adopted in that year.

Although Bogota was reputed to be an educational centre in colonial times, so slight an influence did this exert upon the country that Colombia ended the 19th century with no effective public school system, very few schools and colleges, and fully 90% of illiteracy in her population.

The public school system (organized 1873) is administered by the state superintendent of public instruction, who exercises a general supervision over the schools, and by the state board of education, which prescribes the general rules and regulations for their management.

Special county taxes are levied for the maintenance of public school libraries also.

Education.-Indiana has a well-organized free public school system.

In1906-1907the state school tax was increased from 11 6 cents per $100 to 13.6 cents per $100; an educational standard was provided, coming into effect in August 1908, for public school teachers, in addition to the previous requirement of a written test; a regular system of normal training was authorized; uniform courses were provided for the public high schools; and small township schools with twelve pupils or less were discontinued, and transportation supplied for pupils in such abandoned schools to central school houses.

Salt Lake City has a good public school system In the city is the University of Utah, chartered in 1850 as the University of the state of Deseret and opened in November 1850; it was practically discontinued from 1851 until 1867, and then was scarcely more than a business college until 1869; its charter was amended in 5884 and a new charter was issued in 1894, when the present style of the corporation was assumed; in 1894 60 acres from the Fort Douglas reservation were secured for the campus.

The employment of children under fourteen years of age in any factory, workshop, mine, bowling alley or beer garden is forbidden, and their employment at any gainful occupation is permitted only during the vacation of the public school.

Wisconsin has an excellent free public school system, which was established in 1848 and which provides a graded system of instruction in country district and city schools, high schools and normal schools and the University of Wisconsin (incorporated 1848; see Wisconsin, University Of).

The total public school enrolment in 1909-1910 was 466,554.

In the same year the free public school system was established, and the great stream of German immigration set in.

The public school system, the "Quincy System," was made famous in1875-1880by Col.

The Pennsylvania railway, co-operating with the public school authorities, established at Altoona, in 1907, a railway high school, the first institution of the kind in the country.

The Springfield public school system is excellent, and in addition to the regular high school there are a technical high school, a vocational school, and a kindergarten training school.

The Winyah Indigo Society grew out of a social club organized about 1740, and was founded in 1757 by a group of planters interested in raising indigo; it long conducted a school (discontinued during the Civil War) which eventually became part of the city's public school system.

A Home for the Friendless, at Lincoln, incorporated in 1876, was taken over by the state in 1897; admission was restricted to children, and in 1909 its name was changed to the State Public School.

The educational institutions, in addition to those of the general public school system, include several parochial schools, schools of art and of music, and commercial colleges; Detroit College (Catholic), opened in 1877; the Detroit College of Medicine, opened in 1885; the Michigan College of Medicine and Surgery, opened in 1888; the Detroit College of law, founded in 1891, and a city normal school.

He passed through the public school of Skara, and in his twentieth year became a student at Upsala.

Manual training, from the fourth to the twelfth grades, is a feature of the public school system.

The public school system was inaugurated in 1830, but not until 1845 was the principle of taxation for support fully recognized.

In April 1910 Leslie Hartley became a boarder at Clifton College, a public school on the edge of Bristol.

A boy who is good at games is usually treated with great civility by the masters at an English Public School.

He believes that the changes being made within the public school system are merely cosmetic.

The RP that is now challenged only became a dogma in the late 19th century, fostered by the public school system.

She went on to teach kindergarten for thirty-two years in the public school system.

When they are five or six they are driven into the public school to infect it with the moral miasma of their lairs.

She attends the public school preschool at the same school where I teach.

Its influence is even felt at a British public school.

Perhaps it's something to do with my public school upbringing, a public school at which I never really felt at home.

The constitution prohibits special, local and retroactive legislation, legislation impairing the obligation of contracts, and legislation levying a poll tax for county or state purposes or a tax on state, municipal and public school bonds (amendment of 1905), and it limits the amount and specifies the character of public debts which the legislature may contract.

The charitable and correctional institutions of Minnesota have been since 1901 under the supervision of a State Board of Control consisting of three paid members appointed by the governor and serving for terms of six years; this board supplanted an unpaid Board of Corrections and Charities established in 1883, and the boards of managers of separate institutions (except the schools for the deaf and the blind at Faribault, and the state public school at Owatonna) and of groups of institutions were abolished.

The state institutions consist of state hospitals for the insane at St Peter (1866), at Rochester (1877), established originally as a state inebriate asylum under a law taxing liquor dealers for that purpose, which was subsequently held to be unconstitutional, at Fergus Falls (1887), at Anoka (1900) and at Hastings (1900); the state institute for defectives at Faribault, consisting of the schools for the deaf (1863), blind (1874) and feeble-minded (1879); the state public school for dependent and neglected children at Owatonna (1886); a sanatorium for consumptives at Walker; a hospital for indigent, crippled or deformed children (1907) at St Paul; the state training school for boys near Red Wing; a similar industrial school for girls (established separately in 1907) at Sauk Center; the state reformatory at St Cloud (1887), intermediate between the training school and the state prison, for first offenders between the ages of sixteen and thirty years, in which indeterminate sentences and a parole system are in operation; the state prison at Stillwater (1851), in which there is a parole system and a graded system of diminution of sentence for good conduct, and in which, up to 1895, prisoners were leased under contract (especially to the Minnesota Thresher Company), and since 1895 have been employed in the manufacture of shoes and of binding twine, and in providing for the needs of the prison population; and the state soldiers home occupying fifty-one acres adjoining Minnehaha Park in Minneapolis.

Thus Mr Papillon considered that, while the teaching of English literature was admirable, the average standard of Latin and Greek teaching and attainment in the upper classes was " below that of an English public school "; he felt, however, that the secondary schools of the United States had a " greater variety of the curriculum to suit the practical needs of life," and that they existed, not " for the select few," but " for the whole people " (pp. 250 f.).

For the benefit of veteran and invalid public school teachers there is a " retirement fund," which owes its origin to voluntary contributions by teachers in active service.

My unhappy dalliance with the public school system has blessedly come to its end.

People who send their children to a public school may wonder why schools need to be ranked at all.

Supposedly, offering parents this information will allow them to remove a child from a particular school and re-enroll them in another higher-ranking public school in the same district.

Recent court battles have made prayers at public school graduations a hot button issue, but as long as freedom of speech exists, valedictorians and class presidents will likely continue their right to offer up a prayer of thanks heavenward.

When teens have reached certain milestones in the program, they can either attend a nearby public school or participate in a program facilitated through Texas Tech University.

In October 2005, he accepted a seat on the honorary board of Little Kids Rock, a nonprofit organization whose aim is to bring music back into the public school classrooms.

If your child attends a public school where there is no enforceable uniform, white pants are still a fun choice to add to a wardrobe when you're looking to mix up those sweats and dark denims.

In addition to generally higher admissions standards, private institutions can often cost almost twice as much per year as a public school.

Education was more of a luxury when there were no laws enforcing parents to home school or send their children to public school.

For children and adolescents identified as "at-risk" by the public school district, alternative programs may be available.

Usually, at-risk alternative programs are offered at a special location within the public school district or at a location that is accessible to and serves multiple public schools (e.g., a county-wide program).

An attorney specializing in educational issues can help parents obtain financial support for alternative therapeutic programs from the public school.

About 25 percent of California public school children are ELLs.

While there was initial concern regarding the vaccine's safety and effectiveness when first released, the vaccination is in the early 2000s gaining acceptance as numerous states require it for admittance into daycare or public school.

For example, demographers estimate that by the year 2020, 46 percent of all public school students will be children of color.

Special education refers to a range of educational and social services provided by the public school system and other educational institutions to individuals with disabilities who are between three and 21 years of age.

If the public school cannot adequately provide FAPE for such students, parents can seek legal representation to obtain funding from the public school for their child to attend an appropriate alternative school.

Learning disorders affect approximately two million children between the ages of six and 17 (5 percent of public school children), although some experts think the figure may be as high as 15 percent.

Federal legislation mandates that this testing is free of charge within the public school system.

They may be part of the public school system or part of the Federal Head Start program.

Some of them are held at the public school the child will eventually attend.

One of the primary concerns about the program is with its teachers, who only subsequently were required to have a two-year degree and who made less than half the average salary of a public school teacher.

One of the reasons is public school programs provide the same quality of services whether children are rich or poor, while private provider quality is lower for children from lower-income families.

Educational interventions under Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 mandate that AD/HD children will be served within the public school system.

This means that upon request the public school is required to test the child for AD/HD as well as other learning disabilities if they are suspected.

It was played at roller rink birthday parties, and public school playgrounds.

Certainly, the decision to take the education of your child out of the hands of the public school system is not one to be made lightly.

However, homeschooling has shown to be more effective for many children than public school, with the average scores on standardized achievement tests consistently higher for homeschoolers than those of public school students.

But, homeschooling has been done successfully throughout history, much longer than any public school system has been in place.

Time4Learning is based upon Compass Learning, which is utilized in some schools for curriculum and even public school at home options.

It also serves as a good record of your child's education if he or she ever does have to go back into a public school setting or as the basis of building a portfolio for college applications one day.

Many homeschooling families feel that the nurturing atmosphere of home and one-on-one attention provides a better platform for learning than the typical public school education.

Many of those who favor public school education over homeschooling express the opinion that home schooled children are not exposed to the outside world often enough to learn proper social skills.

And, much of the socialization that takes place in th public school setting is not, in the opinion of many homeschooling parents, the best sort, with bullying common as well as peer pressure to engage in undesirable or unsafe behavior.

Another hot button topic in the debate over whether homeschooling or public school is best for children is the quality of the education received.

Others fear that home schooled children may not keep pace with public schoolers, failing to meet the standards that would be enforced by a public school curriculum.

But, the fact is that despite the criticisms and doubts of others, families who have chosen to home school their children have certainly shown themselves more than capable of holding their own in the Public School Vs Homeschooling debate.

They may take classes at a local art center, volunteer with their parents, do community service work at an area rest home and interact with local friends who go to public school.

Typically these are held during the summer to occupy public school kids who are out of school, but homeschool kids are welcome.

As public school systems move further from the principles that were once foundational in the classroom, many families believe there is a Biblical basis for homeschooling and that religion is an important element in a child's education.

While parents who homeschool get nothing for the taxes they contribute to the public school system, curriculum can be expensive.

Most public school classrooms have 25 to 30 students and one teacher.

Real world resources make learning interesting and allows homeschoolers to learn facts often censored in the public school.

If you plan to take a more traditional approach, you'll structure your teaching day to be much like that of a student at a public school in that you'll schedule a specific start time, and subjects will be taught in a given order.

For those that have endured history taught in public school classrooms, they already realize that textbooks aren't always the best way to learn about the past.

Current textbooks available to the public school market are not always what parents want to use when teaching their children at home.

A common homeschooling myth is that children will miss out on opportunities to develop valuable social skills if they do not attend public school.

Various statistics have been printed about parents and children who homeschool in the U.S. Researchers are only just beginning to understand this schooling movement, which to some, threatens to undermine the public school system.

Despite the negative impact on their local public school districts, the movement shows no sign of slowing down.

In a 1991 test, scores reported by the Stanford Achievement Test, showed that homeschooler's composite scores were 18 to 28 points above their public school counterparts.

Parents want their children to succeed in this world, but if they are held back by their peers and a shortage of teachers in the public school system, they won't be able to compete.

Until public schools can offer the same quality learning environment, parents will continue leaving the public school system in to provide their children with a higher quality of education.

The arguments of public school parents and homeschool adversaries magnify this concern.

Numerous studies on the statistics on public school versus homeschooling have shown that homeschooled kids develop the necessary social and academic skills to be successful and productive members of society.

Most communities offer sports programs to children of all ages, and enrollment in the public school system is not mandatory for joining a team.

Formal homeschool programs generally use a curriculum similar to that of the public school system.

Relaxed homeschooling offers many benefits over other homeschool methods or public school curriculum.

Primarily, it can help homeschooled students keep up with their public school counterparts.

Georgia does not require parents to submit standardized test scores to the public school authorities.

To enter public school after homeschooling, students may test into the most suitable grade level or attend class on a probationary period of one grading term to determine ability.

Homeschooling can be considerably more expensive than public school.

Failure to follow the law may result in improper grade placement upon return to public school or your child being denied entrance to a university following graduation.

Often this is ahead of typical public school standards.

Children with a pervasive developmental disorder or attention deficit disorder who experienced great difficulty concentrating and staying on task in a public school setting often excel when homeschooled.

This allows for improved communication, encourages a greater family bond, and relieves much of the pressure that public school places on children.

Children who have been attending public school may miss friends and activities left behind once homeschooling begins.

Even though homeschooling days do not normally last as long as public school days, the homeschooling parent must continue to work even when daily instruction is over.

While public school allows parents these freedoms, homeschooling parents may not get much time alone.

Although Jostens typically caters to the public school crowd, the company does offer a selection of tassels, diplomas and other graduation accessories for home schooled students.

Highly gifted children forced to endure a public school education that does not consider their individual needs may lose interest in school and learning.

Call your local public school or your homeschooling liaison if you want your child to take one of the state's standardized tests.

Do not be afraid to contact your local public school and ask if they either have textbooks they are no longer using or will provide you with a set of textbooks.

Remember that your local public school district or state board of education is also a resource when you have questions or concerns, and this is where you start when planning for your child's educational future.

Or just help me find a teaching job at a public school in Athens.

They are required in the issuance of social security cards, drivers' licenses, and passports, and are often required to enroll children into the public school system.

In that year, President Calvin Coolidge's wife, Grace Coolidge, allowed the D.C. public school district to put up a tree on the Ellipse, near the Washington Monument.

Every American public school is required to file a 'report card' giving an account of how many students from every school have met the state standards.

Schools that are identified as needing improvement are expected to provide parents with public school choice for the following school year.

The No Child Left Behind Act requires that, by the end of the 2005-2006 school year, all public school teachers be "Highly Qualified".

The National Assessment of Educational Progress recently reported in what has become known as the National Report Card, that the No Child Left Behind Act has failed to improve public school achievement since its implementation in 2002.

Will the local public school meet their child's needs?

Most kids go to public school; however, there are choices even within public school systems.

Gifted and Talented (GATE) Programs - Some public school districts have special tracks and/or special schools for children identified as gifted or talented.

Special education programs to address the needs of these students are set up within regular public school programs or may be delivered in schools that address only those students with special needs.

Other schools may focus on a specific area of curriculum, similar to magnet schools within a public school district.

About six million children ages three to 21 (14 percent of public school students) are enrolled in a special education program.

If you are considering sending your child to a private or public school where uniforms are a mandate, make sure you discuss the decision thoroughly with your child.

Once required only for private school students, public school uniforms are a growing trend.

What are the pros and cons of public school uniforms, and if your district requires them, where can you find them?

Ready or not, uniforms may be coming to a public school district near you.

The topic of public school uniforms has been hotly debated since the early 1990s, and many public school administrators are beginning to see the advantages to requiring all of their students to wear a uniform.

A Long Beach, California school district was among the first to require public school students to wear uniforms back in 1994, and within a year the district reported a dramatic decrease in fights, muggings and sexual offenses.

Students, some parents and the ACLU argue that public school uniforms stifle students' individuality.

If the debate has ended in your district and you find yourself faced with having to purchase uniforms for your public school students, where can you go to get them?

Uniforms for public school are becoming a reality in more districts.

In the United States, uniforms were typically worn only by those children who attended private or parochial schools up until the 1980s when some public school systems began to require uniforms as well.

Older children are provided these basics through the public school system.

Parents of children entering the public school system have many questions, especially when the students have autism.

Taylor attends a magnet public school in Tribeca where she is an active member of her school's gymnastics and roller hockey teams.

The public school system is excellent, and the city has a Carnegie library (1903), with more than 22,000 volumes in 1907.

The public-school system is under the supervision of a state superintendent of education, elected biennially by the General Assembly, and local schools are under union superintendents and in a few cases under town superintendents.

Besides the university library, there is the Ohio state library occupying a room in the capitol and containing in 1908 126,000 volumes, including a "travelling library" of about 36,000 volumes, from which various organizations in different parts of the state may borrow books; the law library of the supreme court of Ohio, containing complete sets of English, Scottish, Irish, Canadian, United States and state reports, statutes and digests; the public school library of about 68,000 volumes, and the public library (of about 55,000), which is housed in a marble and granite building completed in 1906.

Education is much neglected, and the public-school system is inefficient.

Indianapolis suffered severely from the business panic of 1837, and ten years later, when it received its first city charter, it had only about 6000 inhabitants; in the same year a free public school system was inaugurated.

The public school system, established in 1846, never was universal, because of special legislation for various counties; public education was retarded during the Civil War and the Reconstruction period (when immense sums appropriated for schools were grossly mismanaged), but conditions gradually improved after 1875, especially through the concentration of schools.

The public-school system was supplemented by parochial schools which had in 1920 650 teachers and 33,000 pupils.