Sentences with phrase «because magnet schools»

Because magnet schools break down traditional school attendance boundaries by allowing families to choose schools that appeal most to their children's academic interest and talents, they are often more integrated.

This web essay will focus on one branch of this complicated system, elementary magnet schools, because elementary education is a pivotal point in an individual's academic trajectory, and because magnet schools are a trademark of the school choice system and are greatly emphasized by many school choice advocates.

Because magnet schools start earlier and enroll students who tend to have higher test scores, I exclude magnet schools from my main analysis.

Not exact matches

Because of that success, Campolindo was placed in the Open Division, and lost in the second round to St. Ignatius - San Francisco, a private school that's a magnet for elite volleyball players.

Buffalo Grove has become a magnet because the area has affordable housing and good schools,» Cohen said.

City school officials said Kinsella needs to remain its own school because of its magnet status under the state's Sheff v. O'Neill pact, where city and suburban students are enrolled through a state - run lottery engineered for racial integration.

In fact, says magnet lead teacher Judy Bullard, «multiple intelligences is our theme, and parents choose our school because of that.»

Because magnet and charter schools draw more heavily from urban areas that have distinct demographics, it is important to account for these geographic differences.

In Kansas City in the late 1980s and early»90s, African American parents were justifiably irate when the federal court's integration plan denied their children access to the magnet schools of their choice because so many seats had been set aside for white children — who did not show up in sufficient numbers to fill them.

In practice, these methods have generally proved unconvincing because there are unobservable variables that are correlated with peer selection, with moving, with participating in a magnet or other school program, or with the excluded variables that identify the selection model.

The 2002 U.S. Supreme Court decision outlawing the use of racial quotas at the University of Michigan — but approving the use of race as one of many factors in admissions decisions — has had little impact on magnet schools, mainly because most had already abandoned the use of quotas.

The Prince George's County, Maryland, school district, for example, eliminated magnet programs at 33 schools in the fall of 2004 because of state funding cutbacks.

These «perfect» magnets, however, were the least common, because creating them requires that an entire school be emptied out and children assigned elsewhere or a new school be built.

But even in that circuit, several school districts and one state (Connecticut) have continued to avoid the use of racial quotas in magnet admissions because they believe using them invites a legal challenge.

Rankine sent her children to the magnet school because the Bridgeport schools are underfunded, she said.

This type of strategy is not seen as harmful by the district because it helps them «launder» their school grades — the magnet students artificially boost the school metrics and the district can take credit for the «improving» school grades.

Because of Glenn, we started the first public Montessori school in the nation, the first arts magnet going from elementary through high school, and the first foreign language immersion magnets beginning in the primary grades.

School choice undercut that, according to Thompson, because regular school leaders would not suspend students who should have been sent home because they did not want their enrollments to look bad in the competition with charter and magnet scSchool choice undercut that, according to Thompson, because regular school leaders would not suspend students who should have been sent home because they did not want their enrollments to look bad in the competition with charter and magnet scschool leaders would not suspend students who should have been sent home because they did not want their enrollments to look bad in the competition with charter and magnet schools.

No, their kids get to go to cool magnets and the better schools in town, because THEY DO N'T ACTUALLY LIVE IN NEIGHBORHOODS WITH HIGH NUMBERS OF LATINO FAMILIES.

Like magnets, charters have the ability to promote integration because they do not operate like a typical neighborhood school, but that was never really their purpose.

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Because many magnets are a «school within a school» — called magnet centers — students» academic achievement is not reported by the state separately from the traditional school campus where the magnet centers are located...

The district wouldn't allow students to transfer because it wasn't a pilot or magnet or charter school.

But they are also anecdotally accurate because rising right to the top of the list in King / Drew Medical Magnet, recently named one of the best magnet schools in the country.

Recent experience underscores that investing in better school leadership could make economic sense, too - not only because of what principals can do to boost instruction and student achievement, but because of how leadership can act as a magnet for drawing talented teachers to high - needs schools.

Electra McGrath, the mother of two children, including one who attends a Clark County magnet middle school, is suing to stop implementation of the destructive voucher program because she believes in helping Clark County schools become better for every child.

Every magnet school is urged to play a part in this nationwide effort because the support of your federal, state, and local leaders is important to our future.

It's not wise to compare magnets and independent charter schools, because the district's own data shows that magnet students come from higher income families.

But just because a school has the word «magnet» in its name does not mean its students always achieve high levels of academic success.

Points are given if a student's neighborhood school is overcrowded, if a student's sibling attends the school, if the student has been wait - listed at another magnet, and a student's race is also considered because of the desegregation mission of magnet schools.

In an interview, Castrejón said GPSN relied on schools that applied for the grants to self - report their test scores because GPSN did not have access to this data for magnet centers located on a traditional school campus because the state combines the students» scores.

Because as parents and state lawmakers understand, school choice simply means empowering parents to choose from a variety of educational options for their children, including traditional public schools, public magnet schools, online academies, private schools and homeschooling.

We don't know their benefits because, since the 1970s, when white enrollment in New Orleans public schools fell by over half and then half again in the following decade, most people have grown up in segregated, private, magnet and now choice / charter schools.

I am focusing on magnet schools in this essay because these schools are designed to have a specific racial balance in order to achieve the goal of desegregating Connecticut's public schools, yet demographics play out differently depending on the school, and some schools are struggling to maintain their required desegregation standards.

I'm not saying that charter schools or magnet schools are the ONLY answer — they're not — but they are the ONLY option for a kid at a Hartford School so out of control that monthly fire drills are conducted only at 2:30 pm because the staff can't get kids to re-enter the building after the drill (true story.)

A lot of state money, under the Sheff agreement, goes to magnet schools and a fair amount of the money thus gets spent on children from the suburbs, not urban children, because not all city children are in magnet schools.

In Connecticut, interdistrict magnet schools receive special funding BECAUSE they are supposed to «reduce, eliminate or prevent the racial, ethnic or economic isolation of public school students while offering a high - quality curriculum that supports educational improvement.»

That's because those two schools still use the rules the Orleans Parish School Board set in 1998 to settle a federal civil rights investigation into some magnet schools» wildly unequal racial enrollment.

Because of persistently low test scores and graduation rates, Los Angeles schools Supt. John Deasy is rearranging the storied campus into three magnet schools — a move that required teachers to reapply for their jobs.

Because it's an academic magnet school, the academy can be more selective about the students it admits than a traditional neighborhood school.

«We are working closely with the other schools to go through this comprehensive process [to become a magnet school] because a lot of things have to be in place,» Abrahams said.

In his report, Abrahams showed that over the past year, a large number of these students were withdrawing from local schools because they don't have magnet high schools to attend.

Because the LAUSD magnet schools were created with the objective of desegregation, it is this transitioning group of schools that are relevant for analyzing integration levels, if it is the case that LAUSD magnets are changing goals.

The government has shown this change in objectives in that «the number of magnet schools that receive MSAP [Magnet Schools Assistance Program] funding has declined in recent grant cycles because the overall funding level has remained stagnant and not adjusted for inflation at just over $ 100 million» (Frankenberg et alschools that receive MSAP [Magnet Schools Assistance Program] funding has declined in recent grant cycles because the overall funding level has remained stagnant and not adjusted for inflation at just over $ 100 million» (Frankenberg et alSchools Assistance Program] funding has declined in recent grant cycles because the overall funding level has remained stagnant and not adjusted for inflation at just over $ 100 million» (Frankenberg et al., 15).

Because racial integration and desegregation are part of the guidelines, it appears that these are still goals of LAUSD magnet schools.

[1] Asian students are excluded from this discussion because there are not enough Asian students enrolled in most of the interdistrict magnet high schools for relevant data findings and comparisons.

In LAUSD, charter schools are outperforming traditional public schools (but not magnet schools because charter schools don't cherry pick as they do).

«Along with providing rigorous theme - based curriculum and instruction, magnet schools are unique because they seek to promote both racial and socioeconomic diversity.

What is absolutely clear is that according to the documents Perry and his private company provided the New York Board of Regents, control of Hartford's Capital Prep Magnet School was critical to his plans, not only since he would be collecting a multi-million dollar management fee for running Hartford's public magnet school but because he would be using Capital Prep to employee the majority of the members of his private coSchool was critical to his plans, not only since he would be collecting a multi-million dollar management fee for running Hartford's public magnet school but because he would be using Capital Prep to employee the majority of the members of his private coschool but because he would be using Capital Prep to employee the majority of the members of his private company.

Because she attends a magnet school for gifted adolescents, scores at the 99th percentile on achievement tests, has an IQ that indicates superior intelligence, is highly creative, and has extraordinary writing ability.