Sentences with phrase «california public elementary»

Amy is a former California public elementary and middle - school teacher and assistant principal.

In her ethnographic case study of a Northern California public elementary school, Posey - Maddox recognized first - hand the differing value placed on parents that acted as provider and parents that acted as protector.

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Playworks began in two Berkeley, California, elementary schools and today serves more than 50,000 students in 131 low - income public schools.

Author Bio: Preston Smith is Co-Founder & CEO of Rocketship Education, a non-profit network of public elementary charter schools serving low - income communities in California, Tennessee, Wisconsin, and Washington, D.C..

Preston Smith is Co-Founder & CEO of Rocketship Education, a non-profit network of public elementary charter schools serving low - income communities in California, Tennessee, Wisconsin, and Washington, D.C..

In 2007 they approved funding for the first public Waldorf methods high school, in the Sacramento Unified School District; and (3) Three key findings on urban public schools with Waldorf methods: (a) In their final year, the students in the study's four California case study public Waldorf - methods elementary schools match the top ten of peer sites on the 2006 California test scores and well outperform the average of their peers statewide; (b) According to teacher, administrator and mentor reports, they achieve these high test scores by focusing on those new three R's — rather than on rote learning and test prep — in a distinct fashion laid out by the Waldorf model and (c) A key focus is on artistic learning, not just for students but, more importantly perhaps, for the adults.

In 50 years, the number of Catholic schools has dropped by nearly 5,800, more than all the elementary public schools operating in the state of California.

CCSA is proud to recognize 21 California charter public elementary schools named a 2018 California Distinguished School.

Kipp is one of 33 schools from California to receive the honor, which recognizes both public and private elementary, middle, and high schools in...

For instance, in late April the California Fourth District Court of Appeal ruled in favor of Anaheim parents who want to use the state's parent - trigger law to turn a traditional public elementary school into a charter school.

Accordingly, the People of the State of California declare that to secure the constitutional guarantee of students and staff to be safe and secure in their persons at public primary, elementary, junior high and senior high school campuses, school districts must have the appropriate statutory authority to expeditiously remove and permanently dismiss perpetrators of egregious misconduct without facing lengthy and costly litigation or creating incentives to transfer the school employee to another assignment, school or school district.

Like all public schools in California, students must turn five years old by a specific date in order to enroll in kindergarten at EQUITAS ACADEMY's elementary schools in a given year.

Earlier this year, as the truly repulsive story of Mark Berndt (warning: the link is not for the faint of heart)-- an elementary teacher in the L.A. Unified School District accused of committing unspeakable acts against his students — came to light, I noted here on Public Sector Inc. that the failure to prevent his crimes owed in part to the influence of the California Teachers Association, the teachers union that is the state's most powerful special interest.

As the parent of two L.A. Unified elementary students, I encourage you to launch a second, similarly intensive look at an equally important area: the chronic underfunding of public education in California.

Our school model is consistently outperforming other public schools in academics: for example, on the 2016 - 2017 California state assessment, the CWC Los Angeles region scored in the top 6 % of district elementary schools in English Language Arts and in the top 7 % for Math.

Michelle Macchia is an early literacy scholar and practitioner with over fifteen years of experience as an elementary school teacher and teacher leader in public and private elementary schools in California, New Jersey, and New York.

«The Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF)-- a change in California law that provides a new system for funding public schools in the state — offers several opportunities for schools and districts to create new, or enhance existing, programs to improve elementary school attendance.

One of the most innovative elementary schools in the country produced some of the strongest results in California's state assessment system, and the takeaway for public schools across the nation may prove game - changing.

Currently serving more than 450 students, Bullis is the top - performing public charter elementary school in California.

Congratulations to the following California charter public elementary schools recognized as a 2018 California Distinguished School: