Sentences with phrase «choice pilot school»

Here's the back story: when it comes to health and wellness initiatives, Nettelhorst, my neighborhood public elementary school, has moved mountains: we successfully lobbied to become a Healthy Choice Pilot School, giving us one of the system's coveted salad bars, honored by the Healthy Schools Campaign and U.S. Senator Dick Durbin.

Not exact matches

I mocked him rather incessantly about his warped vowel sounds, a rather adorable mix of public school English with choice Americanised vowels, and he suggested various blognames for himself, including the rather amusing «Perfect Physical Specimen» — on account of the in - depth medical examinations he had gone through before becoming an Apache pilot.

A comprehensive choice and ESSA guidance package could connect the dots for SEAs and LEAs on all the authorities in the statute that could be integrated into a comprehensive vision for school choice, and describe how they can work together: Title I, DSS, Equitable Student Funding Pilot, Magnet Schools Assistance Program, Charter Schools Grants, and the Student Support and Academic Enrichment (SSAE) grant.

This would include funding for a pilot private - school voucher program, new money for charter schools, and additional money for Title I that would be directed to follow students to the public school of their choice.

Rather than bet their legacy on a single idea such as universal pre-school or school choice, Kane argues that state policymakers should use the ESSA evidence requirements to create the infrastructure for piloting and testing interventions.

Even before Villaraigosa pushed through public school choice, the district watched over 15 magnet schools with long waiting lists, and Cortines's pilot campuses were showing promising results, at least in terms of decentralizing school management.

Some teacher groups, opposed to charter school expansion, submitted bids to take over eligible choice campuses as pilot schools.

In their work at the Project for Policy Innovation in Education, Kane and his colleagues have been working with school districts around the country, using data to evaluate hiring and certification policies for teachers, public school choice systems, and the effect of charter and pilot schools on student outcomes.

There is now a body of evidence on the effects of school choice: the positive findings from Charlotte comport with the positive results of privately funded programs in New York; Washington, D.C.; and Dayton, as well as pilot voucher programs in Milwaukee and Cleveland.

Those efforts bore fruit in March 2011 when Douglas County's school board unanimously approved the Pilot Choice Scholarship Program.

Building on an initiative piloted this school year in Virginia, participating districts could offer students a choice of supplemental educational services, or SES, a year before having to provide the option of transferring to a higher - performing school.

The regressions used to construct these estimates control only for risk sets (year of application and the set of schools applied to for charters; first - choice school, year of application, and walk - zone status for pilots).

Pilot school models include dummies for (first choice) * (year of application) * (walk zone status) and exclude students with sibling priority or guaranteed admission.

Among first - choice applicants to a given pilot school, admission priority is randomly assigned, with lotteries run separately for students who live inside and outside the school's walk - zone.

Students were classified as pilot applicants if they listed a pilot school that participates in the BPS assignment mechanism as a first choice.

Because most pilot schools are over-subscribed, students who rank a pilot school as a second or lower choice are unlikely to be assigned to a pilot.

#ad #After the program's five - year pilot run ended in 2009, Congress and President Obama cut funding for the school - choice program and closed it to new students.

Assignment to all elementary and middle pilot schools, and to two of the seven regular pilot high schools, is through the centralized BPS choice plan, which includes a lottery when schools are over-subscribed.

The School Choice Pilot Program for Certain Students with Exceptionalities is a special needs voucher program enacted in 2010.

The state of Ohio has established a pilot program designed to provide educational choices to families with children who reside in the Cleveland City School District.

Some schools in both states piloted programs in which student work instead of multiple - choice tests was used to evaluate their academic progress.

Previous posts: Charter & District School Alternatives, Teachers Flocking to «Pilot» School Model, Public School Choice 4.0

This pilot, funded by the Sunflower Foundation: Health Care for Kansans, Topeka, Kansas is seeking to identify the resources needed and barriers encountered in the process of developing school environments, policies, and practices more supportive of healthy eating and physical activity choices.

Well - rounded / whole child Bottom line: Emphasis and funding for preschool, innovation, and vague school choice language in the form of pilot programs.

Education Week «s Alyson Klein takes a look at how, under ESSA, districts can apply for a «weighted student funding pilot,» and how this provision was «billed as a victory for the school choice community.»

Pilot schools gave parents in low - income communities a choice.

LAUSD Board Member Steve Zimmer has introduced a resolution, to be voted upon on August 30, that would allow only in - district and pilot school applicants to apply for new schools under the Public School Choice initischool applicants to apply for new schools under the Public School Choice initiSchool Choice initiative.

These last two were key factors for the kids who attended the pilot, 86 % of which qualify for free or reduced - price lunch, since transportation access and food security are economic barriers to school choice for families who have lower household incomes.

The popularity and success of these measures led to the adoption in 2006 of two small pilot voucher programs, one for children with special needs and another for children in foster care.9 But in Arizona, it seems that no school choice program goes unchallenged in court.

But the board felt it had little choice but to approve the two virtual charter school applicants — the only applicants — because the law required the pilot to begin quickly, in fall 2015.

It's all of $ 2 million, a tiny fraction of the total, but it may get the most chatter of all: the launch of a small pilot program that would offer 200 low - income students $ 10,000 each to attend a school of their choice, public or private.

Both Sanchez and Ratliff were strongly supportive of giving parents more choice through pilot and charter schools, with Ratliff stating «I absolutely, positively believe the district should push to establish more high performing schools, period... I think we already know what works at many schools and we need to apply that everywhere.

Driving University is a favorite traffic school choice in Pilot Hill California.

Psychosocial correlates of healthy beliefs, choices, and behaviors in overweight and obese school - age children: a primary care healthy choices intervention pilot study