Sentences with phrase «cleveland public students»

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In 1965, he directed research for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights that revealed racial segregation and its effects on public school students in Cleveland.

Americans» support for using public funds to pay for students to attend private schools apparently was growing even before the U.S. Supreme Court's June decision upholding the Cleveland voucher plan, findings from this year's Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup poll on public attitudes about education suggest.

MC2 (Metropolitan Cleveland Consortium) STEM High School is a year - round public school in Cleveland, Ohio, where instruction is through interdisciplinary project - based learning, and the focus is on providing students with an integrated curriculum that is informed by real - world experiences.

Vouchers offer nothing to the 76,000 students who attend Cleveland public schools.

This month, voters must decide whether they will help the 76,000 - student district pay the $ 1.4 billion bill to replace aging roofs, faulty wiring, rotted windows, malfunctioning boilers, and a host of other chronic building problems facing the Cleveland public schools.

Vouchers have come to include the use of private funding as partial tuition support for low - income students to attend private schools (as in Washington, D.C., San Antonio, and New York); the use of public funds to allow a small number of low - income students to attend private schools (as in Milwaukee and Cleveland); or, as in the case of Florida, the provision of public funds for students to attend a private school or another public school if their current public school has a poor aca - demic record.

Chanin could only reply: «There is no evidence that competition improves the lot for the 96 percent of the students who remain in the troubled Cleveland public school system with less resources and even worse problems.»

Fifty percent of voucher students attended racially isolated schools, compared with 61 percent of public - school students in the Cleveland metropolitan area.

I visited a couple of successful Cleveland public schools during my visit — successful in educating poor children — and while principals in each of those schools said they could use more money, neither said that money — or their students» lack of it — was their major challenge.

That change has resulted in an influx of students from Cleveland public schools who have never attended a private school and who are outrageously behind, some staff members said.

Cleveland's Saint Martin de Porres High School accepts students who use state - issued vouchers to escape failing public schools.

MC2 STEM High School is an unusual year - round public school of about 270 students, located in Cleveland, Ohio.

Previously, vouchers under the Cleveland program were only available to private - school students who had chosen to leave the public schools and obtain a voucher by the eighth grade.

This is the second year that students living in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District have been able to apply for a voucher to attend a private high school such as Saint Martin if they were attended a Cleveland public school in eighth grade.

Students using vouchers to attend established private schools in Cleveland are slightly outperforming their public school counterparts in language skills and science, and doing about the same in reading, math, and social studies, according to the latest independent evaluation of the program.

Since students in Cleveland could choose to attend a private school, a public magnet school, or a charter school, the Court reasoned that the existence of magnet and charter schools should be considered in assessing whether students have a genuine choice among secular and religious schools.

Both the Cleveland and Milwaukee programs successfully targeted poor, lower performing, and predominantly minority students in public schools.

Where vouchers are in place — Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Florida — a two - tiered system has been set up that holds students in public and private schools to different standards.

Today, Cleveland Facing History students are getting an opportunity to share their truth - whatever it may be - on video as part of a traveling public art display.

Through this program, students who reside in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District can receive vouchers to attend neighboring public schools or private schools.

Denver, Chicago and Cleveland have embraced school choice on a smaller scale, but none give as much freedom — to parents and campuses — as New Orleans does: About 84 % of its 42,000 public school students attend charters, the largest share of any district in the U.S.

In a keynote address to officials at the Council of Great City Schools conference in Cleveland Thursday, Gates said much of the funding will be to assist networks of public schools and districts that have demonstrated innovation and use data collection to improve student performance.

In Cleveland, voucher students in most grades performed worse than their peers in public schools in math, though they did better in reading.

The fact that these voucher funds are likely insufficient to serve students with profound needs means that there's an increased likelihood that students with milder disabilities will use PESAs and vouchers to leave the public schools for private settings that are better equipped to handle less costly and complex needs, said Cleveland County's Aspel.

Melissa Marini Švigelj - Smith has been an educator in Cleveland (Ohio) public high schools for nearly two decades, and has been teaching high school students at the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Detention Center for four of those years.

«Every student should get a great public education and graduate with skills to succeed in the marketplace,» said Gates, who delivered the keynote address before about 1,000 school officials at the Council of the Great City Schools conference in Cleveland.

Furthermore, in Cleveland's voucher program, minority students were much more likely than their peers to have never entered a voucher program or left their voucher program and returned to public schools.

It was a day long session involving a panel discussion of students and faculty, along with Amy Pawlowski, the Web Applications Manager at the Cleveland Public Library and myself as respondents.

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Indira Allegra, artist Beth Bird, documentary filmmaker and Ph.D candidate in the Department of Film and Media at the University of California, Berkeley Robin Clark, director of the Artist Initiative, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Gregory G. Geiger, artist Maria Elena González, artist and associate professor, Sculpture and New Genres, at the San Francisco Art Institute Tim Hyde, artist and assistant professor, Department of Art and Art History, University of California, Davis Amanda Hunter Johnson, conservator, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Tomoko Kanamitsu, program associate, Higher and Continuing Education, Education and Public Practice, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Emily Liebert, associate curator of Contemporary Art, Cleveland Museum of Art Peggy Phelan, Ann O'Day Maples Chair in the Arts, Professor of Theater & Performance Studies and English, Stanford University Sarah Roberts, Andrew W. Mellon Associate Curator of Painting and Sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Kaeleigh Thorp, graduate student in Museum Studies at the University of San Francisco Meredith George Van Dyke, curatorial assistant, Painting and Sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art John Zarobell, associate professor and undergraduate director of International Studies at the University of San Francisco

Melissa Marini Švigelj - Smith has been an educator in Cleveland (Ohio) public high schools for nearly two decades, and has been teaching high school students at the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Detention Center for four of those years.