Sentences with phrase «english over their public school»

A subset of students who were lower - achieving to begin with showed gains in English over their public school counterparts.

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Belluck has used his own Twitter handle in recent days to dog the State Education Department over the results of third - through eighth - grade English and math test scores that showed charter school students performing slightly better than their public school counterparts.

Schools operated by Achievement First, for example, have helped their students gain an additional 125 days of learning in math and 57 days in English over traditional public sSchools operated by Achievement First, for example, have helped their students gain an additional 125 days of learning in math and 57 days in English over traditional public schoolsschools.

Assistant Professor Nonie Lesaux was named a William T. Grant Scholar last week earning a $ 350,000 award to be given over five years in support of her research on English - language learners in urban public schools.

In April 2007, Lesaux was named a William T. Grant Scholar earning a $ 350,000 award to be given over five years in support of her research on English - language learners in urban public schools.

Milwaukee public schools serve over 77,000 students — 87 percent are students of color, 80 percent live in poverty, 20 percent receive specialized education, and 10 percent are English language learners.

On average, public charter schools are outperforming their host - districts in Math and English, and charter waitlists have grown by over 2,000 students in the past year.

Currently, there are more than 216,000 English Language Learners enrolled in New York State public schools, speaking over 160 languages.

For over two decades, Robert Ward has taught English to a diverse population of students at public middle schools in Los Angeles.

But Anca Stefan, a high school English teacher in a Durham public school, says she'll fork over the $ 50 next month to take a «personal day» and join hundreds of her local colleagues to promote school funding increases at the General Assembly.

Students with special needs, limited English proficiency, or without a regular place to call home are forced to fight over limited resources in the public schools.

In addition, for the first time, the 2018 school profiles include a «High Academic Growth» indicator for 54 public district and charter schools that have significantly exceeded the norm for academic growth over the most recent three - year period in both math and English language arts (ELA) on the Pennsylvania Value Added Assessment System (PVAAS).

Malloy, like newly sworn - in Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, has been a consistent supporter of efforts to privatize public education by turning over scarce public resources to charter schools despite the fact that these schools discriminate against Latino students, students who need help learning the English language and students who require special education services.

All parents and those who have the care of children shall bring them up in some lawful and honest employment and instruct them or cause them to be instructed in reading, writing, spelling, English grammar, geography, arithmetic and United States history and in citizenship, including a study of the town, state and federal governments... each parent or other person having control of a child five years of age and over and under eighteen years of age shall cause such child to attend a public school regularly during the hours and terms the public school in the district in which such child resides is in session, unless such child is a high school graduate or the parent or person having control of such child is able to show that the child is elsewhere receiving equivalent instruction in the studies taught in the public schools.

In fact, according to the state, over 80 percent of public charter schools continue to outperform their local school districts in English Language Arts and over 60 percent of charters do the same in in math.

But Anca Stefan, a high school English teacher in a Durham public school, says she'll fork over the $ 50 next month to take a «personal day» and join hundreds of her local colleagues to promote school funding increases at the N.C. General Assembly.

Over the 24 years Lily Din Woo has been the principal of Public School 130 in Lower Manhattan, her typical day changed very little: sick or misbehaving students, budgets, curriculum woes and meetings with parents, many of whom do not speak English.

While people may disagree about the appropriateness of handing over a public school, where nearly half the children go home to households where English is not the primary language, to a company that has never educated a single bi-lingual student, no one should misunderstand the nature of last night's Board of Education vote.

(5) Where a municipality referred to in subsection (1) becomes part of the area of jurisdiction of an English - language public district school board, the municipal council shall pay over to the English - language public district school board the money that is held by the municipality and the money shall be used as set out in clause (4)(b).

Neena Barreto comes to this work with over 16 years as a classroom teacher in public elementary schools and a degree in English from Saint Mary's College.