Sentences with phrase «g&t magnet program»

His wife, Debra, leads South Broward High School's magnet program, according to the South Florida Sun Sentinel.

Prospective parents and students can check out the 23 magnet programs and high school career - technical education pathways

New York City has won a chunk of federal funding that is designed to create or expand magnet programs with the goal of attracting more students of color to schools.

However, it can be a lonely path, says Jennifer Smith, a computer science teacher at Digital Harbor High School, a public magnet program in Baltimore, Maryland.

Writing started for me in high school when I attended a magnet program for writing.

My high school's magnet program was agriculture.

Piedmont is an inner - city magnet program serving approximately 700 students, half of whom qualify for the federal free and reduced lunch program.

Our analysis occurs in a district with a large number of relatively high - quality magnet programs, and thus the alternatives to the G&T programs may be strong.

Because the lottery is random, any differences in outcomes between lottery winners and losers can be attributed to the effect of enrolling in the G&T magnet program rather than one of these alternatives.

Parent Denise Van Leuven helps out with the magnet program's calligraphy class.

And in contrast to the G&T program as a whole, students admitted by lottery to G&T magnet program were assigned to more effective teachers.

Mason attends Richmond Elementary School in Portland, Oregon, a school that, along with Mt. Tabor Middle School and Grant High School, houses a fifteen - year - old Japanese language partial - immersion magnet program that researchers from the Center for Applied Linguistics have called a model for language learning.

Our lottery analysis is based on the sample of LUSD 5th - grade students determined to be eligible for G&T programs in 2007 — 08 who applied for admission to one of the two middle schools with an oversubscribed G&T magnet program.

Our analysis compares the performance of students who win the lottery and attend one of the G&T magnet programs to those who lose the lottery and either attend a neighborhood G&T program in the district, a magnet school based on a different specialty, or a charter school.

Turning to student outcomes, however, our results provide little evidence that attending a G&T magnet program leads to improvements in student achievement (see Figure 3).

As with magnet programs and special programs, districts can create enrollment criteria and exercise enrollment discretion.

L.A. currently operates 15 magnet schools and 173 magnet programs, many hosted by conventional public schools.

We created labs for earth, physical, and life sciences as a part of our magnet program at Walter Bracken STEAM Academy.

We've tried a number of solutions over the years to deal with diversity in schools, from mandated busing to desegregate schools to magnet programs to minority recruitment campaigns at colleges and universities.

He joined the Chicago Public School system in 1998, as a deputy chief of staff to CEO Paul Vallas, where one of his jobs was supervising the creation of magnet programs in troubled schools.

Predictably, the most popular magnet school structure was a dedicated magnet, where everyone in the school had chosen it and all were in the magnet program.

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.

That these schools and their magnet programs tend to have a racial composition closer to that of the neighborhood — majority minority — only reduces their attractiveness to whites.

In a study I undertook in 1989, I found that 12 percent of the elementary and middle school magnet programs in my sample specialized in basic skills and / or individualized teaching; 11 percent offered foreign language immersion; 11 percent were science -, math -, or computer - oriented; 10 percent catered to the gifted and talented and 10 percent to the creative and performing arts; 8 percent were traditional, back - to - basics programs (demanding, for instance, dress codes and contracts with parents for supervision of homework); 7 percent were college preparatory; 7 percent were early childhood and Montessori.

Leaders of the Recovery School District in New Orleans are crafting an overhaul of high schools that would offer career - oriented magnet programs at each campus, along with a districtwide college - preparatory curriculum of honors and Advanced Placement courses.

New York state has a program (begun by King when he was its education commissioner) to use federal school - improvement funds to turn around struggling schools by implementing attractive magnet programs.

We have magnet programs in middle school here.

Public school districts similarly offer choice and magnet programs that entice students to leave zoned schools, which theoretically «hurts» the zoned schools in the same way as you suggest vouchers do.

We should embrace opportunities where a middle school arts magnet program, or a dual language elementary school, or a regional science and technology high school can help to break down the concentration of our highest needs students in schools with access to fewer resources.

The grants aim to help districts establish or expand magnet programs that are part of their approved desegregation plans.

The board strongly recommended, but did not require, the use of themed magnet programs to draw white and Asian - American students to the 750 - student school, whose enrollment is now...

To attract more students and keep them in the Chicago schools, Vallas also supported the creation of charter schools and magnet programs designed to retain middle - class residents, such as International Baccalaureate programs at the high - school level.

Lawrence MS Gifted / Highly Gifted / High Ability magnet program is designed for differentiated instruction, while striking a balance between the creative, open - ended learning activities from which gifted students benefit.

This is a recognition of the success of magnet programs across the country,» said Magnet Schools of America (MSA), Executive Director, Todd Mann.

Students at Community Magnet Charter School come from all over Los Angeles through the LAUSD magnet program.

The Advocate Belaire High and three feeder schools firm up plans for new magnet programs launching in January

In addition, the ESSA will extend the length of the grant by two years and increase cumulative grant funding for successful magnet programs to $ 15 million.

Using social media will allow you to interact with your legislators and promote greater awareness of your magnet programs.

Benton said the board will likely consider «reasonable busing patterns» or magnet programs to assuage the segregated schools.

Monthly e-Choice Newsletters are created specifically to help members learn more about theme - based magnet programs and the district leaders, principals, and teachers who make them thrive.

«This new funding will allow more school districts to develop specialized theme - based magnet programs that improve student outcomes and meet the demands of families.»

On Twitter you can tag them in a tweet and ask them a specific question or provide them with information about your magnet program or stance on an issue.

The bill will encourage school districts to work in coordination to break down barriers that sustain racial and socioeconomic isolation by creating interdistrict or regional magnet programs.

The district also has a strong magnet program and a weighted lottery system to achieve its diversity goals.105

Families are a powerful and often overlooked ally that can help build support for your magnet program.

This legislation will reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act also known as the No Child Left Behind Act and expand federal support for magnet programs.

In order to be a powerful voice for your magnet programs, you must keep an open channel of communication with your elected officials.

But that first year white parents responded to bussing by pulling their children from public schools en masse, prompting the district to create special magnet programs to entice them back.

It supports and serves the leaders and teachers of magnet and theme - based schools, while promoting the development of new magnet programs and public schools of choice.

Consider having a teacher present to reinforce how the magnet program has helped students academically and have them share a memorable story about a favorite student.