Sentences with phrase «high school conversions»

High School Conversions: Essential Restructuring: Examines the issues and opportunities that arise when large high schools convert to small, autonomous schools.

The California Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Los Angeles Unified School District in a lawsuit brought by the UTLA challenging the District's 2007 approval of Green Dot Public School's Locke High School conversion.

Not exact matches

On the high school and college level, however, the Christian institutions had to compete with the large networks of Hindu and Sikh institutions which, paradoxically, were begun earlier in this century in response to the Christian institutions, the conversion appeal of which seemed to challenge the Indian religions.

Sitting on the sofa, I show him a few items: newspaper and magazine pieces about the Liston fights; Ali's conversion to Islam; the arrest for refusing military induction; the epic first battle with Frazier; the Supreme Court overturning the draft conviction; Foreman being voodooed by Ali; the Thrilla in Manila; the boxing lesson he gave Spinks in their second contest; a recent article about Ali buying buses for Chicago - area public schools (immediately after seeing a TV news story about how Dade County had no money for new buses, Ali sat down, wrote a check and mailed it, not using the gift as a tax deduction); and one about helping a young man wearing a hooded dark sweatshirt and jeans who crawled out on a high window ledge of a Wilshire Boulevard skyscraper in Los Angeles to kill himself.

If you choose the conversion rails (sold separately) now, you'll be prepared when the day comes that she's outgrown the day bed as you convert it once again into a full size bed she'll still be using when she graduates from high school.

Cheektowaga resident Bojidar Kandar, 30, a medical researcher, told legislators he was forced to undergo a year of conversion therapy through what was called a Christian counseling service while in his senior year at Amherst High School.

Howie will be addressing the proposed conversion of four schools from public institutions to for - profit charter schools, segregated schools, lack of funding for schools, high stakes testing, Common Core, and the attacks on teachers unions.

Instead of high - stakes tests to define high - poverty schools as failing and to justify their conversion to privately - managed charter schools, we need to desegregate schools by race and class and provide equitable and adequate funding of all public schools.

Professor Ken Naitoh of Waseda University's Faculty of Science and Engineering (Department of Applied Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, School of Fundamental Science and Engineering) and his associates have discovered a revolutionary energy conversion principle (new compressive combustion principle) able to yield stand - alone engines with double or higher the thermal efficiency potential of conventional engines, independent of their size.

She received her bachelor's degree in chemical engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder and did her Ph.D. work at Colorado School of Mines focusing on in - depth experimental and modeling studies on high temperature pyrolysis of hydrocarbons and the effects of temperature and fuel structure on conversion, hydrogen production, reactivity, and deposit formation under solid oxide fuel cell operating conditions.

John Harmon, assets strategy manager at Warwickshire County Council said: «With the original budget, we were looking at extending and altering the current building, but analysis showed it wouldn't be suitable for conversion into a 21st century school premises — a refurbishment option would have meant a poor learning space and the running costs would have been high.

We found that although Florida's conversion charters have significantly greater effects on high school graduation than do de novo charters, the impact of non-conversion charters is still sizable (nearly equal to the estimate in Chicago).

State laws often bog charter conversions down with excess baggage, such as keeping the school under the district's collective bargaining agreement, or requiring that it have a higher percentage of certified teachers than other charters.

The plans have faced widespread criticism from opposition parties and the education profession, with claims that there is no solid proof that converting a school into an academy will improve results and that the changes could lead to lengthy and expensive conversions for already high performing schools.

But the cost of conversion was high: Becoming charters meant the wholesale loss of the schools» religious character.

The conversion of the comprehensive high school was among the first financed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

CCSA Statement on Mt. Diablo School Board rejecting charter conversion of Clatyon Valley HIgh School.

«GCSE results suggest that converting already high - performing schools to academies has little effect on their academic performance, so it's not true to think that academy conversion raises standards across the board,» says Mr Hannay.

Selvin Chin - Chance, who directs testing at the DOE, said the findings are skewed by the fact that the larger, more established and higher - performing conversion charter schools, such as the Education Laboratory in Manoa, Wai'alae Elementary School, and Lanikai Elementary School, are over represented because more of their students take the tests.

Certainly families will need to pick up their copies of Anthony Bryk's Organizing Schools for Improvement and learn from the experiences of Green Dot Public Schools in its conversion and turnaround of Locke High School; they'll even have to become savvy in management strategy.

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Mary Asbury, Principal in Residence, discussed the challenges of redesigning a high school based on her experience as principal of Crawford High School leading up to its conversion into four small schohigh school based on her experience as principal of Crawford High School leading up to its conversion into four small scschool based on her experience as principal of Crawford High School leading up to its conversion into four small schoHigh School leading up to its conversion into four small scSchool leading up to its conversion into four small schools.

3) Small School Educational Complexes: (conversions from comprehensive high schools): small, newly converted high schools within large education complexes.

Small High Schools on a Larger Scale: The Impact of School Conversions in Chicago (Kahne, Sporte, de la Toree & Easton, 2011)

DeBerry's bill would have lowered the threshold of petition support from 60 to 51 percent, and extended the outcome beyond charter conversions, to include options such as replacing the principal or closing the school and sending its students to a higher - achieving one.

He has been President (since its founding in 2004) of the Special Education Improvement Authority for Los Angeles, a Joint Power Authority that includes the leading conversion and start - up charter schools / organizations advocating higher quality special education options within the LAUSD and other state SELPAs.

Yet professor Orfield et al. would have Black and Hispanic parents wait for a paradigm shift a la Thomas Kuhn, for some seismic change in the state's zeitgeist, for some miraculous conversion of the suburban mindset that would compel an opening of gated high - performing schools to needy children trapped in dysfunctional ones.

«Financial and legal obstacles to academy conversion have not been resolved and decisions are awaited from high - level discussions between the local authority and the Regional Schools Commissioner.»

Since original charter approval and conversion, Fenton Avenue Charter School is one of the highest performing schools in the North East San Fernando Valley.

Two of the 13 schools are conversions in which parents at an existing public school voted to embrace charter status; Kingsley Charter Elementary School in DeKalb and North Springs Charter High School in Fschool voted to embrace charter status; Kingsley Charter Elementary School in DeKalb and North Springs Charter High School in FSchool in DeKalb and North Springs Charter High School in FSchool in Fulton.

She undertakes a detailed study of two small urban high schools in their first year of conversion from a large, comprehensive high school.