Sentences with phrase «local high school students raise»

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In California The Fairmont San Francisco and The Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn are supporting local agricultural studies by purchasing two student - raised hogs from the Sonoma Valley High School Agriculture Department so that they can make their own sausages, bacon and dried meats, as well as support local schools and help strengthen the regional farming community.

The RISE (Raising Interest in Science and Engineering) program is an intensive seven - week program for local Bay Area high school students interested in science, engineering, math and computer science.

I explore three broad hypotheses for why African Americans might not have benefited as much as whites from the funding initiatives: 1) kindergarten funding disproportionately drew African Americans out of higher - quality education settings; 2) instead of raising additional revenue to fund local kindergarten programs fully, school districts offered lower - quality kindergarten programs to African Americans or moved funds from existing school programs from which African Americans may have disproportionately benefited; and 3) African Americans were more adversely affected by any subsequent «upgrading» of school curricula as more students entered elementary grades having attended kindergarten.

«Through their input, we can look forward to having a powerful statewide assessment that will inform local decisions to improve curriculum and instruction, raise student achievement, and ensure that all students graduate from high school ready for college or career.»

In a post featured on the Huffington Post's Education page, NEA President Dennis Van Roekel explains how «local teachers unions are stepping up to the challenge of raising academic performance» in schools serving high populations of poor students.

Besides boosting awareness of the Ridgeview Medical Center, Philp's event has helped raised money that directly funded a birthing center that opened in July 2009, a heart center, a mammography machine, and an $ 87,000 scholarship fund for local high school students who'd like to enter the medical field.