Sentences with phrase «school district student body»

For example, the Los Angeles Unified School District student body in 2010 was majority - minority, with 74 percent Latino and 9 percent white.

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Concussion and Sports - Related Head Injury: Statute 14.30.142 requires the governing body of a school district to consult with the Alaska Activities Association to develop and publish guidelines and other information to educate coaches, student athletes and parents of athletes regarding the nature and risks of concussions.

You have always been your own best resource in designing and implementing wellness programs that are right for your district, school, and student body.

Under CEP, schools or school districts where 40 percent of the student body directly qualifies for free meals (via food stamps or other nutrition assistance or welfare programs) may offer those meals free to all students.

WHEREAS, during the 2013 — 14 school year, Success Academy suspended 11 percent of its student body while district schools suspended just 1 percent, according to a report by the Albert Shanker Institute, at a moment when citywide suspensions are declining, according to the Times; and

Concerns stem in part from a majority of students in the district attending religious schools, while the Board of Education is largely dominated by Hasidic men making decisions for a largely black and Latino student body.

Take the desperate situation involving the school district in East Ramapo, where a school board dominated by Orthodox Jewish members is at odds with the parents of a student body that is largely black and Hispanic, in a situation that seemed to be crying out for some resolution at the state level.

Ethnic composition of the student body is also an important determinant both of the probability of leaving the public schools entirely and of switching from one school district to another.

As is common for large urban school districts, the student body of Baltimore city's schools is predominantly minority and poor.

Under the terms of a court settlement reached with the aid of a nationally known desegregation researcher, the San Francisco Unified School District will open a currently unused facility to house the entire student body of a magnet middle school affected by the district's asbestos - cleanup prSchool District will open a currently unused facility to house the entire student body of a magnet middle school affected by the district's asbestos - cleanup District will open a currently unused facility to house the entire student body of a magnet middle school affected by the district's asbestos - cleanup prschool affected by the district's asbestos - cleanup district's asbestos - cleanup program.

Students in auto - body shop in the Tucson Unified School District, in Tucson, Arizona, don't just learn how to change oil or hammer out a dent.

The foundation has already committed some $ 135 million to overhauling fundamental aspects of urban school districts: identifying new sources of talent for positions of authority; developing alternative training methods for managers, principals, and teachers union leaders; creating new tools for analyzing performance data; and working with school boards to help those sometimes obstructionist bodies become more focused on student learning than on petty power plays.

The AFT claims that charter schools are more racially homogeneous than district schools, citing research that makes much of very small differences (normally less than 10 percent) between charter and nearby district school student bodies.

Coleman's work spawned a large body of research comparing the effectiveness of district, private, and (later) charter schools in preparing students for college and life.

But their work spawned a large body of research comparing the effectiveness of district, private, and (later) charter schools in preparing students for college and life.

Kozol points out that the wealthiest suburban school districts surrounding New York City, for example, spend more per pupil to educate their mostly white student bodies than the city spends to educate its mostly minority population.

As the executive director and the board chairman of the District of Columbia's independent chartering body, we are often asked whether we favor a «New Orleans» future for D.C., where charter schools eventually serve virtually all public - school students.

In other school districts, the student body and faculty are the primary fund - raisers.

This method allows us to address two sources of bias: (i) differences in the types of schools that Asian Americans and whites are likely to attend (e.g., school quality, course difficulty, socio - demographic composition of student body) and (ii) self - selection of Asian Americans into school districts.

What are your thoughts on advocating for using nationally normalized assessments (e.g. NWEA MAP) for each student as a baseline for their education growth during the course of an academic year and aggregating education growth on a school, district, student sub-group, etc. basis as a review body saw fit?

The school district in 2016 - 2017 is 30 percent Hispanic, 29 percent white, 22 percent black and 14 percent Asian, according to school district data, a student body that would have been difficult to imagine five decades ago, when Montgomery's enrollment was 94 percent white.

Such a code shall be developed in collaboration with student, teacher, administrator, and parent organizations, school safety personnel and other school personnel and shall be approved by the board of education, or other governing body, or by the chancellor of the city school district in the case of the City School District of the City of Newschool safety personnel and other school personnel and shall be approved by the board of education, or other governing body, or by the chancellor of the city school district in the case of the City School District of the City of Newschool personnel and shall be approved by the board of education, or other governing body, or by the chancellor of the city school district in the case of the City School District of the City of Newschool district in the case of the City School District of the City of Ndistrict in the case of the City School District of the City of NewSchool District of the City of NDistrict of the City of New York.

Even in large urban school districts, where the student body is largely minority, only about 18 percent of teachers are black and 9 percent Hispanic.

• New schools face many challenges, and have unique needs related to building a student body and building bridges between school, district, and community.

Districts should also consider hiring additional counselors and school climate coordinators, who can develop strategies to promote a positive school climate among a racially, ethnically, and socioeconomically diverse student body.

Still, in the 2015 - 2016 school year, black students made up 53 % of the district's student body, but 80 % of its suspensions and 87 % of its expulsions, according to the state Department of Public Instruction.

Should schools with student bodies primarily from low - income families spend less on the education of those children than is spent on the education of other students in the same school district?

NSBA's legislative governing body, the Delegate Assembly, informed the Fisher - King - Tester Amendment, which is a solid step toward granting school districts greater flexibility to respond to the needs of all students.

We did learn that charter schools, even with their cherry - picked student bodies, did not do better than many public school districts which do not restrict their student populations of special education students, English language learners, or students with behavioral issues.

That is, a school with more low - income students had lower - ranking teachers than a school with a wealthier student body in the same district.

In addition to the growing body of research supporting the benefits of alternative campus discipline programs, there is now federal pressure for districts to rethink their practices: schools may face sanctions if discipline policies are found to unfairly target minority students.

When school districts have tried to put local requirements in a charter agreement, such as a concrete justification of need, required bus transportation, a reflective student body, or location in an impoverished area, rules have been tightened to disallow restrictions.

Over a three - year period, each school must develop a unique educational theme, devise a governance agreement, revise its curriculum, establish a contract with surrounding school districts that will become feeders for the magnet school, recruit a diverse student body, and provide professional development for its teachers.

Results from the nearly 300 Kentucky schools and school districts that responded show that 8 % of school councils and 9 % of school districts support students to serve on their governing bodies and that 57 % of schools do not offer a meaningful outlet for student voice.

Racial demographics across the four school districts are similarly varied: Lincoln and Cumberland have student populations that are 80 — 90 percent white, whereas Central Falls is roughly 75 percent Latino, and Pawtucket's student body is roughly one - third white, one - third Latino, and one - third black.»

The Community Eligibility Option (CEO) attempts to reduce administrative burdens on schools and districts by allowing schools, groups of schools, or local education agencies with more than 40 % of students qualifying for «direct certification» of FRL eligibility to provide free meals to their entire student body, and to cease reporting data disaggregated by FRL eligibility.

Compared to neighboring district schools, KIPP middle schools have student bodies characterized by higher concentrations of poverty and racial minorities, but lower concentrations of special education and limited English proficiency students.

Furthermore, 40 percent of the nation's more than 1,700 school districts are hypersegregated, meaning that most low - income students attend schools where 75 percent of the student body is also low - income.

The amendment was informed by NSBA's legislative governing body, the Delegate Assembly, and is a solid step toward providing school districts with more flexibility to respond to the needs of all students.

KIPP LA Prep is an independent public charter middle school that serves a primarily Latino student body and was one of only two schools from LA Unified to receive the honor, along with Wonderland Elementary, a traditional district school.

At district - run schools, just over 0.05 percent of the student body was expelled last year.

Often tied to districts» annual budget cycles, effective strategic planning and school improvement focus on the staff and skills, materials and resources, instruction and intervention, and formative and summative evaluations needed to educate a diverse and often complex student body.

The district closed that campus last Friday and was preparing to split the student body among the three remaining elementary schools.

One thing we've been critical of with charter schools is they're not serving the diverse student body of the districts.

As a start - up public charter school sponsored by the SC Public Charter School District, LLCS will serve school - aged children living in rural West Ashley, surrounding communities, and neighboring counties, and as such, have a potential student body reflective of the demographic character of the region thus bringing back the neighborhood school coschool sponsored by the SC Public Charter School District, LLCS will serve school - aged children living in rural West Ashley, surrounding communities, and neighboring counties, and as such, have a potential student body reflective of the demographic character of the region thus bringing back the neighborhood school coSchool District, LLCS will serve school - aged children living in rural West Ashley, surrounding communities, and neighboring counties, and as such, have a potential student body reflective of the demographic character of the region thus bringing back the neighborhood school coschool - aged children living in rural West Ashley, surrounding communities, and neighboring counties, and as such, have a potential student body reflective of the demographic character of the region thus bringing back the neighborhood school coschool concept.

There's a large and growing body of research that shows that community engagement and collaborative practices in schools and districts improve student outcomes.

In fact, in some school districts, the teacher workforce looked almost nothing like the student body.

Indeed, in this study, which also focuses on North Carolina, the authors note, «We see that in every [school district] across the state, Whites are more heavily concentrated in the teaching workforce than in the student body.

For the 2013 - 14 school year, charter enrollment in LA Unified jumped 15 percent, giving the district a total of 139,174 charter students, which totals 21 percent of its student body.