Sentences with phrase «school district students waited»

Hundreds of Syracuse City School District students waited in long lines to get a glimpse of Abraham Lincoln's handwriting in an exhibit at the Nicholas J. Pirro Convention Center.

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The Hempstead Union Free School District, under scrutiny for failing to enroll more than 30 immigrant children at the start of the school year, has until today to provide the state attorney general's office with alleged «wait - lists» created for these stuSchool District, under scrutiny for failing to enroll more than 30 immigrant children at the start of the school year, has until today to provide the state attorney general's office with alleged «wait - lists» created for these stuschool year, has until today to provide the state attorney general's office with alleged «wait - lists» created for these students.

Matthew Titone, who has 954 students on waiting lists in his district on Staten Island's North Shore, said charter schools in his area «do excellent work serving kids with special needs.»

Right now, 12,700 Bronx families are still on waiting lists for seats in public charter schools, and the Bronx has fewer gifted and talented programs than any of the other boroughs, with less than four seats for every 1,000 students.Two of our school districts — District 7 in the South Bronx and District 12 in the central Bronx — don't have a single gifted and talented program, and together they educate more than 45,000 students.

This is a problem familiar to education reformers: a voluntary 25 - year - old program that sends minority students from Boston to surrounding suburban districts has a waiting list that exceeds 12,000 kids because the receiving schools say they don't have enough space to accept more children.

«We've been waiting and waiting and waiting some more,» said Mr. Alvarado, the telecommunications supervisor for the 7,700 - student Fresno, Calif., school district.

Many districts have also developed benchmark exams that are given a few times a year to measure students» progress towards mastering these power standards; that way, schools don't have to wait until August to find out how students did on the big, standardized state tests.

In the meantime, NYC charter schools cumulatively report over 40,000 students on their waiting lists, with the Success Academy network, which regularly outscores even some citywide and district Gifted & Talented programs, desperately seeking permission to expand after receiving more than 17,000 applications for only 3,000 + available seats.

It has steadily expanded its program offerings and financial services as the charter school movement has grown from a single school in Minnesota over 20 years ago to millions of students attending charter schools in 43 states and the District of Columbia today, with 600,000 families on charter school waiting lists nationwide.

The one school in the district we studied that was diverse at the school and classroom level and seen as a «good» school also had a long waiting list of white students.

Rather than waiting to see how those changes would affect their schools, the district set out in 2008 to incorporate a bold vision into its strategic plan: Vancouver would create an «opportunity zone» where schools would focus on addressing the impact of poverty that can affect students» classroom performance.

A number of districts have not waited for the law to become effective, implementing in - school suspension policies as part of efforts to reduce overall student suspensions.

As one district proves, you don't have to wait until high school to expose students to their futures

Most other states or districts wait until 18 days, or until 10 percent of the 180 - day school year is missed, before labeling a student «chronically absent.»

The current pre-K waiting list is 444 students long, soaring past the school's enrollment, according to the District of Columbia Public Schools.

The school district can't wait that long, «while Einstein's students continue to be deprived of the transportation services to which they are entitled,» OPSB attorney Sharonda Williams wrote in the complaint.

Calculate the number of students who are waiting for in - demand Boston district schools the same way that charters do and you end up with a number in excess of 20,000.

On the first day, hundreds of cars spilled out of parking lots at district schools waiting to pick up students.

Her proof: Senate Bill 1434, which would expand eligibility for Arizona's education savings accounts (ESAs) to include students on district and charter school waiting lists.

Some of the district's newer schools are likely to see wait lists this year, so students will be accepted through a lottery process, said SAISD spokeswoman Leslie Price.

«Whether its opening 100 schools total or 100 additional schools, we will not rest until we are able to provide a high - quality education not only to our current student population, but to the tens of the thousands of children on our waiting lists who have been banished to low - performing district schools due to nothing more than political gamesmanship,» he said.

More than 8,500 students in the District are on wait lists for one or more charter schools this year, and nearly 7,000 are on wait lists for at least one traditional school, according to data released Tuesday by District school officials.

Some 30,000 students attend and another 40,000 are on waiting lists — a small fraction of the 1.1 million students in the nation's largest school district.

Even with roughly 35,000 students on waiting lists, Mund says if charter schools made up a single district - it would be the fourth - largest district in the state.

Rather than waiting for district and state actors to intervene, school leaders can instead work to foster a community of caring amongst their staff and students.

In its report, GPSN said there are more than 40,000 students who are on waiting lists for charter schools and «thousands more» attempt to enroll in the district's popular magnet school programs.

A Missouri school district isn't waiting for federal legislature or even an executive order, announcing that they will be placing an officer in school building to protect students.