Sentences with phrase «seattle schools»

Mental Health Counseling students from Seattle schools who go on to become psychologists, therapists, psychiatrists, counselors, etc. have a good chance at finding employment.

I know that the Seattle schools and universities are very much involved in the use of digital technologies so it might be interesting to show it to the French students, where e-readers are slowly starting.

This story of students losing a two weeks of school because they were given the wrong test — reportedly in at least several Seattle schools — is nothing short of scandalous.

Two (2) complete hard - copy sets of Alignment Agreement materials must be received by Seattle Schools Alignment Coordinator on or before the due date.

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At the urging of local teachers union leaders, the staffs of at least 40 Seattle schools voted to reject their building - level budgets in protest.

Seattle schools enrollment lower than expected; 18 schools will lose staff seattletimes.com/seattle-news/e...

CEL's team of leadership coaches has helped foster that reflective culture in Seattle Schools.

She is responsible for managing K - 12 assessments in collaboration with Seattle Schools leaders and the Office of Research and Evaluation.

Seattle Schools Community Forum debates the issues facing Seattle Public Schools.

She joined a coalition of parents that successfully fought to keep the school open, and became a member of ESP Vision (Educators, Students and Parents for a Better Vision for Seattle Schools), a citywide organization founded to oppose the district's school closure policies.

Three Seattle schools that were on the earlier federal sanctions list — Concord and T.T. Minor Elementary and Madrona K - 8 school — apparently have moved off it based on their improving WASL scores, Seattle administrators said.

A large push to integrate Seattle schools began in 1977 with The Seattle Plan which bussed students to schools in different neighborhoods in an effort to create racial diversity.

As a result, Seattle schools are now trending back toward being racially segregated from neighborhood to neighborhood.

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Seattle schools have already announced their intention to switch to integrated courses.

With grant, Seattle schools to change start times again — for the better seattletimes.com/education-lab/...

Can decentralization improve Seattle schools?

This article describes Seattle schools» move from student solicitation to organized district - level efforts to raise funds.

Editor's Note: Since this video was produced in 2006, principal Karen Kodama moved on to become the director of international education for Seattle Schools.

Editor's Note: Since this article was published in 2006, principal Karen Kodama moved on to become the director of international education for Seattle Schools.

The elementary - and middle - school math curricula used in Seattle schools are not part of the Discovering Mathematics series and are not published by Key Curriculum Press.

Because the Stanford waiting list has reached 200 children, parents also are pushing to bring John Stanford's vision to other Seattle schools.

Grasping the vision of its late namesake, a former Seattle schools superintendent, Kodama surveyed local parents and business leaders in 1998 about the ideal components of an international school.

When John Stanford, a retired army general, became superintendent of the Seattle schools in 1995, he traveled to Edmonton with his chief financial officer, Joseph Olchefske.

He was bored at his Seattle school in eighth grade in 1968, so his parents switched him to a private school that happened to have a terminal linked to a mainframe computer.

Julian P. Sachs, an associate professor of oceanography at the University of Washington in Seattle School of Oceanography, and Conor L. Myhrvold, a geoscience major at Princeton University, share photos from recent expeditions.

The recent Supreme Court decision, Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, ruled unconstitutional the Seattle and Louisville school districts» limited use of race in deciding which students got into overenrolled schools (Seattle) or which students could transfer schools (Louisville), limiting the scope of government intervention to preserve racial balance following the expansion of school choice.

Before Rodgveller began the program in 1999, girls made up only 5 percent of the students in information technology classes in the Seattle School District.

However, when a local Seattle school needed a computer science teacher a few years ago, Wang decided that the choice between a big tech firm and a teaching job did not have to be mutually exclusive.

The third case is Parents Involved v. Seattle School District (2007), in which the court limited the ability of school districts to explicitly consider race when attempting to integrate schools.

Josh Dunn talks with Education Next about a state court ruling overturning a decision by the Seattle school board to adopt a progressive math curriculum.

In fact, the trend line suggests that today Kennedy would likely approve a voluntary integration plan like the one he voted to strike down in 2007's Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1.

Seattle school district officials say they are working to resolve concerns raised by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which recently halted the payment of grant money to the 45,000 - student system.

Second, it's hard to see how Duncan can do this without running headlong into the Supreme Court's 2007 decision in Parents Involved v. Seattle School District No. 1.

The Seattle school district has been using a discovery - based math curriculum in the lower grades and clearly viewed the Discovering Series as an extension of those pedagogical choices.

The justices» landmark decision in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 struck down voluntarily adopted integration programs in Seattle and Jefferson County, Kentucky, and called into question similar race - based systems that operate in hundreds of other districts.

In 1956, a memo for the Seattle School Board reported that school segregation reflected not only segregated housing patterns but also school board policies that permitted white students to transfer out of black schools while restricting the transfer of black students into white schools.

Their ultimate ruling in the joined cases Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 (05 - 908) and Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education (05 - 915) will have far - reaching implications for integrated schooling in the United States.

Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School Dist., No. 1, 149 Wash. 2d 660, 689 - 690, 663, 72 P. 3d 151, 166, 153 (2003)(en banc)(Parents Involved V).

Seattle School District No. 1 operates 10 regular public high schools.

The Seattle school district classifies children as white or nonwhite; the Jefferson County school district as black or «other.»

¶ 3 Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School Dist., No. 1, 149 Wash. 2d 660, 72 P. 3d 151 (2003); 137 F. Supp.

How the teacher pay raise formula could worsen Seattle's inequity In this oped Marguerite Roza describes one critical issue underlying the fall 2015 Seattle Public Schools teachers» strike that neither the Seattle School District nor the Seattle Education Association, the teachers» union, took on: the built - in inequities across schools created...

«A Time for Sight: The Debate over Color Blindness and Race - Consciousness in School Integration Policy,» Curriculum Connections In light of the 2007 Supreme Court decision in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District and Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education, ADL offers this comprehensive lesson that examines the debate over school integration within the broader context of the Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 and the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, AK in 1957.

«Some people might say, «Oh, 15 minutes, that's nothing,»» said the Seattle school's principal, Vicki Sacco.

MAP ® is also being misused by the Seattle School District.

At a Seattle School Board forum in January, Spady also argued that charter schools inject healthy competition into public education, spurring improvements in mainstream schools much as imports of Toyotas and Nissans prompted Ford, Chrysler, and General Motors to upgrade.

Steve Sundquist, who served on the Seattle School Board from 2007 to 2011, including one year as president and two years as vice president, said Wednesday that the new charter - school law and the State Board of Education have set an ambitious agenda for the group.

After the 2007 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, which limited the voluntary use of race in school assignment plans, 33 the number of schools and districts using socioeconomic integration policies grew rapidly.