Sentences with phrase «actually attend the school»

Further, to reduce and eliminate the disconnect between the interests of the school board and the children actually attending the schools, I will explore several options and, once educational experts, legal experts, and district parents have weighed in, will push with sustained effort to make the fixes.

But state leaders too often overlook a common practice that inhibits both efficiency and productivity, namely, funding students who do not actually attend school in funded districts, herein called «phantom students.»

According to the most recent data, 75 of the state's 82 charter schools had lists totaling more than 37,000 individual students — more than actually attend the schools today.

«We need the involvement of people whose children actually attend the schools and people in the community in which these children are growing up if we are to bring about lasting changes in our school system,» he says.

Nevertheless, it promises to engage organized voices, as well as the time, energy, and political power of the people who have the strongest direct interest in the improvement of education in low - income communities, that is, parents and students who actually attend these schools

Funding Phantom Students In this brief published by Education Next, authors Marguerite Roza and Jon Fullerton describe a common practice that inhibits both efficiency and productivity: funding students who do not actually attend school in funded districts and how this is often overlooked by state leaders.

According to the Palm Beach Post, officials at Faith Christian Academy defrauded the McKay scholarship program and the federal free lunch program by reporting more students than were actually attending the school.

Putting an end to traditional enrollment counts — and only providing districts with dollars based on whether the student is actually attending school — will force districts to look at the underlying reasons why chronic truancy is a problem in the first place, as well as address the issues by providing children with high - quality teaching and strong, college - preparatory curricula.

Sixteen percent of the PISA sample was drawn from schools where more than 75 percent of students are FRPL - eligible, yet fewer than half as many, 6 percent of U.S. high school students, actually attend schools that are so seriously impacted by concentrated poverty.

That's because nearly 700 students from Eastpointe actually attend school in Lakeview, a public school district five miles away in St. Clair Shores.

For additional recommendations, talk to people who've actually attended the school you are interested in.

As a Ph.D. student at the University of Kentucky in the 1970s, Janssen was introduced to the Black Mountain College legacy through visitors who had actually attended the school, including Jonathan Williams and Buckminster Fuller.

The child can not be educated unless he actually attends the school.

Some are offered online, and some require you to actually attend the school for at least part of the time.

Not exact matches

I have never heard of him actually attending a rabbinical school per se, however, very little is known of him prior to age 13, when he was instructing the priests at the temple.

the bigot: I'm actually an adult Sunday School teacher with about 30 folks attending ages 17 — 65.

Years ago (11 actually) I attended a wonderful discipleship school in Laussane, Switzerland.

In other words, the fact that double the number of private school students go on to complete college degrees has more to do with who attends private school than what the private school is actually doing for the child's college prospects.

A 2005 Sociology of Education study called «The Frog Pond Revisited: High School Academic Context, Class Rank and Elite College Admission,» suggests that when you control for scholastic ability, attending a school surrounded by fellow academic superstars actually has a negative effect on your admissions chances at an elite coSchool Academic Context, Class Rank and Elite College Admission,» suggests that when you control for scholastic ability, attending a school surrounded by fellow academic superstars actually has a negative effect on your admissions chances at an elite coschool surrounded by fellow academic superstars actually has a negative effect on your admissions chances at an elite college.

I went to every meeting that they have had at the school, including a PTO meeting where I was one of only 2 parents who didn't actually have a child who attended school there yet.

Chris Liebig was a former classmate of mine at both college and law school, yet somehow, despite attending the same schools together for years on end, we never actually met!

I'd always loved making, but attending the brilliant Folksy Summer School in 2013, and actually having some time when I stopped teaching, gave me that push that I needed to open a shop.

A fun fact about myself is that I actually attended Camp Kesem as a camper when I was in high school!

Research shows that when fathers / father - figures (resident and non-resident alike) are more involved in the school community beyond just attending sporting events — volunteering, attending class, grade and whole school events, showing up for conferences and getting involved in the parent association — children have been shown to get better grades, go further with their education and actually enjoy school more.

In addition to actually teaching the warm little bodies in our classes, we have to grade papers, attend meetings, participate in school leadership committees, create bulletin boards, set up for labs, meet with students, plan future lessons, prepare for and administer tests... the list seems endless.

Ms Turnely continued: «In the face of the government's campaign to broaden access to universities, elite public schools have actually increased the number of pupils they send to Oxbridge over the last five years, whilst ethnic minority students are twice as likely to attend modern universities than traditional universities.»

The model of hospital administration in this publication actually has lots of semblance with contemporary models in the US, UK, Republic of Ireland, Australia and Canada where there is a board of directors / governors with a Chairman (does not have to be a Medical Doctor), a CEO / President / Hospital administrator (does not have to be a Medical Doctor) and a CMD / MD / CMO / Executive director medical services etc (Is ALWAYS a Medical Doctor — different names but similar portfolio — In Nigeria we always look up to these countries for direction with respect to global best practices so I do not understand what the commentator code - named afam6nr means by «Obviously, this writer has not attended any Business School Training and has no knowledge of Business Administration» — My advice to afam6nr is to do a little study of the different heath system of the world (specifically regarding corporate governance, organisation and administration of tertiary hospitals) and after this little research come back and comment on his findings!

In this week's Press Pass conversation, WBFO's Senior Reporter Eileen Buckley and Buffalo Education Reporter Tiffany Lankes discuss how numbers of African American students attended City Honors and Olmsted schools actually declined slightly.

WBFO's Eileen Buckley and Buffalo News Education Reporter Tiffany Lankes discuss how numbers of African American students attending City Honors and Olmsted schools actually dropped slightly.

Ain attended the annual Endocrine Society meeting in Toronto, where Bryan Haugen, head of the endocrinology division at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, told Ain that several of his most popular cell lines were not actually thyroid cancer.

Affluent students who receive a top - notch education may acquire this skill as a matter of course, but this capacity is often lacking among low - income students who attend struggling schools — holding out the hopeful possibility that retrieval practice could actually begin to close achievement gaps between the advantaged and the underprivileged.

«Playing multiple sports when you're young, up through high school, is actually beneficial for all your sports,» said Freehill, who pitched in the minor leagues for six seasons before attending medical school, reaching the AAA level with two different organizations and making the 40 - man roster of the Anaheim (now Los Angeles) Angels.

It is important that our students experience fashion actually in practise during their daily lives attending our schools — we believe living and studying in international fashion hubs is pivotal to student experience.

In 1935, Native Americans were finally allowed to attend public school, but there were still many things preventing Native American children from actually attending regularly.

The Ohio study matched EdChoice students with descriptively similar public school students at baseline and kept every student in their original group after that, regardless of who in either group actually attended private or public schools.

These lessons focus primarily on the transparency of the systems, but this is just one of several principles that states should attend to (which I have offered previously): Accountability systems should actually measure school effectiveness, not just test scores.

One can therefore obtain a rough estimate of the effect of actually attending the first - choice school (as a result of winning the lottery) by doubling the results presented below.

NOTE: Enrollment number includes all students who were required to attend summer school, whether or not they actually attended.

A middle school science teacher actually encouraged Gutschow to consider attending a college like Harvard when otherwise he may not have applied.

They therefore represent the effect of actually attending a charter school, not simply of drawing a lottery number low enough to gain admission.

This case would be strengthened further if the education dollars — from every source — also accompany individual pupils to the schools they actually attend.

What they actually do is take in kids who win the lottery, a process that inevitably involves an element of self - selection, since parents who apply to have their kids attend these schools know in advance that much will be demanded of them and their children.

But in a new article for Education Next, Sarah A. Cordes of Temple University examines the effects of charter schools on neighboring district school students in New York City and finds that these spillover effects are actually positive: students attending a district school within a half - mile radius of a charter school score better in math and reading and enjoy an increase in their likelihood of advancing to the next grade.

Although initially she attended law school, it only took a few weeks before she realized that working with young people and teaching English was actually the right path for her.

But routinely, just two - thirds of the students enrolled in Calvin Simmons actually wound up attending the school.

Minority students in New Zealand are actually more likely to attend an out - of - zone school than other groups, a reverse of the situation under zoning.

Then, support at school and home can help a young person envision oneself a college goer and believe attending college is actually possible.

(We counted all those offered admission at a charter school against the charter school ledger, whether they actually attended or subsequently dropped out.

In urban schools students come and go all day.No 45 minutes is like the time that preceded it or the time that will follow.Urban schools report 125 classroom interruptions per week.Announcements, students going, students coming, messengers, safety aides, and intrusions by other school staff account for just some of these interruptions.It is not unusual for students to stay on task only 5 or 10 minutes in every hour.Textbook companies and curriculum reformers are constantly thwarted by this reality.They sell their materials to schools with the assurance that all the students will learn X amount in Y time.They are continually dismayed to observe that an hour of school time is not an hour of learning time.Many insightful observers of life in urban schools have pointed out that it is incredibly naive to believe that learning of subject matter is the main activity occurring in these schools.If one observes the activities and events which actually transpire — minute by minute, hour by hour, day in and day out — it is not possible to reasonably conclude that learning is the primary activity of youth attending urban schools.What does the process of changing what one does every 45 minutes and even the place where one does it portend for fulfilling a job in the world of work?If one is constantly being reinforced in the behaviors of coming, going, and being interrupted, what kind of work is one being prepared for?

First let's look at the money spent on the 6,000 students who actually attend public schools.