EBR School Board eyes
adding magnet program to Istrouma High, creating priority enrollment zone for Mayfair Lab
The Advocate: East Baton Rouge School Board considering Success For All program for F - rated schools,
adding magnet programs, and air - conditioning all school buses http://bit.ly/1Mg1E66
Istrouma High School, which reopened in August, may
add a magnet program next year to sync up with and attract students from a middle school magnet program already in operation.
Not exact matches
A «blueprint» he proposed in year two, as achievement lagged, increased the hours of literacy training, with additional time and summer school for those falling behind, and
added more
programs for the same purpose, to be paid for by centralizing control of Title I funds and eliminating other
programs (such as some
magnet schools).
Instead of cutting staff, however, the district is trying to hold on to more students by expanding its popular
magnet - school
programs,
adding thousands of new seats for 2016 — 17.
Others have
added specialized academic
programs, vocational options, or
magnet schools.
This year, Coconut Creek High converted from a neighborhood high to a
magnet school offering a technical
magnet program, while Dr. Martin Luther King Elementary in Fort Lauderdale and Bair Middle in Sunrise
added Montessori
programs.
The Broward (Florida) school district has been taking steps to stop students from fleeing, including
adding eight new
magnet programs in the past five years.
Pasco also has very few
magnet programs, he
added.
If managing a second
magnet program is
added to the workload of a
magnet coordinator, it cuts that person's time in half, Warhaftig said.