Sentences with phrase «after magnet programs»
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It has used its magnet money to build an arts - based curriculum, enrich its after - school programs and «make school fun» for its 632 students.
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Five years after mandatory busing started, the number of schools offering magnet programs had grown by 30.
After a brief welcome by TCSA Executive Director David Dunn, Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath kicked off the day with remarks and provided some information on his background which includes serving on the Dallas School Board for four years, attending a public magnet school in Garland and graduating from college in two years, starting a software company, and his work with the Big Brothers and Big Sisters Program.
Alan Warhaftig, who retired last year after more than a decade as the magnet program co-coordinator at Fairfax High School, believes that the district's goal of rapid expansion of magnets could dilute the success of the programs.
Wilcox, who took over as CMS superintendent last July after stints in Maryland, Florida and Louisiana, said district officials have been in talks with Matthews leaders about magnet programs and possibly placing a regional office in the suburban town of about 29,000.
Even after you take out gifted magnet programs where students have to meet academic admissions requirements, students at LA Unified's magnet schools outperformed their peers at independent charter schools, an LA School Report analysis of district data found.
The move comes after months of public comments from district leaders pointing to the popular magnet program as a way to increase enrollment in the district.
Students at Cleveland, Mississippi's Bell Academy, a once failing school that has turned around after installing a magnet math, science and health program, line up for lunch service.
Istrouma Middle will be a full magnet school while Istrouma High will offer a magnet program styled after the middle school magnet.
An ambitious next step after inter-district programs and magnet schools — indeed, what some see as the logical endpoint of these programs — is, in essence, doing what the NAACP wanted when it sued Minnesota 15 years ago: the combination of urban and suburban school districts into the «mega-district.»
Recent enrollment data suggests that twenty years after the start of New Haven's interdistrict magnet program, only one of the city's interdistrict magnet high schools, ESUMS, is currently meeting the city's objectives of creating racially diverse schools with a minimum of 25 % white enrollment.