Sentences with phrase «allowed public high schools»

To date, the college credit program has been allowing public high school students to get credit at a public college.

A part - time open enrollment program is reinstated, allowing public high school students to attend a public school in another district to take a course offered by the nonresident school district.

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The NRA, bolstered by Trump, has been a vocal proponent of allowing more guns in public places, including schools, but the exception for the convention has raised eyebrows and prompted skepticism among students and at least one parent who lost his child in the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in which 17 people were killed and others injured.

Jesus is not allowed in most public squares, specially not at Christmas time, or mention of him at high school football games, or graduation ceremonies.

No Jewish organization supported the Equal Access Act, which wrote the equal time principle into law and allowed religious students a platform from which to inject religion into the public high school environment.

Nearly half of the 669 school districts seeking voter approval for budgets on Tuesday, May 16 are presenting spending plans that increase property taxes as high as the 2011 property tax cap law allows, according to an analysis by the Empire Center for Public Policy.

Nearly half of the 669 school districts seeking voter approval for budgets on Tuesday, May 15 are presenting spending plans that would increase property taxes as high as the 2011 property tax cap law allows, according to an analysis released today by the Empire Center for Public Policy.

If approved by voters those propositions will: 1) Create a redistricting commission to draw the new state legislative and House of Representatives» district lines every 10 years, with the commission members appointed by the state legislative leaders, 2) amend the current constitutional requirement of distributing paper versions of proposed bills to state legislators to allow for electronic distribution and 3) authorize New York State to borrow up to $ 2 billion for school funding, with a stated purpose of «improving learning and opportunity for public and nonpublic school students», including the purchase of equipment, expanding school broadband access, building classrooms for pre-K and replacing trailers and installing «high - tech security features.»

The proposal, which would allow high - achieving charter schools to develop their own teacher certification requirements, was quietly floated in the last hours of the 2017 legislative session and appeared this week on the agenda for an emergency meeting of the SUNY board of trustees» charter school committee, convened three days after public notice was first issued during a holiday week.

The law, known as the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act, tightens gun control in several ways, and also allows some teachers to be armed.

There are three ballot propositions on the November ballot: 1) Creation of a redistricting commission to draw the new state legislative and House of Representatives» district lines every 10 years, with the commission members appointed by the state legislative leaders, 2) amend the current constitutional requirement of distributing paper versions of proposed bills to state legislators to allow for electronic distribution and 3) authorize New York State to borrow up to $ 2 billion for school funding, with a stated purpose of «improving learning and opportunity for public and nonpublic school students», including the purchase of equipment, expanding school broadband access, building classrooms for pre-K and replacing trailers and installing «high - tech security features.»

Education: If you're pursuing higher education, attending exclusive private or public schools will allow you to meet people from a variety of backgrounds and races, and is an amazing networking opportunity that you may never again in your life have... so take advantage of it!

State policymakers who wish to switch over to portability should think carefully not only about reporting requirements and accountability for private schools under portability, but also about the details of the fiscal transition, such as hold harmless rates, that could allow high poverty public schools now served with Title I time to adjust.

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 included a provision that allowed parents to transfer students from «persistently dangerous» public schools, but many states have set the legal threshold so high that very few schools qualify.

In a new study, researchers find that seniority - based layoff policies — the norm in public schools — lead to higher numbers of teacher layoffs than would be necessary if administrators were allowed to make effectiveness the determining factor in issuing layoff notices, rather than length of service.

Topics the National Federation of State High School Associations developed for extemporaneous speaking contests in 2008 included, Should public schools be allowed to segregate along gender lines?

I was fortunate enough to have access to dance classes in my public high school, and that experience allowed me to gain personal strength, tenacity, and discipline.

Massachusetts» highest court has found constitutional the arrangement that allows a private university to manage the Chelsea public school system.

Colorado requires that 95 percent of students be in a high - risk group before a school can be labeled an AEC and the D.C. Public Charter School Board is considering a proposal based on a «gap» model that would set the threshold at 60 percent high - risk students, while some other states allow schools to bypass conventional accountability systems if their missions focus on serving alternative student populaschool can be labeled an AEC and the D.C. Public Charter School Board is considering a proposal based on a «gap» model that would set the threshold at 60 percent high - risk students, while some other states allow schools to bypass conventional accountability systems if their missions focus on serving alternative student populaSchool Board is considering a proposal based on a «gap» model that would set the threshold at 60 percent high - risk students, while some other states allow schools to bypass conventional accountability systems if their missions focus on serving alternative student populations.

An LEA shall use these grant funds to support direct student services including: (1) a student's enrollment and participation in academic courses not otherwise available at the student's school; (2) credit recovery and academic acceleration courses that lead to a regular high school diploma; (3) activities that assist students in successfully completing postsecondary level instruction and examinations that are accepted for credit at institutions of higher education; and (4) if applicable, transportation to allow a student enrolled in a low - performing school to transfer to another public school.

But the next year, his mother helped get him into a program in the city that allowed kids to enroll at high - performing public schools on conditional bases.

We can NOT allow parents to continue to be «arrested and criminalized» for placing their children in out - of - district public schools to ensure the quality, high - performing education that their in - district public schools are continually unable to provide.......

As it is, Quall said, the state's Running Start program, which allows high - school students to earn credit at community colleges, effectively transfers $ 20 million a year from public school districts to the colleges.

In Washington, a statewide agreement among public colleges and universities allows high school juniors to use their Smarter Balanced Assessment results to «speed up» or «catch up» during their senior year.

Teachers unions across Washington opposed the initiative from day one, saying it diverts money from the traditional schools, the schools lack a consistently high success rate for students and the measure allows out - of - state operators to run schools within the public school system and without traditional oversight.

The innovation charter schools allow in curriculum, structure, discipline, instruction, and operation could well help to reduce the frightful 30 percent average dropout rate in our public high schools, which is more than 50 percent for African - American, Latino and Native American children.

In that case Jepsen and Malloy used public funds to come to the defense of Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, when Pryor decided that while the law required that Paul Vallas could only stay on as the head of Bridgeport's school system if he completed a school leadership program at a Connecticut institution of higher education, Pryor would allow Vallas to stay if he only took a three - credit independent study class instead.

We should continue to call for challenging academic standards in core subjects, allowing public charter schools as part of choice, encouraging high teacher performance — those kinds of things are part of the President's reform package.

Fund Education Now grades legislators on their efforts to provide and fund «a uniform, efficient, safe, secure, and high quality system of free public schools that allows students to obtain a high quality education» as outlined in Article IX, section 1 of the Florida Constitution.

We are also deeply troubled by the prospect that if virtually unregulated teacher certification academies with little academic quality control are allowed to proliferate, the employers of their graduates will be either charter schools, many operating in high - poverty communities, or traditional public schools that lack the resources to be selective and competitive in hiring the best - qualified teachers.

The public school system allowed him to begin playing with the middle school band in elementary and with the high school band in middle school.

It is the intent of the Legislature that school personnel certified in this state possess the credentials, knowledge, and skills necessary to allow the opportunity for a high - quality education in the public schools.

Dual Enrollment - Dual enrollment allows Florida public high school students to earn credit toward both high school graduation and a college degree or career certificate by taking dual enrollment courses.

In follow up to legislation opposed by TCTA and passed last session allowing school districts rated acceptable or higher to become «innovation districts» that can be exempt from major provisions of the Education Code, the Texas Education Agency issued proposed rules and held a public hearing April 25, 2016, to receive input.

Her sons attended Ánimo Inglewood Charter High School, and she springboarded from support for the school and its network, Green Dot Public Schools, to becoming a co-founder of Parent Revolution and helping get a state law passed that allows parents to force change at failing scSchool, and she springboarded from support for the school and its network, Green Dot Public Schools, to becoming a co-founder of Parent Revolution and helping get a state law passed that allows parents to force change at failing scschool and its network, Green Dot Public Schools, to becoming a co-founder of Parent Revolution and helping get a state law passed that allows parents to force change at failing sSchools, to becoming a co-founder of Parent Revolution and helping get a state law passed that allows parents to force change at failing schoolsschools.

Here's how education reform was phrased in the poll question: «The education reform bill passed last year by the State Legislature and signed by the Governor takes essential steps to close Connecticut's worst - in - the - nation achievement gap, raise standards for educators, allows immediate action to improve failing schools, increases access to high - quality public school choices, and improves how education dollars arespent.

This dataset allows us to identify neighborhoods with the highest boundary participation rates and estimate flows to out - of - boundary DCPS and public charter schools.

At the request of the DC Public Charter School Board and with support from NewSchools Venture Fund, AppleTree creates its AppleTree @ model, where AppleTree collaborates with with a turnaround or high - performing new partner, to operate AppleTree preschool allowing the host school to focus on kindergarten and above, while AppleTree provides a high quality preschool educSchool Board and with support from NewSchools Venture Fund, AppleTree creates its AppleTree @ model, where AppleTree collaborates with with a turnaround or high - performing new partner, to operate AppleTree preschool allowing the host school to focus on kindergarten and above, while AppleTree provides a high quality preschool educschool to focus on kindergarten and above, while AppleTree provides a high quality preschool education.

Among its promises are that Democrats will support free community college for all, make it easier to repay student loans, allow borrowers with student loans to discharge their debts in bankruptcy if necessary, strengthen higher education schools that serve minorities, crack down on «for - profit schools that take millions in federal financial aid,» and continue to work to improve public schools by holding teachers and schools «accountable.»

We need higher accountability and qualifications for public school teachers, yet charter schools and «reformers» don't need to be held accountable or meet even the reduced qualifications the reformers lobbied the legislature for in order to allow their hand picked candidates to access positions.

Another provision of the reform plan allows students in low - performing schools to use a portion of the voucher for individual courses at colleges, or for technical or vocational programs, or for online courses, or for a high - performing public school.

It was the second in a series of four public meetings being held at the city's public high schools this spring to allow Cheatham, who started work in the district on April 1, to hear community concerns.

But I would be silly to think that my own cultural capital, through my connections and people I work with and for had made it possible for me to explore options other than the public schools of New Orleans and allow my daughter a chance at her inalienable right to a high quality school and social capital.

The NRA, bolstered by Trump, has been a vocal proponent of allowing more guns in public places, including schools, but the exception for the convention has raised eyebrows and prompted skepticism among students and at least one parent who lost his child in the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in which 17 people were killed and others injured.

As such, in 1985, with Republicans in control of the legislature, Perpich recommended two school choice proposals: postsecondary enrollment options (PSEO), to allow high school juniors and seniors to attend nonsectarian public and private colleges, and open enrollment, to allow parents to send their children to schools anywhere in the state.

The new public charter school regulations being discussed in Trenton today will not only expand high quality educational options for our students and families, but will allow public charter schools to continue to innovate and positively transform our education system to the benefit of all students.

He argued that Washington's Constitution (Section 2 Article 9) outlines four specific kinds of public schools allowed in the state — common schools, high schools, normal schools, and technical schools.

I am holding you responsible for the 9 - year - old student who came to school with hardly any sleep after witnessing his mother administer Narcan to save his father's life, only to then take a three - hour test and I am holding you responsible for the autistic child whose parents opted him out of the test but the school counseled him back into... I hold you responsible for not passing legislation that allows for a public - school TEACHER to serve on the Board of EDUCATION, yet the chair of this Board, Paul Sagan can contribute $ 600,000 to a campaign that sought to charterize, segregate, and create a two - tiered system of privilege using high - stake test scores as the ammunition.»

Allow high - performing districts to keep the exemplary public schools they have by giving outstanding teachers a voice and the support to bring autonomy back into the classrooms.

Australia's school funding model provides high levels of public funding to private schools, while also allowing them to charge fees.