Sentences with phrase «allowing public high school students»

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.

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

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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.

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.

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.»

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.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.»

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.

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.

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.

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.»

Segregating students with disabilities from non-disabled students by incentivizing the creation of largely unregulated private schools for students with disabilities, and then allowing private schools to refuse children's admission such that the private testing / evaluation scores can be higher than for public schools that must take all students.

WHEREAS, the over-reliance on high - stakes standardized testing in state and federal accountability systems is undermining educational quality and equity in U.S. public schools by hampering educators» efforts to focus on the broad range of learning experiences that promote the innovation, creativity, problem solving, collaboration, communication, critical thinking and deep subject - matter knowledge that will allow students to contribute and thrive in a democracy and an increasingly global society and economy; and

Many high performing charter schools accept a large number of students in the early grades, but as students leave a charter school for one reason or another, charter schools are allowed to leave those seats open; clearly this can produce exceptionally low teacher - student ratios creating an uneven playing field for those in traditional public schools that are held to a higher standard.

A new public charter school law allows Green Dot students the right to continue an uninterrupted high - quality, tuition - free education that prepares students for college, leadership, and life with a passionate and dedicated staff.

Public school choice (also known as open enrollment) allows students attending poor - performing public schools to attend a higher - performing public school inside or outside the student's assigned school disPublic school choice (also known as open enrollment) allows students attending poor - performing public schools to attend a higher - performing public school inside or outside the student's assigned school dispublic schools to attend a higher - performing public school inside or outside the student's assigned school dispublic school inside or outside the student's assigned school district.

But we can not allow ourselves to think that we have won and sink into complacency; the enemies of public education have struck a significant blow here, and though the changes will not be visible in the halls of our schools immediately, it will not take long before we see the effects, among the most visible of which is likely to be the high teacher turnover which is so harmful to a school, whether caused by getting fired for having the wrong kind of students or simply becoming demoralized by being made scapegoats for society's ills.

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