SAILS opened in 1995 to provide
an alternative educational environment for students who were not experiencing success in the traditional setting and were behind in credits.
That opportunity should be available to all families, regardless of income, as the parental right to contest child placements should be replaced with the parental power to choose
an alternative educational environment when the current one isn't working.
Not exact matches
Five Acres School is an intensive therapeutic learning
environment for children K - 10 with academic, emotional, behavioral and social challenges which are best addressed with an
alternative educational setting.
Topics to be covered include: • The # 1 reason hospitalized or homebound students often fail in traditional models • How a targeted online homebound education program can be less costly while improving
educational outcomes • How K12 provides homebound students access to the same rigorous learning experience as their in - school classmates • How this model also works effectively in
alternative learning
environments, such as addiction centers or juvenile detention facilities
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The commissioner may also place under preliminary registration review any school that has conditions that threaten the health, safety and / or
educational welfare of students or has been the subject of persistent complaints to the department by parents or persons in parental relation to the student, and has been identified by the commissioner as a poor learning
environment based upon a combination of factors affecting student learning, including but not limited to: high rates of student absenteeism, high levels of school violence, excessive rates of student suspensions, violation of applicable building health and safety standards, high rates of teacher and administrator turnover, excessive rates of referral of students to or participation in special education or excessive rates of participation of students with disabilities in the alternate assessment, excessive transfers of students to
alternative high school and high school equivalency programs and excessive use of uncertified teachers or teachers in subject areas other than those for which they possess certification.
ALS President Whitford - Narine said in a statement that enrollment trends «do not suggest that students are referred for any reason other than because an
educational professional and the student and parent believe that an
alternative learning
environment is needed.»
Public funds should remain in public schools and should not be used to support private or parochial schools.
Alternative Education
Alternative educational opportunities should be made available to students for whom the traditional classroom setting is not the optimal learning
environment.
Charter schools claim that they are really public schools; they just utilize an
alternative educational approach and
environment.
That's because learning happens everywhere, and we need to find ways to connect the learning that does occur in school with the learning that takes place in other arenas, such as afterschool, summer, in clubs and activities, at work (paid and unpaid), postsecondary settings, online and through technology, and in other
educational environments (museums, libraries, and
alternative education, for example).
Rather than marginalizing
alternative education, we may instead consider all schools and learning
environments to be
educational alternatives.
LAKE, which stands for Learning Alternatives for Knowledge and Enrichment Academy, provides a specialized
educational environment for kindergarten through 12th - grade students referred by the school district who have emotional and behavioral issues and also for students in need of an
alternative disciplinary option in lieu of expulsion.
Fritz Haeg: At Home in the City: «For the past decade Fritz Haeg has explored how we live in our cities, offering
alternatives through edible gardens, domestic gatherings, public dances, animal architecture, temporary encampments, and
educational environments.
Education: Seeking a broadened range of strategies to meet
educational requirements of Indigenous children with more Indigenous teachers» cross-culturally trained and increasing higher education participation via strategies that provide opportunities and
alternative pathways in sports and scholastic academies while applying a holistic approach to reviews of conditions, roles, responsibilities for strategic direction and culturally appropriate, engaging
environments for Indigenous people.
Ithaca is well - known as a welcoming
environment for
alternative wellness practices and holistic health
educational interests.
Analyses of findings from an earlier intensive child development program for low birth weight children and their parents (the Infant Health and Development Program) suggest that the cognitive effects for the children were mediated through the effects on parents, and the effects on parents accounted for between 20 and 50 % of the child effects.10 A recent analysis of the Chicago Child Parent Centers, an early education program with a parent support component, examined the factors responsible for the program's significant long - term effects on increasing rates of school completion and decreasing rates of juvenile arrest.11 The authors conducted analyses to test
alternative hypotheses about the pathways from the short - term significant effects on children's
educational achievement at the end of preschool to these long - term effects, including (a) that the cognitive and language stimulation children experienced in the centres led to a sustained cognitive advantage that produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour; or (b) that the enhanced parenting practices, attitudes, expectations and involvement in children's education that occurred early in the program led to sustained changes in the home
environments that made them more supportive of school achievement and behavioural norms, which in turn produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour.