Sentences with phrase «alternative public education programs»

This report — the first of its kind — highlights the challenges facing urban Native American youth in public schools and showcases seven alternative public education programs that are having a positive impact in addressing these challenges.

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Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

Nevertheless, a campaign in which one candidate was so certain of victory as to devote the weeks between Labor Day and November to a program of public education would be an indication that the democratic process had failed to provide real alternatives.

In the piece, headlined «Alternative» Education: Using Charter Schools to Hide Dropouts and Game the System, ProPublica reporter Heather Vogell describes how traditional schools and districts are pushing kids into low - cost, low - quality alternative programs in order to hide dropouts from the public and boost test scores and graduaAlternative» Education: Using Charter Schools to Hide Dropouts and Game the System, ProPublica reporter Heather Vogell describes how traditional schools and districts are pushing kids into low - cost, low - quality alternative programs in order to hide dropouts from the public and boost test scores and graduaalternative programs in order to hide dropouts from the public and boost test scores and graduation rates.

School choice is a term for K — 12 public education options in the United States, describing a wide array of programs offering students and their families alternatives to publicly provided schools, to which students are generally assigned by the location of their family residence.

Five years ago, Indiana launched a private school voucher program that aimed to provide an alternative to faltering public schools while saving the state money by essentially outsourcing the education of some students.

Second, public schools are eligible to earn funding for a full day if they provide at least 43,200 minutes (4 hours per day) of instructional time to students enrolled in (1) a dropout recovery school; (2) an alternative education program; (3) a school program located at a day treatment facility, a residential treatment facility, psychiatric hospital, or medical hospital; (4) program offered at a correctional facility, or (5) a charter school providing adult high school diplomas or industry certification under Section 29.259.

Evaluating teacher - training programs — regardless of whether they produce teachers through alternative or traditional routes — is «one of the toughest areas to get ahold of,» said Representative Rob Eissler, Republican of The Woodlands, who has headed the Public Education Committee in the Texas House since 2007.

The proposed cuts in long - standing programs — and the simultaneous new investment in alternatives to traditional public schools — are a sign of the Trump administration's belief that federal efforts to improve education have failed.

Public alternative schools and programs for students at risk of education failure, 2000 — 01.

Many conservatives are deeply committed to high - quality public education in their local communities and don't believe that voucher programs are a viable or desirable alternative.

Last summer, lawmakers authorized a program that would provide 2,400 students with up to $ 4,200 each year to attend private schools, touting it as a «pilot» that would allow low - income students to seek out alternative forms of schooling to what the public education system has to offer.

Project ACHIEVE has been implemented in public schools, alternative schools, special education centers, psychiatric and juvenile justice facilities, Head Start and other preschool programs, and specialized charter schools.

Conservatives insist the program gives children in struggling school districts an alternative, but opponents see it as vote of no confidence in public education and complain it pulls precious state dollars away from public schools.

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Should the public charter school choose the supplemental funding, the public charter school may only expel a student for a reason expressly allowed in law and must provide a disciplinary alternative education program or juvenile justice alternative education program, as applicable.

Public schools across the country have chosen to partner with Catapult Learning on the basis of our high - caliber special education and alternative education programs and services that fully accommodate specific school district requirements and fulfill individualized student placement needs.

Scholarship Name: Teacher Loan - For - Service Provider: The State of New Mexico Amount: Up to $ 4,000 Info and Availability: To receive this award you must be: — A New Mexico resident - Accepted into Teaching program or an alternative licensure teacher preparation program at a public college or university - Enrolled at least half - time - An undergraduate or graduate - Able to demonstrate financial need Contact Info: New Mexico Higher Education Department Attn: Financial Aid Division 2048 Galisteo Street Santa Fe, NM 87505 - 2100 More information

While proponents of the program say it offers low - income families access to better education alternatives than what may be offered by public schools, critics point to the fact that there is not enough accountability associated with the state - funded program.

(b) The purposes of establishing charter schools are: (i) to stimulate the development of innovative programs within public education; (ii) to provide opportunities for innovative learning and assessments; (iii) to provide parents and students with greater options in selecting schools within and outside their school districts; (iv) to provide teachers with a vehicle for establishing schools with alternative, innovative methods of educational instruction and school structure and management; (v) to encourage performance - based educational programs; (vi) to hold teachers and school administrators accountable for students» educational outcomes; and (vii) to provide models for replication in other public schools.

Sam McNitt, Alternative Licensure Instructor I am a graduate of UC - Denver's Initial Professional Teacher Education program and spent eights years as a secondary English and ELD teacher in Aurora Public Schools.

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[vii] Alternative legal services (ALSs) are, for example: clinics offering advice, self - help webpages, phone - in services, paralegal and law student programs, family mediation services, social justice tribunals, and court procedures simplification projects, public legal education information services, programs for targeted (unbundled) limited retainer legal services (as distinguished from a full retainer to provide the whole legal service), pro bono (free) legal services for short and simple cases, and the National Self - Represented Litigants Project, the purpose of which is to help self - represented litigants to be better litigants without lawyers.

[6] Alternative legal services (ALSs) are, for example: clinics of various types; self - help webpages; phone - in services; paralegal and law student programs; family mediation services; social justice tribunals; and court procedures simplification projects; arbitration and mediation for dispute resolution; public legal education information services; programs for targeted (unbundled) limited retainer legal services (as distinguished from a full retainer to provide the whole legal service); pro bono (free) legal services for short and simple cases; and, the National Self - Represented Litigants Project, the purpose of which is to help self - represented litigants to be better litigants without lawyers.

[iii] Alternative legal services (ALSs) are, for example: clinics of various types, self - help webpages, phone - in services, paralegal and law student programs, family mediation services, social justice tribunals, court procedures simplification projects, arbitration and mediation for dispute resolution, public legal education information services, programs for targeted (unbundled) limited retainer legal services (as distinguished from a full retainer to provide all of the legal services necessary), pro bono (free) legal services for short and simple cases, and the National Self - Represented Litigants Project, the purpose of which is to help self - represented litigants to be more effective self - represented litigants.

Teens who live in the San Joaquin Valley or attend Bullard High School, Central High School East Campus, Central High School West Campus, Clovis North High School, Clovis West High School, Edison High School, DeWolf High School, Duncan Polytechnical High School, Fresno High School, Hoover High School, McLane High School, Roosevelt High School, San Joaquin Memorial High School, Sunnyside High School, University High School, Washington Union High School, Crescent View Charter High Schools, Academy For New Americans, Carter G. Woodson Public Charter, Central Unified Alternative / opportunity, Design Science Early College High School, Erma Duncan Polytechnical High School, Fresno County Community, Fresno Prep Academy, J. E. Young Academic Center, New Millennium Charter, School Of Unlimited Learning, Sierra Charter, Teilman Community Day, Valley Preparatory Academy Charter, W.e.b. Dubois Public Charter, West Park Charter Academy, Central Valley Christian Academy, Emmanuel Learning Center, Faith Baptist Academy, Fresno Adventist Academy, Koinonia Christian School, Souls Harbor Christian Academy, Truth Tabernacle Christian, School, World Harvest Christian Academy, Fresno Christian High School, St. Anthony's School or Sacred Heart School, are eligible for Fresno Driver Education program.