Sentences with phrase «alternative school drop out»

Another downside of the Chicago policy is that nearly a third of the students who repeat a grade or attend an alternative school drop out when they reach age 16.

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«Students absolutely have solutions that can be implemented,» says Lauren Popkoff, who teaches history at Brooklyn College Academy, an alternative school for students — mostly low - income and minority students — who are deemed at risk of failing or dropping out of school.

David wondered about the kids who were dropping out of school, who were on the streets, and who were consigned to terrible alternative schools.

With roughly 30 percent of American students dropping out before receiving a diploma — a rate that has been stable for several decades — assessing existing alternatives to the traditional high school is an urgent task.

Alternative schools are designed to meet the needs of at - risk student populations, and include schools that serve students who are in custody in the juvenile court system or enrolled in drop - out recovery programs and continuation schools.

NBA legend Magic Johnson, who has visited SLAM, has opened 13 alternative high schools in five states; his Bridgescape schools provide students who have dropped out or are at risk for dropping out «with another option to complete their education and another way to reach their goals» via an «abbreviated, flexible school day» with a heavy online component.

Initiatives such as identifying students at risk for dropping out early and providing the necessary academic and social / emotional supports; the expansion of alternative and flexible pathways to graduation, such as on - line credit recovery courses, have proven to be effective in reaching more students and keeping them in school, Warwick said.

NPR reported that some schools appear to be mislabeling the status of students, reporting they transferred out of the district or to an alternative and GED program rather than dropping out.

Hailed by Governor Nathan Deal, Bridgescape Center provide students who have dropped out of school, or are at risk of dropping out, with a free alternative path to earn a their diploma.

By contrast, the administration is putting relatively little money into the creation of alternative schools specifically for students who have dropped out or are about to.

5.14 Researched based dropout prevention strategies for students at - risk of dropping out of school are used at the nontraditional or alternative school.

The nearly 200 students who attend Liberation Diploma Plus, an alternative school for students at risk of dropping out, will be able to return to their own building in Coney Island this week.

If our society is to protect students who have fallen through, dropped out, or been pushed out of the traditional system from the perfect storm of educational and social failure, we must offer viable alternative schools.

Clark emphasized the new school will not be an alternative school or a drop - out program.

It has even been suggested that society might want to consider allowing students to drop out and then provide alternative schools for them to complete their GED (Dynarski, 1999).

CPS will consider proposals from operators who seek to open charter or contract schools to serve either a «traditional» student population (grades kindergarten through 12) or an «alternative» student population of students who have dropped out or are at risk of dropping out.

We set up after school programs and protested outside government offices so that we could get those who had dropped out into alternative schools.