Sentences with phrase «as tutoring services»

Between 2000 and 2009, NCLB, Reading First, and the State Longitudinal Data Systems initiative sparked activity in segments such as tutoring services, early grade reading materials, and data storage and management.

Helped to establish the school's accounting club that acts as a tutoring service and way for students to make contact with local business professionals.

Not exact matches

Teens may prefer service opportunities with friends as well as family members, like a group effort to tutor children in a homeless shelter.

They believe too that a voluntary military and civilian national service program for young people would help alleviate the social disruption and teach important new skills and provide tutoring to disadvantaged students, help for the elderly, and improvements of public spaces such as parks and playgrounds.

For example, children's services — always a strong category — had segments that shrank (luxuries such as after - school enrichment programs), while other segments were as healthy as ever, including tutoring and child care.

Joseph began at Credit Karma in January 2015, after spending four years as the Chief Financial Officer for TAL Education Group, one of the largest K - 12 after - school tutoring services providers in China.

Similarly, franchise opportunities for tutors, such as Club Z or Tutor Doctor allow people to run their own operations online and from a small home office, by providing services across proprietary software.

A service business with flexible hours, such as pet sitting or tutoring, will not be as time consuming.

As you may know, Compassion International has worked in India since 1968, and today, its programs support over 145,000 Indian children, providing critical tutoring, health and nutrition, and medical services...

These services in Indianapolis may include the Community Mental Health Center, the family courts, the juvenile courts, the Suicide Prevention Center, child guidance centers, senior citizens programs, rehabilitative workshops such as the Goodwill Industries, schools for the blind or deaf, recreation and tutoring, housing and employment projects.

The counselor and coach who had been so quick to retain Whatley's services had hurried in vain; LoVett had snorkeled academically ever since enrolling at Oklahoma City in the fall of 1995: He had missed classes and tutoring sessions, and now, as the fall - semester grades posted on Dec. 18 revealed, he had failed three courses and taken incompletes in two others, thereby sinking irretrievably below the 2.0 grade point average required to remain eligible to play under NAIA rules.

Support services such as Extra Lesson, Therapeutic Eurythmy, and academic tutoring are arranged with support providers who provide services on campus during and after the school day.

Adrian Ismay, who worked as a tutor in the Prison Service College, also died after a bomb exploded under his van in east Belfast in March 2016.

Last year through the initiative, the Youth Bureau funded such community service projects as a bicycle giveaway for Utica children; making Christmas cards to send to veterans and service members; soliciting donations, collecting money and walking in Utica's version of America's Greatest Heart Run and Walk, the Walk to end Alzheimer's and Making Strides to End Breast Cancer Walk; cleaning the yards of senior citizens; preparing food and serving meals at local food pantries; youth mentoring and tutoring and other community activities.

The so - called «renewal schools» receive additional funding for services such as weekend tutoring and expanded after - school programs.

De Blasio said Richmond Hill High School is improving since it was added to a list of 94 «renewal schools» receiving funds for services such as weekend tutoring and expanded after - school programs.

This year, the Collegiate Institute for Math and Science used BOOST funds to benefit students in a variety of ways, including tutoring and professional development services, a class trip to Yale Model UN, parent meetings and family nights, a trip for the school's band to play at Madison Square Garden, as well as initiatives for honor roll students and those with perfect attendance.

Volunteer service, such as tutoring children, can help older adults delay or reverse declining brain function, according to a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

I just won President's volunteer service medal for my work towards improving quality of life in Douglas County as an Adult Literacy tutor.

Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a Running a tuition centre or home tutoring service is one of many options when it comes to setting up a business from home.

Indeed, as of September 2002, at least five states had the mistaken impression that they need not meet a key requirement of NCLB for the present school year: to provide tutoring and other supplemental services for students in failing schools.

With an online consumer rating system, parents themselves could evaluate the programs and services of the vendors, such as tutors, universities, schools, and community colleges.

Education savings account (ESAs) provide parents with most or all of funds the state would have spent on a child's education, allowing parents to pay for public school alternatives, such as tutoring, online courses, private school tuition, or a combination of other educational services.

April 25, 2016 — Education savings account (ESAs) provide parents with most or all of funds the state would have spent on a child's education, allowing parents to pay for public school alternatives, such as tutoring, online courses, private school tuition, or a combination of other educational services.

And even online tutoring services, such as MindLaunch, are starting to match tutors with students based on personality assessments that make it more likely that students and teachers can build good rapport.

By appealing to tutors» sense of service, providing a small but livable stipend, organizing low - cost housing for tutors, and above all, by giving tutors a chance to work in a high - performing school as a means for evaluating their interest in education reform and teaching careers, Match can compete alongside Teach For America for the best college graduates in the country and hire three to four tutors for what they pay a full - time teacher.

These obstacles are compounded by the fact that few districts are making it easy for parents to exercise their right to choose or to avail themselves of the related option that offers «supplemental services,» such as after - school tutoring, to students who remain in schools that have failed to improve student performance.

After tutoring students within underserved communities as an undergraduate student in Providence, R.I., Liliana decided to establish her own school, eight blocks from where she was raised, in partnership with the New York City Department of Education and Good Shepherd Services.

Allowing districts to serve as tutoring providers has had all kinds of deleterious effects on the supplemental educational services program.

While some programs are able to make such links through supplemental homework assistance and tutoring services, there are other programs that could positively shape both short - and long - term student learning outcomes but are often discredited as «extra,» «luxury,» or «nice, but not necessary.»

For - profit providers of educational products and services, including members of the Education Industry Association, whether school management companies, tutoring providers, or developers of learning materials and technologies, view students, parents, school districts, and state departments of education as customers.

From services such as tutoring, mentoring, and college readiness programs to larger efforts to fundamentally reform a district — all is done through private foundations.»

Expanding student participation in public school choice and free tutoring, also known as supplemental education services

As president, he said he would favor school - level funding for teacher merit pay, and make it easier for parents of students in struggling schools to gain access to tutoring services.

Establishing and operating programs and projects for identifying and serving gifted and talented students, including innovative methods and strategies (such as summer programs, mentoring programs, peer tutoring programs, service learning programs, and cooperative learning programs involving business, industry and education) for identifying and educating students who may not be served by traditional gifted and talented programs.

Arizona's ESA law outlines broad categories of eligible expenses — such as textbooks or tutoring — while the state department of education maintains a sort of «whitelist» of approved services and parents can petition to have specific products or services approved.

For instance, parents with children in schools identified as underachieving for two or more consecutive years are guaranteed the right to obtain supplemental educational services such as private tutoring, paid for with their children's share of federal Title I funds.

In Florida, we embraced the Supplemental Educational Services (SES) provision of NCLB by communicating it as a three - way partnership where the parents, the private tutoring provider, and the school are all working together for the benefit of the student.

The flexibility means mandates under No Child Left Behind, like a free tutoring program in the Rochester City School District known as Supplemental Educational Services, will no longer be required.

Without it, districts with under - performing schools will have to use it to pay for supplemental educational services such as tutoring, along with school - choice options that include transportation to better - performing schools if requested by parents.

Contact our Director of Student and Family Services, Caroline Horn, at 414-559-2096 for opportunities to serve as a classroom helper, teacher's assistant or after - school tutor.

This budget proposal not only harms children, by cutting vital programs such as special education services, reading tutors and after - school programs, but, as legislators point out, it hurts local taxpayers since municipalities will be forced to fill in the gaps.

The Florida state Department of Education set aside $ 140 million last year for a new «schools of hope» program that will provide up to 25 low - performing schools an additional $ 2,000 per student for services such as tutoring, after - school programs, counseling, and teacher development.

«Students across the city rely on their neighborhood branch libraries as an extension of their academics, taking advantage of services such as our online tutoring and coding workshops, and this gift will allow us to further our efforts to help every student succeed.»

She went on to complete a year of service as an AmeriCorps member working as an ELA tutor, teacher assistant, and cheer coach at Match Middle School in Jamaica Plain.

After her year of service with City Year, she worked as an English and math tutor at City on a Hill Charter School.

Called «Personal Learning Scholarship Accounts,» Julie uses the funds to pay for Faith's additional services, such as speech therapy, as well as for personal tutors for her academic subjects.

Tutoring services are offered by DePaul University to ensure freshmen students are supported as they transition to high school.

Overview: In 2012, Match Education was contracted by Lawrence Public Schools to provide its tutoring services for two years to all students in grade 9 and 10 in two of its lowest performing high schools as part of a district - wide turnaround effort, under receivership of the Massachusetts Department of Education.

Parents use the card at participating vendors, such as private schools, tutoring services, or educational therapists, or use PayPal to make purchases online for textbooks or for payment to virtual schools.