Sentences with phrase «assigned public students»

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J.O. then finds one LAUSD school to let him on campus with cameras — West Adams Prep, a public charter school — but he still isn't allowed to go into the school kitchen and instead is assigned to work with a group of culinary students.

NYC workers assigned to help homeless students are desperately overwhelmed, leaving many of those children, among the most vulnerable in the public school system, to miss enormous amounts of school and fall far behind their classmates, two reports say.

March 5: DNAinfo's Heather Holland reported on a public elementary school, P.S. 116, that stopped assigning traditional homework to its students and encouraged them to play, read and socialize with family instead, sparking outrage among some parents.

Each public school is assigned a grade based on the performance of its students on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) in reading, math, and writing.

Starting in 2010, for example, dozens of college professors (including at Harvard) assigned students to write Wikipedia entries for credit about public policy issues as part of a project launched by Wikimedia.

Two of the six sites — Somers Elementary and the Hudson district — are public schools to which students are assigned, while the other four are schools of choice.

(In 2012 — 13, there were twenty - six public schools in Montgomery County whose assigned students qualified for a voucher.

Open Enrollment: allows students to transfer to districts or public schools other than the one to which they are assigned by address.

In my own joint research with Rush and Yin, students in a large introductory microeconomics course at a major public research institution were randomly assigned to face - to - face and online - only settings.

Employing this method, we could compare the levels of segregation for the students in charter schools to what they would have experienced had they remained in their residentially assigned public schools.

Differ from other neighborhood public schools in that students are not assigned to them based on address.

The only way to know with confidence whether charters cause better outcomes is to look at randomized control trials (RCTs) in which students are assigned by lottery to attending a charter school or a traditional public school.

And lest it be thought that there is something inherent in religious education that breeds intolerance, remember that Catholic - school students show higher levels of tolerance than students in assigned public schools.

Even within the public sector, there are schools to which students are assigned based on geography and schools they choose to attend (magnet and charter schools, for example).

Students in secular private, Catholic, and other religious schools are more likely than students in assigned public schools to have confidence in their ability to exercise civic skills if called upon tStudents in secular private, Catholic, and other religious schools are more likely than students in assigned public schools to have confidence in their ability to exercise civic skills if called upon tstudents in assigned public schools to have confidence in their ability to exercise civic skills if called upon to do so.

There is no statistically significant difference between students in assigned public schools and those in secular private, magnet public, or religious / non-Catholic schools.

This compares with 16 percent of students in assigned public schools, 22 percent in magnet public schools, 28 percent in other religious schools, and 38 percent in secular private schools.

Students in Catholic and secular private schools have higher tolerance scores than students in assigned public schools, averaging 1.6 and 1.8 tolerant responses respectively, compared with 1.4 tolerant responses among assigned public school sStudents in Catholic and secular private schools have higher tolerance scores than students in assigned public schools, averaging 1.6 and 1.8 tolerant responses respectively, compared with 1.4 tolerant responses among assigned public school sstudents in assigned public schools, averaging 1.6 and 1.8 tolerant responses respectively, compared with 1.4 tolerant responses among assigned public school studentsstudents.

Once the statistical adjustments are made for all the factors that can influence students» political knowledge except the type of school they attend, only students in Catholic schools still perform better than do students in assigned public schools.

Students in assigned public schools got an average of 2.4 questions out of five correct, while students in Catholic, religious / non-Catholic, and secular private schools scored an average of 3.2, 3.4, and 3.2 respeStudents in assigned public schools got an average of 2.4 questions out of five correct, while students in Catholic, religious / non-Catholic, and secular private schools scored an average of 3.2, 3.4, and 3.2 respestudents in Catholic, religious / non-Catholic, and secular private schools scored an average of 3.2, 3.4, and 3.2 respectively.

Students in magnet public schools have slightly higher scores than assigned public school students, although the difference does not approach statistical signiStudents in magnet public schools have slightly higher scores than assigned public school students, although the difference does not approach statistical signistudents, although the difference does not approach statistical significance.

Before making any adjustments, the average scores of students in assigned public schools are lower than those in Catholic, religious / non-Catholic, and secular private schools.

While students in Catholic schools (the most common form of private education) and secular private schools are more politically tolerant than students in assigned public schools, the 2 percent of America's students in other religious schools - an amalgam of schools sponsored by many different faiths - score lower on the political tolerance index.

Forty - seven percent of assigned public school students perform community service, compared with 64 percent of students in other religious schools and 71 percent of students in Catholic schools.

After again making the statistical adjustments listed above, students in secular private schools scored substantially higher on the political tolerance index than students in assigned public schools, while students in religious / non-Catholic schools scored substantially lower (see Figure 2).

However, students in both Catholic and other religious schools are more likely to engage in community service than are students in assigned public schools.

Whittle's prime example of assigning students to peer tutoring is already used widely in public schools.

The suit, filed on behalf of Beatriz Vergara, a Los Angeles high school student, and eight other public school students, claims that the law protects poor - performing teachers assigned to working with low - income, minority children.

Over the past several decades, we have eroded student accountability, assigning it as a matter of public policy to schools and teachers.

Ritter continues, «Instead of asking whether all students in charter schools are more likely to attend segregated schools than are all students in traditional public schools, we should be comparing the levels of segregation for the students in charter schools to what they would have experienced had they remained in their residentially assigned public schools.»

A federal appellate court has struck down a system for assigning students to public high schools in Seattle that uses race and ethnicity as a factor.

The awarding of scholarships by lottery created a rare opportunity in educational research: a field experiment in which students were assigned randomly to both public and private schools, thus allowing me to test the effects of receiving a voucher and, more generally, to compare the performance of public and private schools.

The survey reveals that the idea of allowing parents to choose which public school their child should attend, rather than assigning students to a school based on where they live, has taken hold.

Schools in Louisiana accepting large numbers of vouchers, which are worth up to the equivalent of the state's per capita public school funding, must admit all students assigned to their schools.

Assigning homework to students is a given in most American public schools.

The program was initially piloted in New Orleans in 2008; Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal and the state legislature expanded the LSP statewide in 2012, allowing thousands of public school students to transfer out of their residentially assigned schools and into private schools of their choosing.

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.

Because of the entrenched practice of assigning students to public schools based on their neighborhood of residence, urban public schools tend to concentrate highly disadvantaged students in schools characterized by low levels of safety and achievement.

To explore the issue of public funding, we randomly assigned respondents to one of four questions that identified different targets of online education: rural residents, advanced students, students who dropped out of school, and home - schooled children (Q. 9).

To investigate the public's views about race - and income - based enrollment programs, we asked Americans one of two variations of the following question: «In order to promote diversity, should public school districts be allowed to take the racial background [family income] of students into account when assigning students to schools?»

In 2014, district data obtained through a public records request shows, 170 students assigned to Evans» zone attended Sunshine, and 101 went to Sheeler.

Petitioners, an organization of Seattle parents (Parents Involved) and the mother of a Jefferson County student (Joshua), whose children were or could be assigned under the foregoing plans, filed these suits contending, inter alia, that allocating children to different public schools based solely on their race violates the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection guarantee.

Assigning students to classrooms based on performance and ability gained popularity in the mid-19th century, when public schools began enrolling large numbers of immigrant children with limited preparation or capacity for schooling compared with native children.

Mayor Richard M. Daley has made the key appointments in his state - mandated takeover of the Chicago public schools — 13 people assigned to plug the system's $ 150 million deficit and improve education for its 410,000 students.

Today, convoluted Title I formulas coupled with policies in some states that assign students to public schools based on their parents» zip code, do not make Title I a vehicle conducive to achieving its primary purpose of «provid [ing] a good education for every boy and girl — no matter where he lives.»

For two decades, education reform in America has focused on giving students choices beyond being assigned by home address to a single traditional district - run public school.

61 percent oppose closing down low - performing public schools and assigning students to other schools.

After all, if students are assigned to the public school that is closest to where they live there can not be a meaningful imbalance between the demographics of the student population of a school and that of the catchment area for that school (other than as a result of differential use of private schools and quirks in how the catchment area is identified).

Raising student achievement, of course, is not the only task we assign to the public schools.

Thirteen states enacted new programs that allow K — 12 students to choose a public or private school instead of attending their assigned school, and similar bills were under consideration in more than two dozen states.