Sentences with phrase «assigning students to schools»

In 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court made school integration more difficult when it prohibited the Louisville, Kentucky, and Seattle, Washington, school districts from making racial balance a factor in assigning students to schools in cases where applicant numbers exceeded available seats.1 The plurality opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts called student categorization by race unconstitutional unless it was designed to reverse the effects of explicit rules that segregated students by race.

But the staff recommendation to implement enrollment zones in FNE and Five Points sends a signal that the district may be willing to dramatically change its approach to assigning students to schools across the district.

For instance, assigning students to schools by rote can undermine individual agency.

GIS has improved the process of assigning students to schools and transporting them as well as managing physical assets for one of the largest school districts in Texas.

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?»

But what if the policy is adjusted to use family income as the basis for assigning students to schools?

And the poll found no enthusiasm for the use of income rather than race as a basis for assigning students to schools.

We examine not just the technical process of assigning students to schools, but also the relationship with the city's broader school - choice setting, since the OneApp is so intertwined with New Orleans overall education policy.

In a federal lawsuit filed Nov. 19, the three Brooklyn residents argue that their children's exclusion from the 15 - month course is illegal because of the June decision by the U.S. Supreme Court prohibiting districts from using students» race as a key factor in assigning students to schools.

Nathan Glazer talks with Education Next about whether the policy of assigning students to schools to achieve socioeconomic diversity in Raleigh - Wake County has worked, as argued by Gerald Grant's 2009 book, Hope and Despair in the American City: Why There are No Bad Schools in Raleigh.

It is possible that assigning students to schools with an eye to equalizing the socioeconomic, rather than the racial, mix across schools may confer benefits on children that outweigh any additional transportation costs.

For more about the constitutionality of assigning students to schools in order to achieve diversity, see «Affirmative Action Docketed»

The report outlines how a mandatory Statewide Interdistrict Open Enrollment Program would work to end the damaging practice of assigning students to schools based solely on where their families can afford to live.

Instead, we took advantage of a natural experiment that effectively randomly assigned some students to schools that took more field trips to the Walton Arts Center and some to schools that took fewer or none.

Does a system that historically has assigned students to schools based on where they live and not what they need effectively trap some of them in dangerous situations where they can not escape their tormentors?

Should Washington, D.C. assign students to schools in a way that provides some socioeconomic integration?

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.

Just 13 percent of respondents report that they support using family income as a basis for assigning students to a school, while 62 percent say that they are opposed, with the balance uncertain (Q. 14b).

The RSD then assigns students to schools based on families» preferences, schools» enrollment criteria, and seat availability.

The algorithm's final step is to actually assign all students to the schools to which they are tentatively assigned.

But, thinking more broadly, what we are trying to do is tear down the mindset that assigns students to a school based solely on the ZIP code of their family's home,» she said.

A strategy - proof computer algorithm then assigns students to schools.

In the old days, we could assign students to schools and parents could take it or leave it.

One of the most effective diversity strategies is a lottery system that assigns students to schools but gives preferences or «weights» to low - income students.

They set the budget and agenda of schools, assign students to schools, make rules and policies, set learning standards, and more.

Revise policies that further marginalize students, such as those that result in the under - enrollment of students of color in high - level classes or assign students to schools in ways that result in racial and economic segregation.

In examining how we assign students to schools, board members and I also had a laser - like focus over 18 months to engage our community in hundreds of conversations, in groups, in people's driveways, at the supermarket, about whether we were ok that more than 70 schools in the district had a high poverty rate.

When districts assign students to schools by their home address, they perpetuate the segregation that forever halts students» development and opportunities.

In cases where there are more applicants than there are seats, the district conducts a lottery and assigns students to the school.

As a result, policies that assign students to schools according to socioeconomic variables can also increase racial diversity.

Others, like Cambridge, Mass., or Hartford, Conn., specifically use socioeconomics as they assign students to schools.

Today, the Supreme Court issued its long - awaited decision in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District, which ruled that use of race by public school systems as one factor in assigning students to school is unconstitutional.

Not exact matches

«It isn't a goal for Harvard Business School to graduate more entrepreneurs, but this will be a side benefit,» says Alan MacCormack, a Harvard professor who recently oversaw the school's startup initiative, which assigned an entire class of 900 students to launch micro-businesses as part of six - person teams, with seed capital from the business sSchool to graduate more entrepreneurs, but this will be a side benefit,» says Alan MacCormack, a Harvard professor who recently oversaw the school's startup initiative, which assigned an entire class of 900 students to launch micro-businesses as part of six - person teams, with seed capital from the business sschool's startup initiative, which assigned an entire class of 900 students to launch micro-businesses as part of six - person teams, with seed capital from the business schoolschool.

Brandon Minoff, a student at Stoneman Douglas High School, said in an interview with CNN that a teacher assigned him to work with Mr. Cruz on a group project two years ago.

Students who have attended schools that assigned great works of Western civilization — or who home - schooled using a Great Books curriculum — will be pleased to find an exam that rewards them for the knowledge they've acquired.

Furthermore, if situations arise in which academic interests compete with concerns for students» «piety» for added time or financial resources, the response characteristically shaped by this ethos would be to assign to the «churches» responsibility for «piety» and to assign priority within the school to the academic interests.

And further scrambling the calculation, a school that has more than 600 students but is, for a variety of reasons, assigned to a Division V, VI or VII league will be added to the Divisions I through IV playoff mix if it finishes in the top three in its league.

I am surprised though how these students admitted to it and even boldly pointed out to the school administration that the number of tests and work they assign contribute to their desire to cheat because their workload is so great.

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.

Also the classic novels that are often assigned to middle... MORE school and high school students can be found in used books stores.

In Virginia's Fairfax County, schools have embraced a request to refrain from assigning homework on Thanksgiving, winter and spring breaks so students can de-stress and enjoy time with family and friends, a spokesman said.

Harris Cooper, a well - known homework researcher, who is a professor of education and psychology at Duke University, says that no more than two hours of homework a night should be assigned to students in high school.

When researchers randomly assigned some primary school students to perform three acts of kindness each week, those kids became more popular than did children in a control group (Layous et al 2012).

She is assigned to two different high schools working with students who struggle with emotional disturbances and those that are in the self - contained classroom.

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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.

Students are assigned to schools to ensure a healthy mix of children — balancing race, income, and other factors.

In Thayn's vision, schools would hire kindergarten coordinators, staffers assigned to provide support, curriculum, and technical expertise to parents of students.

«Most Sheriffs feel the BEST solution is to assign active deputy sheriffs or other active police officers to the schools as SROs who would have the freedom to move about the campus, «network» with students and staff, and either head off an incident before it happens or at least be there on scene to immediately respond.»