Sentences with phrase «at an alternative school for»

This author (Beck) recalled the following scenario involving Jason, a 15 - year - old student at an alternative school for youth with severe emotional disturbance:

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That changed Friday when it drew a line in the sand, providing its alternative vision for protecting American children through armed security personnel at all schools.

Bitcoin has become a popular alternative option that brings more safety and less cost to people and businesses, according to a new white paper by the Chamber of Digital Commerce and the Georgetwon Center for Financial Markets and Policy at the McDonough School of Business.

I work at a public school district in Minnesota, and we are required to provide an alternative (either lactose - reduced milk, milk fortified with lactase, or milk to which lactobacillus acidophilus has been added) for students with lactose intolerance.

The grant will allow us to continue our work funding alternative breakfast programs; to date, the Partners for BIC have helped 36 school districts in 18 states feed over 63,000 additional students at school breakfast.

In partnership with our good friends at the Walmart Foundation, the AASA is providing school districts the opportunity to apply for school breakfast «mini-grants,» in an effort to increase school breakfast participation using alternative breakfast strategies.

(I was a teacher then a principal of an alternative high school for at - risk teens.)

«Alternative lunches» spread the bland School menus are decided at the local level, and there's no national menu database, so it's impossible to calculate how many schools downgrade meal options for pupils who struggle to pay.

«When we really looked at our dependence on fossil fuels for practically everything needed to live comfortably in Maine — home heating, transportation to work and school, even getting Hannaford's shelves restocked every 5 days — an ecologically - minded cohousing community seemed like one viable and attractive alternative.

Because school districts using CEP no longer collect meal applications at all schools, states have developed alternative data sources for assessing the poverty level of schools.

Looking at alternatives in education, Melanie applied for an assistant job at the Anchorage Waldorf School.

High needs funding is for children and young people with special educational needs or disability who need extra support at school, college or alternative provision settings.

«I want to work with you and members of the Wadleigh community to develop an alternative plan that will ensure a strong middle school for students at the Wadleigh campus.»

Cuomo and NYSUT have been at odds over the evaluation push, as well as the governor's strong support for charter schools as an alternative to the present public education system.

Capping charters in a certain neighborhood, for instance, is a shot aimed directly at parents in Harlem — where a proliferation of charters is starting to offer real alternatives to failing district schools.

The Court also affirmed that LLB degree holders from council approved universities automatically qualify for admission to pursue Professional Law Course at Ghana School of Law or other alternative places of instructions specified by the Council.

Dr. Tisch said that among the things she was proudest of was creating alternative pathways to graduation for students who wanted to focus on the arts or a career - related skill, advocating for undocumented students to receive tuition assistance at city and state colleges, and pushing for state oversight of the troubled East Ramapo school district in Rockland County.

John Brownstein, chief innovation officer at Boston Children's Hospital and a Harvard Medical School professor, said during his presentation that his researchers have been collecting patient - generated information from alternative data sources and converting it into an early warning system for disease.

«As someone who runs a treatment program for tobacco addicts, I would love to be able to endorse the use of e-cigarettes as an alternative,» says Michael Steinberg of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, in New Jersey.

«If more residents knew their building was burning dirty fuel that was bad for the health of their families and their neighbors, they might be more likely to push their landlord to switch to a clean alternative,» says Diana Hernández, the study's senior author and assistant professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health.

«Physicians treating ragweed allergy sufferers may soon have an alternative to the current approach to managing ragweed allergy, which usually involves weekly or monthly visits to the doctor's office for allergy shots and carries the risk of swelling and pain at the injection site, plus risk of anaphylactic shock,» says Creticos, an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

At the end of that year, they were eligible for a «standard alternative teaching certificate,» enabling them to teach for 4 years in public schools, after which they became eligible for full certification.

If we can use coconut oil as a safe, dietary alternative, we could decrease the amount of antifungal drugs used, reserving antifungal drugs for critical situations,» said first author Kearney Gunsalus, Ph.D., an Institutional Research and Academic Career Development (IRACDA) postdoctoral fellow at the Sackler School in Kumamoto's lab.

«PROMISE establishes CTA as a viable alternative to stress testing for the evaluation of patients with suspected coronary disease,» said Udo Hoffmann, M.D., principal investigator of the PROMISE Imaging Core and Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School and Director of Cardiovascular Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital «With the addition of high - risk plaque assessment and CT fractional flow reserve technology on the horizon, we may have yet to see the full potential of CTA.»

There is also an alternative school of thought shared among women that men feel entitled to at least a good night kiss if not something more in exchange for a free meal, depending on the expense.

Teachers decide whether to remain at a school for a multiplicity of reasons, which can be divided into four main categories: 1) characteristics of the job, including salary and working conditions; 2) alternative job opportunities; 3) teachers» own job and family preferences; and 4) school districts» personnel policies.

A Better Alternative to For - Profit College TIME, 9/16/16 «Students often «don't understand the burden they are taking on,» says economist David Deming, a professor at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education.

There are two options for the tasks, page 6 is a general version, and page 7 is an alternative that could be used at the end of Year 6 when discussing starting high school.

«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.

10 - 11 — Special education: Forum on Alternative Schooling: Changing Perspectives and Emerging Best Practices for Children and Adolescents with Challenging Behaviors, sponsored by the Council for Children with Behavioral Disorders, for K - 12 educators and administrators, at the Sheraton Norfolk Waterside Hotel in Norfolk, Va..

For the past three years, I have been working on the implementation of arts@newman — an alternative, arts - based program for grades 7 - 8 designed to better engage some of those students who find themselves hanging out at the edges of this place we call schoFor the past three years, I have been working on the implementation of arts@newman — an alternative, arts - based program for grades 7 - 8 designed to better engage some of those students who find themselves hanging out at the edges of this place we call schofor grades 7 - 8 designed to better engage some of those students who find themselves hanging out at the edges of this place we call school.

«I look for an individual with a passion to receive and impart knowledge, someone who can relay the information they receive to students with diverse abilities,» says Sylvia Hooker, newly appointed principal at Fairmount Alternative School in Newnan, Georgia.

At a time when government testing of spelling, punctuation and grammar can lead to less creativity in the teaching of writing, the project provides compelling alternative approaches for schools and their teachers which will engage children and give them a strong investment in their writing, whilst also being able to satisfy curriculum demands and statutory testing.

He is also a full - time teacher and staff developer for the Alternative High Schools of New York City, currently working at Bronx Tech High School.

Landry principal Dianne Powell is now running alternative programs for the St. Charles Parish Public Schools at the site of her old school.

They rail against state standards and accountability systems, but offer few practical alternatives for ensuring that all public schools perform at a high level.

Produced by the National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC), 180 Days: A Year Inside an American High School tells the story of the first graduating class at Washington Metropolitan High School (DC Met), an alternative school for at - risk School tells the story of the first graduating class at Washington Metropolitan High School (DC Met), an alternative school for at - risk School (DC Met), an alternative school for at - risk school for at - risk youth.

This dire sequence started, he says, with A Nation at Risk, the 1983 Reagan administration report that launched America on «experiments» such as «open classrooms, national goals, merit pay, vouchers, charter schools, smaller classes, alternative certification for teachers, student portfolios, and online learning, to name just a handful.»

In the real world, even if everyone had the right to choose their schools, parents who are educated and financially well off are likely to be more motivated than other parents, to have better information about their alternatives, to have more resources at their disposal for getting their way, to have better social connections and more attractive opportunities, and to have children who are easier and less costly to teach.

While I find students are generally strong in recognizing alternative perspectives in an academic way — for example, analyzing different arguments on why the American Revolution took place — I think there is a shortfall when it comes to empathizing with people outside their demographic,» he says, adding that he saw the same pattern at other high schools where he has taught in the past.

Braziller has spent a decade teaching Facing History and Ourselves (FHAO)-- a curriculum that leads students to reflect on themselves through in - depth study of history — and has taught at this public alternative school for 18 years.

For example, Montgomery County Public Schools is one of the largest school districts in the country with more than 100,000 students, but its alternative school programs serve only about 125 students at a time.

Not only do they create competing local school authorities, but they also open alternative opportunities for the participation in school governance that the courts have proclaimed to be the normative value at the core of local autonomy.

The essays have rightly suggested — whether arguing for or against alternative routes, for or against current practice in schools of education — that unless the present and growing shortage of good teachers is overcome, no other efforts at school reform can succeed.

«Schools that build the right schedule at the right time and utilize a well - thought - out plan and timeline for implementation have been extremely successful with alternative scheduling,» Hottenstein told Education World.

After studying teacher training at Boston College, Hristic spent a few years teaching in Massachusetts, first at an alternative high school for «behaviorally and emotionally challenged students, but also students so bright and brilliant they were bored out of their minds in a traditional setting,» he says.

For example, 62 percent of public school students in our sample believed that, if faced with long - term suspension or expulsion, they were legally entitled to at least one of the following: a formal disciplinary hearing, opportunity to be represented by legal counsel, opportunity to confront and cross-examine witnesses bringing the charges, or opportunity to call witnesses to provide alternative versions of the incident.

It deserves a reading, however, because of what it reveals about the inner workings of an urban school self - consciously created as a better alternative for students without the advantages of their counterparts at Whitney.

Continuation schools are alternative high school programs for students sixteen years of age or older, who haven't graduated from high school, are still required to attend school, and who are at risk of not graduating.

Alternative high schools and better academic support for poor and minority students have been among the methods used to help at - risk students stay in school.