Sentences with phrase «at regular public schools»

At the same time, spending for instruction and teacher salaries and benefits was lower than at regular public schools.

That means PBIS policies are in place at the regular public schools and even at the alternative school in the Rankin County School District, and students are taught what to expect, behavior-wise, at every education facility in that district.

Not exact matches

And he's made strides in his overall functioning: Went from nonverbal and screaming at 2 to being potty trained at 3, learning to communicate better and coping well with different stimuli, and is going to a regular public school with a little support and doing relatively well, learning to read and write along with the other neurotypical kids.

This success is due in part to the D.C. Healthy Schools Act of 2010, which requires school breakfast to be provided at no charge for all students in D.C. Public Schools and D.C. Public Charter Schools, and it requires schools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular schoSchools Act of 2010, which requires school breakfast to be provided at no charge for all students in D.C. Public Schools and D.C. Public Charter Schools, and it requires schools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular schoSchools and D.C. Public Charter Schools, and it requires schools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular schoSchools, and it requires schools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular schoschools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular school day.

Bob Bellafiore, a former Pataki administration official and regular participant on our weekly «Insiders» segment on «Capital Tonight» has landed a new job as vice president of Partner Services and Strategic Initiatives at National Heritage Academies, A Michigan - based public charter school organization.

De Blasio also reversed Bloomberg - era policy that banned churches from using public schools for regular Sunday worship at nominal cost — something mostly taken advantage of by the right - wing Christian fundamentalist «church planting» movement.

«Scientific data continue to support the premise that small to moderate amounts of alcohol on a regular basis are consistent with a healthy lifestyle for middle - aged and older adults,» said Dr. R. Curtis Ellison, professor of medicine and public health at Boston University School of Medicine.

Charter schools are more racially isolated than regular public schools in practically every state and large urban area in the United States, says a report released by the Civil Rights Project / Proyecto Derechos Civiles at the University of California, Los Angeles.

At the beginning of the last decade, before concerns about the nation's graduation rate ascended to prominence on the policy agenda, only about two - thirds of U.S. public school students were finishing high school with a regular diploma.

And many districts do maintain the «magnet schools and special schools» Ravitch referenced at least in part to accommodate such youngsters outside of «regular» public schools.

To be sure, there are often good reasons to place children out of district at public expense — no district can serve all students equally well — but neither are there always clear and obvious distinctions to be made between who can be educated in a regular school, those who need alternative settings and those like Adrian who run afoul of the rules so frequently, or who are penalized so often and systematically, that they simply give up and leave.

They looked at their achievement prior to entering a charter, pilot, or regular public school, as well as their achievement in one of those schools.

(The program substantially enhances high school graduation rates and increases parental satisfaction at lower cost per student than education in the regular public schools of the District of Columbia [iv]-RRB-;

Back at the Amigos School in Cambridge, changes are also under way thanks to a program with the city's Department of Public Health that sends nutritionists to the school on a regular School in Cambridge, changes are also under way thanks to a program with the city's Department of Public Health that sends nutritionists to the school on a regular school on a regular basis.

In many of the metropolitan areas containing at least 20 charter schools, minority segregation was higher in charter schools than in the metro's regular public schools.

For example, commentator Richard Kahlenberg has argued that «the big difference between KIPP and regular public schools... is that whereas struggling students come and go at regular schools, at KIPP, students leave but very few new students enter.

Such studies, which compare the annual gains made by students in charter schools with the gains made by the same student while attending a traditional public school, draw only on the experiences of students who were tested for at least two years in the regular public schools before attending a charter school.

The average combined reading and math test scores one year prior to the management change at schools assigned to for - profit and nonprofit entities were 0.39 and 0.13 standard deviations below the Philadelphia average, respectively, while the pre-intervention scores of the full set of 142 regular public schools were 0.19 standard deviations above the district average.

Most of the students who leave ALS schools for adult education programs have personal or family issues, worry that they will «age out» of public school at 21, or are frustrated with the time and effort it takes to earn a regular diploma, she said.

An LEA shall use these grant funds to support direct student services including: (1) a student's enrollment and participation in academic courses not otherwise available at the student's school; (2) credit recovery and academic acceleration courses that lead to a regular high school diploma; (3) activities that assist students in successfully completing postsecondary level instruction and examinations that are accepted for credit at institutions of higher education; and (4) if applicable, transportation to allow a student enrolled in a low - performing school to transfer to another public school.

On the NAEP exams in reading and mathematics, students in charter schools perform no better than those in regular public schools, whether one looks at black, Hispanic or low - income students, or students in urban districts.

We are dedicated to a principle of fairness that means support for charter or regular public schools should not come at the other's expense.

An article in the Oct. 25, 2006, issue of Education Week on charter schools in the District of Columbia («At Age 10, Booming D.C. Charters Feel «Growing Pains»») should have said that 118 out of 146 regular public schools in the city did not make adequate yearly progress under the No Child Left Behind Act for last school year.

PAA opposes efforts to privatize public education through the expansion of charters, vouchers or other privately - run programs at the expense of regular public schools.

By adjusting for schools that serve at - risk students, the study focuses on regular charter schools that are expected to meet the same standards as traditional public schools.

Jim O'Connor, principal of the KIPP Ascend middle school in Chicago, told me this month that five students from his last year's eighth grade who are in regular public high schools are having the most difficult time, because their schools lack the focus on strong academic results they found at KIPP.

Hoxby quickly gathered data, and just a month after the AFT study grabbed headlines, her study, A Straightforward Comparison of Charter Schools and Regular Public Schools in the United States, is making news with findings showing that, on average, students in charter schools are 5 percent more likely to be proficient in reading and 3 percent more likely to be proficient in math than students at the closest public schools with similar racial compoSchools and Regular Public Schools in the United States, is making news with findings showing that, on average, students in charter schools are 5 percent more likely to be proficient in reading and 3 percent more likely to be proficient in math than students at the closest public schools with similar racial composPublic Schools in the United States, is making news with findings showing that, on average, students in charter schools are 5 percent more likely to be proficient in reading and 3 percent more likely to be proficient in math than students at the closest public schools with similar racial compoSchools in the United States, is making news with findings showing that, on average, students in charter schools are 5 percent more likely to be proficient in reading and 3 percent more likely to be proficient in math than students at the closest public schools with similar racial composchools are 5 percent more likely to be proficient in reading and 3 percent more likely to be proficient in math than students at the closest public schools with similar racial compospublic schools with similar racial composchools with similar racial composition.

During his regular update on state legislation at the Richmond School Board's Jan. 22 meeting, Superintendent Brian Walmsley informed members of the 400 - plus - page report that has drawn national attention as the most comprehensive study of public schools to date.

A New York Times story looks at Houston public schools experimenting to see if «techniques proven successful in high - performing urban charters can also help raise achievement in regular public schools.

hold an active National Board Certificate issued by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and be employed as a teacher in a public school in Virginia on September 30 of the current school year with at least 50 percent of the regular school day engaged in direct instruction with students; and

She defended the network's practice of suspending even very young students at a much higher rate than at regular New York City public schools.

As budget season hits its stride, and the political war between charter and regular public schools is at high pitch, it is refreshing to find there are instances where the two sides get together for the betterment of the city's students.

Looking at students in grades 4 - 8, the researchers found that the regular public school population in North Carolina has become less white over the past 15 years (from 64.1 percent white to 53 percent white), while the charter school population has grown more white (from 58.5 percent white to 62.2 percent white).

Teachers at Montessori schools, Head Start, and even some public charter school networks like KIPP are already making teacher home visits a regular part of their routine.

At a time when many wealthy donors attempt to fix U.S. education by funding charter schools, advocacy and political candidates, Mr. Weiss, who is 74 years old, seeks change in the regular public system.

He looked at the 16 urban school districts in the state that employ both regular public schools and charter schools — a total of 140 charter schools and 1,547 standard public schools.

The Schaefer Center report found that charter schools perform at least as well as regular public schools and even slightly outshine them in some areas.

I could go on explaining why this piece is tendentious and misguided, but I doubt anyone at Education Trust cares what I, a regular public school teacher, thinks.

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We oppose efforts to privatize public education through the expansion of charters, vouchers or other privately - run programs at the expense of regular public schools.

«The vast majority of charter schools get no better and no worse test - based results than comparable regular public schools,» Matthew Di Carlo, a senior fellow at the Albert Shanker Institute, wrote in a recent policy brief that examined a large body of charter - school research.

At KIPP, teachers make about $ 10,000 a year more than their regular public school counterparts, but they put in longer days, Saturday classes and summer school - all extra time and extra resources to lift students who begin KIPP below grade level.

ADOPTED by the Board of Directors of Port Angeles School District No. 121, Clallam County, Washington, at a regular open public meeting of the Board of Directors held this 24th day of April, 2014.

Although KIPP students have shown substantial academic gains, when KIPP took over a regular, high - poverty public school, serving a non self - selected population, the program failed, indicating that the academic achievement at KIPP may be due to the high motivation levels of the students, and not the charter program itself.

She began her career as a classroom teacher in urban public schools and continues to serve as a regular guest teacher at a Boston - area independent school.

Rep. Ken Weyler sponsored a bill (now sent to a study committee) to fund the regular public charter schools at 50 % of average public school spending (he later proposed 47.5 %).

«With the kids going to regular junior kindergarten at the local public school in the fall, we'll only need the nanny part - time at a cost of $ 12,000 annually,» says Raj.

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Michael also regularly provides Supervision of PhD and MPhil students at Royal College of Art, Wimbledon School of Art, Oxford University and Goldsmiths College and gives regular public lectures and gallery talks.

During the remainder of the 1960s, he was a regular contributor to both ARTnews and Arts, guest editor at the Museum of Modern Art, an associate producer of a program on art for public television, and taught literature and writing workshops at the New School for Social Research and Yale University.