Sentences with phrase «attend other public schools»

The relatively poor proficiency levels at public schools with high concentrations of ELL students is underscored by comparing the standardized test scores of white and black students who attend the schools in which ELL students are concentrated with the scores of white and black student who attend other public schools.

If these steps do not turn around the schools and improve student achievement in two years, Clinton's plan would require states to take additional corrective actions, such as permitting students to attend other public schools, or reconstituting the school by evaluating the staff and making any necessary staff changes, or closing the school and reopening it as a charter with an entirely new staff.

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5) Religious Clothing in Public Sector: «Do you agree or disagree you feel uncomfortable when served or attended to by a government employee wearing a turban, a hijab or a yarmulke or other religious clothing or symbols in a government institution like a school or hospital?»

While some evangelical supporters of homeschooling, private school, and charter school options are celebrating a school choice advocate's appointment to this all - important role (and a graduate of the evangelical liberal arts school, Calvin College, at that), other conservative Christian public school parents and advocates are disheartened by DeVos's limited personal history with our nation's public schools (she has mentored in public schools but not attended, taught, or sent children to public schools).

I think public schools can be wonderful... I attended a wonderful one and our friends who live in a different catchment and others out of town are quite happy with theirs.

Gordon Huether attended the Pilchuck Glass School in Washington and has created installations for the Jacksonville International Airport, the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Austin, Texas, and the Hiroshige Museum in Japan, among many others.

The public forum, which was attended by school children, market women, farmers, and drivers among other stakeholders, was under the theme: «Safe Home Safe».

She also said she hasn't considered working in other districts in Western New York because she has children that attend the Buffalo Public Schools.

The Education Investment Tax Credit will increase funds in two areas — donations to public schools, school districts and teacher - driven projects; and scholarships to help low - and middle - income students attend religious and other tuition - based schools, according to the NY Archdiocese.

My cousins, on the other hand, attended public schools in the city straight through and they would tell me stories how you'd need to get to class at least 10 minutes early to get a seat and text book.

This was particularly the case because many societies remain highly segregated: the average American public school student has less than one interracial friend, and around 90 % of people who attend religious services do so only with others of their own race.

Protestants, secularists, and public - school advocates proposed (and sometimes enacted) regulations that charged children with truancy if they attended Catholic schools; taxes on Catholic school property; bans on private schools that taught children in a language other than English; and constitutional amendments forbidding the use of public dollars to support even the secular instruction provided by a Catholic school.

«[The OSP] gives me the choice to, freedom to attend other schools than D.C. public schools....

The budget also creates the Jon Peterson Special Needs Scholarship, which will give approximately 13,000 special needs children scholarships that can be used to pay for private school tuition, to defer the costs of attending an out - of - district public school, or for other services.

In the fall of 1980, when a group of senior education scholars was coming to NORC to critique the first drafts of «Public and Private Schools» and the other reports emanating from the «High School and Beyond» baseline data, Coleman told his graduate students that we were expected to attend the sessions and the associated luncheon.

The Citizens» Commission on Civil Rights, along with the Aspen Institute's NCLB Commission and other proponents, have proposed tough new measures to guarantee public school choice to children who attend persistently low - performing schools.

Jewish Day school alumni attend their first - choice college at about the same rate as Jewish students who graduated from a public or other private school, says a report by the Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education, a Boston - based organization that seeks to strengthen the Jewish day school movement.

The court also failed to distinguish the programs from other Arizona policies through which beneficiaries use public funds to attend private and religious schools.

In the voucher program's first five years, more than $ 27 million that could have gone toward reduction of class size or other reforms for the 76,000 children who attend Cleveland's public schools was instead diverted to vouchers.

While we encourage readers to be cautious about applying our findings without qualification to all public schools, we also encourage school districts to support research that can identify middle - school effects in other settings, especially since we find the consequences of attending a middle school for student achievement to be substantial and troubling.

Liberty High School, a Houston public charter school serving recent immigrants, offers weekend and evening classes, providing students with flexible scheduling that enables them to work or handle other responsibilities while still attending sSchool, a Houston public charter school serving recent immigrants, offers weekend and evening classes, providing students with flexible scheduling that enables them to work or handle other responsibilities while still attending sschool serving recent immigrants, offers weekend and evening classes, providing students with flexible scheduling that enables them to work or handle other responsibilities while still attending schoolschool.

Others ask parents and carers to refrain from discussing the business of school or children attending school in any public forum, while many request that complaints are made via official school channels rather than social networking sites.

On the other hand, options for disabled students to leave and take resources with them might motivate public schools to attend to the needs of their students more closely and serve them better.

• As many as twenty states are considering «parent trigger» legislation, which closes failing schools upon a majority vote of parents and replaces the staff, charters the school for private management, or allows the students to attend private or other public schools.

Students who apply to attend charter schools are a self - selected group, and simply comparing them with all other students in local public schools is likely to be misleading.

Most striking of all, nearly three - quarters of public school students attend charter schools, proportionally more than in any other U.S. city.

The school has become a model of Green Dot success with more graduates attending UCLA than those from any other school, public or private, in the city.

Others say parents should be able to direct some public funds to any school their child attends, whether public, private, or religious.

Some students are second - or third - generation Chinese - Americans, some have dual citizenship, others had never left China before coming here, some attended private schools and others public.»

Controlling for individual fixedeffects, I compare the test scores of students selected to attend a participating private school with those of unsuccessful applicants and other students from the Milwaukee public schools.

In other words, two - thirds of all parents, including those who have never made use of a private school, are not opposed to the idea of giving families a choice of attending private school instead of public school.

The trend of increasing racial and economic segregation is a nationwide trend — not just in Alabama and other Southern states.55 The South, however, was the only region in the country to see a net increase in private school enrollment between 1960 and 2000, and where private school enrollment is higher, support for spending in public schools tends to be lower.56 A growing body of rigorous research shows that money absolutely matters for public schools, especially for the students from low - income families who attend them.57 What's more, private schools in the South tend to have the largest overrepresentation of white students.58 In fact, research has shown that the strongest predictor of white private school enrollment is the proportion of black students in the local public schools.59

The children of the other members of the Tea and Terrorist Society are attending the alternative school or having their needs met in the public school.

The school choice movement is on the rise in North Carolina, where advocates hosted a celebration Tuesday to mark their gains and to press for more opportunities for families to attend options other than traditional public schools.

Every public school student — no matter his or her race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability, citizenship status, or other perceived difference — is entitled to attend a safe, supportive school that promotes daily attendance and ensures an equal opportunity to learn, grow, and succeed.

In densely populated areas of Maricopa County, we know about 50 percent of students are choosing charters or other public schools rather than attending their assigned district school.

Her work, along with other alumni that attended KIPP's program has impressed officials at the nonprofit network of college - preparatory, public charter schools that educates elementary, middle and high school students.

«NSBA is representing the voices of parents and others who want their children focused on education and protected from lewd speech while attending public schools,» said NSBA Executive Director Thomas J. Gentzel.

The California Charter Schools Association also fought the SB 322 bill, which would give charter school students the same reasonable due - process rights afforded students who attend public schools, as well as SB 739 which would put some restrictions on the ability of a district to open up «resource center» charters in other counties, which led to the abuses described earlier in this Schools Association also fought the SB 322 bill, which would give charter school students the same reasonable due - process rights afforded students who attend public schools, as well as SB 739 which would put some restrictions on the ability of a district to open up «resource center» charters in other counties, which led to the abuses described earlier in this schools, as well as SB 739 which would put some restrictions on the ability of a district to open up «resource center» charters in other counties, which led to the abuses described earlier in this report.

Because students in kindergarten are not required to attend a public school for 100 days like students in all other grades, it may be the case that some kindergarten ESA users fit that mold.

The list includes 95 from LA Unified, and students attending them can now apply for an open enrollment transfer to any other public school in California for the next academic year.

Other Michigan education leaders attending the summit John Dunn, president of Western Michigan University, Daniel Little, chancellor of the University of Michigan - Dearborn, Sue Dynarski, University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Dr. Dale Pehrsson, dean of Central Michigan University's School of Education, Dan Varner, chief executive officer at Excellent Schools Detroit, Melissa Miller, director of WE CAN Newaygo County and Monica Moser, president and CEO of the Jackson Community Foundation.

Sec. 1117 of Title I, Part A, requires participating divisions to provide eligible students attending private elementary and secondary schools, their teachers, and their families with Title I services or other benefits that are equitable to those provided to eligible public school students, their teachers, and their families.

The union argues that — despite the corporate tax workaround — it still violates the separation of church and state because the scholarships allow children to attend private religious school on the public's dime, among other issues.

Winston graduates successfully attended other private and public high schools, but education reform in Texas prompted parents to ask about a college preparatory high school curriculum that addressed learning disabilities.

On the other hand, it may be the public declaration that a school did not live up to its promises to the public or to the parents and students that chose to attend.

In school year 2016 - 17 (the year of focus for our study), 27 percent of public school students attended their in - boundary school, and 73 percent attended a school other than their in - boundary option.

Three - quarters of public school students in the District of Columbia attend a school other than their in - boundary [1] school.

In - boundary schools are a primary choice for many families throughout D.C., but public school students living in the Wilson HS area are the only ones in the city — aside from students at a couple elementary schools in Capitol Hill and Dupont Circle — who overwhelmingly attend in - boundary schools over other options in DCPS or public charter schools.

As enrollments have increased, a higher proportion of public school students are deciding to attend a school other than their in - boundary school.