Sentences with phrase «attended area high schools»

A glance at USA Synchro's website roster reveals that more than half of the 23 - swimmer combined roster for the junior and senior national team is comprised of Aquamaids and Aquanuts, most of whom have attended area high schools.

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After attending high school in Fort Worth, Tex., he eventually made his way to the San Francisco Bay Area, where he attended the University of California, Berkeley and graduated with a degree in English Literature.

We attend a junior high school band concert or a New York Yankees baseball game where a seating area is separated from a performance area.

WASHINGTON — Inspired by the teens from Parkland, Fla., Buffalo - area high schoolers are organizing a forum on gun violence on April 7, and they've already lined up Rep. Brian Higgins and two other Democratic congressional candidates to attend.

Having attended mission schools in northern Ghana, I did not benefit from Nkrumah's free High School education policy for that area.

The organization also awards $ 20,000 to graduating high school seniors attending a 4 - year college in the fall who live in the areas of Ocean Hill, Brownsville and East New York.

He received a full scholarship to study at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, through Carl Rowan's Project Excellence, a program founded by Rowan, a syndicated columnist who died in 2000, to aid African - American high - school seniors from the Washington, D.C., area who plan to attend college.

However, researchers found no evidence that adolescents attending schools in areas with high numbers of tobacco shops are more likely to smoke.

He had considered attending graduate school at the University of Illinois, but his fiancée, Jean, who was his high school sweetheart, wanted to go to the Princeton area.

That's according to the East Bay Times (via / Film), which reports that a retro - style Bay Area AC Transit bus is being built for a sequence in the film where we see a young T'Challa — before he's the Black Panther — attending Saint Mary's College High School in Berkeley.

Students who attend five charter schools in the San Francisco Bay area that are run by the Knowledge Is Power Program, or kipp, score consistently higher on standardized tests than their peers from comparable public schools, an independent evaluation of the schools concludes.

The expansion of charter and magnet schools, along with private school options, does provide some opportunities for children in high - poverty areas to attend schools that are more mixed in terms of class and income.

Sandy White, an aide to a state lawmaker from Vancouver, Wash., maintains that area high school students should not have been allowed to attend a talk last week by the exiled Tibetan religious and political leader.

This «move up» enables students to meet with their new teachers, get to know the new facilities they will be attending, and ask questions, said DeGenova, who is assistant principal at Slippery Rock (Pennsylvania) Area High School and as well as a part - time elementary principal at the district's Har - Mer Elementary School.

Areas with a high degree of private school choice have teachers who attended colleges that were ranked 0.1 levels higher than areas with minimal private school chAreas with a high degree of private school choice have teachers who attended colleges that were ranked 0.1 levels higher than areas with minimal private school chareas with minimal private school choice.

I found that teachers who work in areas with higher Tiebout and private school choice attended more selective colleges.

Students attending metropolitan schools in Australia performed at a significantly higher level (528 points on average) than those in provincial (510 points) and remote areas (475 points).

Title I provides about $ 8 billion to improve education for some 13 million children who attend 46,500 schools in high - poverty areas.

African American students, students who qualify for free / reduced lunch (i.e. poor students), students living in relatively high - poverty areas, and students attending urban schools are all more likely to be investigated by Child Protective Services for suspected child maltreatment.

Students from high schools with the highest concentrations of Hispanic students and those located in rural areas, as well as students whose parents have less formal education, experience the largest increases in four - year bachelor's degree completion (4 to 8 percentage points) and in the likelihood of attending a college with a Barron's ranking of «most competitive.»

Early findings from a new research effort suggest that low - income minority students attending Catholic schools in the Los Angeles area are staying in school and graduating at high rates.

Many of the students living in these richer areas attend private schools in D.C. and contribute to the high scores in the city.

I compared individuals of different ages, some of whom attended high school before the first - wave education reforms were implemented and others who attended afterward — and were thus required to take minimum - competency exams and more courses in academic areas in order to graduate.

The PZ Reach Scholarship aims to support educators working in underserved settings — for example, Title I public schools, areas with high rates of identity - based violence, or communities with large numbers of families impacted by immigration and / or displacement — to attend Project Zero Classroom.

With a personal passion for serving children and helping them achieve higher levels of success, Mr. Davis founded the JANDT Foundation to aid minority children in attending private and parochial schools in the Washington, DC area.

We might first look at Monroe Community College, the two - year postsecondary institution attended by high school graduates in the area who do not feel that they are ready for the university.

In addition, parents attend satellite sessions in a range of subject areas, from English - as - a-second-language instruction to completing their own high school education or getting a GED.

As long as the ability to attend a quality school is determined by where one lives, people will always leave areas with poor performing schools in search of high quality schools.

Besides giving new authority to the chancellor, the mayor is also proposing to allow some charter schools — those located in «high need» areas of the city — to become neighborhood schools, which students living nearby would have a right to attend.

The areas more likely to be affected are those with the highest proportion of pupils not attending «good» or «outstanding» schools.

I did not know anything about charter schools until I attended Miller McCoy in ninth grade and Lake Area New Tech Early College High School for my sophomore, junior, and senior years.

Private school enrollment rates and patterns show that families in areas where boundary participation rates are highest also weigh the option of attending their in - boundary school in similar proportion to the rest of the city.

Families living in this area are the only ones in the city who overwhelmingly attend in - boundary schools, from elementary school through high school, over other options in DCPS or at public charter schools (see Figure 1).

To be eligible to attend The Davidson Academy, students must be at the middle or high school level across all subject areas and score in the 99.9 th percentile on IQ tests or at the extreme for their age groups on aptitude tests.

Through the College Connection program, Austin Community College connects with Austin - area high school students to encourage them to attend college and help them successfully transition.

We serve highly motivated students who have the desire but lack the means to attend a college prep high school, and we use an innovative work - study program with area employers to cover most of the cost of education.

We «will actively enroll and retain high - need scholars from [the New Haven area] by applying the same successful intricate strategies used in... Jumoke Academy Schools to address and serve the same high - need student population that we expect will attend the Academy,» states the state - approved application for Booker T. Washington Academy, a charter school set to open in New Haven next year.

We had a very diverse population, and most students attended the charter because they hadn't succeeded at the public high schools in the area for a plethora of reasons.

GPSN Executive Director Myrna Castrejón began the morning at St. Mark's Banquet Hall in Van Nuys by talking about a tenant of GPSN's mission of replicating high - performing schools in 10 areas where 160,000 students are attending under - performing schools.

Significant amounts of research shows that it is not just poverty that limits a student's life outcomes; living in high - poverty areas and attending school among other poor students — in other words, concentrated poverty — have significant effects as well.

Even more shocking was Gov. Jay Nixon's decision that same month to veto legislation co-authored by his arch-nemesis, Rep. Maria Chappelle - Nadal, that would have allowed for kids in failing districts to attend higher - quality public and private schools in the area shows the callousness of state officials when it comes to providing kids with high - quality educational options.

Myrna Castrejon, who was named executive director of Great Public Schools Now in January, was thrust into the spotlight this week with the release of the organization's plan to increase access to high - performing schools for 160,000 students it identified as attending failing schools in poorSchools Now in January, was thrust into the spotlight this week with the release of the organization's plan to increase access to high - performing schools for 160,000 students it identified as attending failing schools in poorschools for 160,000 students it identified as attending failing schools in poorschools in poor areas.

To attend the Reno school, students must be at the middle or high school level across all subject areas and score in the 99.9 th percentile on IQ or college entrance tests, such as the ACT or SAT.

In 2015, just four out of 10 Latino and African - American high school graduates in the Bay Area had completed the courses required to attend a California state university or UC.

Having grown up in the St. Louis area, he attended school in the Fort Zumwalt School District from kindergarten through high sschool in the Fort Zumwalt School District from kindergarten through high sSchool District from kindergarten through high schoolschool.

The program aims to assist children who attend low - performing schools in high - poverty areas to attain the skills needed to meet the state's content standards (www.state.nj.us/education/21cclc).

My time as a teacher in the public school system, educational consultant, and mother of three children who attend a Denver area charter school has taught me that charter schools and the autonomy, choice, and diverse models of education they represent play an important role in making sure that each student and family has access to a high - quality school that is most suitable for them.

The school is dedicated to three overarching premises which are enacted daily in every curricular area — first, that interdisciplinary learning best prepares students for higher levels of academic challenge; second, that the environment provides a ready lens for the application of academic concepts; and third, that attending to adolescent development and collaborative skills will enable students to succeed in any high school atmosphere.

People have suggested these patterns might be due to: neighborhood / local area / region of family background; other family background characteristics; high school test scores or high school quality; quality of college attended; choices of majors and occupations; choice of neighborhood or area to live in after college.

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