Sentences with phrase «attended local public schools»

I attended the local public schools.

I attended local public schools at a time when Arizona was near the national average in per - student funding.

He has been a resident of Coral Springs since 2001 and attended local public schools including Coral Springs Middle School, Westglades Middle School, and Stoneman Douglas High School.

He attended the local public schools before becoming a naval corpsman.

Growing up in the San Diego neighborhood of Ocean Beach, a crime ridden area [2] where he attended local public schools, Wells was dependent on his mother who worked numerous jobs to support him and his four siblings.

My daughter attends the local public school, it is a great school.

They are essentially scholarships that serve as payment for education at a private or parochial K - 12 school when a family chooses not to attend the local public school.

After aging out of that program Wesley attended our local public school in Montclair where he was placed in a general education classroom with full inclusive supports.

In 1933, the LDS Church discontinued its private secondary school system and encouraged Church members to attend the local public schools.

Students are eligible for the program if the student's resident district is not a school district in which the pilot project scholarship program is operating and the student satisfies one of the following conditions: the student attends a local public school that has received a grade D or F by the state's performance index score, the student is assigned to a community school but would otherwise be assigned to a qualifying school, the student attends a local public school that was ranked in the lowest 10 percent of public schools in two of the three most recent rankings and the public school was not declared to be excellent or effective in the most recent rating system, or the student is enrolling in grades K — 12 for the first time and would be assigned to a qualifying school as long as they are at least 5 years old by Jan. 1 of the school year.

In a recent visit to Clarendon County, South Carolina, the location of one of the Brown v. Board of Education cases, I found virtually no white students attending the local public schools.

As the only candidate whose children attend our local public schools, I can say first hand that they are the cornerstones of our community.

Students attend the local public school classrooms twice a week to discuss legal rights, responsibilities and practical legal problems.

Because of this life change in our family and other callings and demands, my children now attend our local public school where I've been involved in launching Parents of Prayer.

Not exact matches

He attended a local Catholic high school and a big public college, the University of Massachusetts.

Charters are public schools that boards of local citizens can apply to open and run under state oversight, and that any child can attend.

I arrogantly declined to attend the local high school and college games; and with eyes narrowed and brows aloft I flipped from the Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday TV battles to the public broadcasting channel for a film by Ingmar Bergman or a lecture from Chicago on recent trends in Bulgarian poetry.

While many families in this area move east of the tunnel to attend better public schools, Berkeley Rose Waldorf School can meet their children's educational needs at an affordable tuition cost and reduce the relocation of local families away from their current neighborhoods and homes.

During an announcement that was attended by dozens of friends, family, supporters and local officials, Killian, a Republican, laid out a reform platform that included enacting term limits, providing tax and mandate relief, improving public schools, promoting substance abuse prevention and helping small businesses.

Levine has lived in Washington Heights since the early 1990s and now lives on Pinehurst Avenue with his wife Ivelisse and their 10 - year - old and six - year - old sons, who attend PS 187, the local public school.

On Tuesday evening in Brooklyn, school district 15, which includes parts of Sunset Park, Kensington, Park Slope, Carroll Gardens, and Red Hook, schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña will hold a town hall «from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at P.S. 516... Local elected officials including City Councilman Carlos Menchaca, Assemblyman Felix Ortiz and State Sen. Jesse Hamilton are expected to attend and answer questions from the public from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.,» according to DNAinfo.

Close to three - fourths of the public say their local schools are doing well at attending to the needs of more - talented students, but that percentage plummets to just 45 percent when asked about the effectiveness of local schools at meeting the needs of the less - talented (Fig. 3).

Importantly, the schools attended by students in our sample include both open - enrollment public schools operated by the local school district and five over-subscribed charter schools that have been shown to have large, positive impacts on student achievement as measured by state math and English language arts tests.

The language in the budget proposal says it would be an increase of $ 1 billion in Title I to encourage states and districts to adopt student - based funding systems where money, including state, local and federal funds, follows the child to the school that they attend within the public sector.

One could reasonably argue that requiring school districts to provide some financial support to students attending private school does not directly interfere with the state constitution's mandate that local school boards have control over «instruction in the public schools» (emphasis added).

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.

By bringing the local culture of Native students into the public schools they attend, Title VII has been one of the most important programs for reforming education in Indian Country, writes Corey Still, a student board member of the National Indian Education Association.

The message of persistence, says Terry Croy Lewis, the executive director of the Colorado Charter School Institute, was clear: «Legislators knew the issue wasn't going away, that every year the reform community would come back demanding that local revenues be shared equally with all students attending public schools,» she said.

The findings reported above represent the first systematic evidence that Americans» perceptions of the quality of their local public schools reflect publicly available information about the academic achievement of the students who attend them.

In fact, Brookings Institution released an article stating that recent research on voucher programs in Indiana and Louisiana found that those students who took advantage of vouchers to attend private school, rather than their local public schools, received lower scores than their public school peers.

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

State Superintendent of Public Instruction & local school boards o April 5: Attend the JFC hearings and «People's Tailgate» at State Fair Park (right now plans are shaping up to hold a Press Conference at 7 am and have an afternoon celebration from 4 — 6 pm that will include students, brats, hotdogs, 20 ft diameter parachutes, etc..

The administration would devote $ 1 billion in Title I dollars meant for poor children to a new grant program (called Furthering Options for Children to Unlock Success, or FOCUS) for school districts that agree to allow students to choose which public school they attend — and take their federal, state and local dollars with them.

For example, I read about a district in San Diego that was losing $ 65.9 M per year to charter schools because the kids are signing up and attending local charter public schools.

In the U.S., where 87 % of white students attend a majority white school, many middle - class and affluent urbanites grapple with what Mike Petrilli calls the Diverse Schools Dilemma: Should I send my child to a local public school that offers racial, cultural, and economic diversity or to a more homogenous — but perhaps higher - performing — school?

But in early September, school board chancellor Michelle Rhee told local members of the media that she would encourage the Obamas to send their daughters to a public school such as the Oyster Bilingual School, attended by her own daugschool board chancellor Michelle Rhee told local members of the media that she would encourage the Obamas to send their daughters to a public school such as the Oyster Bilingual School, attended by her own daugschool such as the Oyster Bilingual School, attended by her own daugSchool, attended by her own daughters.

... The maximum amount for the Personal Learning Scholarship Account shall be equivalent to 90 percent of the state and local funds reflected in the state funding formula that would have gone to the student had he or she attended public school.

While Congress and the Obama administration have pressed the Bureau of Indian Education to overhaul operations at the schools it oversees on or near American Indian reservations, more than 90 percent of the 950,000 American Indian children attend traditional public schools run by local districts.

The committee stalled desegregation efforts by giving local school districts control over student assignments at particular schools, blocking African - Americans from attending all - white public schools.

A grand total of three teachers and two public education advocates attended the NC Department of Public Instruction's public hearing on the proposed model teacher contract, which local school districts will use to award the top 25 percent of teachers with 4 - year contracts that may come with $ 500 bonuses for each of those four years — as long as those teachers give up their tpublic education advocates attended the NC Department of Public Instruction's public hearing on the proposed model teacher contract, which local school districts will use to award the top 25 percent of teachers with 4 - year contracts that may come with $ 500 bonuses for each of those four years — as long as those teachers give up their tPublic Instruction's public hearing on the proposed model teacher contract, which local school districts will use to award the top 25 percent of teachers with 4 - year contracts that may come with $ 500 bonuses for each of those four years — as long as those teachers give up their tpublic hearing on the proposed model teacher contract, which local school districts will use to award the top 25 percent of teachers with 4 - year contracts that may come with $ 500 bonuses for each of those four years — as long as those teachers give up their tenure.

Previously, public school funding for local school districts was decreased by $ 11 million in the 2014 budget to account for funding the school voucher program, which will provide approximately 2,400 current public school students with $ 4,200 vouchers to attend private schools beginning this fall.

Facing History teachers often invite parents and members of the school and local community to attend a public exhibition of memorials.

As a former local school council member and Chicago Public School parent of twins who attend an IB middle - school, Middle - Years Programme (MYP), I've seen what goes into an IB - focused educschool council member and Chicago Public School parent of twins who attend an IB middle - school, Middle - Years Programme (MYP), I've seen what goes into an IB - focused educSchool parent of twins who attend an IB middle - school, Middle - Years Programme (MYP), I've seen what goes into an IB - focused educschool, Middle - Years Programme (MYP), I've seen what goes into an IB - focused education.

Of that 7,807, only 588 (7.5 percent) identified as attending a local - board - controlled public school the previous school year.

Concerning the 588 students who indicated attending a local - board - run public school the previous year, 250 (42.5 percent) attended schools in East Baton Rouge Parish.

that students attending private schools thanks to this program have equal or better academic performance than their peers in the local public schools, and have significantly higher graduation rates.

About 750,000 of those children attend Defense Department - run schools on base or local public schools off base, according to a policy brief the foundation published Friday.

To ensure all children throughout the county are well served, regardless of where they live and which type of public school they attend, the compact establishes a local Advisory Committee to ensure that district and school leaders execute shared commitments and strategies, including supporting accountability, transparency, and adequate and appropriate access to services and resources; and providing parents and students access to high quality public school options.

Local taxpayers have no say over charter school costs, which are deducted from a public school district's Chapter 70 state education aid, based on the number of students attending charter schools.

Local officials worked with the Virginia General Assembly to create a «tuition grant» program that allocated vouchers for white students to attend segregated private schools or other nearby public schools.