Sentences with phrase «attended public schools before»

Melissa Figueira was born and raised in Miami, Florida, where she attended public schools before moving to New York City to study Political Science and Sociology at Columbia University.

• Hurricane Katrina in 2005 destroyed schools across the Gulf Coast states and radically reshaped the education landscape in New Orleans, where more than 60,000 children attended public schools before the storm.

A number of the individual donors did not come from money, but attended public schools before amassing their fortunes.

Many school districts, frustrated that they now had to pay an outside organization to educate students in their own districts, many of whom had not even attended public schools before, simply stopped making payments, causing WPCCS to lose nearly $ 1 million in 2001.

Most of these students have never attended a public school before using a voucher and this year only 274 vouchers were used to leave an F - rated public school.

Not exact matches

Amanda Bot made her way to Orange County Public Schools from her native Minnesota — where she attended the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities for her bachelor's degree — but not before she completed an internship with the Sarasota County School District.

Americans» support for using public funds to pay for students to attend private schools apparently was growing even before the U.S. Supreme Court's June decision upholding the Cleveland voucher plan, findings from this year's Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup poll on public attitudes about education suggest.

After reading the critics and examining many more studies than Klein names (some inevitably negative), I believe there is simply no doubt that under Klein's leadership, children attending public schools in New York City were, on average, being far better educated at the end of his eight years than they had been nine years before.

However, OPPAGA's 2010 report and 2012 revenue estimating conference relied on U.S. Census data and found that their previous estimate of switchers had been too low, since 94.6 % of scholarship - eligible low - income students were attending public schools in the year before the STC program took effect.

Specifically, for students who had attended public schools deemed to be failing before the students took part in the voucher program — a high - priority target for the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program — the new federal study shows no statistically significant impacts on their test scores.

In Dayton, 1,440 students were tested before the lottery; 803 of them were attending public schools at the time.

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.

In part because of its dismal public school system and in part because of a strong religious, especially Catholic, tradition, New Orleans had a robust private school network before Katrina: some 25,000 students, more than a third of the number in the public schools, attended 92 different schools.

In Washington, D.C., 2,023 students were tested before the lottery; 1,582 of them were attending a public school.

We also confirm that we obtain similar results when we control for student characteristics measured at or before the PSAT / NMSQT, including sex, parental education, family income level, whether a student took the PSAT / NMSQT in 10th grade and his or her previous score, indicators for ethnic background (for example, Mexican, Cuban), and controls for the type of high school attended, including affiliation (public or private), urbanicity (that is, city, suburban, rural), size, and concentration of Hispanic students.

In order to be eligible for an FTC scholarship, students must meet the income guidelines (until recently, family incomes below 185 percent of the federal poverty line for new applicants) and either must have attended a Florida public school for the full school year before program entry or be entering kindergarten or first grade.

Before Hurricane Katrina decimated the city and most of its schools in 2005, 64 percent of public school students in New Orleans attended a school designated as «failing.»

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.»

She taught junior high school math in Los Altos, California, before attending law school, and she served as a public defender for over six years in New York City before joining the charter school community.

In 1969, the U.S. DOJ intervened for the plaintiffs who sued the state of Mississippi in Coffey v. State Educational Finance Commission.45 In the five years before the case made it to the Supreme Court, the state offered vouchers for students to exercise «individual freedom in choosing public or private school,» which provided them with the opportunity to choose to attend racially segregated schools.46 Originally only offering $ 180 per student in 1964, the state Legislature increased the amount of each voucher to be $ 240 per student in 1968.47

Before its effects are even known, he is looking to extend it, eliminating the restriction that vouchers go only to students who first attend public school.

Currently, the Choice Scholarship grants are paid from the savings in tuition support since the students attended public schools the year before and would probably be built into the school tuition support projections for CY 2014 and CY 2015.

After attending a public school for two semesters before receiving scholarship.

The old eligibility rules required students to attend public school for at least a year before receiving vouchers.

Before attending Columbia, Jamie spent two years teaching English to seventh and eighth graders at a rural public school in southwest China, where her students tried to help her overcome a fear of large insects by putting cicadas in her hair.

Titus attended a traditional public school before enrolling at NACS.

She attended Urban Day School, a charter school, from fourth through seventh grade, a public school in Tennessee for eighth grade, and South Division High School in ninth grade before transferring to Saint Joan Antida, a Catholic all - girls high school located dowSchool, a charter school, from fourth through seventh grade, a public school in Tennessee for eighth grade, and South Division High School in ninth grade before transferring to Saint Joan Antida, a Catholic all - girls high school located dowschool, from fourth through seventh grade, a public school in Tennessee for eighth grade, and South Division High School in ninth grade before transferring to Saint Joan Antida, a Catholic all - girls high school located dowschool in Tennessee for eighth grade, and South Division High School in ninth grade before transferring to Saint Joan Antida, a Catholic all - girls high school located dowSchool in ninth grade before transferring to Saint Joan Antida, a Catholic all - girls high school located dowschool located downtown.

After attending Stanford for a Master's degree in education, he taught physics for five years at the nationally acclaimed public Hillsdale High School, the private International School of Lisbon, and Summit Preparatory Charter School (Summit Prep) before taking the role of Executive Director at Summit Prep.

Any parent of a child with a disability who either attended a public school for 100 days during the fiscal year before applying for the Empowerment Account program or who received a scholarship under Lexie's Law is eligible to apply for the new program.

Over the past quarter of a century — and since well before NCLB was enacted — access to arts education in the public schools has become less and less equitable, with minority students and students attending high - needs schools most often shortchanged (Rabkin & Hedberg, 2011; Yee, 2014; GAO, 2009; Stringer, 2014).

Of these latter studies, the benefits of choice were typically concentrated among African American students and students who had previously attended relatively low - performing public schools before they were given a chance to attend schools their parents deemed better.

«The decision means, too, that Gov. Mike Pence and the GOP - dominated House and Senate can proceed with an initiative that would eliminate, for those just starting kindergarten, the current requirement that students attend public school for a year before applying for vouchers.»

The bill passed by the Senate Education Committee now requires a student to attend kindergarten in a public school before receiving a voucher unless the public school a student would attend received a failing grade from the state.

Pursuant to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, any individual with a disability who requires reasonable accommodation to attend or participate in this meeting of the governing board may request assistance by contacting Thrive Public Schools during normal business hours at 4260 54th Street, San Diego, CA 92115, [phone] as far in advance as possible, but no later than 24 hours before the meeting.

One young man who attended the original American Indian Public Charter School before Chavis» time witnessed its transformation firsthand.

More than 200 people attended a public forum before the Spokane School Board, many making their case...

Vanessa Assoko, 13, attended a public school in New York City for a year before switching to a charter school called Harlem Village Academies, a free, publicly funded but independently managed school.

He attended three D.C. public schools in preschool and kindergarten before enrolling this academic year in first grade at a KIPP DC elementary campus, part of one of the highest - performing charter organizations in the city.

The state Education Department says taxpayers are taking on $ 53 million in tuition costs that they were not bearing before, although it is unclear how many of those students would otherwise attend public schools — with state funding — if there were no vouchers.

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

He is originally from West Philadelphia and attended Philadelphia public schools before graduating from the Kutztown University of Pennsylvania and the Temple University Beasley School of Law.

Attending three separate San Diego public high schools and Grossmont Junior College before going on to graduate from Yale Law School, Gomez's first legal job included clerking for a federal judge, before joining the international law firm of Latham & Watkins, and serving as an Assistant United States Attorney, until he decided to go into private practice representing people.

A work permit also allows school - aged children to attend public school, and allows the applicant's family to access public health care, although some provinces have a 3 month waiting period before applying for health care coverage.

Before attending law school, Kevin taught middle school social studies in the Baltimore City Public Schools.

Maybe CREA's next TV ad should be a one minute piece wherein someone like me delivers an apology to the public for trying to convince them that all Realtors are professionals, when in fact far too many licensees on any given day are tryouts who will become desperate for commissions before they pack it in, and that from here on in only properly pre-screened candidates will be allowed to attend real estate school and thereafter embark on a three - year apprenticeship program before becoming licensed as a Realtor... on probation... because... the public deserves better that it has been getting from us.