Sentences with phrase «attending higher performing schools»

As a result of a robust accountability system, more students are attending higher performing schools which has translated to overall increases in program - wide scholarship student achievement,» said Ann Duplessis, president of the Louisiana Federation for Children.

Every parent wants their child to attend a high performing school.

NSNO will work with the district and partner organizations to ensure students in these schools are supported and get the opportunity to attend a higher performing school.

Although it seems incomprehensible, minority students in poor neighborhoods get placed on waiting lists for a chance to attend a high performing school.

Under the federal No Child Left Behind law, students attending a Title I school designated as «in need of improvement» have the right to attend a higher performing school in the district.

Not exact matches

She attended the High School of Performing Arts in dance before receiving her Bachelor of Arts in literature and her Master of Arts in Russian literature at the University of Chicago.

«Whether you attend the concert or bring your family to the full - day Saturday taste, we want everyone to know we do this for the kids - the funds we raise from summer high school classes and public events like TOTV go right back to school sites for visual and performing arts and curriculum support to benefit students,» he added.

Appelbaum's sons attend the high - performing Bell School on the city's North Side, which placed in the top 10 of a 2007 Chicago Sun - Times list of the highest - scoring middle - grade programs in Illinois.

The study notes that there are limitations to the sample of students used in the study — with all of them attending privileged, high - performing schools — but they said they felt it was worthwhile to investigate the stresses of homework on this population of students.

Also at 9 p.m., Brewer attends the LaGuardia Arts High School Parents Association's Benefit Taste of New York Cocktail Party, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, Manhattan.

Local high school girls are invited to attend the shopping event to find a free gown for prom or other special event at from 3 to 6 p.m. Saturday, April 5 or noon to 3 p.m. Sunday, April 6, at Performing Arts Dance Academy, 206 Lake St., Hamburg, NY.

Chandler Dillingham (age 14) attends Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, Harrison Dillingham (also age14) is a student at the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts and Abigail Dillingham (age 12) attends the Professional Performing Arts School.

She attended Interlochen Arts Camp, Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas, Texas, and the University of North Texas, where she majored in jazz piano, and won Best Student Music Awards for Best Jazz Vocalist (twice, in 1996 and 1997) and Best Original Composition (1996).

Adams attended New York's High School of Performing Arts and the Institute of American Ballet, and took private acting lessons from Lee Strasberg.

Jennifer was a drama student at New York's High School of the Performing Arts, a school that was also attended by actor Al PSchool of the Performing Arts, a school that was also attended by actor Al Pschool that was also attended by actor Al Pacino.

He developed an early interest in acting and attended Manhattan's High School for the Performing Arts.

She's attending a performing arts high school.

The film finds dramatic visuals, an invaluable and often challenging part of any documentary, for its conclusion, as the profiled families attend public lotteries where they hope to beat the long odds of getting into a high - performing charter school whose applicants may outnumber its vacancies by more than ten times.

Foley attended high school in St. Louis, Missouri, performing in school and community theater productions.

Even more of the control group members attended high - performing public charter schools in their communities after losing the lottery.

The same analysis also found that pupils from poorer backgrounds who performed just as well as their more well off peers were still less likely to attend grammars, with 66 per cent of children who achieve level five in both English and Maths at Key Stage 2 who are not eligible for free school meals going to a grammar school compared with 40 per cent of similarly high achieving children who are eligible for free school meals.

Granted, the fabulous standardized test scores of those high - performing charter networks who take on this special ed challenge may not be as uniformly high — at least in the short term, but when one in every twenty public school students now attends a charter, the movement is mature and entrenched enough to move to the next stage of reform for both moral and political reasons.

21st Century Community Learning Center grant: A grant provided by the U.S Department of Education to community learning centers that provide academic - enrichment opportunities during nonschool hours for children, particularly students who attend high - poverty and low - performing schools.

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).

KH: Over the past 10 years, the total number of students attending schools run by high - performing CMOs increased at least tenfold, from approximately 10,000 students in 2000 to more than 100,000 students today.

By comparing schools on a variety of measures, we found that post-closure students generally enrolled in higher - performing high schools than they would have otherwise attended.

How would parents in underserved communities with a high percentage of low - performing schools have any idea their children are attending a failing school?

In sum, although there may be some migration by high - performing students to APIP schools, schools that adopt APIP see better scores on college entrance exams among students who have always attended their school.

One was that students not offered vouchers went on to attend high - performing public schools (either traditional or charter schools).

Her first book, Balancing Acts: Youth Culture in the Global City, analyzes youth culture among children of immigrants attending low - performing high schools in New York City and London.

«They ended up attending high schools that were higher - performing, with higher attendance, better test scores, better graduation rates, and did much better than students we compared them to,» he says.

«It is absurd that Connecticut's current funding system severely underfunds urban schools and keeps high performing schools of choice, like the one my children attend, in a separate and unequal system,» she said.

Research by Will Dobbie and Roland Fryer demonstrates that the impact of attending an HCZ charter middle school on students» test scores is comparable to the impressive effects seen at high - performing charter schools such as the Knowledge Is Power Program (known as KIPP schools).

• Compared to 41 other regions nationwide, Newark has the second - highest performing charter sector based on charter students» high growth rates in reading and math relative to similar students in district schools, according to a 2015 CREDO study • 30 % of students now attend a charter school, a figure that more than doubled in this period.

In New York City alone, 44 low - performing high schools were closed between 2000 and 2014 as part of efforts by then - Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the city's schools chancellor, Joel Klein, to eliminate so - called dropout factories and improve education for students who would typically attend a failing school because they lived nearby.

Attract high - performing networks to open schools in an LEA with significant numbers of students attending eligible schools (or to restart low - performing schools).

Students in failing schools were given a choice of attending a higher - performing public school or an eligible private school.

Those high - performing schools did things like «set measurable goals on standards based tests and benchmark tests across all proficiency levels, grades, and subjects»; create school missions that were «future oriented,» with curricula and instruction designed to prepare students to succeed in a rigorous high - school curriculum; include improvement of student outcomes «as part of the evaluation of the superintendent, the principal, and the teachers»; and communicate to parents and students «their responsibility as well for student learning, including parent contracts, turning in homework, attending class, and asking for help when needed.»

The proposed New Century Scholars program, which would require approval by the legislature, would provide $ 2,000 in state aid to students who maintain a B average in high school, perform well on standardized tests, and attend a public or private college or university in Virginia.

They have targeted strategies to get strong teachers and leaders into high - poverty / high - minority schools and can swiftly remove ineffective teachers; they are closing low - performing schools and offering high - quality choices through both traditional and charter schools; and they have adopted demanding graduation standards and assessments so that students leave high school capable of attending college and ready for careers.

• Lannette Woodruff (Ward 4) and Markus Batchelor (Ward 8) both attended the DC Public Charter School Board's (DCPCSB) TIERific Celebration of Quality Schools, which highlighted and celebrated the city's highest performing public charter sSchools, which highlighted and celebrated the city's highest performing public charter schoolsschools.

The 21st Century Community Learning Centers (Title IV, Part B) program supports the creation of opportunities for academic enrichment during non-school hours for children, particularly students who attend high - poverty and low - performing schools.

With outstanding math achievement and growth and over 83 % of graduates attending college, New Mission is one of the highest - performing public schools in all of Massachusetts.

The researchers determined that the study results can not be dismissed with claims that the students not in the voucher program (the control group, which included students who were not offered a voucher) attended higher - performing DC public schools that the students in the program (the treatment group, which included students who were offered or used a voucher): Evidence showed that «the study's control group students were attending average DC schools.»

However, D.C. parents confronted with a choice between schools with the lowest and highest ratings were found to be willing to send their child up to seven miles further away to attend the higher - performing school.

Title IV, Part B supports centers that provide academic enrichment programs during non-school hours, especially those that target high - poverty families and students who attend low - performing schools.

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.

The primary aim of the grant was to lift students out of low - performing schools and increase their opportunities to attend high - performing schools.

When given the chance, parents want their children to attend a high - performing school... that's close to home.

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