Sentences with phrase «brings local high school students»

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To tackle the stigma of free and reduced lunches in the high schools, Weiss has five «Mobile Cafes» (trendy food trucks donated by The Orfalea Foundation) that park outside the school and sell nutritious reimbursable meals to the high school students who otherwise might leave campus... These mobile cafes are also bringing free lunches to local, low - income students during the summer months as part of Santa Barbara's Seamless Summer meals program.

They're sent to a local high school undercover as students to investigate and bring down a drug ring.

Kemi Jona, an associate professor at Northwestern University and a member of the VOISE Academy High School design team, explains that online curriculum provides «a ticket to entry for students, getting them ready for the really exciting stuff: the projects, the collaborations, and the local connections that a teacher can bring.»

It's an effort to bring young college journalists to rural high schools to teach students how to find, collect, and produce news stories about pressing local issues, and by their work bring these issues to the attention of local, regional, and state media.

In addition, the main thrust of the report's criticism, that the state's ESSA plan is not sufficiently similar to what it would have been had No Child Left Behind remained in effect, assumes the test - based accountability strategy that these reviewers have made their careers pursuing had been effective, which it has not; and therefore, when coupled with the false claim that California has high - quality academic standards and assessments, which it doesn't (California's standards being based on the Common Core, which leaves American students 2 - 3 years behind their peers in East Asia and northern Europe), California's families remain well advised to opt out of state schooling wherever and whenever possible, until the overreach from both the federal and state capitals is brought to an end and local schools that want to pursue genuinely world - class excellence can thrive.

I also started and secured funding for our school's «Culture Club,» a club that brings our diverse student population together in order to share culture, improve student achievement, perform community service, create liaisons with higher education institutions and local businesses, and empower students by helping them to be connected to and feel ownership of their school.

Led by the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, together with local partners, it brings high - quality arts education resources to a group of the lowest - performing elementary and middle schools in the country, and help them use those resources to improve attendance, parent engagement, student motivation and more.

Over the next eight years, the Local Control Funding Formula is expected to bring $ 15 billion more to California schools, with the most money going to districts that support high - needs students.

One such program has been an ongoing workshop, which began during the artist's time as a Project For Empty Space Artist In Residence, that brought together local Newark high school students to create performances in response to the lack of the educational system.

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