Sentences with phrase «by local high school students»

NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — This year's Teen Invitational, the fifth annual exhibition featuring art by local high school students on view in MASS MoCA's main galleries, opens with a reception and awards ceremony on Friday, April 10, at 7 pm.

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Perhaps a good place to start is by focusing on 10 students in your local high school, with the goal of increasing their chances of graduating.

Developed by a local high school culinary student in partnership with Medical City Children's Hospital in Dallas, El Fenix's Kids Fit Menu allows kids to build their own meals by choosing from an array of delicious, low - fat / calorie entrées and sides, along with a glass of apple juice.

In California The Fairmont San Francisco and The Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn are supporting local agricultural studies by purchasing two student - raised hogs from the Sonoma Valley High School Agriculture Department so that they can make their own sausages, bacon and dried meats, as well as support local schools and help strengthen the regional farming community.

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.

Funded by a generous benefactor and local businessman, along with his wife, Jerry and Joanna Higgins, this scholarship is awarded to worthy students who will be attending college or training beyond high school.

DISABLED STUDENT GRADUATION: One new measure will make it easier for disabled students to attend their high school graduation by closing a loophole that had allowed local education officials to keep some students out.

Of the 569 students who attended the four closing high schools during the 2010 - 11 school year, only 47 percent graduated with a local or Regents diploma (lower than the citywide average by 15 percent) and 22 percent of them dropped out or were discharged (more than twice the citywide average).

This program for high school students underrepresented in STEM is implemented by the Space Telescope Science Institute's Office of Public Outreach in partnership with select local schools.

By hosting hands - on demonstration sessions for middle and high school students, as well as sessions created in partnership with local Girl Scouts troupes, the EdCom introduces young people to the science of acoustics.

Researchers included students with post-doctoral, graduate, and undergraduate status, and even some assistance by a local high school junior.

He joined a theater arts program in high school and was signed after a local agent came by to watch the students perform monologues.

The Screen Queensland collaboration and the role it plays in fostering talent and production activity is taken very seriously by Fisher, who states, «For the local industry, we develop future film professionals through screen culture and screen education, (including) dedicated screenings, career forums and workshops for high - school students.

The students had just found out that they — like middle and high school students across the country, boosted by fundraising campaigns and the wise support of their principals, teachers, parents, and local community leaders — were taking a school trip to see Black Panther for free.

On October 7, the Harvard Graduate School of Education hosted the local launch of the XQ: The Super School Project initiative — a national campaign, backed by Laurene Powell Jobs, president of the Emerson Collective (EC), calling on educators, students, and sector leaders to design a new high school School of Education hosted the local launch of the XQ: The Super School Project initiative — a national campaign, backed by Laurene Powell Jobs, president of the Emerson Collective (EC), calling on educators, students, and sector leaders to design a new high school School Project initiative — a national campaign, backed by Laurene Powell Jobs, president of the Emerson Collective (EC), calling on educators, students, and sector leaders to design a new high school school model.

I explore three broad hypotheses for why African Americans might not have benefited as much as whites from the funding initiatives: 1) kindergarten funding disproportionately drew African Americans out of higher - quality education settings; 2) instead of raising additional revenue to fund local kindergarten programs fully, school districts offered lower - quality kindergarten programs to African Americans or moved funds from existing school programs from which African Americans may have disproportionately benefited; and 3) African Americans were more adversely affected by any subsequent «upgrading» of school curricula as more students entered elementary grades having attended kindergarten.

A study of 49 states by The Education Trust found that school districts with high numbers of low - income and minority students receive substantially less state and local money per pupil than school districts with few poor and minority children.

By 1996 the virtual fire was beginning to blaze: an experimental WebSchool in Orange County, Florida (a precursor to the Florida Online High School), offered online courses to local students; Federal Way School District in Washington State founded the Cyber - School Academy with nearly 50 students (both elementary and secondary); the Concord Virtual High School (later to be called Virtual High School) was awarded a $ 7.5 million federal Technology Innovation Challenge Grant; and the University of Nebraska — Lincoln was awarded a combination of grants to research and develop Internet - based high - school courses (later marketed by a for - profit enterprise called Class.comBy 1996 the virtual fire was beginning to blaze: an experimental WebSchool in Orange County, Florida (a precursor to the Florida Online High School), offered online courses to local students; Federal Way School District in Washington State founded the Cyber - School Academy with nearly 50 students (both elementary and secondary); the Concord Virtual High School (later to be called Virtual High School) was awarded a $ 7.5 million federal Technology Innovation Challenge Grant; and the University of Nebraska — Lincoln was awarded a combination of grants to research and develop Internet - based high - school courses (later marketed by a for - profit enterprise called Class.cHigh School), offered online courses to local students; Federal Way School District in Washington State founded the Cyber - School Academy with nearly 50 students (both elementary and secondary); the Concord Virtual High School (later to be called Virtual High School) was awarded a $ 7.5 million federal Technology Innovation Challenge Grant; and the University of Nebraska — Lincoln was awarded a combination of grants to research and develop Internet - based high - school courses (later marketed by a for - profit enterprise called ClassSchool), offered online courses to local students; Federal Way School District in Washington State founded the Cyber - School Academy with nearly 50 students (both elementary and secondary); the Concord Virtual High School (later to be called Virtual High School) was awarded a $ 7.5 million federal Technology Innovation Challenge Grant; and the University of Nebraska — Lincoln was awarded a combination of grants to research and develop Internet - based high - school courses (later marketed by a for - profit enterprise called ClassSchool District in Washington State founded the Cyber - School Academy with nearly 50 students (both elementary and secondary); the Concord Virtual High School (later to be called Virtual High School) was awarded a $ 7.5 million federal Technology Innovation Challenge Grant; and the University of Nebraska — Lincoln was awarded a combination of grants to research and develop Internet - based high - school courses (later marketed by a for - profit enterprise called ClassSchool Academy with nearly 50 students (both elementary and secondary); the Concord Virtual High School (later to be called Virtual High School) was awarded a $ 7.5 million federal Technology Innovation Challenge Grant; and the University of Nebraska — Lincoln was awarded a combination of grants to research and develop Internet - based high - school courses (later marketed by a for - profit enterprise called Class.cHigh School (later to be called Virtual High School) was awarded a $ 7.5 million federal Technology Innovation Challenge Grant; and the University of Nebraska — Lincoln was awarded a combination of grants to research and develop Internet - based high - school courses (later marketed by a for - profit enterprise called ClassSchool (later to be called Virtual High School) was awarded a $ 7.5 million federal Technology Innovation Challenge Grant; and the University of Nebraska — Lincoln was awarded a combination of grants to research and develop Internet - based high - school courses (later marketed by a for - profit enterprise called Class.cHigh School) was awarded a $ 7.5 million federal Technology Innovation Challenge Grant; and the University of Nebraska — Lincoln was awarded a combination of grants to research and develop Internet - based high - school courses (later marketed by a for - profit enterprise called ClassSchool) was awarded a $ 7.5 million federal Technology Innovation Challenge Grant; and the University of Nebraska — Lincoln was awarded a combination of grants to research and develop Internet - based high - school courses (later marketed by a for - profit enterprise called Class.chigh - school courses (later marketed by a for - profit enterprise called Classschool courses (later marketed by a for - profit enterprise called Class.comby a for - profit enterprise called Class.com).

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 Littleton, Colorado, infamous for its student assassins, a teacher has been taking high school students to a remote part of Kenya where they work side by side with local people, a project that gets no media coverage.

Cleveland High's academies include a manufacturing academy focused on metal working skills sought by hundreds of local firms; representatives of those companies come to the school and work with the students.

Liberals worried that poor and minority students would be penalized by high - stakes tests, while conservatives wanted to preserve the «local control» of schools.

The graduation rate is the percentage of the annual graduation rate cohort that earns a local or Regents diploma by August 31st following the third school year after the school year in which the cohort first entered grade 9, except that in a school in which the majority of students participate in a department - approved, five - year program that results in certification in a career or technology field in addition to a high school diploma, the graduation rate shall be the percentage of the annual graduation rate cohort that earns a local diploma by August 31st following the fourth school year after the school year in which the cohort first entered grade 9.

At least 200 students were in the gym of the 1,100 - student John McDonogh High School shortly after 10:30 a.m. on April 14, local police said, when four young men armed with an AK - 47 semiautomatic rifle and two handguns unleashed a hail of bullets at 15 - year - old Jonathan A. Williams, who was sitting on the bleachers surrounded by other students.

Intrigued by the interviews with high school valedictorians that the Raleigh, N.C., News & Observer publishes this time each year, researcher E. Anne York decided to gather up three years» worth of its stories to look for any gender differences in the aspirations of these highest - achieving local students.

Californians Together invites you to attend a convening of school districts and local and statewide education community partners to highlight the results of the report, «Beyond Teaching English: Supporting High School Completion by Immigrant and Refugee Students,» by Julie Sugarman of the Migration Policy Instschool districts and local and statewide education community partners to highlight the results of the report, «Beyond Teaching English: Supporting High School Completion by Immigrant and Refugee Students,» by Julie Sugarman of the Migration Policy InstSchool Completion by Immigrant and Refugee Students,» by Julie Sugarman of the Migration Policy Institute.

The Los Angeles County Office of Education is withholding approval of the Local Control and Accountability Plan drawn up by the LA Unified School District pending clarification of the $ 700 million the district says it is spending on high - needs students.

Continuing a 10 - year long tradition, the National Alliance honors individuals at the federal, state and local level who enrich the lives of students by leading the most impactful charter school initiatives and supporting charters as a high - quality public school option.

California high school students who participate in these and other extra-curricular athletic activities may be excused by their local districts from having to take regular physical education courses required for graduation.

The four «guiding principles» for the march are: equitable funding for all public school communities; an end to high - stakes testing used for the purpose of student, teacher, and school evaluation; curriculum developed for and by local school communities; and teacher, family, and community leadership in forming public education policies.

This year marks the fifth anniversary of Yale's Pathways to Science, free on - campus STEM enrichment programming for local middle and high school students hosted by Yale faculty members.

He contends the move to enlist charters is not evidence - based, would not be financially attractive to charter operators, would cause chaos in the lives of our most vulnerable students while further damaging neighborhoods, would usurp local elected school board control, and would not solve the challenging problems presented by low - performing, high - poverty schools.

The funding from Title II, Part B from the U.S. Department of Education supports a competitive grant competition for projects that increase the academic achievement of students in mathematics and science by encouraging state education agencies, institutions of higher education, local education agencies, elementary schools, and secondary schools to participate in programs that improve instruction and upgrade the status and stature of mathematics and science teaching.

«Brookhaven Innovation Academy, Liberty Tech Charter School and Southwest Georgia STEM Charter School will provide students in this state with high - quality public choice opportunities in addition to what is provided by their local school districts,» said SCSC Deputy Director Gregg StSchool and Southwest Georgia STEM Charter School will provide students in this state with high - quality public choice opportunities in addition to what is provided by their local school districts,» said SCSC Deputy Director Gregg StSchool will provide students in this state with high - quality public choice opportunities in addition to what is provided by their local school districts,» said SCSC Deputy Director Gregg Stschool districts,» said SCSC Deputy Director Gregg Stevens.

We highlighted the challenges and successes of two small, rural high schools that are improving college and career readiness for all students by collaborating with partners such as community colleges and local businesses.

The Academy of Finance program, offered in five OPS high schools, prepares students for careers in a variety of financial service areas by working with local financial partners and using a nationally developed curriculum.

«By adopting this compact, the SCS school board and local educators have taken a huge step forward to help ensure all students have access to the high quality education they deserve, and to underscore the important role that public charter schools play in our community.»

This followed an earlier study from the department finding that «many high - poverty schools receive less than their fair share of state and local funding... leav (ing) students in high - poverty schools with fewer resources than schools attended by their wealthier peers.»

The Secondary School Partners Committee strengthens concurrent enrollment programs by educating local stakeholders, communicating and collaborating with higher education partners, recognizing students» accomplishments, and supporting CEP program quality standards.

In our 2018 Local School Finance Study, we found that the ten highest spending counties spent on average $ 3,103 per student compared to $ 739 by the ten lowest spending counties, a gap of $ 2,364 per student.

We helped to empower school communities to allocate scarce resources effectively and prioritize resources for our highest need students by OUSD and through the new Local Control Funding Formula.

BEECH GROVE, Ind. — A local high school student is taking school security into her own hands by launching a fundraising effort for her district.

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.

California's school funding model is based on a powerful idea: improve outcomes by directing more resources to high - need students and use a multiple - measure accountability system that supports local decision - making.

The 2018 Local School Finance Study found that the ten highest spending counties spent on average $ 3,103 per student compared to $ 739 by the ten lowest spending counties, a gap of $ 2,364 per student.

While a formal civics course is not offered until high school, kindergarten students learn to «identify personal traits, such as courage, honesty, and responsibility» and third - graders learn to «explain how local government officials are chosen, e.g., election, appointment,» according to the Idaho State Department of Education's social studies standards.22 By the time students reach 12th grade, they are more prepared to learn civics - related topics, such as the electoral process and role of political parties; the methods of public participation; and the rights and responsibilities of citizenship, than students with no prior exposure to a civics curriculum.

Innovation School Fellows David Spencer and Emily Pelino will deepen the impact of KIPP Indy Public Schools in the Indianapolis community by partnering with IPS to open KIPP's first local high school, enabling the network to educate its students from kindergarten to the time they matriculate to coSchool Fellows David Spencer and Emily Pelino will deepen the impact of KIPP Indy Public Schools in the Indianapolis community by partnering with IPS to open KIPP's first local high school, enabling the network to educate its students from kindergarten to the time they matriculate to coschool, enabling the network to educate its students from kindergarten to the time they matriculate to college.

The final budget bill cut state K - 12 spending by nearly $ 800 million, over7 percent — the largest amount in Wisconsin's history — and limited local governments» abilities to make up for these cuts through property taxes.14 That same year, Gov. Walker passed major tax cuts primarily targeted toward corporations and the wealthy that totaled $ 2.33 billion over 10 years.15 Gov. Walker and Act 10 proponents argued that the bill's reforms would allow schools to offset these cuts by reducing teachers» benefits and hiring lower - paid teachers, preventing budget cuts from affecting students.16 Gov. Walker also argued that eliminating requirements to bargain over salary structures, hiring, and working conditions would give schools additional flexibility needed to attract and retain higher - quality teachers.17

Signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown on July 1, 2013, the Local Control Funding Formula aims to ensure that a higher percentage of state education dollars are directed toward California's highest need students and provides local school districts with more control over spending decisLocal Control Funding Formula aims to ensure that a higher percentage of state education dollars are directed toward California's highest need students and provides local school districts with more control over spending decislocal school districts with more control over spending decisions.

In district - level analysis, the Education Trust finds that nationally districts serving high concentrations of low - income students receive on average $ 1,200 less in state and local funding than districts that serve low concentrations of low - income students, and that gap widens to $ 2,000 when comparing high - minority and low - minority districts.17 These findings are further reflected by national funding equity measures reported by Education Week, which indicate that wealthy school districts spend more per student than poorer school districts do on average.18