Sentences with phrase «citywide enrollment»

Of families enrolling in new schools this year, 89 percent did so through a citywide enrollment system called OneApp.

In addition, the implementation of reforms — such as citywide enrollment and the expansion of high quality schools — are also cited as two areas that have made a real difference for the district.

Charter schools also offer citywide enrollment, which tends to create more diverse student bodies than traditional neighborhood schools.

One offers a better education and a brighter future through a citywide enrollment lottery that sends them to schools far and wide.

The increase appears to be a consequence of citywide enrollment and the shift from a centrally - run school system.

Charter schools could agree to join a choice set under this scenario, which means they would accept neighborhood children instead of conducting citywide enrollment lotteries.

This study confirms the progress that is being made in Newark schools and shows that reforms undertaken — particularly in areas like citywide enrollment and expansion of high quality schools — are making a real difference for Newark students.

Instead of asking families to fill out separate applications for each school, the Plan called for a citywide enrollment system that would streamline the process and hopefully make it easier for families to choose higher - performing schools over lower - performing ones.

His tenure follows the controversial leadership of former superintendent Cami Anderson, who led a series of unpopular initiatives in quick succession, including a new citywide enrollment plan and lottery that allowed parents to choose any traditional or charter school in the city, closures of underenrolled or poorly performing schools, mass firings of teachers and principals, and a new merit - pay program for teachers.

Not exact matches

The mayor secured state funding for a massive expansion in free pre-K, resulting in an enrollment increase of 290 precent on Staten Island — the largest citywide.

So what's next for the GOP in a city that has a 3 - to - 1 Democratic enrollment edge, and a lack of a citywide office holder?

Most of all, families and students need both sides to get past their defensiveness and mistrust and get to work creating citywide information, funding, enrollment, transportation, and other systems that will improve equity and access to high - quality schools.

Another solution is to create a Detroit - based nonprofit organization that has sufficient funding and authority to be the citywide coordinating body for all public school buildings, special services for families, transportation, enrollment, and parent information systems.

A 2014 report to the state legislature found enrollment in Baltimore charters was broadly similar to overall enrollment in all city schools, though charter students were less likely to enroll in free or reduced - price school meal programs: 79 percent compared to 85 percent citywide.

Reform advocates call it «churn,» the business of aggressively and systematically zeroing in on the least successful schools, ousting failed managers, and reorganizing the schools as open - enrollment, citywide charter schools.

Citywide, enrollment had begun to stabilize after four decades of steep decline, as more families opted to enroll their children in district schools, including newly expanding charters.

Freed from union rules and OPSB central - office control, the RSD was able to act on its conviction that improved performance lay in spinning off as many schools as possible and chartering them as independent institutions with open - enrollment admissions policies and citywide catchment areas.

In addition, PASA's programs have access to a citywide data - sharing system that tracks enrollment, participation, and retention to help measure success.

At the same time, New York opened a group of small high schools offering open enrollment and personalized attention for students, and it instituted a citywide choice policy.

And New York City, which has a 45.5 percent higher enrollment than LAUSD, last year announced it was adding 69 new community schools, which will bring its citywide count to 215.

Government and nonprofit leaders in cities like Cleveland, DC, New Orleans, Baltimore, and even Detroit have been able to make progress on these issues via voluntary agreements on citywide systems for enrollment and information to help families navigate public school choice.

Over the last school year, charter school enrollment was up 10 percent citywide, while public school enrollment barely jumped one percent.

It seems to me that open enrollment practices are having a normative effect whereby charters» composition of at risk students are more like the citywide average than the local in - boundary DCPS school.

Centralized enrollment, along with the recently implemented citywide expulsion process, creates rules that prevent students from being pushed out of schools due to their disabilities.

Within this 2.5 radius there are also 5 charter schools (four serving kindergarten through eight, another sixth through ninth), a citywide neighborhood, eight citywide magnets, and one selective enrollment school which serves grades seven through twelve (Chicago Public Schools, 2016g).