Sentences with phrase «college prep classes»

«I really struggled in college prep classes that first year,» she said.

Its civil rights division will monitor racial disparities in enrollment in college prep classes, school discipline, and teacher assignment.

Focusing on college prep classes when many minority children are trapped in dysfunctional and failing urban school system will likely be met with a giant «huh?»

The 262 charter schools within the Los Angeles Unified School District are among the highest performing in the state, and they are also among the highest performing of all public schools in the nation, based on the state's most recent Academic Performance Index scores, on graduation rates and on college readiness indicators (such as the percentage of graduates who complete college prep classes).

These stereotypes manifest in widespread social problems like tracking Black and Latino students into remedial classes and out of college prep classes, and in the handing out of more frequent and more severe punishments and suspensions than are given to white students for the same (or even worse) behavior.

Students at another high school in Philadelphia successfully brought college prep classes to all of their learning communities.

Challenge yourself - take biology and other science courses, math and English, and other college prep classes.

Now it wants to spend its resources determining whether schools in Fairfax County or Westchester have a disproportionate number of white kids in college prep classes.

College representatives come for 45 minutes during the college prep class.

Some LA Unified school board members want to raise graduation requirements to require at least a C in college prep classes, undoing a vote of the previous board to lower the requirement to a D. For the Class of 2016, less than half of graduates were eligible for the University of California and California State University systems, which require a C in those classes.

In its 2015 survey, the National Association of College Admission Counseling reported that colleges» decisions relied more on grades in college prep classes, quality of curriculum, and school GPA than on class rankings.

But these academies — and much of the vocational training finding favor among reformers — are an addition to, not a substitute for, college prep classes.