Sentences with phrase «drawing school boundary»

School districts across the region said they do not consider racial balance when drawing school boundary lines.

According to the guidelines, districts must first try to use «race - neutral» approaches when deciding about student assignment to achieve diversity as well as for drawing school boundary lines.

A few years ago Loudoun County drew school boundaries in such a way that the children of low - income families — many of them Hispanic — living in a few apartment complexes were dispersed into a few different schools up to three miles away from their homes.

Not exact matches

In factories, schools, offices, laboratories, and government, Christians have many opportunities to draw boundary conditions.

If a school is near a border that separates an affluent neighborhood and a poor one, its boundaries could be drawn to ensure enrollment from both communities.

Inter-district magnet schools in Connecticut provide a current example outside the scope of traditional school districts as to the way charters might draw students across district boundary lines to create high - quality, integrated schooling options.

For example, suppose a district draws attendance boundaries to integrate schools and that, as a result, families decide to move (for any reason) to other neighborhoods within the district.

As the U.S. Department of Education has noted, «charter schools often draw students from outside their home district's attendance boundaries.»

Learning is best fostered when schools draw boundaries that separate classroom studies from the opiates of street life.

If courts can strike down teacher tenure laws as a violation of the rights of poor and minority children (see «Script Doctors,» legal beat, Fall 2014), why not use the results from CCSS assessments to go after the drawing of school boundaries in a way that perpetuates economic school segregation and denies children equal opportunity?

As the study explains, the CBSA is «the most appropriate benchmark for the broader community as it approximates the geographical area from which a school could reasonably be expected to draw students from in the absence of legal or political boundaries.»

The CBSA is the most appropriate benchmark for the broader community, as it approximates the geographical area from which a school could reasonably be expected to draw students in the absence of legal or political boundaries.

Issues of school boundaries, hiring, budgets, race, and equity inevitably threatened to draw them into controversy.

For example, Stamford Public Schools in Connecticut, draws its attendance zone boundaries so that all schools are within 10 percentage points of the district's average share of «educationally disadvantaged» stSchools in Connecticut, draws its attendance zone boundaries so that all schools are within 10 percentage points of the district's average share of «educationally disadvantaged» stschools are within 10 percentage points of the district's average share of «educationally disadvantaged» students.

In an interview with EdSource, Orfield noted that the racial isolation didn't occur by happenstance, but reflects residential segregation that has been shaped by explicit policies affecting where people live, such a whether communities allow affordable rental housing in their communities, as well as how school boundaries are drawn.

Whether the stickers are hate speech, harassment, or just simply inappropriate, some educators consider the dilemma facing its community to draw the boundaries between hate speech and harassment to be a perfect opportunity for education, with many calling for the school to offer sensitivity training to students.

[19] The difference between the demographics of schools and neighborhoods is not statistically significant for schools that draw the highest proportion of in - boundary students.

To explore the relationship between neighborhood characteristics and school participation rates, we compare the characteristics of neighborhoods where in - boundary schools draw the highest proportions of students (e.g., those with boundary participation rates above the 75th percentile) to other school neighborhoods.

The in - boundary school neighborhoods that draw the highest proportion of in - boundary students have slightly fewer charter schools, although this difference is statistically significant.

Three high schools draw the highest proportion of in - boundary students (Figure 7), with boundary participation rates above the 75th percentile of 22 percent: Wilson HS (also an outlier, with the highest boundary participation rate at 68 percent), Ballou HS (27 percent), and Eastern HS (22 percent).

We identify six in - boundary middle schools as the schools that draw the highest proportion of in - boundary students, or more than the 75th percentile of 33 percent of students from their neighborhood (see Appendix Table 4 for the middle schools with the highest boundary participation rates).

[18] These differences are particularly strong for demographic characteristics: elementary school neighborhoods that draw the highest proportion of in - boundary students are likely to have proportionally smaller African American populations (14 percent on average, compared to 69 percent for the rest of the city) that are not decreasing as fast as they are in the rest of the city; the later dynamic could be related to the first because these neighborhoods tend to be historically white, and have very small African American populations to begin with.

Our data can't tell us which school or neighborhood factors draw families to live in these in - boundary neighborhoods in the first place.

Most public charter elementary schools draw less than 20 percent of their students from the school boundaries where they are located.

A handful of in - boundary elementary schools draw higher or lower proportions of in - boundary students than expected after controlling for the schools» neighborhood characteristics and for the «Wilson effect» (see Figure 3).

Of the three schools that draw higher proportions of in - boundary students than expected, Powell ES and J.O. Wilson ES are located in racially diverse neighborhoods with declining African American populations.

In Arizona, for example, students attending charter schools within a single district boundary line were actually drawn from 21 different school districts (Gifford, Ogle, & Solomon, 1998).

At the same time, more should be done to strengthen and promote magnet schools as another successful type of school choice, and to emphasize the ability of magnet and charter schools to draw students across boundary lines.

They hide behind school district boundaries that they often draw themselves, and when they do so, they proudly use a phrase we all applaud, «Local Control!»

Unlike charter schools, which can draw students from a broad geographic area, neighborhood schools must adhere to CPS» attendance boundaries.

While public schools draw students from predetermined attendance zones, magnet schools are not subject to these boundaries.

A founding member of the legendary collective Hi Red Center and key figure of the Mono - ha (School of Things) movement, Takamatsu, over the four decades of his career, sought to explore the boundaries of reality and relationships with the physical world through a diverse body of work including sculpture, photography, painting, drawing and performance art.

I was later told by Hitesh Gaur, manager at the Forever Driving School Chandigarh, indicating at the yellow lines, that space is used to guide the candidates how to park within those drawn boundaries.