Sentences with phrase «encouraging dual enrollment»

She said the district is creating more pathways to accelerate student graduation and encouraging dual enrollment with community colleges.

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The pre-K money, called the Early Learning Challenge grants, would amount to $ 8 billion over eight years and would encourage states to improve their early learning standards, provide comprehensive professional development, and assess students» readiness for success in school, among other outcomes.There would also be $ 10 million for grants to challenge community colleges to improve programs like transfer agreements, dual enrollment, and remediation.

My colleagues have pointed out that ESSA encourages multiple types of assessments, promotes competency - based learning, and strengthens dual enrollment, just to name a few exciting provisions.

In 2013, the legislature passed Act 77, the «Flexible Pathways Initiative,» which encourages schools to expand opportunities to programs like work - based learning, increase access to virtual learning experiences, and amplify the number of dual enrollment courses.

Several states either have statewide transfer agreements, support dual enrollment policies, or encourage local school districts to establish partnerships with regional institutions of higher education that enable students to participate in dual enrollment.

In West Virginia, dual enrollment courses are offered voluntarily at a high school by two - and four - year institutions which are encouraged to work collaboratively with high schools to increase educational opportunities for potential future college students.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), signed December 10, 2015 by President Obama, encourages greater utilization of dual and concurrent enrollment programs as a critical strategy to raise the rigor of high school curriculum and prepare students for college.

Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education's Dual Credit Policy Revisions to the state's Dual Credit Policy adopted by the Council in June 2015 strongly encourage all participating postsecondary institutions to pursue NACEP accreditation for their concurrent enrollment programs.

The research committee encourages quantitative and qualitative research studies of concurrent and dual enrollment programs.

First, they indicate that the spread of dual enrollment programs may be warranted and that states and programs should consider ways to encourage participation for a broad range of students.

The findings provide an encouraging, though not definitive, picture of dual enrollment as a strategy for encouraging student access to and persistence in postsecondary education.

They encourage teens to take dual - enrollment classes at the local state university or technical college.

Dual - Enrollment Requirement That's what students are encouraged to do at the GEO Foundation's 21st Century Charter School at Gary.

Click here to view the Event Video for this forum in a new tab» Overview Increasingly dual enrollment is becoming a strategy to encourage and support more students into postsecondary education and beyond.

In states across the country, policymakers are encouraging the growth of dual and concurrent enrollment programs that enable high school students to enroll in college courses.