Sentences with phrase «few of the alternatives school»

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These little baked egg muffins have become a little obsession of mine the last few months, especially since my kids like them (not to mention, they are a good protein packed healthy alternative to the same old after school snack).

Cast iron seemed to be the best alternative but most of the electrical ones were outrageously expensive so I was left with a few old school options to choose from and ended - up getting Rome's # 1100 Old Fashioned Waffle Iron for $ 20.

On a leap of faith, Allen put in an application to send her younger son to one of the few other public school alternatives in the city: a new district school for gifted students.

They are designed to cater for all alternative curriculum students — those within the pupil premium category, in exclusion or inclusion, home education or isolation, school refusers, target groups, or those with low literacy / numeracy levels, to mention just a few — and meet the needs of their teaching assistants, senior leadership and parents.

However, others expressed skepticism about what I shall call the Overregulation Theory, and proposed alternative explanations for the LSP's poor results, while a few more raised concerns about the impact of a more free - market school choice system on equity.

About one - third of public schools reported that there were too few computers with alternative input / output devices for students with disabilities, and insufficient evaluation and support services to meet the special technology needs of students with disabilities.

Part of the reason there are as so few well defined accountability systems for AECs is because we lack an agreed - upon definition for alternative schools.

After studying teacher training at Boston College, Hristic spent a few years teaching in Massachusetts, first at an alternative high school for «behaviorally and emotionally challenged students, but also students so bright and brilliant they were bored out of their minds in a traditional setting,» he says.

No fewer than 26 % percent of respondents living with school - age children have used an alternative to traditional public schools at some point in those children's education.

In that state, a survey of alternative education a few years ago revealed substandard facilities and programs that offered fewer class hours than regular schools did.

While the details of a new school governance plan have not been worked out, and obstacles still remain, Mr. Bloomberg has in the past few weeks signaled a willingness to consider alternatives to abolishing the city's current board of education.

More than one out of every five charter campuses (21.1 percent) failed to achieve the «met standard» or the «alternative standard,» or were «not rated» compared to fewer than one out of every 10 public school campuses (9.6 percent).

School - level data were downloaded from the California Department of Education, California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System (CALPADS) website.6 The following were dropped: schools with total enrollment of fewer than 50 students, special education schools, continuation high schools, schools in juvenile delinquency facilities, alternative schools, community day schools, and schools lacking a full panel of data for 2013 - 2015.

While the national average for weekly visits to the school library / media center is about one visit per week per student (or 100 visits per 100 students), fewer of the poorest students and students in special education and alternative schools visit each week — 80 out of 100 students.

In 2015, just a few days after AB240 took effect, the California Department of Education issued a press release documenting sharp declines in suspensions during the previous two school years.4 The Department had been providing workshops and other resources on alternatives to out - of - school suspensions, with restorative justice and positive behavioral support programs leading the list.

They have been persistent in trying to just get rid of the alternative public schools — except for the few they have managed to organize.

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If fewer than 16 tests are available to apply to a teacher's score, however, which appears quite likely in many cases this year, districts will have to produce an alternative rating method, such as using the scores of other students in the school.

They also talk about a «school quality review» conducted by «expert educators» to determine whether schools are actually providing high - quality education for all children, something similar to the school inspection process that Education Sector (now part of the American Institutes for Research) was touting as an alternative to AYP a few years ago.

Thus, alternatives find themselves in a bind and are often willing to take the risk of a «few strings attached» in order to get the added financial benefits of public school choice programs.

We did have a democratic high school for several years that served the needs of many kids for whom the local high school wasn't a great fit, and we currently have a very small project - based alternative high school, but it's got fewer than 20 students enrolled.

«In recent years, fewer and fewer schools have been buying into the service - only a third of secondary schools and 43 % of primary schools now choose to buy in, with others finding alternative provision.