Sentences with phrase «geographic school boundaries»

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«Good tests that are comparable across geographic boundaries are prerequisites to the actions needed to make dramatic improvements in our schools,» John A. Krol said in a Sept. 4 statement.

But at the end of the day, a school system where students are assigned by geographic boundaries simply can not have all the right answers for every child — and the results can be heartbreaking.

It takes a great deal of personal time to become informed regarding such issues as racial desegregation, charter schools, curriculum content, testing, graduation standards, geographic placement of a new school, and the configuration of attendance boundaries.

Elementary schools can allocate up to 50 percent of seats to students within a defined neighborhood, while high schools have no geographic boundaries; all open - enrollment schools with available seats must admit students at any time of the year; selective schools can employ test - based admissions; and expulsion policies (but not all discipline policies) are standardized.

Instead of states mandating a single curricular approach within their geographic boundaries — much less a single national approach such as Common Core — states should empower local school systems and other educational providers to select quality standards and aligned tests that fit their instructional philosophy, while also empowering parents to choose from among different schools the one which best meets the needs of their children.

Most states employ residential assignment policies that dictate where a child attends school based on geographic boundary.

One way to do this is for states to authorize the development of regional charters, which enroll students from geographic areas beyond traditional school district boundaries.

The original concept was to address at - risk students in schools within specific geographic boundaries, and we even had a limit on the number of charter schools within those communities.

That puts them outside the traditional school districts, which have specific geographic boundaries.

California's 58 county offices of education generally receive far less attention than the school districts within their geographic boundaries.

It ruled that Shasta Secondary Home School could not operate a resource center outside the geographic boundaries of the authorizing school district but within the same cSchool could not operate a resource center outside the geographic boundaries of the authorizing school district but within the same cschool district but within the same county.

These sections require that charters operate schoolsites in the geographic boundaries of the school district but allow nonclassroom - based schools to establish «resource center, meeting space, or other satellite facility located» in a county adjacent to that in which the charter school is authorized.

In August 2013, the Anderson Unified School District («District») filed a complaint against the Shasta Secondary Home School («Shasta»), a nonclassroom - based charter school authorized by the Shasta union High School District, alleging that Shasta did not have legal authority to open a resource center within the District's boundaries because of the geographic site restrictions found in the Charter Schools Act, Education Code sections 47605 and 47School District («District») filed a complaint against the Shasta Secondary Home School («Shasta»), a nonclassroom - based charter school authorized by the Shasta union High School District, alleging that Shasta did not have legal authority to open a resource center within the District's boundaries because of the geographic site restrictions found in the Charter Schools Act, Education Code sections 47605 and 47School («Shasta»), a nonclassroom - based charter school authorized by the Shasta union High School District, alleging that Shasta did not have legal authority to open a resource center within the District's boundaries because of the geographic site restrictions found in the Charter Schools Act, Education Code sections 47605 and 47school authorized by the Shasta union High School District, alleging that Shasta did not have legal authority to open a resource center within the District's boundaries because of the geographic site restrictions found in the Charter Schools Act, Education Code sections 47605 and 47School District, alleging that Shasta did not have legal authority to open a resource center within the District's boundaries because of the geographic site restrictions found in the Charter Schools Act, Education Code sections 47605 and 47605.1.

First, parents are no longer restricted to the schools in their geographic boundary.

Within DC's traditional public school system, the vast majority of schools are required to admit all students who live within certain geographic boundaries.

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

We have chosen to analyze concentrated areas with low - performing elementary schools because they have the smallest geographic attendance boundaries, unlike our middle and high schools with much wider boundaries given their larger student populations.

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