Sentences with phrase «grade the schools their children attend»

Too often, they selectively use the results as verification of their preconceived position that educators are lazy, incompetent, or controlled by their union — positions which, incidentally, are not supported by the annual Gallup Poll survey question that asks parents to grade the schools their children attend.

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Over the past three decades, the number of homeschooled children has grown by at least 7 percent a year» the number may now exceed the number attending charter schools» and between 6 and 12 percent of all students are educated at home at some point between kindergarten and twelfth grade.

She will teach there for 23 years while her own children move on through older Sunday school, on through grade school and high school and college, marriages and divorces and bankruptcies, through all kinds of things — she will be here still, teaching the youngest children «Jesus Loves Me» while their parents attend early service.

When I was a child, attending grade school in Washington, D.C., we took classroom time to study manners.

In a piece for the Washington Post entitled «Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior,» Chua explains how her children were never allowed to attend a sleepover, have a play date, be in a school play, watch TV, choose any of their own extracurricular activities, get any grade less than an A, or play any instrument other than piano or violin.

Amabilia Villeda, 41, of Los Angeles, has had three children attend 24th Street Elementary and said her oldest daughter, now in eighth grade, left the school unable to read.

His daughter, Zana, has been attending Prairie Moon since she was one year old starting with parent child classes, and is currently a member of the school's third grade class.

Research shows that when fathers / father - figures (resident and non-resident alike) are more involved in the school community beyond just attending sporting events — volunteering, attending class, grade and whole school events, showing up for conferences and getting involved in the parent association — children have been shown to get better grades, go further with their education and actually enjoy school more.

A groundbreaking study from the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute has found that African - American students in first grade experience smaller gains in reading when they attend segregated schools — but the students» backgrounds likely are not the cause of the differences.

No one who has attended grade school — or who has even the slightest familiarity with children — will be surprised by these findings.

Most of the seven hundred or so children who attend this K - 12 institution located in a tough neighborhood in Northeast Washington enter scoring well below their grade level in reading and math; the school is overwhelmingly black and largely poor or working - class.

Finnish children attend kindergarten and pre-school until the age of seven, when they enter comprehensive school, which covers Grades 1 to 9; therefore they are at least a year older than Australian children when they start school.

«Ma'am,» the mother said, «I attended that school as a child myself, and when I left in eighth grade I never wanted to go back.»

Even though elementary schools are the most universally attended educational institutions — between prekindergarten and 8th grade, a child attends school for more than 9,000 hours, more than twice the time spent in high school — the attention to, and regard for, elementary education is inversely proportionate.

To qualify for a scholarship, children had to be entering grades 1 through 4, live in New York City, attend a public school at the time of application, and come from families with incomes low enough to qualify for the U.S. government's free or reduced - price school - lunch program.

The U.S. Department of Education is seeking to debunk widely circulated e-mails that erroneously say the No Child Left Behind Act mandates that students who fail their 10th grade reading and math tests must accept an inferior high school completion certificate that would prohibit them from attending college or vocational school.

Charters can offer a lottery preference to their pre-K students but must give higher priority to children with siblings enrolled in other grades of the school — whether or not they attended pre-K there.

72 % of the children attending Lynnfield schools under the program had enrolled by third grade.

Lenzy Wallace Jr., now the assistant dean for the School of Business at South Carolina State University, attended Connecticut schools as a child and remembers being told in eighth grade that he would never be able to learn a foreign language: «I was told, «You people can't learn a foreign language.»

Public school parents continue to give very high grades to the schools their children attend, with nearly 75 percent of parents giving their school an A or a B.

Parents of 39 percent of students in grades 3 - 12 said their child attended an assigned school but that their choice of residence was influenced by where their children would go to school.

«The new Common Core standards have academic expectations for kindergarten students, and if children don't attend they begin first grade behind, and often finish high school behind, if they finish at all.»

Even in kindergarten and first grade classrooms, minority children from families of lower socioeconomic status (SES) are less likely to attend schools that provide computer access in their classrooms than children in the highest SES groups.

In a survey of parents nationwide whose children attend private school using some type of scholarship that reduces (or eliminates) tuition, «72 percent of scholarship - using parents gave their child's school a grade of A compared to just 16 percent of parents in the control group,» which consisted of similar families in district schools.

Increasingly children and young people are expected to attend extra tutoring or exam cramming sessions in their lunch breaks, after school, on Saturdays and in the school holidays to ensure they achieve the grades required by the Government's imposed league table targets.

For many poor, language - minority, and dialect - speaking children attending low - performing schools, the odds of learning to read by the end of third grade are far too low.

When parents get involved in their children's education, grades go up, test scores go up, children become more likely to pass and to attend better schools after high school, they have fewer discipline problems, and they're less likely to use drugs and alcohol.

Research shows that children who attend high - quality prekindergarten programs are less likely to drop out of school, repeat grades, need special education, and have greater opportunity to succeed in life.

At the end of the meeting, parents were to have been asked, «If the proposed charter school were approved, would you be potentially interested in having your children attend if they were at the appropriate grade level?»

(5) The student is beyond the sixth grade and thought to be eligible, the student attends a nonpublic school and is thought to be exceptional or the young child thought to be eligible is not yet of kindergarten age or not enrolled in a public school program.

(a) This section does not apply to students beyond the sixth grade who are thought to be eligible, to students attending nonpublic schools who are thought to be exceptional or to young children not yet of kindergarten age or not enrolled in a public school program.

Under a goal of universal coverage for children and youth attending D.C. public schools, the District would need to subsidize 37,600 additional afterschool slots for children in pre-K through grade 8, and 12,400 additional afterschool slots for those in grades 9 - 12.

After eighth grade, the parents continued to seek out and choose options that fit their desire to see their children graduate high school and attend college.

In this particular case, Endrew F., a child with autism who attended preschool through fourth grade in Colorado's Douglas County School District, was making little academic progress.

Hardy's first challenge at Sylvanie Williams was simply getting to know the staff, the parents, and the 400 or so children who attended what was then a pre-K through fifth - grade school.

The American Federation for Children Young Alumni Network is an effort to recruit young adults who received vouchers or opportunity scholarships, tax credit scholarships, education savings accounts, or attended public charter schools, or participated in online and blended learning programs at any time during grades K - 12.

Yet research shows — and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan reiterates — «When parents are involved in the educational process of their children, students are more likely to attend school regularly, to take more rigorous courses, earn higher grades, and graduate and go on to both college and careers.»

In Connecticut today, there are 40,000 children attending chronically failing schools where most students are far below grade level.

In the 2009 - 10 school year, 1113 children in grades K - 4 received vouchers to attend one of the 32 participating non-public schools.

As a parent writing to President Obama explained, in a letter posted at the Washington Post blog of Valerie Strauss, «We have something very important in common: daughters in the seventh grade... Like my daughter Eva, Sasha appears to be a funny, smart, loving girl... There is, however, one important difference between them: Sasha attends private school, while Eva goes to public school... Sasha does not have to take Washington's standardized test, the D.C. CAS, which means you don't get a parent's - eye view of the annual high - stakes tests taken by most of America's children.»

Once your own children are in 9th grade, they are also eligible for college prep support and a four - year renewable college scholarship of up to $ 24,000 if they meet eligibility requirements and attend high school in an eligible Central Valley county.

Research over the past three decades has shown that, compared to the general school population, the half - million foster children in the United States have poorer attendance rates, are less likely to perform at grade level, are more likely to have behavior and discipline problems, are more likely to be assigned to special education classes, and are less likely to attend college.

[15] It used a sample of 2.5 million children attending New York City schools in grade 3 - 8, and it used administrative records to follow them into adulthood.

Cecilia Cabrera, Mother of Aylin and Carlos Ivan Cabrera, writes that she was «blessed to have both my children [who have special needs] attend the [Elysian Charter School in Hoboken] from kindergarten all the way through the 8th grade.»

Your child is eligible to attend grades PK3 to 8th grade for the school year 2018 - 2019.

But the center of the model — inspired by the Harlem Children's Zone in New York — is the school, and the premise is that neighborhood children will attend schools in a given area from preschool through 12tChildren's Zone in New York — is the school, and the premise is that neighborhood children will attend schools in a given area from preschool through 12tchildren will attend schools in a given area from preschool through 12th grade.

In practice, this means that Austin's public education «fast track» begins in fifth grade, when children and their parents determine which middle school to attend.

Children in grammars on free school meals are twice as likely to get five good GCSE grades, and so twice as likely to secure a place at and to attend one of the top Russell Group universities, as their wealthier peers who attend comprehensives.

She teaches 5th grade Language Arts and Social Studies at the same elementary school she attended as a child.

The child qualifies if he is single, younger than 18, or 18 to 19 and attending school up to the 12th grade as a full - time student.