The article notes the 2013 report «Sustained Progress: New Findings About the Effectiveness and Operation of Small Public
High Schools of Choice in New York City» by the group MDRC, which studies the causes of high graduation rates at small high schools in New York City.
Aviation High School, in Seattle, Washington, is described as «the premier public
high school of choice for students... who wish to pursue their passion for aviation and aerospace in a learning environment that prepares them for higher education, citizenship, and work.»
We must ensure that families have the know - how to exercise choice wisely and that students in every elementary school leave fully prepared to win acceptance to the middle and
high schools of their choice later in life.
Waldorf School of Princeton alumni attend a wide variety of independent, parochial, and public
high schools of their choice.
Paul suburb of Apple Valley as a public, 400 - student «
high school of choice» for grades 11 - 12.
Westerberg currently serves as the president of The Alliance for Quality Teaching and also is the author of Creating
the High Schools of Our Choice, a principals perspective on the realities of high school reform.
Students already enrolled were allowed to transfer to
another high school of their choice, or to continue attending the closure school until the year of their expected graduation.
New York City became a poster child of the initiative when New York school chancellor, Joel Klein, accepted Gates dollars and began, in 2002, to create 123 «small
high schools of choice.»
in No. 05 - 908, at 299a - 301a; Affidavit of Kathleen Brose Pursuant to this Court's Rule 32.3 (Lodging of Petitioner Parents Involved), and the complaint sought declaratory and injunctive relief on behalf of Parents Involved members whose elementary and middle school children may be «denied admission to
the high schools of their choice when they apply for those schools in the future,» App.
We have a unique network of 13 charter schools across Texas that are tuition - free, open enrollment, public
high schools of choice, welcoming students from all walks of life.
Charter schools have created high - performing options for millions of families across the country, and initiatives such as New York City's small
high schools of choice have shown that public - school choice in large districts can significantly improve graduation rates.
All students, upon graduation, are expected to have acquired the fundamental tools and skills to move seamlessly onto
the high school of their choice.
What are the pitfalls to the typical comprehensive high school that
high schools of choice can better remedy?
Continuous Support Along the Pathway to Productive Adulthood - CCSP works with our 7th and 8th grade students and their families to support their efforts to attend
the high school of their choice.
In the case of New York City, this basket is the June 2010 «research» report by MDRC entitled «Transforming the High School Experience: How New York City's New Small Schools Are Boosting Student Achievement and Graduation Rates» and the January 2012 follow up report «Sustained Positive Effects on Graduation Rates Produced by New York City's Small Public
High Schools of Choice.»
«From the beginning, I pushed the idea of going to
the high school of their choice, no matter what that is.»
The evidence base is growing in other areas as well — from home visiting to preschool, from the early teaching of reading and math to the rising graduation rates of small
high schools of choice, from programs that facilitate the transition from high school to higher education to college reforms that dramatically accelerate and increase degree attainment.