Sentences with phrase «high special education kids»

5) Demand that schools that have high special education kids (magnet schools won't accept these students) and high ELL students receive more funding than grossly overfunded magnet schools.

Not exact matches

If we want tomorrow's scientists, entrepreneurs, and inventors to «look like America,» our schools need to take special pains with the education of high - ability kids from disadvantaged circumstances.

«In every class in this building, you have kids of all levels of prior academic achievement,» says Principal Dan St. Louis, including kids who are «high flyers,» kids with Individualized Education Programs who are receiving special education support, students with disabilities, and English - language Education Programs who are receiving special education support, students with disabilities, and English - language education support, students with disabilities, and English - language learners.

This superb short report by Lake and Schnaiberg on special education in NOLA shows how a system of choice and autonomous schools can, if wisely organized, offer improved services to high - need kids.

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And when charters don't enroll high - cost special ed kids and suspend the kids that they don't want, district schools are left with a more challenging task because we do have to give them a public education, a free and appropriate education.

But as the National Assessment Governing Board, the U.S. Department of Education division that oversees NAEP notes, states that exclude more special ed and ELL students tend to have higher scores (and performance on NAEP) than those that exclude lower numbers of kids.

Tennessee Education Commissioner Kevin Huffman, whose state's performance on NAEP this year was questioned by this publication after revelations of high exclusion levels (including a 27 percent exclusion rate for eighth - graders in special ed on NAEP's reading exam, and an 18 percent exclusion rate of 14 percent of eighth - grade special ed kids from NAEP's math exam):

Another result of his fairness campaign: Compared with DCPS schools, the charters here serve a higher percentage of poor kids, higher percentage of African American students and nearly as many special - education students.

But if Ferguson is running neck - and - neck with — and in the case of harsh discipline for special ed kids, moving far ahead of — St. Louis, it is trailing behind the big city in providing opportunities to take college - preparatory math and science courses needed for success in higher education, in career, and in being a knowledgeable player in society.

Pre-Kindergarten Fight Crime: Invest in Kids continues to fight for increases in high - quality pre-k programs because the preponderance of scientific research (and the experience of law enforcement leaders) shows that at - risk young children who participate are significantly less likely to commit juvenile and adult crime, need special education, and repeat an early grade and are more likely to graduate from high school and be productive members of society.