Sentences with phrase «historic high schools»
It can be especially hard to reform old, historic high schools.
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Ron DeSantis, a leading Republican candidate for governor and self - described «big Second Amendment guy,» says he would have vetoed the historic Florida gun - control law passed in the aftermath of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre.
«It's amazing finishing our last game ever in high school with a historic win,» Shepherd said.
In an historic meeting, the AAU and the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) convene on Marco Island to discuss the challenges of AAU and High School sport programs.
Those characteristics include tree - lined streets, parks, historic structures, high levels of volunteerism and philanthropy, conservative government traditions, well - performing schools and top - flight park districts.
Carranza also previously served as the Superintendent of the San Francisco Unified School District, where he raised graduation rates to historic highs.
«Over the last decade, we've transformed the landscape in city schools, giving parents more high - performing options than ever before and delivering historic gains for our students,» said DOE spokesman Devon Puglia.
Later in the day, Mr. de Blasio held a news conference in the Bronx to announce an increase in the city's high school graduation rate, to 72.6 percent, which he and other officials described as a historic high.
She managed the historic introduction of universal pre-K and oversaw significant gains in student achievement from test scores to high school graduation rates.
Seats in the Columbia High School auditorium are still available for dedication in honor or memory of a friend... of Columbia High School's historic auditorium into a full restoration.
After decades of declining marriage rates and changes in family structure, the share of American adults who have never been married is at an historic high Vili Fualaau has filed for legal separation from Mary Kay Letourneau, over 20 years after he first fell in love with his then - school teacher, a
The «historic» rate of high school graduation is frothy at best, fraudulent at worst.
In rural Arkansas, students from Eureka Springs High School created 911 responder maps for their historic community, mapped 307 fire hydrants, and identified emergency evacuation landing zones.
The Institute has a right to fear that its efforts to «make historic strides in improving its schools and establishing the highest performing charter sector in the nation,» to quote the book's preface, are at risk of being diminished and diluted.
It is now a quiet national historic site, but Central High school in Little Rock, Arkansaw, was «nt always such a queit place.
Dalton's historic lack of diversity prompted the school to actively seek out high - performing minority students.
And at the other end of the age spectrum, diverse high schools located in far - flung parts of Philadelphia hope to have students embark on a walk originating in their own schools and converging at a midpoint in a historic neighborhood.
We received ideas as disparate as pro-nutrition posters for elementary school cafeterias featuring high school athletes in uniform, working with the Bureau of Land Management to remove non-native species from our local beaches, hosting middle school fun nights, installing new school benches, historic preservation, and after - school tutoring.
We have yet to take sufficient note of a historic development in public education: A critical mass of schools is establishing, with more assurance than ever, that children can achieve at high standards regardless of race or economic disadvantage.
Soon after, states and the federal government embarked on an historic era of high school reform.
«Older and historic schools tend to be smaller, more «high touch,» and easier to interact with.
The on - time graduation rates in the nation's public high schools have hit historic highs.
Secretary Duncan routinely touts high school graduation rates, which indeed are at a historic high of 81 percent, as evidence of his success.
During his tenure, OUSD saw increased graduation rates, decreases in out - of - school discipline, a decade - high investment in teacher pay, and historic improvements in district operations.
As for rising graduation rates, school reform supporters, of course, credit NCLB and Obama's initiatives, though an NRP investigation this year revealed that the current high school graduation rate of 81 percent — a historic high — «should be taken with a big grain of salt.»
The National Commission on Excellence in Education concluded its historic 1983 report by noting: «Children born today can expect to graduate from high school in the year 2000.
Earlier this year, the district negotiated a historic, five - year contract with the Seattle Education Association that creates for the first time a framework for providing special support for staff members who work at schools with high student turnover.
As this historic reauthorization process moves closer to final passage, NSBA will advocate to achieve a modern ESEA that provides our nation's 50 million public school students access to a high - quality education.
«I think the climate has changed a lot,» said Jennifer Epps, principal of, a high - performing elementary school in Historic South - Central.
Serving for both of President Clinton's terms, Riley helped to launch many historic initiatives to raise academic standards, improve instruction for the poor and disadvantaged, modernize schools, expand grant and loan programs for higher education, and improve teaching, among other significant advances.
Today, the nation's high school graduation rate is at a record high — more than 84 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Education — dropout rates are hitting historic lows, and more students than ever are attending college.
Brooks College Prep is a selective enrollment academic center and high school located in the Historic Pullman District.
BPIC is funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York to convene the Boston Compact, the city's historic school improvement agreement between BPS, the Boston Teachers Union, the business community, higher education, and others.
We at SSC believe this research to contain some of most significant, historic findings on high school in the last 100 years.
The National School Boards Association applauds today's historic action by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to modernize the E-rate program and improve high - speed broadband connectivity for rural and remote schools and libraries across our great nation.
«In 2011 Alabama moved from near last to 25th in the nation in overall grades and scores [Education Week assessment]... 12th in the nation for standards, assessments and accountability... data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) showed a historic gain of eight points in fourth grade Reading for Alabama public school students — the... highest gain ever in NAEP recorded history.
His leadership resulted in historic gains among those high schools identified as persistently low achieving under the No Child Left Behind Act.
Alexandria, Va., (Dec 11, 2014)- The National School Boards Association (NSBA) applauds today's historic action by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to modernize the E-rate program and improve high - speed broadband connectivity for rural and remote schools and libraries across our great nation.
The excellent schools of Rumson - Fair Haven, Holmdel and Marlboro in Monmouth County were bested by five schools classified by the state as vocational: High Technology High School, located in Brookdale Community College; Biotechnology High School in Freehold; Communications High School in Wall; Academy of Allied Health and Science in Neptune; and Marine Academy Science and Technology housed at Fort Hancock Historic District on Sandy Hook.
Hirsch High School on the edge of the South Side's Grand Crossing neighborhood is stately, historic and nearly empty.
JESSE HAGOPIAN teaches history and is the co-advisor for the Black Student Union at Garfield High School, the site of the historic boycott of the MAP test in 2013.
On April 8, 2014, ACLU SoCal, co-counsel, UTLA, LAUSD and the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools reached a historic agreement to support 37 schools struggling with high teacher turnover and student drop - out rates and low API Schools reached a historic agreement to support 37 schools struggling with high teacher turnover and student drop - out rates and low API schools struggling with high teacher turnover and student drop - out rates and low API scores.
In its historic Zelman v. Simmons - Harris [xlviii] decision, the high Court upheld an Ohio voucher program that saved thousands of poor and mostly minority children from Cleveland's dismal public schools.
The «King's Dream Unite» mural created by artist Ya La» ford with the help of MYcroSchool Pinellas high school students and other volunteers will debut at the historic Manhattan Casino on Monday, Jan. 18, 2016, at 9:00 am.
This includes historic McDonogh 35, the state's first high school for African - Americans, which will convert to a privately - run school with the same name.
This historic vote by the State Board is a big and important step in ensuring that more students and families in Nashville have access to high - quality public schools.
From opposing the expansion of high - quality charter schools and other school choice options, to its opposition to Parent Trigger laws and efforts of Parent Power activists in places such as Connecticut and California, to efforts to eviscerate accountability measures that hold districts and school operators to heel for serving Black and Brown children well, even to their historic disdain for Black families and condoning of Jim Crow discrimination against Black teachers, both unions have proven no better than outright White Supremacists when it comes to addressing the legacies of bigotry in which American public education is the nexus.
High schools have no historic norm for current achievement testing.
The group of students was selected from two flagship high schools in the Little Rock School District, Park View Magnet School and the historic Central High Schhigh schools in the Little Rock School District, Park View Magnet School and the historic Central High SchHigh School.
I am proud of the historic step Connecticut took this month in passing legislation that will expand high - quality early education for thousands of young childrenwho would otherwise enter primary school already behind.