Sentences with phrase «inner city public school students»

Here's a scene you don't see very often: a line of an inner city public school students standing outside of a classroom eagerly waiting for their teacher to let them in and begin class.

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Brinig and Garnett argue that, given their demonstrably positive impact across society, these schools should be given a fighting chance through mechanisms like tuition tax credits or vouchers, with public funds going to the child to enable students to attend an inner - city Catholic school.

Pressure Cooker (Unrated) Uplifting documentary chronicles the efforts of Wilma Stephenson, a demanding Culinary Arts teacher at an inner city, Philadelphia public high school, as she inspires underprivileged students to apply themselves in her class in order to earn college scholarships to some of the most prestigious cooking institutes around the country.

The second, Martinez v. Malloy (led by the legal team behind Vergara v. California), contends that, in Connecticut, «inner - city children are compelled to attend public schools that the state knows have been failing its students for decades.»

But the bottom line seems to be that for inner city students, charter schools offer some systematic long - term improvement, which accounts for the long - waiting lists of students desperate to escape the public school monopoly.

They also seem to be willing to accept some propositions with highly circumscribed causal contingency — for instance, that reducing class size increases achievement (provided that it is a «sizable» change and that the reduction is to fewer than 20 students per class); that Catholic schools are superior to public ones in the inner - city but not in suburban settings.

L.A. Unified has been losing students at a rapid clip since 2008, when five charter - management organizations — Green Dot, Aspire, Partnerships to Uplift Communities (PUC), Alliance College - Ready Public Schools, and Inner City Education Foundation Public Schools (ICEF)-- announced major expansion plans.

All were privately funded; all were targeted at students from low - income families, most of whom lived in the inner city; all provided only partial vouchers, expecting the families to supplement them; and all of the students in the evaluations previously had been attending public schools.

But a decade ago several trends in American education, and in the Catholic Church, made a Catholic - operated public school seem increasingly possible: 1) the traditional, parish - based Catholic school system, especially in the inner cities, was crumbling; 2) equally troubled urban public - school systems were failing to educate most of their students; and 3) a burgeoning charter school movement, born in the early 1990s, was beginning to turn heads among educators in both the private and public sectors.

Brinig and Garnett argue that, given their demonstrably positive impact across society, these schools should be given a fighting chance through mechanisms like tuition tax credits or vouchers, with public funds going to the child to enable students to attend an inner - city Catholic school.»

The Chicago Public Schools operate a «two - tiered» high - school system that concentrates students with a high probability of dropping out in inner - city schools, according to a recentSchools operate a «two - tiered» high - school system that concentrates students with a high probability of dropping out in inner - city schools, according to a recentschools, according to a recent study.

For example, in the case of Washington D.C., if the entire CBSA were an appropriate point of comparison, charter students would be crossing state lines (since the Washington D.C. CBSA also includes Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia) and city boundaries in the 5,000 square mile region in an effort to travel to charter schools in the heart of inner city D.C. Of course, it doesn't make sense to compare, for instance, the charter schools in Washington D.C. (where 93 % of the charter schools in the metro region are located) to the traditional public schools in Front Royal, VA, which is 63 miles away!

He says Indianapolis Public Schools administrators understand the challenges of educating inner - city students, but officials» good intentions are often lost in ineffective action plans.

Unfortunately, though, the main premise of the equity argument has not been fulfilled — inner - city poor students attending private schools with vouchers in general show no greater gains in academic achievement than comparable students in public schools.

Supports the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education goals of improving coordination of higher education with K - 12, and preparing more inner - city students to succeed at the public universities of Massachusetts (by supplying well - trained teachers to inner - city charter schools which specialize in this mission).

In public schools you will generally find much larger class sizes, sometimes exceeding 35 - 40 students in some inner city schools.

Ravare most recently served as president of Inner City Education Foundation (ICEF) Public Schools, a network of 15 high - performing charter schools serving 4,600 students in South Los ASchools, a network of 15 high - performing charter schools serving 4,600 students in South Los Aschools serving 4,600 students in South Los Angeles.

The attorneys cite three categories of laws that are being challenged: the state has put a moratorium on new magnet schools, «arcane and dysfunctional» laws that govern public charter schools and the state's inter-district open choice enrollment program that penalizes school districts that accept students from inner - city school districts.

The best examples of charter schools that make the development of character and self - discipline an important part of students» education are systems such as the Knowledge Is Power Program (or KIPP), a national network of 99 schools, and Green Dot Public Schools, an organization that runs 19 inner - city high schools in Los Angeles and Neschools that make the development of character and self - discipline an important part of students» education are systems such as the Knowledge Is Power Program (or KIPP), a national network of 99 schools, and Green Dot Public Schools, an organization that runs 19 inner - city high schools in Los Angeles and Neschools, and Green Dot Public Schools, an organization that runs 19 inner - city high schools in Los Angeles and NeSchools, an organization that runs 19 inner - city high schools in Los Angeles and Neschools in Los Angeles and New York.

The report compares student achievement in non-urban schools, urban schools, and the choice programs of public charter schools, magnet schools operated by districts, regional magnet schools such as those operated by CREC, and Open Choice programs in which inner - city students attend suburban schools.

Sometimes students in regular, old inner city public schools made more impressive gains than students in publicly funded but privately owned and managed charter schools, and sometimes students in charter schools did better.

Ravare brings a wealth of experience to the job, most recently having served as president of Inner City Education Foundation (ICEF) Public Schools, a network of 15 high - performing charter schools serving 4,600 students in south Los ASchools, a network of 15 high - performing charter schools serving 4,600 students in south Los Aschools serving 4,600 students in south Los Angeles.

The third protest on 4/13 had more than 100 participants, including 70 inner city public high school students.

Since the present study was conducted in inner - city public high schools, with African American students with high normal blood pressure, empirical evaluation is needed to determine if the findings may be generalizable to other students.