Sentences with phrase «language instruction in public school»

Children ages 8 to 12 who receive English - language instruction in public school around the Houston and Austin metropolitan areas

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These Catholic claims prompted state constitutional amendments nationwide dictating that public funds for education could not be controlled by «any religious sect,» language carefully chosen to halt the Catholic drive while preserving public school instruction in nonsectarian Protestantism.

Here in the Ctiy of Buffalo this year a report from the Council on Great City Schools on Improving the Academic Achievement of English Language Learners in the Buffalo Public Schools System cited that only 21 % of these students graduate from high school and the academic achievement programs ignored them as a group as though they don't exist with as many as 100 never recieving their mandated language instruction.

Protestants, secularists, and public - school advocates proposed (and sometimes enacted) regulations that charged children with truancy if they attended Catholic schools; taxes on Catholic school property; bans on private schools that taught children in a language other than English; and constitutional amendments forbidding the use of public dollars to support even the secular instruction provided by a Catholic school.

The medium of instruction in the public schools is Urdu, although the working language in this multilingual society is English.

In 2005, we began a new program to for Miami - Dade Public Schools to introduce students with autism, learning disabilities, and visual, physical, language and emotional impairments to dance instruction by developing a new and unique dance residency program.

In India, for example, government - funded schools (whether public or private) tend to teach in the local language despite widespread parental preference for instruction to be given in EnglisIn India, for example, government - funded schools (whether public or private) tend to teach in the local language despite widespread parental preference for instruction to be given in Englisin the local language despite widespread parental preference for instruction to be given in Englisin English.

AppleTree Early Learning Public Charter School, a pre-K — only charter school that serves more than 800 students on eight campuses, has used its flexibility — as well as a federal Investing in Innovation grant — to develop an integrated model that combines evidence - based curriculum, early childhood assessments, and aligned professional development to help teachers deliver effective instruction focused on improving children's language and social - emotional sSchool, a pre-K — only charter school that serves more than 800 students on eight campuses, has used its flexibility — as well as a federal Investing in Innovation grant — to develop an integrated model that combines evidence - based curriculum, early childhood assessments, and aligned professional development to help teachers deliver effective instruction focused on improving children's language and social - emotional sschool that serves more than 800 students on eight campuses, has used its flexibility — as well as a federal Investing in Innovation grant — to develop an integrated model that combines evidence - based curriculum, early childhood assessments, and aligned professional development to help teachers deliver effective instruction focused on improving children's language and social - emotional skills.

Students are eligible if, during the previous school year, they attended a public or state accredited special - purpose school that «emphasizes instruction in speech - language therapy and intervention.»

He reminds us that «in the US, wealthy children attending public schools that serve the wealthy are competitive with any nation in the world... [but in]... schools in which low - income students do not achieve well, [that are not competitive with many nations in the world] we find the common correlates of poverty: low birth weight in the neighborhood, higher than average rates of teen and single parenthood, residential mobility, absenteeism, crime, and students in need of special education or English language instruction.»

The EOCEP encourages instruction in the specific academic standards for the courses, encourages student achievement, and documents the level of students» mastery of the academic standards.To meet federal accountability requirements, the EOCEP in mathematics, English / language arts and science will be administered to all public school students by the third year of high school, including those students as required by the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA) and by Title 1 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).

By the time they reach 5th grade, English - language learners in San Francisco's public schools were equally proficient in English regardless of whether they had been in a bilingual program or had received all their instruction in English, a recent study from Stanford University researchers has found.

The results showed that 51.2 percent of public school students in grades three through eight were proficient or advanced in English language arts and fewer than half, 43.7 percent, were proficient or advanced in math, according to the state Department of Public Instrupublic school students in grades three through eight were proficient or advanced in English language arts and fewer than half, 43.7 percent, were proficient or advanced in math, according to the state Department of Public InstruPublic Instruction.

For at least two decades, the average time spent on English language arts in Illinois public schools has dwarfed instruction time in math — and it still does — but the gap has narrowed as math time has increased.

Nearly 25,000 graduating high school students across California this summer have earned state recognition for achieving proficiency in multiple languages, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson announced today.

After 10 years as a speech language pathologist in schools, incarceration facilities and long - term care centers, Vielka transitioned to education and executed various leadership roles with D.C. Public Schools, ranging from director of related services to chief of staff in the Office of Specialized Instrschools, incarceration facilities and long - term care centers, Vielka transitioned to education and executed various leadership roles with D.C. Public Schools, ranging from director of related services to chief of staff in the Office of Specialized InstrSchools, ranging from director of related services to chief of staff in the Office of Specialized Instruction.

c. Students who are either (i) enrolled in a nonpublic school or (ii) receiving home instruction pursuant to § 22.1 - 254.1 and who are enrolled in a public school on less than a full - time basis in any mathematics, science, English, history, social science, vocational education, health education or physical education, fine arts or foreign language course, or receiving special education services required by a student's individualized education plan, shall be counted in the funded fall membership and March 31 ADM of the responsible school division.

Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson announced Thursday that he would require school districts to offer the Common Core practice tests, created by the Smarter Balanced states» consortium, in both math and English language arts next spring.

Prior to this, Marty served in the Fairfax County Public Schools as a language teacher, foreign language coordinator, and Director of High School Instruction.

Aid was now available for equipment and materials to be used in the instruction of an expanded list of subjects: «science, mathematics, history, civics, geography, modern foreign language, English or reading in public elementary or secondary schools.»

(12) In 1923, thirty - four states passed laws mandating English as the language of instruction in public schoolIn 1923, thirty - four states passed laws mandating English as the language of instruction in public schoolin public schools.

Foreign language instruction is an important part of Virginia's efforts to provide challenging educational programs in its public schools and to prepare students to compete in global society.

(b) Insert immediately following the period at the end of the first sentence of subsection (c) the following new sentence: «If in any such proceeding literacy is a relevant fact there shall be a rebuttable presumption that any person who has not been adjudged an incompetent and who has completed the sixth grade in a public school in, or a private school accredited by, any State or territory, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico where instruction is carried on predominantly in the English language, possesses sufficient literacy, comprehension, and intelligence to vote in any Federal election.»

(iii) French - language public district school boards, to govern the provision of elementary and secondary French - language instruction in schools other than Roman Catholic separate schools, and

(4) A person who is qualified to be a resident pupil of a French - language separate district school board and to receive instruction in a secondary school grade is entitled to receive instruction provided in a secondary school operated by a French - language public district school board if the area of jurisdiction of the separate district school board is in whole or in part the same as the area of jurisdiction of the public district school board.

(8) A French - speaking person who is qualified to be a resident pupil of an English - language separate district school board and to receive instruction in a secondary school grade is entitled to receive instruction provided in a secondary school operated by a French - language public district school board if the area of jurisdiction of the English - language board is in whole or in part the same as the area of jurisdiction of the French - language board.

(i) English - language public district school boards, to govern the provision of elementary and secondary English - language instruction in schools other than Roman Catholic separate schools,

(7) A French - speaking person who is qualified to be a resident pupil of a French - language public district school board and to receive instruction in a secondary school grade is entitled to receive instruction provided in a secondary school operated by an English - language separate district school board if the area of jurisdiction of the French - language board is in whole or in part the same as the area of jurisdiction of the English - language board.