Sentences with phrase «largest middle school in the district»

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This study took place in 3 middle schools and 3 high schools in a large, urban US school district that serves predominantly low - income, racial / ethnic minority students.

This longitudinal study in 3 middle schools and 3 high schools in a large, urban US school district in Washington state compared the nutritional quality of student school lunch food selections before and after the implementation of the new National School Lunch Program meal stanschool district in Washington state compared the nutritional quality of student school lunch food selections before and after the implementation of the new National School Lunch Program meal stanschool lunch food selections before and after the implementation of the new National School Lunch Program meal stanSchool Lunch Program meal standards.

[37] Mahopac is the largest school district in Putnam County, educating more than 5,000 students in four elementary schools, a middle school, and a high school (1600 students).

«Governor Cuomo's first budget makes heartlessly large cuts to our schools to finance tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires and students in poor and middle class districts will lose the most educationally,» the group's executive director, Billy Easton, said in a statement.

The middle school I am in is huge — one of the largest schools in the district.

Our research begins to fill this gap with two studies of the G&T programs available to high - achieving middle - school students in a large urban school district in the southwestern United States which, to preserve anonymity we shall refer to as LUSD.

Now, reformers in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Maryland, and New York, and the large urban districts of Cincinnati, Cleveland, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, are challenging the notion that grouping students in the middle grades in their own school buildings is the right approach.

They include Jim Barksdale, the former chief operating officer of Netscape, who gave $ 100 million to establish an institute to improve reading instruction in Mississippi; Eli Broad, the home builder and retirement investment titan, whose foundation works on a range of management, governance, and leadership issues; Michael Dell, the founder of Dell Computers, whose family foundation is valued at $ 1.2 billion and is a major supporter of a program that boosts college going among students of potential but middling accomplishment; financier and buyout specialist Theodore J. Forstmann, who gave $ 50 million of his own money to help poor kids attend private schools; David Packard, a former classics professor who also is a scion of one of the founders of Hewlett - Packard and has given $ 75 million to help California school districts improve reading instruction; and the Walton Family Foundation, which benefits from the fortune of the founder of Wal - Mart, and which is the nation's largest supporter of charter schools and private school scholarships (see «A Tribute to John Walton,»).

The criteria are set up, and students are rewarded district - wide at the trimester in the elementary level and at semester end in high school and middle school, as well as a year - end drawing for larger prizes.»

Andrea Guengerich Education Policy and Management Hometown: Austin, Texas Experience: High school teacher in Brownsville, Texas, one of the largest cities along the Texas - Mexico border; position at Breakthrough Austin, a community - based organization that provides a path to college, starting in middle school, for low - income students who will be first - generation college students; director of University of Texas Programs for Breakthrough; chair of the College Advising for Undocumented Students Taskforce, a collaboration between six nonprofit organizations and the public school district in Austin Future plans: Teaching 6th grade at a project - based learning school in Mexico City that seeks to educate the whole child

We found that attrition and replacement patterns could not explain most of KIPP's positive effects on student achievement, because (a) early attrition patterns at KIPP schools are similar to those at nearby district middle schools; and (b) KIPP schools have large achievement effects in the first year of students» enrollment, before replacement patterns could have any effects.

The study of middle school students in the Wake County, North Carolina public school system (WCPSS), the 16th - largest public school district in the United States (146,687 current students), was conducted by economist Finley Edwards.

But once she began working as a middle school teacher in Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), she started to see the larger problems that existed in education at the system level, some of which affected her ability to be the best teschool teacher in Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), she started to see the larger problems that existed in education at the system level, some of which affected her ability to be the best teSchool District (LAUSD), she started to see the larger problems that existed in education at the system level, some of which affected her ability to be the best teacher.

Begun as a log schoolhouse in 1853, TTSD is now the ninth largest district in Oregon and the fifth largest in the Portland metropolitan area, serving approximately 13,000 students in 10 elementary schools, three middle schools, two high schools, and an alternative school program.

At nearly 85,000 students, APS is one of the largest districts in the U.S. and surely a tough job, but I can't help but think of last year when tough times called for... cutting middle school sports.

We examine the effect of air pollution on school absences using administrative data for elementary and middle school children in 39 of the largest school districts in Texas merged with air quality

This project draws on two data sources — large - scale administrative data from middle and high school students in five large California school districts and a new nationally representative experimental test of a mindset intervention among 9th grade students — to analyze heterogeneity in the effect of a growth mindset on academic outcomes across different structural positions.

But now, at 41, this surfer, skier, adventurer and educator is facing a unique career challenge as the executive director of the first all - girls charter middle school in the second - largest school district in the country.

When his body was found in a ravine in the Angeles National Forest, and the coroner ruled it a suicide, Mr. Ruelas's death became a flash point, drawing the city's largest newspaper into the middle of the debate over reforming the nation's second - largest school district.

In those cases where small schools are not feasible, district and school leaders should break down large middle - grades schools into smaller schools or small learning communities where teams of teachers share small groups of students (sometimes called clusters or houses).

An April letter from Finkelmeyer and more than two dozen parents to the Madison School Board members with purview over La Follette and neighboring Sennett Middle School singles out the district's behavioral education plan as not working, in large part due to «insufficient resources.»

Bronx News 11 features New Leader Jamaal Bowman, principal of C.A.S.A. Middle School in the Bronx, who led the largest gains in 2014 - 2015 of all district middle schools in New YorkMiddle School in the Bronx, who led the largest gains in 2014 - 2015 of all district middle schools in New Yorkmiddle schools in New York City.

After the two sides came close to a weekend deal, the contentious Chicago teachers strike headed into its second week, compelling 350,000 elementary, middle, and high school students in the nation's third - largest school district to go yet another day without classes.

Administrators in Florida's Miami - Dade County Public Schools — the fourth largest school district in the United States — chose to attack this issue in part by having some middle - school students take an extra math class in their 6th grade schedules.

The goal of this study is to increase the capacity of schools to prevent Dating Violence / Harassment (DV / H) by evaluating the effectiveness of current multi-level DV / H prevention programming in middle schools within a large urban school district.

Academic achievement at all levels increased markedly during this time — including 70 % of elementary schools, 100 % of middle schools, and at the high school level national recognition for achieving the highest ACT scores of any large district in the country.

Clark County School District, the state's largest district and the 5th largest district in the country, has recently partnered with BloomBoard to prepare teachers with the tools and resources needed for the state's financial literacy standards in elementary, middle and high sSchool District, the state's largest district and the 5th largest district in the country, has recently partnered with BloomBoard to prepare teachers with the tools and resources needed for the state's financial literacy standards in elementary, middle and highDistrict, the state's largest district and the 5th largest district in the country, has recently partnered with BloomBoard to prepare teachers with the tools and resources needed for the state's financial literacy standards in elementary, middle and highdistrict and the 5th largest district in the country, has recently partnered with BloomBoard to prepare teachers with the tools and resources needed for the state's financial literacy standards in elementary, middle and highdistrict in the country, has recently partnered with BloomBoard to prepare teachers with the tools and resources needed for the state's financial literacy standards in elementary, middle and high schoolschool.

«And while urban areas and high schools typically have the largest percentage of students missing school, the problem also exists in rural, town and suburban districts as well as in elementary and middle schools.»

The school districts range from small districts of barely 1,000 students — like the 2006 shooting at Platte Canyon High School in Bailey, Colorado — to larger ones like Nevada's 60,000 - student Washoe County School District, where a shooting at Sparks Middle School in 2013 left students running for school districts range from small districts of barely 1,000 students — like the 2006 shooting at Platte Canyon High School in Bailey, Colorado — to larger ones like Nevada's 60,000 - student Washoe County School District, where a shooting at Sparks Middle School in 2013 left students running for School in Bailey, Colorado — to larger ones like Nevada's 60,000 - student Washoe County School District, where a shooting at Sparks Middle School in 2013 left students running for School District, where a shooting at Sparks Middle School in 2013 left students running for School in 2013 left students running for cover.

In light of this, the current study examines the prevalence of trauma experiences and traumatic stress in middle school students from a large urban school district serving a high proportion of diverse immigrant and low - income familieIn light of this, the current study examines the prevalence of trauma experiences and traumatic stress in middle school students from a large urban school district serving a high proportion of diverse immigrant and low - income familiein middle school students from a large urban school district serving a high proportion of diverse immigrant and low - income families.