Sentences with phrase «like magnet schools»

The expectation was that charter schools, like magnet schools, would attract more non-minority students so that schools would provide environments that were less racially isolated.

The Education Department should update its now archived guidance on civil rights regulations for charter schools, and strengthen it by including provisions known to have been successful in other programs like magnet schools, which combine school choice with high - quality diverse student bodies.

As schools of choice, charters, like magnet schools, could be accessible to students from across a geographic area, rather than limiting enrollment based on what neighborhood a child's family could afford to live in, the way many traditional public schools do.

Choice - based institutions, like magnet schools, are meant to be building universal change.

Jacksonians attend public schools of choice, including charter schools and select - admission schools like magnet schools or international baccalaureate schools.

Most function like magnet schools, though, with students choosing to attend or even needing to apply.

Similarly, district schools that are not schools of residence, like magnet schools, have much lower homeless populations.

In this respect, pilot schools are something like magnet schools.

Lawmakers could explore rules that exempt e-schools from policies requiring all charters, virtual ones included, to accept every student who applies and instead allow e-schools to operate more like magnet schools with admissions procedures and priorities.

You can have a school within a school, in the school you've always had, like a magnet school, which might be arts focused, or STEM focused.

Like every magnet school in Connecticut, it used a lottery process to randomly select the 73 students who get in.

Not exact matches

You've probably played with magnets in school and know that magnets attract materials like iron.

The nation's capital had become something of a magnet for well - educated, idealistic young teachers like Christopher, many of them drawn to the rapidly expanding network of public charter schools.

That's what it seems like today, as I look back to 1968, when my Tacoma, Washington, school district opened a magnet school.

When the United Federation of Teachers first began to bargain collectively in the early 1960s, Albert Shanker was distressed that the New York City school board was willing to discuss only traditional issues like wages and benefits and rejected the idea of bargaining over broader policies that the union proposed, such as the creation of magnet schools.

Eight - year - old Melanie from Simsbury says at first her parents were not certain the magnet school was the best place for her, but now they like it — as does she.

Charter and magnet schools are often a coveted choice for parents in urban public school districts like New Haven, Bridgeport and Hartford as parents search for alternatives to their local schools.

Similar issues occur at selective vocational school academies and magnet schools like Arts High School in Nschool academies and magnet schools like Arts High School in NSchool in Newark.

In describing the effect of a Houston Performing and Visual Arts School, an educator said it worked like a «magnet» in attracting students.

The two original KIPP schools in Houston and New York placed their graduating eighth - graders in private schools — including some famous ones like St.Mark's — and public magnet schools that could be counted on to demand the same high standards.

Waldrip explains that around the same time in Houston, Texas, when describing the effect of its Performing and Visual Arts School, «said that it worked like a «magnet» in attracting students.»

Furthermore, we would like to recognize U.S. Representative Lee for being a vocal advocate for magnet schools through her position on the Budget Committee and the Appropriations Committee, and for actively championing magnet school programs in her state and congressional district.

Like magnets, charters have the ability to promote integration because they do not operate like a typical neighborhood school, but that was never really their purpLike magnets, charters have the ability to promote integration because they do not operate like a typical neighborhood school, but that was never really their purplike a typical neighborhood school, but that was never really their purpose.

But even in those that remain diverse on paper — magnet schools like Thurgood Marshall Elementary and Garfield High School, for example — students are still segregated between classrooms.

He says that by taking steps like establishing magnet schools that attract students from diverse backgrounds and regulating the expansion of charter schools, more children could benefit from higher quality schools, which typically have more resources, including more experienced teachers.

Today, most districts use choice and incentives — like non-selective magnet schools — to promote diversity.

Charter schools, just like alternative schools, magnet schools, private schools, home schooling and vocational / technical schools, give parents one more option to meet their child's academic learning style.

Magnets, which can be an entire school or a program within a school, are specialized based on specific themes like Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, known as STEM, performing arts, or business.

The district's unified enrollment system that parents used for the first time this year to apply to magnets and other district options did not contain information about student academics, but it did contain other information about the schools like what after - school activities are offered, if Advanced Placement classes are available, and notable alumni.

And she is supporting her internal innovators like pilot schools and magnet schools.»

An unqualified success for these new schools would be results like those at Science Leadership Academy, a magnet school that is home to the district's longest - running project - based learning program, which opened in 2006.

Public charters do not operate like selective public schools, i.e.: magnet schools, and do not require aptitude or other screening exams for entrance.

The superintendent said a lesson came from the expansion of the magnet application system this year, as 80 percent of eligible students applied for seats in magnet schools like Science Park and Arts high schools.

Some schools - like magnet, selective enrollment, and military schools - have their own processes for enrollment.

Like Hartford, districts around the country are shifting responsibilities that once rested at the central office to principals, who may be operating magnet schools, charter schools, or neighborhood schools with varying levels of autonomy, all under one school system umbrella.

South Florida families are opting to educate their children outside of their neighborhood school, utilizing options like charters and district magnet schools.

In Los Angeles and all over the country, charter schools have made these same advantages available to millions of low - income learners who often lack equal access to magnet programs like the one I helped found.

Whether the competition is from online programs, home schooling, charter schools, private schools, magnet schools, vouchers, or tax credits, school administrators need to start thinking like CEOs.

If charter school teachers start paying dues in larger numbers, it's certainly possible the union's stance on charters will evolve, much like it did for magnet schools a generation ago.

Certainly, there are traditional schools that do the same, like NYC's network of magnet schools.

That being said, the USDOE does have enrollment data at the national level for magnet schools and has virtual school enrollment by state if you would like to explore those numbers on your own.

When the General Assembly's Appropriations Committee approved Malloy's proposed budget on March 28,2014 they also failed to include the money needed for the magnet schools and, like Malloy, failed to put in the money that is needed for the magnet school expansion that has already been approved.

E-mail sent today (2/11/14) from the principal of Chicago Public Schools magnet school Franklin Fine Arts to a parent who indicated she would like to opt her child out of the ISAT:

The study uses 13 categories to rank districts, indicators such as providing transportation to students who want to attend their preferred school, offering online courses and having available alternative schools like charters and magnets.

Ms. Ospina said she was hoping that voluntary measures, like increased used of magnet schools, could solve the problem.

Ask your state to use Title IV Part A funding, known as the Student Support and Academic Achievement State Grants, for theme - based programs in magnet schools, like STEM, arts and music, foreign languages, career & technical education, etc..

As illustrated by Figure 2, participation in AP coursework is highly varied across both the comprehensive and interdistrict magnets school, and it seems like there could be a relationship between the status as an interdistrict magnet school, the number of AP classes offered, and higher rates of AP participation.

At least when it comes to school - choice programs (think charter schools, vouchers to attend private schools, magnet programs, etc.), researchers found that improving test scores doesn't guarantee students will have better chances of achieving long - term measures of success like high school graduation, entrance to college or higher incomes.

This racial and socioeconomic isolation of those living in cities like Beverly Hills and Santa Monica impedes magnet schools from having access to White students and from having capital apart from what the government allocates for magnet schools.

September 29, 2016, Washington, DC — Magnet Schools of America (MSA) would like to congratulate the 31 magnet schools that were designated as 2016 National Blue Ribbon Schools by the U.S. Department of EduSchools of America (MSA) would like to congratulate the 31 magnet schools that were designated as 2016 National Blue Ribbon Schools by the U.S. Department of Eduschools that were designated as 2016 National Blue Ribbon Schools by the U.S. Department of EduSchools by the U.S. Department of Education.