Sentences with phrase «magnet program as»

The move comes after months of public comments from district leaders pointing to the popular magnet program as a way to increase enrollment in the district.

«Strong community partnerships are a crucial component of magnet programs as they afford students the opportunities and experiences necessary for them to become fully immersed and engaged in their program.

The LAUSD magnet schools website describes the magnet programs as «Court - Ordered voluntary integration opportunities available to students in grades K - 12 living within the LAUSD boundaries» (echoices).

Not exact matches

As we talk about in this month's Technology Bytes, the web traffic - magnet has hired Rena Shapiro away from Pandora to run a new «native» advertising program aimed at...

As we talk about in this month's Technology Bytes, the web traffic - magnet has hired Rena Shapiro away from Pandora to run a new «native» advertising program aimed at political campaigns.

The Greens have called for Foundation Aid to be fully funded immediately, for the school aid formula to be reformed so it is more need - based, and for the state to support school desegregation programs such as intra - and inter-district public school choice, consolidation, and incentives (such as magnet schools).

The plan proposes new spending cuts in programs such as Care4Kids, magnet schools, and reducing municipal aid for the Elderly Circuit Breaker program.

Foley's education plan includes policies such as school choice within a district and «money follows the child» - a program where students who attend magnet or charter schools bring the education funding with them instead of sharing it with their old school district.

«First - generation» choice programs such as open enrollment, magnet and charter schools, and voucher plans have indeed increased the number of schooling options available.

A «blueprint» he proposed in year two, as achievement lagged, increased the hours of literacy training, with additional time and summer school for those falling behind, and added more programs for the same purpose, to be paid for by centralizing control of Title I funds and eliminating other programs (such as some magnet schools).

In subsequent years, two of these schools were restructured as magnet schools offering specialized programs in a small school setting.

And in contrast to the G&T program as a whole, students admitted by lottery to G&T magnet program were assigned to more effective teachers.

The academies would operate as magnet schools within the districts, alternatives to — but not replacements for — coed programs.

Neighborhood schools in these zones that are disproportionately low - income would be reformed as magnet schools with attractive educational programs and themes to appeal to more middle - income families.

As with magnet programs and special programs, districts can create enrollment criteria and exercise enrollment discretion.

We created labs for earth, physical, and life sciences as a part of our magnet program at Walter Bracken STEAM Academy.

He joined the Chicago Public School system in 1998, as a deputy chief of staff to CEO Paul Vallas, where one of his jobs was supervising the creation of magnet programs in troubled schools.

The Advanced Placement program at Sharpstown High School has long been viewed as a haven for top students in the school's magnet leadership learning community.

Though the program falls under the law's choice provisions, the federal government still considers magnets an important aspect of desegregation policy, defining a magnet school as one that «offers a special curriculum capable of attracting substantial numbers of students of different racial backgrounds.»

Without early identification, youngsters are apt to lose out on opportunities to accelerate, to get into such special classrooms and supplemental programs as do exist, to enroll in magnet or charter schools designed to challenge them, and to gain access (when they reach high school) to Advanced Placement courses, International Baccalaureate programs, and other offerings that typically presuppose a solid education in the early grades.

In 1981 they were folded into the Chapter 2 block - grant program, but explicit federal support for magnet schools as desegregation tools resumed in 1985 with the authorization of the Magnet Schools Assistance Program (MSAP), included in the Education for Economic Securiprogram, but explicit federal support for magnet schools as desegregation tools resumed in 1985 with the authorization of the Magnet Schools Assistance Program (MSAP), included in the Education for Economic SecuriProgram (MSAP), included in the Education for Economic Security Act.

Thus, although proponents of magnet schools have not disavowed the desegregation goal that is the program's roots, they currently place almost equal emphasis on magnets as instruments of school choice.

While some schools benefit from certain categorical funds (e.g., magnet dollars, STEM, or tech - voc dollars), many don't qualify for other state and federal programs, such as Title I, bilingual education, and special education.

Public school districts similarly offer choice and magnet programs that entice students to leave zoned schools, which theoretically «hurts» the zoned schools in the same way as you suggest vouchers do.

The Schoolwide Enrichment Model (SEM)(Renzulli, 1977; Renzulli & Reis, 1985, 1997) is widely implemented as an enrichment program used with academically gifted and talented students and a magnet theme / enrichment approach for all schools interested in high - end learning and developing the strengths and talents of all students.

Starting with that program as a base, Grignano has branched out to work on obtaining a number of grants, including a magnet school grant from the federal government, which have helped make the school what it is.

To attract more students and keep them in the Chicago schools, Vallas also supported the creation of charter schools and magnet programs designed to retain middle - class residents, such as International Baccalaureate programs at the high - school level.

MSA's Grassroots Action Center provides direct links to your legislative representatives where you can write to not only support program appropriations but share your thanks with them as well for their support of magnet schools.

This legislation will reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act also known as the No Child Left Behind Act and expand federal support for magnet programs.

Journey with us as we innovate and elevate magnet and theme - based programs across the country.

Family and Community Partnerships), the MSA certification process defines and ensures these standards as consistent, essential elements and characteristics of high - quality magnet programs.

Questions as to whether we have enough in - district students to implement a program or whether we would consider opening a magnet school up to students outside our district would need to be answered.

Horace Greeley offers a regional gifted / magnet school that offers a gifted program to K - 8 students as well as providing native language instruction in Spanish, Polish and Russian.

In addition to work in magnet schools for gifted students and as a curriculum specialist, he has been the Administrator of Gifted Programs in Rochester, Minnesota, and the Director of Gifted Programs for the Bloomington Public Schools in Minnesota.

There is an ugly and unethical little secret the state and the regional service centers in Hartford and New London areas (such as CREC) that manage PK level magnet programming are keeping from parents and new applicants to pre-school levels in magnet schools.

The seven goals included a 24 percent increase in school pathways such as magnets, dual - language immersion and Linked Learning programs; a 30 percent decrease in chronic absenteeism; and 100 percent access to quality art instruction, a parent computer program and restorative justice practices.

in the 1970's, public schools known as magnets offered enrichment programs as an incentive to pull children from neighborhood schools.

The district is proud that the student demographics of its magnet programs almost perfectly reflect the diversity of the district as a whole.

As the local expert on magnet programs, you are able to educate elected officials about how your magnet schools are improving your community and just how important federal, state, and local support is for continuing these programs.

The school, for gifted students in grades 2 to 5, will be run as a magnet program, so it will be open to children from across the county and will operate without an attendance zone.

Learn five strategies that will help you establish an initiative to engage local business and industry leaders in partnerships that will serve as a critical step towards building a strong magnet program, engaged students, and a talented workforce.»

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.

That measure was intended to provide flexibility to innovative schools, such as magnets, that seek to accommodate families seeking specific academic programs, Legg said.

Alan Warhaftig, who retired last year after more than a decade as the magnet program co-coordinator at Fairfax High School, believes that the district's goal of rapid expansion of magnets could dilute the success of the programs.

Wilcox, who took over as CMS superintendent last July after stints in Maryland, Florida and Louisiana, said district officials have been in talks with Matthews leaders about magnet programs and possibly placing a regional office in the suburban town of about 29,000.

Students in Southeast Middle's magnet program, known as DATA, short for Digital Arts & Technology Academy, led the way in filling out the website.

Where is the moratorium on the inherent inequities created by criteria - based public schools and magnet programs that cream from the top (as charter are routinely accused of)?

Magnet programs differ slightly from a magnet school as the special curriculum is offered to a cohort of students as opposed to the entire school.

In 2001, they adopted a schoolwide environmental science program and convinced the school board to cast the school as an area - wide magnet.

As principal of Frederick Douglass School 19, she led the school from an «F» to an «A» on the state's accountability measures and transitioned to a SUPER School magnet program.