Sentences with phrase «magnet program students»

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Prospective parents and students can check out the 23 magnet programs and high school career - technical education pathways

He supports charter schools, school choice within a district, and «money follows the child,» a program in which students who attend magnet or charter schools bring education funding with them instead of sharing it with their old school district.

New York City has won a chunk of federal funding that is designed to create or expand magnet programs with the goal of attracting more students of color to schools.

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.

Most magnet schools align their programs to career education along with increased rigor for all students.

Piedmont is an inner - city magnet program serving approximately 700 students, half of whom qualify for the federal free and reduced lunch program.

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.

Georgia stretched the interpretation of a state law too far when it concluded in 1978 that it did not need to count students in the DeKalb County district's magnet school program and those in a voluntary - integration program when it calculated transportation costs to be paid to the district, Judge Bensonetta Tipton Lane of Fulton County Superior Court said in a Sept....

Our lottery analysis is based on the sample of LUSD 5th - grade students determined to be eligible for G&T programs in 2007 — 08 who applied for admission to one of the two middle schools with an oversubscribed G&T magnet program.

One study looks at students who attended two magnet middle school programs that had an exclusive focus on high - achieving students.

Our analysis compares the performance of students who win the lottery and attend one of the G&T magnet programs to those who lose the lottery and either attend a neighborhood G&T program in the district, a magnet school based on a different specialty, or a charter school.

Turning to student outcomes, however, our results provide little evidence that attending a G&T magnet program leads to improvements in student achievement (see Figure 3).

The lottery process allowed the researchers to compare the performance of students who won the lottery with those who lost the lottery and either attended a neighborhood G&T program, a charter school, or an alternative magnet school.

Under the terms of a court settlement reached with the aid of a nationally known desegregation researcher, the San Francisco Unified School District will open a currently unused facility to house the entire student body of a magnet middle school affected by the district's asbestos - cleanup program.

Finally, the Supreme Court, responding to one of many state appeals, decreed in 1995 by a 5 — 4 vote that Judge Clark could not impose a program of magnet schools to attract white students from the suburbs.

In 1999 Cleveland had 23 magnet schools with 13,000 students in attendance and eight charter schools with 1,600 students in attendance, compared with the 3,800 in the voucher program.

Instead of cutting staff, however, the district is trying to hold on to more students by expanding its popular magnet - school programs, adding thousands of new seats for 2016 — 17.

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.»

Those programs include early - childhood programs for the state's 16 largest and neediest cities, school library improvements, 16 urban charter schools, and additional funding for magnet schools to attract students from surrounding school districts.

This program serves its 27,000 students spanning across 18 elementary schools, seven middle schools, five high schools, four magnet centers and two alternative schools.

Students who are gifted and talented are found in full - time self - contained classrooms, magnet schools, pull - out programs, resource rooms, regular classrooms, and every combination of these settings.

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.

We should embrace opportunities where a middle school arts magnet program, or a dual language elementary school, or a regional science and technology high school can help to break down the concentration of our highest needs students in schools with access to fewer resources.

Our eagerness to leave the school was ironic, given that Rock Creek Forest is a «magnet school,» designed to attract students throughout the country to its much - touted Spanish - immersion program.

The board strongly recommended, but did not require, the use of themed magnet programs to draw white and Asian - American students to the 750 - student school, whose enrollment is now...

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.

Lawrence MS Gifted / Highly Gifted / High Ability magnet program is designed for differentiated instruction, while striking a balance between the creative, open - ended learning activities from which gifted students benefit.

Students at Community Magnet Charter School come from all over Los Angeles through the LAUSD magnet program.

«This new funding will allow more school districts to develop specialized theme - based magnet programs that improve student outcomes and meet the demands of families.»

But it is not only magnet schools that can attract families from all along the socioeconomic spectrum: Charter and traditional public schools can also implement specialized programs that join students from diverse backgrounds.

«Rather, public school leaders should look to their successful programs — charters, magnet, and neighborhood schools alike — and apply the lessons learned to other schools so that the choices parents and students have will all be good ones.»

It was a major concern for Perry, raised in the 1990s in CMS» nationally - recognized «open» schools program, a predecessor to magnet schools that allowed students of various socioeconomic groups and races to mingle.

It has used its magnet money to build an arts - based curriculum, enrich its after - school programs and «make school fun» for its 632 students.

Consider having a teacher present to reinforce how the magnet program has helped students academically and have them share a memorable story about a favorite student.

The new law calls for replicating magnet school programs that demonstrate «success in increasing student academic achievement and reducing isolation of minority groups» and «increase racial integration by taking into account socioeconomic diversity.»

MSAP prioritizes replicating magnet school programs that demonstrate «success in increasing student academic achievement and reducing isolation of minority groups... by taking into account socioeconomic diversity.»

Prepare folders that include marketing materials and information about your magnet program, the number of children it serves, your school demographics, details of community partnerships, and data about student performance.

Magnet Teacher of the Year (TOY) Award annually recognizes an outstanding, dedicated full - time teacher who exemplifies excellence in academic achievement and executes innovative programs that promote equity and diversity for students in magnet schools.

The Broward (Florida) school district has been taking steps to stop students from fleeing, including adding eight new magnet programs in the past five years.

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.

Lincoln Park High School (LPHS) is a neighborhood school with magnet programs that attract students from the neighborhood and all over the city.

LA School Report just published a district database that for the first time allows parents to compare how students at all of the district's magnet schools and programs performed on state tests...

Those groups were used to ensure that 25 percent of students with the highest needs would be assigned to balance the demographics for the 3,000 seats in choice schools and magnet programs available in 2018 - 19.

Percentage of schools that had students enrolled who received Title I services by School has a magnet program, School has special requirements when admitting students, Percentage of students who went to a 4 - yr college, Charter school identifier, Four - category level of school based on grade levels offered, and Collapsed urban - centric school locale code.

Q58 School had students enrolled who received Title I services by Q17a School has a magnet program and Q33c Percentage of students who went to a 4 - yr college.

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.

Many school districts offer magnet programs in health care or performing arts and other special curriculum that allow students to attend outside their zone when a parent decides it's the best choice.