Sentences with phrase «magnet programs designed»

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.

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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.

New charter schools and magnet schools are designing their programs with a concern for time.

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.

These chosen district schools largely comprise the country's 2,722 «magnet» schools (according to 2011 data), most of which offer themed programs and were originally designed to encourage desegregation by attracting a multi-racial clientele.

They do not seek to award a scarce commodity on the basis of merit, for they are not magnet schools; rather, by design and in practice, they offer substantially equivalent academic programs and electives.

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.

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.

Join us for an engaging look at the collaborative route Charlotte - Mecklenburg Schools designed to increase equitable access to high - quality magnet programs and school choice options.

2008 — CIR successfully sued to end two racial preferences in the New York City School system, one that limited minority enrollment at a prestigious magnet program (Rau & Katapadi v. NYC Dept. of Education) and another that prohibited Asian students from applying for a middle school enrichment program designed to prepare students to compete for entrance to the City's examination schools (Ng v. NYC Dept. of Education).

Located on the campus of Florida Atlantic University's world renowned Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, MOA is a magnet high school program designed to improve the scientific literacy of high school students.

Put another way, the students most likely to be excluded from the Windham STEM Magnet School are exactly the students magnet school programs were designed to help!

We have Project L.I.F.T., North Star Reading Program, Success by Design, Opportunity Culture and magnet programs.

Blog, «put another way, the students most likely to be excluded from the Windham STEM Magnet School are exactly the students magnet school programs were designed to help!»

It also includes articles about curriculum design and professional development, national, state and local education policy, announcements about upcoming events, magnet school funding opportunities, new job openings, and updates about our national awards program.

In particular, it focuses on the enrollment of minority students in AP programs in New Haven's interdistrict magnet high schools, which are designed in - part to increase academic achievement for students of color.