Sentences with phrase «magnet schools with»

Home buyers in the District face a complex system of traditional public schools, public charter schools and magnet schools with a range of quality from low performing to high performing schools found in every ward.

His report also includes a body of evidence that demonstrates that magnet schools with a socioeconomic mix can raise student achievement.

They should make exceptions for cities with magnet schools with selective admissions.

Every high school and middle school and half the districts elementary schools became magnet schools with special themes such as classical Greek, Slavic studies, and agribusiness.

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.

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.

Even before Villaraigosa pushed through public school choice, the district watched over 15 magnet schools with long waiting lists, and Cortines's pilot campuses were showing promising results, at least in terms of decentralizing school management.

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.

There is also variation among the magnet schools with selective criteria.

There is a wide range of different themes for the 504 California magnets, which are scattered across 87 school districts.8 Most people probably think of the «gifted» or «high achieving» version of magnet schools with selective admissions criteria, but these are less than 20 percent of California magnet schools (81 of the 504).

In mid-October, during a meeting inside the magnet school with the waterfall, city school officials unveiled proposals for school closures as soon as next summer.

At least in areas where there is a critical mass of highly and exceptionally gifted math students, a better solution may be to group them together in a magnet school with unusually rigorous classes that go above and beyond the normal «honors» or «advanced» curriculum.

She used as an example a magnet school with dozens of students eager to fill a limited number of openings.

In Connecticut, it's easy enough to find a magnet school with just about any theme — there are magnet schools for arts, for aerospace and engineering, and for global citizenship.

[xvii] In Connecticut, it's easy enough to find a magnet school with just about any theme — there are magnet schools for arts, for aerospace and engineering, and for global citizenship.

[19] Otherwise, the student risks being enrolled in a magnet school with limited AP options or a neighborhood school that has many AP options but a student body between 900 and 1500 students and low rates of AP participation.

This will provide a more equal opportunity for students to reap the benefits of AP classes even if they are not placed in a magnet school with a flourishing AP program and will provide an incentive for more suburban families to apply to New Haven schools if there is a wealth of excellent options to choose from.

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The church I went to during college had a booth at the back to school fair and gave out magnets with the church info and cookies.

Seventy - two percent of all families with incomes over $ 50,000 have their children in private schools, public schools they specifically chose (e.g., magnet schools) or schools selected through a conscious choice about where to live.

We tried to keep an open mind about school, but when we attended a magnet school fair last year, we realized that the current climate in the schools that were available to us was completely incompatible with our values.

Along with the goodies offered by my fellow panelists, I'll be giving away a bunch of cool Lunch Tray magnets (featuring a tiny reproduction of a vintage school lunch poster) as well as two vintage lunch trays.

The marketplace will have more of a role in how schools in the US are run, with a comprehensive withdrawal of publicly provided schools through the distribution of vouchers and fostering of charter and magnet schools.

New York City can do much more to address deep segregation in its public schools, such as using more magnet grants to attract a diverse group of parents to segregated schools or moving ahead with an admissions plan aimed at lowering segregation on the Lower East Side, according to a new report.

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.

At this point, realizing that I must have either slept through or forgotten the high school physics class where it was explained how magnets manage that singular feat of interacting with each other at a distance, I set out on what I assumed would be a minutes - long odyssey to understand the phenomenon.

«We have established proof of principle that it is possible to produce ankle block in the rat by intravenous injection of magnetic nanoparticles associated with ropivacaine and magnet application at the ankle,» write Dr Venkat R.R. Mantha and colleagues of University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

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

The death of the king leaves Shrek as the reluctant heir to the throne, and the ogre sails off to find a replacement in the person of Artie, a prep - school bully magnet with the voice of Justin Timberlake.

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).

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

The history of magnet schools goes back to districts addressing the issues with desegregation in the 1960s.

are struggling with them in wealthy and in middle - and low - income schools; in rural, suburban, and urban districts; in magnet, regular, district, charter, parochial, and independent schools; along the coasts, in the American heartland, from south to north, and everywhere in between.»

For example, a museum magnet school may have several partnerships with local museums which can enhance students learning through in - class partnerships, field trips, or internships.

The expansion of charter and magnet schools, along with private school options, does provide some opportunities for children in high - poverty areas to attend schools that are more mixed in terms of class and income.

Those schools — be they charters or magnets — must take state tests, now aligned with the Common Core.

Mason attends Richmond Elementary School in Portland, Oregon, a school that, along with Mt. Tabor Middle School and Grant High School, houses a fifteen - year - old Japanese language partial - immersion magnet program that researchers from the Center for Applied Linguistics have called a model for language leaSchool in Portland, Oregon, a school that, along with Mt. Tabor Middle School and Grant High School, houses a fifteen - year - old Japanese language partial - immersion magnet program that researchers from the Center for Applied Linguistics have called a model for language leaschool that, along with Mt. Tabor Middle School and Grant High School, houses a fifteen - year - old Japanese language partial - immersion magnet program that researchers from the Center for Applied Linguistics have called a model for language leaSchool and Grant High School, houses a fifteen - year - old Japanese language partial - immersion magnet program that researchers from the Center for Applied Linguistics have called a model for language leaSchool, houses a fifteen - year - old Japanese language partial - immersion magnet program that researchers from the Center for Applied Linguistics have called a model for language learning.

Only three pieces published in that span with «magnet schools» in the title are cited over 100 times, as compared to at least 25 «charter schools» pieces.

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.

Some magnet schools have multiple programs in a single school, each with different themes.

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 prSchool 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 prschool affected by the district's asbestos - cleanup program.

He's also OK with magnet schools, even though they are selective, and thus don't take all students.

Under Rivera's leadership, the Rochester district has set up a series of early college schools with higher education partners and has changed the organization of many elementary schools from neighborhood to magnet schools.

In practice, these methods have generally proved unconvincing because there are unobservable variables that are correlated with peer selection, with moving, with participating in a magnet or other school program, or with the excluded variables that identify the selection model.

Though the school possesses a computer lab with cutting - edge software, at least one computer in every classroom, and a PC lab for basic computer instruction, it is not a traditional magnet school.

This compares with 16 percent of students in assigned public schools, 22 percent in magnet public schools, 28 percent in other religious schools, and 38 percent in secular private schools.

Folsom said that the magnet schools in the district manage to share space with charters without friction, but that charters forcing their way into other schools created an «us - versus - them» mentality.

The state of Ohio, in an effort to rebut the incentive argument, explained that the amount ($ 2,250 maximum) was small in comparison with the per - pupil spending in regular public ($ 7,746), magnet ($ 7,746), and charter schools ($ 4,518).