Sentences with phrase «middle class students at»

The Dream Act would extend student aid, including now the free tuition for middle class students at public colleges to undocumented immigrants.

Brodsky says the governor has a solid record on legalizing gay marriage, gun control and offering free tuition to some middle class students at state universities.

Not exact matches

A week later, in the middle of a lecture in this professor's packed class, he started to tell a story about a student he once met who was a chaplain intern at a hospital.

Larry Bird chose my high school to do his student teaching after the ISU Sycamores run to the NCAA championship game and several of us from orchestra kids got to shoot around with him at what would have been our fourth hour orchestra class which was delayed half an hour for one semester while the teacher had younger students from the new middle school built together with the high.

The researchers set out to look at the relationship between homework load and student well - being in the upper middle class advantaged communities (where median household income is more than $ 90,000, and 93 percent of students go to college) because it is there that homework is largely accepted as having value.

Moreover, it's pretty much a middle class event - with tickets at # 185 a pop and no concessions for students or the unemployed it's unlikely that a weekend comes in at less than # 500.

And it will mean that taxpayers will subsidize the wages of at least 75,000 teen - age students — many of whom come from middle - class families.

The state legislature's one - house budgets make some changes to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's $ 163 million proposal to offer free tuition at public colleges in New York to some middle - class students.

Sponsored by Assemblymember Carmen De La Rosa of Manhattan, the measure would allow students brought into the country as children to seek state financial aid for higher education, including the Excelsior Scholarship program that makes tuition at state colleges free for low - income and middle - class students.

The Assembly members, all Democrats, aim to make Cuomo's plan more inclusive of the middle class and to ease proposed aid restrictions for the students at New York public universities who stand to benefit from the program.

ALBANY, N.Y. (WBEN / AP)-- New York will be the first state to make tuition at public colleges and universities free for middle - class students under a state budget approved by lawmakers Sunday.

New York's Economic State Development agency revealed that it has tapped a $ 50 million fund designed to promote job growth and tourism to pay for an aggressive marketing campaign boosting Cuomo's program to extend free tuition to middle - class students enrolling at public colleges.

The former Democratic presidential nominee rallied with Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City for a ceremonial bill signing of the state's new scholarship for poor and middle - class students.

At a state Assembly hearing on receivership, held, ironically, just after my visit, experienced educators and sociologists also testified that it takes more than a year or two to break the cycle of poverty and truly help students climb the ladder of success out of poverty and into the middle class.

It targets middle class New Yorkers through extended maternity leave and allowing college students to lock in tuition rates at public universities.

The Excelsior Scholarship, rolled out by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo last year, offers free tuition to middle - class students at the State University of New York and the City University of New York.

But after her stronger - than - expected showing in the Democratic primary, he tacked left after 2014 and has pushed through many WFP priorities the union leaders mentioned, including the minimum wage hike and a new scholarship program aimed at middle - class students.

ALBANY — State leaders are near a deal that would provide free public college tuition for many middle class families while also providing more financial aid to students at nonpublic colleges, Sen. Jeff Klein said Wednesday.

ALBANY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork / AP)-- New York would be the first state to make tuition at public colleges and universities free for middle - class students under a state budget poised for passage in Albany.

But Cuomo soon had students cheering himself with his Sanders-esque plan aimed at middle - class families.

State lawmakers are due back at the Capitol Monday, following a two week break after they passed a budget that contained numerous other items, like free public college tuition for some middle class students and an expansion of ride hailing services.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, along with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, signs legislation for tuition - free college for middle class students last week at LaGuardia Community College in Queens..

Governor Cuomo proudly touted the free tuition program for some middle class students passed in the state budget, appearing with former first lady and Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at LaGuardia Community College in Queens on April 12.

He again defended his spending plan as fashioned for the middle class, especially with proposals like free tuition for qualifying students at public colleges.

That measure also would apply to the state's new Excelsior Scholarship, which aims to make tuition at state colleges free for low - income and middle - class students.

ALBANY - Both the State Assembly and State Senate's one - house budgets have recommended changes to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's $ 163 million proposal to offer free tuition at public colleges in New York to some middle - class students.

The number of students in a class rose at 61 percent of the middle schools reporting and 59 percent of the high schools.

The former Democratic presidential nominee rallied with Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City for a ceremonial bill signing of the scholarship for poor and middle - class students.

Brodsky said the governor has a solid record on legalizing gay marriage, gun control and offering free tuition to some middle - class students at state universities, but Cuomo's record is that of a traditional politician, in a time of great political upheaval.

Looking further into the future, higher education in Haiti may not involved brick - and - mortar institutions at all, said Attié of HAAST, especially when an average lower - end middle class student has a yearly budget of roughly $ 500 for higher education.

Director Dot Harris, Office of Economic Impact and Diversity at the Department of Energy, will be on the line with Dr. Rebecca Spyke - Keiser, Associate Deputy Administrator for Strategy and Policy at NASA; Jill Fuss, Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Stephanie Stilson, Engineer at Kennedy Space Center and NASA Headquarters, and a class at Andrew Jackson Middle School in Titusville, Florida, to discuss ways to find role models for young people in STEM fields and answer questions from students and the general public about STEM careers.

Dr. R. Stephen Green, Superintendent of the Dekalb County, Georgia School District, engaged in «experiential learning» when he joined students at Druid Hills Middle School on May 17th for a yoga class led by Grounded Kids Yoga / Atlanta Yoga Movement instructor Cheryl Crawford.

Charles Ryder (Matthew Goode) is a middle - class student at Oxford who is drawn into the aristocratic high life by fellow classmate Sebastian Flyte (Ben Whishaw).

Students at seven middle schools received the phones in February, and they collect talk minutes, ringtones, and music downloads by meeting certain benchmarks, such as turning in homework and participating in class.

At the beginning of one year, my middle - grade students charged into class like Mel Gibson and a thousand Scottish warriors.

Except that there are no students, no classes, and no teachers at the school in the middle of Puerto Rico's mountains where she is the director.

In his view, it's a way to shift lesson planning from aiming at the middle to targeting the specific needs of all the students in the class.

As he explains in his testimony, the mission of Match Beyond «is to help students from low - income households earn quality college degrees at affordable prices and to leverage those degrees into career - track, middle class jobs.»

Students at both the high school and the middle school play some sports in gym classes, but high school students learn to play tennis, golf, and croquet Students at both the high school and the middle school play some sports in gym classes, but high school students learn to play tennis, golf, and croquet students learn to play tennis, golf, and croquet as well.

Formative and summative assessments Old - fashioned assessments consume much valuable class - time, are either simple - minded in construction or labor intensive to evaluate, rarely work well across a broad range of students (it takes far too many questions to differentiate at the low and high ends as well as in the middle), and their turnaround is too slow to yield useful information when you really need it.

Students concentrate in an eighth - grade math class at Csar Chvez Academy Middle School.

As part of their study of genetics, students in Shannon Dziwanowskis seventh - grade science class at Csar Chvez Academy Middle School in Detroit, Michigan, spend the first minutes of class reviewing a worksheet on dominant and recessive alleles, which are alternative forms of genes.

Students participate in a writing class at KIPP Memphis Collegiate Middle School in Tennessee AP Photo / Tennessee Daily Life / Alan Spearman

Providing students with opportunities to teach each other — as this middle school student does in his science class — is one of many assessment techniques used at New York City's School of the Future.

The contract for the Gen www.Y students at Washington Middle School who work with the student teachers, on the other hand, lays out their responsibilities, including spending 10 - 15 hours of class time with an assigned Evergreen MIT student, participating in an interview, reviewing the MIT student's Web page to make it more «student friendly,» and providing advice on infusing technology.

Students at King Middle School in Portland, Maine are Skyping with authors of the books they read in English or history classes, and students in the technology education class learn about the design process through a YouTube video of engineers from IDEO who spent a week redesigning a shoppiStudents at King Middle School in Portland, Maine are Skyping with authors of the books they read in English or history classes, and students in the technology education class learn about the design process through a YouTube video of engineers from IDEO who spent a week redesigning a shoppistudents in the technology education class learn about the design process through a YouTube video of engineers from IDEO who spent a week redesigning a shopping cart.

Students work together on cross-curricular projects in every class at Maine's King Middle School, designed around a variation on project - based learning that King helped pioneer.

In Arizona, a state that has always had charter schools that draw middle - class students, there is evidence that, on average at least, charters are not doing any better at raising student achievement than district schools; outside of urban areas, they appear to do a bit worse.

The scholarship was available to students from low - and middle - income families who finished in the top 10 percent of their graduating classes and enrolled at a college in Washington State.

At the tracking schools, the test scores of students who started out in the middle of their class do not seem to be affected by which section (top or bottom) the students were later assigned to.