Sentences with phrase «most handicapped students»
«We serve children from age four, all the way up to our post-high students, who are our most handicapped students that stay with us until they are 21,» says Superintendent Pam Moran.
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The absence of high - performing public schools, and the lack of emphasis on American civics or expectations for good citizenship, will hurt our nation's youth and will certainly handicap our Hispanic immigrant students and their families most by impeding the assimilation process.
Philadelphia — Asserting that «these kids can't wait,» the federal judge who presided over a special - education case that influenced the development of the federal handicapped - students law charged last week that educators are failing to provide severely handicapped students with the one thing they most need: specially trained teachers.
Thus, those who now sharply criticize the public schools speak fondly of an era when most schools were racially segregated; when public schools were not required to accept children with physical, mental, and emotional handicaps; when there were relatively few students who did not speak or read English; and when few graduated from high school and went to college.
«Even our most profoundly handicapped students can be — and are — in mainstreamed classes,» Potter said.
Moreover, in practice, the «choice» program has been plagued by lack of accountability (no state testing requirements), fraud (private operators taking off with the state aid check, leaving the kids without a school to go to, and MPS to try to deal with it), refusal to accept handicapped children, continued leeching off public schools for lab courses, and — most significantly — absolutely no educational advantage whatsoever for the «choice» students compared to their public school counterparts, which was the ostensible justification for this whole fiasco in the first place.
Most education research suggests that students at Hamilton Elementary and Thomas Johnson Middle would be handicapped by their low - income backgrounds.
For most students, taking on debt is an expected but unwelcome part of the law school experience — and many start out with a handicap in the form of debt from their undergraduate degree.