Sentences with phrase «most public middle schools»

The Wayne school's day is longer than most public middle schools, from 8 A.M. to 5 P.M., and so is the school year, 200 days rather than 180.

KIPP schools, which begin in 5th grade, admit a considerable number of new students in grade 6 (the time when most public middle schools begin) but «the number of new enrollees declines substantially» in 7th and 8th grade.

Not exact matches

A client asked me the other day why in the world he should care about getting links from a few K - 12 public school library Web sites, most of which look horrible, have very few visitors, and live way out in the middle of nowhere in the.

Nachos are an almost daily entree at most Chicago public high schools and middle schools.

He's also in favor of free tuition to CUNY colleges for low - and middle - income students, smaller class sizes in the city's public schools, and desegregation of the school system, which he noted is the «third most segregated in the nation.»

«I've helped secure two new public schools for the district (an elementary school on 17th Street and most recently, a new middle school at 75 Morton St.), fought NYU's irresponsible campus expansion plan, established a legal defense fund for rent - stabilized tenants... and brokered a deal to renovate Washington Square Park,» he said.

Meanwhile, more parents in D.C. neighborhoods west of Rock Creek Park are sending their kids to public schools, resulting in fewer spots for «out of boundary» students in the most sought - after neighborhood schools such as Lafayette, Murch and Eaton elementary schools or Deal Middle School.

Through this initiative, students from six local public middle schools monitor the waters around Mount Desert Island by regularly testing phytoplankton for toxic species, particularly the most prevalent one, Alexandrium, which is known to trigger red tide events — toxic discoloration of ocean waters — that can result in poisoning shellfish.

The two middle schools are small by most public school standards — Crossroads has 175 students and KIPP has 248; however, KIPP classes have 32 students on average.

(Most public schools in New York don't teach science daily until middle school.)

In this excerpt, they explain how blended learning makes it possible to organize schools around the things students care most about: accomplishing something and having fun with their friends, and how Summit Public Schools, a California charter network, has reimagined middle and high school along theseschools around the things students care most about: accomplishing something and having fun with their friends, and how Summit Public Schools, a California charter network, has reimagined middle and high school along theseSchools, a California charter network, has reimagined middle and high school along these lines.

His most recent book is All Together Now: Creating Middle - Class Schools through Public School Choice (Brookings, 2001).

Jessica is the co-author (with Kristina Doubet) of Differentiation in Middle & High School: Strategies to Engage All Learners (ASCD) and Differentiation in the Elementary Grades: Strategies to Engage & Equip All Learners (ASCD), as well as Exam Schools: Inside America's Most Selective Public High Schools with Chester E. Finn, Jr..

Jim O'Connor, principal of the KIPP Ascend middle school in Chicago, told me this month that five students from his last year's eighth grade who are in regular public high schools are having the most difficult time, because their schools lack the focus on strong academic results they found at KIPP.

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Jacob's most recent work was serving as a middle and high school building administrator with Green Dot Public Schools, a non-profit public charter management organization out of CalifPublic Schools, a non-profit public charter management organization out of Califpublic charter management organization out of California.

Taylor began her career in education with Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) where she taught science in both the middle and high school grades in one of the most diverse schools iSchools (MNPS) where she taught science in both the middle and high school grades in one of the most diverse schools ischools in MNPS.

«In our nation's public schools today, most teachers are white, middle class, and female, while most of their students» families are people of color living in low - income neighborhoods.

Elementary school students attend in - boundary schools at the highest rates, and middle school students are most likely to attend a public charter school (see Figure 3).

In September students in Seattle's public middle schools will also begin choosing most of their own books.

The charter schools we selected for analysis are part of the Alliance College Ready Public Schools (Alliance), a nonprofit company that operates 26 charter middle schools and high schools, all of them part of LAUSD, and most of them located in south - central Los Aschools we selected for analysis are part of the Alliance College Ready Public Schools (Alliance), a nonprofit company that operates 26 charter middle schools and high schools, all of them part of LAUSD, and most of them located in south - central Los ASchools (Alliance), a nonprofit company that operates 26 charter middle schools and high schools, all of them part of LAUSD, and most of them located in south - central Los Aschools and high schools, all of them part of LAUSD, and most of them located in south - central Los Aschools, all of them part of LAUSD, and most of them located in south - central Los Angeles.

Our 27 public charter middle and high schools educate nearly 12,000 students from Los Angeles» most underserved communities.

«One of the most remarkable environments I have ever visited is Piedmont IB Middle School,» said Sneha Shah - Coltrane, the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction's top official for education of gifted students.

They wring their hands about having some of the most segregated public schools in the country — both by race and income — then keep quiet about neighborhood unzoned schools, where middle - class parents send their children in order to avoid failing public schools.

With dedicated and committed faculty members» expectations of great success from everyone, Middle College High has the potential to grow into one of the most successful institutions in recent years in the Metro Nashville Public School System.

Special - progress classes were even more racially and academically segregated from other students than their contemporary version, «gifted and talented» programs that retain middle - class parents in the public - school system by separating their children from most low - income and minority - group peers.

It's a very unique public school model with a totally different vibe from most middle schools.

In 2010, Nadia Lopez founded Mott Hall Bridges Academy, a public middle school which is located in Brownsville, one of the poorest and most dangerous neighborhoods in New York City.

Tuck served most recently as founding CEO of the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, former Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's groundbreaking collaboration with the Los Angeles Unified School District to operate 17 struggling public elementary, middle, and high schools serving 15,000 stSchools, former Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's groundbreaking collaboration with the Los Angeles Unified School District to operate 17 struggling public elementary, middle, and high schools serving 15,000 stschools serving 15,000 students.

«The data suggests that — despite what is arguably the most remarkable decade of academic progress of any school system in history — we haven't really seen much change in demand from middle class community to enroll their children in public schools,» Kleban said.

Drawing on two years of work with more than 500 students and 200 parents at five Boston area public middle schools, Give a Summer's work is the most comprehensive, in - depth look to - date at access to summer opportunities in Boston, and can inform the rest of the field.

The New Bedford public school system has been the most vocal about possibly replicating Springfield's model as one of several ways to overhaul its three middle schools.

She is the coauthor (with Kristina Doubet) of Differentiation in Middle and High School: Strategies to Engage All Learners and (with Chester E. Finn Jr.) of Exam Schools: Inside America's Most Selective Public High Schools, a big - picture look at a high - performing but understudied niche of U.S. education.

Most recently, Burgos directed expanded learning time programs in public middle schools, launching a writing mentorship program between senior students and business professionals.

For most of the past three decades, districts such as Carmel - Clay, Hamilton Southeastern, and Westfield - Washington have only had to provide teaching and curricula to the children of executives and middle managers of such Fortune 500 outfits such as drugmaker Eli Lilly & Co., and healthcare giant WellPoint, who fled from the Circle City for traditional district schools perceived to be better than the failure mills of woeful Indianapolis Public Schools and even the relative mediocrity of its 10 sister disschools perceived to be better than the failure mills of woeful Indianapolis Public Schools and even the relative mediocrity of its 10 sister disSchools and even the relative mediocrity of its 10 sister districts.

One fact: «Of the 2,161 public school buildings in a state inventory comprising most of Oregon's 1,355 public elementary, middle, and high schools, 2,027 (94 percent) pre-date the state's first seismic building codes.»