Sentences with phrase «neighborhood school assignments»

«The proliferation of charters in Mecklenburg County served as grist for the political activism of suburban parents who threatened a middle - class exodus from CMS to the charter sector if new assignment boundaries did not honor their current neighborhood school assignments.

The menu of options presented to the public includes out - of - boundary «set - asides» for low - income students and a version of «controlled choice» that would replace neighborhood school assignments with a lottery system to place children in one of a cluster of nearby schools.

Not exact matches

«In Western New York, without an active duty base, a guard or a reserve family... a lot of times a child may be the only one in a school district that has a parent who is serving, and they're the only family in the neighborhood who understands what words like deployment mean, ot TDY (temporary duty assignment), those sorts of things,» Lauer said.

A spokesperson for Dayton Public explained that because the district doesn't necessarily assign children to a neighborhood school and families are allowed to choose where they send their children, parents have to register in order to obtain a school assignment that would allow them to qualify for a voucher.

The school district of Little Rock has received a federal appellate court's permission to proceed this fall with a student - assignment plan that will leave about 1,500 black children in segregated neighborhood schools.

Saying they support «diversity by choice,» members of a task force led by three local mayors are urging the Wake County, N.C., school district to abandon a student - assignment plan that aims for economic integration and adopt a neighborhood - schools approach instead.

One assignment popular with a number of elementary school instructors helps teach children about their neighborhood by assigning them to interview people who live near them.

Traditional zoned - based assignments may be less able to match family preferences than the OneApp, especially for those who don't have the means to purchase or rent a home in a neighborhood with desirable public schools.

Based on a review of existing literature, it argues that the best way to address rising school segregation is to decouple school assignment from neighborhoods through universal school choice.

Both sought to achieve these objectives while preserving their commitment to other educational goals, e.g., districtwide commitment to high quality public schools, increased pupil assignment to neighborhood schools, diminished use of busing, greater student choice, reduced risk of white flight, and so forth.

In other words, compared with districts that still practice zip code assignment of students to schools, are districts with public school choice systems more or less likely to have schools that over represent black students and under represent white students (or vice-versa) relative to the surrounding neighborhoods?

For example, those arguing for a return to zip code assignment of students to schools because such schools are somewhat more likely to be racially balanced than schools of choice have to discount: 1) the strong preference of parents to choose their children's schools, 2) the likelihood in some districts that a voluntarily segregated school of choice will provide a much better education than a child's marginally less segregated neighborhood school, and 3) the impacts of the competition among education providers that occurs when school enrollment is determined by choice.

Controlled choice eliminates the default assignment of a neighborhood school in a district, removes traditional school attendance boundaries, and creates larger zones or catchment areas within the district.

They're magnet schools and would be even if SFUSD had an all - neighborhood assignment process.

The action comes despite a 2010 ruling from the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court that invalidated federal regulations allowing the practice after civil rights groups complained that teachers in the alternative programs - or internships - were disproportionately given classroom assignments at schools in low - income neighborhoods and those serving at - risk students.

Given that school lists draw from a one - mile radius around the students» home, QUEST also says answers are needed as to whether a unified enrollment system will mean that assignment lists for students in charter - heavy neighborhoods like Hyde Park could include only or almost all charter options.

The last time Bivens got together with principals in the Lincoln Cluster, he gave them an assignment: Survey parents at their elementary and middle schools and find out why they send their kids to schools outside the neighborhood.