Sentences with phrase «new immigrant students»

There's a new high school in Bowling Green, Kentucky, that's trying to help new immigrant students beat the odds.

Our leaders seek to solve the problem of the poor by blaming the teachers and schools that seek to serve them, calling the deepening levels of poverty an «excuse,» rewarding schools that keep out and push out the highest need students, and threatening those who work with new immigrant students still learning English and the growing number of those who are homeless, without health care and without food.

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She said she doesn't want any groups of students or young workers unintentionally left behind by whatever changes the Liberals ultimately decide upon, but suggested that future changes would look to target vulnerable populations like indigenous youth and new immigrants, who have a harder time accessing the job market.

And the people who fulfil these positions include students, retirees, and many new immigrants to Canada.

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The state, and the republican school in particular, must play its role in transmitting this inheritance to each new generation and to immigrants by assuring mastery of French language, literature, and history, and socializing students into the French way of life.

These include equal protection regardless of immigration status, critical civil rights for immigrant students, and the mandate that the state provide health care and coverage to low - income and immigrant New Yorkers.

In an e-mail sent out to supporters, Lebarty, a West African immigrant who went to Far Rockaway High School and currently works as the executive director for the University Student Senate for the City University of New York, said his campaign finances had prevented him from continuing in the race.

The Buffalo Partnership Project: A Common Core Collaborative is generating new learning methods for teachers as they instruct many of the refugee and immigrant students at Lafayette.

The Utica City School District has settled a lawsuit with New York state over allegations that it denied equal education opportunities to some refugee and immigrant students.

North Babylon schools will enact new measures designed to protect the rights of immigrant students trying to enroll, under an agreement reached with the state attorney general.

Recently issued guidance on the Dignity for All Students Act and on the rights of immigrant students is now available in the top 20 languages spoken in New York State, state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia anStudents Act and on the rights of immigrant students is now available in the top 20 languages spoken in New York State, state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia anstudents is now available in the top 20 languages spoken in New York State, state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia announced.

A new version of the SAT has longer and harder reading passages and more words in math problems, which some educators and college admissions officers to fear will penalize students who have not been exposed to a lot of reading, or who speak a different language at home — like immigrants and the poor.

In an interview with POLITICO New York, Alcantara, a Dominican immigrant who last Tuesday won a four - way primary to replace outgoing state Sen. Adriano Espaillat, said one of her main priorities is passage of the so - called Dream Act, which would open up state tuition assistance programs to undocumented, college - bound students.

The report, Safe Havens: Protecting and Supporting New York State's Immigrant Students — released by The Education Trust — New York, Advocates for Children of New York, the New York Immigration Coalition and The Committee for Hispanic Children and Families, Inc. — finds that while the New York State Education Department (SED) and the Attorney General's Office, as well as several individual school districts, have taken a number of important steps, there is much more to do.

For the fourth consecutive year, the Assembly budget would include the New York State DREAM Act and invest $ 27 million to provide eligible immigrant students with access to the state's Tuition Assistance Program (TAP), scholarships and opportunity programs.

Steven Choi, NYIC Executive Director, said that voting is an important way to engage the city's immigrants in the democratic process, as the majority of New York City high school students are either immigrants or their children.

«Like most New Yorkers, he doesn't believe taxpayers should cover the cost of free college tuition for illegal immigrants while hardworking, middle - class families here legally take out student loans that will take them years to repay,» a spokesman for Mr. Skelos, Scott Reif, said.

As Deputy Public Advocate, Reshma partnered with the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) to create New York's DREAM Fellowship to help hardworking undocumented immigrant students go to CUNY.

Darian Agostini, 23, a youth organizer for Make the Road New York, an immigrant advocacy group, told Observer he helped coordinate some students to ask questions at the town hall.

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Immigrant students facing language and cultural barriers are another part of the mix, adds Paris Svoronos, chair of the chemistry department at Queensborough Community College in Bayside, New York.

What led to the project: Weiva Sieh's parents — immigrants to New York City from China — made an early bet, in real estate, that their children would both be top science students.

All my students were recent immigrants, many of them from Haiti,» she says, referring to her time at the International School in New York City.

Students proposed projects like comparing immigration in different eras, and exploring code switching — the cross-cultural fluency that immigrants develop when adapting to a new country.

For educators who work with immigrant students, the weight of that burden requires new support services and a distinctive kind of outreach, particularly as young people move through high...

It's been a year of new norms for civics teachers, especially those with immigrant and undocumented students.

But those efforts can appear tiny in situations where students are immigrants whose parents moved them to a new country or come from low - income families and feel they have little power to confront multiple economic and social challenges.

A teacher in New Mexico remained suspended last week after one of his students read a poem at school that included sweeping criticism of the war in Iraq, the Bush administration, and treatment of immigrants.

Citing her own state's example, Wagner says, for instance, that students coming to Minnesota from Somalia 20 years ago presented more basic EL needs, but Minnesota's newer population of Somali immigrants tend to have a very conservative approach to education, which affects how schools can involve students in art and music activities.

And the Streets Are Paved With Gold 09/28/2000 [Language Arts, American History Grades 6 - 8 Submitted by Brenda Dyck] Using the links provided, students explore the immigrant experience at Ellis Island, New York, at the turn of the century, and answer questions that challenge them to use thinking skills from various levels of Bloom's Taxonomy.

In fact, during her experience teaching the children of immigrants in New York City, Warikoo observed that «even my most difficult students, when I talked with them one - on - one, confessed sincere desires to straighten up, earn better grades, and finish school on time.»

In this lesson idea, «New Immigrants Share Their Stories» students may begin to think about their own relationships in the community.

As I searched for the unit's final project, I found many proposed activities that began the same way: «Have your students imagine they are immigrants coming to a new country.»

However, the student population in New York City — mostly low - income, heavily immigrant — is highly mobile.

In less than two years after the implementation of the new initiative, the average mean percentile test scores of more than a million immigrant students went up by 40 percent.

Throughout Los Angeles and the surrounding county, where an estimated 40 percent of the nation's illegal immigrants live, only about 15,000 new students enrolled for this school year.

Rosa Fernandez, an immigrant from the Dominican Republic who graduated from New York City's Manhattan International High School, put it this way in The Schools We Need, a publication by and for high school students produced by the nonprofit organization What Kids Can Do: «Small schools are perfect for teenagers, because we need people to be warm and care about us, to be after us — otherwise, we might take the wrong road.»

At the same time, new populations exist in cities, in urban school systems — primarily African American and Latino students, and large numbers of immigrants.

Another distinction is that city schools have long experience in dealing with new immigrant populations and students for whom English is not their native language.

Students at three New York public high schools designed for immigrants have just collaborated on a compelling book of photographs and first - person accounts called Forty - Cent Tip: Stories of Immigrant Workers in New York City, to be published by Next Generation Press in February 2006.

The Harvard Graduate School of Education is offering a new professional education program, Educating Immigrant Students: Attending to Individuals and Their Communities (EIS).

Analysts have cited a legion of reasons for the state's slide in achievement: the steady leaching of resources from the schools that was the inevitable result of the infamous 1970s property - tax revolt led by Howard Jarvis; a long period of economic woes caused by layoffs in the defense industry; curriculum experiments with «whole language» reading instruction and «new math» that were at best a distraction and at worst quite damaging; a school finance lawsuit that led to a dramatic increase in the state's authority over school budgets and operations; and a massive influx of new students and non-English-speaking immigrants that almost surely depressed test scores.

Teachers in new immigrant destinations — places that are seeing rapidly increasing numbers of immigrants — often find themselves dealing with a host of unexpected issues: immigrant students» unique socio - emotional needs, community conflict, a wider range of skills in English, lack of a common language for communication with parents, and more.

And the Streets Are Paved With Gold Submitted by Brenda Dyck Using the links provided, students explore the immigrant experience at Ellis Island, New York, at the turn of the century, and answer questions that challenge them to use thinking skills from various levels of Bloom's Taxonomy.

Due to a large influx of new immigrants and refugees to the area from Central America, Africa, and the Middle East — most notably Kurdistan and Syria, earning one neighborhood the nickname Little Kurdistan — at least 18 percent of MNPS students are now English - language learners, and a full third of students do not speak English at home.

Students from Alhambra, California — a predominantly immigrant Los Angeles suburb — write about how they'd spend a new influx of funding for the state's schools.

In deciding whether to prompt students to openly debate Donald Trump's proposal to create a registry for new Muslim immigrants, Northern's social studies teachers must weigh their commitments to professional neutrality, civic education, democratic values like religious freedom and respect for persons, and students» social - emotional well - being.

The largest district in the state, Schaumburg CCSD 54 was undergoing a transformation, with diverse immigrant cultures bringing 89 new languages into schools and swelling the student population to 14,000 students from preK to eighth grade.

WASHINGTON — The approval by the Congress last month of the most comprehensive revision of U.S. policy on legal immigration in decades has left educators unsure about the bill's impact on schools, with some experts warning that certain districts could see a new mix of immigrant students they are ill - prepared to handle.