Sentences with phrase «of alternative high schools»

Fifty - seven percent of alternative high schools are low - graduation - rate schools.

In the 1970's she started and oversaw a network of alternative high schools in eight states.

She had just completed a four - year stint as one of Joel Klein's top lieutenants, as senior superintendent in charge of alternative high schools and programs, which served 30,000 students under 21 and 60,000 students in correctional facilities, suspension centers, and drug treatment centers in addition to students seeking a GED, career / technical education, and teen pregnancy services.

(I was a teacher then a principal of an alternative high school for at - risk teens.)

He has been director of an alternative high school, computer coordinator, technology consultant and university lecturer.

Dennis comes to this dialogue as a former high school teacher, director of an alternative high school, director of a teacher center, author, consultant, and the former Executive Director of Learning Forward.

Education agency spokeswoman Debbie Ratcliffe said «there has never been a definite timeline for implementation» of the alternative high school equivalency exams.

The combination of the high dropout rate from U.S. high schools and a harsh economy puts too many uncredentialed young people at great risk, argues Ransel, principal of an alternative high school in Las Vegas.

Not exact matches

A student who attended the same alternative high school as Cruz after Cruz's expulsion said Cruz was known to have flaunted pictures of firearms on his phone.

The fact that the bag is proudly toted by high school students (as a stylish backpack alternative) and senior citizens alike would seem to point to something of a sociological anomaly.

Columbus High School junior Patrick Chappel, 16, isn't satisfied with the Muscogee County School District's response to criticism of its video conference with state legislators, an alternative event conducted during the hour before the National Sc

FOSTER CITY, Calif., Sept. 1, 2011 / PRNewswire / — FRS ® Healthy Energy is set to kick off the football season and continue its mission to provide healthy alternatives to America's young adults during the seventh annual Kirk Herbstreit National Kickoff Classic, a series of nationally televised high school football games Labor Day weekend.

I go back and watch all of the 90s alternative stuff I was (and still am) into from my middle and high school days.

Yet a growing number of local high school athletes are making cryotherapy — the whole - body or localized use of extreme cold temperatures in therapy — a hot new sports medicine alternative.

Since boys at highest risk of becoming early fathers can be identified from age eight (see below) engaging with such young males in highly specialised programmes early on (to teach basic life skills, address negative peer influences, promote school success and direct them to alternatives other than early parenthood) is indicated, in order to reduce sexual risk - taking and early fatherhood (Thornberry et al, 2004)

So is the food program that drastically changed the behavior of delinquent teens at an alternative high school in Wisconsin.

Alternative breakfast model selection should include the «best practice» of Breakfast in the Classroom for elementary schools and «Grab - n - Go» for middle / high schools

Consolidated High School District 230 in Orland Park earlier this month authorized the petition for annexation of Sandburg High School, in Palos Township, and Willow Grove School, the district's alternative school in unincorporated Orland Park, said district spokesman Jim SSchool District 230 in Orland Park earlier this month authorized the petition for annexation of Sandburg High School, in Palos Township, and Willow Grove School, the district's alternative school in unincorporated Orland Park, said district spokesman Jim SSchool, in Palos Township, and Willow Grove School, the district's alternative school in unincorporated Orland Park, said district spokesman Jim SSchool, the district's alternative school in unincorporated Orland Park, said district spokesman Jim Sschool in unincorporated Orland Park, said district spokesman Jim Sibley.

This effort is intended to offer an alternative to the prevailing notion in so many schools of success as high academic performance, often at the cost of children's mental and physical health, character and integrity.

Her genial foil is Paul Rudd, who runs a rural New Hampshire high school that's a progressive Eden of alternative educational grooviness.

She joined the New York City Departmenet of Education in 2006 as a superintendent of the city's alternative high schools.

Better alignment of English as a Second Language (ESL) programs with the needs of our English language learners, including expansion of the APPLE model, an alternative high school program for 17 - 18 year - old students to learn the language, graduate, and get a job or go to college.

Instead of facilitating the growth of high - performing alternative school models, Mayor de Blasio has continually opposed and obstructed their expansion.

A lawsuit filed by AG Eric Schneiderman against the Utica City School District charges that children over 16 were funneled into alternative programs, in which they could not earn credits toward a diploma, as part of a broad program aimed at barring immigrants from the district's only public high sSchool District charges that children over 16 were funneled into alternative programs, in which they could not earn credits toward a diploma, as part of a broad program aimed at barring immigrants from the district's only public high schoolschool.

A lawsuit filed on Tuesday by the state attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, against the Utica City School District charges that children over 16 were funneled into alternative programs, in which they could not earn credits toward a diploma, as part of a broad program aimed at barring immigrants from the district's only public high sSchool District charges that children over 16 were funneled into alternative programs, in which they could not earn credits toward a diploma, as part of a broad program aimed at barring immigrants from the district's only public high schoolschool.

They pointed to the experience of Texas, Florida, and California, which have substituted admissions based on high school class rank for race - conscious policies (although the extent of their success has been disputed)(4 - 6), as evidence that there are workable alternatives.

Self - driving vehicles, battery alternatives and analyses of galaxy clusters claim top prizes at global high school science competition.

Cruzan entered the high school teaching profession through one of the so - called «alternative pathways» to certification that exist in nearly every state, which allow participants to earn state teaching credentials without taking a traditional bachelors or graduate degree in teaching.

«PROMISE establishes CTA as a viable alternative to stress testing for the evaluation of patients with suspected coronary disease,» said Udo Hoffmann, M.D., principal investigator of the PROMISE Imaging Core and Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School and Director of Cardiovascular Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital «With the addition of high - risk plaque assessment and CT fractional flow reserve technology on the horizon, we may have yet to see the full potential of CTA.»

«Our findings present a need for broadening local food opportunities beyond the privileged, higher - income consumer, through alternative payment plans and strategic efforts that make fresh foods accessible to a diversity of people,» said James Farmer, assistant professor in the Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Studies in the IU School of Public Health - Bloomington.

I have graduated high school and would to like to get a degree in alternative medicine, then to eventually have a business based off of it.

Garofalo's prolific output continued in 1997; in addition to starring roles in two comedies, Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion and The Matchmaker, she was featured prominently in James Mangold's Cop Land and Paul Schrader's Touch, she hosted the MTV series Indie Outing, and she remained a fixture of the emerging alternative comedy circuit.

Portia visits New Quest alternative high school at the invitation of former Dartmouth classmate John (Paul Rudd), a New Quest teacher.

The board voted unanimously last month to provide an alternative to the existing plan for 75 hours of mandated student service over the middle - and high - school years.

There are two options for the tasks, page 6 is a general version, and page 7 is an alternative that could be used at the end of Year 6 when discussing starting high school.

My aim is to stop pretending that high school or college students with very low basic skills have a real shot of earning a college degree — so that they might follow an alternative path that will lead to success.

Also,» «Ea» (pronounced ay - AH) will enable you to recognize at least one alternative perspective about the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom not present in your high school history textbook.

Teachers told me that most NovaNET courses are comparable to textbook - based courses in length and content — a comeback to critics who talk of watered - down curricula at alternative schools — but that many students move through them more quickly, and often finish high school a semester early.

The committee touts the possibility of alternative incentives to exit exams: «Several experiments with providing incentives for graduation in the form of rewards, while keeping graduation standards constant, suggest that such incentives might be used to increase high school completion.»

So what are states, school districts, higher education, and alternative programs doing to prepare our future principals for all of this?

«I don't think the age of the teacher has a lot to do with it,» says Laura B. Crochet, principal at Genesis Alternative High School in Houma, Louisiana.

He is also a full - time teacher and staff developer for the Alternative High Schools of New York City, currently working at Bronx Tech High School.

Produced by the National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC), 180 Days: A Year Inside an American High School tells the story of the first graduating class at Washington Metropolitan High School (DC Met), an alternative school for at - risk School tells the story of the first graduating class at Washington Metropolitan High School (DC Met), an alternative school for at - risk School (DC Met), an alternative school for at - risk school for at - risk youth.

Another problem is the sheer lack of high - quality public school alternatives within reasonable driving distance of many a failing urban school; given the choice between the low - performing school in their own neighborhood and the mediocre school ten miles away, parents may stick to the path of least resistance.

With roughly 30 percent of American students dropping out before receiving a diploma — a rate that has been stable for several decades — assessing existing alternatives to the traditional high school is an urgent task.

That is the secret to the success of Florida Virtual School, a state - run high school that offers alternatives to local district courses that any student in the Florida maySchool, a state - run high school that offers alternatives to local district courses that any student in the Florida mayschool that offers alternatives to local district courses that any student in the Florida may take.

Instead Symonds stressed the importance of building a high - quality American education system that values alternatives to earning a bachelor's degree, such as earning an associate's degree or attending a certificate program after high school.

The cost of effective peer tutoring is higher than alternatives, such as computer - assisted instruction or smaller class sizes or longer school days, because of the needs for adult personnel to coordinate, train, and monitor the student tutors.

Homelessness, food insecurity, trauma, past school suspensions, and anxiety are just part of a student's profile that Karapetyan captures as the data and accountability manager at Boston Day and Evening Academy (BDEA), a competency - based alternative high school program in the Boston Public Schools, often described as a second - chance school.

In Virginia and North Carolina, for example, more than two - thirds of the high schools use alternative schedules.