Sentences with phrase «of magnet students»

Most of the magnet students live at least half an hour away.

In the analysis of the Smarter Balanced Assessments, 61 percent of magnet students met or exceeded standards in English - Language Arts (ELA), compared with 45 percent of independent charter students.

On the math assessments, 48 percent of magnet students met or exceeded standards, while 31 percent of independent charter students hit those marks.

In the analysis of the Smarter Balanced Assessments, 61 percent of magnet students met or exceeded...

Not exact matches

We can also do other simple experiments — two identical poles of a magnet always being repulsive, with the students praying that they will attract.

Despite representing a school where more than 60 % of the students are from low - income families, the chess team consistently beats wealthy kids from private schools and magnet schools.

City school officials said Kinsella needs to remain its own school because of its magnet status under the state's Sheff v. O'Neill pact, where city and suburban students are enrolled through a state - run lottery engineered for racial integration.

He supports charter schools, school choice within a district, and «money follows the child,» a program in which students who attend magnet or charter schools bring education funding with them instead of sharing it with their old school district.

New York City has won a chunk of federal funding that is designed to create or expand magnet programs with the goal of attracting more students of color to schools.

Foley's education plan includes policies such as school choice within a district and «money follows the child» - a program where students who attend magnet or charter schools bring the education funding with them instead of sharing it with their old school district.

Students of human pathos may one day cherish the 16 - minute recording of me, with my 100 percent positive - feedback rating as an eBay purchaser, failing to make renowned physicist Steven Weinberg, who won a Nobel for unifying electromagnetism with the so - called weak force, admit that he can't explain how a magnet holds a dry - cleaning ticket to the door of a refrigerator.

The Weizmann team, led by Ph.D. students Liron Gal and Yoav Politi in Arama's group, together with former senior intern Yossi Kalifa and former Ph.D. student Liat Ravid, and with the assistance of Prof. Zvulun Elazar of the Biological Chemistry Department, found that as soon as the sperm enters the egg, the cellular vesicles — already present in the fruit fly egg — immediately attract to the sperm like a magnet.

Brad Sturgeon is currently a chemistry instructor at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics in Durham, a residential, public, magnet school for junior and senior high school students.

«The work shows how magnetization of nanoscale magnets can be steered by intense ultrashort electron pulses,» said Alexander Schäffer, a doctoral student at Martin - Luther - Universität Halle - Wittenberg in Halle, Germany, and lead author of the paper.

As big of a deal as this is to the unassuming radio producer, it is the people surrounding him that make a drama to his life: best friend Kyle (Seth Rogen, Green Hornet) thinks cancer will be a chick magnet; girlfriend Rachael (Bryce Dallas Howard, The Help) is struggling to cope; student therapist Katherine (Anna Kendrick, Twilight) has him in a tailspin; and his mother (Anjelica Huston, Smash) immediately responds «I'm moving in» to his dinnertime announcement.

For example, in Hartford, Connecticut, a legal decision created a system of regional magnet schools that attract students of color from the impoverished city and students from the working - class towns and affluent suburbs that surround it.

In Montclair, New Jersey, a racially diverse group of parents works to strengthen magnet schools that bring together students from varying racial and economic groups.

Inter-district magnet schools in Connecticut provide a current example outside the scope of traditional school districts as to the way charters might draw students across district boundary lines to create high - quality, integrated schooling options.

Piedmont is an inner - city magnet program serving approximately 700 students, half of whom qualify for the federal free and reduced lunch program.

Wildwood International Baccalaureate World Magnet School is a public, non-selective enrollment neighborhood magnet school in an affluent part of Chicago, offering available seats to students city - wide.

About 39 percent of WCPSS students attended magnet schools between 2000 and 2006.

First, there is of course great need to understand how effective magnet schools are for the students that attend them.

[7] In terms of the proportion of students receiving free - or reduced - price lunch, both magnet and charter schools are less impoverished than traditional public schools in their same districts in most states (exceptions include Nevada for both magnets and charters and Florida and North Carolina for magnets only).

Even students in the middle of the G&T distribution are likely to experience a loss of ranking in the magnet G&T schools as compared to their neighborhood schools.

• What are the most typical types of magnets in California and how do student characteristics differ across magnet types?

Georgia stretched the interpretation of a state law too far when it concluded in 1978 that it did not need to count students in the DeKalb County district's magnet school program and those in a voluntary - integration program when it calculated transportation costs to be paid to the district, Judge Bensonetta Tipton Lane of Fulton County Superior Court said in a Sept....

Our lottery analysis is based on the sample of LUSD 5th - grade students determined to be eligible for G&T programs in 2007 — 08 who applied for admission to one of the two middle schools with an oversubscribed G&T magnet program.

Whereas most of the energy in the school choice debates has focused on vouchers and charter schools, relatively little attention has been paid to another important choice model that serves as many students as charters and has been in existence for longer — magnet schools.

In fact, according to the Common Core of Data, magnet schools serve more total students (2.52 million) than charter schools (2.19 million).

Our analysis compares the performance of students who win the lottery and attend one of the G&T magnet programs to those who lose the lottery and either attend a neighborhood G&T program in the district, a magnet school based on a different specialty, or a charter school.

The lottery process allowed the researchers to compare the performance of students who won the lottery with those who lost the lottery and either attended a neighborhood G&T program, a charter school, or an alternative magnet school.

April 7, 2016 — To better meet the unique needs of different students, urban districts are increasingly expanding the options available to families by providing a variety of public schools: traditional, magnet, charter, and hybrid models.

According to Liz Dunbar, teacher, Webmaster, and academic coordinator of technology at the humanities magnet high school, «At Baltimore City College, as at every other [Maryland] high school, students must earn service - learning hours to graduate.

At that time, any student who attended one of four magnet cluster schools had the option of remaining in his or her neighborhood school; the additional students were recruited from across the district.

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Under the terms of a court settlement reached with the aid of a nationally known desegregation researcher, the San Francisco Unified School District will open a currently unused facility to house the entire student body of a magnet middle school affected by the district's asbestos - cleanup program.

Finally, the Supreme Court, responding to one of many state appeals, decreed in 1995 by a 5 — 4 vote that Judge Clark could not impose a program of magnet schools to attract white students from the suburbs.

Growing quickly, it became a magnet for noted law faculty, conveying to students that conservative thought was worthy of consideration and creating a safe space to question law school orthodoxies.

At this K - 5 magnet school based on Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences, staff members use all kinds of ways to reach students and tap their interests and skills — including knitting.

This compares with 16 percent of students in assigned public schools, 22 percent in magnet public schools, 28 percent in other religious schools, and 38 percent in secular private schools.

Instead of cutting staff, however, the district is trying to hold on to more students by expanding its popular magnet - school programs, adding thousands of new seats for 2016 — 17.

The New York City school system's magnet - schools admissions procedure appears to offer students a choice of schools without leading to increased segregation by race or class, a new study asserts.

In 2001 only the federal appeals court covering the states of Connecticut, New York, and Vermont had upheld the use of race in student assignment or magnet school admissions in school districts not already under court order; it did so on the grounds that the state had a compelling interest in racial diversity.

Even older and well - established «examination schools,» such as Boston Latin and City Honors (in Buffalo), would soon claim magnet status to avail themselves of new students and additional funds.

Though the program falls under the law's choice provisions, the federal government still considers magnets an important aspect of desegregation policy, defining a magnet school as one that «offers a special curriculum capable of attracting substantial numbers of students of different racial backgrounds.»

At Boody, for example, some students have elected to forgo a few of the school's magnet classes to catch up in math.

The case was brought last month by the parents of three white preschoolers who were denied admission to next fall's kindergarten class at the Arlington Traditional School, a countywide magnet school serving about 300 students in grades K - 5.

The evidence from a study of New York's magnet schools for secondary students «seems to indicate that it is possible to construct a public high - school choice system that eliminates some of the worst excesses of an unfettered choice plan,» the study says.

Using a complicated formula approved by the court, the state funds magnet schools that accept students from several different districts (at a minimum there must be two) at a per - pupil rate that increases as the number of districts sending students increases — an attempt to bring central - city minority students and white suburban students together in the same school.

At least in areas where there is a critical mass of highly and exceptionally gifted math students, a better solution may be to group them together in a magnet school with unusually rigorous classes that go above and beyond the normal «honors» or «advanced» curriculum.