Sentences with phrase «of public high school students»

While low nationally, the number of public high school students who earned college credit this year rose 10 percent, state Superintendent of Education John White said Thursday.

While low nationally, the number of public high school students who earned college credit this year rose 10 percent, state Superintendent of E...

Enrollment at out - of - boundary schools is higher in high schools in part because 20 percent of all public high school students attend DCPS application high schools, which require students to submit an application and admit students based on specific criteria or eligibility requirements.

In 2010, more than a tenth of all public high school students nationwide were suspended at least once.

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Stephen Schwarzman, Blackstone chairman and CEO, talks about why he gave a $ 25 million donation to his suburban public high school, and the need to prepare students for the workplace of the future.

The piece draws a comparison to Virginia's Fairfax County, which is similar in many ways to Westchester: They're both suburbs of big cities (New York and Washington, D.C.), they have similarly high home values, and they educate about the same number of students in public schools, which in both places have a good reputation.

Bill Gates was the most public face of Microsoft, but of course the company started as a partnership with the kid Gates met one day in a group of students crowded around a teletype machine in a Seattle high school.

Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson worked with the city of Philadelphia on a grant for public high school students interested in entrepreneurship.

The NRA, bolstered by Trump, has been a vocal proponent of allowing more guns in public places, including schools, but the exception for the convention has raised eyebrows and prompted skepticism among students and at least one parent who lost his child in the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in which 17 people were killed and others injured.

He has a position on the board of the student achievement and has the vision to start building smaller high schools to alleviate some of the stress that is placed on the public schools due from overcrowding and a shortage of money.

According to Progress Alberta's research, of the five Canadian provinces that subsidize private schools — the others are B.C., Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Quebec — Alberta's subsidy of 70 per cent of the amount paid per public and Catholic school student is the highest in the country.

All this despite the fact that private schooling doesn't actually yield better outcomes for students, according to a recent Statistics Canada report (instead, the apparent academic success of private school student is due to their socioeconomic backgrounds).9 A UBC study also found that students from public schools scored higher in first - year university classes than their private school counterparts.10

Stevens offered not a word of concern about whether religious students might feel themselves to be less than full members of the political community if, by order of the nation's highest court, their messages and only their messages are categorically excluded from the school's public arena.

Although the issue of homeschool student participation in public high school sports isn't exactly a pressing national concern, it hits pretty close to home in our family — both our kids are competitive club - level swimmers who could contribute to the success of our local high....

There are long waiting lists for apprenticeships and trade programs belied by some of the highest per - capita spending in the state for city public school students.

A more recent study is even more striking: «The achievement of students in Catholic high schools was less dependent on family background and personal circumstances than was true in the public schools.»

(I'd left a public high school with a total population of 1,000 and would later step into an enormous human ant bed crawling with 4,600 students.)

Experiments involving the measurement of blood sugar levels of elementary students in a public school revealed that the levels were characteristically high or low in certain classrooms.

Kim looks at SGKAs who are students at one highly selective public university and asks why, given their proficiency in English, impressive educational credentials earned in interracial high schools, and rosy occupational prospects — the attributes that make them «whiz kids» or a «model minority» in the eyes of some — they so often prefer to worship with their own kind.

Not long ago, my husband, a public high school teacher and coach, was in a car with two of his students.

Like almost all institutions of higher education, these schools, whether university - related or denominational, are buffeted by inflation, a decrease of public support, and a drop in student enrollment.

As a teacher of Global History and U.S. Government to public high school students, religion is an explicit part of my curriculum.

The SoCal High School Cycling League was organized in 2008 to provide a well defined race season for high school student - athletes and to promote the formation of teams at public and private high schoHigh School Cycling League was organized in 2008 to provide a well defined race season for high school student - athletes and to promote the formation of teams at public and private high scSchool Cycling League was organized in 2008 to provide a well defined race season for high school student - athletes and to promote the formation of teams at public and private high schohigh school student - athletes and to promote the formation of teams at public and private high scschool student - athletes and to promote the formation of teams at public and private high schohigh schools.

Berger, who spent 25 years working as a public school teacher and educational consultant in rural Massachusetts before joining Expeditionary Learning, clearly feels a special connection with those EL schools, like Polaris, that enroll high numbers of students growing up in adversity.

Roland Fryer, a celebrated young professor of economics at Harvard University, has spent the past decade testing out a variety of incentive schemes in experiments with public school students in Houston, New York, Chicago, and other American cities that have school systems with high poverty rates.

With a host of exciting Workshops and Breakout Groups, at our new Public Waldorf school location at George Washington Carver High School of Arts & Sciences, we gratefully thank the staff and students of Carver High school for helping create a smooth functioning and rich conference experschool location at George Washington Carver High School of Arts & Sciences, we gratefully thank the staff and students of Carver High school for helping create a smooth functioning and rich conference experSchool of Arts & Sciences, we gratefully thank the staff and students of Carver High school for helping create a smooth functioning and rich conference experschool for helping create a smooth functioning and rich conference experience.

Interscholastic Athletics: Statute 13 -36-4 (2003) gives the school board power to delegate the control, supervision, and regulation of any high school interscholastic activities to any voluntary, non-profit association Statute 13 -36-7 (2003) deems any student enrolled in a public school district eligible to participate in any interscholastic activity sponsored by the SD High School Activities Associschool board power to delegate the control, supervision, and regulation of any high school interscholastic activities to any voluntary, non-profit association Statute 13 -36-7 (2003) deems any student enrolled in a public school district eligible to participate in any interscholastic activity sponsored by the SD High School Activities Associathigh school interscholastic activities to any voluntary, non-profit association Statute 13 -36-7 (2003) deems any student enrolled in a public school district eligible to participate in any interscholastic activity sponsored by the SD High School Activities Associschool interscholastic activities to any voluntary, non-profit association Statute 13 -36-7 (2003) deems any student enrolled in a public school district eligible to participate in any interscholastic activity sponsored by the SD High School Activities Associschool district eligible to participate in any interscholastic activity sponsored by the SD High School Activities AssociatHigh School Activities AssociSchool Activities Association.

Asia Snyder, 16, a student at Julian High School in Chicago addresses the Chicago Board of Education as she speaks in favor of healthier meals in public schools.

But you wouldn't know it by listening to an angry coalition of high school students who plan to speak out on Chicago Public Schools meals Wednesday at the monthly Chicago Board of Education meeting.One of those students is Teresa Onstott, a sophomore at Social Justice High School who last week practiced a speech that details the «sickening pizza, chicken sandwiches and nachos» the district serves each day and urges the board not to renew the contract for the company providing the fhigh school students who plan to speak out on Chicago Public Schools meals Wednesday at the monthly Chicago Board of Education meeting.One of those students is Teresa Onstott, a sophomore at Social Justice High School who last week practiced a speech that details the «sickening pizza, chicken sandwiches and nachos» the district serves each day and urges the board not to renew the contract for the company providing theschool students who plan to speak out on Chicago Public Schools meals Wednesday at the monthly Chicago Board of Education meeting.One of those students is Teresa Onstott, a sophomore at Social Justice High School who last week practiced a speech that details the «sickening pizza, chicken sandwiches and nachos» the district serves each day and urges the board not to renew the contract for the company providing the fHigh School who last week practiced a speech that details the «sickening pizza, chicken sandwiches and nachos» the district serves each day and urges the board not to renew the contract for the company providing theSchool who last week practiced a speech that details the «sickening pizza, chicken sandwiches and nachos» the district serves each day and urges the board not to renew the contract for the company providing the food.

About 100,000 Chicago public high school students, 80 percent of whom qualify for free and reduced - price lunches, can choose nachos as an entree every day.

They largely refused to acknowledge that poverty rather than school quality was the root cause of the educational problems of disadvantaged kids, for fear that saying so would merely reinforce a long - standing belief among public educators that students unlucky enough to live in poverty shouldn't be expected to achieve at high levels — and public educators shouldn't be expected to get them there.

This action was taken despite the fact that our state ranks fifth in the nation for obesity among high school students, and despite public comments reportedly opposing the TDA's plan by an astounding margin of 105 to 8.

Varying surveys of both private and public high school students showed from 80 to 90 percent admitting to some form of cheating during the school year, from copying another student's work to cheating on a test.

The new Dr. Deirdre Loughlin Fund will link two of Deirdre's highest priorities: Broad Meadow Brook, where she has served for many, many years as chair of the advisory board; and Worcester Public Schools, where — as a teacher, and later, as a top administrator — she inspired generations of students to be curious and confident about science.

If you come from a low - income home — that's 2/3 of the District of Columbia Public School students — where breakfast is Doritos and some colored water and high fructose corn syrup called «juice» purchased at the convenience store on the way to school, with dinner not being much better, where do you learn about food and nutrSchool students — where breakfast is Doritos and some colored water and high fructose corn syrup called «juice» purchased at the convenience store on the way to school, with dinner not being much better, where do you learn about food and nutrschool, with dinner not being much better, where do you learn about food and nutrition?

Look for people with a medical background, or those with youngish kids in the public schools, or those who have fought similar battles in the past, especially battles based on the idea of social justice, that low income students deserve the same respect and services as higher income students.

Nancy Weiss Food Service Director, Santa Barbara (CA) Public Schools To tackle the stigma of free and reduced lunches in the high schools, Weiss has five «Mobile Cafes» (trendy food trucks donated by The Orfalea Foundation) that park outside the school and sell nutritious reimbursable meals to the high school students who otherwise might leave Schools To tackle the stigma of free and reduced lunches in the high schools, Weiss has five «Mobile Cafes» (trendy food trucks donated by The Orfalea Foundation) that park outside the school and sell nutritious reimbursable meals to the high school students who otherwise might leave schools, Weiss has five «Mobile Cafes» (trendy food trucks donated by The Orfalea Foundation) that park outside the school and sell nutritious reimbursable meals to the high school students who otherwise might leave campus.

From the grieving students swarming Tallahassee to the public grilling of Sen. Marco Rubio at a CNN forum last night, Florida — long a proving ground for national gun policy — is again at the center of the storm in the wake of last week's mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in suburban Fort Lauderdale.

«Maintaining mayoral control of city schools is critical to students, parents and employers who all depend on high quality public schools,» said Kathryn Wylde, President & CEO of the Partnership for New York City.

This follows a directive by the Ghana Education Service (GES), to heads of public Senior High Schools to charge final year students only half of the third term fees for the 2017/2018 academic year.

From the grieving students swarming Tallahassee Wednesday to the public grilling of Sen. Marco Rubio at a CNN forum Wednesday night, Florida — long a proving ground for national gun policy — is again at the center of the storm in the wake of last week's mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in suburban Fort Lauderdale.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott ordered government flags flown at half - staff through Monday in honor of victims of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, a public school of some 3,000 students outside Boca School, a public school of some 3,000 students outside Boca school of some 3,000 students outside Boca Raton.

The United Federation of Teachers (UFT) has argued that nearly half of the city's college - ready students come from only ten percent of the city's public high schools, including Bronx High School of Science, Stuyvesant High School, Brooklyn Tech High School, and Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and high schools, including Bronx High School of Science, Stuyvesant High School, Brooklyn Tech High School, and Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and High School of Science, Stuyvesant High School, Brooklyn Tech High School, and Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and High School, Brooklyn Tech High School, and Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and High School, and Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and High School of Music and Art.

«Gun control now,» Cuomo chanted, reclining on the sidewalk in his black suit and tie, along with students and teachers from nearby Leadership & Public Service High School who joined in nationwide school walkouts on the one - month anniversary of the Parkland shoSchool who joined in nationwide school walkouts on the one - month anniversary of the Parkland shoschool walkouts on the one - month anniversary of the Parkland shooting.

«I have enjoyed a great relationship with Gary over the years, from interning in his office when I was a high school student to having his support in all of my campaigns for public office, and I'll be supporting Gary this year in the new Sixth congressional district.»

She therefore appealed that the programme be extended to the Junior High department of various public schools as there were equally students in need at that level as well.

Each CEC consists of 12 members (9 elected members, 2 appointed by the Borough President and 1 non-voting high school student appointed by the superintendent) who serve as volunteers and provide hands - on leadership and support for their district's public schools.

The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act, named for the high school where 19 - year - old Nikolas Cruz used an AR - 15 to kill 17 students and school officials, raises Florida's minimum age for purchasing guns to 21, requires a three - day waiting period for firearms purchases, bans the sale of bump stocks, and, controversially, sets aside $ 67 million to arm teachHigh School Public Safety Act, named for the high school where 19 - year - old Nikolas Cruz used an AR - 15 to kill 17 students and school officials, raises Florida's minimum age for purchasing guns to 21, requires a three - day waiting period for firearms purchases, bans the sale of bump stocks, and, controversially, sets aside $ 67 million to arm teaSchool Public Safety Act, named for the high school where 19 - year - old Nikolas Cruz used an AR - 15 to kill 17 students and school officials, raises Florida's minimum age for purchasing guns to 21, requires a three - day waiting period for firearms purchases, bans the sale of bump stocks, and, controversially, sets aside $ 67 million to arm teachhigh school where 19 - year - old Nikolas Cruz used an AR - 15 to kill 17 students and school officials, raises Florida's minimum age for purchasing guns to 21, requires a three - day waiting period for firearms purchases, bans the sale of bump stocks, and, controversially, sets aside $ 67 million to arm teaschool where 19 - year - old Nikolas Cruz used an AR - 15 to kill 17 students and school officials, raises Florida's minimum age for purchasing guns to 21, requires a three - day waiting period for firearms purchases, bans the sale of bump stocks, and, controversially, sets aside $ 67 million to arm teaschool officials, raises Florida's minimum age for purchasing guns to 21, requires a three - day waiting period for firearms purchases, bans the sale of bump stocks, and, controversially, sets aside $ 67 million to arm teachers.

Mayor de Blasio doesn't seem to want to have that discussion and just wants a rubber stamp renewal, but when 8 out of 10 students who walk across a stage and receive a New York City high school diploma need remediation in college, how can we say that this public school system is doing its job?»

NEW YORK — Twenty city public schools will implement longer school days for thousands of high - need students across the city as part of a pilot program this fall, the Department of Education and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced Monday.