Sentences with phrase «of school attendance zones»

Alvin Chang (Vox): An honorary education writer by virtue of his frequent coverage of issues affecting education, Chang has produced a series of helpful, accessible stories on issues like housing segregation, affirmative action, and the impact of school attendance zones on school integregation that have been a great pleasure to see in recent weeks and months.

It also follows a natural experiment we examined in which students affected by the redrawing of school attendance zone boundaries were essentially randomly assigned to schools that went on more or fewer field trips to see live performances at the Walton Arts Center.

Not exact matches

We are also going to use attendance zone boundaries as an exogenous source of variation to make stronger causal claims about how past school field trips may have contributed to current behaviors and attitudes.

Justice Kennedy offered what he regarded as acceptable methods of considering race such as «strategic site selection of new schools; drawing attendance zones with general recognition of the demographics of neighborhoods; allocating resources for special programs; recruiting students and faculty in a targeted fashion; and tracking enrollments, performance, and other statistics by race.»

As it turns out, both of the school districts in this study had experienced rapid enrollment growth and built several new elementary and middle schools, forcing attendance zone boundaries to be re-drawn.

Thus the redrawing of school attendance boundaries as contiguous neighborhood zones led to a marked increase in segregation in CMS schools (Mickelson 2005, Godwin et al. 2007, Jackson 2009).

The 5,000 - student Montclair district is one of only a few nationwide that have eliminated school - attendance zones and require all parents to choose their children's schools.

Among other findings, they concluded that 1) white enrollment declined much more in the year of plan implementation than in subsequent years, and 2) pairing and clustering, the desegregation technique that involved the joining of schools with initially very different black and white enrollment shares into a single attendance zone, produced the largest average white - enrollment losses surrounding plan implementation in the period of greatest desegregation activity.

Under an intradistrict choice policy, a family is able to choose any traditional public school within their school district, even if it falls outside of their local school attendance zone.

Of those families, 78 percent have a single public school within their attendance zone.

One of New York City's neighborhood school districts has eliminated its attendance zones for junior - high schools and will require incoming seventh graders to choose which schools they will attend in September.

(Maybe a handful of west - of - the - park D.C. schools would have made the list, but I doubt it, thanks to the preponderance of apartment buildings in their attendance zones.)

But did you know that you can also learn about the relative wealth of each school's attendance zone?

Whether district - run, state - run, or charters, all of these schools operate under a system of public choice without attendance zones.

They compared enrollment patterns in the Auckland, Christchurch, and Wellington urban areas with changes in the number and ethnic composition of school - age children in the schools» attendance zones.

Scholarships can be awarded to students with household incomes equal or less than 150 % of the median household income and that were zoned to attend a failing public school the previous semester, although previous public school attendance is not required.

Such measures may include strategic site selection of new schools; drawing attendance zones with general recognition of neighborhood demographics; allocating resources for special programs; recruiting students and faculty in a targeted fashion; and tracking enrollments, performance, and other statistics by race.

School attendance zones, which assign children to a particular school by their neighborhood of residence, do curtail this kind of frSchool attendance zones, which assign children to a particular school by their neighborhood of residence, do curtail this kind of frschool by their neighborhood of residence, do curtail this kind of freedom.

In lieu of attending the school serving the attendance zone in which the child is temporarily relocated, such child may choose to remain in the public school building he or she previously attended until the end of the school year and for one additional year if that year constitutes the child's terminal year in such building.

This is the closest we have come to realizing the groundbreaking vision of education innovator Ted Kolderie, who first wrote about the critical nature of breaking the exclusive franchise of traditional school districts holding parents captive based on zoned attendance.

Whenever the school district of current location is designated, the child shall be entitled to attend the school that is zoned for his or her temporary location or any school that nonhomeless students who live in the same attendance zone in which the homeless child or youth is temporarily residing are entitled to attend.

Once the private school determines the percentage of students in the school who are Title I eligible using the appropriate metrics and supplies that information to the LEA, the LEA then matches the addresses of eligible private school students to the students» public school attendance zone.

A homeless child who designates the school district of current location as the district of attendance and who relocates to another temporary housing arrangement outside of such district, or to a different attendance zone or community school district within such district, shall be entitled to maintain the prior designation to continue attendance in the same school building until the end of the school year and for one additional year if the year constitutes the child's terminal year in such building.

Middle class families — place - bound; not highly mobile — wall themselves off within the educational equivalent of gated communities through attendance zones, selective schools, and district lines.

Within the span of one year, all public - school employees were fired, the teacher contract expired and was not replaced, and most attendance zones were eliminated.

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.

Opportunity scholarships (commonly referred to as vouchers) would be based on income and residence within the attendance zones of the lowest - performing 5 % of schools across the state.

In extreme cases, however, attendance zones are deliberately drawn to exclude poor students from affluent schools.60 However, gerrymandering attendance zones is far less common than drawing zones that merely reflect the characteristics of the local area.61 Most school assignment systems sort students based on their place of residence, mimicking patterns of housing segregation.

For example, Stamford Public Schools in Connecticut, draws its attendance zone boundaries so that all schools are within 10 percentage points of the district's average share of «educationally disadvantaged» stSchools in Connecticut, draws its attendance zone boundaries so that all schools are within 10 percentage points of the district's average share of «educationally disadvantaged» stschools are within 10 percentage points of the district's average share of «educationally disadvantaged» students.

Districts should shift away from the traditional notion of a neighborhood school and redraw attendance zone boundaries so that they transcend neighborhood lines.

There are dedicated attendance zones for each elementary school, as well as flexible attendance zones — in which newly registering students may attend one of two or more schools in order to balance class sizes.

Moreover, the report included case studies of three school districts, located in separate areas of the country, each using different strategies to voluntarily increase racial and socioeconomic diversity, such as utilizing magnet schools, new student attendance zones, and school choice policies.

A charter school operated by a hope operator which serves students from one or more persistently low - performing schools; is located in the attendance zone of a persistently low - performing school or within a 5 - mile radius of such school, whichever is greater; and is a Title I eligible school.

Officials at the STEM - focused K - 5 school said there is a preliminary enrollment of 625 students though school leaders initially anticipated serving about 400 pupils from a county - wide attendance zone.

Wisconsin's statewide Parental Choice Program is open to any income - qualified child who resides outside of the attendance zones for Milwaukee Public Schools and the Racine Unified School District.

This new analysis finds that nearly 50 percent of all students in nine Maricopa County district attendance zones do not attend their assigned district school.

School divisions should work with private school leaders to determine on the method or source of data that will be used to identify the number of eligible private school children from families residing in participating public school attendance School divisions should work with private school leaders to determine on the method or source of data that will be used to identify the number of eligible private school children from families residing in participating public school attendance school leaders to determine on the method or source of data that will be used to identify the number of eligible private school children from families residing in participating public school attendance school children from families residing in participating public school attendance school attendance zones.

The first peer - reviewed research released on co-location, the study looked at nearly 900,000 students in grades 3 - 5 who attended a traditional public school in an attendance zone that included a charter school serving at least one of those grades between 1996 and 2010.

He criticized districts such as his home county of Pasco, where 100 percent of schools are listed as «schools of choice» despite several being frozen to admission from outside their attendance zones.

«This not only includes the nearly two - thirds of school - aged children who have access to public schools outside their attendance zone.

For example, schools can draw attendance zones based on the racial composition of particular neighborhoods because students in those neighborhoods would be treated the same regardless of race.

Public school systems enroll any student who comes into the district's attendance zone from ages 5 to 21 — no matter their handicapping condition, lack of prior education, first language, or even disciplinary or criminal record.

He said that the dearth of other options led him to sign a lease for the building, and he believes that — because charter schools enroll students from across the city — most of Harmony's students will come from outside of Langley's attendance zone and outside of Ward 5.

The New Orleans Advocate Jeff School Board adjusts east bank attendance zones ahead of Bunche reopening

b. Students who move into a flexible attendance zone will be assigned to one of the designated flex zone schools for that zone if there is space available in their grade level.

All of the schools will have statewide attendance zones, meaning the schools will welcome students from any school district to attend and all students in the state will have an equal chance of enrolling in the schools.

To find out the attendance zone of a specific charter school, contact the school directly or visit the school's website.

Orleans Parish School Board has an impressive pre - and post-storm history of letting autonomous schools draft their own attendance zones and set their own academic criteria for entry.

The 3 eligibility requirements are: (1) school leader (principal) identified and part of the application team, (2) school leader has school - based leadership experience, and (3) school plans to open within the APS attendance zone.

The ideas of having school attendance zones that are open with no boundaries however could be a major challenge.