Sentences with phrase «of school based»

For a district qualifying under this paragraph whose charter school tuition payments exceed 9 per cent of the school district's net school spending, the board shall only approve an application for the establishment of a commonwealth charter school if an applicant, or a provider with which an applicant proposes to contract, has a record of operating at least 1 school or similar program that demonstrates academic success and organizational viability and serves student populations similar to those the proposed school seeks to serve, from the following categories of students, those: (i) eligible for free lunch; (ii) eligible for reduced price lunch; (iii) that require special education; (iv) limited English - proficient of similar language proficiency level as measured by the Massachusetts English Proficiency Assessment examination; (v) sub-proficient, which shall mean students who have scored in the «needs improvement», «warning» or «failing» categories on the mathematics or English language arts exams of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System for 2 of the past 3 years or as defined by the department using a similar measurement; (vi) who are designated as at risk of dropping out of school based on predictors determined by the department; (vii) who have dropped out of school; or (viii) other at - risk students who should be targeted to eliminate achievement gaps among different groups of students.

He is the architect and CEO of a school based Medicaid Consortium, which is responsible for getting federal Medicaid reimbursements back to Nebraska school districts.

On May 4th, 2018 the Connecticut Association of School Based Health Centers held its Annual Statewide Conference, SBHCS: A Force For Change!

The Connecticut Association of School Based Health Centers is an advocacy and networking organization committed to increasing access to quality health care for all children and adolescents in Connecticut schools.

This, in turn, has increased motivation, and led to the development of in - depth professional dialogue about the direction of the school based on relationships grounded in mutual trust and respect.»

Jesse White - Fresé — Executive Director of CASBHC, and Sue Peters — Director of School Based Health Centers for New Haven Public Schools «SBHC Program, recently presented on «School Based Health Centers: Partners to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism» to the State Department of Education's Chronic Absence Workgroup.

The Budget Book also contains snapshots of individual school budgets to provide readers with an at - a-glance view of school based budgets and demographics that impact the budgets.

A summative rating might be a number or a letter, or it could be a categorization of a school based on a color (green, yellow or red), or an assessment, such as low, improving, quality or excellent, Litt said.

Last year, a survey of 30 providers by the National Association of School Based Teacher Trainers (NASBTT) found that more than a quarter of secondary school drop - outs were in maths.

Q5f Total number of students enrolled in grades K - 12 1 by School sector and Four - category level of school based on grade levels offered.

Percentage of schools that had students enrolled who received Title I services by School has a magnet program, School has special requirements when admitting students, Percentage of students who went to a 4 - yr college, Charter school identifier, Four - category level of school based on grade levels offered, and Collapsed urban - centric school locale code.

Three - category level of school based on grade levels offered by Collapsed urban - centric school locale code.

Q1 School offers 12th grade with (percent = 1) by Three - category level of school based on grade levels offered.

Level Two: Candidates write a brief case study of the school based on Dr. Baralié's responses incorporating background information and identifying challenges.

The National Association of School Based Teacher Trainers (NASBTT) and the Universities» Council for the Education of Teachers (UCET) are launching the Association of Accredited Teacher Education Providers (AATEP), the legal status of which is expected to be finalised «in the next month».

Lizana Oberholzer of the National Association of School Based Teacher Trainers said: «The reduction of bursaries could mean it is not attractive for people to train to teach.»

Lisa contributed to the first research study to use subjective and objective data to examine the acute and longitudinal effects of a school based yoga intervention in young children.

Lisa contributed to the first published research study to use subjective and objective data to examine the acute and longitudinal effects of a school based yoga intervention in young children.

I'm not interviewing him at conference this year, friends did so earlier today (I'm only going for bits of the weekend, joys of a school based job), but last time I did, we discussed the left wing thing very heavily, he's deeply committed to left wing, liberal values.

«The major policy implication of this review of research on games for learning is that it is premature to call for a major overhaul of schools based on computer games: The research certainly does not warrant extensive replacement of current educational practices with practices based on computer games,» Mayer concluded.

At Bright Futures Educational Trust, a partnership of schools based in the North West, mindfulness is already taught across the Trust with more than half of its staff trained in mindfulness practices.

For example, high - poverty schools (those with at least 80 percent FRL students) make up just 4 percent of schools in the top one - quarter of all schools based on the SGP approach and 10 percent of top - quarter schools based on the one - step value - added approach.

Another approach could be to review schools» performance in the lowest two performance levels on assessments, then narrow the pool of schools based on performance on another indicator, and repeat this process for all indicators until five percent of the lowest performing schools are identified.

The statute does not prescribe that «proficiency» be interpreted to compel differentiation of schools based exclusively on «proficiency rates.»

How it works: the state identifies its bottom five percent of schools based on their students» performance on standardized tests and marks them «priority schools,» placing them within the state - controlled Achievement School District with the goal of lifting them up into the state's top 25 percent within five years.

RLI was a (quasi) effort to «equalize» funding across districts to deal with the unconstitutional funding of schools based on the revenue generated by local property taxes.

Organized by the Community Coalition, the groups presented a comprehensive, data - driven «Student Need Index» that uses environmental, social and academic factors known to impact student achievement — such as poverty and violence — to produce a district - wide ranking of schools based on need.

One tab teachers can select when they log into their dashboards is a comparison of schools based on the Georgia state tests.

We Recognize that to improve means we must consistently and accurately assess current conditions of our schools based on appropriate data that aligns with our national goals.

These are the contending purposes of public education that David Labaree discussed in his 1997 essay entitled «Public Goods, Private Goods,» arguing that American education had become too lopsided in favoring a view of schooling based upon individuals accumulating credentials for their own private benefit.

Once you've created your short list of schools based on the above criteria consider other factors that are important to you.

Early value - added modeling of schools based on longitudinal data suggested that students with similar backgrounds experience very different growth rates depending on the schools they attend.

An increasing number of schools base their curricula on the interests expressed by the learners, and some have non-compulsory class attendance.

This is due in large part to federal school classification requirements, which were specific by design to label and differentiate treatment of schools based on whether they met annual reading and math proficiency targets.2 This often led to narrow or simple pass / fail categorization systems based on schools meeting incrementally increasing state targets for test scores and graduation rates.

He breaks down the achievement of schools based on the percentage of students of color in the school.

By selecting your city or school district you get a ranking of schools based on the results of these standardized tests.

Not exact matches

Re / code talked to After School's creators — Cory Levy and Michael Callahan (of One, a San Francisco - based social media startup), and asked them some questions about their app and about how they plan on combatting the obvious strain of bullying that goes hand - in - hand with anonymous apps such as theirs.

It is no coincidence that the school system in Finland, the darling of the international educational community for its superior test scores, is built on an experience - based model, where science and math are taught through doing, and labs take precedence over textbooks.

Catherine Lhamon, the Department of Education's assistant secretary for civil rights, said in a statement that the government would «vigorously enforce Title IX's prohibition against discrimination on the basis of sex, including gender identity, in every applicable school.»

And that, says Joanna Piros, a Vancouver - based communications coach who teaches at Sauder School of Business, makes people leery of those who profess omniscience.

Thanks to careful data gathering, the new story the school told was based on facts instead of feelings.

But the school Wednesday got a hint of validation to the tune of $ 5.5 million in investment in a round led by Cambridge - based venture - capital firm Charles River Ventures and New York City - based Matrix Partners.

The study, headed by Professor Edward Guinan of the school's astronomy and astrophysics department, initially looked at which crops would thrive in soil that is similar to that found on Mars (based on readings taken by the Phoenix Mars lander and samples recreated on earth).

Business analysts (who were young and fresh out of school, remember) were judged based on the percentage of their products that were in stock at any given time, and a low percentage would result in a phone call from a vice-president demanding an explanation.

Freddie Wong, whose channel has 7.5 million subscribers, is the Los Angeles — based creator of Video Game High School.

When she first started talking about how the school needed to become more diverse, she says, «I was surprised to find out the meme around Harvey Mudd was that we are a merit - based institution and bringing in more women or people of color would mean lowering our standards.»

It also funds the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, which is based out of the London School of Economics, and it supports Imperial College London's Grantham Institute for Climate Change.

Arguing that half of dropouts leave the educational system because their classes don't seem relevant to their lives, NuSkool bases its instructional materials on topics more likely to interest high school students.

He started his first business, a paintball company, in high school, and his second, a Vernon, B.C. — based pizza - by - the - slice joint called Growlies, in lieu of finishing his last year of business school at the University of Victoria.

Ashu Desai, co-founder of San Francisco - based Make School, a new alternative to the four - year Computer Science degree, says he knows how to do it.