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The CFPB also released the Student Debt Repayment Assistant, an online tool that provides borrowers, many of whom may be struggling with repayment, with information on income - based repayment, deferments, alternative payment programs, and much more.

For instance, the Income - Driven Repayment program sets aside a portion of a borrower's income during repayment, and others such as the Pell Grant program try providing alternatives to student loans

But the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which runs the lunch program, says it is acceptable to give students an alternative (such as lactose - free milk, soy milk or almond milk) if a parent submits a simple request.

He cites instances of teachers who buy snacks for their students out of their own pockets, snacks that may sometimes not be the healthiest options, noting that the after - school program not only offers a free alternative but also one guaranteed to provide only healthy fare.

In a statement calling for more restrictions on the sale of competitive alternative foods, the American School Food Service Association, a national organization of school food - service workers, says «students are being put in a position of deciding between nutritious and non-nutritious foods while the financial and nutritional integrity of the child nutrition programs are being jeopardized.»

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.

I outlined examples of programs, such as career planning offices, manuals, career assistance Web sites, and student - run seminars on alternative careers.

Indeed, a unique aspect of this program has been its flexibility; students are able to pursue several alternative routes to a degree — through math, ecology, computer science, or environmental toxicology — all within the mathematical ecology program.

A 1998 report from the National Research Council recommended that the Ph.D. remain a research - intensive degree but added that «graduate programs should expand their efforts to help students learn about the diversity of career opportunities open to them, and university departments should examine possible alternatives to the research Ph.D.»

«Institutions that are required to freeze in - state students» tuition rates for four years may use alternative revenue streams such as required fees and nonresident tuition to offset the loss of flexibility inherent in guaranteed - tuition programs.»

With the goal of engaging and informing the student and postdoc population of the ASCB, the Communications Subcommittee maintains the COMPASS Points Blog, a forum where postdocs and students can find information about ASCB programs / events, opportunities for networking, information about alternative careers, and career advancement opportunities.

In my personal world (one that, at times, seems to take on fictional overtones), the image of Cobble's Knot provides a nice way to begin pulling at the threads of my own practice as I implement a new arts - based alternative program for seventh - and eighth - grade students.

Rather than simply providing an alternative to neighborhood public schools for a handful of students, the theory says, school choice programs actually benefit students remaining in their neighborhood schools, too.

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.

For the past three years, I have been working on the implementation of arts@newman — an alternative, arts - based program for grades 7 - 8 designed to better engage some of those students who find themselves hanging out at the edges of this place we call school.

For the vast majority of online students, the alternative is not an in - person degree program but rather no degree at all.

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.

Perhaps more telling were the results of a Gallup poll of students in the county's alternative school programs.

One recent study in Kansas found that school districts had to obtain express statutory authority to hire lobbyists; operate alternative schools; share guidance programs; enter into interdistrict agreements to share personnel or computer systems; pay dues to the Kansas Association of School Boards; educate military dependents; or obtain boiler, fire, auto, health, or student insurance.

For example, Montgomery County Public Schools is one of the largest school districts in the country with more than 100,000 students, but its alternative school programs serve only about 125 students at a time.

They will each perform about nine hours of community service, and if students over age 13 fail to show up for community service they will be assigned to an alternative service program for juvenile offenders.

Concerned that a state testing program subjects young children to undue stress, the Arizona legislature has passed a bill that would limit mandatory 1st - grade testing to a sample of students while the state develops alternative assessment measures.

But in serving some of the most challenging students, alternative programs may also unlock new opportunities in terms of school design and scale.

This is sometimes because music programs provide an alternative to more traditional forms of school participation, other times it's because the students feel music is more relevant to their everyday lives than other subjects (Karkou & Glasman, 2004).

Meanwhile, states enacted new programs that allowed for the alternative certification of teachers, opening the school door to talented college students not willing to suffer through the mindless education courses states had mandated.

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.

Eighteen of the 25 students in the alternative program are Native Americans.

It might have been the accountability system, or the state's reading program, or its decision to expect more from students, or its alternative certification program, or its plethora of school choice innovations, or some combination of all of them.

Importantly, the successful provision of information related to college choice through initiatives like ECO-C is likely to magnify the return to existing federal and state aid policies, while the return to high - cost interventions such as expanding the Pell grant program is likely to be very limited unless students possess sufficient information about college alternatives.

The distinction, essentially, is between the more radical provision of individual programs to individual students — as a deschooling alternative to universalism — and the provision of personally tailored and responsive programs to students — within schools.

Continuation schools are alternative high school programs for students sixteen years of age or older, who haven't graduated from high school, are still required to attend school, and who are at risk of not graduating.

Eventually he missed the students and returned to the classroom, this time to Newton North High School, one of the city's two high schools, where he now runs their alternative school - to - career program.

School choice is a term for K — 12 public education options in the United States, describing a wide array of programs offering students and their families alternatives to publicly provided schools, to which students are generally assigned by the location of their family residence.

Thus, any hint of even experimenting with school choice has been vigorously attacked, a notable example being Florida's program of exit vouchers, which permitted students stuck in persistently failing schools to try to find some way to save themselves through an alternative school.

Three people who work in adult education programs in Orlando said that while they don't always know where students come from, they were unaware of a large influx from charter alternative schools like Sunshine.

SESP develops teacher leaders through partnerships with schools and museums, an alternative certification program, a teacher in residence program and the use of video analysis to understand student thinking.

The commissioner may also place under preliminary registration review any school that has conditions that threaten the health, safety and / or educational welfare of students or has been the subject of persistent complaints to the department by parents or persons in parental relation to the student, and has been identified by the commissioner as a poor learning environment based upon a combination of factors affecting student learning, including but not limited to: high rates of student absenteeism, high levels of school violence, excessive rates of student suspensions, violation of applicable building health and safety standards, high rates of teacher and administrator turnover, excessive rates of referral of students to or participation in special education or excessive rates of participation of students with disabilities in the alternate assessment, excessive transfers of students to alternative high school and high school equivalency programs and excessive use of uncertified teachers or teachers in subject areas other than those for which they possess certification.

For purposes of determining adequate yearly progress on the indicator set forth at subparagraph (15)(iv) of this subdivision, the graduation rate cohort for each public school, school district, and charter school for each school year from 2002 - 03 through 2006 - 2007 shall consist of all members of the school or district high school cohort, as defined in subparagraph (i) of this paragraph, for the previous school year plus any students excluded from that cohort solely because they transferred to an approved alternative high school equivalency or high school equivalency preparation program.

Alternative schools are designed to meet the needs of at - risk student populations, and include schools that serve students who are in custody in the juvenile court system or enrolled in drop - out recovery programs and continuation schools.

The teenagers wrote opinion pieces on whether all students should be encouraged to attend college, the value of alternative teacher preparation programs such as Teach For America, the importance of desegregation, or the best approach to school discipline.

Arkansas, for instance, has devoted «tremendous resources» to lower student - teacher ratios, specialized teacher training and project - based learning in its alternative program, said Lori Lamb, the state's director of alternative education.

Universally applying a four - year cohort graduation rate would result in the identification for comprehensive support of a significant number of alternative schools due to their program characteristics and without any regard to the achievements their students make during the time they are enrolled in such schools.

Five years ago, Indiana launched a private school voucher program that aimed to provide an alternative to faltering public schools while saving the state money by essentially outsourcing the education of some students.

students who transfer to an approved alternative high school equivalency preparation program or high school equivalency preparation program approved pursuant to section 100.7 of this Part, but leave that program before the end of the third school year after the school year in which they first entered grade 9 without having earned a high school equivalency diploma or without entering a program leading to a high school diploma; and

This program explores how integrating the arts with other subjects raises the level of student engagement, helps teachers address diverse learning styles, establishes the relevance of learning for students, and provides alternative ways to communicate.

A large and unassailable body of evidence shows that our students — whether in our preK - 12, in our graduate school education, and in our alternative college and jobs program — will learn and develop more if they are taught and mentored by a diverse staff.

In this capacity, she was responsible for student services for 150,000 students and special education programming for 17,000 students with disabilities, managing a budget of $ 325 million, overseeing nonpublic placements and alternative programs, providing special education staffing for 200 schools, the provision of K - 12 school counseling, psychological services, pupil personnel services, and the administration of the International Student Admission student services for 150,000 students and special education programming for 17,000 students with disabilities, managing a budget of $ 325 million, overseeing nonpublic placements and alternative programs, providing special education staffing for 200 schools, the provision of K - 12 school counseling, psychological services, pupil personnel services, and the administration of the International Student Admission Student Admission Office.

Beyond theory, Vargas Page cites the practical difficulties of separating some students for alternative programs in English on her 460 - pupil campus.

A federally financed group says that teachers who go through its alternative - certification program could produce student outcomes equal to or greater than those of teachers who earn certification through traditional routes.

The ultimate measure of a teacher - preparation program, traditional or alternative, is its ability to produce good teachers, not its ability to meet an unrelated set of requirements that are not grounded in empirical proof of student performance.