Sentences with phrase «opportunity school»

Your brand relates to the unique opportunities your school provides in addition to an education.

Another blockbuster week in Georgia charter school news as legislation is introduced in the GA General Assembly to create Opportunity School Districts.

In 2011, the organization released Creating Opportunity Schools, a bold plan for reinventing education in (IPS).

If passed, the Governor's proposal for Opportunity School Districts (OSD) will put the same -LSB-...]

Progressive Redesign Opportunity Schools of Excellence (PROSE), created under the new UFT - DOE contract, gives schools flexibility in designing their schedules, programming, teacher evaluation systems and other aspects of their school environments so that they are able to implement innovative school improvement strategies.

In our inaugural Opportunity Schools report, we showcase Baltimore City public schools that are breaking the link between poverty and low achievement.

Another week of legislative debate over the proposed Opportunity School District school turnaround plan culminates in a visit by Governor Jeb Bush and rap star Ludacris to the Georgia statehouse, in support of school choice, charters, and the OSD.

It is hardly surprising then that fewer children can make the most of the extra-curricular opportunities schools offer.

Including a day when Henson would be closed for teacher - training sessions, its students wouldn't have classes for three days, or the extra-curricular opportunities the school provides: such as breakfast, lunch and that 4:30 meal.

Asked if the school board should consider a round of layoffs, Walters credited Nanuet Central School District for running a «pretty lean administration» overall, and said there are only a few positions he'd target if given the opportunity

He then worked in the community creating job opportunities for struggling adolescents and was a founding member of both Wildcat Academy, opened in 1992 under the NYC DOE, and the first Second Opportunity School (SOS) in the Bronx, opened in 1997.

-LSB-...] Monday November 14, after a week of research, observing crows and measuring crow roosting trees (and an afternoon meal at Wendy's), twelve Coshocton Opportunity School students working with the Pomerene Center for the Arts, visited Kenyon's new Gund Gallery's inaugural exhibition Seeing / Knowing.

The more people who purchase their greeting cards from the site, the more opportunities the school has to receive money.

Along with a CCRPI score assigned through the Department of Education, Georgia schools now earn an A-F grade through the Governor's Office of Student Achievement, a vestige of the now vanquished Opportunity School District.

The first day of classes is right around the corner, and they don't know if they're going to get picked for the state's new Opportunity Schools and Partnership Program.

The bill calls for a constitutional amendment to create statewide Opportunity School Districts.

If voters pass the amendment, beginning in 2016 - 17 an appointed superintendent, accountable to the Governor, could select up to 20 schools each year to become part of a state - run Opportunity School District (OSD).

To raise achievement levels among poor students on a grander scale, the report recommends allowing principals at opportunity schools to train other school leaders and increasing the number of social workers and reading interventionists in schools.

Fifteen others were found to be «on - the cusp» of being named opportunity schools.

Deal's proposal called for his appointed superintendent to oversee the so - called Opportunity School District, which could have taken over up to 20 new schools per year and govern no more than 100 schools at any one time.

State legislation created the Milwaukee Opportunity Schools and Partnership Program, or OSPP, and it charges program leaders with turning around struggling district schools.

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Nearby schools include Alameda County Community School, Alameda County Opportunity School and Elmhurst Learning Center.

In addition to creating teacher leadership positions, the new contract established the PROSE program, which stands for Progressive Redesign Opportunity Schools for Excellence.

Today, The Mind Trust is working in partnership with IPS and the Indianapolis Mayor's Office to incubate Innovation Network Schools with the freedoms called for in The Mind Trust's Opportunity Schools report.

The news floodgates open this week as stakeholders, politicians and the press react to Governor Deal's proposed Opportunity School District (OSD) plan; Thoughtful piece in Sunday AJC looks inside a New Orleans charter school to illustrate how charters work in another state Other Georgia news outlets report on the OSD proposal; Rockdale News and Gainesville -LSB-...]

Several forceful nonprofit groups, such as the National Math and Science Initiative, Equal Opportunity Schools, and MassInsight Education, are doing excellent work in pushing AP into kindred high schools in lots of places — and changing educator expectations and school cultures to cause more disadvantaged youngsters to enter and succeed in such rigorous classes.

After several more suspensions, school authorities were finally able to get him transferred to one of the school system's «second opportunity schools,» or «SOS» for short.

By Allen Mueller In a recent AJC article about Governor Deal's proposed Opportunity School District, Eric Wearne emphasizes the importance of establishing an incubator in Georgia, «whose purpose is to recruit talent and to produce leadership for schools in the OSD.»

If you go to a less expensive college, get excited about «the opportunities a school will give you beyond college because you're not going to be burdened by debt,» said education consultant Klemmer.

I follow my alma maters (UCSB amd CSUSB) on Instagram and I think it provides a lot of insight into the opportunities the schools offer as well as some further insight into the college (added plus: UCSB is prone to posting encouraging study posts feat adorable dogs, ocean backdrops, and lots of bikes, no surprise).

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY The school director will report to the Board and would help the school develop critical organizational structures, systems and capacities to support sustainable growth and optimal functioning as the school expands.

«The economy of scales in this edifice is unquantifiable and so we must seize the opportunities the school has in stock.

But last year voters overwhelmingly rejected a constitutional amendment that would have allowed the state to take over schools and put them in an Opportunity School District, with the option of converting them to charters.

That appraisal resonates in Georgia, where black voters turned out in large numbers several years ago to help pass a constitutional amendment confirming state authority to grant charters, but played a crucial role in the November defeat of the constitutional amendment for an Opportunity School District.

When I was vice-president of The Mind Trust I worked intensively on the «Opportunity Schools» plan for transforming Indianapolis Public Schools.

In his 2015 State of the State address, Deal proposed an «Opportunity School District» (OSD) to help rejuvenate failing public schools and rescue children languishing in them.

By a vote of six to 10, Georgians voted down Amendment 1 which would have removed local control of failings schools in favor of a state takeover through an Opportunity School District while 10 out of 12 pro school choice candidates won their races with one still too close to call.

In 2016, the Department of Education will expand waivers to 126 schools to become eligible for the Progressive Redesign Opportunity Schools for Excellence (PROSE) program.

PROSE, which stands for Progressive Redesign Opportunity Schools of Excellence, allows traditional public schools to break from some traditional restrictions set by the city and state in order to bring forth innovative school improvement strategies.

Incredibly, grants are headed to Georgia to open 20 new charter schools under the Opportunity School District — the proposed state takeover district — even a public vote on the plan is still weeks away.

The proposed «Opportunity School District» in Georgia would establish a state - run district through which low - performing schools could be converted into charters.

After speaking to Harris and the roundtable, the mantle fell upon NUVO news to actually read the 155 - page, well - footnoted «Opportunity Schools» report.