Sentences with phrase «parents at magnet schools»

One theory for this better performance is that students, staff, and parents at magnet schools have clearly defined expectations and a common mission.

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Teddy was accepted at his parents» top choice, P.S. 307 in the DUMBO neighborhood, which is a magnet school for STEM studies: science, technology, engineering, and math.

New York City can do much more to address deep segregation in its public schools, such as using more magnet grants to attract a diverse group of parents to segregated schools or moving ahead with an admissions plan aimed at lowering segregation on the Lower East Side, according to a new report.

The case was brought last month by the parents of three white preschoolers who were denied admission to next fall's kindergarten class at the Arlington Traditional School, a countywide magnet school serving about 300 students in grades School, a countywide magnet school serving about 300 students in grades school serving about 300 students in grades K - 5.

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Despite the greater exclusivity and resource advantages enjoyed by magnet schools, parental satisfaction with magnet schools and the other district schools of choice is no greater — and may be less — than the level of satisfaction of parents with a child at a charter school.

Eight - year - old Melanie from Simsbury says at first her parents were not certain the magnet school was the best place for her, but now they like it — as does she.

At school advisory board meetings and city planning board meetings, public school parents, representing magnet schools, distri... Read more >

Perry, a senior at West Charlotte High, a formerly all - black school on the city's west side, was protesting a court case that found one white parent suing the school system over the claim that his daughter was twice denied entry to a local magnet school on the basis of her race.

In a keynote speech at the Magnet Schools of America conference in Chicago last week, Nikole Hannah - Jones is said to have called magnet schools «tools of inequality» designed to «keep White parents in a district and not integrate schools.Schools of America conference in Chicago last week, Nikole Hannah - Jones is said to have called magnet schools «tools of inequality» designed to «keep White parents in a district and not integrate schools.schools «tools of inequality» designed to «keep White parents in a district and not integrate schools.schools.»

Before LA School Report published a new district database that breaks down state standardized test scores at LA Unified's magnet programs and schools, parents weren't able to compare which magnet programs were academically successful and which ones weren't.

LA School Report just published a district database that for the first time allows parents to compare how students at all of the district's magnet schools and programs performed on state tests...

Parents of magnet PK students at CREC schools in greater Hartford, Goodwin College's PK magnet program in East Hartford or LEARN's Friendship magnet school in Waterford should call and write their legislators and the Governor's office (since all votes will likely matter this November) to protest this imminent and sizeable tuition within what is supposed to be PUBLIC schools.

That is why we at Parent Revolution recently launched our new Choice4LA campaign, aimed at supporting families in LA's most underserved communities to understand all their options (traditional district, magnet and charter schools) and select the right school for their child.

At the same time, parents in many neighborhoods still do not have viable options for sending their children to a school that provides a world - class education, whether it is a public, neighborhood, magnet, selective enrollment, charter or specialized school.

This essay aims to review resources available to parents, who are interested in determining the academic performance of a prospective elementary magnet, and to expose the lack of easily obtainable information for prospective parents to use in informed decision - making, by examining two common ways parents obtain information about prospective schools: the first is directly from school representatives at school choice fairs or open house events, and the second is from a popular website, called GreatSchools.

Support «parental choice» by allowing Title I dollars to follow disadvantaged kids, at the state's option, and support opportunities for parents to enroll their children in local magnet schools and charter schools.

Connecticut's public school parents and their children will be shocked to find out that hundreds of students will be turned away at the doors of Connecticut public magnet schools despite the fact that classrooms are available and ready to go.

Beginning with the notion that well - informed parents don't take themes at face value, one parent of a student at the Sound School, an aquaculture magnet, noted that her daughter was not at all interested in the school's theme (Kentor, field nSchool, an aquaculture magnet, noted that her daughter was not at all interested in the school's theme (Kentor, field nschool's theme (Kentor, field notes).