Sentences with phrase «performing schools available»

In Nashville, where upper - income whites played the key role in recently switching the school board to an anti-choice stance, the issue appeared to be about protecting exclusive access to high performing schools available just to those homeowners.

«Poor parents have fewer high performing schools available to them.

Not exact matches

I have not performed experiments outside my line of work since school but the method and techniques are available should I wish to.

The Élan Dance Company Showcase begins at 5:30 p.m. Sunday at the Naperville North High School Performing Arts Center, 899 N. Mill St. Tickets are available online at https://recenroll.napervilleparks.org/Activities/ActivitiesDetails.asp?aid=1235, by calling 630-848-5000, or in person at the Park District Administration Building, 320 W. Jackson Ave., or at the 95th Street Center, 2244 W. 95th St. Tickets are $ 8 in advance or $ 10 after Friday and at the door. ¿

c) in fact has worked in many instances to obstruct, delay and otherwise frustrate elements of the reform agenda including the use of neighborhood schools, charter schools and all other available vehicles and opportunities to provide seats in performing schools to all children in the BPS,

Virtual schooling could also exacerbate existing inequalities in education, since it is available only to families who can afford to have an adult at home to perform the duty of care normally assumed by teachers.

Fame Rated PG for thematic material including teen drinking, a sexual situation and language Available on DVD and Blu - ray This update of the original 1980 film follows the lives of a group of students at the New York City High School of Performing Arts as they go through their Freshmen through Senior years.

Here's one option which would be available now: (i) Administer the new assessments to all eligible students; (ii) Score the assessments for a randomly chosen 10 percent of students; (iii) Estimate the item parameters and weed out the items which did not perform as expected; (iv) Go back and score the remaining tests for the remaining 90 percent of students; (v) Provide scaled scores back to school districts, parents and teachers.

In fact, the available evidence suggests that regulations did indeed drive away higher - performing private schools.

Match Charter School, a high - performing preK - 12 school in Boston, is making its curriculum available to teachers everywhere through Match FisSchool, a high - performing preK - 12 school in Boston, is making its curriculum available to teachers everywhere through Match Fisschool in Boston, is making its curriculum available to teachers everywhere through Match Fishtank.

However, the decision to convert into an academy is not one to be taken lightly, and schools should ensure they perform a proper assessment and seek out the external advice available to make a fully informed decision.

The state's charter law must support new and high - performing operators; the state's school finance system must provide equitable, student - based funding; facilities must be made available to new and growing schools; educator certification rules must fit the needs of successful schools; and so on.

Second, magnet schools have been incorporated into the school choice movement as a means of improving achievement and into No Child Left Behind as a way of increasing the opportunities available to children in low - performing schools.

Principals in high - performing, high - poverty schools ensure that the necessary financial, material, and human resources are available for students and adults to succeed (Ball, 2001; Leader, 2010).

The Nevada program is explicitly not targeting low - performing schools or low - income families but rather is being made available to all, including affluent families who can already exercise choice by locating in a good school district or paying tuition for a private school.

A clear plurality of the public at large supports revisions in NCLB to increase the number of choice options available to parents whose children attend low - performing schools.

An LEA shall use these grant funds to support direct student services including: (1) a student's enrollment and participation in academic courses not otherwise available at the student's school; (2) credit recovery and academic acceleration courses that lead to a regular high school diploma; (3) activities that assist students in successfully completing postsecondary level instruction and examinations that are accepted for credit at institutions of higher education; and (4) if applicable, transportation to allow a student enrolled in a low - performing school to transfer to another public school.

All parents should have a robust picture of their children's successes and challenges, the educational options available to them, and how the school system is performing overall.

The available evidence suggests that regulations did indeed deter higher - performing private schools from participating in a voucher program.

Jason Kamras, deputy to D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee in charge of human capital, talks with Education Next about the new teacher evaluation system put in place in D.C. Beginning this year, teachers in D.C. will be evaluated based on student test scores (when available) and classroom observations (by principals and master educators), and poorly performing teachers may be fired, regardless of tenure.

Using the last year of data available for the entire state of Georgia, here's a complete list of what persistently low - performing schools actually did because of NCLB:

Transformational leaders engender equity - focused practices using all available assets to turn around low performing schools ensuring all students become college ready.

STEM, visual and performing arts, and college / career exploration) which are typically not available during the regular school year.

Its 2013 report concludes that shutting down low - performing schools is the «strongest tool available to ensure quality» in charter schools.

Senate Bill 1 includes scholarships for both public - to - public and public - to - private school choice which will be available to low - income students attending the worst - performing schools.

The Associated Press reports in the Tribune Review that the upcoming state budget would increase the funds available to the existing EITC program and create a scholarship program that would assist school children in the lowest - performing schools in the state.

Steve Barr founded Green Dot Public Schools in 1999 with the vision of transforming secondary education in California by creating a number of high - performing charter high schools using available public dSchools in 1999 with the vision of transforming secondary education in California by creating a number of high - performing charter high schools using available public dschools using available public dollars.

What happens next depends upon the school's resources — how much money is available for testing and how many trained test administrators and special education teachers they have available to perform individual tests and assessments.

-- Mississippi sends retired administrators to low - performing schools to offer both oversight and technical expertise, but the needs far exceed the administrators» available time.

The Center for Student Achievement's inaugural report found that charter schools are meeting a need for educational settings not widely available in district schools, and that the data contradict the common misconception that charter schools attract, or «skim» only higher performing students away from district schools.

The draft accountability rules, to be released this summer, will encourage states to identify high - and low - performing teacher preparation programs across all kinds of educational models, not just those based in colleges and universities; urge a transition from current input - based reporting requirements to a focus on more meaningful outcomes; and likely limit program eligibility for TEACH grants — which are available to students who are planning to become teachers in a high - need field in a low - income school — to only effective teacher preparation programs.

NSBA and CPE are making the toolkit publicly available to guide school boards through the often complex process of transforming low - performing schools into high - performing institutions.

We strongly believe in using the data that is available and hope the EEI will answer important questions about how low - income students are performing in schools and cities across the U.S.

The models can be used in school turnarounds, higher - performing schools, and charter school restarts to make the most of the talent available to each locale.

In other words, this strategy of district - wide school improvement will only work if there are better options available for families, either through expansion of pre-existing high - performing public schools, either charter or traditional, or through the establishment of new high - performing schools.

«Specifically, when faced with increased accountability pressure, schools appear to focus on low - performing students, lengthen the amount of time devoted to instruction, adopt different ways of organizing the day and learning environment of the students and teachers, increase resources available to teachers, and decrease principal control,» the study said.

The vast majority of the funds the administration is making available are for turning around existing, low - performing high schools (by bringing in new leaders, new teachers, or turning them into charter schools).

Senate Bill 1, passed out of the Senate in late October, includes scholarships for both public - to - public and public - to - private school choice which will be available to low - income students attending the worst - performing schools.

«We know that closing low - performing charter public schools is one of the strongest tools available to ensure quality in California's charter school sector.»

We know that closing low - performing charter schools is one of the strongest tools available to ensure quality in California's charter school sector.

DPI «provides direction from the state level that helps all schools understand what resources are available and ensures that all of the low - performing schools in all of North Carolina are working off the same sheet of music.»

Under the plan, 2017 - 18 will be a transition year whereby performance on the indicators for which data is available will be used to determine low - performing schools and whether targeted support and improvement (TSI) or comprehensive support and improvement (CSI) will be provided.

Using publicly - available data, the SSM provides an approximation of the added value a school provides to its students, allowing researchers to identify schools that significantly exceed or under - perform a prediction based on their students» background.

So far, the school has performed above average on state math and science tests and graduated nearly all of its students, half of whom qualify for free or reduced - price lunches available to low - income students.

Over the next five years, Boston Schools Fund will commit significant financial and administrative support to increase the number of available spaces in high - performing district, charter, and Catholic schools by almost one - third, putting Boston on track to offer a high - performing school to the majority of its children bSchools Fund will commit significant financial and administrative support to increase the number of available spaces in high - performing district, charter, and Catholic schools by almost one - third, putting Boston on track to offer a high - performing school to the majority of its children bschools by almost one - third, putting Boston on track to offer a high - performing school to the majority of its children by 2025.

The first fruit of partnering with the district came in September, when GPSN issued a joint news release with King announcing that up to $ 3.75 million in grants would be available for high - performing, district - run schools.

If you filter ORA's school performance map for increasingly lower - priced housing, you can see the available area shrink and the high - performing zones decrease.

The grants were only available to district - run schools and came after the L.A. Unified Board of Education approved a motion this spring seeking to replicate high - performing District schools.

One of the lawyers for the Sheff decision recently lauded the «choice» programs available to Hartford students, as well as the Magnet and charter school successes, because Hartford students in these three programs perform better than Hartford students left in Htfd public schools.

The grants were available to expand non-selective, high - performing magnet, pilot or traditional schools where at least half of the students met or exceeded proficiency in English or math on state tests and the school as a whole performed significantly better in math and English than surrounding schools with similar demographics.