Sentences with phrase «pilot school applicants»

LAUSD Board Member Steve Zimmer has introduced a resolution, to be voted upon on August 30, that would allow only in - district and pilot school applicants to apply for new schools under the Public School Choice initiative.

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Similarly, 137 applicants vied for 37 spots at related summer retreats designed to engage new seminary professors beyond those from the first 10 pilot schools.

About 47 % of charter middle school applicants and 31 % of pilot middle school applicants switch schools at some point after the lottery in which they participated.

Among first - choice applicants to a given pilot school, admission priority is randomly assigned, with lotteries run separately for students who live inside and outside the school's walk - zone.

In practice, the use of lottery instruments is complicated by the fact that the odds of being offered a seat at a charter or pilot school vary with the number of applications and the extent to which an applicant's chosen schools are over-subscribed.

Students were classified as pilot applicants if they listed a pilot school that participates in the BPS assignment mechanism as a first choice.

25 Nevertheless, as a check on the main findings, we discarded the most imbalanced cohorts to construct a sample of charter middle school and pilot high school applicants with close - to - balanced attrition.

One K — 8 pilot school opened too late to contribute middle school test scores from K2 applicants.

These lotteries, which admit applicants randomly at over-subscribed schools, are used to construct a quasi-experimental research design that should generate unbiased estimates of the causal effects of charter and pilot attendance.

Columns report descriptive statistics for the following samples: BPS students excluding exam, alternative, charter and pilot students from 2004 — 2009 (1); students enrolled in charter schools from 2004 — 2009 (2); students enrolled in pilot schools from 2004 — 2009 (3); charter applicant cohorts in randomized lotteries: middle school students in 2002 — 2007 and high school students in 2003 — 2006 (4); pilot applicant cohorts: elementary school students in 2002 — 2004, middle school students in 2002 — 2007, and high school students in 2003 — 2006 (5).

There are virtually no attrition differentials for pilot middle school applicants.

A provision slipped into the General Assembly's budget this past summer directed the State Board of Education to open two virtual charter school pilot programs and at present there are only two applicants.

The intention of the ODEO grant was not only to fund an extended period of public engagement and consultation, but allow applicants with pre-existing integration efforts to implement pre-implementation activities including pilot activities in target schools.

Both applicants for a legislatively - mandated pilot program, N.C. Connections Academy and N.C. Virtual Academy, will be governed by a non-profit board of directors, but both groups plan on contracting with virtual education companies to actually run the schools.

But the board felt it had little choice but to approve the two virtual charter school applicants — the only applicants — because the law required the pilot to begin quickly, in fall 2015.

NJ Spotlight spoke with three of the pilot program applicants, each with its own evaluation system in place and its own reasons for wanting to jump into the fray for what may be the most controversial issue in schools today: how to judge a good teacher.

The law school says the goal of the pilot is to make law school applications more accessible by allowing applicants to pay for only one test instead of two when applying to both graduate and law school.