Sentences with phrase «program at a magnet school»

Since 1982, Wake has offered unique academic programs at magnet schools to try to fill and diversify under - enrolled schools.

He sang, acted in plays and attended the performing arts program at a magnet school.

Not exact matches

However, it can be a lonely path, says Jennifer Smith, a computer science teacher at Digital Harbor High School, a public magnet program in Baltimore, Maryland.

One study looks at students who attended two magnet middle school programs that had an exclusive focus on high - achieving students.

We've tried a number of solutions over the years to deal with diversity in schools, from mandated busing to desegregate schools to magnet programs to minority recruitment campaigns at colleges and universities.

The Advanced Placement program at Sharpstown High School has long been viewed as a haven for top students in the school's magnet leadership learning commSchool has long been viewed as a haven for top students in the school's magnet leadership learning commschool's magnet leadership learning community.

The Prince George's County, Maryland, school district, for example, eliminated magnet programs at 33 schools in the fall of 2004 because of state funding cutbacks.

Leaders of the Recovery School District in New Orleans are crafting an overhaul of high schools that would offer career - oriented magnet programs at each campus, along with a districtwide college - preparatory curriculum of honors and Advanced Placement courses.

To attract more students and keep them in the Chicago schools, Vallas also supported the creation of charter schools and magnet programs designed to retain middle - class residents, such as International Baccalaureate programs at the high - school level.

Students at Community Magnet Charter School come from all over Los Angeles through the LAUSD magnet program.

She is now a freshman at Columbus High School in the public Muscogee County School District; it is one of the state's top - ranked magnet programs.

Openings at each magnet school are determined by the need to maintain a racially balanced program and available space.

The Perry issue also took down two other proposed magnet schools for Hartford; one at Capital Community College and one at High School, Inc. an existing Hartford school program that is connected to Travelers Insurance CoSchool, Inc. an existing Hartford school program that is connected to Travelers Insurance Coschool program that is connected to Travelers Insurance Company.

Fifty schools, mostly LAUSD magnet programs and charter schools, will have booths at the event.

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.

Alan Warhaftig, who retired last year after more than a decade as the magnet program co-coordinator at Fairfax High School, believes that the district's goal of rapid expansion of magnets could dilute the success of the programs.

Join us for an engaging look at the collaborative route Charlotte - Mecklenburg Schools designed to increase equitable access to high - quality magnet programs and school choice options.

The senior at Duncan Polytechnical High, a magnet school within Fresno Unified is in the Medical Academy of Science and Health (M.A.S.H) Program.

How could a 10 - minute checklist capture the progress of Maria, who began her seventh - grade year shy and unsure of herself, but finished not only achieving at high levels but with the confidence to apply to one of the city's top magnet schools, and later travel the world with the People to People Ambassador Program?

Even after you take out gifted magnet programs where students have to meet academic admissions requirements, students at LA Unified's magnet schools outperformed their peers at independent charter schools, an LA School Report analysis of district data found.

The new magnet programs at Belaire High and their feeder schools are part of a big expansion of the school system's popular magnet program.

The honors students at our school were bused in to participate in the school's magnet science and math programs, and we soon discovered their environmental club projects were focused on the parts of the city where they lived and not the neighborhood where our school was and where we lived.

Arguably the most important part of magnet school programs is that students can dive into a subject they are interested in at a young age.

This senior takes part of just one of 18 career - focused programs at one of several magnet schools in Hillsborough County.

An unqualified success for these new schools would be results like those at Science Leadership Academy, a magnet school that is home to the district's longest - running project - based learning program, which opened in 2006.

The LA Unified school board put its money where its mouth is at its May 10 meeting and approved a $ 3 million expansion of its growing magnet program.

Students at Cleveland, Mississippi's Bell Academy, a once failing school that has turned around after installing a magnet math, science and health program, line up for lunch service.

The money will help revise the magnet themes at Southeast Raleigh High School and Bugg and Millbrook elementary schools in Raleigh and create a new magnet program at Lincoln Heights Elementary in Fuquay - Varina.

Additionally, the General Assembly should fulfill its commitment to funding other education grants at the levels agreed to in the bipartisan budget, including grants for Priority School Districts, magnet schools, state and local charter schools, the Connecticut Technical High School System, and the Open Choice program.

2008 — CIR successfully sued to end two racial preferences in the New York City School system, one that limited minority enrollment at a prestigious magnet program (Rau & Katapadi v. NYC Dept. of Education) and another that prohibited Asian students from applying for a middle school enrichment program designed to prepare students to compete for entrance to the City's examination schools (Ng v. NYC Dept. of EducaSchool system, one that limited minority enrollment at a prestigious magnet program (Rau & Katapadi v. NYC Dept. of Education) and another that prohibited Asian students from applying for a middle school enrichment program designed to prepare students to compete for entrance to the City's examination schools (Ng v. NYC Dept. of Educaschool enrichment program designed to prepare students to compete for entrance to the City's examination schools (Ng v. NYC Dept. of Education).

Why was a magnet program established at, of all places, this failing public high school?

High school magnet programs in the arts, some of which are application - and audition - based, give students intensive studio experiences in the visual and performing arts, extensive credits beyond the high school arts requirements, and an accelerated general education curriculum that promotes college and career readiness at a high level.

Control - treatment outcome comparisons reveal that students at schools with an arts focus combined with arts integration programming scored higher than other types of student cohorts (non arts schools, conventional arts, and academic magnet schools) on both state academic achievement scores and arts integration learning measures.

The middle school magnet program was until May a part of Brookstown Middle but is being moved to the campus of Istrouma High school at 3730 Winbourne Avenue, where Istrouma middle school will be located.

The magnet school application process is currently in Phase 2; if you are interested in applying to one of these programs, submit your application online at hisdchoice.com.

The proposed high school magnet program at Istrouma would be set up the same way.

At the same time, the school system is spending money on a range of new magnet programs, as well as a new career center, to combat the competition from charter and private schools.

The eight new magnet programs are at the following schools: Belaire High, Istrouma Middle, Istrouma High, Park Forest Elementary, Park Forest Middle, Villa del Rey Elementary, Woodlawn High and Woodlawn Middle.

The government has shown this change in objectives in that «the number of magnet schools that receive MSAP [Magnet Schools Assistance Program] funding has declined in recent grant cycles because the overall funding level has remained stagnant and not adjusted for inflation at just over $ 100 million» (Frankenberg et alschools that receive MSAP [Magnet Schools Assistance Program] funding has declined in recent grant cycles because the overall funding level has remained stagnant and not adjusted for inflation at just over $ 100 million» (Frankenberg et alSchools Assistance Program] funding has declined in recent grant cycles because the overall funding level has remained stagnant and not adjusted for inflation at just over $ 100 million» (Frankenberg et al., 15).

At least when it comes to school - choice programs (think charter schools, vouchers to attend private schools, magnet programs, etc.), researchers found that improving test scores doesn't guarantee students will have better chances of achieving long - term measures of success like high school graduation, entrance to college or higher incomes.

This may especially be true at the high school level, as Marvin Alkin notes that «only about one - third of the programs at the secondary and other configurations were desegregated [and] the greater proportion of PHBAO magnets at the secondary level appears to be at least partly due to their location (Alkin et al., 46).

SAISD's 13 magnet programs include the International Baccalaureate Diploma (IB) at Burbank High School, Media Production at Brackenridge High School, Architecture and Environmental Studies at Jefferson High School, and World Languages at Brackenridge High School.

Hannah is in the magnet program at Fountaindale Elementary School.

I am currently in the 7th grade magnet program at this school and so far this year i am very pleased.