Sentences with phrase «program in a local high school»

Why doesn't it seem just as obvious to contact a black source to talk about the opportunity afforded by a new STEM program in a local high school?

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Check with your local school board to see if high schools in your area have job training and placement programs.

Finn became very active in the local Chamber of Commerce partly to help create new training programs and internships to groom high school students for potential accounting careers.

«I would like to create a mentorship program in East Los Angeles so that undergraduate students from local universities could partner with poorly resourced middle schools and high schools to mentor students and coach them in college preparation.

The students should go to local, try to ramp up security, get more video coverage at these schools, maybe would with some veterans groups to see if we can get a volunteer program like Neighborhood Watch in areas 20 years ago that had high crime.

Finca El Jaguar was a recipient of Allegro's High Five for Farmers program in 2003, which donated $ 4,000 to make improvements to the local school.

Traditionally a fundraiser for local scholarship programs, the festival to date has contributed nearly $ 80,000 in scholarships for Marathon High School students through the Marathon chapter of the Organized Fishermen of Florida, a statewide group that represents the interests and well - being of the commercial fishing industries.

Yates hopes to one day create a club beach volleyball program through local high schools, but noted that many of his players hit the sand during the past summer in anticipation for the regular season.

Started in 2006, the Raley Field High School Baseball Program invites local (and fairly distant) programs to partner with the pros to raise funds for their school and give their players a big - league experSchool Baseball Program invites local (and fairly distant) programs to partner with the pros to raise funds for their school and give their players a big - league experschool and give their players a big - league experience.

Revised Statute 167.273 (1990) makes available additional state aid to local school districts for a program of parent education established in one or more high school that service pregnant teens and teen parents enrolled as pupils in the district.

State and local youth hockey associations can offer leagues without body checking — often called «recreational» — at all ages, but competition with high school and other elite hockey programs that may promise the potential for advancement to higher levels of ice hockey, which typically sanction body checking, may make this option rare in many communities.

To tackle the stigma of free and reduced lunches in the high schools, Weiss has five «Mobile Cafes» (trendy food trucks donated by The Orfalea Foundation) that park outside the school and sell nutritious reimbursable meals to the high school students who otherwise might leave campus... These mobile cafes are also bringing free lunches to local, low - income students during the summer months as part of Santa Barbara's Seamless Summer meals program.

This winter students in the school's PTECH, Pathways in Technology Early College High School, program came up with an idea to collect socks, gloves, granola bars, mittens, scarves and more to distribute to locals who need them during the cold weschool's PTECH, Pathways in Technology Early College High School, program came up with an idea to collect socks, gloves, granola bars, mittens, scarves and more to distribute to locals who need them during the cold weSchool, program came up with an idea to collect socks, gloves, granola bars, mittens, scarves and more to distribute to locals who need them during the cold weather.

Schumer also plans to start a coding program for middle and high school girls in partnership with local schools.

Reisman got the science bug in high school through a program that paired local students with scientists at the MDI Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine.

This program for high school students underrepresented in STEM is implemented by the Space Telescope Science Institute's Office of Public Outreach in partnership with select local schools.

The RISE (Raising Interest in Science and Engineering) program is an intensive seven - week program for local Bay Area high school students interested in science, engineering, math and computer science.

He joined a theater arts program in high school and was signed after a local agent came by to watch the students perform monologues.

He does two kinds of schools: high schools that are tech related, where the kids are engaged in projected based learning and discovery, and that have deeply embedded partnerships with local industry; and also schools that are K — 8 flex programs, in which students attend school two days a week, work from home two days a week, and one day is an enrichment day.

«Administrative preparatory programs at many local universities are not adequate,» Marie Kostick, principal at Goodwyn Junior High School, in Montgomery, Alabama, told Education World.

(There's also a private Waldorf high school in the area, which has allowed local students in the program to continue the traditional Waldorf education track from kindergarten to the end of high school.)

A high school health class developed a home fire - safety program for their community in collaboration with the local fire department.

But in 2003, a nonprofit program called Digital Equalizer created a computer lab at the local high school, giving Hemant and his peers access to eight computers, a dot - matrix printer, and a digital camera.

The consensus appears to be that these higher levels of performance have less to do with policy than with everything else: the «ecosystem» of reform in a given place (usually a city) and its network of «human - capital providers,» expert charter - management organizations, leadership - development programs, school - incubator efforts, local funders and civic leaders, etc. — in other words, what conservatives like to call «civil society»: the space between the government and the individual (in this case, between government and individual schools).

This program allows high school students to serve in model governments at the local, state, national, and international levels and currently operates in 38 states and Washington, DC.

Colorado will provide districts with guidance, resources, professional development, and planning support for building local teacher cadet programs in high schools.

He collaborated with districts and charter schools across the state in developing their local activities, launched multiple innovative programs with non-profit organizations and institutions of higher education, and worked with the Professional Standards Board and State Board of Education in constructing policy frameworks.

The Linkages Project supports local leaders seeking to connect early childhood programs more closely with high quality elementary schools that have deep roots in the community.

The graduation rate is the percentage of the annual graduation rate cohort that earns a local or Regents diploma by August 31st following the third school year after the school year in which the cohort first entered grade 9, except that in a school in which the majority of students participate in a department - approved, five - year program that results in certification in a career or technology field in addition to a high school diploma, the graduation rate shall be the percentage of the annual graduation rate cohort that earns a local diploma by August 31st following the fourth school year after the school year in which the cohort first entered grade 9.

A core group, consisting of a nurse, teacher, administrator, parent, nutritionist, and food service and district public relations employees coordinated contests, high school and community ambassadors programs, a milk and cookie break activity, posters, and publicity in the school and local media.

Most recently, Moskowitz issued a high - profile rejection of a city plan to house new students from six middle - school programs in two sites, which she and local newspaper editorial boards criticized as an unstable, temporary fix that would force families to travel too far to school.

However, demonstrating compliance with these federal fiscal requirements — for example, comparability, in which districts must show that they provide «comparable services» in high and low poverty schools through state and local dollars — as well as the specific rules that govern each federal program, can introduce unnecessary burdens that distract from the overall goal of providing additional support to low - income schools and disadvantaged students.

The purpose of this guidance document is to assist Virginia's local school divisions and early childhood communities in identifying, developing, and sustaining inclusive opportunities within high - quality early childhood programs for two -, three -, and four - year - old preschoolers with disabilities.

The oldest Totaro boy, Michael, is taking some honors - level classes at a nearby community college while his brother Zachary is enrolled in a culinary program at his local high school.

In lieu of a visit to local schools, APS's family engagement staff pulled together an impressive panel including the principal, family engagement liaison, community - based partners and parent leaders representing a language immersion school, their pre-school programs, an elementary school, and a high school.

Under ESSA, a new preschool program will, for the first time, «promote coordination in early learning among local communities; align preschool with early elementary school; and build the capacity of teachers, leaders, and others serving young children to provide the highest - quality early learning opportunities.»

1973 — A complete tax base equalization program is enacted that provides a much higher appropriation of equalization aid to relieve local property taxes; discontinues general flat aids; institutes a power equalizing program providing for «negative aids»; and separates the shared cost into primary and secondary levels with a two - level system of state aid in which school costs which exceed the statutory ceiling of aidable costs are supported at a lower level of state aid to serve as a disincentive to high levels of spending.

The agriculture incentive program, which subsidizes educational agencies that provide farm - based curriculum to some 74,000 students in 315 high schools statewide, is actually facing a nearly $ 8 million cut since local districts must match state funding, according to Aschwanden, a former member of the California State Board of Education under former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

These included a strong vision of and value for public education in which almost Finnish children participate as the creator of Finland's future society; resulting high status for the country's teaching profession whose members are stringently selected through rigorous university - based teacher education programs that confer Masters degrees on all of them; a widespread culture of collaboration in curriculum development among teachers in each school district; an equally robust culture of collaboration among all partners in strong local municipalities where most curriculum and other policy decisions are made; and a system of widespread cooperation and trust instead of US - style test - based accountability.

The purpose of this guidance document is to assist local school divisions and early childhood communities in developing, and sustaining inclusive opportunities within high - quality early childhood programs for preschoolers with disabilities.

Bragato noted that after a charter school in California established a successful international baccalaureate program, the local high school instituted a similar curriculum.

While this is an extreme case — and arguably abusive — test prep is still occurring citywide even at schools with high test scores.The organized opt - out movement here in NYC is led by local parents and educators who spend an inordinate amount of time researching the NYS Common Core testing program and educating themselves on developmentally appropriate pedagogy.

CIERA Inquiry 3: Policy and Profession What is the impact of implementing federal, state, or local program initiatives in high - poverty schools?

The Purnell Swett program is small and has small class sizes (average is 25 students), but it is integrated with the local comprehensive high school as it is located in one corridor of the building.

The funding from Title II, Part B from the U.S. Department of Education supports a competitive grant competition for projects that increase the academic achievement of students in mathematics and science by encouraging state education agencies, institutions of higher education, local education agencies, elementary schools, and secondary schools to participate in programs that improve instruction and upgrade the status and stature of mathematics and science teaching.

Twelfth grade students at Mount Pleasant High School in Providence, Rhode Island, can join a teacher academy and team up with students in a local teacher education program to give presentations on educational philosophy to high school studeHigh School in Providence, Rhode Island, can join a teacher academy and team up with students in a local teacher education program to give presentations on educational philosophy to high school stuSchool in Providence, Rhode Island, can join a teacher academy and team up with students in a local teacher education program to give presentations on educational philosophy to high school studehigh school stuschool students.

Nor did Vallas mention the Mentoring for Academic Achievement and College Success (MAACS) program, a long - time effort in which «MAACS pairs high school students in all three Bridgeport public high schools with college mentors from local colleges and universities.

Chiefs for Change: We strongly support the approach of empowering states to tailor grant programs in a way that best meets our unique state and local needs... We appreciate the effort made to streamline the programs as well as the emphasis placed on replicating high performing schools.

The new law also ensures that state charter schools are eligible for RESA (Regional Education Service Agency) services and membership; provides an increase in capital funds for brick and mortar state charter schools located in the boundaries of a local school district where the capital revenue (per student) exceeds the state average total capital (per student); increases per - student capital funding for virtual schools to offset certain technology costs; and provides a Department of Education and State Charter School Commission grant program for replicating high performing charter scschool district where the capital revenue (per student) exceeds the state average total capital (per student); increases per - student capital funding for virtual schools to offset certain technology costs; and provides a Department of Education and State Charter School Commission grant program for replicating high performing charter scSchool Commission grant program for replicating high performing charter schools.

Despite local and state governments devoting considerable resources to these programs, only about 25 percent of the students enrolled in them earn a high school degree, and because the programs typically emphasize process (attendance and following instructions, for example) rather than academics, virtually none of the graduates acquire the learning typically expected of high school graduates.