Sentences with phrase «public high school students in»

The Stark Foundation seeks to continue the legacy of its founders through the programs of: The Stark Museum of Art, The W.H. Stark House, Shangri La Botanical Gardens and Nature Center, and Frances Ann Lutcher Theater for the Performing Arts, as well as the Miriam Lutcher Stark Contest in Reading and Declamation, a qualified scholarship program for public high school students in Orange County, Texas.

Friday, September 4, 2009 Online Chinese Career Key Found Effective & Helpful in New Study The online Chinese Career Key has been found effective and very helpful to public high school students in Hong Kong in a new study described in the September 2009 issue of the Career Development Quarterly, the official journal published by the National Career Development Association.

She founded two arts education programs with the Wooster Group: an in - school theater curriculum at Dr. Sun Yat Sen Middle School in New York's Chinatown that launched in 1992 and the Summer Institute, a free three - week workshop for public high school students in New York that opened in 1997.

The Lens reports that almost 70 percent of New Orleans public high school students in the class of 2012 went on to college.

For example, last year over 90 urban public high school students in New Orleans took advantage of Louisiana's new Supplemental Course Academy (SCA) to complete credits for their first year of college through Bard Early College Campus, a satellite campus of Bard College in New York.

Analyses from the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center estimate that over 120,000 public high school students in the state of Texas failed to graduate with a regular diploma last school year.

Going to college may not seem like the biggest of deals these days, but it remains an all too elusive goal for many public high school students in urban areas.

Public high school students in large U.S. cities are more likely to drop out than ever before.

More than 8 in 10 public high school students in the United States are graduating with a diploma.

Confronted with public high school students in a jam with the law, NYC wants to connect these students with legal support and help them stay out of trouble in the first place.

«The National School Boards Association is honored to partner with Fox Searchlight Pictures and Penguin Books to ensure that every public high school student in America has the opportunity to stare the stark realities of slavery in the eye through books and film,» said NSBA President David A. Pickler.

Not exact matches

The piece draws a comparison to Virginia's Fairfax County, which is similar in many ways to Westchester: They're both suburbs of big cities (New York and Washington, D.C.), they have similarly high home values, and they educate about the same number of students in public schools, which in both places have a good reputation.

Bill Gates was the most public face of Microsoft, but of course the company started as a partnership with the kid Gates met one day in a group of students crowded around a teletype machine in a Seattle high school.

Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson worked with the city of Philadelphia on a grant for public high school students interested in entrepreneurship.

The NRA, bolstered by Trump, has been a vocal proponent of allowing more guns in public places, including schools, but the exception for the convention has raised eyebrows and prompted skepticism among students and at least one parent who lost his child in the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in which 17 people were killed and others injured.

Sprint 1Million Project is helping more than 700 high school students from Puerto Rico who were displaced after Hurricane Maria and are now enrolled in Orange County Public Schools.

According to Progress Alberta's research, of the five Canadian provinces that subsidize private schools — the others are B.C., Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Quebec — Alberta's subsidy of 70 per cent of the amount paid per public and Catholic school student is the highest in the country.

All this despite the fact that private schooling doesn't actually yield better outcomes for students, according to a recent Statistics Canada report (instead, the apparent academic success of private school student is due to their socioeconomic backgrounds).9 A UBC study also found that students from public schools scored higher in first - year university classes than their private school counterparts.10

Although the issue of homeschool student participation in public high school sports isn't exactly a pressing national concern, it hits pretty close to home in our family — both our kids are competitive club - level swimmers who could contribute to the success of our local high....

There are long waiting lists for apprenticeships and trade programs belied by some of the highest per - capita spending in the state for city public school students.

A more recent study is even more striking: «The achievement of students in Catholic high schools was less dependent on family background and personal circumstances than was true in the public schools.»

but still Faith based Parochial school students often test higher in math and science than those in public schools.

Experiments involving the measurement of blood sugar levels of elementary students in a public school revealed that the levels were characteristically high or low in certain classrooms.

Kim looks at SGKAs who are students at one highly selective public university and asks why, given their proficiency in English, impressive educational credentials earned in interracial high schools, and rosy occupational prospects — the attributes that make them «whiz kids» or a «model minority» in the eyes of some — they so often prefer to worship with their own kind.

Not long ago, my husband, a public high school teacher and coach, was in a car with two of his students.

Like almost all institutions of higher education, these schools, whether university - related or denominational, are buffeted by inflation, a decrease of public support, and a drop in student enrollment.

She felt lucky to attend a public high school in Austin, Texas, that was highly supportive and had a gay student alliance.

Yet at least one student, in every Bible - as - literature course I have taught in a public high school, looks around conspiratorily the first day and asks in a stage whisper, Can we get away with this?»

The school was famous in 1995 when a movie called «Dangerous Minds» featuring actress Michelle Pfeiffer was based on a true story about Carlmont HS during a time when East Palo Alto was the murder capital city in the nation and there were 4 regions that segregated each students to attend (4) public high schools in the Sequoia District: Menlo - Atherton, Woodside, Sequoia and Carlmont.

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Upon graduation, our 8th Grade students routinely attend the most competitive independent and public high schools in New York City and beyond.

Berger, who spent 25 years working as a public school teacher and educational consultant in rural Massachusetts before joining Expeditionary Learning, clearly feels a special connection with those EL schools, like Polaris, that enroll high numbers of students growing up in adversity.

In 2010, more than a tenth of all public high school students nationwide were suspended at least once.

Roland Fryer, a celebrated young professor of economics at Harvard University, has spent the past decade testing out a variety of incentive schemes in experiments with public school students in Houston, New York, Chicago, and other American cities that have school systems with high poverty rates.

In other words, a student with a 1300 SAT score at a public high school where the average SAT score is 1000 will have an admissions edge over an equal student at a private school where 1300 is the average SAT score.

Interscholastic Athletics: Statute 13 -36-4 (2003) gives the school board power to delegate the control, supervision, and regulation of any high school interscholastic activities to any voluntary, non-profit association Statute 13 -36-7 (2003) deems any student enrolled in a public school district eligible to participate in any interscholastic activity sponsored by the SD High School Activities Associschool board power to delegate the control, supervision, and regulation of any high school interscholastic activities to any voluntary, non-profit association Statute 13 -36-7 (2003) deems any student enrolled in a public school district eligible to participate in any interscholastic activity sponsored by the SD High School Activities Associathigh school interscholastic activities to any voluntary, non-profit association Statute 13 -36-7 (2003) deems any student enrolled in a public school district eligible to participate in any interscholastic activity sponsored by the SD High School Activities Associschool interscholastic activities to any voluntary, non-profit association Statute 13 -36-7 (2003) deems any student enrolled in a public school district eligible to participate in any interscholastic activity sponsored by the SD High School Activities Associschool district eligible to participate in any interscholastic activity sponsored by the SD High School Activities AssociatHigh School Activities AssociSchool Activities Association.

Asia Snyder, 16, a student at Julian High School in Chicago addresses the Chicago Board of Education as she speaks in favor of healthier meals in public schools.

They largely refused to acknowledge that poverty rather than school quality was the root cause of the educational problems of disadvantaged kids, for fear that saying so would merely reinforce a long - standing belief among public educators that students unlucky enough to live in poverty shouldn't be expected to achieve at high levels — and public educators shouldn't be expected to get them there.

These students, and others from 14 local public high schools, were competing in Cooking Up Change, a healthy cooking contest in which teams were challenged to create nutritious school lunches on a tight budget — $ 1 per meal — and limited ingredients and prep work.

This action was taken despite the fact that our state ranks fifth in the nation for obesity among high school students, and despite public comments reportedly opposing the TDA's plan by an astounding margin of 105 to 8.

Cherokee County School District is a high - performing, award - winning public school district serving 42,000 students in Metro AtSchool District is a high - performing, award - winning public school district serving 42,000 students in Metro Atschool district serving 42,000 students in Metro Atlanta.

Look for people with a medical background, or those with youngish kids in the public schools, or those who have fought similar battles in the past, especially battles based on the idea of social justice, that low income students deserve the same respect and services as higher income students.

Nancy Weiss Food Service Director, Santa Barbara (CA) Public Schools 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 Schools 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 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.

Cuomo participated in an anti-gun violence «die in» demonstration with students from Leadership and Public Service High School in Lower Manhattan by laying on the ground in Zuccotti Park among the protestors.

From the grieving students swarming Tallahassee to the public grilling of Sen. Marco Rubio at a CNN forum last night, Florida — long a proving ground for national gun policy — is again at the center of the storm in the wake of last week's mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in suburban Fort Lauderdale.

Gov. Cuomo also participated in the demonstration with students from Leadership and Public Service High School in Lower Manhattan by laying on the ground in Zuccotti Park among the protestors.

The scholarship will supplement government's newly launched Free Senior High School Education programme being enjoyed by the current first - year students in public second cycle institutions.

He held his head slightly above the ground as he and about 200 students from the Leadership and Public Service High School in Lower Manhattan participated in a «die - in.»

The president and Congress have been struggling to respond to public demands to stop mass shootings at schools since a former student armed with an AR -15-style rifle killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on Feb. 14.

Hawkins will speak on the need to fully fund and desegregate public schools, while ending high - stakes testing, to provide a quality education for all students in New York.