Sentences with phrase «public middle school students»

Since 2008, our students have achieved at the highest levels among public middle school students in Massachusetts, including when compared to students from wealthier communities.

Students ranked # 1 of all Massachusetts public middle school students in every middle school grade level on the MCAS exams.

Fortunately, the 2002 Maine Learning Technology Initiative, a partnership between the state and Apple Computer, equips every public middle school student with a wireless laptop computer.

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Parochial schools are supported by church funds in addition to tuition, not tax dollars, providing in many areas a reasonable alternative for working class and middle class parishioners and removing these millions of students from the public education system paid for by taxpayers.

The locker room offers the appearance of privacy, but at the same time elicits public performance (as every awkward middle school student knows too well).

Public schools serve all students in a community: rich, poor, middle class, of various ethnicities, ability levels, health concerns, family backgrounds and more.

He's also in favor of free tuition to CUNY colleges for low - and middle - income students, smaller class sizes in the city's public schools, and desegregation of the school system, which he noted is the «third most segregated in the nation.»

By providing resources to these students early, and continuing throughout middle school, we can ensure that every child in the New York City public school system has the same opportunity to learn, grow, and potentially enroll in these prestigious schools,» said Senator Klein.

NYC Public Advocate Letitia James is demanding the city «take real steps» to deal with a troubled Bronx middle school — which The Post revealed as plagued by poor discipline and coverups — where a student accused the principal of shoving and harassing him.

Wadleigh librarian Paul McIntosh, who has secured West, Liu and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio as part of a speakers program at the school, said students, faculty and parents know they are facing a difficult to nearly impossible fight to keep their middle school open.

The City School District of Albany has scheduled a public hearing Thursday at William S. Hackett Middle School at 6 p.m. to hear public comment on the applications, including one proposal that would create a new 400 - student charter elementary school in ASchool District of Albany has scheduled a public hearing Thursday at William S. Hackett Middle School at 6 p.m. to hear public comment on the applications, including one proposal that would create a new 400 - student charter elementary school in ASchool at 6 p.m. to hear public comment on the applications, including one proposal that would create a new 400 - student charter elementary school in Aschool in Albany.

«These schools must also guarantee admission to the two top students in each middle public school,» he said.

Project BOOST, run by the Center for Educational Innovation - Public Education Association (CEI - PEA), provides academic enrichment opportunities to elementary and middle school students who have demonstrated academic talent, but come from disadvantaged neighborhoods.

A new mandate from the city requires students in public middle and high schools to take sex education classes.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- Free state college tuition for middle - class students, an expanded child care tax credit and $ 1 billion in new spending on public schools are among the highlights of a state budget proposal unveiled Tuesday by Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Public Advocate Letitia James is demanding the city «take real steps» to deal with a troubled Bronx middle school where one student accused the principal of shoving and harassing him.

He emphasized that he was a public school teacher in the South Bronx teaching bilingual math and science to middle school students and that he founded a community development credit union in Washington Heights.

Mr. Cuomo has also voiced support for a bill, backed by the Catholic Church and advocates of vouchers, that would offer tax credits to individuals and corporations who donate money to public schools, or to scholarship programs that help poor and middle - class students attend private schools.

A class of North Carolina middle school students on a field trip began singing «The Star - Spangled Banner» in an outdoor area when one of the museum's security guards stopped them and said they needed a permit before they could sing in unison, an act that would be considered a public demonstration.

The Education Investment Tax Credit will increase funds in two areas — donations to public schools, school districts and teacher - driven projects; and scholarships to help low - and middle - income students attend religious and other tuition - based schools, according to the NY Archdiocese.

The students will represent eight public elementary and middle schools from throughout the Bronx, and each student is a participant in the Chess in the Schools pschools from throughout the Bronx, and each student is a participant in the Chess in the Schools pSchools program.

The research team — led by professor Jeannette Ickovics, director of CARE (Community Alliance for Research and Engagement) at the School of Public Health — surveyed 1,649 middle - school students randomly selected from a single urban school district in ConnecSchool of Public Health — surveyed 1,649 middle - school students randomly selected from a single urban school district in Connecschool students randomly selected from a single urban school district in Connecschool district in Connecticut.

Holdren called on scientists and engineers to dedicate 10 % of their time educating policymakers and the public on issues such as climate change, protecting the world's oceans and public lands, continuing Arctic research and demonstrating the importance of investing in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programs for elementary and middle school students.

Today, 90 percent of U.S. public school students attend a middle school or junior high school.

The study led by UW Medicine researchers interviewed 521 students recruited from four Seattle public middle schools.

In 2016, only 4 in 10 eight grade public school students were proficient in science and 97.9 % of middle school students who took the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) test, where Puerto Rico ranked 64 out of 70, exhibited low abilities interpreting scientific information and working on complex problems.

Director Dot Harris, Office of Economic Impact and Diversity at the Department of Energy, will be on the line with Dr. Rebecca Spyke - Keiser, Associate Deputy Administrator for Strategy and Policy at NASA; Jill Fuss, Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Stephanie Stilson, Engineer at Kennedy Space Center and NASA Headquarters, and a class at Andrew Jackson Middle School in Titusville, Florida, to discuss ways to find role models for young people in STEM fields and answer questions from students and the general public about STEM careers.

A new study finds that despite declining rates of teen smoking and widespread bans on smoking in public places, 48 percent of middle - and high school students are exposed to secondhand smoke every year.

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Even in a country whose progressive public education system dispenses with tests and grades until middle school and provides every high school student with a laptop, Nordahl Grieg stands out for its commitment to innovation.

The Seminole County, Fla., school district is taking steps to reassure the public that its schools are safe after a student was fatally wounded in a standoff with police at a middle school.

The Monuments Project: Giving students as young as middle school opportunities to do the real work of historians — and provide meaningful public service in the process — is the idea behind the Monuments Project.

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Not for the students of Walden Middle School, an all - black, low - income, urban public school where Associate Professor Meira Levinson taught for several School, an all - black, low - income, urban public school where Associate Professor Meira Levinson taught for several school where Associate Professor Meira Levinson taught for several years.

Students at public and private schools from Maine and New York to Wisconsin and Wyoming are now enrolled in such courses as AP Physics, the Modern Middle East, Journalism in the Digital Age and AP Art History.

Columbia Public Schools» elementary and middle school students experiment with sound waves and code robots aboard their maker bus.

«The Shape of the U» showed that in the 2007 - 08 school year, controlling for demographics of students served, approximately 21 % of California charter schools were performing in the bottom tenth of all public schools in the state, with another 21 % in the top tenth, and strikingly few «in the middle.»

A student at a novel middle school located inside the Grand Rapids Public Museum, Banks is eager to tell you about the historic importance of the sturgeon in the diet of the region's indigenous Anishinabek, as well as the details of its overfishing by white settlers and its present - day endangered status.

Mathematica, the firm that did the study, chose to study only those students who entered a charter middle school after having first taken a standardized test in a public school.

The school is not a charter school; it is just a normal, public middle school for students in fifth and sixth grades who live in South Lawrence.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

For example, dissatisfaction with performance in a charter middle school that is not captured by test scores (such as discipline issues or a poor fit between the student's interests or ability and the curriculum being offered) could lead parents to choose to send their child to a traditional public high school.

For example, Figure 1 shows that 45 percent of students who first participated in FTC in elementary or middle school attended a public college in Florida within two years of expected high school graduation, compared to 39 percent of matched non-FTC students.

Controlling for key student characteristics (including demographics, prior test scores, and the prior choice to enroll in a charter middle school), students who attend a charter high school are 7 to 15 percentage points more likely to earn a standard diploma than students who attend a traditional public high school.

To put the gains in perspective, it may help to know that 5 to 6 percentile points is just under half of the gap between the average disadvantaged, minority student in Chicago public schools and the average middle - income, nonminority student in a suburban district.»

Meanwhile, more parents in D.C. neighborhoods west of Rock Creek Park are sending their kids to public schools, resulting in fewer spots for «out of boundary» students in the most sought - after neighborhood schools such as Lafayette, Murch and Eaton elementary schools or Deal Middle School.

More than one - third are middle - class white students who would otherwise be attending their suburban neighborhood public school.

While we encourage readers to be cautious about applying our findings without qualification to all public schools, we also encourage school districts to support research that can identify middle - school effects in other settings, especially since we find the consequences of attending a middle school for student achievement to be substantial and troubling.

In this study, we use detailed student - level data to compare patterns of entry, attrition, and replacement in 19 KIPP middle schools and in traditional public middle schools in the districts in which the KIPP schools are located.

We find that, on average, KIPP middle schools admit students who are similar to those in other local schools, and patterns of student attrition are typically no different at KIPP than at nearby public middle schools.