Sentences with phrase «public school attendance zones»

Other possible reasons why public school segregation increased as neighborhoods became more integrated include gerrymandering of public school attendance zones by race or class and other decisions made by local public school boards.

School divisions should work with private school leaders to determine on the method or source of data that will be used to identify the number of eligible private school children from families residing in participating public school attendance zones.

Children from low - income families who attend private schools and live in a public school attendance zone that participates in Title I programs generate funds for instructional services at their private schools.

Once the private school determines the percentage of students in the school who are Title I eligible using the appropriate metrics and supplies that information to the LEA, the LEA then matches the addresses of eligible private school students to the students» public school attendance zone.

That is, it allows parents to live in one public school attendance zone, but send their children to another school — public or private — located anywhere convenient to their residence or their place of employment.

Not exact matches

Republican candidate Rob Astorino's campaign on Tuesday released what amounts to an urban agenda that would create inner - city enterprises zones, place an emphasis on fathers in a family and overhaul public assistance programs through promoting school attendance and reimposing fingerprinting for food - stamp eligibility.

Under an intradistrict choice policy, a family is able to choose any traditional public school within their school district, even if it falls outside of their local school attendance zone.

Of those families, 78 percent have a single public school within their attendance zone.

Intradistrict choice: Allow families access to any public traditional elementary school within their school district (i.e., not just within their attendance zones).

Whether district - run, state - run, or charters, all of these schools operate under a system of public choice without attendance zones.

Scholarships can be awarded to students with household incomes equal or less than 150 % of the median household income and that were zoned to attend a failing public school the previous semester, although previous public school attendance is not required.

In lieu of attending the school serving the attendance zone in which the child is temporarily relocated, such child may choose to remain in the public school building he or she previously attended until the end of the school year and for one additional year if that year constitutes the child's terminal year in such building.

Within the span of one year, all public - school employees were fired, the teacher contract expired and was not replaced, and most attendance zones were eliminated.

For example, Stamford Public Schools in Connecticut, draws its attendance zone boundaries so that all schools are within 10 percentage points of the district's average share of «educationally disadvantaged» stSchools in Connecticut, draws its attendance zone boundaries so that all schools are within 10 percentage points of the district's average share of «educationally disadvantaged» stschools are within 10 percentage points of the district's average share of «educationally disadvantaged» students.

Wisconsin's statewide Parental Choice Program is open to any income - qualified child who resides outside of the attendance zones for Milwaukee Public Schools and the Racine Unified School District.

The first peer - reviewed research released on co-location, the study looked at nearly 900,000 students in grades 3 - 5 who attended a traditional public school in an attendance zone that included a charter school serving at least one of those grades between 1996 and 2010.

«This not only includes the nearly two - thirds of school - aged children who have access to public schools outside their attendance zone.

Public school systems enroll any student who comes into the district's attendance zone from ages 5 to 21 — no matter their handicapping condition, lack of prior education, first language, or even disciplinary or criminal record.

Using suggested GCSA language, Rep. Caldwell changed the language of the bill to read, «The governing body of a charter school with a state - wide attendance zone and students residing in 25 percent or more of Georgia's counties or in three or more counties which are not geographically contiguous shall conduct one such public meeting in the county in which its primary business office is located and one such public meeting in the metropolitan Atlanta area.»

But House Bill 1003 also drops the «public school attendance requirement» — the guideline that a student must attend public schools for at least a year to receive a voucher — for students living in attendance zones of schools that received an F grade from the state.

While public schools draw students from predetermined attendance zones, magnet schools are not subject to these boundaries.

Florida lawmakers have rolled several proposed K - 12 policy changes into a single bill that would make it easier for out - of - state charter school operators to work in the Sunshine State, and would also allow parents to enroll their children in public schools outside their attendance zones or districts under certain conditions.

Theoretically all of the city's public and charter schools have been open to all residents since 2005 — when, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, almost all school attendance zones were dismantled.