Sentences with phrase «public school enrichment»

The school already has over a decade's experience opening its campus to public school enrichment camps and initiatives like Growing Girls and Gardens, where they are taking best practices from their venerable independent school for girls, working with the school district, and applying the learning to benefit some of the city's neediest students — walking the walk to offer outstanding education and opportunity for promising girls.

Not exact matches

Wealthy families start buying their children's way into elite colleges almost from the moment they are born: music lessons, sports equipment, foreign travel («enrichment» programs, to use the all - too - perfect term)-- most important, of course, private - school tuition or the costs of living in a place with top - tier public schools.

We have friends whose kids are going to the public kindergarten (only 1/2 day) with the «wraparound» enrichment program for the rest of the day; their little ones are already stressed out because they have just 2.75 hours in school, during which they're basically being trampled on with mountains of «instruction,» and the wraparound program gives just 20 minutes for lunch while foregoing rest time in favor of «reading instruction» and «homework help.»

In settling the D.C. lawsuit, Chartwells agreed to make $ 14 million in credits and payments to the school system and committed to provide $ 5 million in philanthropic support for the schools, including $ 4 million to the D.C. Public Education Fund for «innovative programs» and $ 1 million to several nonprofit organizations that promote literacy and provide mentors, college scholarships and academic enrichment.

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.

More than 700,000 students in more than 1,200 New York City schools — including large high schools in all five boroughs — would face higher class sizes, have fewer teachers and lose after - school academic and enrichment programs if President - elect Trump makes good on a campaign promise to pull billions of federal dollars away from public schools to pay for private vouchers, a UFT analysis has found.

This is the strongest evidence to date that public school music education in lower - income students can lead to better sound processing in the brain when compared to other types of enrichment education, she added.

Housed at the University of Buffalo, the program identifies disadvantaged but talented minority children, places them in academic - enrichment classes, and then finds them spots at private schools and a more selective public high school in the area to complete their precollegiate careers.

They could then provide more funds to Bryan's public schools, as is likely, or use the scholarship to help pay for enrichment programs or private school tuition.

Another factor that likely explains Florida's different scenario is the repeated claim by state education leaders, newspapers, and some members of the public that many charter schools in the state are engaged in profiteering and private enrichment, with support from powerful political allies in the state legislature and governor's office.

You hold harmless the public schools because another $ 13 million can go into enrichment of one sort or another.

First, afterschool and summer enrichment opportunities are available to all students as a core part of the public education system — whether through schools or organizations that partner with them — and not optional «extras,» which are particularly vulnerable to political vagaries and budget cuts.

Project BOOST (Building Options and Opportunities for Students) is a school - based enrichment program for low - income, at - risk 4th to 12th - grade public school students.

It's this type of enrichment that sets Explorations and other public charter schools apart.

The school covers such student expenses as healthful daily snacks, field trips and enrichment programs (lunches are free because it is a city public school).

The intent of the support services is to enable all students with disabilities to make progress in the general education curriculum, to participate in enrichment activities, and to be educated and participate with non-disabled peers in the public school system.

Some of this revenue comes from fee - for - service after - school programs.34 * Meanwhile, in the district's highest - poverty schools — mostly located in Southeast Washington — schools had to pay for some of these same programs with public dollars, leaving less funding for other resources, staffing, or education or enrichment activities.

Few public schools (district - run or charter) serving low - income neighborhoods have successfully implemented a project - based STEAM program coupled with in - and after - school enrichment that include sports (no football though), arts, and extracurricular clubs.

operates a public high school as well as an educational enrichment program for middle and high school students.

Ferryway is one of 19 Massachusetts public schools participating in ELT to improve academic performance and reintroduce students to enrichment programs that have too often been stripped from the school day.

When I began my teaching career at a small start - up public school in the South Bronx, teachers designed our school schedule, curriculum, college enrichment and credit recovery programs.

In her journey to expand professional enrichment and to share knowledge, Molly has been invited to present and share best practices at conferences and workshops over the years, including the U.S. Department of Education, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, the Michigan Association of Public School Academies, the Michigan Association of Middle School Educators, the Ohio Alliance for Public Charter Schools and The Governor John Engler Center for Charter Schools at Central Michigan University.

in the 1970's, public schools known as magnets offered enrichment programs as an incentive to pull children from neighborhood schools.

Through the support of the Harford County Public Schools, additional services are offered to eligible students during the school day in enrichment, remedial reading, counseling, and special education.

A follow - up study by Rouse found that low - income students attending Milwaukee public schools served by a state class - size reduction and enrichment program significantly outperformed voucher students in reading and scored as well in math.

Harford County Public Schools is pleased to offer two summer enrichment programs for middle school - aged students.

She works within their Community and After Schools programs and manages afterschool programs and enrichments at five Chicago Public Schools throughout the city.

CAS - CIAC is excited to partner with the McMikle Group and the Windsor Public Schools to offer an innovative summer learning camp that combines leadership, athletics and academic enrichment.

The Milwaukee Public Schools Gifted & Talented Development program is comprised of a continuum of services for students needing acceleration and / or enrichment embedded in the Response to Intervention (RtI) framework.

In 2010, Katie joined a group of parents, advocates, and community leaders to open a Montessori public charter school that focused on cultural enrichment and empowerment for students in Washington DC.

The best thing to do when the public school system is on the rocks is to turn to a private tutoring and enrichment center.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the players in this initiative are absolutely and totally silent about the biggest issue of all; If the Renzulli teaching model works, and I'm sure it does knowing his level of expertise on the subject, the logical and appropriate public policy decision would be to insert Renzulli's approach into more schools and provide a broader range of children, included those «most gifted,» with the benefits of curriculum that includes «enrichment clusters that stimulate investigation and creativity, making learning fun.»

The mission of the Elizabeth Edwards Foundation is to provide opportunities for achievement, enrichment, and public service for high school students who show great promise, but have limited resources.

It recognizes that public schools (often neighborhood hubs), have a unique opportunity to provide access to effective and integrated service delivery that support conditions for high quality teaching and learning by partnering with organizations representing youth development, academic enrichment, mental and physical health, human services, foster care, early education, adult education, and family engagement.

Previous work on the impact of philanthropy in education terms these types of status quo investments as «lower leverage» grants, which can include funding for efforts in professional development, unrestricted or general purpose grants to schools, or special - purpose grants to fund a particular program or activity (e.g. arts enrichment).4 The contrasting approach — the «higher leverage» investment — is investment with the potential to exert systemic influence on public education, which can be divided into two broad categories: 5

We believe that the Success Academy's growth must be accompanied by increased public accountability to ensure that all NYC district students have fair and equal access to its opportunities for academic enrichment, as well as to ensure that the network is not abusing public funding that traditional public schools unquestionably need.

Public education includes services that provide educational enrichment or support directly to students or their families in a school or a school - like setting.

Through our public visitor programs, monthly enrichment events like Marine Science Sundays, Whale Bus school program and many other hands - on classes and activites, we've welcomed and educated 100,000 people this year about the importance of caring for marine life.

The NARS School Partnership Program provides visual art based cultural enrichment programs at public schools in Brooklyn.

She has taught in the Citizen Schools Trial Advocacy Program, an after - school enrichment program for Boston public school students.

One of the things we like best about JM is the extra attention paid to the kids «at the top» as well as «on the bottom» through tutoring PTA - sponsored teacher's aids and programs such as the after school enrichment programs which offer everything from languages such as Spanish Mandarin and French to music instruction public speaking chess science dance Ecology Club and Odyssey of the MInd.