Sentences with phrase «purposes as high school students»

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During her tenure as a New York City schoolteacher, she designed and implemented a culinary arts training program for high school students and formed a successful social purpose catering company employing graduates from the culinary program.

Reformers thus embraced the junior high school movement, knowing that the purpose of these institutions was to encourage students to make vocational choices as early as age 12 or 13.

As a high - school student, I planned someday to join their ranks and to do my small part to make the purpose of public schools educating students, not just providing an education to «those few who want it.»

Most important for our purposes, teachers are asked to predict how far in school each student is likely to go, such as to finish high school, start college, or earn a degree.

The discussion, encompassing as it did such explicitly religious ideas, might not have taken place in a typical high - school classroom, but Jordan is for all intents and purposes a typical high - school student.

Doing so would have a number of positive benefits, including 1) making sure that the taxpayer dollars devoted to this purpose are being spent on those most able to benefit, 2) encouraging students to work harder during high school to prepare themselves for college, and 3) increasing what students actually learn as opposed to the amount of seat time they acquire.

For purposes of determining adequate yearly progress on the indicator set forth at subparagraph (15)(iv) of this subdivision, the graduation rate cohort for each public school, school district, and charter school for each school year from 2002 - 03 through 2006 - 2007 shall consist of all members of the school or district high school cohort, as defined in subparagraph (i) of this paragraph, for the previous school year plus any students excluded from that cohort solely because they transferred to an approved alternative high school equivalency or high school equivalency preparation program.

As operators of high quality public charter schools offering independent study, we stand united in stating clearly that we are here for one purpose: educating students.

On average, the federal government contributes about 10 percent to the total amount spent on public education, but these dollars account for a larger portion of many high - poverty districts» budgets.11 For example, Los Angeles Unified School District and Chicago Public Schools — both high - poverty districts — receive about 15 percent of their budgets from the Education Department.12 These dollars serve essential purposes, such as supplementing services for low - income students, defraying the cost of individualized education programs for students with disabilities, and compensating for a loss of property tax due to federally owned land.

The purpose of the program is to provide individualized support to allow young adults to transition successfully from their role as a high school student to that of an adult in his / her own community.

Now, if we could just get schools and districts to stop using standardized tests — which have ALL THE SAME PROBLEMS — for such high - stakes purposes as student promotion and retention, graduation, and teacher evaluation, we'd really be getting somewhere.

Schools that function as professional learning communities operate on the assumption that the fundamental purpose of schools is to ensure high levels of learning for all stSchools that function as professional learning communities operate on the assumption that the fundamental purpose of schools is to ensure high levels of learning for all stschools is to ensure high levels of learning for all students.

Many principals mentioned they use value - added measures to place teachers in tested subjects and with students in grade levels that «count» for accountability purpose... some principals [also used] VAM [output] to move ineffective teachers to untested grades, such as K - 2 in elementary schools and 12th grade in high schools» (p. 100).

However, this year, as with past Public Policy Institute surveys, 70 percent of respondents said they agreed with the funding formula's key purpose, steering extra dollars to school districts with higher concentrations of low - income students and English learners.

For the purposes of the brief, we operationalized access and equity as follows: to evaluate access, we examined districts» choice and recruitment policies and assessed the degree to which pathways were representative of their districts» high school student populations; to evaluate equity, we compared academic outcomes for Linked Learning student subgroups with those of similar peers in traditional high school settings.

The State's decision not to provide charter schools with facilities funding, and decision to fund charter school students in a manner that results in these students receiving as little as half the support that traditional public school students receive, serves no purpose but to limit the ability of charter schools to provide students with the high quality educational opportunities that these children deserve and these schools were designed to offer.

The Board of Education accepts content - based high school end - of - course tests administered as a part of another state's accountability system for the purpose of awarding verified credit to students who transfer to Virginia public schools.