Sentences with phrase «requires special language»

This requires special language systems in which abstractions are a necessary part of analysis and communication.

Not exact matches

Homeschooling a child with special needs, whether an exceptional ability in learning languages or a musical instrument or a learning disability that requires adaptive instruction, may thrive with one - on - one attention that does not need to take 25 - 30 other children into account.

Participating children had higher rates of high - school completion, lower rates of grade retention and special education placement, and a lower rate of juvenile arrests.32 Another example showing more intensive programming has larger impacts is the Healthy Steps evaluation showing significantly better child language outcomes when the program was initiated prenatally through 24 months.33 These studies suggest that a more intensive intervention involving the child directly may be required for larger effects to be seen.

The measure also would require charters — publicly funded but privately managed schools — to enroll special - education students and English - language learners at rates comparable to traditional public schools in their districts.

It also requires charters to enroll a number of English - language learners and special - education students comparable to traditional public schools, and to adopt a code of ethics to prevent business conflicts.

Spelling in most Native languages requires special letters and tone markings — the little squiggles and accents that signal different letter sounds — not available on standard computer keyboards.

In response to the lawsuit, Arizona modestly increased its funding for ELL students and adopted a new policy requiring them to spend four hours a day in special language classes.

It also requires that they know how to handle specific differences that matter in the classroom, like students for whom English is not their first language or students with special needs.

Formats Text only - Short sentences, one sentence per line, four lines per page Supported - text As text version with the addition of small symbols for key words and new vocabulary Symbol - The same text plus symbols for all the main words for pupils requiring more support Simplified - Less information, two to three lines per page One symbol - This most basic level has just one symbol on each page This resource bundle was made in InPrint 3 Widgit Symbols supports vocabulary development across the primary curriculum for all students, as well as helping individuals with special needs, autism or speech and language difficulties.

Formats Text only - Short sentences, one sentence per line, four lines per page Supported - text As text version with the addition of small symbols for key words and new vocabulary Symbol - The same text plus symbols for all the main words for pupils requiring more support Simplified - Less information, two to three lines per page One symbol - This most basic level has just one symbol on each page This resource was made in InPrint 3 Widgit Symbols supports vocabulary development across the primary curriculum for all students, as well as helping individuals with special needs, autism or speech and language difficulties.

As a result, the last time the state raised the cap on charter enrollment, in 2010, the legislation required charter schools to submit plans to actively recruit students with special needs and English language learners.

In addition, no person shall be discriminated against in admission to Brooke Charter School or in obtaining the advantages, privileges and access to the courses of study and extracurricular activities offered by the School on the basis of race, sex, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, mental or physical disability, age, ancestry, athletic performance, socioeconomic status, housing status or homelessness, special need, proficiency in the English language or a foreign language, or prior academic achievement, as required by federal and state law, including M.G.L. c. 71, § 89 (l); 603 CMR 1.06 (1); M.G.L. c. 76, § 5 and 603 CMR 26.00: Access to Equal Educational Opportunity.

Since taking office, Team Malloy / Wyman have dumped over $ 450 million in scarce taxpayer funds into charter schools in Connecticut, although these schools consistently discriminate against children who require special services, children who aren't fluent in the English language and children who won't adhere to the charter school's abusive «no - excuses» disciplinary policies designed to push out children with behavioral issues.

This budget language has the effect of allowing school divisions to carry - over, for appropriation in fiscal year 2003, state fund balances for any Direct Aid to Public Education account with the exception of the SOL Algebra Readiness program and those required to meet the Standards of Quality (i.e., Basic Aid, Textbooks, Vocational EducationSOQ, Gifted Education, Special EducationSOQ, Remedial EducationSOQ, VRS Retirement, Social Security, and VRS Group Life).

Ignoring Connecticut's collapsing fiscal situation, the Governor and legislature actually handed the charter schools even more scarce public funds, even though those schools discriminate against Connecticut children by refusing to accept and educate their fair share of students who require special education services and those who aren't proficient in the English language and therefore need additional English language services.

In New York City, thousands of students fall into one of three unique student population categories: English Language Learners, who speak a language other than English at home and score below proficient on English assessments when they enter the school system; District 75 students, who have significant cognitive and physical impairments and require a specialized school setting; and special education students, who have an identified disability and an individualized education plan.

And Achievement First, Inc. is notorious for failing to take its fair share or provide adequate services to Latino students, students who face English language barriers and children who require special education services.

For example, a 2010 New York state charter school law requiring charter schools to mimic the demographics of the surrounding neighborhood — implemented to address gaps in English language learner and special education enrollment at charter schools — might mean, if enforced, that a school in upper Manhattan's District 6 would need to enroll a student population in which 98 percent are eligible for free or reduced - price lunch, a commonly used measure of low - income status.64

The course develops an understanding of program evaluation measures, and requires students to be able to demonstrate this knowledge for purposes of making data based decisions to develop intervention plans for a variety of learners including students with disabilities and other special concerns such as youth from foster, immigrant and migrant families, students who are at risk and students from language diverse communities.

While some students with disabilities (SD) and / or English language learners (ELL) can be assessed without any special procedures, others require accommodations to participate in NAEP.

c. Students who are either (i) enrolled in a nonpublic school or (ii) receiving home instruction pursuant to § 22.1 - 254.1 and who are enrolled in a public school on less than a full - time basis in any mathematics, science, English, history, social science, vocational education, health education or physical education, fine arts or foreign language course, or receiving special education services required by a student's individualized education plan, shall be counted in the funded fall membership and March 31 ADM of the responsible school division.

It is also important to determine if a child with dysgraphia may also have dyslexia and require special help with reading or OWL LD (SLI) and need special help with oral as well as written language.

Certain groups of students — including those in special education or gifted programs and English - language learners — are weighted more heavily in the funding formula, because they typically require more money to teach.

Well - designed accountability policy, on its own, does four things well: first, it requires participants to believe that all students can learn and succeed; second, it measures the academic progress of all students over time; third, it highlights gaps between different groups of students (be they racial, geographic, socio - economic, special education and gifted students, or English language proficiency); and fourth, it assigns consequences for not meeting goals around student progress.

Governor Malloy's education reform initiative requires teacher evaluation programs to be linked to standardized test scores despite the fact that standardized tests scores are primarily influenced by poverty, language barriers, and the lack of special education services for students rather than teacher performance.

Common Core testing is unfair to all public schools students, but it is particularly damaging to students who come from poorer families, those that have English language challenges and those who require special education services.

Imagine if Connecticut's elected and appointed officials actually stopped denigrating teachers, the teaching profession and public schools and started listening to teachers and providing the resources necessary to improve educational outcomes, especially for Connecticut children living in poverty, facing English language challenges or requiring special education services.

Issue # 2: Governor Malloy's education reform initiative requires teacher evaluation programs to be linked to standardized test scores despite the fact that standardized tests scores are primarily influenced by poverty, language barriers, and the lack of special education services for students rather than teacher performance.

# 2: Governor Malloy's education reform initiative requires that the state's teacher evaluation programs to be linked to standardized test scores despite the fact that standardized tests scores are primarily influenced by poverty, language barriers, and the lack of special education services for students.

In addition, Connecticut's charter schools are notorious for discriminating against Latino students, students who require additional help learning the English language, children who need special education services and those who display disciplinary problems.

As with Connecticut's privately owned, but publicly funded, charter schools in Bridgeport, (See Bridgeport Charter Schools Discriminate Against Connecticut Children), the charter schools in Hartford also refuse to accept and educate students who require help learning the English language and those who need special education services.

Nowhere, including here in Connecticut, do they talk about tackling the terrible growth of child poverty that is destroying our society or the challenges faced by children who require special education services or need help with their English language capabilities.

Note that there is absolutely no reference to the fundamental issues associated with students that face language barriers, students that require special education services or issues related to having qualified teachers who have the experience and skills to face those vitally important issues.

As more and more parents understand, the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) Testing program unfairly discriminates against poor students, students who aren't fluent in the English language and students who require special education services.

For example, some students, such as English language learners, low - income students, and students with special needs, require additional support to reach proficiency.

For a district qualifying under this paragraph whose charter school tuition payments exceed 9 per cent of the school district's net school spending, the board shall only approve an application for the establishment of a commonwealth charter school if an applicant, or a provider with which an applicant proposes to contract, has a record of operating at least 1 school or similar program that demonstrates academic success and organizational viability and serves student populations similar to those the proposed school seeks to serve, from the following categories of students, those: (i) eligible for free lunch; (ii) eligible for reduced price lunch; (iii) that require special education; (iv) limited English - proficient of similar language proficiency level as measured by the Massachusetts English Proficiency Assessment examination; (v) sub-proficient, which shall mean students who have scored in the «needs improvement», «warning» or «failing» categories on the mathematics or English language arts exams of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System for 2 of the past 3 years or as defined by the department using a similar measurement; (vi) who are designated as at risk of dropping out of school based on predictors determined by the department; (vii) who have dropped out of school; or (viii) other at - risk students who should be targeted to eliminate achievement gaps among different groups of students.

It is important to note that Kishimoto makes no reference to the fundamental issues associated with students that face language barriers, students that require special education services or issues related to having qualified teachers who have the experience and skills to face those vitally important issues.

Malloy, like newly sworn - in Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, has been a consistent supporter of efforts to privatize public education by turning over scarce public resources to charter schools despite the fact that these schools discriminate against Latino students, students who need help learning the English language and students who require special education services.

As is the case elsewhere in Connecticut and across the country, charter schools generally refuse to accept and educate their fair share of children who require special education services, children who need help learning the English language, as well as children with disciplinary issues.

Furthermore, specialty schools, including charter schools, are not all required to enroll students with special needs, including English language learners and students with disabilities, thus providing «choice» for only some children and families.

The following charts highlight how Connecticut's charter schools discriminate against Latinos, students who face language barriers and students who require special education services.

The claim is just plain wrong when one considers that these privately - owned, but publicly - funded schools are consistently «creaming off» selected students from their communities and openly discriminating against Latinos, student who face English language barriers and students who require special education services.

As parents are slowly coming understand, the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium SBAC testing program is intentionally designed to fail the vast majority of children, including a projected failure rate of over 90 percent for students requiring special education services and those that aren't fluent in the English language.

These education reformers really seem to believe that the problem facing urban schools is not primarily the level of poverty, language barriers or the significant number of students who require special education services, but the «quality» of the teachers.

The Commissioner and every one of those officials know that the three factors that influence test scores the most are poverty, language barriers and the number of students who have disabilities that require special education services.

When the EHA transformed into the IDEA in 1990, the legal language became even more explicit, requiring schools to provide «a free appropriate public education» that included «special education and related services designed to meet [the] unique needs [of students with disabilities]» and that established means of measuring «the effectiveness of efforts to educate children with disabilities» (IDEA 20 U.S.C.A. 1400 2004).

So now, the school in which 1 in 4 four students aren't fluent in English, 4 in 10 go home to households where English is not the primary language and more than 1 in 10 have disabilities that require special education services, remains a «low - performing» school when it comes to standardized test scores.

The Commissioner and every one of those Board members know that the three factors that influence test scores the most are poverty, language barriers and the number of students who have disabilities that require special education services.

Before NCLB, states were not required to break out test scores by socio - economic status, ethnicity, English language proficiency or whether students received special education services.

Kawara gave special prominence to language, and his work is among those conceptual art examples that show how visual art skills are not necessarily required for a perfect artwork (of course, this does not mean On Kawara wasn't a master in visual art).