Sentences with phrase «school applicant groups»
Free school applicant groups can propose to open nurseries alongside their free schools.
https://www.newschoolsnetwork.org/ Not exact matches
Read the BHA news item, Groups submit bids to open 2013 Free Schools as BHA lists applicants, 24 February 2012: https://humanism.org.uk/news/view/995
Topics in the Q&A included the source of money for the City's planned pre-K advertising campaign, the City's target number of pre-K applicants, whether Speaker Silver thinks the proposed income tax surcharge should be pursued next year, how the pre-K selection process will work, how the City will cover the approximately $ 40 million annual gap between the estimated cost of pre-K and the amount provided in the state budget, when parents will learn whether their pre-K application has been accepted, how the City will collect data and measure success of the pre-K program, whether the existing pre-K application process will be changed, how the City will use money from the anticipated school bond issue, the mayor's reaction to a 2nd Circuit ruling that City may bar religious groups from renting after - hours space in public schools, the status on a proposed restaurant in Union Square, a tax break included in the state budget that provides millions of dollars to a Bronx condominium project, the «shop & frisk» meeting today between the Rev. Al Sharpton and Police Commissioner Bratton and a pending HPD case against a Brooklyn landlord.
These watch - dog groups threaten to sue if the school «gives credit or points» to applicants based on race.
Because most students enter charter schools before the 3rd grade when state - mandated testing begins, only 36 percent of applicants in our study have prior test scores on record and this group is not representative of all applicants.
About 75 percent of applicants to nonguaranteed schools were in lottery priority groups in which the probability of admission was either zero or one.
Drawing on an evaluation of 3,000 applicants in the 2005 06 school year, MDRC concluded that after three years ChalleNGe cadets were more likely than members of the control group to earn a diploma or a GED and to enroll in college or in college courses.
Instead of giving first priority to teachers who were at the school before Katrina and hiring them based on seniority, as the union contract would have dictated, the charter school group asked each teacher applicant to take a short test of math and writing skills.
Our treatment group (those who, in medicine, would receive the pill) comprises charter school applicants who drew a lottery number that earned them a place at one of the charter schools (lotteried in).
Quite rightly, the free school application process is a demanding one, even for existing «Outstanding» schools and is designed to ensure that only the best and most capable applicant groups are selected to open new schools.
Therefore, critics» suspicions are partly true: a portion of the overachievement that these schools experience reflects the fact that applicants are a select group, a motivated group with the awareness and wherewithal to apply in advance.
This could be accomplished by using principles of behavioral economics to nudge applicants towards particular schools at the time of choice, and through school lotteries that provide extra points for applicants from underrepresented groups.
Another alternative for choice systems is to have the lotteries that underlie them incorporate bonus points for applicants that are from groups that have historically been under represented at particular schools.
Because these charters held a lottery to select their students, the research team could compare the achievement of applicants who were admitted with a similar group who remained in a traditional public school.
Statewide, charter groups say there are 45,000 applicants on waiting lists, though that number may include students who apply to multiple schools.
Selection Day — Selection Day is a full - day event at which applicants have the opportunity to teach a sample lesson to real students, talk with building leaders from partner schools, work on group projects, and demonstrate that they have what it takes to be a KCTR Resident
Both applicants for a legislatively - mandated pilot program, N.C. Connections Academy and N.C. Virtual Academy, will be governed by a non-profit board of directors, but both groups plan on contracting with virtual education companies to actually run the schools.
Nine months after endorsing the largest group of new charter schools in state history, the Department of Education Friday approved four applicants from a pool of nearly 60.
Dr. Bernard C. Watson Academy for Boys in Gary Community School Corporation, Fountain Square Academy in Indianapolis and the 21st Century Charter School in Gary were selected from a group of ten applicants.
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.
Villaraigosa has spoken frequently of schools going to groups with «proven track records,» a veritable mantra of charter - school applicants.
Pilchuck Glass School, call for applicants: 2013 John H. Hauberg Fellowship Deadline: January 14th, 2013 Named for Pilchuck co-founder John H. Hauberg (1916 — 2002)-- philanthropist, art collector, and important patron of artists — the fellowship was established to encourage collaboration among a group of... Continue reading →
Rather than simply listing the high school you attended, applicants should list the college they are enrolled in and the expected graduation date, says Andra Laca, senior digital marketing coordinator at The Centrics Group.
Applicants must be enrolled at an accredited medical school in California and identify as being part of a minority group, among other eligibility requirements.
Applicants must have progressed to the second year of an accredited school psychology program in the state of California, and must be a member of a culturally and linguistically diverse minority group.
Qualified applicants are those currently in graduate school or medical residency specializing in psychology, psychiatry, clinical social work, or counseling, who show a special interest in group psychotherapy.