Sentences with phrase «school applicants do»

(In the current study, charter school applicants do in fact have higher than average test scores even before they enroll.

Some charter - school applicants do not comply with the treatment that the lottery «assigns» them.

Not exact matches

The MBA program at McGill's Desautels Faculty of Management doesn't have a minimum GPA requirement; Don Melville, the school's director of the MBA and master's program, says applicants who struggled in their undergrad years aren't doomed to rejection.

U.S. business schools don't tend to highlight potential visa problems for international MBAs, but applicants should do their homework.

A bit of bonus material doesn't hurt, either: Chris Lynch, the director of recruitment and admissions at Alberta Business School, says he welcomes applications with additional material appended, such as a video that highlights the applicant's background in a fun and creative way.

(1) that policy does not discriminate against anyone on the grounds of nationality - it is based explicitly on the location of the school the applicant attended (2) it does not favour applicants from Scottish schools over any other country.

In fact, says Daniel Albert, F.A. Davis Professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, in Madison, medical schools are increasingly interested in applicants who don't come straight from their senior year in college.

Inclusion on the Party Schools, Stone - Cold Sober Schools, or Jock Schools list does not have a statistically significant effect on the overall number of applicants; however, inclusion on the Top 20 list for Party Schools predicts an 8 to 9 percent decline in the percentage of first - year students from out of state.

We don't expect our school leaver applicants to have lots of work experience under their belts or a CV full of qualifications.

Nor did students with low initial levels of achievement and applicants from SINI schools experience significantly different reading gains from the program than high achievers and non-SINI applicants.

A recent Fordham report found that only 21 percent of applicants who did not plan to hire a CMO or an EMO to run their school had their charters approved, compared to 31 percent of applicants who did have such plans.

For decades businesses have recognised the value of a Duke of Edinburgh's Award in young job applicants, and now for thousands of apprentices and young employees the opportunity to do their DofE doesn't stop at school.

For high school applicants, a standardized test is followed by an essay which is graded based on Hunter's internal standards, ones they do not share with the public.

If potential new applicants are less suited to school leadership positions than current leaders or are likely to «do harm,» why does Lasley presume that they will be hired over conventional candidates?

Fifth - grade entrants comprise only 13 percent of CCSF's total admittees and only about 6 percent of the admittees in our analysis, which excludes applicants from private schools and does not include charter schools that are in their first year of operation.

Delaware employers hire thousands of recent graduates and part - time high school students, but few bother to look at records of attendance and punctuality or find out how well applicants have done academically.

All students who enrolled in a charter school were matched to a Chicago Public Schools record, as were 73 percent of the charter school applicants who applied but did not enroll.

In Denver, when the school district did a deep - dive analysis to improve the quality of teacher applicants (it had already determined quantity was not a problem), it collected information from charter and district schools.

To be considered for Massachusetts Expanded Learning Time Initiative for struggling schools, applicants had to agree to extend the school year by 25 percent, which they could do by extending the school day.

Beyond the work that high schools do, colleges will have to indicate to applicants the value their institution places on community service and ethical development — and what exactly service means to them.

The flood of applicants includes eight Valley schools slated to lose federal funding because they didn't have enough low - income students, plus 16 others hoping to capitalize on the hybrid charter model.

New Orleans» diverse schools are significantly oversubscribed, so most applicants don't get in.

Eric McGarvey, admissions coordinator for Intergenerational, said the school assesses applicants through testing, an interview and a report - card review because «we don't want to accept a child into a grade level that they're not ready for.

Yet Arapaho Charter High School in Riverton requires applicants to write eight short essays, on topics such as «What does the word «commitment» mean to you?»

From a policy - maker's point of voew the important issue is not whether private schools out - perform government schools in the education of students who want out (voucher applicants), but whether choice systems as a whole perform better than systems which do not feature choice.

Commenting on the small differences in satisfaction levels among parents with children in the charter and chosen district sectors, Paul E. Peterson, professor of government and director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard Kennedy School, notes that «chosen district schools serve a smaller percentage of students of color than charters do, and they are more likely to use examinations as entry requirements, while most charter schools must accept all applicants or use a lottery to select among them.»

For instance, among applicants who identified an external funding source from which they had secured or requested a grant to support their proposed school, 28 percent of charters were approved, compared to 21 percent of those who did not identify such a source (see Figure 2).

Lawyers and ethics officers from the department did most of that work, although four career and four political staff members also reviewed the applicants to make sure they had expertise in the four school improvement areas emphasized in Race to the Top.

Asking PE applicants to cover classes in subjects where there was a shortage was «effectively what schools are doing», which, they added, «is a bit iffy».

The only exception to this is for post-lottery applicants that qualify for a preference at a school (e.g., sibling or in - boundary) that a lottery applicant does not qualify for.

The charter school contract no longer allows districts to add any conditions that the applicants don't agree to.

Three out of four U.S. schools that train teachers don't require applicants to be in the top half of the college - going population.

Charter schools ARE public schools: By law, they must adhere to all public education laws, hire appropriately licensed teachers, follow the same curriculum standards as do traditional school districts, take the same standardized, state - wide assessments and are free of tuition and open to all applicants.

Who cares what the data says (sic) because when you have administrators who don't have applicants before the first day of school, there's a shortage, end of story.»

If an applicant is not currently enrolled in a public school in DC, they do not need to provide an ID.

In accordance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 («Title VI»), Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 («Title IX»), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 («Section 504»), Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 («ADA»), and the Age Discrimination Act of 1975 («The Age Act»), applicants for admission and employment, students, parents, employees, sources of referral of applicants for admission and employment, and all unions or professional organizations holding collective bargaining or professional agreements with Capital City Public Charter School («Capital City») are hereby notified that Capital City Public Charter School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, familial status, family responsibilities, political affiliation, source of income, or disability in admission or access to, or treatment or employment in, its programs and activities.

In none of these U-T pieces did the author correctly inform readers that charter schools must use lotteries mandated by both federal and state law when the number of applicants for their school exceeds the seats available.

An additional 45 schools signed up for the program, but did not receive enough applicants to participate next year.

Some schools have programs that parallel advanced classes yet don't require applicants to demonstrate academic skills that they may not have going in — but could develop.

Back in August, Urban Milwaukee did a story documenting the growing teacher shortage in Wisconsin, which found many school districts were having trouble attracting teacher applicants and many universities were seeing a decline in education majors, led by UW - Milwaukee, with a 23 percent decline.

Charter schools» boards of directors would be required to set policy for reviewing applicants» criminal histories and would be held accountable for gross negligence in the event that they do not adhere to this standard.

Lighthouse Christian School on Madison's West Side is not among them because it didn't have enough applicants compared to the other schools and systems.

Gretchen Cagle, director of special education at MDE, says this is common for applicants who try to use vouchers at private schools that do not exclusively serve special - needs students.

«This week it was announced that 86 percent of voucher applicants for next year don't even go to public school now,» Kippers said in a statement, referring to DPI's report Thursday.

(A charter school with fewer applicants than spaces available does not have to conduct a lottery.)

And though waiting lists do fluctuate through the summer, most applicants won't find out until the early days of school if an opening has developed because someone has moved or changed their mind.

The forms ask applicants to say which school they want to convert, but InspireNOLA didn't fill in that part.

In this case, a state appeal panel concluded that the school board «did not have good cause to determine that the applicant failed to meet the requirements.»

The premise of this book is that school is not working — not for students, who are more bored and disengaged; not for teachers or administrators, who are worn down from serving more purposes; not for college professors, who need to do more remediation with incoming students; and not for employers, who are more deeply concerned about the quality of prospective applicants than ever before.

Summit Public Schools is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity and / or expression, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, military status, pregnancy, parenthood, citizenship status, creed, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.