Sentences with phrase «school enrollment involves»

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The turmoil at the school has continued with Assistant Principal Manuele Verdi's recent lawsuit against the city accusing State Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz and his office of getting involved with enrollment at the school to block minority students from attending.

Emma Roberts, Gabourey Sidibe, Taissa Farmiga, and Jamie Brewer all play young students at the school, and Coven will involve a number of different time periods, including the 1970s when the Academy's enrollment was booming and the 1830s, which is where Bates» LaLaurie and Bassett's Marie Laveau come into play.

Chapters take on a variety of work, including: Regularly scheduled events for the public to discuss public education, school board candidate forums, monitoring school board meetings, translating proposed school board policies into other languages for various language groups, providing tours of schools for prospective students and families, working for adequate funding for public schools, engaging with bond elections, helping parents navigate enrollment policies, and in general, being involved in the issues of public schools in their communities.

Among other findings, they concluded that 1) white enrollment declined much more in the year of plan implementation than in subsequent years, and 2) pairing and clustering, the desegregation technique that involved the joining of schools with initially very different black and white enrollment shares into a single attendance zone, produced the largest average white - enrollment losses surrounding plan implementation in the period of greatest desegregation activity.

Unfortunately, the ProPublica reporter and editor involved in producing the piece are defending the decision to take the angle they did, citing a spike in alternative school enrollments in Orlando and the disproportionate representation of charter providers in the alternative school space.

Some also get involved in the «infrastructure» of school choice, creating common enrollment systems, transportation co-ops, or special education partnerships.

Because the referendum involves the cap on charter school enrollment, it only impacts parents and students in communities that are at or near the current cap.

Expanding voucher programs and charter schools will involve more than just lifting the enrollment caps on such programs; it will also require private - or public - sector efforts to create more schools of choice.

Given the size of the district — more than 200 schools, 22,000 employees, and roughly 150,000 students and counting (enrollment was growing by 2,500 every year)-- there was no way that I could, or should, get involved in day - to - day managerial decisions.

Unlike the annual enrollment competition, in which districts lose students and dollars to charters, only high - school graduates are involved.

[2] Here and throughout, we use families to refer to parents as well as other familial caregivers who are involved with making school enrollment decisions.

Our attorneys are on the cutting edge of Texas and Louisiana charter school law representing and advising charter schools involved in the leading cases (federal, state and administrative) impacting Texas open - enrollment charter schools.

The 2018 NBOA Annual Meeting provides you and your colleagues with dozens of best - in - class learning opportunities — from inspiring thought - leadership to practical solutions you'll put right to work — involving independent school leadership, finance, enrollment, risk management, facilities, technology, governance, fundraising, technology and more.

(e) The board shall establish the information needed in an application for the approval of a charter school; provided that the application shall include, but not be limited to, a description of: (i) the mission, purpose, innovation and specialized focus of the proposed charter school; (ii) the innovative methods to be used in the charter school and how they differ from the district or districts from which the charter school is expected to enroll students; (iii) the organization of the school by ages of students or grades to be taught, an estimate of the total enrollment of the school and the district or districts from which the school will enroll students; (iv) the method for admission to the charter school; (v) the educational program, instructional methodology and services to be offered to students, including research on how the proposed program may improve the academic performance of the subgroups listed in the recruitment and retention plan; (vi) the school's capacity to address the particular needs of limited English - proficient students, if applicable, to learn English and learn content matter, including the employment of staff that meets the criteria established by the department; (vii) how the school shall involve parents as partners in the education of their children; (viii) the school governance and bylaws; (ix) a proposed arrangement or contract with an organization that shall manage or operate the school, including any proposed or agreed upon payments to such organization; (x) the financial plan for the operation of the school; (xi) the provision of school facilities and pupil transportation; (xii) the number and qualifications of teachers and administrators to be employed; (xiii) procedures for evaluation and professional development for teachers and administrators; (xiv) a statement of equal educational opportunity which shall state that charter schools shall be open to all students, on a space available basis, and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, creed, sex, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age, ancestry, athletic performance, special need, proficiency in the English language or academic achievement; (xv) a student recruitment and retention plan, including deliberate, specific strategies the school will use to ensure the provision of equal educational opportunity as stated in clause (xiv) and to attract, enroll and retain a student population that, when compared to students in similar grades in schools from which the charter school is expected to enroll students, contains a comparable academic and demographic profile; and (xvi) plans for disseminating successes and innovations of the charter school to other non-charter public schools.

They also need to be recognized as part of the administrative team whenever decisions about annual school goals, mission, your school's reputation, improving communications, increasing enrollment, or passing a tax levy or override are involved.

Attendees will include practitioners, policymakers, and researchers involved in building strong concurrent and dual enrollment partnerships that provide high school students the opportunity to take college credit - bearing courses.

In 2007, the Parents Involved vs. Seattle School District Supreme Court case ruled that schools could no longer control enrollment by race.

We concluded that there are no viable downsizing options that would not involve closing one or more of our three schools; reducing the enrollment in our existing programs does not produce proportional savings.

To achieve this goal, the South County Regional Office of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) and Long Beach Unified School District Head Start programs are using a 17 - month Children's Bureau grant to increase referrals to and enrollment in early childhood education services for children involved with child welfare.

The project is focusing on expanding early childhood education enrollment in Long Beach through a partnership involving Long Beach Unified School District - Head Start / Early Head Start (LBUSD - HS / EHS) programs, DCFS South County Regional Office, and the Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

The authors examined the results by program type and found that alternative educational programs (programs involving a group of students in a traditional school) and behavioral programs (programs targeting school behaviors and increasing problem - solving skills with a system of rewards and punishments) had significant positive effects on attendance and enrollment measures.