Sentences with phrase «school magnet students»

They were concerned that, absent that, most of the graduating middle school magnet students would transfer to other high schools with magnet programs.

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When the school board voted to oust the three remaining pregnant students from the cheerleading squad, the controversy became a magnet for activist groups and the national press.

Prospective parents and students can check out the 23 magnet programs and high school career - technical education pathways

Despite representing a school where more than 60 % of the students are from low - income families, the chess team consistently beats wealthy kids from private schools and magnet schools.

«We've been able to put money back in our magnet schools, our vo - ag per student went up to a thousand per person.

In a big shift that could affect school desegregation efforts, the Capitol Region Education Council says it will begin charging tuition to wealthier families who enroll new prekindergarten students in the agency's coveted magnet schools.

City school officials said Kinsella needs to remain its own school because of its magnet status under the state's Sheff v. O'Neill pact, where city and suburban students are enrolled through a state - run lottery engineered for racial integration.

He supports charter schools, school choice within a district, and «money follows the child,» a program in which students who attend magnet or charter schools bring education funding with them instead of sharing it with their old school district.

New York City has won a chunk of federal funding that is designed to create or expand magnet programs with the goal of attracting more students of color to schools.

They argue that a case built to help black and Latino students from Hartford has also empowered white privilege, as magnet schools covet families that are not black or Latino to meet integration quotas.

Foley's education plan includes policies such as school choice within a district and «money follows the child» - a program where students who attend magnet or charter schools bring the education funding with them instead of sharing it with their old school district.

Brad Sturgeon is currently a chemistry instructor at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics in Durham, a residential, public, magnet school for junior and senior high school stuSchool of Science and Mathematics in Durham, a residential, public, magnet school for junior and senior high school stuschool for junior and senior high school stuschool students.

For example, in Hartford, Connecticut, a legal decision created a system of regional magnet schools that attract students of color from the impoverished city and students from the working - class towns and affluent suburbs that surround it.

Most magnet schools align their programs to career education along with increased rigor for all students.

Create magnet or charter schools in strategic locations to draw middle - class and poor students alike.

When the K - 12 magnet school, which enrolls about 400 students, recently had to replace its principal, the new administrator was not chosen by the central office from its promotion list.

For example, a museum magnet school may have several partnerships with local museums which can enhance students learning through in - class partnerships, field trips, or internships.

In Montclair, New Jersey, a racially diverse group of parents works to strengthen magnet schools that bring together students from varying racial and economic groups.

Inter-district magnet schools in Connecticut provide a current example outside the scope of traditional school districts as to the way charters might draw students across district boundary lines to create high - quality, integrated schooling options.

Wildwood International Baccalaureate World Magnet School is a public, non-selective enrollment neighborhood magnet school in an affluent part of Chicago, offering available seats to students city -School is a public, non-selective enrollment neighborhood magnet school in an affluent part of Chicago, offering available seats to students city -school in an affluent part of Chicago, offering available seats to students city - wide.

As a teacher in an environmental stewardship magnet school, I saw just how interested students could be in worms crawling in a compost heap, and how kids can work together to make recycling a priority.

Now the city's students have options: they still have a number traditional public schools, but also magnet and charter schools that are showing encouraging results.

About 39 percent of WCPSS students attended magnet schools between 2000 and 2006.

First, there is of course great need to understand how effective magnet schools are for the students that attend them.

[7] In terms of the proportion of students receiving free - or reduced - price lunch, both magnet and charter schools are less impoverished than traditional public schools in their same districts in most states (exceptions include Nevada for both magnets and charters and Florida and North Carolina for magnets only).

Even students in the middle of the G&T distribution are likely to experience a loss of ranking in the magnet G&T schools as compared to their neighborhood schools.

This reflects the fact that magnet schools are very large on average — 798 students, as compared to 380 in charters.

«Since this is a magnet school, we need to attract students,» Flynn told Education World.

Georgia stretched the interpretation of a state law too far when it concluded in 1978 that it did not need to count students in the DeKalb County district's magnet school program and those in a voluntary - integration program when it calculated transportation costs to be paid to the district, Judge Bensonetta Tipton Lane of Fulton County Superior Court said in a Sept....

Since buses serving magnet schools must cover a larger geographic area, ride times tend to be longer for magnet school students.

Our lottery analysis is based on the sample of LUSD 5th - grade students determined to be eligible for G&T programs in 2007 — 08 who applied for admission to one of the two middle schools with an oversubscribed G&T magnet program.

Whereas most of the energy in the school choice debates has focused on vouchers and charter schools, relatively little attention has been paid to another important choice model that serves as many students as charters and has been in existence for longer — magnet schools.

The lottery study corroborates these results, as students admitted to the G&T magnet schools show little improvement in test scores by 7th grade, despite having higher - achieving peers and being taught by more effective teachers.

One study looks at students who attended two magnet middle school programs that had an exclusive focus on high - achieving students.

In fact, according to the Common Core of Data, magnet schools serve more total students (2.52 million) than charter schools (2.19 million).

Our analysis compares the performance of students who win the lottery and attend one of the G&T magnet programs to those who lose the lottery and either attend a neighborhood G&T program in the district, a magnet school based on a different specialty, or a charter school.

The lottery process allowed the researchers to compare the performance of students who won the lottery with those who lost the lottery and either attended a neighborhood G&T program, a charter school, or an alternative magnet school.

Because magnet schools start earlier and enroll students who tend to have higher test scores, I exclude magnet schools from my main analysis.

April 7, 2016 — To better meet the unique needs of different students, urban districts are increasingly expanding the options available to families by providing a variety of public schools: traditional, magnet, charter, and hybrid models.

Alyssa, a fifth - grade, gifted Caucasian student at a public magnet k - 8 school, strolls into class, a smile beaming across her freckled face.

The school, located on a 72 - acre parcel that is the last working farm in the city limits, is a public magnet school that serves primarily African - American and Hispanic students.

According to Liz Dunbar, teacher, Webmaster, and academic coordinator of technology at the humanities magnet high school, «At Baltimore City College, as at every other [Maryland] high school, students must earn service - learning hours to graduate.

At that time, any student who attended one of four magnet cluster schools had the option of remaining in his or her neighborhood school; the additional students were recruited from across the district.

Under the terms of a court settlement reached with the aid of a nationally known desegregation researcher, the San Francisco Unified School District will open a currently unused facility to house the entire student body of a magnet middle school affected by the district's asbestos - cleanup prSchool District will open a currently unused facility to house the entire student body of a magnet middle school affected by the district's asbestos - cleanup prschool affected by the district's asbestos - cleanup program.

Finally, the Supreme Court, responding to one of many state appeals, decreed in 1995 by a 5 — 4 vote that Judge Clark could not impose a program of magnet schools to attract white students from the suburbs.

He's also OK with magnet schools, even though they are selective, and thus don't take all students.

Growing quickly, it became a magnet for noted law faculty, conveying to students that conservative thought was worthy of consideration and creating a safe space to question law school orthodoxies.

Even within the public sector, there are schools to which students are assigned based on geography and schools they choose to attend (magnet and charter schools, for example).

At this K - 5 magnet school based on Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences, staff members use all kinds of ways to reach students and tap their interests and skills — including knitting.

There is no statistically significant difference between students in assigned public schools and those in secular private, magnet public, or religious / non-Catholic schools.