Sentences with phrase «school of last resort»

Online schools often become schools of last resort, and for many families they are the only public school alternative available.»

These are choices that expand opportunities for the students, but they leave Ballou as effectively a school of last resort for those who don't leave or who are forced to return after struggling academically or behaviorally elsewhere.

• Are we adequately measuring growth, or do our measures primarily reflect a group of students underserved by traditional schools who enrolled late in a school of last resort and struggled on a proficiency exam?

He and Sanchez met at a conference of the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education, where Bain is an artist in residence, and she thought his approach would work well in San Francisco's «schools of last resort.»

Alternative high schools, often the school of last resort for struggling students, had the highest dropout rates among individual schools in the county.

Is this the same alternative high school that served for years, in one administrator's words, as a «dumping ground» and «school of last resort» for students who weren't making the grade in traditional high schools?