Sentences with phrase «second opportunity schools»

After several more suspensions, school authorities were finally able to get him transferred to one of the school system's «second opportunity schools,» or «SOS» for short.

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Parkland school shooting survivor Kyle Kashuv told Breitbart News he is concerned that Republicans are too focused on playing defense to actually seize the opportunity to «grow the Second Amendment.»

Second... This was a very tough decision, and I'm very thankful for all the schools that still stuck with me, and gave me opportunities.

Then, in September, API Reads is launching a new and exciting opportunity: Participants will have the opportunity to read and discuss a book focused on the younger child (birth to preschool) and / or a second book focused on the older child (school - age and above).

NEW YORK — Pre-K students at dozens of schools throughout New York will have the opportunity to learn a second language.

On behalf of the School, Jane, Martial took the opportunity to thank the Second Lady for her Kind gesture and support not only for the center but the role she continue to play by helping the less privileged in society

Second of all, bummer on grad school but I hope it brings you an even more exciting opportunity!

Additionally, every level offers the opportunity for Yooka and Laylee to be transformed into a second form, such as a school of fish or a snowplow, which unlock even more opportunities for unique gameplay.

I had the opportunity this week to speak with Emily Miller, a member of the NGSS writing team and a bilingual / English as a Second Language teacher in the Madison (WI) Metropolitan School District.

Second, when given the opportunity to opt out of the state pension system without incurring new costs, a majority of charter schools take advantage of the opportunity — though a sizable number decline to do so.

As we wrote recently, the early implementers have gotten promising results, including high growth in both reading and math by the second year in schools that used Opportunity Culture models schoolwide.

The Burlington High School Student Help Desk is entering its second season, and I wanted to share our course outline, pathways and some of the opportunities we'll be creating for the school faculty and School Student Help Desk is entering its second season, and I wanted to share our course outline, pathways and some of the opportunities we'll be creating for the school faculty and school faculty and staff.

Ofqual has announced that schools and colleges in England will have a second opportunity to challenge GCSE, AS level, A level and project results if they continue to have concerns about marking or moderation errors.

Second, a handful of programs that already promote school choice — aid to charter schools, the District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program, etc. — could be expanded.

Second, magnet schools have been incorporated into the school choice movement as a means of improving achievement and into No Child Left Behind as a way of increasing the opportunities available to children in low - performing schools.

A second Nebraska school district has settled a lawsuit filed last year on behalf of high school girls who claimed they were denied equal opportunities to take part in sports.

Second, the school's principal must submit a satisfactory self audit describing such items as the course's outline, some lesson plans, available support materials, and the teacher's experience, content knowledge, and opportunities for professional development.

Ravitch says that charter schools undercut the opportunities for public schools, making public school students feel like «second - class citizens.»

Second, quality instructional leadership matters: if teachers do not afford students powerful learning opportunities, this is ultimately an issue for school leaders.

«The second way that I think that charter schools are a bright spot in the education reform front is that charter schools enhance the opportunities that families have to choose the school that best meets the needs of their children.

And so, in its second year of Opportunity Culture implementation in four schools, Project L.I.F.T. saw a strong uptick in both the quantity — more than 800 applications for 27 spots — and quality of applicants for teaching roles at schools that previously saw many positions go unfilled.

In 2014 — 15, the second implementation year, the Opportunity Culture initiative included more than 30 schools, 450 teachers, and 16,000 students, and will include more than 60 schools in 2015 — 16, in Texas, Indiana, North Carolina, Tennessee, and New York.

In that role, she advised board members on complex policy issues, and worked with educators, administrators, students, and families to improve educational opportunities in the country's second largest school district.

The second Whole School Learning Unit, The Global Dimension, provides the whole school with the opportunity to reflect just once or at 4 yearly intervals upon the global nature of their curriculum offSchool Learning Unit, The Global Dimension, provides the whole school with the opportunity to reflect just once or at 4 yearly intervals upon the global nature of their curriculum offschool with the opportunity to reflect just once or at 4 yearly intervals upon the global nature of their curriculum offering.

A second forthcoming book Despite the Best Intentions: How Racial Inequality Persists in Good Schools (with Amanda Lewis, Oxford University Press) examines race and educational opportunities and outcomes in multiracial suburban high sSchools (with Amanda Lewis, Oxford University Press) examines race and educational opportunities and outcomes in multiracial suburban high schoolsschools.

The second wave of six was announced in April 2017, and the third wave, all located in opportunity areas, of 11 schools was confirmed in July.

Speaking time, for instance, is especially brief: ELL students spend, on average, fewer than 90 seconds per day in classroom talk.1 Acknowledging that some of their ELLs were not receiving necessary language practice during school hours, Lennox officials viewed after - school time as an opportunity to help some of their struggling students.

Their second year of funding will allow for 1) the creation of a cohort of teachers that will examine discipline data and develop policies and strategies that address trends and disparities; 2) the creation of a cohort of 65 students that will learn about discipline disparities, the school to prison pipe, and will develop advocacy skills in order to tell their stories, 3) opportunities for both groups to inform and shape MNPS policies on student discipline.

Second, the schools will have no opportunity to qualify for performance - based funding that could increase those line items.

In school year 2014 - 15 (the second year of program implementation), more than 2,100 Vermont students took advantage of dual credit opportunities, compared to only 600 before the program was launched.

A second North Carolina district has joined its neighbor in implementing an Opportunity Culture: Three elementary schools and seven high schools in Cabarrus County, N.C., will pilot Opportunity Culture models in 2014 — 15 — affecting approximately 1,000 students in the first year of implementation alone.

Wendy Lecker puts her finger on two things of great importance: first, certain of the power brokers in public education in Connecticut are determined to increase the number of privately managed charter schools, and they are using every opportunity that presents itself — from the Sheff settlement to the Turnaround option in Obama's Race to the Top — to pursue just this goal; and second, a key factor in the advance of school privatization is «the corporate education «reform» industry's narrative... that our public education system is failing.»

The second report, Encouraging Social and Emotional Learning in the Context of New Accountability prepared by Learning Policy Institute discusses the opportunity schools have to measure new kinds of quality and success outcomes through the accountability mandate in ESSA.

Second, U.S. education schools have typically done a poor job of fostering leadership in new recruits and providing prospective administrators with the skills they need to create more opportunities for teachers to lead.

Today through March 16, middle and high school students across the U.S. have the opportunity to win individual and classroom prizes up to $ 2,500 as part Facing History and Ourselves» second annual Facing History Together Student Essay Contest, «Student Voices: To Kill a Mockingbird in Today's World.»

And one APS charter school uniquely offers every student the opportunity to learn in the East Lake Community of Atlanta, located on the edge of Georgia's second most famous golf course, Robert Trent Jones» East Lake Country Club.

BROOKLINE, MA (February 17, 2016)- Today through March 16, middle and high school students across the U.S. have the opportunity to win individual and classroom prizes up to $ 2,500 as part Facing History and Ourselves» second annual Facing History Together Student Essay Contest, «Student Voices: To Kill a Mockingbird in Today's World.»

It wasn't until the end of my second year at my first school that I realized the need for a more formalized opportunity to negotiate salaries.

Second, we simply can not tolerate anyone telling us these policies are for our own good... The communities they're changing so rapidly are our communities, and our experience with school closures and charter school expansion confirms what an abundance of research has made quite clear: these policies have not produced higher - quality educational opportunities for our children and youth, but they have been hugely destructive... Third, while the proponents of these policies may like to think they are implementing them for us or even with us, the reality is that they have been done to us.»

«Her passion for education and desire to serve as an elected official at the second largest school district in California is a great opportunity for CCSA and the Board of Education to work together to strengthen public education for students in San Diego.»

The district has taken significant steps to expand the advanced and higher learning opportunities for all of its students (over 6,600), including reducing tracking for many courses All fourth - and fifth - grade students now benefit from the English Language Arts enrichment program and the district is in the second year of phasing in the rigorous, inquiry - based curriculum in its new International Baccalaureate (IB) Middle Years Program to prepare its students for college preparatory courses at the high school.

The second panel represents the ideal of Horace Mann — that we can trust schools to be the «great equalizer,» to provide such rich opportunities that they make up for larger societal inequalities.

Students under 19 who returned to school and graduated got a «second chance» with a program created through the Office of the Governor, providing tuition credits for higher education to job opportunities.

Second - and 3rd - graders are able to join chess club, art club, Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts, and all students have the opportunity to engage in the after school program.

One American Indian boarding school in its second year of LR use discovered that its students need more opportunities to learn to «evaluate information from multiple sources» as part of the higher reading / writing demands in the final years of high school.

Our second issue focused on the opportunity to leverage rigorous, aligned statewide assessments in high school and use them as early college readiness indicators for placement into credit - bearing courses.

Youth: Ethics in Service (YES) From the School for Ethical Education comes this meaningful opportunity for service - learning for second to twelfth graders and the educators responsible for them.

This is a sizeable charter expansion, with aggressive plans to be implemented in a short amount of time, but it could be the opportunity for education reform leaders to set a positive school choice example with the nation's second largest district.

Later, when I became a Director of Dual Language Education and English as a Second Language (ESL) Services at the school district level, I had a similar feeling of gratitude for the opportunity to serve, but also fear, as our district and campus teams worked diligently to meet the needs of all emergent bilingual students.

«When I wrote the second edition of The Differentiated Classroom, I had the opportunity to reflect on the many changes in education over the past 15 years and develop new ways to make differentiated instruction successful in today's schools,» said Tomlinson.