Sentences with phrase «serving high numbers of students»

«Throughout my work on this bipartisan bill, I've fought hard to make sure schools serving high numbers of students from military families get the resources they need, and for the first time the bill will help shed a light on how they are doing in the classroom,» Murray said in a statement.

A new report from The Alliance for Quality Education, Education Law Center and the Public Policy and Education Fund finds that the state's 2016 budget underfunds 81 percent of high needs schools in New York, including in 30 of the 33 districts serving high numbers of students of color.

The proposed bill removes barriers currently preventing charters in New York from serving higher numbers of students with disabilities (SWD) and English language learners (ELL).

CCRPI moves schools away from the all or nothing, pass / fail mentality that repeatedly doomed schools with poor academic performance to the lowest rungs — especially those serving a high number of students in poverty.

At a time when many schools throughout the nation, particularly those serving a high number of students from low - income families and students of color, are struggling to find and keep teachers, the leadership of a strong principal takes on added import for student success.

Not exact matches

A number of the top - performing school districts — Los Angeles Unified School District and San Antonio Independent School District, among others — serve a particularly high proportion of students from low - income households.

Schools not offering the subsidized lunch program also tended to overlap with schools having a higher concentration of white students, highly suggestive of the existence of a set of charter schools serving disproportionate numbers of non-poor, white students.

Of the public schools in California serving large numbers of students in poverty, 12 of the 15 highest - performing ones are charter schools, says a new analysis by the California Charter Schools AssociatioOf the public schools in California serving large numbers of students in poverty, 12 of the 15 highest - performing ones are charter schools, says a new analysis by the California Charter Schools Associatioof students in poverty, 12 of the 15 highest - performing ones are charter schools, says a new analysis by the California Charter Schools Associatioof the 15 highest - performing ones are charter schools, says a new analysis by the California Charter Schools Association.

Natasha Patterson School Leadership Program Current City: Chicago Current job: Assistant principal, Chicago Public Schools Career highlights: Serving as school director / principal of UCSN — Rogers Park for the 2013 - 2014 academic year and earning a Level 1 + on the SQRP; securing a partnership with the David Lynch Foundation and the University of Chicago Crime Lab to bring Transcendental Meditation and the Quiet Time program to the students and staff of Gage Park High School, a valuable tool in helping teachers and staff deal with stress and trauma; increased the number of 2016 Gage Park High School graduates earning early college and career credentials.

Though vague on how the city's choice system had contributed to the problem, the report implied that because a small number of schools were serving a disproportionate share of «high need» students, their likelihood of failure had increased.

For example, a state with a relatively new charter sector may want to focus on supporting the creation and growth of high - quality charters, whereas one with a more mature charter sector may want to focus on increasing the involvement of an existing private sector that is significant in size and geographic reach but has not historically served large numbers of disadvantaged students.

In effect, the nation's urban high schools, which served increasing numbers of young people from poor and immigrant families, were arguably providing the best academic and, for a smaller number of students, vocational education available in the United States at that time.

Thus the unit - credit system came to define both the structure and the meaning of a high - school education: a rigid schedule of subjects and classes, an emphasis on time served rather than amount learned, and a belief that once a student obtained the required number of graduation units, his high - school education was complete.

In some states, there are concerns that charter schools are increasing segregation, but as Scharfenberg notes, some of the charter schools in Massachusetts that serve large numbers of minority students are among the highest - performing charter schools in the nation.

So if a district has two high schools — one serving mostly affluent white students and another serving mostly poor and minority students — those schools had better offer a similar number of AP courses, lest the OCR come knocking on their doors.

Professional Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education offers a limited number of custom programs for districts, schools, universities, and private and public organizations serving students in PreK - 12 and higher education.

The impact is particularly severe at Stuyvesant and Bronx Science — two of the Specialized High Schools that serve the largest numbers of students, have the longest track records of educational excellence, and are the among the most popular among test - takers.

NASSP recognizes that successful schools, particularly schools serving large numbers of high - poverty students and students of color, have placed an emphasis on literacy instruction and achievement (NASSP, 2005).

CAN is committed to serving the high schools with the highest need (e.g., high number of students enrolled in the Free and Reduced Lunch Program) and the fewest resources (e.g., lack of college access support such as a high counselor to student ratio).

Increasing student access to high - quality expanded learning opportunities (ELO) by investing $ 2.25 million in the ELO Quality Initiative, allowing triple the number of programs to participate — and 11,600 more youth to be served.

Graham previously served as chairman of the District of Columbia College Access Program, a private foundation which, since 1999, has helped double the number of DC public high school students going on to college and has helped triple the number graduating from college.

What fuels high rates of teacher turnover in schools that serve large numbers of low - income students of color?

The Michigan College Access Alliance brings together key stakeholders in K - 12, higher education, business, government, and the nonprofit sector to serve as a collective voice, dedicated to increasing the number of Michigan students who earn college degrees and other credentials valued in the new economy.

Serving as the advocacy organization that builds the policy environment needed to grow as quickly as possible the number of students attending high quality charter public schools.

Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard, the Indianapolis Public Schools Board of School Commissioners and Superintendent Dr. Lewis D. Ferebee are pleased to join The Mind Trust in announcing a new initiative that will leverage the talent of excellent leaders, the power of a new law, and the support of district resources to multiply the number of high quality schools serving students in IPS.

Districts serving disadvantaged urban neighborhoods have both high rates and high numbers of chronically absent students.

Our leaders seek to solve the problem of the poor by blaming the teachers and schools that seek to serve them, calling the deepening levels of poverty an «excuse,» rewarding schools that keep out and push out the highest need students, and threatening those who work with new immigrant students still learning English and the growing number of those who are homeless, without health care and without food.

Great Public Schools Now, the outside group seeking to expand the number of LA Unified schools serving students in high - poverty neighborhoods, has released a list of district schools — most of them charters — that represents «the kinds of schools» the organization intends to replicate in the years ahead.

Emma Brown, columnist for The Washington Post, recently reported that, according to the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office, «the number of high - poverty schools serving primarily black and brown students more than doubled between 2001 and 2014.»

But critics say the measure is too simple — it fails to sufficiently account for the academic growth that good schools help students achieve and does not take into consideration the challenges that schools serving a high number of poor students face.

However, most of these tests are multiple choice, standardized measures of achievement, which have had a number of unintended consequences, including: narrowing of the academic curriculum and experiences of students (especially in schools serving our most school - dependent children); a focus on recognizing right answers to lower - level questions rather than on developing higher - order thinking, reasoning, and performance skills; and growing dissatisfaction among parents and educators with the school experience.

NASSP recognizes that successful schools, particularly schools serving large numbers of high poverty students and students of color, have placed an emphasis on adolescent literacy (NASSP, 2005)

At the same time, Corbett scrapped a school funding formula that aimed to send more state dollars to schools serving high numbers of needy students.

Beach Court saw a dramatic change in CSAP proficiency scores from the low 40's to the upper 60's in 2007 with numbers growing into the upper 80's, amongst the highest in Denver, and certainly the highest for any elementary school serving so many low - income students (growth was also in the 80 and 90 percentage points for many of those years).

But districts that serve disadvantaged urban areas with high rates of poverty «typically have both high rates and large numbers of chronically absent students.»

Learn about NASSP Breakthrough Schools program, which recognizes middle level and high schools that serve large numbers of students in poverty and are high achieving or dramatically improving student achievement.

As of 2013, California has the highest number of charter schools of any state in the country, with 1,130 schools serving more than 514,000 students.

from the Bank Street College of Education, she served in a variety of administrative and consulting positions, she helped to start a number of New York City schools, she was an adjunct instructor in education for college and graduate students, and she taught both math and English at the middle and high school levels.

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That's in part due to their rapid push into expanding the number of high school students they serve.

Louisiana, another state praised by charter - school advocates following the remaking of New Orleans schools after Hurricane Katrina, scored particularly well because of its high growth rate, the number of poor students its charter schools serve and academic growth compared with other public schools in the state.

The program targets all students in middle schools and high schools serving large numbers of minority youths in inner cities and impoverished rural areas.

This then changes the denominator in the percentage formula so that LEA units serving exactly the same number of students, now serve a higher percentage of students in the EC program.

We do this by serving as the advocacy organization that builds the policy environment needed to grow as quickly as possible the number of students attending high quality charter public schools.

The Walton Family Foundation's focus is on high - quality, high - potential network and individual school options that will serve a significant number of students from low - income backgrounds, and must draw a majority of its students from one of the Foundation's targeted districts.

So has the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, writing in a letter last month that «the federal government must no longer be expected to subsidize the inequitable funding of public schools serving high numbers of low - income students.»

NASSP has identified a number of high - achieving middle and high schools that are serving large numbers of low - income students in a program called Breakthrough Schools.

High schools serving predominately low - income students will be eligible for $ 200 million in grants to support increasing the number of Advanced Placement courses and «A-G courses,» the sequence of 15 college preparation courses that UC and CSU require for admission.

He made five overarching points: that's it's possible to implement measures of teacher effectiveness, that LA Unified has a higher ratio of ineffective teachers than school districts studied by other researchers, that a disproportionate number of ineffective teachers in LA Unified serve Latino and African American students, that effective teachers have a causal effect on student achievement and that teachers have long - term impacts not only on student achievement but also lifetime earnings.

The number of high - poverty schools that serve primarily black and brown students more than doubled between 2001 and 2014, the GAO found.