Sentences with phrase «small magnet schools»

And I wouldn't be surprised to hear about a handful of low - income schools, perhaps small magnet schools that cream off the top students, that are doing as well as higher income schools.

The LAUSD school board voted unanimously early this year to break up Crenshaw into three smaller magnet schools.

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In subsequent years, two of these schools were restructured as magnet schools offering specialized programs in a small school setting.

New American High Schools Make the Grade Whether a comprehensive high school, a magnet school, a small pilot school, or a restructured vocational - technical school — the Department of Education's 30 «New American High Schools» have been transformed by research - based reform strategies.

A small number (102) of schools are identified as both magnet schools and charter schools in the Common Core of Data.

The state of Ohio, in an effort to rebut the incentive argument, explained that the amount ($ 2,250 maximum) was small in comparison with the per - pupil spending in regular public ($ 7,746), magnet ($ 7,746), and charter schools ($ 4,518).

If the Chancellor decides that New York's small magnet high schools should have larger class sizes, he can order it.

The parents who mailed in all those applications believe that the new Wayne school will have a more motivated staff than most city schools (300 teachers applied for 14 jobs), that it will benefit from its association with the university, that it will be a magnet for philanthropy (before opening it had attracted $ 575,000 in corporate donations), that it will be smaller (city middle schools have 600 to 1,000 students) and have smaller classes (25 students versus 35 for city middle schools), and that it will demand more from their children.

Thus, every public school in the racially and economically isolated areas — which are, not coincidentally, the «lowest performing» schools — should exceed even the magnet schools in facilities, teacher excellence and salaries, small class size, extracurricular and art programs, etc..

SCORE President and CEO Jamie Woodson said, «the SCORE Prize winners and finalists demonstrate that success is possible in settings as diverse as our state — rural, urban and suburban; large and small; magnet, charter and traditional public schools.

But she failed to note that the top Hartford students, who were the top before Sheff, are now the ones in these choice / charter / magnet schools, so all the State of Connecticut is shamelessly doing is moving some students around, spending money on a small number of schools, and only integrating if wealthy and non-integrated suburban students can benefit.

We should invest in proven strategies — strategies such as smaller class sizes, parental involvement, magnet and community schools — that we know help to improve the success of all of our students.»