Sentences with phrase «student at a nearby school»

Hold infants at your local church nursery while the parents attend service; participate in a house build with Habitat for Humanity; mentor a student at a nearby school a few times a month; sponsor a missionary overseas; give wildly beyond the tithe.

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Students at nearby Leon High School, just blocks from the Capitol, stood on the front lawn of their school in the hundreds with their families, carrying posters saying «We love MSD» and open laptops with the desktop backgrounds displaying Marjory Stoneman Douglas»School, just blocks from the Capitol, stood on the front lawn of their school in the hundreds with their families, carrying posters saying «We love MSD» and open laptops with the desktop backgrounds displaying Marjory Stoneman Douglas»school in the hundreds with their families, carrying posters saying «We love MSD» and open laptops with the desktop backgrounds displaying Marjory Stoneman Douglas» name.

Ryan, 17, and Morgan, 16, attended Stoneman Douglas with Alex. Avery, 12, is a student at nearby Westglades Middle School.

At Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 students and staffers were shot to death on Feb. 14, a crowd estimated at 50 walked to a nearby parAt Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 students and staffers were shot to death on Feb. 14, a crowd estimated at 50 walked to a nearby parat 50 walked to a nearby park.

For eight months he passed his days playing in pickup games at a nearby church until he received word one day from his uncle, who had been sending Gai's basketball tapes to American schools: Gai had been approved for a student visa to go to the U.S. «I was lucky I got out,» he says.

After Ron Jr. came Eddie, now 25 and a former Yankee farmhand, then Brian, 20, a student at New York University, and Charlie, 18, a pitcher for St. John's, a parochial high school in nearby Shrewsbury.

Some residents voiced concern that the additional parking would be used by students at nearby Glenbard West High School.

Already science students at nearby Deerfield High School are keeping tabs on water quality by testing it monthly, and the Highland Park Park District is working on an educational program for the slough.

In Hempstead, while most of the students at The Academy Charter School are from the local district, the school draws from nearby systems asSchool are from the local district, the school draws from nearby systems asschool draws from nearby systems as well.

This comes three days after swastikas were drawn on the doors of nearby students at The New School.

Theo Allen, a math student at NYU's Tandon School of Engineering who attended Tuesday's event, said he'll be participating in the competition, and mentioned three technologies he'll look at: a gun that can be locked using a smart phone app; a gun activated by a fingerprint reader; and a gun that can only be used if triggered by a digital chip embedded in a nearby device, like a ring.

The plans include removing all six school Temporary Classroom Units (also known as «TCUs», «transportables» or «trailers») at P.S. 19Q and temporarily relocating 500 of its students to a nearby newly - constructed building until the completed construction of a new physical addition to P.S. 19Q.

Phyllis Martin of the US Agricultural Research Service in Beltsville, Maryland, and students at nearby Bowie High School found that bacteria called Photorhabdus luminescens that glow a bluish - green also produce a range of antibiotics related to erythromycin.

Childs, who teaches at the nearby Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, collaborates with faculty and students at SEAS through the Research Experience for Teachers (RET) program funded by the National Science Foundation's National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network.

With the encouragement of an early mentor, he volunteered at a nearby gene therapy lab through an after - school program for gifted students.

In the meantime, students are consuming an ever increasing number of calories from sugary refreshments, which are generally accessible at or nearby schools.

When the opportunity came to try their model with the group of students from nearby Decatur High School, they jumped at the chance.

Choices for parents who think their kids might benefit from a special program at a school in a nearby school district: In California, some school districts where enrollment was dropping are taking advantage of the state's District of Choice law, which allows districts to compete for students by offering innovative programs and options that parents want.

Three years ago, while sampling soil invertebrates with staff from the Appalachian Highlands Science Learning Center, at Great Smoky Mountains National Park, high school students from a nearby Cherokee reservation spotted a tiny purple bug with white antenna that had been eluding scientists for years.

Parents of the school's 145 students work at places such as the nearby tortilla and Wrigley Gum factories.

Students leaving KIPP schools have similar prior achievement to those leaving nearby middle schools, but the late entrants at KIPP schools tend to have had higher achievement than late entrants at these other schools.

Like all HGSE students, you are free to cross-register at all Harvard graduate schools and even nearby MIT.

We find that, on average, KIPP middle schools admit students who are similar to those in other local schools, and patterns of student attrition are typically no different at KIPP than at nearby public middle schools.

Massachusetts high - school teachers as well as students would be able to spend time at nearby postsecondary institutions to enrich their understanding of mathematics and science, under a proposal included in Gov. William F. Weld's 1993 budget.

The studies were conducted as a partnership with the School Choice Demonstration Project at the University of Arkansas and look at the impact of the vouchers on student achievement and non-cognitive skills, on racial segregation, and on students attending nearby public schools (competitive effects).

Outfitted with cell phones and GPS - enabled, handheld computers, students at each school were directed to nearby locations to interview virtual characters and inspect digital items related to a mysterious alien invasion.

On September 1, I will be a literacy specialist for a small, public elementary school in Newton, Massachusetts, at a school with students almost entirely from the very nearby community (the principal says nearly all of them walk to school).

While school choice does have a history in rural states — since 1869, Vermont has allowed parents to select a nearby school for their student to attend at the expense of their own town through a «tuitioning» program — few states have encouraged the direct creation of rural, publicly funded schools of choice.

«Outside of his own coursework and research, Blake has been behind a range of growth opportunities for students — hosting movies, convening student - led topical discussion groups, and supporting a classmate's project at a nearby high school.»

Doose, who now teaches sixth through eighth grade English Language Development (ELD) at nearby King Middle School, was surprised that so many of the occupations discussed during career day were new to the students.

There are at least three plausible hypotheses about a closure's potential impact on outcomes for these students: that they would do better, because a closure eliminates their weakest educational option; that their outcomes would be the same, because they would likely transfer to a similarly low - performing school nearby; or that their outcomes would be the same or worse, because even if they transferred to higher - performing schools, the schools may not be well - suited to meet their needs.

At Trenton Central High School, in Trenton, New Jersey, for example, some students in the school's Applied Engineering and Science Academy work directly with the local gas and electric company and with nearby Mercer County Community College to prepare for careers in the utilities indSchool, in Trenton, New Jersey, for example, some students in the school's Applied Engineering and Science Academy work directly with the local gas and electric company and with nearby Mercer County Community College to prepare for careers in the utilities indschool's Applied Engineering and Science Academy work directly with the local gas and electric company and with nearby Mercer County Community College to prepare for careers in the utilities industry.

Critics at the nearby Roaring Fork School District, who had long opposed the charter school's existence, had complained publicly that Ross Montessori didn't serve its share of Latino stuSchool District, who had long opposed the charter school's existence, had complained publicly that Ross Montessori didn't serve its share of Latino stuschool's existence, had complained publicly that Ross Montessori didn't serve its share of Latino students.

To support the latter group, Curry arranged an after - school meeting between its four students and a water - district biologist at nearby Lake Mead National Recreation Area.

WNYC public radio recently conducted a comprehensive analysis of student attrition at New York City charter schools and found that attrition rates are generally lower at charters than at nearby district schools.

At nearby Marshall Elementary School, set on the edge of a vineyard, even younger students learn firsthand about farming and ecosystems.

A new study shows just how thin the course offerings can be at some schools serving mostly students of color in comparison to the curricula at nearby, white - majority schools.

Students Secondhand Store Earns Three Cheers from Community A service - learning course led students at one school to develop a secondhand store that provides a community service, donates funds to charities, and even brings shoppers to struggling businessesStudents Secondhand Store Earns Three Cheers from Community A service - learning course led students at one school to develop a secondhand store that provides a community service, donates funds to charities, and even brings shoppers to struggling businessesstudents at one school to develop a secondhand store that provides a community service, donates funds to charities, and even brings shoppers to struggling businesses nearby.

According to a 2015 study of charters in urban regions across the country, conducted by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes at Stanford University, African - American students at charters out - performed comparable students at nearby public schools in math by roughly a half years» worth of learning.

It also showed that 27 % of Success Academy students passed the ELL writing exam, compared to 19 % at nearby schools.

We found that attrition and replacement patterns could not explain most of KIPP's positive effects on student achievement, because (a) early attrition patterns at KIPP schools are similar to those at nearby district middle schools; and (b) KIPP schools have large achievement effects in the first year of students» enrollment, before replacement patterns could have any effects.

The opening of a charter school leads to small reductions in enrollment at nearby district schools, but does not change the percentage of students from underrepresented minority groups, special education students, or LEP students.

I compare the outcomes of students at district schools after a charter school opens nearby to the outcomes of students in the same schools before a charter opened.

Together, this indicates that the positive spillovers of charter schools on nearby students at district schools did not come at the detriment of students across the city.

About a third of the eligible students in the district's boundaries attend the charter; the others are at neighboring districts or other nearby charter schools.

But although its campuses typically outscore nearby traditional schools, fewer than 5 % of students at several of its campuses scored at the «proficient» level in math last year.

Comparing Student Attrition Rates at Charter Schools with Nearby Traditional Public Schools.

Their report found that, on average, charter school students in New York City tend to stay at their schools at a higher rate than do students at nearby traditional district schools.

Students at the majority of the charter schools that could be turned down Tuesday by LA Unified's school board are performing academically above their peers in nearby schools.

Public education in America is far from one - size - fits - all, and there is dramatic diversity within the more than 13,000 school districts across the nation — from the 1 million students in New York City's more than 1,500 public schools, to the 60 students at the K - 8 school on Beals Island, Maine, and its 100 - student high school shared with the nearby town of Jonesport.