Sentences with phrase «student to school»

And the poll found no enthusiasm for the use of income rather than race as a basis for assigning students to schools.

And third, generous amounts of federal - and state - money have followed students to the schools of their choice.

We are doing research on how best to provide transportation in such a way to get students to school each day.

Students can also work on creating a brochure, a play, or a video to welcome incoming students to the school.

So they would for example look at offering gym memberships or conference facilities or even acquiring another school or attracting more students to the school.

They don't have the option of making students repeat the school year — retention is not permitted — or of transferring students to schools with lower performance requirements.

Moreover, the system lacked a mechanism for efficiently matching students to schools and ensuring fair and transparent enrollment practices.

Effective outreach is personal and includes phone calls and one - on - one conversations with parents when they are bringing students to school or are on campus for any reason.

But what if the policy is adjusted to use family income as the basis for assigning students to schools?

One proposal under the bill would allow Title I funding for disadvantaged students to follow students to the schools of their choice, including charter schools.

Connecting more low - income students to the school that is right for them and ensuring more students graduate.

He feels that the new program will attract more students to the school wanting to study in a growing field.

For more about the constitutionality of assigning students to schools in order to achieve diversity, see «Affirmative Action Docketed»

The RSD then assigns students to schools based on families» preferences, schools» enrollment criteria, and seat availability.

Washington — The Education Department plans to mail nearly 80,000 videotaped copies of 10 short films aimed at curbing drug abuse by students to schools this month.

USA Today — Most non-New Yorkers know only two things about Bill de Blasio, the city's new progressive mayor: He eats pizza with a knife and fork, and Al Roker attacked him for sending students to school in a snowstorm.

Aperture's Evo Social / Emotional Assessment and Intervention system offers elementary and middle schools an effective solution for all stakeholders — from students to school principals.

Broadly stated, Student Assistance Programming goals are to prevent problems through education and address existing problems by directing students to school - based or community services providers as may be appropriate.

Adding more students to school buildings that already have their own issues, safety and otherwise, only exacerbates an already overwhelming problem.

The success mentor approach recognizes the power of using chronic absence (missing 10 percent or more of school for any reason) to trigger a cost - effective, early intervention that gets students to school so they don't miss out on important learning opportunities.

Is it necessary to criminalize minor infractions, such as chewing gum, cell phone usage, verbal disruptions and typical student behaviors, which, in turn, relegates certain students to the school to prison pipeline?

Remove barriers that consign students to schools that have a disproportionate share of ineffective teachers.

But the staff recommendation to implement enrollment zones in FNE and Five Points sends a signal that the district may be willing to dramatically change its approach to assigning students to schools across the district.

He is responsible for taking students to the school and then taking them back... Read More»

Rise and Shine Massachusetts, led by the Food Bank Coalition of Massachusetts, supports legislation that would call upon high - poverty Massachusetts schools to serve breakfast after the start of the school day in order to increase access for more than 150,000 students to the school breakfast program.

This would mean busing poor, black students to schools in affluent, mostly white suburbs like Edina.

AB 2193 does the following: 1) establishes a statewide uniform definition of Long Term English Learners (LTELs) and a student at risk of becoming a LTEL and 2) requires the California Department of Education to report the numbers of each cohort of LTEL students to each school and school district.

As high schoolers, it's job applications, college planning, extracurricular meetings, and personal research that most often bring students to the school library.

Instead, a computer algorithm matches students to schools based on families» ranked requests, schools» admission priorities, and seat availability.

He states that between our ears sits a magnificent memory storage and retrieval device yet it is ironic that we send students to school and when the return home, they appear to have retained very little, yet they can tell you the lyrics of the popular songs and a detailed storyline from the movie they saw last week.

As David Gardner said, it took autonomy and high standards in addition to generous funding following students to schools of their choice to help create the finest university system in the world.

If the Department of Education would like to use NCLB waivers to solve this problem they should focus on producing multiple measures of student achievement, and stop proposing solutions that remove students from the equation by focusing the unit of analysis from students to schools.

Student Assistance Programming goals are to prevent problems through education and address existing problems by directing students to school - based or community services providers as may be appropriate.

Breakfast in The Classroom at Alta Loma has assisted with not only getting students to school on time (it has decreased our tardy rate) but it has helped to ensure students are eating a healthy breakfast, and are ready / focused to learn.

Should Washington, D.C. assign students to schools in a way that provides some socioeconomic integration?

This arrangement is supposed to match students to the schools that are best for them and either improve or eliminate the least - effective schools as parents begin to shun them.

Charter school leaders said they don't have the same ability to transfer students to another school or an alternative setting, which might be one reason for their elevated expulsion rates.

We want to steer students to schools with higher success rates of graduating.»

When Lois Yukna was a school bus driver in Middlesex County, N.J., her job was to take students to school.

Fast Fact: In U.S. school districts, the median ratio of students to school counselors is 411:1.

The bill to reauthorize NCLB moving through the House would change the way Title I funds are distributed, allowing the funds to follow low - income students to the schools of their choice.

For instance, «72 percent supported open enrollment compared to 23 percent who preferred assigning students to schools based on geography alone.»