Sentences with phrase «students alternate school»

More than 16,000 undergraduates participate in the world's largest post-secondary co-operative education program where students alternate school and work terms, gaining experience with employers such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon.

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Many school districts have been forced to establish policies on unpaid meal charges — ranging from providing alternate meals, to allowing students to «charge» a certain number of meals before receiving an alternate meal.

The USDA requires that school lunches offer each student five items: a meat or meat alternate, two or more vegetables and / or fruits, whole - grain or enriched bread or a bread alternate, and fluid milk as a beverage.

The bill would ensure that schools can notify parents they can refuse to have their children in grades 3 - 8 participate in Common Core standardized tests, protects schools from having state aid withheld & ensures that students are not punished for their lack of participation in those tests, and it would set - aside alternate studies, Last year, parents of 60,000 students refused New York State Common Core tests.

The first chapter in the Shin Megami Tensei: Persona RPG series released for the PlayStation 4 features an episodic story about a group of high school students in a fictionalized version of Tokyo's Shibuya district who explore the Palace, an alternate world created by the hearts of other people.

I designed The Ward Game, a pervasive novel study, and am co-designing Blind Protocol, an Alternate Reality Game (ARG) to instruct high school students on privacy and surveillance.

Elsewhere, Adwaith, a student from Westcliffe High School for Boys, set about investigating different forms of fuels and alternate engine configurations.

But in school, with the multitude of constraints and demands on teachers, students, and the time that they have, it's difficult to try, not succeed, and then try again in the hopes of an alternate result.

PASA's Club AfterZone, located in Providence middle schools, gives students the flexibility to alternate their on - site enrichment activities with an additional «learning time» session, during which students receive individual help on schoolwork from volunteers, many of whom are students at local colleges.

Still others borrow computers, use the computer lab, ask if a student can work quietly on an unused computer in another teacher's room, or provide alternate times during which students can access the computer — before school, at lunch, during recess, or after school.

An alternate, or perhaps complementary, theory is that NHRP induces students to improve their academic preparation in high school, making them more attractive candidates to these colleges.

For an alternate take, please see «D.C. Students Benefit from Mix of Charter and Traditional Schools» by Scott Pearson and John H. «Skip» McKoy.

To tackle the problem of children often needing to work at home during the agricultural year, and the long distances to get to school, students board and spend two weeks alternating between home and school.

The commissioner may also place under preliminary registration review any school that has conditions that threaten the health, safety and / or educational welfare of students or has been the subject of persistent complaints to the department by parents or persons in parental relation to the student, and has been identified by the commissioner as a poor learning environment based upon a combination of factors affecting student learning, including but not limited to: high rates of student absenteeism, high levels of school violence, excessive rates of student suspensions, violation of applicable building health and safety standards, high rates of teacher and administrator turnover, excessive rates of referral of students to or participation in special education or excessive rates of participation of students with disabilities in the alternate assessment, excessive transfers of students to alternative high school and high school equivalency programs and excessive use of uncertified teachers or teachers in subject areas other than those for which they possess certification.

During the school day, each student alternates between working in a small group with a teacher and working with adaptive software on a computer.

During the more than two - hour meeting, the Mayor, Schools Superintendent Lois Harrison - Jones, the School Committee's chairman, Paul Parks, and representatives of other youth and city agencies, agreed that a small number of violent and abusive students are disrupting the city's high schools and should be removed to an alternate settSchools Superintendent Lois Harrison - Jones, the School Committee's chairman, Paul Parks, and representatives of other youth and city agencies, agreed that a small number of violent and abusive students are disrupting the city's high schools and should be removed to an alternate settschools and should be removed to an alternate setting,...

The passing scores for the substitute tests were the same ones used in 2010 when the state transitioned into a new alternate assessment process for students who had failed the High School Proficiency Assessment.

Chicago Public Schools will open more than 100 school, library and park district sites to students affected by Friday's one - day teacher walkout, but district officials warn they can't accommodate all 300,000 - plus kids, and parents should find an alternate option if possible.

He describes the design and implementation of «Ask Anansi,» an alternate reality game that allows students to conduct inquiry - based research around questions that interest them (including «Why is the food at South Central High School so bad?»).

Paul Gibson, an alternate parent representative on the School Governance Council, said that information presented at council meetings suggests that the science labs were largely classes for white students.

Our mission statement: eAchieve Academy provides a quality education for a wide variety of students by offering alternate solutions to traditional schooling utilizing current Internet technologies and proven teaching practices implemented by a team of professionals.

VDOE assists school divisions in the creation and training of alternate governance committees that meet the needs of students and the requirements of ESEA / NCLB.

A staggered school day with both students and teachers working on alternate, overlapping schedules would afford smaller class sizes, more minutes of instruction, and more opportunities for student movement, activities, and enrichment.

When a new student is placed in an alternate school, siblings of the student will also be permitted to attend the same school on space available basis.

Nearly 200 schools received an alternate rating — either «satisfactory progress» or «needs improvement» — rather than a number score because they are new, don't have enough test - takers, serve exclusively at - risk students, or serve only grades kindergarten through second.

Karvonen will lead the DLM project's test development and measurement team during the next phase of development of the Dynamic Learning Maps Alternate Assessment System, a computer - based assessment for the 1 % of the K - 12 public school student population with significant cognitive disabilities for whom, even with accommodations, general state assessments are not appropriate.

All content (Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies) instruction will alternate between the two languages, and students will receive instruction in Spanish for half of their school day and English for the other half of the day.

Set for large - scale use during the 2014 — 2015 school year, the DLM alternate assessment system will let students with significant cognitive disabilities show what they know in ways that traditional multiple - choice tests can not and is designed to more validly measure what students with significant cognitive disabilities know and can do.

Schools would receive credit for a student if he or she earns a high school or alternate diploma and achieves academic readiness or career readiness.

The DLM Consortium is developing the Dynamic Learning Maps Alternate Assessment, a computer - based assessment for the 1 % of the K - 12 public school student population with significant cognitive disabilities for whom, even with accommodations, general state assessments are not appropriate.

In Williams v. California, for example, teachers, parents, and students from low - income communities described overcrowded schools that had to run multiple shifts each day and multiple shifts during the school year, alternating on - months and off - months for different cohorts of students cycling in and out of the building; classrooms with more than 40 students without enough desks, chairs, and textbooks for each student to have one; lack of curriculum materials, science equipment, computers, and libraries; and crumbling facilities featuring leaky ceilings and falling ceiling tiles, sometimes overrun with rodents, and lacking heat and air conditioning.

The Lighthouse Christian Academy in Bloomington received national attention during the January 2017 confirmation hearings of Betsy DeVos when it was revealed that the admission's brochure for the school said that the school can refuse to admit or expel students living in a home that includes «homosexual or bisexual activity» or «practicing alternate gender identity.»

Yet within some districts and schools, union leaders and school administrators have found an alternate path to reform — one that is based on building strong relationships that facilitate collaboration among educators and is focused on teaching quality and educational improvement for students.

LCFF Alternate Forms In the absence of school meal applications, California's schools will need to gather individual income information from the students to receive full funding from the LCFF.

The DLM Consortium is developing the Dynamic Learning Maps Alternate Assessment, a computer - based assessment for the 1 percent of the K - 12 public school student population with significant cognitive disabilities for whom, even with accommodations, general state assessments are not appropriate.

To find out, Dougherty studied Massachusetts» 36 vocational and technical high schools, where students alternate between academic coursework and full - time work in areas like auto repair, graphic design, and machine technology.

Observational labs are just one phase in CETE's development of the Dynamic Learning Maps Alternate Assessment, which is for the one percent of the K - 12 student population with significant cognitive disabilities set to be implemented during the 2014 - 2015 school year.

She is also a mother of a student who was struggling in the traditional school system and opted to invoke the right to choose alternate educational options.

The Hechinger special report points to numerous culprits, starting with systemic problems in high school special education programs such as teachers inadequately trained to support special education students; districts lacking the funding to provide needed supports; expectations so low that they harm, not help, students; and capable students being pushed into «alternate» diploma programs that limit their future options.

The practice refers to schools across the state withholding food, providing alternate meals, making students «earn» their lunch by doing chores, or giving students wristbands identifying them as truant if they can't pay for meals.

For students with significant cognitive disabilities, a maximum of 1 % of the total school population, an Alternate Assessment must be made available.

Low minority percentage in this school could be indicative of minority families having greater difficulty advocating for their students who require an alternate educational experience.

The alternate accountability process is used for new schools, schools without tested grades, schools exclusively serving at - risk students, and schools with fewer than 20 full academic year students who took state tests.

The first chapter in the Shin Megami Tensei: Persona RPG series released for the PlayStation 4 features an episodic story about a group of high school students in a fictionalized version of Tokyo's Shibuya district who explore the Palace, an alternate world created by the hearts of other people.

In addition, the leadership of the school promised an alternate space in which students could gather and strategize, and it confirmed its intention to welcome a student representative onto the board of trustees.

Activist groups staged a series of occupations and protests demanding the resignation of the school president, Jamshed Bharucha, promoting a vote of no confidence in Bharucha and the school's Board Chair, Mark Epstein, [1] both of whom resigned in 2015, and insisting that the administration address the concerns of students, faculty, alumni, and the public, and alternate plans to avoid having the school charging tuition.

After completing a mostly traditional first year of law school, Northeastern students enter a quarter system in which 11 - week cooperative placements alternate with 11 - week upper - level courses.

We have no student loans and alternate our schedules (he goes to school in the evenings) so we don't currently have any day care expenses.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS • Introduced the IB System (International Baccalaureate) in PYP (Primary Years Program) which brought in tremendous interest from surrounding schools» students • Decreased paper wastage costs by 44 % by implementing «No Paper Days» on alternate work days • Increased efficiency of teaching staff by 30 % by enrolling them in intense teacher training programs • Overhauled the existing student records systems by introducing efficient electronic records systems

Process student conduct report to the STO (School Transportation Office) daily Prepare weekly alternate work schedule.