Sentences with phrase «targeted school population»

Given that the targeted school population for charters is almost all low - income minorities, the contrast seen during school visits can be startling: black and brown students who are taught by white teachers.

Lions Quest «Skills for Adolescence» programme is an evidence based programme targeting school population by means of addressing the developmental factors with groups of adolescents.

Not exact matches

The school targets marketing toward diverse populations, whether it's women, international students, or those with particular backgrounds.

The funding included in the budget will target $ 350,000 for outreach coordinators at each school that will focus on underrepresented middle schools, $ 650,000 for test preparation at middle school students for underrepresented populations and $ 750,000 for test prep that targets students receiving free or reduced lunch in New York City.

A team led by Prof. Fumitaka Homae studied a rarely targeted population for this subject: Japanese junior high school students learning English as a second language in a school environment.

«The biggest hurdle will be conducting safety trials in the most important target population — women who are pregnant or planning pregnancies,» said Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and president of the Sabin Vaccine Institute.

Based on these statements, we can categorize the schools roughly into five groups: those that have a child - centered or progressive educational philosophy and typically seek to develop students» love of learning, respect for others, and creativity (29 percent of students); those with a general or traditional educational mission and a focus on students» core skills (28 percent of students); those with a rigorous academic emphasis, which have mission statements that focus almost exclusively on academic goals such as excelling in school and going to college (25 percent of students); those that target a particular population of students, such as low - income students, special needs students, likely dropouts, male students, and female students (11 percent of students); and those in which a certain aspect of the curriculum, such as science or the arts, is paramount (7 percent of students).

By contrast, in the less urban area of western Contra Costa County, there are more available facilities and a growing population of students that match most charter schools» target populations — but fewer opportunities to access philanthropic dollars to start up new schools.

This leader's team would need to include additional organizers who could focus on implementation issues in targeted schools or student populations, and each of these people would need to be accountable for learning success among their assigned students.

Special programs, whether school - wide or targeted at specific student populations, create learning opportunities for students and make great bragging points for many principals.

La Crosse is not a large city, yet school population «targets» were still needed.

Schools that failed to meet their «adequate yearly progress» targets, as required by NCLB, serve some of the most mobile student populations.

«[Instead], the idea was to target the general school population, and one way was integrating maths and science as part of a curriculum approach rather than an add - on.»

Its application for a high school with flexible hours for working students who had previously dropped out was a strong one, targeting an at - risk, mostly African American population.

Recruitment efforts include targeted outreach to community organizations, GED and literacy programs, and other places researchers might expect to find out - of - school immigrant populations.

Voucher programs narrowly targeted to income - disadvantaged urban students reach a particular student population that appears to benefit most from access to private schooling.

If successful, these interventions could be targeted to specific disorders or patient groups, and researchers could explore how they could link across schools and other institutions in families» lives, and in particular how they could offer support to vulnerable populations.

Our measure of the intensity of student support services may therefore help to identify open enrollment schools that target a distinct student population.

To make adequate yearly progress, or AYP, under the federal law, schools and districts must meet annual targets for the percentage of students who score at least at the proficient level on state reading and mathematics tests, both for the student population as a whole and for certain subgroups of students.

The act provides a «safe harbor» for schools whose total student populations make adequate yearly progress, but in which one or more subgroups fail to meet the target.

For a school or district to make adequate yearly progress, both the overall student population and each subgroup of students — major racial and ethnic groups, children from low - income families, students with disabilities, and students with limited proficiency in English — must meet or exceed the target set by the state.

At secondary level, where population increases are set to hit schools next year, just 82 % of the target was met.

Critics worried that charters would target more advantaged suburban populations, skimming off the students most likely to succeed and leaving traditional public schools in low - income and minority neighborhoods even more isolated, underfunded, and burdened with the toughest student cases.

About 13 % of New York's charter schools are targeted to such underperforming populations.

Additionally, as 90 % of students attending charter schools are students of color, and the New York Charter Schools Act directly targets populations that tend to be overwhelmingly comprised of minorities, the Plaintiffs also allege that the funding scheme has a disproportionate and discriminatory impact on minority stschools are students of color, and the New York Charter Schools Act directly targets populations that tend to be overwhelmingly comprised of minorities, the Plaintiffs also allege that the funding scheme has a disproportionate and discriminatory impact on minority stSchools Act directly targets populations that tend to be overwhelmingly comprised of minorities, the Plaintiffs also allege that the funding scheme has a disproportionate and discriminatory impact on minority students.

A charter school may limit the enrollment process in order to target the following student populations:

Provided that a school adheres to the laws regarding open admissions, a charter school may, through its educational focus, target a particular population of students with a specific need, such as students with disabilities, English language learners, or students at risk for dropping out of school.

These Title I schools are targeted because 40 - 80 percent of their student populations receive free or reduced lunch assistance.

A recent Manhattan Institute study found that a large number of charter schools are specifically targeted to educate particular underperforming populations.

Newark closed a half - dozen schools last year Anderson's first and activists filed a federal civil rights complaint that the closures were destabilizing neighborhoods and targeting minority and especially low - income populations.

We are committed to serving students from the most underserved populations, and we have targeted our outreach initiatives to increase our special education enrollment, regularly emphasizing to prospective parents the high - quality special education services our schools provide.

For instance, in this chart that identified bright spot schools for Chronic Absences for our target populations, Del Valle High School significantly outperforms multiple other comprehensive high schools with similar populations — are there practices from Del Vale that we can share throughout the region?

Some school districts move now to support disadvantaged As the Brown administration contemplates further regulation of the new funding system supporting educationally disadvantaged students, some school superintendents say they are already engaged with parents and community leaders over plans to better serve the targeted populations.

It also includes recommended questions that community members can ask school district officials to ensure that LCFF funds are targeted toward the intended student populations.

The iQUEST project has provided professional development and support for 16 eighth - grade teachers and 14 seventh - grade teachers from schools with significant numbers of targeted student populations (see Table 5).

In addition to the growing number of regular classroom teachers being certified, Oak Hills also employs 8 gifted intervention specialists for their schools to provide inclusion services as well as consultation and resources targeted solely for their gifted population.

Importantly, these discussions included our target population; for instance, Hispanic and black high school boys helped to determine the two metrics we would focus on at high school.

The iQUEST leadership identified what it takes to implement informal science experiences successfully for middle school students that increase interest and attitudes toward science and technology for targeted populations.

But David Simmonds, of the Local Government Association, said the increase in fines reflected «tighter enforcement by schools that are under pressure from Ofsted to meet attendance targets», as well as a rising school population.

Here is an excerpt: «'' The amendment for consolidated schools includes a petition option: «If a consolidation results in a change of forty (40) percent of the receiving school's population, an LEA may petition to have the school's safe harbor targets that will be used in determining adequate yearly progress (AYP) for the next school year recalculated based on the school's new population.

Alternatively, no - excuses charter schools have sprung up in a number of urban, heavily minority districts around the country, targeting their efforts at the populations of disadvantaged students in those locations.

However, for the purposes of determining AYP via safe harbor for the year following the consolidation, the District of Columbia would recalculate the safe harbor targets based on the consolidated population (i.e., based on the previous year's assessment results for all students from the sending and receiving schools that constitute the population of the consolidated school).»

Teachers of color make up 27.6 percent of the charter school teaching population, compared with 16 percent within district schools.51 For example, Uncommon Schools — a charter school network in Boston, New Jersey, and New York — runs a competitive summer teaching fellowship that targets students of color in their junior year of college.52 Fifty - two fellowship alumni now teach in Uncommon classrschools.51 For example, Uncommon Schools — a charter school network in Boston, New Jersey, and New York — runs a competitive summer teaching fellowship that targets students of color in their junior year of college.52 Fifty - two fellowship alumni now teach in Uncommon classrSchools — a charter school network in Boston, New Jersey, and New York — runs a competitive summer teaching fellowship that targets students of color in their junior year of college.52 Fifty - two fellowship alumni now teach in Uncommon classrooms.53

To make this change happen, HISD partnered with Catapult Learning to provide a flexible and targeted tutoring solution for 1487 Title I students in 19 HISD schools serving this largely at - risk student population.

Specifically, they were able to more easily identify and target the small group of students (only about 3 to 5 percent of a school's population) who needed intensive intervention.

A Utah charter school, the School for New Americans (SNA), explicitly targets Utah's refugee populschool, the School for New Americans (SNA), explicitly targets Utah's refugee populSchool for New Americans (SNA), explicitly targets Utah's refugee population.

Our target population consists of 650 - 7th graders attending the Joseph Pulitzer Junior High School (IS 145), in Jackson Heights, NY.

As researchers at MDRC noted, «implementing stand - alone programs that target a specific subset of the student population tend to have a limited impact and can not revive a struggling school.»

The KIPP program for middle schools (KIPP + Knowledge IS Power Program) is also heavily targeted at a culturally diverse and economic hard - hit student population, and it has showed dramatic results, with its methodologies.

For a district qualifying under this paragraph whose charter school tuition payments exceed 9 per cent of the school district's net school spending, the board shall only approve an application for the establishment of a commonwealth charter school if an applicant, or a provider with which an applicant proposes to contract, has a record of operating at least 1 school or similar program that demonstrates academic success and organizational viability and serves student populations similar to those the proposed school seeks to serve, from the following categories of students, those: (i) eligible for free lunch; (ii) eligible for reduced price lunch; (iii) that require special education; (iv) limited English - proficient of similar language proficiency level as measured by the Massachusetts English Proficiency Assessment examination; (v) sub-proficient, which shall mean students who have scored in the «needs improvement», «warning» or «failing» categories on the mathematics or English language arts exams of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System for 2 of the past 3 years or as defined by the department using a similar measurement; (vi) who are designated as at risk of dropping out of school based on predictors determined by the department; (vii) who have dropped out of school; or (viii) other at - risk students who should be targeted to eliminate achievement gaps among different groups of students.