Sentences with phrase «top public middle»

Teachers and principals at Success said that they prepare their students so intensely for the tests because of the opportunities that high scores can present, such as invitations to top public middle or high schools, or scholarships for private schools.

She attends what is considered to be the top public middle school in the city.

Not exact matches

He suggested we specifically look at gifted schools because they offer differentiated instruction and teach to the top, whereas public schools teach to the bottom and conventional private schools teach to the middle.

Off the top of my head the biggest ones are: (1) corruption within the Buildings & Grounds Department (2) corruption involving school district vendors over-billing and paying bribes and kickbacks that led to those two Federal indictments and convictions; (3) corruption involving police harassment of a woman on behalf of the manager of a local beach club; (4) a child rapist operating out of a public middle school; (5) an illegal gambling and pornography web site operated by members of the New Rochelle Police Department; (6) a retired police officer defrauding charities including St. Jude's Children's Research; (7) illegal asbestos handling and asbestos removal at an elementary school; (8) an effort to artificially inflate the salaries and pensions of senior police commanders; (9) the relationship between the New Rochelle Police Commissioner and a corrupt contractor, a man who has since been convicted on Federal corruption charges; (10) the sordid history of former New Rochelle Schools Administrator Freddie Dean Smith.

«These schools must also guarantee admission to the two top students in each middle public school,» he said.

Criticising the pay freeze for top earners announced by the chancellor, Alistair Darling, last night, Osborne said: «To sneak out a public sector pay announcement in the middle of a Conservative conference shows these Labour politicians are better at writing books about courage than displaying it,» a reference to Gordon Brown's book Courage: Eight Portraits.

Ê A flat tax would either mean a massive tax rise for people on low and middle incomes to pay for tax cuts at the top or cost us billions of pounds in public service cuts.

One of the top six recommendations for increasing your fibre intake on the Harvard Public School of Health's website is «experimenting with international dishes (such as Indian or Middle Eastern) that use whole grains and legumes as part of the main meal (such as Indian dahls)» (6).

«The Shape of the U» showed that in the 2007 - 08 school year, controlling for demographics of students served, approximately 21 % of California charter schools were performing in the bottom tenth of all public schools in the state, with another 21 % in the top tenth, and strikingly few «in the middle.»

The chart above compares the performance of Detroit's charter schools (the top bar) to all the DPS schools (middle bar), as well as to Detroit's traditional public schools, excluding the schools that require passing a test or maintaining a certain GPA to gain admission (the bottom bar).

DSST runs four of the top five Denver Public Schools (DPS) high schools, and five of the top eight DPS middle schools, according to Denver's 2016 School Performance Framework.

American Indian Public Charter ranks fifth among all middle schools in California, with the top four serving more affluent student bodies.

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«One of the most remarkable environments I have ever visited is Piedmont IB Middle School,» said Sneha Shah - Coltrane, the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction's top official for education of gifted students.

DSST runs four of the five top Denver Public Schools (DPS) high schools, and five out of the top eight DPS middle schools, according to Denver's 2016 School Performance Framework.

Six of the 14 top - performing Reward Schools in Metro Nashville this year were charter schools, including KIPP Academy, a public charter middle school in East Nashville.

She helped her school earn the top middle school CCRPI (College and Career Ready Performance Index) score in Atlanta Public Schools for two years in a row.

I really am interested in how a former undersecretary of education has come to the point that he is so determined to attack teacher tenure, teacher unions and «restrictive work rules» for teachers — especially during a time when public schools have been systematically defunded, forced to jump through hoops (Race to the Top) in order to get what remains of federal funding for education, like some kind of bizarre Hunger Games ritual for kids and teachers, and as curriculums have been narrowed to the point where only middle class and wealthier communities have schools that offer subjects like music, art, and physical education — much less recess time, school nurses or psychologists, or guidance counselors.

The school earned its 5th consecutive letter grade of «A» ranking as the highest - performing public middle school in Miami - Dade County, and among the top of all middle schools in Florida, based on the points it received under the State of Florida Accountability Program.

A gigantic series of translucent flags that floated in the middle of a glass - topped atrium, 48 Shadow Planes was for more than three decades a work of public art.

According to Houston's Best Public Schools, the area is zoned to some of the top ranked schools in Texas including Memorial Drive Elementary, Frostwood Elementary, Wilchester Elementary, Bunker Hill Elementary, Memorial Middle and Memorial High.