Sentences with phrase «traditional public elementary school»

She started her career in education as a Teach For America Bay Area corps member, teaching at a traditional public elementary school in Richmond.

For instance, in late April the California Fourth District Court of Appeal ruled in favor of Anaheim parents who want to use the state's parent - trigger law to turn a traditional public elementary school into a charter school.

Today, HCZ works with all seven of the traditional public elementary schools in the Zone, serving more than 2,400 students.

Not exact matches

March 5: DNAinfo's Heather Holland reported on a public elementary school, P.S. 116, that stopped assigning traditional homework to its students and encouraged them to play, read and socialize with family instead, sparking outrage among some parents.

Intradistrict choice: Allow families access to any public traditional elementary school within their school district (i.e., not just within their attendance zones).

Interdistrict choice: Allow families access to any public traditional elementary school outside of their school district.

According to WNYC, Icahn's attrition rate for the 2013 — 14 school year was 8 percent for elementary school grades and 5.4 percent for middle school grades, compared to an overall rate of 13 percent in traditional public schools.

We focus our analysis on charter middle schools, because we are able to compare charter and traditional public school students who had similar entering test scores and demographic characteristics and even attended the same elementary school.

It is not possible to use this methodology to examine elementary schools because testing begins in third grade, so for those schools we compare test - score growth in traditional public schools and charter schools while taking into account student characteristics such as race, age, and special education status.

Rocketship is transforming elementary public education with strong academic results, while operating its schools solely on traditional public funding.

As highlighted in a Forbes article last August, public charter schools in the District of Columbia outperformed traditional public schools in elementary and high school grades.

NOTE: This figure includes enrollment in traditional public, public charter, parochial, and other private schools, including nursery schools, kindergartens, elementary schools, and high schools.

Washburn county has 4 traditional public school districts - and eAchieve Academy represents another, offering free online courses for elementary, middle and high school students enrolled in:

Jamie is an educator with 13 years of elementary school teaching experience in diverse environments, including traditional public schools, independent schools, and charters schools; Amana Academy and Atlanta Neighborhood Charter Sschool teaching experience in diverse environments, including traditional public schools, independent schools, and charters schools; Amana Academy and Atlanta Neighborhood Charter SchoolSchool.

However, the study concludes that «elementary and middle - school charter students exhibited higher learning gains than equivalent students in the traditional public school system» and «students in poverty and English - language learners experience larger learning gains in charter schools.»

As part of the New York City Teaching Fellows Program, she studied elementary education at Mercy College while working in a traditional public school in the South Bronx.

When state assessment results indicated students were not making the gains needed with a traditional learning model, IDEA Public Schools launched a comprehensive restructuring of their elementary school programs to better support individual student needs.

Over the past decade, thousands of U.S. public schools — traditional and charter, from elementary through high school — are trying something different.

In both cities, charter elementary schools are much less likely than the traditional public schools to identify students as disabled, and students with identified disabilities are much less likely to apply to charter schools.

The 2016 cohort represent public and non-public elementary, middle, and high schools, including traditional, charter, magnet schools, parochial, and independent schools in 42 states, the District of Colombia, and Department of Defense Education Activity schools in Fort Benning, Georgia; Ramstein, Germany; and Seoul, Korea.

Starting in fall 2017, the Marion County public school district has decided to replace all traditional homework with 20 minutes of mandatory reading time for its elementary school students.