Sentences with phrase «traditional school population»

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BCPS has a student population of more than 225,000 students at nearly 230 traditional public schools.

The traditional leader talked about the provision of potable water in the district that was of grave concern to the people, saying water delivery was in short supply in the district because of the growing population He further called for a senior high school to be cited at Gbentri in the East Mamprusi District and Sanguli in the Tatale - Sanguli area in order to bring secondary education to the doorstep of the people living around that area.

Matthew Hickman, Professor in Public Health and Epidemiology at the University of Bristol's School of Social and Community Medicine and lead author of the study, said: «Scaling up HCV treatment is critical to the prevention of HCV in the population to support and enhance traditional harm reduction measures — opiate substitution treatment and needle exchange.

Traditional public schools and charter schools located in areas with significant Hispanic populations provide the same level of Spanish - language translation for school materials.

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).

Among the study population of charter 8th graders, students who attended a charter high school in 9th grade are 8 to 10 percentage points more likely to attend college than similar students who attended a traditional public high school.

Among the study population of charter 8th graders, students who attended a charter high school in 9th grade are 8 to 10 percentage points more likely to attend college than similar students who attended a traditional public high school (see Figure 1).

In Chicago, the gap in college attendance is smaller but still sizable: among the study population of charter 8th graders, 49 percent of students at charter high schools attended college, compared to 38 percent of students at traditional public high schools.

In Florida, among the study population of charter 8th graders, 57 percent of students attending a charter school in 9th grade went to either a two - or four - year college within five years of starting high school, whereas among students who started high school in a traditional public school the college attendance rate was only 40 percent.

Cocreated with a former colleague, the database allows administrators to capture data that is particularly relevant when serving challenged populations of students, many of whom enroll at BDEA after unsuccessful starts in traditional district high schools or local charter schools.

It is therefore important to consider how the 5,746 «switchers» included in our final analysis, those who attended both a charter school and a traditional public school in North Carolina between grades 4 and 8, differ from the state's full population of 8,745 charter school students in these grades.

Rarely do districts look outside the traditional population of state - certified public - school educators.

The result of that survey is the National Education Technology Plan, which highlights the challenge of improving test scores among an increasingly tech - savvy student population while using traditional teaching methodologies, and emphasizes what it calls «e-learning» and virtual schools.

Schools and districts that face budget constraints and can not accommodate their total populations in traditional classrooms, either because of facility restraints or the inability to employ enough certified teachers.

Supporters argue that charter schools provide alternative solutions to the traditional public school system, in which many schools — especially those in low - income, predominantly minority school districts — find themselves with limited resources to offer their large student populations.

The transfers of thousands of students like Cowans from traditional schools have spurred explosive growth in Orange County's alternative high school population.

For example, just over 7 % of charter middle schools students are LEP, whereas the traditional Boston population is 20 % LEP (pilot schools are also at 20 % LEP).

Many traditional schools have not accommodated the population of students and families that do not thrive in a traditional setting.

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.

«Most of the charter schools have populations that aren't being served at traditional schools,» said Irene Oliver - Lewis, founder of Alma d'arte Charter School in Las Cruces.

Charter schools in Los Angeles have much lower populations of homeless students than traditional district schools.

«The majority of our students are Hispanic, and a small student population are African - Americans, underserved and socially and economically disadvantaged coming from traditional schools that may have not been able to meet their needs as we do here at Mohan,» Riley said.

Traditional schools would have to teach the same number of students they have now, or even more as North Carolina's school - aged population increases, with considerably less money.

Among them were new superintendent Walter G. Amprey, who promoted school - based management and independence from traditional bureaucratic control, and the school's selection as a Maryland site for the Carnegie Corporation's Middle Grade School State Policy Initiative.1 As the new principal, I had distinct ideas about how to help transform Canton, a school with a racially mixed population of 800 students: about 57 percent white, 38 percent African American, and 5 percent Native American or Hisschool - based management and independence from traditional bureaucratic control, and the school's selection as a Maryland site for the Carnegie Corporation's Middle Grade School State Policy Initiative.1 As the new principal, I had distinct ideas about how to help transform Canton, a school with a racially mixed population of 800 students: about 57 percent white, 38 percent African American, and 5 percent Native American or Hisschool's selection as a Maryland site for the Carnegie Corporation's Middle Grade School State Policy Initiative.1 As the new principal, I had distinct ideas about how to help transform Canton, a school with a racially mixed population of 800 students: about 57 percent white, 38 percent African American, and 5 percent Native American or HisSchool State Policy Initiative.1 As the new principal, I had distinct ideas about how to help transform Canton, a school with a racially mixed population of 800 students: about 57 percent white, 38 percent African American, and 5 percent Native American or Hisschool with a racially mixed population of 800 students: about 57 percent white, 38 percent African American, and 5 percent Native American or Hispanic.

We can conclude from this data that an effective charter school operator can better learning outcomes at lower cost than traditional public schools serving a similar population.

«Teaching on a Native American reservation with a population that has historically felt disenfranchised from public schools, we have found that bringing the tribes» traditional art into all subjects has made school more compelling for our students,» Meeks explains.

Despite serving a more advantaged student population than traditional public schools in LAUSD, charter effects on student test score growth were unimpressive.

She also argues that while the student population has not grown to the projected size, it is serving a group of students with few options in the traditional public school model.

Bruce Baker, an education policy researcher at Rutgers University, has been a leading critic of the differing populations in charters and traditional schools.

This was a significant departure from the traditional system of building school budgets based on teacher salaries, which gives more resources to schools with highly educated, veteran teachers regardless of the student populations they serve.

SRI researchers identified and recruited 39 inclusive STEM - focused high schools and 22 comprehensive (or traditional) high schools serving similar student populations but without a school - wide STEM focus in North Carolina and Texas.

But Setren's research also uncovered some contradictions: While students in those populations were more likely to score proficient on the 10th - grade MCAS math and English exams in charter schools, they are less likely to graduate from a charter school in four years, in comparison with their peers in traditional schools.

They are founded on a variety of different ideas, have different locations, different student populations, differing state charter laws governing them, and school - specific cultures that can differ more than the cultures found in traditional public schools.

We have a population that despises traditional school work and for the most part, simply will not do it.

«This report compiles skewed and incomplete data that, in the authors» own words, is largely based on «assumptions» and «suggestions,» and it neglects to take into consideration important factors, such as parental choice, the similarity of student populations between inner city charters and inner city traditional schools, and that charter schools intentionally locate in neighborhoods with the greatest need, a fact that we would hope champions of civil rights would celebrate, not condemn.

Clearly, the reality for our student population didn't resemble that of the traditional Response to Intervention pyramid, in which 75 — 85 percent of a school's students flourish with Tier 1 instruction (the instruction and preventive strategies all students receive).

While American schools do not have enough graduates from traditional teacher education programs prepared to work with linguistically diverse populations (GAO, Government Accountability Office 2009), our study indicates the potential of a professional development program that integrates a brief introduction to theory, a heavy dose of readings from SFL scholars, and a variety of activities / assessments for language learners, accompanied by on - site observation and mentoring.

It could be a school selling online lessons, a traditional educational institution supplementing its classroom based courses, a business educating its clients, or even a government agency or NGO helping educate the general population.

In August, the Success Academy network, which serves a predominantly low - income and minority population, boasted that its test scores were higher than any traditional public school district in... [Read more...]

Charters are accountable to the public for producing strong student results: 15 out of 16 recent studies show charter school students are outperforming their traditional school peers and showing the strongest improvement levels for underserved student populations.

Public charter schools in Indiana served a higher percentage of students in special populations when compared with traditional public schools in 2012 — 13 (14 percentage points more).

The NAACP and most of the traditional black leadership, much of the Democratic Party establishment, and other organizations with a reputation for advocacy on low - income, urban, and minority issues are staunch foes of private school choice - despite the overwhelming support for school choice among the populations for whom they claim to speak.

Nationally, charter schools have no greater record of success than public schools although the student population of charter schools is more select than the population of traditional public schools.

As discussed above, these variables are used to account for the potential selection bias introduced because of the differences between the populations at choice schools compared to traditional public schools.

CPS will consider proposals from operators who seek to open charter or contract schools to serve either a «traditional» student population (grades kindergarten through 12) or an «alternative» student population of students who have dropped out or are at risk of dropping out.

Many traditional public school leaders have argued that charters drain students and resources from the schools trying to educate the most difficult populations of students.

For the purposes of the brief, we operationalized access and equity as follows: to evaluate access, we examined districts» choice and recruitment policies and assessed the degree to which pathways were representative of their districts» high school student populations; to evaluate equity, we compared academic outcomes for Linked Learning student subgroups with those of similar peers in traditional high school settings.

In 1968, New Way Academy opened the door to a new way of learning for a growing population of students who were smart, motivated, curious and fun loving children; but had difficulties learning in a traditional school setting.

NASSP believes that charter schools and other nontraditional public schools have the potential to develop innovative methods of educating diverse student populations that can then be replicated in traditional public schools.

Detractors, however, often assert that charters siphon resources from traditional public schools without equal compensation and that they don't serve specific populations, such as special - education students, in proportion with their existence.