Sentences with phrase «what traditional high school»

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In exchange for a much higher expectation and dependence on parent involvement in the school, tuition is kept much lower than what other traditional preschools charge.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

Grover, who'd led a traditional Salt Lake City high school as well as the district's career and technical programs, asked students what they liked and disliked about high school.

Given what we know about learning, why don't schools look more like California's High Tech High, with its emphasis on project - based team problem solving and the relevance of curricula that cross traditional content domains?

«What is tricky to do is to figure out how to change the typically traditional high school model of educating students into the proposed model that incorporates academics and a new skill set,» he says.

Here is a good example of what I would call double standards relating to traditional public schools and charter schools — more specifically the High Tech High K - 12 Sschools and charter schools — more specifically the High Tech High K - 12 Sschools — more specifically the High Tech High K - 12 SchoolsSchools.

What came next was the 2010 launch of HISD's Apollo 20 program, the nation's first large - scale effort to implement high - performing charter school practices in a traditional public school environment.

The purpose of this study is to help assess to what extent charter schools have the potential to provide a higher quality, more cost - effective educational solution for California K - 12 students over traditional schools, particularly those in low income communities.

Some might assume that gifted students will excel no matter what kind of schooling they receive while others might be able to see that gifted students are often bored in traditional classrooms which leads to a higher dropout rate.

These findings turn out to be as good or better to what we've seen in urban districts, where Linked Learning students are earning more credits and graduating at higher rates than peers in traditional high school programs.

What policymakers are not regularly told is that although poverty level in all urban schools are high (both at charter and at traditional public schools), the students at many of Connecticut's urban charter schools are significantly «less poor» than the students who attend the public schools in those same communities.

What I am saying is that ALL of the elementary schools in our sample that have disproportionately high numbers of foster youth are traditional schools.

What is different is that, in Math, there are almost twice as many traditional schools in the top 20, and they are higher up in the list.

They experience firsthand what it means, when high schools transform from a traditional comprehensive high school model to a Linked Learning approach, to prepare all students for both college and career.

States should also seek to study and authorize charter schools that promote innovative high school designs with quality control systems in place or establish what is termed «innovation status» for traditional public schools.