Sentences with phrase «where public school enrollment»

It also aimed to reduce overcrowding in the 4,000 - student district, where public school enrollment has been...

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Over half of black children in public primary and secondary schools are concentrated in the nation's twelve largest central city school districts, where the quality of education is poor, and where whites constitute only about a quarter of total enrollment.

Alonso served as CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools (City Schools) for six years, where he led a reform effort marked by a rebalancing of authority and responsibility among stakeholders, the building of a coalition in support of City Schools, leading edge labor contracts, and a focus on individual students and teaching and learning that yielded marked improvement in achievement and climate data across all levels, the first increases in enrollment in 40 years, and widespread political and ground root support for what have been divisive reform strategies in other districts.

KIPP Academy Lynn Collegiate, where Stocklin teaches courses including AP English Language and Composition, is part of a national network of free, open - enrollment, public charter schools dedicated to preparing students in underserved communities for success.

But Jerry Weast, 63, superintendent of the Montgomery County (Md.) Public Schools since 1999, developed a culture of success in a district where 67 percent of its enrollment are students of color.

This week: how rural schools are bringing cutting - edge tech to their students, the wave of teacher strikes across the country and their implications for CA and the value of teacher diversity especially in a state where students of color now comprise three - quarters of public school enrollment.

Parents had mixed feelings about OneApp, the unified enrollment system where families can sign up to attend a majority of the city's public schools and private schools that participate in the Louisiana Scholarship Program.

The trend of increasing racial and economic segregation is a nationwide trend — not just in Alabama and other Southern states.55 The South, however, was the only region in the country to see a net increase in private school enrollment between 1960 and 2000, and where private school enrollment is higher, support for spending in public schools tends to be lower.56 A growing body of rigorous research shows that money absolutely matters for public schools, especially for the students from low - income families who attend them.57 What's more, private schools in the South tend to have the largest overrepresentation of white students.58 In fact, research has shown that the strongest predictor of white private school enrollment is the proportion of black students in the local public schools.59

In some parts of the state, open enrollment policies allow parents to select the best traditional public school, regardless of where the school is located.

Consider public charter schools, where enrollment is booming and reached a record 185,000 students statewide this year.

Since Arizona law allows for robust open enrollment and parental choice, school district boundaries no longer define where students must attend public school.

The lowest private school enrollment rate (4 percent) is found within the Anacostia school boundary neighborhood in southeast D.C., which is where public charter school participation rates are highest.

Enrollment in public charter schools was highest in middle school grades, at 52 percent, and lowest in high school grades where DCPS application high schools attracted 20 percent of all high school students.

The highest private school enrollment rate (44 percent [17]-RRB- is found within the Wilson HS boundary neighborhood, which is also where the highest share of public school students attend their in - boundary school.

examines the connections between neighborhood characteristics and boundary school enrollment rates among the District of Columbia's public school students, and finds there's only one pocket of the city where a majority of families in public school choose their in - boundary middle or high school.

The highest private school enrollment rate across all grades (44 percent)[3] is found within the Wilson HS boundary neighborhood, which is also where the highest share of public school students attend their in - boundary school (see Figure 5).

In Pennsylvania, where student enrollment in public schools is declining, the cost of testing has quintupled in the last 15 years, even after adjusting for inflation.

The city wants to redraw the zones in a way that would send kids from this predominantly white school to a nearby school where enrollment is over 90 percent black and Hispanic and which draws many of its students from a public housing project.

These cities reflect rapidly changing student demographics and the complexity of today's urban public education landscape, where multiple agencies oversee public schools and enrollments are spread across a variety of school types.

If the Board received more than 12 applications in a single year from qualified applicants, then the proposed law would require it to give priority to proposed charter schools or enrollment expansions in districts where student performance on statewide assessments is in the bottom 25 % of all districts in the previous two years and where demonstrated parent demand for additional public school options is greatest.

Yet another study seems to indicate that white and Asian middle - class families benefit more than minority and lower - class families from open enrollment programs where students can choose to go to public schools outside of their neighborhoods.

As a public charter school we have a wide diversity of students and many come to us with a weaker background in mathematics than is necessary to enter concurrent enrollment classes at the college where we are located.

Priority for enrollment in a Horace Mann charter school shall be given first to students actually enrolled in the school on the date that the application is filed with the board and to their siblings; second to other students actually enrolled in the public schools of the district where the Horace Mann charter school is to be located; and third to other resident students.