Sentences with phrase «year as a magnet»

School leaders at Bishop Woods Architecture and Design Magnet School say the way students learn in the school's second year as a magnet school is through hands - on, project - based instruction - or by seeing and by doing.

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The chain, known affectionately as Donki and long a magnet for visitors from overseas including Lady Gaga, has recorded 26 consecutive years of sales growth.

The intent was to keep Progressive Media in place well after the election as a magnet for deep - pocketed progressives; as one of its organizers wistfully told me, «Imagine where we'd be if we had that in place four years later.»

The Large Hadron Collider will close at the end of 2011 for up to a year so that joints between the machines» magnets can be reinforced, as well as some other additional construction.

GE enters the turbine power race GE announced last month that it had begun a two - year project to develop a direct drive wind turbine as big as 10 to 15 MW using superconducting magnets.

It took the best part of 50 years to work out how to make a superconducting magnet and half as much time again to develop the first killer application, magnetic resonance imaging.

Much in the way Scott Rudin has owned the Oscar circuit for sometime, Gardener and Kleiner have established themselves as an awards magnet for their films as seen by their two previous Best Picture winners («Moonlight» and «12 Years a Slave») and their three other nominations for «The Tree of Life,» «Selma,» and «The Big Short.»

Since it premiered at Cannes last year, Inside Llewyn Davis has been touted as a sure - fire awards magnet.

A «blueprint» he proposed in year two, as achievement lagged, increased the hours of literacy training, with additional time and summer school for those falling behind, and added more programs for the same purpose, to be paid for by centralizing control of Title I funds and eliminating other programs (such as some magnet schools).

In subsequent years, two of these schools were restructured as magnet schools offering specialized programs in a small school setting.

For much of the past few years, reflecting general concerns about the quality of public schooling, discussions of magnet schools have centered on their potential for providing intensive instruction in such subjects as science and mathematics, serving as models of effectiveness, and increasing family choice within the public system.

Principal Cheryl Kloczko started the school year «under a microscope» at a new magnet school focusing on multiple intelligences, and the scrutiny grew more intense as the year progressed.

Eight - year - old Melanie from Simsbury says at first her parents were not certain the magnet school was the best place for her, but now they like it — as does she.

He says that as the school prepares to transition to a magnet school over the next few years, «we've put in some systems and are partnering up with people.»

After up to three years of funding as a lighthouse school, the school must open as an interdistrict magnet school whose purpose is to reduce racial, ethnic, and economic isolation.

All awardees must be members of Magnet Schools of America and have served as a magnet school teacher for a minimum of three years.

All awardees are members of Magnet Schools of America and have served as a magnet school teacher for a minimum of three years.

On a list of the best schools that focus on science, technology, engineering and math, U.S. News ranked High Technology High School in Lincroft, N.J. the best for the second year in a row while, TJ, as the Fairfax County magnet school is called, came in third.

Alan Warhaftig, who retired last year after more than a decade as the magnet program co-coordinator at Fairfax High School, believes that the district's goal of rapid expansion of magnets could dilute the success of the programs.

As it did last year, LA Unified released numbers that showed its magnet schools outperformed the district's independent charters, although the demographics on the two do not match up closely.

Not only could it enhance learning opportunities for students already enrolled in these programs, but it could also serve as a potential justification for the creation of new, dual - language magnet schools, if their documented success will not suffice as persuasion, since they would be providing dual - language instruction over four - or - more years.

As a result of Sheff v. O'Neill, in the past ten years, the state has spent $ 1.4 billion to renovate and build new magnet schools, which are designed as reduced isolation schools that draw students from the city and suburbAs a result of Sheff v. O'Neill, in the past ten years, the state has spent $ 1.4 billion to renovate and build new magnet schools, which are designed as reduced isolation schools that draw students from the city and suburbas reduced isolation schools that draw students from the city and suburbs.

Three years ago, the school now known as the LAUSD / USC Cinematic Arts and Engineering Magnet converted from a performing arts magnet into one with a cinematic focus, and it hired Matt Waynee to head up the new cinematic arts department.

The superintendent said a lesson came from the expansion of the magnet application system this year, as 80 percent of eligible students applied for seats in magnet schools like Science Park and Arts high schools.

For the past year, the majority on the board of the 167 - school district have been pushing to return to zoned schooling, essentially eliminating the array of magnet schools and other options created as part of a three decade - long desegregation effort.

In my district, Stamford, we abandoned an open lottery for our magnet schools years ago, as we found it that it increased segregation.

An ambitious next step after inter-district programs and magnet schools — indeed, what some see as the logical endpoint of these programs — is, in essence, doing what the NAACP wanted when it sued Minnesota 15 years ago: the combination of urban and suburban school districts into the «mega-district.»

The association sponsors a national awards program, that recognizes top magnet schools in the United States as well as individual award programs including Magnet's Principal of the Year Award, Teacher of the Year and MSA Superintendent of the Year Award.

As reported by the Hartford Courant, «The city board of education reversed itself Monday night and approved two proposed magnet schools for the 2014 - 15 year, nearly a week after voting to reject the plans that were negotiated as part of a settlement in the Sheff v. O'Neill case.&raquAs reported by the Hartford Courant, «The city board of education reversed itself Monday night and approved two proposed magnet schools for the 2014 - 15 year, nearly a week after voting to reject the plans that were negotiated as part of a settlement in the Sheff v. O'Neill case.&raquas part of a settlement in the Sheff v. O'Neill case.»

There are a growing array of education choice options available in America such as controlled open enrollment, charter schools, charter districts, online schools, lab schools, schools - within - schools, year - round schools, charter technical career centers, magnet schools, alternative schools, vouchers, special programs, advanced placement, dual enrollment, International Baccalaureate, early admissions, and credit by examination or demonstration of competency.

Five years ago Paul Tractenberg proposed several remedies, including developing «a system of very high - quality regional magnet schools that are good enough to attract students of all races and socioeconomic strata from multiple school districts» as well as creating county - wide districts, something I've advocated in the past.

The resolution read that, «In New York City, Capital Preparatory Harlem Charter School, proposed as a replication of an effective magnet school in Connecticut, will partner with the Boys and Girls Club of Harlem to provide middle - and high - school students with a rigorous, year - round college preparatory curriculum..»

Just as neighborhood schools throughout the country are beginning to close and consolidate in favor of an increasing presence of magnet and charter schools, the steady decline of catholic schools in recent years has also been explained to growing competition from the increasing availability of free alternatives to neighborhood schools.

As states and school districts begin to prepare to implement the Every Student Succeeds Act, it is imperative that magnet school leaders and educators understand the implications of this comprehensive law and know what to expect as it is rolled out for the first time next school yeaAs states and school districts begin to prepare to implement the Every Student Succeeds Act, it is imperative that magnet school leaders and educators understand the implications of this comprehensive law and know what to expect as it is rolled out for the first time next school yeaas it is rolled out for the first time next school year.

The plan will summarize the district's current efforts as well as put forth new approaches, such as a longer school year and opening magnet schools, Nerad said.

As a result of his leadership at the national, state and local levels in advocating, developing, and supporting magnet schools, Magnet Schools of America (MSA) is pleased to name Pat Skorkowsky from the Clark County School District in Nevada the 2017 Magnet Schools of America Superintendent of the Year.

Yet Holly sees enough in him to paint his portrait again and again over the years, while Dom, as an early teen, is drawn to him like steel to a magnet.

«Including pets as part of the family during the holiday season has been a trend for the past few years,» says Tim Smith, president of Westlake, Ohio - based SJT Enterprises Inc., which manufactures a range of pet - themed magnets, stickers and other products designed for pet owners.

Massachusetts in particular is a magnet and a distribution center for relocated surplus pets and strays... Some diseases and parasites pose serious health risks for human health as well as for dogs and other species... Dogs are a leading vector for rabies in many poor countries... Given the incubation period for rabies, from five days to several years, with 20 - 60 days being the norm, unquarantined importation of street dogs from poor countries with low rates of vaccination for rabies, is a disaster waiting to happen...»

Her fascinating life story became an instant magnet for her exhibitions, while the unique circumstances of Herrera's paintings were crowned with a 2014 documentary film by a famous director Alison Klayman, titled appropriately as The 100 Years Show.

But for Joseph C. Thompson, the museum's folksy director who's nursed Mass MoCA into existence over the past 30 years, the Wilson building marks something else as well: the museum's most convincing bid yet to turn its out - of - the - way campus of old factories into an international magnet for contemporary visual and performing arts.

One thing I hadn't realized (sunspots not being my thing) is that the 11 - year cycle is actually two phases of a 22 - year cycle that could be described as a magnet rotating at a rate of one revolution per 22 years and producing sunspots most strongly when it's normal to the Sun's equatorial plane.

To illustrate the point, Louisiana has the highest average premiums in the nation at $ 1,392 per year, primarily thanks to the fact that the Bayou State is a magnet for natural disasters, such as Gulf Coast Hurricanes, severe thunderstorms, tornadoes, and flooding.

As with the previous Surface devices, a stylus works with the pressure - sensitive display, which has now been improved to 1024 levels of pressure, though this year's pen attaches via magnets to the side of the case.

The switch to glass this year does mean the 7 is a fingerprint magnet but as we've seen with other glass - backed devices, this is common for a glass finish.

The Galaxy S7 Edge is very much the same metal and glass construction from last year's Galaxy S6, and except for the finger magnet on the back of the device, it is as robust and well - built as a smartphone comes to use these days.