Sentences with phrase «zoned district schools»

Because students move frequently, including to neighborhoods with higher - performing zoned district schools, I consider each student's district school to be the first school where they are enrolled.

All of them present an opportunity of choice for parents that might not be accepting of their zoned district school.

Parents need freedom to continue looking for a setting that meets their child's needs if their zoned district school can not.

Not exact matches

Outer suburbs in Melbourne and Sydney, typically around 30kms from the central business districts, that are not close to transport, amenities or a popular school zone are also struggling.

The district is considering supporting a zone of schools to pilot this effort.

JAZ, the Junior Activity Zone, was introduced for the 2002/2003 school year and is offered in partnership with the Village of Arlington Heights and School Distrischool year and is offered in partnership with the Village of Arlington Heights and School DistriSchool District 25.

The second item was about some school district «carve out» blocks on 12 Street North — residents of these blocks were unhappy about being zoned out of PS 41.

Kaminsky said the law is needed as a safeguard for school districts if current laws are changed, such as the president's promise to eliminate federal gun - free zones.

And the inability to serve all parents looking to send their children to a Success Academy school — there are currently 19,000 applicants for 2,688 open seats this fall, which translates to seven applicants for every open seat — she dubbed a «tragedy» that leaves thousands of families disappointed, left to seek out supplementary schooling options in their zoned district.

Community Education Councils (CEC) The CECs work closely with the district superintendents, approve school zoning lines, hold hearings on the Capital Plan, and provide input on instructional and policy issues.

The 32 district CECs are responsible for approving school zoning lines, holding hearings on the Capital Plan, and providing additional input on important policy issues.

When it comes to actually addressing whatever overcrowding those revised methods predict, the ideas get more controversial: The Council recommends the city use eminent domain to seize potential school sites where necessary, and consider redrawing school zones and district lines to balance population between schools that have too many kids and those with empty seats.

The DOE will present the new zoning proposal, which will also cover the Village and Chelsea, in addition to lower Manhattan, at a District 2 Community Education Council meeting Nov. 8 at 6:30 p.m. at M.S. 104, Baruch Middle School, 330 E. 21st St. between First and Second avenues.

And school officials used the occasion of the first day of school to show off one of the new I - Zone Schools in the district.

(Now the most meaningful thing they do is approve school zones within the district, influencing which neighborhood sends its children to what school.)

Wymore, meanwhile, touted his work negotiating for a new school in the district as part of the Riverside Center deal, and working to reinstate the long - closed 59th Street Rec Center and on storefront zoning.

As their older daughter approached school age, the Wheatons realized their zoned school district was not Los Angeles Unified, the nation's second largest, but Inglewood, a district with a history of low performance.

As it turns out, both of the school districts in this study had experienced rapid enrollment growth and built several new elementary and middle schools, forcing attendance zone boundaries to be re-drawn.

The lottery process for oversubscribed grades gave preference first to students who previously attended the school and their siblings, then to low - income students applying to schools that previously did not have a majority of low - income students, and finally to students applying to a school within their «choice zone» (which would guarantee them access to district - provided transportation).

After a pitched battle that exposed a deep rift in management philosophy, the Los Angeles school board took a budget ax to the district's regional administrative zones last week.

While districts can exercise zoning exemptions to re-classify commercial properties as schools, charters can not.

Allowing charter schools to access the zoning exemptions that districts use to turn commercial facilities into schools would also open up more options.

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The 5,000 - student Montclair district is one of only a few nationwide that have eliminated school - attendance zones and require all parents to choose their children's schools.

The major planks of Klein's reforms are well known: breaking much of the old local district bureaucracy, empowering principals and creating a new principal training center, issuing report cards for schools, delivering autonomy and innovation zones for experimental schools, and keeping more of the city's problematic teachers out of its schools.

But he also hails visionaries like Harlem Children's Zone's Geoffrey Canada; District of Columbia public schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee; and Bill Strickland, founder of Pittsburgh's Manchester Craftsmen's Guild.

Unzoned schools are general education public schools that don't give priority to students in their zone, but are open to applications from the entire district.

The 30 - member committee wants the district to revamp its nationally recognized assignment plan this year as it considers attendance - zone changes to accommodate seven new schools set to open next fall.

The strongest results were in Charlotte - Mecklenburg's Project L.I.F.T., a zone of struggling schools within a large, urban school district, which got about 30 applicants per position in the first two years.

Under an intradistrict choice policy, a family is able to choose any traditional public school within their school district, even if it falls outside of their local school attendance zone.

School districts, he said, could not engage in «systematic, individual typing by race,» but they could consider race when selecting school sites and drawing attendance School districts, he said, could not engage in «systematic, individual typing by race,» but they could consider race when selecting school sites and drawing attendance school sites and drawing attendance zones.

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

Beginning with four innovation schools but able to expand, the zone could for the first time give district schools the autonomy charters enjoy.

One of New York City's neighborhood school districts has eliminated its attendance zones for junior - high schools and will require incoming seventh graders to choose which schools they will attend in September.

We're now operating in district, charter, and independent schools; in urban and rural schools; in red states and blue states; at schools with a variety of enrollment and staffing levels; and across four US time zones.

NCLB «is pushing school districts to do things out of their comfort zones,» says Robert Maranto, who last year surveyed state education officials throughout the country about NCLB.

The rule would exclude children who live in an eligible secondary - school attendance zone, but whose elementary district is ineligible.

Whether district - run, state - run, or charters, all of these schools operate under a system of public choice without attendance zones.

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This is the closest we have come to realizing the groundbreaking vision of education innovator Ted Kolderie, who first wrote about the critical nature of breaking the exclusive franchise of traditional school districts holding parents captive based on zoned attendance.

Prior to being named State Superintendent, White served as Superintendent of the Louisiana Recovery School District, overseeing the nation's first system of publicly - funded charter and non-public schools in New Orleans and launching the Baton Rouge Achievement Zone to replicate successes in New Orleans.

Whenever the school district of current location is designated, the child shall be entitled to attend the school that is zoned for his or her temporary location or any school that nonhomeless students who live in the same attendance zone in which the homeless child or youth is temporarily residing are entitled to attend.

Public school districts similarly offer choice and magnet programs that entice students to leave zoned schools, which theoretically «hurts» the zoned schools in the same way as you suggest vouchers do.

Where a school registered pursuant to this paragraph is in a district in which one or more schools have been designated as a school in improvement, corrective action or restructuring, the commissioner shall determine the accountability status of the newly registered school based upon his review of the proposed educational program, including but not limited to such factors as: school mission, school administration and staff, grade configurations and groupings of students, zoning patterns, curricula and instruction and facilities.

A homeless child who designates the school district of current location as the district of attendance and who relocates to another temporary housing arrangement outside of such district, or to a different attendance zone or community school district within such district, shall be entitled to maintain the prior designation to continue attendance in the same school building until the end of the school year and for one additional year if the year constitutes the child's terminal year in such building.

Ekuwah Moses is a K - 5 Performance Zone Instructional Coach in Las Vegas, Nevada and works for the Clark County School District.

While Noguera's initiative bore a strong resemblance to the Harlem Children's Zone, in its holistic philosophy toward urban education as well as in its name, it differed in one salient aspect: Global Village worked in district schools, not charters.

While in New York he served as Deputy Chancellor, launching the Innovation Zone, a network of 100 21st Century schools that use technology to personalize student learning, and leading the city's efforts to turn around more than 100 failing schools and start 500 new charter and district schools.

Middle class families — place - bound; not highly mobile — wall themselves off within the educational equivalent of gated communities through attendance zones, selective schools, and district lines.

Whittier is a free public school that works in partnership with the Camden School district to serve all the kids in ourschool that works in partnership with the Camden School district to serve all the kids in ourSchool district to serve all the kids in our zone.