Sentence examples for nontraditional schools from inspiring English sources

Charter school proponents said the awards were a vote of confidence for high-performing, nontraditional schools and could bring jobs to the school district, which was forced by budget cuts to lay off hundreds of teachers.

But the past decade or so has seen a tremendous uptick in empirical research, as scientific collaborations with nontraditional schools, like the Dalai Lama's Mind and Life Institute, have become more mainstream.

Including some or all of these children in the denominator of children enrolled in nontraditional schools during the 1999-2000 school year drops the percentage enrolled in religious schools from 96percenttoto under 20percentt.... Respondents finally claim that we should look to Committee for Public Ed. & Religious Liberty v. Nyquist (1973), to decide these cases.

These reformers have largely consisted of private actors, including leaders of education nonprofits, charter school founders and other nontraditional school leaders whose essential resources for reform come from the private wealth of major foundations, an approach that Berkeley education professor Janelle Scott has termed "venture philanthropy".

In promoting the competition, the administration has highlighted nontraditional high schools that offer technical alternatives to standard academic fare.

To meet the needs of nontraditional secondary school students, the district sponsors the Polly Fox Academy for pregnant and parenting teenagers, Phoenix Academy for student dropouts and Brigadoon Academy for chronically truant, suspended or expelled students.

DeVos was at the center of that lobby; her lodestar, Henderson wrote, "has been her conviction that any nontraditional public school is better than a traditional one, simply because it is not operated by government".

Outreach education programs for nontraditional students, school teachers, and the public are fundamental to integrate evolution into our society's culture.

The choice, Cami Anderson, has served for four years as senior superintendent of New York's network of alternative schools for nontraditional students, like those who are in jail or beyond high school age.

The program is meant to bring promising students from nontraditional backgrounds to the school, including students of color.

Officials said they expected the site to evolve so that it more specifically meets the needs of middle-school and nontraditional students, too.