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​2017 Georgia Teacher of the Year Finalists Announced (Georgia Department of Education)

Edit Public Technologies 26 Apr 2016
April 26, 2016- State School Superintendent Richard Woods today announced the finalists for Georgia's 2017 Teacher of the Year. The 10 finalists were chosen from a pool of 155 applicants, all of whom were the Teacher of the Year in their school district ... Government teacher, from Windsor Forest High School in Savannah ... Rockdale County, Rockdale Magnet School for Science and Technology....

Tampa school choice advocate urges end to teachers’ lawsuit

Edit Tampa Bay Online 26 Apr 2016
TALLAHASSEE – A lawsuit challenging the state’s school voucher program could set back the advances the state has made in school choice by decades, Tampa businessman and school choice advocate John Kirtley told a group of business leaders Tuesday ... Hillsborough County is a leader when it comes to magnet schools run by the district, he said, noting its outstanding arts and robotics programs....

HEOP Alumni Return to Campus for Networking Event (Siena College)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Apr 2016
... Steven O'Bryon '12 - Senior Administrator at Ayco, a Goldman Sachs Company, Ben Velazquez '93 - Director, Syndications Americas at ING Capital, LLC and former chair of Siena's Board of Associate Trustees, Malik Jones '02 - Principal, Albany Montessori Magnet School, and Dixie Lopez '99, Ph.D - School Psychologist, Albany City School District....

Travis TAG is a misnomer - Letters to the Editor

Edit The Dallas Morning News 24 Apr 2016
I read this article about the DISD’s magnet school acceptance policies with great interest ... This practice goes directly against the spirit of why magnet schools exist (to challenge the highest achievers) as well as what Travis explicitly states on its website, that “admission is based on students’ academic achievement.”....

Thao & The Get Down Stay Down's DC homecoming, with Saintseneca, Little Scream

Edit The Examiner 23 Apr 2016
... of Science and Technology, a magnet school for Fairfax county’s best scholars....

Central Magnet School moves up in U.S. News and World Report rankings

Edit Daily News Journal 22 Apr 2016
Central Magnet School has moved up in the rankings of Tennessee's public high schools by U.S. News and World Report.        ... ....

Education Excellence (Southern Methodist University)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Apr 2016
DALLAS (SMU) - Educators, community leaders and high school students and their parents examined issues facing African-American college students at April conferences sponsored by the SMU Simmons School ... Nakia Douglas, founding principal of the Dallas Independent School District's new, all-male magnet school, Barack Obama Male Leadership Academy, has set the tone for the unique public school in southern Dallas....

Public sounds off on CMS board’s proposed guiding principles

Edit The Charlotte Observer 21 Apr 2016
Responding to community and board concerns that some schools now have extreme concentrations of poverty, the new guidelines call for using “socioeconomic status,” or family income, to shape admission to magnet schools and some boundary decisions ... Critics honed in on the idea of giving students from low-performing schools priority for magnets admission, calling it unfair to those who need the “greater academic rigor” of magnets....

Jerry Franklin to Deliver Eastern’s Commencement Address (Eastern Connecticut State University)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Apr 2016
(Source. Eastern Connecticut State University). Written by Ed Osborn. Jerry Franklin ... Franklin will also deliver the Commencement Address. Franklin has served as CEO and president of CPBN for more than 30 years ... Núñez ... We are pleased and honored that Mr ... Attesting to Mr. Franklin's commitment to education, in fall 2013 CPBN opened its Learning Lab, which houses the Journalism and Media Academy Magnet School satellite campus ... Original Document....

School choice key on DISD board - Letters to the Editor

Edit The Dallas Morning News 20 Apr 2016
... as a school board trustee for District 2 ... DISD’s exceptional magnet schools like Booker T ... The challenge facing DISD is how to make its local schools just as good as its magnet schools so DISD can fulfill its mission of educating every child....

When School Districts Get Deliberate About Desegregation

Edit The Atlantic 20 Apr 2016
President Obama has proposed a $120 million grant program that would reward districts that voluntarily take steps to increase socioeconomic diversity, and the Education Department recently posted a request for ideas about how school-improvement grants (awarded to some of the nation’s lowest-performing schools) might be used to increase the number of magnet schools that draw children of all backgrounds from across communities....

Here are the top 15 Austin-area high schools

Edit Business Journal 20 Apr 2016
Austin Independent School District's Liberal Arts and Science Academy is the best high school in Central Texas and one of the top schools in the state, according to a new national ranking by U.S. News & World Report. LASA, a magnet school, ranked No. 7 in Texas and No ... KIPP Austin Collegiate, a public charter school, came in second in the Austin area and was No ... We have compiled the top 15 Austin-area schools in a map embedded below… ... ....

New Tampa Relay deemed huge success

Edit Tampa Bay Online 20 Apr 2016
“How could you not be joyful when you looked out and saw all the survivors and all the kids who were there to help in our fight against cancer,” said Heilman, a colon cancer survivor and sixth-grade World History teacher at Turner/Bartels K-8 Magnet School, who alone raised $3,180 to add to the event’s bottom line....
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