More public schools, such as Montgomery County magnet school Richard Montgomery High, have started offering International Baccalaureate Diploma programs.
Local administrators today are focusing on attainable desegregation goals, Orfield says, such as continuing magnet school and student transfer programs.
Bethune Elementary School is a magnet school run by Principal Mary Haynes-Smith.
Middle-class families whose children do not get into a magnet school are still likely to prefer the suburbs or a private school over their local public school.
At a town hall meeting today on school safety at the Classical Magnet School in Hartford, I got to hear firsthand how Connecticut is leading the nation in adopting common-sense solutions to reduce gun violence and improve school safety.
Even toddlers are beginning to feel the heat: last year, a federal judge in Arlington, Virginia decided that 11 minority pre-schoolers admitted to a local magnet school should be replaced by 11 children originally denied admission because they were white.
Perhaps the most remarkable detail about the March 3 conclave was the leading role taken in it by Debbie Almontaser, a New York resident who last attracted attention as the front-person for a middle-and-high magnet school to be established in New York, the Khalil Gibran International Academy (KGIA).
Hoverter is a student at Downtown Magnet High School in a low-income area of East Los Angeles.
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Now he and Hochberg, a former IBM computer scientist who teaches Spanish and French at a magnet high school in Yonkers, find their collection has reached a point where it pays for its own expansion.
The latest idea, to be voted on in May, would create a student count, for the purpose of assigning classes, by taking the actual enrollment, and then adding the number of athletes who live outside their school district boundaries, or attend a public school outside their high school district boundary (for those students attending, say, a magnet or charter school outside their neighborhood).
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The league's promoters hope it will act as a magnet for high-school players, as well as introducing rugby to more students.
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The Obama administration says it fully supports school choice, but that is limited to charter and magnet schools.
As a public high school student at North Hollywood High, she attended a magnet program for highly gifted students.
Mr Frey found that many of the new magnet states attract immigrants unlikely to speak English or to have completed school.
All students are now assigned to the school closest to their homes unless they have chosen to attend a magnet programme.
Take your pick: public school, private school, home school, charter schools, technical schools, college preps, ROTC academies, magnet programs, all-male, all-female, even online-only schools.
Magnet schools are publicly funded and publicly run theme-based schools, complete with unions and subordinate to the local school board.
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