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magnet school

n.
A public school offering a specialized curriculum, often with high academic standards, to a student body representing a cross section of the community.
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magnet school

n
(Education) a school that provides a focus on one subject area throughout its curriculum in order to attract, often from an early age, pupils who wish to specialize in this subject
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mag′net school`


n.
a public school with a specialized program designed to draw students from throughout a community.
[1965–70]
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"Our magnet school courses will be moving to semesterlong courses in the 2021 school year," said Kinasha Brown, director of career pathways.
Among other observations, February is African-American History Month (https://africanamericanhistorymonth.gov/), Career and Technical Education (CTE) Month (https://www.acteonline.org/why-cte/cte-awareness/cte-month/), and National Magnet School Month (https://magnet.edu/events/national-magnet-schools-month).
Valued at $48.1 million, planned improvements at the high school include construction of a multipurpose athletic facility and new performing arts space.<br />Other district schools up for improvements include Friendly Hills Middle School ($17.55 million), Heritage E-STEM Magnet School ($16.8 million), Garlough Environmental Magnet School ($7.2 million), Moreland Arts & Health Sciences Magnet School ($6.9 million), and Somerset Elementary ($6.8 million).<br />Four more bond referendums are coming up in August and all are in outstate Minnesota, Abbott said.
Real-world passion projects inspired magnet school students in Bridgeport, Connecticut, to design sturdier bulletproof vests and faster sails, among other innovations.
Arabic Yoga began as a class that utilises yoga poses to teach Arabic vocabulary in the first Arabic dual-immersion programme in Texas, Arabic Immersion Magnet School (AIMS) - a QFI sponsored programme.
The ill-fated plan to create an 800-space parking lot for Worcester State University in a 15-acre ballfield/open space area behind Chandler Magnet School may be a thing of the past, but it is not being forgotten by neighbors in that area.
A 1985 study of forty-one of the one hundred magnet schools across eight New York districts provided extensive evidence of magnet school accomplishment in improving educational quality, suggesting that choice was a powerful incentive in the improvement of the New York schools (Musumeci and Szczypkowski 1991).
Annie Fisher STEM Elementary Magnet School, Hartford
Great Path Academy is an inter-district magnet school managed by Hartford Public Schools.
One in four white elementary school students attends a selective enrollment or magnet school this year, the Reporter found, while only 14 percent of African-American and 10 percent of Latino students go to top schools.