Clawson Education

 

The City of Clawson offers a diverse educational experience throughout pre-school, elementary, middle and high school. Visit the Clawson School District website for more information by clicking here.

Eleven Languages Spoken in Clawson are:

 

English, Albanian, Greek, Spanish, Bosnian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Chaldean, Romanian, and Polish. Do you know of others?
   Clawson Public Schools has about 64 English as a Second Language (ESL) students. They are tested yearly and their progress is given to each principal (High School, Middle School, Kenwood, and Schalm). Students witness and are usually pretty accepting of the diversity. It shows them that there are other people in the world besides themselves. The district also has an Albanian paraprofessional, Mrs. Shalari, who tutors Albanian speaking students in the content of the classes, and Darlene Raichle who is a Spanish and French instructor.

Fewer Low-Income Students Apply for Financial Aid

Justin Pope / Associated Press
Even as the price of college rises, more low-income students who would likely get federal financial aid aren’t even bothering to apply.
   A new report by the American Council on Education estimates 1.5 million students who would probably have been awarded Pell Grants in 2003-04 did not apply for them. That’s up from the council’s estimate in a previous survey of 850,000 who missed out on aid in 1999-2000.
A major reason is probably confusion over the Free Application for Federal Student Aid form. Today, at stations set up in high schools, libraries and other buildings across in 25 states, volunteers will help students and families with the FAFSA forms as part of a program called College Goal Sunday.
   Tally Hart, who co-founded the program and is director of student financial aid at Ohio State University, says too many students simply assume they will not be eligible because of their income level, when in fact other factors such as recently losing a job or having other children in college can extend a family's eligibility.
   The education council study, released February 8, 2006, finds the percentage of undergraduates completing FAFSA forms actually rose from 50 percent to 59 percent over the four-year period it studied, and the total number of applications increased by nearly 3 million, to 11.1 million.
   But the number of low-income students who did not file rose from 1.7 million to 1.8 million, or 28 percent of low-income students. And that was a time when the government expanded the Pell program, so the council estimates 1.5 million people who failed to apply would have received grants — a figure that represents only students who still managed to enroll somewhere.
   Among the study’s other findings:
Community college students showed the biggest improvement in aid application rates, with 55 percent failing to apply for aid, compared with 67 percent four years earlier.
   Half-time students, who are eligible for many aid programs including Pell Grants, significantly increased their aid application rates, with just 42 percent failing to apply, compared to 62 percent four years earlier.

 

Updated Monday, July 16, 2007