Alternative Models. The Board of Education and the Federation may enter into an alternative negotiation model by mutual agreement. Such an agreement must be in writing and establish the general rules for the alternative negotiation model.
Alternative Models. If a school needs to offer an alternative instructional model to best meet the needs of their students the site educators may initiate a collaboration with their site administrator to develop an alternative model. All models must minimally consist of three hundred-sixty (360) minutes of synchronous and asynchronous instruction adhering to all health and safety guidelines, and the following criteria:
Alternative Models. 11.01 Any Board or Ministry initiatives that grants credits outside the traditional school day such as, but not limited to APPLE, Dual Credits, High Skills Majors, E-Learning, At-Risk and/or Lighthouse programs, shall be under the following guidelines:
Alternative Models. Table 1.4 presents estimates from additional estimation models, as described in section 6. The first two columns present results obtained from a semiparametric DD model (Xxxxxx, 2005). The semiparametric findings provide further evidence for the fact that increases in income lead to significant health benefits. The results are larger in magnitude compared to the main findings and are statistically significant at the 1 percent level. The policy change is shown to increase the likelihood of reporting excellent or very good health by 11.54 percentage points for affected heads of household, suggesting that the result remains consistent when relaxing the assumption of a linear relationship between income and health. Columns (3) and (4) show estimates obtained by IV specifications, whereas the results represent the effects of an increase in family income by $1,000. It is noticeable that the observed treatment effects are consistent with the DD findings indicating significant health improvements after as a result of increases in family income. The baseline estimate in column (3) suggests that an additional $1,000 increases the probability of being in the top two health categories by 3.04 percentage points. Again, the results become larger once the policy change has an adjustment period. The IV findings provide additional robustness to the main results and further confirm the presence of a causal link from income to health. The first-stage result indicates the reform increased incomes of treated households by $1,277.29, whereas the F-Statistic of 24.9 suggests that the EITC expansion offers a suitable instrument for income. Finally, columns (5) and (6) provide additional DD results using the alternative specifications introduced by Xxxx and Reggio (2012), which allows testing for the validity of standard DD assumptions and thus provides a check for the robustness of the baseline estimates. The last two columns of Table 1.4 show that that the results obtained from applying this alternative DD strategy are consistent with those shown in Table 1.2. Overall, Table 1.4 provides further evidence that the findings of a causal link between income and health are robust to a number of different model specifications.
