"Urban districts" refer to specific areas within a city or town that are characterized by having a high population density, developed infrastructure, and various amenities such as businesses, schools, and recreational areas.
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A similar pattern was seen among Latino and white students, particularly
in urban districts with charter schools.
Particularly in
large urban districts, funding levels for disadvantaged or struggling students are often more than equal.
20 % decreases in state's topping off of the revenue limit bucket left many large
urban districts with two choices during the Great Recession - 1.
And wouldn't the combined efforts of a consortium of huge
urban districts like my own command the market power to make such changes worthwhile?
We did a study on this last year and found that, in
many urban districts at least, there basically was no process.
While relatively few districts saw significant gains over 2015,
urban districts as a whole seem to be gaining faster than the national average.
Now we're on par with other
urban districts across the country — in many cases, we are beginning to surpass those districts.
That means
poorer urban districts often don't have nearly the same resources as their affluent suburban counterparts.
State accountability testing shows suburban districts doing better than the rest of the state, which consists largely of
big urban districts.
How, if at all, do states work differently with rural versus
urban districts on school turnaround, and is this differentiation important?
It's also seen evolving attitudes toward discipline, with tactics such as restorative justice starting to replace zero - tolerance approaches, including in high -
poverty urban districts.
It is estimated that
urban districts need about $ 50 billion just to repair their crumbling school facilities.
This article details an experiment in which a broad and diverse range of information about schools was assembled and presented to stakeholders in a
small urban district.
The assessments, which are also known as «the nation's report card,» provide a common measurement of student progress across states and
selected urban districts throughout the country.
Not everyone considers school boards bad, and those who say they are bad for running large
urban districts do not necessarily extend that view to suburban or rural districts.
They show
how urban district averages are getting closer to those of the nation as a whole.
And it serves as a model for other
urban districts who recognize the drop - out crisis is a major education and economic issue.
It should come as no surprise that
urban districts tend to have lower graduation rates than suburban ones.
However, even
when urban districts do get the money to build and repair schools, it does not mean improvements will be implemented and made - at least not in a timely fashion.
One
urban district gave principals value - added information on novice teachers, but continued to let principals use their own judgment on teacher renewal.
More than half of participating large
urban districts said they didn't have enough time to hire qualified staff, according to the urban schools group survey.
Thus it might not matter how much
urban districts spend, because as long as they spend less than other districts they will get the same poor - quality teachers.
The bad news is that from 2016 to 2017, schools statewide saw a 2 percent dip in student participation, with many large
urban districts showing disappointing double - digit decreases.
The study's sample was a
mid-sized urban district that, faced with declining enrollment, chose to make student achievement a major criterion in determining which schools would be closed.
Within five years, the district intends to be the
first urban district to offer K - 8 computer courses.
Could it be that the test results for
urban districts announced a few weeks ago are the first sign that student achievement is being held back by these cuts?
But real, meaningful change at a district level — at least in an huge,
urban district like mine — often feels out of reach.
A decade and a half of top - down reform of the district has left a system that ranks near the bottom
of urban districts.
In one of the large, low -
performing urban districts in our sample, district administrators expressed the belief that principals were essentially born, not made.
Many of the nation's teachers, especially in the
poorest urban districts and in the 5,000 school districts classified as rural, had fallen short of that standard.
If breaking up
large urban districts into smaller ones was an integral part of the solution, he certainly never mentioned it.
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