Sentences with phrase «american students in every school district»

On the surface, Common Core sounds reasonable: apply a rigorous standard of education across the board to ensure that American students in every school district are exposed to a common core of subject matter.

Not exact matches

My sister and I were the first Asian American students in our suburban elementary school district.

More than half the student population in Joliet School District 86 is at the poverty level and the majority are either Hispanic (47 percent) or African - American (31 percent).

The report also shows that American Indian students, who account for less than 2 percent of the student population statewide, received more than one - third of all corporal punishment in North Carolina public schools, although most of that disparity was driven by one school district, Robeson County.

Since we generally accept that African Americans are not intellectually inferior to whites, then we are led to conclude that black students do better in integrated school settings because the school district and faculty are better invested because of the presence of the white students.

Last year, students suspended from the Syracuse City School District lost 23,555 days of instruction, and 55 percent of African - American students in the district have been suspended at leaDistrict lost 23,555 days of instruction, and 55 percent of African - American students in the district have been suspended at leadistrict have been suspended at least once.

Warrensburg Central School District fifth and sixth grade chorus students will perform as part of American Young Voices at the Times Union Center in Albany on Tuesday, May 30 at 7 p.m. more

Warrensburg Central School District fifth and sixth grade chorus students will perform as part of American Young Voices at the Times Union Center in Albany on Tuesday, May 30 at 7 p.m.

And during his eight years as deputy superintendent and then superintendent for the San Francisco Unified School District, Carranza raised graduation rates for African - American students by 13.9 percentage points and for Hispanic students by 15.4 percentage points — faster than the overall growth rates in California as a whole.

WBFO's Focus on Education reporter Eileen Buckley says the Akron Central School District wants to teach students about the important historic role played by Native Americans in the community.

Access to state - supported early childhood programs significantly reduces the likelihood that children will be placed in special education in the third grade, academically benefiting students and resulting in considerable cost savings to school districts, according to new research published today in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, a peer - reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association.

Since 2007, the proportion of D.C. students scoring proficient or above on the rigorous and independent National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) more than doubled in fourth grade reading and more than tripled in fourth grade math, bringing Washington up to the middle of the pack of urban school districts at that grade level, while the city's black students largely closed gaps with African American students nationwide.

I uncover no support for the hypothesis that school districts failing to supplement the state grants placed African American students in lower - quality programs, either in kindergarten or in later grades.

In an effort to lower chronic absenteeism among its Native American elementary school students, the district worked with the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde to hire a coordinator who worked with families to address transportation, bullying, and other issues that were keeping kids out of school.

The elementary school in Oregon's Willamina district set out last year to pick apart a complicated problem that would ultimately require an equally complicated solution: Many of its Native American students failed to show up on a regular basis.

Jim and Dawn sent fifty film crews, both pro and student, into the twenty - eight schools in Pasadena, California to paint an intimate, and very human, portrait of a day in the life of an American public school district.

Mr. Arndt, 46, whose administration was marked by protests in 1999 over the expulsions of several African - American students, has accepted a job as the superintendent of the 17,200 - student Carpentersville school district near Chicago.

To our surprise, we found that Americans» views of the level of student achievement in their local school district were quite accurate overall.

In some prominent school districts such as San Francisco, APIs are the «majority» minority with 40 % of the student population, larger than the Latinos (30 %), Whites (14 %) and African - Americans (9 %).

Three days after the deadliest K - 12 school shooting in American history, state and district education leaders across the country are reviewing security measures, increasing police presence, and grappling with how to answer students» questions about the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in the Newtown, Conn., disschool shooting in American history, state and district education leaders across the country are reviewing security measures, increasing police presence, and grappling with how to answer students» questions about the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in the Newtown, Conn., disSchool in the Newtown, Conn., district.

Thus, high - performing district or charter schools use chants, ceremonies, signs, and strong discipline to forge a culture defined by college - going and career success; at the same time, unlike schools of a half - century ago, they rarely seek to use those same exercises to help invest students in the American nation as a civic enterprise.

As part of the 2014 EdNext survey, my colleagues Michael Henderson, Paul E. Peterson, and I therefore asked a representative sample of 5,266 Americans to estimate how the math achievement of students in their local school district compares to that of students nationwide.

Sarah D. Jerome, the superintendent of the 4,400 - student Kettle Moraine school district in Wales, Wis., has been elected the president - elect of the American Association of School Administrschool district in Wales, Wis., has been elected the president - elect of the American Association of School AdministrSchool Administrators.

Three - quarters of the choice students were African - American, compared with a little more than a third of all students in the Charlotte - Mecklenburg school district.

In your district, African American students are three times more likely to live in poverty than white students and more than twice as likely to get into fights at schooIn your district, African American students are three times more likely to live in poverty than white students and more than twice as likely to get into fights at schooin poverty than white students and more than twice as likely to get into fights at school.

Even before this letter was mailed, the school district in Oakland, California, had settled charges of bias brought by the federal department of education by agreeing to «targeted reductions in the overall use of... suspensions for African American students, Latino students, and students receiving special education services.»

When focused on cities with large numbers of charter schools, these comparisons reliably show that African American students are more racially isolated in charter schools than in the districts as a whole — as are African American students in traditional public schools in the same neighborhoods.

On July 1, he became the superintendent of the 11,200 - student Ferguson - Florissant school district, the second African - American in the district's history to hold that position.

In this Education Week webinar, Raegan T. Miller of the Center for American Progress will discuss the implications of teacher absences, the role of the substitute teacher, and the innovative strategies some schools and districts are using to ensure that students keep learning when the teacher's absent.

The study found that African American students in poverty who attended charter schools achieved nearly two months of extra learning per year relative to their district school peers.

To investigate the public's views about race - and income - based enrollment programs, we asked Americans one of two variations of the following question: «In order to promote diversity, should public school districts be allowed to take the racial background [family income] of students into account when assigning students to schools?»

This method allows us to address two sources of bias: (i) differences in the types of schools that Asian Americans and whites are likely to attend (e.g., school quality, course difficulty, socio - demographic composition of student body) and (ii) self - selection of Asian Americans into school districts.

School unions, for example, have been cautious in their support, often seeing charters as drawing funds away from resource - starved public school districts and diverting the discussion from how to fix public schools, which continue to serve the vast majority of American stuSchool unions, for example, have been cautious in their support, often seeing charters as drawing funds away from resource - starved public school districts and diverting the discussion from how to fix public schools, which continue to serve the vast majority of American stuschool districts and diverting the discussion from how to fix public schools, which continue to serve the vast majority of American students.

On recent New York State tests, students in city charter schools, serving a population of more than 90 percent African - American and Latino students, exceeded district - wide proficiency rates in math by 13 percentage points and by 5 percent in English.

Washington, D.C. — With the debate over standardized testing reaching a fever pitch, a new report from the Center for American Progress finds a culture of testing and test preparation across many schools and districts, with students in analyzed school districts assessed as many as 20 times per year in the classroom.

Public Advocates joined the American Civil Liberties Union in filing a complaint last year against the Los Angeles Unified School District, accusing the giant district of «undermining» the LCFF by diverting $ 450 million in money for disadvantaged students in 2014 to cover special - education costs for students with disabDistrict, accusing the giant district of «undermining» the LCFF by diverting $ 450 million in money for disadvantaged students in 2014 to cover special - education costs for students with disabdistrict of «undermining» the LCFF by diverting $ 450 million in money for disadvantaged students in 2014 to cover special - education costs for students with disabilities.

Each dot in figure 1 represents one of the 120 largest school districts in the country, excluding those that have fewer than 1,000 white students or 1,000 African American students.

The largest unified districts in Southern California tend to achieve better outcomes in educating traditionally underserved student populations than their Northern California counterparts, based on newly - released assessments of how well schools are teaching Latino, African - American and low - income students.

Some 11 years after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Texas's system of financing public schools, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund has launched a new challenge in state court, charging that the finance system denies students in poor districts equal educational opportunity and should be declared unconstitutional.

Over 56 percent of their students are Hispanic and African American students, versus 39 percent in district schools.

Low - income, African - American, and Hispanic students in the 50 largest districts in Texas are less likely to attend schools with experienced teachers than high - income and white students in those same districts, concludes a report by the Education Trust, a Washington - based nonprofit research and advocacy organization.

Few of the nation's 15,000 public school districts systematically question students about their classroom experiences, in contrast to American colleges, many of which collect annual student evaluations to improve instruction, Dr. Ferguson said.

While they are considered «high - performing» charters, close inspection of Plato Academy student populations in Pinellas County reveal that their enrollment of African American, disabled and low socio - economic students is far below the Pinellas district average (According to the DOE School Public Accountability Reports, 2015 - 16.)

In the neighborhood where I live and work, which is almost entirely African - American, only 30 percent of the families send their students to the district - run neighborhood schools.

Last month, an opinion piece on Bloomberg.com encouraged the DoE to withdraw their guidance and let schools and districts manage their discipline policies without oversight — despite clear evidence that prior to the 2014 guidance, African American students and other groups were (and in many cases still are) more likely to receive heavier punishment for the same offenses than white students, and to be suspended at a higher rate.

In 2015 KIPP San Antonio struck a deal with the San Antonio Independent School District, where the student population is 91 % Hispanic and 6 % African - American.

In the Supreme Court brief, which addresses two consolidated cases, Tustin Unified School District v. K.M. and Poway Unified School District v. D.H., NSBA and the California School Boards Association encourage the U.S. Supreme Court to hear these cases, contending that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit misapplied the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), rather than correctly applying IDEA, to a case involving a California student with a hearing impairment.

To examine these questions, the Center for American Progress analyzed the calendars, schedules, and policies of the largest school districts in the country, which serve almost 6 million students.

In addition, white students are nine times more likely than African - American students and 18 times more likely than Latino students to attend a high - quality district school.

In 2015 - 16 in Oakland Unified, according to district data, 75 percent of white students graduated high school on time, yet only 59 percent of African - American students graduated high school on time, and 55 percent of Latino students graduated high school on timIn 2015 - 16 in Oakland Unified, according to district data, 75 percent of white students graduated high school on time, yet only 59 percent of African - American students graduated high school on time, and 55 percent of Latino students graduated high school on timin Oakland Unified, according to district data, 75 percent of white students graduated high school on time, yet only 59 percent of African - American students graduated high school on time, and 55 percent of Latino students graduated high school on time.