Sentences with phrase «as some school districts around»

Better at When Than How As school districts around the country grapple with turnaround strategies and fiscal realities, school closure (and consolidation) has become a popular option in districts from Baltimore to Detroit, from Boston to Denver, even in rural places like Maine and North Dakota.

As some school districts around the country weigh whether or not mandatory eLearning days will be right for them, others...

As some school districts around the country weigh whether or not mandatory eLearning days will be right for them, others are already enjoying the benefits brought on by this new learning initiative.

They watch with trepidation as school districts around the country adapt curricula to introduce letters and their sounds to children as early as possible.

Even as school districts around California and the nation come under pressure to sustain existing reforms and introduce new ones, budget cuts are threatening to slow or halt those reform efforts.

As school districts around the country consider investments in technology as a way to improve student outcomes, this report from the Alliance for Excellent Education and the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE) finds that technology — when implemented properly — can produce significant gains in student achievement and boost engagement, particularly among students most at risk.

As school districts around the country struggle to find enough qualified teachers to staff their classrooms, state policymakers are considering a range of budget and policy proposals to address immediate teacher shortages and build a sustainable, high - quality, and more diverse teacher workforce.

As school districts around the country face crippling budget shortfalls, Detroit's schools have been hit especially hard with staggering debt, pink - slipped teachers, school closures, high absenteeism, low college readiness and an uncertain future.

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We're not sure what's in the water in Pennsylvania, but after one school district in the Keystone State distributed buckets of rocks around school to pelt shooters as a last resort, and another handed out tiny baseball bats to thwart would - be attackers, we asked readers what you thought of these...

Many parents today also choose alternative options, such as academic redshirting, or the practice of postponing for a year school entry for kids whose birthdays are close to cut - off date (often in or around September for most districts).

Parents around the District, as well as national school food advocates and policymakers, celebrated these changes.

Somehow Los Angeles USD and other districts around the country are serving school meals on the same federal reimbursement as everyone else and not serving beef with pink slime.

Parents freaked out after reports surfaced last week that school districts around the country were serving kids hamburgers containing up to 15 percent of the processed product known in the meat industry as «Lean Finely Textured Beef» or «Lean Beef Trimmings,» produced by Beef Products Inc..

Around the same time, Chicago Public Schools students protested their school lunch menu, and district officials agreed to overhaul the menu for the next school year to reduce or eliminate things such as nachos, doughnuts and cookies.

«It could connect with the park district path around South Ridge Lake as well as parks and schools and shopping areas.

Foundation aid funding is typically seen as helping poorer school districts around the state that can not rely as heavily on revenue from property taxes.

Waronker, who took over as schools chief on June 2, contended in that letter that his attempts to turn around the struggling district have been undermined by the board's three - member majority.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia on Thursday appointed veteran administrator Jack Bierwirth as a «distinguished educator» for the Hempstead school district, a highly unusual move to bolster efforts to turn around the chronically troubled system.

As many school districts around the region struggling with the fight over high - stakes testing, Buffalo School Board members discussed the issue at Wednesday night's lengthy meschool districts around the region struggling with the fight over high - stakes testing, Buffalo School Board members discussed the issue at Wednesday night's lengthy meSchool Board members discussed the issue at Wednesday night's lengthy meeting.

She has centered her candidacy around education policy after working in school systems for 40 years, most recently as superintendent of the suburban LaFayette School Disschool systems for 40 years, most recently as superintendent of the suburban LaFayette School DisSchool District.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia, in a highly unusual move, appointed veteran educator Jack Bierwirth as a «distinguished educator» for the Hempstead school district to bolster efforts to turn around the chronically troubled system.

Educators and parent leaders from Brooklyn's PS / IS 180 and PS 231, the District 75 school with which it shares space, held an early - morning «Black Friday» protest against budget cuts and layoffs on June 17 as part of the ongoing series of «Fight Back Friday» demonstrations at schools around the city.

Speaking for myself as a voter, this election revolves around two issues for me; amnesty and the East Ramapo School District, one at the national level and one at the local level; neither one good, one worse than the other.

There are many other factors to consider, such as administrators making time to visit classrooms, capable instructional leadership, clear expectations and common language around school or district initiatives, creating a culture of risk taking, etc..

The total number of school districts in the U.S. dropped from more than 100,000 around the turn of the 20th century to less than 15,000 by the turn of the 21st century, even as the population of school - age children increased during that period.

As districts nationwide struggle to meet the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act, the U.S. Department of Education has shifted its focus to turning around the nation's lowest - performing schools.

Boston has made particularly effective use of Horace Mann charters, especially as a vehicle for turning around its lowest - performing district schools.

USP codirector Senior Lecturer Deborah Jewell - Sherman was pleased with the event as a celebration of the program and Peterkin, noting that it attracted not only alums from around the country, but also superintendents from large urban districts such as Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent Beverly Hall.

For youth in the high - risk group, the gain as measured by these quality indicators is roughly equivalent to moving from one of the lowest - ranked schools to one around the district average.

Schools and districts must have the freedom to, as Goldstein puts it, «build the school day around tutoring.»

In response, the Chinese Ministry ofEducation developed Chengo, a Web sitefor English - speaking secondary schoolstudents, and China's National Office forTeaching Chinese as a Foreign Language hasestablished Confucius Institutes to promoteChinese language and culture around theworld, in partnership primarily with localuniversities and public school districts.

Released today by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes, at Stanford University, the study comes as a growing number of school districts and charter schools around the country are experimenting with such reward programs in the hope of improving...

Formed in 2003, PELP continues its mission with the development of tools such as the PELP Coherence Framework and the book Achieving Coherence in District Improvement, and with the annual executive education summer institute which brings public school leaders from around the country to Harvard to focus...

A charter school operator may be around for three to five years, but these are buildings that must last for a century, notes Ramsey Green, who, as the Recovery School District's chief operating officer, is in charge of creating campuses for both RSD and OPSB schools, charters and direct - run school operator may be around for three to five years, but these are buildings that must last for a century, notes Ramsey Green, who, as the Recovery School District's chief operating officer, is in charge of creating campuses for both RSD and OPSB schools, charters and direct - run School District's chief operating officer, is in charge of creating campuses for both RSD and OPSB schools, charters and direct - run alike.

Formed in 2003, PELP continues its mission with the development of tools such as the PELP Coherence Framework and the book Achieving Coherence in District Improvement, and with the annual executive education summer institute which brings public school leaders from around the country to Harvard to focus on their districts challenges as well as possible solutions.

As districts like Philadelphia seek to «turn around» their public schools, let's not forget the lesson of the lost alternative schools.

The Edge of Curriculum All around the country, schools and districts, as well as afterschool programs, are redefining what is taught and how it's assessed.

The U.S. Department of Education's plan to grant states broad flexibility under the No Child Left Behind Act will free up as much as $ 800 million in money school districts now must set aside for tutoring students, but may mark a significant financial blow to an education industry that has grown up around serving low - performing schools.

Evaluating principals has become a hot topic as districts around the country have begun formally tying the evaluation of school leaders to their students» academic growth.

As an experienced teacher educator, Hobbs offers staff development programs for school districts and educators across the United States and around the world.

Silas Kulkarni is Executive Director of Teaching Lab, leading powerful professional learning experiences in school districts around the country by applying lessons learned as a record - busting middle school teacher in Washington, D.C., and New York City.

California school districts having trouble getting their arms around the elephant known as Common Core now have a 60 - page guide to help them focus.

That sort of deeper engagement will likely require Cleveland's charters to offer more as well, such as committing to share the responsibility of serving the city's special education students or working with the district to turn around its chronically low - performing schools.

The Hechinger Report is investigating how professional - development funds are spent in the country's largest school system — New York City — as well as in other districts around the nation to see what we can learn from schools, districts and countries that excel at ongoing teacher training.

This fall, as school districts scattered around the country are considering «no homework» policies, teacher educator Curtis Chandler looks at research on whether and how homework can support learning and suggests teaching apps to help make it short, meaningful, and accessible.

As Representative Tom Cole (R) of Oklahoma told Education Week, «Some of these basic programs like Title I and IDEA are important building blocks for a lot of school districts around the country.»

Rather, the American Federation of Teachers, or AFT, recognized these districts as having a lengthy track record of innovation, and because they appear to have institutionalized a long - term collaborative partner - ship between administration and the local teachers» union centered around school improvement, student achievement, and teacher quality.

Prior to this role, he served as the chief schools officer for the Education Achievement Authority of Michigan, a district charged with turning around some of Detroit's historically lowest performing schools.

While in New York he served as Deputy Chancellor, launching the Innovation Zone, a network of 100 21st Century schools that use technology to personalize student learning, and leading the city's efforts to turn around more than 100 failing schools and start 500 new charter and district schools.

The executive leadership training programs will provide an opportunity for participating state and district teams to work more collaboratively in such areas as leading change and team development, leadership for instructional improvement, methods to accelerate leader performance, addressing stakeholder engagement around critical state and local issues, and sustaining improvements in school and student achievement.