Sentences with phrase «local district schools often»

Local district schools often welcome the arrival of this type of charter school.

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Public school administrators are often required to create allergy and asthma policies for their local districts.

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The requirements and laws about starting kindergarten vary across the country, but local school districts often post their own kindergarten readiness requirements on their websites.

Some state education departments maintain useful Web sites (again, see the Resources page), but the best information sources are local: Open teaching positions are often advertised only in local newspapers and — increasingly — on the Web sites of local school districts.

Another ways to find coupons is to look through tourist guidebooks for your area that are often supplied by the local school district.

States can also distribute pre-K funds directly to local school districts, which establish their own decisionmaking processes and standards, often with little oversight.

With the tremendous pressure — and guidelines from the federal government, state governments, and local school districts — principals are often not sure what matters most and what will improve academic achievement at their schools, Hood said.

Lots of educators who decide to create small schools, often by negotiating special arrangements with the local school district, do so because they don't have any confidence that the system can be changed in any real way.

Districts could address within - district inequities in lots of ways — they could offer higher salaries to teachers in poorer schools, they could have lower class sizes in poorer schools, or they could expand other services within poorer schools — but local teachers» union contracts often prohibit all of these policy options.

It has, as you know, historically been very much left to not only the local districts, but often the local school and I think while we have standards of course, those standards have translated uncomfortably into what we would call a curriculum.

Further complicating the politics of reform, charter - receptive local civic and business groups often also support efforts to improve district - run schools — particularly neighborhood schools.

These «thought partners» — as school leaders often refer to them — may be district leaders, consultants with long - standing relationships with a school, or external regional partners supporting PL in local schools.

The chief complaint Duvall said he hears from school public relations directors is dealing with television reporters, who often have no background about the district and incomplete information, because most local stations don't have education reporters.

Charter schools often have an awkward, if not contentious, relationship with their local districts.

Official Ohio Department of Education policy bans districts» use of flagging to harass the charter schools, but some charter operators complain that the state often looks the other way and insists that charter schools resolve the problem with the local districts.

Many such schools can be — and have been — however, and we believe that school districts often dismiss renovation options too quickly,» said Constance Beaumont, NHTP director of state and local policy and one of the authors of the report.

As often the case in urban districts, the strength of New Bedford Public Schools has seemed inexorably linked to the ebbs and flows of the local economy.

Charter and magnet schools are often a coveted choice for parents in urban public school districts like New Haven, Bridgeport and Hartford as parents search for alternatives to their local schools.

States and local school districts violated Brown, lawsuits or non-violent protests (which often provoked violent reprisals) eventually led to desegregation orders, and then great vigilance was required to ensure those orders were enforced.

Sponsored by a variety of entities, including state school boards and local school districts, they are oftened governed day - to - day by autonomous boards.

The proposal redirects hundreds of millions of dollars from public schools — often, school districts that rely most heavily on federal aid, forcing them to cut vital services or raise local property taxes.»

In Washington, each charter school would be managed by a private nonprofit organization and overseen by a public sponsor, often the local school district.

Not having gifted education in a school district also often results in parents of gifted children removing them from those schools for other options: local public schools of choice, charter schools, magnet schools, private schools, parochial schools, and home schooling.

While student safety should always be of top priority, school districts should ensure that their decisions on weather - related closings and delays are aligned with major employers in the area and local government offices, which often is not the case.

Even still, school districts within an individual state often offer key differences from their neighboring counterparts as local control also plays a critical role in shaping school policy and implementing educational programs.

While districts under control of mayors such as New York City and Chicago can count on the considerable political heft of municipal chief executives (and in the case of the Big Apple, the wallet of Mayor Michael Bloomberg) to beat back traditionalists in Albany and Springfield, districts with traditional school board governance structures often have few tools at their disposal against NEA and AFT locals with waning - but - still - more considerable political influence in statehouse corridors.

Regardless, LaMotte often complained in board meetings that schools in her district were hemorrhaging students and resources to local charter schools popping up by the dozens every year.

Local school districts often stagger daily start times for their schools in order to reduce busing costs.

Workshop funding is often a combination of monies from local Lions, LCIF Lions Quest Gran funds and / or school, district, or regional education center funding.

Eight in ten schools (82 %) rely on district technicians for issues related to devices — this may not be surprising, given that districts often provide devices and connectivity; only one in three schools has onsite staff to support local network configuration, which is especially problematic given that 27 percent of schools will need significant high - density wireless network upgrades in the next three years (Figure 2).

For the first time, public attention was drawn to the fact that some local schools were more effective and more productive than others — a fact often downplayed by school district leaders.

Sometimes, courses are designed and taught by experienced teachers in the district.9 Often, the university faculty members who teach courses are involved in local schools and are themselves former teachers.

They hide behind school district boundaries that they often draw themselves, and when they do so, they proudly use a phrase we all applaud, «Local Control!»

There is a weighty and still growing body of evidence that Charter Schools do no better — and often worse — than local education districts in improving student achievement at «low performing schools.Schools do no better — and often worse — than local education districts in improving student achievement at «low performing schools.schools.»

In my report with Kenny Feder, «Choice Watch,» over at CT Voices for Children, we reported that charter schools in CT tend to have smaller proportions of emerging bilingual children and children with disabilities when compared to local school districts, and are often more racially segregated than local school districts.

And, these schools are often free to most of the students because the local school district pays for the services as part of their IEP.

Since school districts are dependent primarily on local property taxes and often have a depressed economic base, this investment helped the Institute demonstrate how important it is for the legislature to increase funding to poor, rural schools in the state.

Each charter school is governed by its own local school community, which often includes parents and teachers — rather than a district.

And while conflict is in many ways inevitable — because school districts often oversee the biggest local public budget, are significant purchasers of goods and services, and can set property (or parcel) taxes — it can be paralyzing nonetheless.

The traditional district bureaucracies, often influenced by NEA and AFT locals through campaign donations, that do everything possible to oppose Parent Trigger measures and other tools that give black families lead decisionmaking roles in the schools that serve their children.

Expelled by their local school districts, these at - risk students are often on probation or suffer from substance abuse and mental health issues.

Because the vast majority of local resources for education are raised through property taxes, though, equal opportunity often focuses on whether spending is primarily a function of a school district's wealth, thereby violating the principle of equal opportunity.

An obscure and often misunderstood corner of state government, the local mandate program derives from a Constitutional provision that prevents the Legislature from imposing requirements on cities, counties, school districts and other local jurisdictions without also providing the funds needed to cover the costs.

Lastly, better local school districts generally means having high test - scores and high school ratings according to pro-suburban standards often set by outsider consultants (Erickson, 2012, p. 259).

Often reacting to mandates from courts that found local finance systems unconstitutional, states have moved away from funding based primarily on property taxes and have implemented state aid formulas that direct more money to low - income and low - tax - base school districts.

School districts often secure the approval of local voters for school bond meaSchool districts often secure the approval of local voters for school bond measchool bond measures.

Both Mendoza and the California Teachers Association, which backs SB 808, argue that too often local school districts» rulings are overturned by the State Board of Education.

Once a school has full enrollment, they will often look for longer term solutions, such as long - term leases or multi-year agreements with their local school district.

(Erickson, 2012, p. 261) Parents of students who were bussed out of the local district often had difficulties «communicating with and traveling to school, especially if they did not own a car.»