Sentences with phrase «schools across the state saw»

Schools across the state saw similar test score drops.

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It's back - to - school time for kids across the United States, and while having time with my own children this summer was truly wonderful, I am happy to admit that I am eager to see them get back to their own work of being students.

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«It is good to see that voters across our state support healthy meals in schools as a means to help all kids excel in the classroom.»

CSH programs have helped to establish policies and practices in states, districts, and schools across the nation, and will see continued success within the expanded Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model.

He said the administration also made impacts through the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme, which feeds 3,065,000 pupils in 14 states and has employed 36,000 cooks across the country; the Conditional Cash Transfer that has seen about over 30,000 households benefit from the N5, 000 monthly stipend; the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme under which about 120,000 people have benefited from the cooperative loans; and the N - power that has employed 200,000 people.

«It is appalling to see the federal government refuse to investigate these important civil rights complaints from transgender youth, who are valued members of our schools and communities across New York State.

Governor of the state of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has inaugurated a community based management committee to see to the effective maintenance of public school facilities across the state.

Meanwhile, school board candidates who support opting out of standardized tests saw success across the state.

The voters could easily switch to the LibDems (Calamity Clegg he may be but he appeals to women whilst Vince Cable comes across as well informed and sensible), the Greens (the fruits of a quarter of a century of green propaganda in our state schools and the Greens are the only party not seen as sleazy), the BNP (as the depression bites and unemployment rises, immigration will become a huge issue) or UKIP (Nigel Farage, the ace communicator, dispenses common sense in a straightforward manner and UKIP will become prominent in the EU Parliament elections next spring).

Since the turmoil that saw public school advocates protest across the state — New York State United Teachers decried he tests as an «erosion of local control» — the state Department of Education has revised the controversial testing, reducing the number of questions on the exams, encouraging more teacher involvement in developing them, no longer timing the tests and reducing potential teacher penalstate — New York State United Teachers decried he tests as an «erosion of local control» — the state Department of Education has revised the controversial testing, reducing the number of questions on the exams, encouraging more teacher involvement in developing them, no longer timing the tests and reducing potential teacher penalState United Teachers decried he tests as an «erosion of local control» — the state Department of Education has revised the controversial testing, reducing the number of questions on the exams, encouraging more teacher involvement in developing them, no longer timing the tests and reducing potential teacher penalstate Department of Education has revised the controversial testing, reducing the number of questions on the exams, encouraging more teacher involvement in developing them, no longer timing the tests and reducing potential teacher penalties.

De Blasio said Wednesday that the city's test scores beat out increases seen in the state's other «Big 5» urban school districts and stressed that the city is closing its performance gap with schools across the state in general.

The team, which also included David A. Rotholz, Ph.D., of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Anne M. Kinsman, Ph.D., of the Greenville Health System, and Kathi K. Lacy of the South Carolina Department of Disabilities and Special Needs (SC DDSN), as well as other leaders from key public and private stakeholder organizations from across the state, saw a way to remove this barrier.

I go to school halfway across the country, but most of my friends here live in state, so I feel like I'm the only one who doesn't know the next time I'll see people again.

Looking across our analyses, we see that under IMPACT, DCPS has dramatically improved the quality of teaching in its schools — likely contributing to its status as the fastest - improving large urban school system in the United States as measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

«We are so lucky to have one of the world's best teachers right here in the NSW public schools system and now we would like to see Eddie's magic rubbing off on our educators across the State,» Ms Berejiklian said.

This phenomenon is common across the United States, with charters fighting for space in high - cost cities without the legislative and financial supports that district schools enjoy (see «Whose School Buildings Are They, Anyway?»

In light of the ongoing push to establish common academic standards across states, the authors examined data from the 2007 National Assessment of Educational Progress to see whether citizen ratings of school quality are responsive to the level of student performance relative to the nation as a whole or only relative to other schools within the same state.

Those giving local schools one of the two highest grades stands at 49 percent among the uninformed but just 41 percent among those told their own district's ranking relative to other districts across the state (see Figure 1).

The Jefferson - Houston School, which failed to meet state accreditation standards for three years running, saw double - digit gains across many grades and subjects.

The authors see progress in establishing more meaningful measures of school quality despite the difficulty of comparing school quality across states.

Under NCLB, for the first time, schools were required to measure improvement in student achievement across all groups of students, and each state, district, and school was required to lay the results out on the table for parents and the public to see.

By 1969, more than 200 private segregation academies were set up in states across the South.38 Seven of those states — Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana — maintained tuition grant programs that offered vouchers to students in an effort to incentivize white students to leave desegregated public school districts.39 Between the 1969 - 70 and the 1970 - 71 school years, Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi saw tens of thousands of students flee to newly opened segregation academies.40 In a single school year, Mississippi led the trio with almost 41,000 students having left the state's public schools.

School districts across Washington are now in the process of choosing a teacher evaluation model that aligns with state requirements (see the Marzano Teacher Evaluation Model alignment document here.

During the academic year, 1,500 Year 9 students from state and independent schools across United Learning competed for the chance to design an app addressing one of their learning needs, which would then be created and sold in the App Store.The first stage of this was a 21 - day roadshow, which saw 7billionideas staff visit 38 United Learning state and independent schools around the country to launch the competition and to teach students how best to generate ideas, refine a creative concept and build confidence in their own business skills.

As more charter schools open and as more Californians become aware of the great new options that charter schools are creating for communities across the state, we see a growing recognition that the charter school movement is becoming one of the most important reform efforts to have happened in many years,» said Jed Wallace, president and CEO, California Charter Schools Association schools open and as more Californians become aware of the great new options that charter schools are creating for communities across the state, we see a growing recognition that the charter school movement is becoming one of the most important reform efforts to have happened in many years,» said Jed Wallace, president and CEO, California Charter Schools Association schools are creating for communities across the state, we see a growing recognition that the charter school movement is becoming one of the most important reform efforts to have happened in many years,» said Jed Wallace, president and CEO, California Charter Schools Association Schools Association (CCSA).

As states across the country rethink school accountability under ESSA, most of the policy discussion revolves around how bureaucrats should calculate ratings that parents rarely see, based on standardized test scores that parents barely credit.

TCSA is eager to see growth and renovations like EPLA's throughout public charter schools across the state.

As education policy devolves back to the states, as it's set to do through the Every Student Succeeds Act, which Congress passed in December, we're likely to see much more school variation across states and communities.

«In my view, what Steve Zimmer did [in Los Angeles] is what Gavin Newsom wants to see happen across the state — to inflict major harm on our schools and claim to be our friend,» Wallace said.

So isn't it time that parents across the state ask some pointed questions of their legislators, the ones whose votes are seen as a big step toward dismantling our public schools?

Across the country, we are seeing signals from Washington D.C. of less involvement from the U.S. Department of Education in state level policy and a very hands - off approach to school matters.

She hopes district officials change their minds, but, in the meantime, she's decided to call school districts across the state to see if any of them will allow her daughter into a regular first - grade classroom this fall.

«We want to see College Decision Day grow across our state where every high school hosts a celebration to recognize their graduating seniors,» said Johnson.

Across the United States, I see schools that are succeeding at making adequate yearly progress but failing our students.

These efforts across the country can be seen on a local level at nearly 300 high schools and career technical centers across the state.

We encourage Ms. DeVos to go out and visit our public schools and see the incredible things that educators are doing every day across our state and nation.

«I love being able to see HOT Schools in action across the state.

«While we obviously would have preferred a different decision from the National Board of the NAACP today, we are greatly encouraged to see how thousands of voices across this country representing the interests of historically underserved students have registered their clear support for charter schools continuing to grow and expand their positive impact on public education in communities across the United States.

Through Project ACHIEVE, Howie has been working (and writing — see his best - selling Corwin Press book) in the area of school discipline since 1990, and Project ACHIEVE's Positive Behavioral Support System (PBSS) model is used by thousands of schools — in every state across the country — as their PBIS, SEL, or school - wide discipline approach.

Indeed, in this study, which also focuses on North Carolina, the authors note, «We see that in every [school district] across the state, Whites are more heavily concentrated in the teaching workforce than in the student body.

That is why it is gratifying to see the state Department of Education has contracted with Rutgers University to review the new teacher evaluation system being tried out in 10 school districts across the state.

This deferred shift in educational responsibility is one of the greatest reasons that we see a perceived decline in public schools across the United States.

He was the district's nominee for 2005 Administrator of the Year, and Sanger schools continue to receive visitors from across the state to see firsthand its collaborative culture and implementation of PLCs.

You will also be able to see how your child did in comparison to peers across the grade, school, district, and in some cases, state.

In contrast with the incoherent attempts at professional learning often seen in school districts across the United States, many other countries prioritize professional learning for their teachers.

Schools across the United States are seeing an increase in students with limited English proficiency.

To see how much teacher experience levels vary across states, I ran the table below from NCES» Schools and Staffing Survey.

To see a break down of each of the 43 states, click here to read Charter School Laws Across the States 2015: Rankings and Scorstates, click here to read Charter School Laws Across the States 2015: Rankings and ScorStates 2015: Rankings and Scorecard.

The school is part of the Rhode Island Mayoral Academy, which began testing economic integration when they first opened in 2009, and has seen positive results — though half of all their students are low - income, currently 92 percent of the schools» seventh - graders are proficient in math and 86 percent are in reading, which is more than double the proficiency rate for eighth graders across the state in both.