Sentences with phrase «small school districts across»

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She has served on many executive committees including the American Association of School Administrators, the New York State Council for School Superintendents, the Association of Small City School Districts, and the New Standards Project, a national initiative that launched the transformation to standards - based instruction, a concept that remains the framework for teaching and learning across the nation.

Since I was sworn in, I've made over 660 stops across the district at small businesses, farms, schools and more speaking with the hardworking families I'm proud to represent.

While discipline policies vary across schools, districts, and states — and as the nation's largest school district the New York City public schools are likely more bureaucratized and formalized in matters of school discipline than smaller districts — the scale, scope, and level of complexity of the legal regulations affecting day - to - day school practices appear quite formidable.

Across the country, a small number of schools and districts are modifying or extending the academic year.

These districts — ABC Unified School District, Cerritos, California; Hillsborough, Florida; Norfolk, Virginia; Plattsburgh, New York; St. Francis, Minnesota; and Toledo, Ohio — come from across the country, are both urban and rural, large and small.

Since 2006, our grantees and partners have expanded Linked Learning from a small demonstration in a few high schools to pilot Linked Learning in nine districts across the state, and then to a rapidly growing movement to fundamentally transform high school in scores of districts serving hundreds of thousands of California youth.

To infuse research - based practices into more classrooms, 150 teachers and leaders in Small Learning Community schools in the district began taking courses this fall through WIDE World, capitalizing on the advantages of networked technologies to access HGSE research across distance.

There is growing policy; fiscal and practical support for prosocial educational and school climate improvement efforts from federal agencies, state departments of education and large and small districts across America.

Inattention to small, rural districts no doubt reflects the fact that most students in the United States attend schools in larger districts, although smaller districts the vast majority of districts across the country..

In contrast, a middle school in a small, high - poverty district in one of our southern states also failed to meet AYP targets (the district had a history of adequate, albeit not high performance, across its schools on state proficiency tests).

We'd be remiss if we didn't mention that WNYC recently did its own dive into the data to find out if charters or districts are better at retaining their students — and they found that in NYC, across all grades, a smaller percentage of charter students transferred out of their schools than did students at district schools.

Since 2000, the Gates Foundation has spent roughly $ 2 billion dollars in the creation of small schools in public school districts across the United States.

Charter schools have created high - performing options for millions of families across the country, and initiatives such as New York City's small high schools of choice have shown that public - school choice in large districts can significantly improve graduation rates.

Network Eight: Students in Small and Rural School Districts, which provides that activities that may support learning opportunities and improvements across the state may include projects such as professional community to mentor and support teachers and mitigate professional isolation

Before coming to New Visions, she worked as the managing director for school support at the Urban Assembly where she was responsible for all aspects of support services for the UA's 21 small, themed, district secondary schools across NYC.

Specifically, a majority of schools across all districts received positive value - added scores at each grade level for mathematics, with the small exception of 5th grade in one school district.

Located on the edge of the theater district, Midtown West is a small and welcoming school that attracts students from across Disdistrict, Midtown West is a small and welcoming school that attracts students from across DistrictDistrict 2.

Large and small districts across the country have worked to improve infrastructure and connectivity in schools as curriculum and statewide testing continue to migrate to web - based platforms.

A relatively small slice of overall financing for K - 12 schools — just about 10 percent — comes from Washington, D.C. Schools across the country depend much more on state and district dschools — just about 10 percent — comes from Washington, D.C. Schools across the country depend much more on state and district dSchools across the country depend much more on state and district dollars.

Further, why is it that over 75 % of those employed by schools across the country are female, yet only 18 % of superintenents across the country are female; and in most cases, those women superintendents are in charge of small rural K - 8 districts.

The 11 project schools were from eight different school districts spread across a rural area in the southeastern U.S.; an eastern city; two small towns in the Midwest; a large city in the Midwest; and a large city in the southwestern U.S..

The superintendent continues to maximize class size numbers all across the district and then discusses this shift for a small class size charter school?

Christy Cate, Digital Innovation Consultant, Region 14 Education Service Center, Abilene: To support learning across 12,000 square miles, Christy Cate created COMPILE (Collaborative On Mentoring & Planning Innovative Learning Environments) to bring together the resourcefulness of exceptional teachers in 42 small, rural school districts and support a culture shift to 21st century learning.

And although there are a handful of parent - led groups working hard in the state, what strikes us about the «movement» is that it has taken hold everywhere, in bigger, county and district - wide groups, but also in small, school - centered groups like ours, and among individual parents across the city and state.

The Mayor «s remarks reflect this exceptional moment: As other superintendents across the state battle the charter schools in their district (see, for example, Princeton Regional Public Schools» unending crusade against a small expansion of Princeton Charter School), here we have a case of the district's educational leader embracing a public charter's honor and, by extension, its students and eduschools in their district (see, for example, Princeton Regional Public Schools» unending crusade against a small expansion of Princeton Charter School), here we have a case of the district's educational leader embracing a public charter's honor and, by extension, its students and eduSchools» unending crusade against a small expansion of Princeton Charter School), here we have a case of the district's educational leader embracing a public charter's honor and, by extension, its students and educators.