Sentences with phrase «achieving schools»

Almost without comment Tuesday, the LA Unified school board voted unanimously to seek help from outside the district to replicate high - achieving schools.

In low - achieving schools, even students with teachers who had stayed at the school were harmed by turnover among other teachers.

Neither was set to receive federal money to improve low - achieving schools when the state Board of Education met Monday.

The board approved a $ 3 million expansion of magnets, delved into why charters were attracting more federal dollars than magnets and voted unanimously to seek help from outside the district to replicate high - achieving schools, including magnets.

School leaders with a history of successfully turning around low - achieving schools should be given extended contracts for new positions at currently low - achieving schools (e.g., five - year contracts).

Dr. Barbour discussed the Division's current approach to district and school transformation; the main actions the Division is taking and expects to take in the future to turn around the lowest - achieving schools; and the state's TALAS initiative under Race to the Top and how it has informed the Division's work moving forward.

More recently, under the state's Race to the Top grant, the state implemented an extensive effort, called Turning Around the Lowest - Achieving Schools (TALAS).

Title I provides formula grants to states and, in turn, to districts to help disadvantaged children achieve proficiency on challenging academic standards and to improve the performance of low - achieving schools.

The study found that these effects were «especially deleterious in lower - achieving schools.»

The program was modelled after Ontario's highly successful Turnaround Schools project, which provided targeted resources and support for some of the province's lowest achieving schools.

«Our team will continue to scrutinize these reports as we create strategies for a successful future and the growth of a variety of high - achieving schools.»

«The measures they use are the wrong measures for high - achieving schools.

The Every Student Succeeds Act gives states more latitude to spend federal dollars and fix low - achieving schools.

«Sir Michael Wilshaw has a remarkable track record of transforming low - achieving schools in England into outstanding ones through strong values and innovative methods within classrooms,» said Mr Varkey, the Indian - born founder of the GEMS education business.

On the heels of new information about how effective the U.S. Department of Education's controversial School Improvement Grant (SIG) program is, Secretary Duncan announced that nine states — Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Nebraska, North Dakota, and Pennsylvania — will receive additional SIG funding to turn around more of their persistently lowest - achieving schools.

The department will give competitive preference to those projects that propose evaluation plans to improve project design, implementation, and outcomes; are supported by strong evidence; focus on turning around the persistently lowest - achieving schools; or use technology to improve student achievement or teacher effectiveness.

For example, of the new teachers hired in New York City's lowest - achieving schools in 1996 - 1998, 28 percent scored in the lowest quartile on the general - knowledge certification exam.»

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today announced that New Jersey will receive more than $ 66 million to turn around its persistently lowest achieving schools through the School Improvement Grants (SIG) program.

In contrast, 22 percent of the new teachers in the higher - achieving schools were in the lowest quartile, which only increased to 24 percent for those remaining after five years.2 Second, the generally high teacher turnover in lower - performing schools disadvantage students in those schools since the effectiveness of teachers increases over the first few years of their careers.

«Effective Schools» are high achieving schools with a high percentage of their students from low - income families and a high percentage being children of a color other than white.

In 2015, he sponsored a bill that would have allowed high - achieving schools to hire teachers with no teaching certification.

New Jersey's application, which includes its list of persistently lowest - achieving schools, as defined by the state, can be found here: http://www2.ed.gov/programs/sif/summary2010/index.html.

Funding under the new law is a mixed bag for Connecticut, but one change will cost the state millions of dollars that currently help low - achieving schools hire highly qualified teachers and provide professional development.

In part, these funds have been available to stimulate and strengthen states» efforts to turn around their lowest achieving schools.

One way to appreciate this reality in stark relief is to just remember that, as Barkan shows, for all the claims that the traditional public school system is flawed, America's wealthiest traditional public schools happen to be among the world's highest - achieving schools.

Both schools were placed on the U.S. Department of Education's list of persistently low - achieving schools for not meeting Adequate Yearly Progress under No Child Left Behind (NCLB).

We want to cultivate a network of potential ISOs that help us eliminate the circumstances that perpetuate low achieving schools.

«We now need the same dedicated research on kids who grow up in pressure - cooker, high achieving schools,» Luthar said.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today announced that New Jersey will receive $ 11.06 million to turn around its persistently lowest achieving schools through the School Improvement Grants (SIG) program.

I watched their videos about high achieving schools and it's pretty clear that they have no clue what the secret sauce is.

This new fund supports Fund I portfolio schools in continuing to raise their performance and aims to create 12,000 to 15,000 more seats in high - achieving schools.

As part of its Race To The Top planning, the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) decided to launch an Academy for Transformative Leadership to strengthen leadership for low - achieving schools across the state.

The UF Lastinger Center for Learning has partnered with the company Promethean World Ltd. to improve how educators teach at under - achieving schools.

Instead, we are offered a «crop of financially mismanaged and low - achieving schools» in the Milwaukee, Wisc., voucher program and new research from Louisiana that found lower scores among voucher students.

Many of the high - poverty, high - achieving schools from which educators are currently taking their cues about what works when it comes to closing the achievement gap — fast — come from high - profile alternate prep programs like Teach for America or the New Teacher Project.

New Jersey's application, which includes its list of persistently lowest achieving schools, as defined by the state, can be found here: http://www2.ed.gov/programs/sif/summary/index.html.

If the students are in high achieving schools or in low achieving schools with high levels of poverty, kids will learn and end up loving their learning.

Expecting pupils to go to their local school means poorer children are much less likely to attend high - achieving schools, says the study.

The Palm Lane parents used the state's Parent Empowerment Act, also known as the Parent Trigger Law, which lets parents of low - achieving schools collect signatures to petition school boards to reform schools, which can include turning a campus into a charter school.

One national initiative was Title I of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, enacted in 1965, which funnels money and resources to low - achieving schools in an effort to produce greater equality across districts and to supplement educational offerings for disadvantaged children.

We achieved this sign - on rate even though all participating LEAs will have to implement a bold set of policy and practice changes, including using student growth as one of multiple measures in evaluating and compensating teachers and leaders; denying tenure to teachers who are deemed ineffective as gauged partly by student growth; relinquishing control over their persistently lowest - achieving schools; increasing the number of students who are taught by effective teachers; and, in many cases, opening their doors to more charter schools.

In low achieving schools, this is a tough cycle to break and this is what I want to write about in this fifth school improvement blog.

But Obama, taking Duncan's lead, now supports some of the key NCLB concepts that doomed it to fail: high - stakes standardized testing, punishment for lowest - achieving schools, and arbitrary deadlines for success.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today announced that New Hampshire will receive $ 1.47 million to turn around its persistently lowest achieving schools through the School Improvement Grants (SIG) program.

Instead they found the substantial difference was that wealthier families were more likely to live in areas with more high - achieving schools.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today announced that nine states will receive more than $ 71 million to continue efforts to turn around their persistently lowest - achieving schools through awards from the Department's School Improvement Grants (SIG) program.

The charters would take the same state accountability tests, follow the same health, safety, financial and transparency laws, and give priority to low income students attending low achieving schools.

This firm facilitated a trip for Anderson teachers to Kennewick, Washington — home of several high - achieving schools with demographics mirroring those at Anderson.

The program rewards states that promise to raise achievement using the Obama administration's preferred methods: adopting common core standards, promoting charter schools, linking teacher pay to student performance and turning around low - achieving schools.

LA Unified originally had 31 persistently low - achieving schools on the list.