Sentences with phrase «achieving schools across the state»

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 TTIPS grant was established to assist the lowest - achieving schools across the state of Texas.

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Historically, states have focused on how to allocate aid across school districts that have widely different tax bases to achieve some level of fiscal parity.

We work every day to achieve this vision and have so far helped more than a thousand state secondary schools and colleges across the country to engage their community of former students to improve the motivation, confidence and life chances of the current generation.

High - achieving recent college graduates make a two - year service commitment to teach in struggling Catholic schools across the southern states.

This paper, written for the Rural Opportunities Consortium of Idaho, offers policymakers and philanthropic leaders a set of recommendations to capitalize on the potential of technology to serve students: expand broadband access to schools lacking it, create an elite corps of proven teachers who would be made available to students across the state, and provide districts and schools with the flexibility to develop new models of staffing and technology and to achieve the most strategic combination of personnel, facilities, and technology.

We measured actual school quality as the percentage of students in a school who achieved «proficiency» in math and reading on the state's accountability exams (taking the average proficiency rate across the two subjects).

How One Elementary Achieved a 10 - Point Gain on Scores.Like many elementary schools across the United States, Ballantyne Elementary in Charlotte, North Carolina, sought innovative ways to help its students master science concepts, and perform better onstandardized tests.

While many charter schools across the state achieved impressive gains, charter schools in San Diego County and in Oakland Unified School District experienced the most dramatic student achievement gains relative to their neighboring public schools.

This complex statistical methodology identifies academic peer groups of students from across the state who performed the same way in the past, then determines their relative growth this year in order to rate the overall growth for students achieved at a school.

Island Childress's appointment is part of UEI's ambitious plan to improve schooling nationwide by conducting rigorous applied research, training exemplary teachers, operating a high - achieving public school, and designing school improvement tools and training for thousands of schools and classrooms across the United States.

While the CCSS were intended to bring coherence and consistency across states with regard to expected educational outcomes to be achieved by grade for students in U.S. public schools, the expected adoption of a common set of state standards by all states ultimately was not realized.

In every high school across the state, professionals support this belief and help all students define and achieve their postsecondary goals.

Most students enter TEAM Schools one - or - more years below grade level in reading and math, but in a few short years, they achieve at academic levels that outpace their peers across the state.

Five hundred eighty - eight students across the United States achieved a perfect score of 36 on the ACT test last school year.

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.

At a time when states across the U.S. are approving legislation to promote charter school growth, this bill was out of touch with the community, and it would have taken California backwards in achieving true education reform.»

Nearly 25,000 graduating high school students across California this summer have earned state recognition for achieving proficiency in multiple languages, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson announced tstate recognition for achieving proficiency in multiple languages, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson announced tState Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson announced today.

Moreover, studies of the National Institute for School Leadership (NISL), an SLP partner that supports states and districts in providing executive development to strengthen school leadership, have found that students in schools led by NISL graduates achieve statistically significant gains across multiple subjects and all school lSchool Leadership (NISL), an SLP partner that supports states and districts in providing executive development to strengthen school leadership, have found that students in schools led by NISL graduates achieve statistically significant gains across multiple subjects and all school lschool leadership, have found that students in schools led by NISL graduates achieve statistically significant gains across multiple subjects and all school lschool levels.

The bill, AB 401 by Assemblymember Tom Ammiano, would impose an automatic cap of charter schools in districts across the state, hindering the tremendous growth charter schools have achieved in California over the past decade.

After surveying 2,000 students and interviewing 65 school leaders across the state, students know that the key to achieving equity in California's public schools are the relationships between school staff and students.

As the oldest teacher recruitment program in the country, South Carolina's Center for Educator Recruitment, Retention, and Advancement, or CERRA, facilitates a variety of programs that aim to recruit, retain, and support highly qualified teacher candidates.64 CERRA recruits middle and high school students, college students, and career - changers by offering an array of programs across the state.65 For example, the Teacher Cadets Program is a high school recruitment program offered at nearly 160 schools in South Carolina.66 As Teacher Cadets, high - achieving juniors and seniors who express an interest in teaching complete field placements in classrooms and learn about curriculum development.67 The South Carolina Teaching Fellows Program, another one of CERRA's recruitment programs, is one of the most competitive scholarship and loan programs in the state: Through the program, select high school seniors who display a strong desire to pursue teaching receive a forgivable loan to attend college.68

This report uses data from roundtable participants to highlight the outcomes community school partnerships achieve in order to demonstrate the impact that full - service community schools are having on students and families across the state.

Despite challenges on the delivery of services, CCSA has achieved significant reforms so that charter schools can eliminate obstacles and concerns, and increase the number of special education services regionally and across the state.

Greater consistency and quality across schools and districts in the United States can be achieved through a common, coherent curriculum.

Learn about Funding IL's Future and efforts to achieve equitable school funding across our state.

It's one of two schools in North Jersey, and 19 across the state, in the Obama administration's $ 4.6 billion attempt to fix the country's lowest - achieving schools.

While these types of formula structures can create a more uniform level of funding among school districts across a state, they do not explicitly address the question of whether the overall funding level is adequate to achieve desired educational outcomes.

More than 50,000 public schools across the country use Title I funds to provide additional academic support and learning opportunities to help low - achieving children master challenging curricula and meet state standards in core academic subjects.

In all eight of these districts across NYC, not a single traditional middle school achieved the citywide middle school average proficiency in reading (37 %) or math (32 %) on the state tests.