Sentences with phrase «across districts those efforts»

Evers» group hopes to narrow the racial achievement gap across Wisconsin by highlighting and sharing across districts those efforts that seem to be working.

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Due to her generous and heartfelt efforts across the district and in her community, the non-profit School Nutrition Foundation (SNF) has recognized April as one of five 2018 national School Nutrition Heroes.

The training began with a core group of 120 employees over the summer in an effort to ensure that 30 schools across the district started the school year with personnel who had participated in the training.

I had stumbled across a story about her on CNN which described her efforts to improve the meals in San Francisco USD, the district in which her three sons had gone to school.

The article profiles the efforts of Dick Armey's FreedomWorks to «turn local Tea Party groups into a standing get - out - the - vote operation in Congressional districts across the country,» in part through a series of trainings that would be right at home in the 2008 Obama grassroots operation.

States and districts across the country have set out to implement new teacher evaluation systems in an effort to improve teacher quality and raise student achievement.

COUNCIL MEMBER GIBSON ENCOURAGES DONATIONS FOR HURRICANE MARIA RELIEF EFFORT This week, Council Member Vanessa L. Gibson reminded Bronxites, the people of Council District 16 and across New York City to continue making donations of items that are critically needed -LSB-...]

The Department of Environment and Planning leads the County's economic development efforts, oversees environmental compliance, collaborates on local and regional planning, provides digital mapping services, and provides wastewaster treatment services in seven sewer districts across the county.

He also revealed that, the efforts made by Mr. Osei - Ameyaw, 100,000 jobs are going to be created through the recruitment of District Managers and Supporting Staff to manage the 216 NLA District Offices across the country.

«The Clinton campaign's new plans to invest millions more into this coordinated effort — with an eye towards key battleground House districts — will help us turn out a record number of voters across the country in the final weeks of this campaign,» DCCC Executive Director Kelly Ward said in statement Monday.

Erie County Legislator Joseph C. Lorigo recently met with business owners and employees across his district during his «25 Businesses in 25 Days» tour in an effort to learn about the commerce that is the foundation of the towns and villages he represents and promote these great local businesses.

CVH has served as lead community engagement partner across the city and has been leading the mobilization effort in Council District 8 alongside Council Member Mark - Viverito.

* Creation of over 100, 000 Jobs in the Lottery Business * As part of the NLA efforts of fulfilling the vision of President Akufo - Addo's Government, Kofi Osei - Ameyaw and the Board of NLA are going to create over 100, 000 jobs for Ghanaians through the following initiative: a) * Recruitment of District Managers and Supporting Staff * to manage the 216 NLA District Offices across the Country.

In Sacramento, administrator Lyn McCarty will be focusing her efforts on staff development and monitoring / coaching activities bent on the notion that more consistent literacy instruction can be achieved across classrooms and school sites within the district.

More than 20 public school districts across the country, including the large urban districts of Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia, have quietly entered into «compacts» with charters and thereby declared their intent to collaborate with their charter neighbors on such efforts as professional development for teachers and measuring student success.

This pattern strongly suggests that any efforts by Florida districts to provide better pay for teachers in the high - demand subjects of math and science are insufficient to offset the differences in outside earnings opportunities across subject areas.

In the final year of the project, we will use data from the experiments to scale - up the most cost - effective version of the READS program.The project has three phases: Phase 1 Validation, which includes testing READS in several districts including DPS and an effort to increase the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of the program; Phase 2 Validation, which involves expansion into more districts and many more schools and testing the cumulative impact of READS across summers; and Phase 3 Scale - Up, which involves expansion into 20 more districts.

Alonso served as CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools (City Schools) for six years, where he led a reform effort marked by a rebalancing of authority and responsibility among stakeholders, the building of a coalition in support of City Schools, leading edge labor contracts, and a focus on individual students and teaching and learning that yielded marked improvement in achievement and climate data across all levels, the first increases in enrollment in 40 years, and widespread political and ground root support for what have been divisive reform strategies in other districts.

For example, Austin (Texas) Independent School District leaders have begun implementing SEL programs across schools in their district and have used Title II dollars to fund this effort (RavenDistrict leaders have begun implementing SEL programs across schools in their district and have used Title II dollars to fund this effort (Ravendistrict and have used Title II dollars to fund this effort (Raven, 2013).

Though lacking any regulatory components, the report proved to be a blockbuster, mobilizing reform efforts in states and school districts across the country.

He encouraged me to start the EMERGE program and in 2013 was bold enough to promote me from a teacher to an assistant superintendent to scale the program across the district and oversee our broader postsecondary - readiness efforts.

In Milliken, a 5 - 4 majority of the United States Supreme Court virtually prohibited bussing across school district lines to desegregate metropolitan areas, which in many ways marked the Court's — and the country's — turn away from efforts to integrate schools.

In this webinar, you'll gain valuable insights into these questions from educators who've led successful, nationally - recognized efforts to introduce bold, new visions of student success in classrooms and across districts.

Perhaps the best two pieces I've come across are from the Newark Star - Ledger's Tom Moran including an opinion piece on where things stand that notes district progress along with charter school improvements and reformers» misguided focus on the parts of the story Russakoff leaves out (Newark students are better off, despite the political noise) and also a Q & A with Russakoff in which the author rebuts a deeply flawed NYT review, proposes a forensic audit of Newark's $ 23,000 - per student spending, but calls the Zuckerberg - funded reform efforts a «wash» over all (Author Dale Russakoff discusses new book).

Likewise, efforts to equalize funding across school districts place more financial responsibility at the state level while removing financial discretion from localities.

As teacher - contract negotiations proceed this spring, union leaders across the country report that the reform movement is giving a new legitimacy to their longstanding efforts to improve salaries and working conditions, and that in some districts teachers have made startling gains in these areas.

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.

(Va.) Despite recent efforts of the Obama administration to provide states more flexibility in developing new accountability systems, school districts across the nation continue to rely on performance measures tied to conventional testing systems, according to a new report.

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.

District leaders need to establish clear expectations across multiple dimensions of improvement activity as the bases for increasing coherence, coordination, and synergy in the effectiveness of district improvement efforts ovDistrict leaders need to establish clear expectations across multiple dimensions of improvement activity as the bases for increasing coherence, coordination, and synergy in the effectiveness of district improvement efforts ovdistrict improvement efforts over time.

This network is a collective effort of superintendents, local school districts, and intermediate school districts in West Michigan to improve early literacy across grade levels.

Insight in action As part of collaborative reform efforts to improve K - 6 science education across multiple urban school districts, a teacher leader was selected from each participating elementary school based on his / her knowledge of science.

Efforts to disentangle success from economics are made somewhat harder by New York's decision not to adopt one of the national Common Core tests, which promised to allow more apples - to - apples comparisons among school districts across the country (though New York has a modified version of the Common Core standards in place, the state makes its own exams to test whether kids are meeting those expectations).

As superintendents of rural schools in 106 districts across Arizona, we at the Arizona Rural Schools Association are in support of the effort that Governor Doug Ducey has undertaken to develop a valuable proposal that moves our state in the right direction on the issue of school funding.

KNOWLEDGE BRIEF 13 by Susanna Loeb In an effort to improve educational outcomes, states and districts across the country are collecting value - added measures to assess the quality of their teachers.

Innovative districts are beginning to employ similar strategies, and efforts are underway to spread best hiring and development practices across the country.

For schools and districts across the U.S., family engagement is becoming an integral part of education reform efforts.

As a representative from the Missouri NTEP team, I joined colleagues from five states — Georgia, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, and Washington — on the visit to Baton Rouge to attend Louisiana's Believe and Prepare Community Meeting and learn from the work of practitioners, programs, and districts across Louisiana leading efforts to improve educator preparation.

In most states, there is a large and growing gap between the percentage of students of color1 and the percentage of teachers of color.2 Efforts to increase teacher diversity have led to marginal increases in the percentage of teachers of color — from 12 percent to 17 percent from 1987 through 2012 — but this positive statistic obscures other troubling facts, such as the decline in the percentage of African American teachers in many large urban districts and the lower retention rates for teachers of color across the country.3

RLI was a (quasi) effort to «equalize» funding across districts to deal with the unconstitutional funding of schools based on the revenue generated by local property taxes.

In the first effort of its kind, LA Unified staged a whirlwind of events for the first day of school today, with board members fanning out across the district, each visiting schools and other sites to welcome back staff, students and district employees.

As states across the country rapidly adopt their own requirements for student data privacy, NSBA supports the timely efforts of America's school districts to protect the privacy of students and of the families who entrust public schools with their child's personally identifiable information.

Principals will be the primary evaluators of teachers, and a lot of effort is supposed to go into ensuring consistency across districts.

Subsequently, Derek joined the Stupski Foundation and managed efforts to support district - wide reform across the country, including efforts in districts such as Jackson Public Schools in Mississippi and the Baltimore City Public Schools System in Maryland.

Sharing this effort across departments will allow all departments to monitor the status of all professional development offered throughout the school or district, and ultimately, assess its effectiveness.

As states across the country rapidly adopt their own requirements for student data privacy, the National School Boards Association supports the timely efforts of America's school districts to protect the privacy of students and families who entrust public schools with their child's personally identifiable information.

Across the country, 46 schools, six districts, and six postsecondary institutions are being honored for their innovative efforts to reduce environmental impact and utility costs, improve health and wellness, and ensure effective sustainability education.

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.

According to data analyzed by Ann Mantil, Anne Perkins, and Stephanie Aberger, the benefits from redistribution within and across multiple neighboring districts, even if implemented nationwide on a large scale, would vary widely, and efforts would decrease the percentage of high - poverty schools in some states by no more than about 10 % to 15 %.

And we are supporting the long - term sustainability of educational reform efforts across states and districts.