Sentences with phrase «among schools within districts»

Not exact matches

Collaborating within and among school districts to compile and develop shared resources (a business plan «toolbox,» grant information, menu development, and business skills).

The initiative requires counties outside of New York City to prepare «a plan for shared, coordinated and efficient services among the units of local governments contained within the county, excluding school districts,» according to the governor's office.

Moskowitz has proved a polarizing figure not only within City Hall and the city's district schools, but also among some charter leaders who privately resent her total political dominance over the city's charter sector.

City school results still fall well below state proficiency levels but sit within the middle of the pack among the five biggest urban districts in the state.

Using census data to sort districts within each state by the federal poverty rate among school - age children, the group identified the poorest and richest districts - those with the highest and lowest poverty rates, respectively, whose enrollments compose 25 percent of the state's total enrollment - and matched that information with education revenues from state and local (but not federal) sources.

But any state choosing this option would experience changes in how Title I funds get divided among and within its school districts — even if all poor students were to attend public schools.

What we haven» within and outside the district, organizational habits, and de facto policies at play in the system that can and likely do affect how districts distribute resources among schools.

Silver has plenty of company among alumni from the Ed School who have established new schools from California to New York City, creating charter schools outside the purview of local school boards, innovative schools within municipal school districts, or independent schools with a new School who have established new schools from California to New York City, creating charter schools outside the purview of local school boards, innovative schools within municipal school districts, or independent schools with a new school boards, innovative schools within municipal school districts, or independent schools with a new school districts, or independent schools with a new twist.

This analysis makes clear that large differences in the performance of high - SES students and low - SES students in the same schools do exist; that these apparent gaps are not simply reflective of gaps in preparation; and that while the variation across school districts is substantial, the variation within school districts may be even larger (at least among the largest districts in Florida).

Many CMOs do seem to outperform their district schools, but there is also a lot of variation among CMOs and even within a particular CMO's portfolio of schools.

Therefore, OCR assesses the types, quantity, and quality of programs available to students across a school district to determine whether students of all races have equal access to comparable programs both among schools and among students within the same school.

For all the policy chatter and debate out there about funding inequities (between charters and neighborhood schools is one favorite), you don't hear much talk about just how inequitable the funding gaps can be among the 15,000 or so school districts (or among schools within the same district — don't even get me started).

Among them are a focus within preschool programs on teaching pre-academic skills; the conceptualization of the role of the adults who provide center - based care as that of a teacher; a bias towards delivering pre-K services through school districts; a press towards common standards and curriculum across pre-K providers; accountability regimens that are tied to children's performance on measures that correlate with later school success; disproportionate spending on four - year - olds as opposed to younger children; and marginalization of the family's responsibility.

Although most of the DCL is devoted to differences among schools in the same district, the Office for Civil Rights emphasizes that it will also examine differences within schools as well as differences among school districts in a state.

A coalition of school districts in Kentucky has announced plans to file suit against the state within three weeks, in what it calls the «last chance» to achieve equal funding among school systems in that state.

In math, charter school entry increases performance among all subgroups of students at district schools except Hispanic students and students classified as LEP, who experience no effects; Asian students only experience a significant positive effect in math in district schools located within a half - mile radius.

Among district schools within a half - mile and one - mile radius, charter school entry leads to significant decreases in general education enrollment of approximately 16 students per school, on average.

Most modern school choice plans have followed the same pattern by offering students choices among schools within the same school district.

Jayne, the Common Core will not fix inconsistencies among schools and districts within the same state.

Students placed at risk by poverty are neither evenly distributed among America's school districts nor between schools within districts.

Among the district's 17 schools, only three buildings have mobility rates — the percentage of students who attend different schools within the same school year — of less than 10 percent.

The results presented in this report are based on surveys conducted in 2005 - 06 among a nationally representative sample of public school districts with at least one private school located within their boundaries and a nationally representative sample of private schools located within the boundaries of the sample districts.

We explore whether districts that offer different types of financial incentives to teachers tend to have greater diversity among teachers within their schools.

Public Impact produced some of the earliest work guiding states and districts choosing among school turnaround strategies and has been the field leader in providing research, guidance and implementation support for turnarounds within schools, charter restarts and innovation zones.

Among other things, Fraisse said appropriately trained evaluators can identify ineffective teachers within two years if the school district's human resource plan is working properly.

In fact, one of the dirty secrets in education is that those very voices are the ones that are often marginalized within cultures of mediocrity and failure that are often the norm in districts and schools, thanks to policies that fail to reward and recognize good - and - great teaching, place bureaucratic obstacles to fostering this work among colleagues, and protect laggards from losing their jobs.

But Elizabeth Phillips, the principal of P.S. 321, said that in her experience, Fariña successfully fostered collaboration among principals from schools with different cultures and student demographics within the district structure.

Determine the current state of your district systems and begin to map steps toward improving the quality of instruction and reducing variability in instructional quality within and among your schools.

Within their respective districts (Cabarrus county and Iredell - Statesville), among other public elementary and middle schools Langtree ranked No. 4 in reading and No. 7 in math, while Cabarrus ranked No. 6 in reading and math and No. 5 in science.

Yet within some districts and schools, union leaders and school administrators have found an alternate path to reform — one that is based on building strong relationships that facilitate collaboration among educators and is focused on teaching quality and educational improvement for students.

As Figure 2 shows, there should be a direct relationship among inputs, processes, outputs, and outcomes within state, district, and school systems, as well as between each of them.

Powerful sharing may extend beyond the educators in one school to collaboration among all the schools within a district, including charter schools.

CORE has also paired about 100 high - and low - performing schools both within and among member districts — a model of collaboration that the state board and a new state agency, the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence, would like to encourage to achieve school improvement.

Local funds, derived primarily from taxes on real property, drive much of the variability in funding levels within states and among school districts because of variation in local tax values.

National spending data obscures tremendous variation in per student spending among states, within states, and within school districts.

However, the tests must be aligned with the state academic content standards, address the depth and breadth of such standards, and be equivalent in content coverage, difficulty, and quality to the state - designed assessments AND must provide comparable, valid, and reliable data on academic achievement, as compared to the state - designed assessments, for all students and for each subgroup of students among all local school districts within the state.

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The data can be compared among different schools within a district or a specified radius, and can include up to 20 nearby listings.