Sentences with phrase «as other urban school districts»

Additional data collection is especially important for understanding the prevalence of chronic early absence in rural and suburban areas as well as other urban school districts.

Not exact matches

As with many other public schools in urban districts, Wildwood has been up against some tough resource challenges:

The other reform strategy pursued in recent years, by large urban districts from New York to San Diego, is to recruit celebrity superintendents from other professions, such as Joel Klein, the Clinton administration's antitrust official, who is now serving as chancellor of the New York City schools.

On reflection, the finding was not too surprising: Shuttering schools nearly always sets off a torrent of political backlash, as authorities in Chicago, Philadelphia, and other urban districts have learned in recent years.

New York City's progress in closing its achievement gap on those tests drew national attention as a possible model for other urban school districts.

Like equalization formulas in other states, the one in Kansas was designed to help poor, primarily urban districts, not the sprawling, land - rich agricultural areas of the state, like Beloit, where Mr. Bottom serves as superintendent of schools.

The Boston Public Schools (BPS) face the same challenges as other urban districts in the United States.

The Coalition for Community Schools estimates that there are about 5,000 community schools in the U.S. Several large urban districts have adopted community schools as a reform strategy including New York City, Chicago, and Baltimore, among Schools estimates that there are about 5,000 community schools in the U.S. Several large urban districts have adopted community schools as a reform strategy including New York City, Chicago, and Baltimore, among schools in the U.S. Several large urban districts have adopted community schools as a reform strategy including New York City, Chicago, and Baltimore, among schools as a reform strategy including New York City, Chicago, and Baltimore, among others.

The Bridge to Completion research centers on the analysis of multiple data sets, including comparing similar schools and other large, urban districts as well as national data, and interviewing 50 - plus professionals representing the school district, community - based organizations, higher education and nationally recognized college access.

Reformers say its successes as an almost all - charter, state - controlled district make it a model for other failing urban school systems.

These school boards serve as a resource for other CUBE districts, sharing how effective governance is essential in helping all urban school boards improve.

But many urban districts are approaching state limits on charter - school enrollment, leaving policy makers to look for other options, such as Springfield's empowerment zone, where schools operate with autonomies similar to those at charters.

Therefore, it is unfair for you to make statements such as «ineffective teachers... often get in to urban school districts because they lack the skill set and content knowledge to get in to other districts.»

Several other urban districts have upgraded translation and interpretation services, a practice that proved effective in Fairfax County, Virginia, Public Schools during my time there as superintendent.