Sentences with phrase «at district schools within»

My analysis finds no spillover effects on students at district schools within a larger, three - mile radius of a charter school.

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Some parents within the high, middle, and even elementary schools of the district began to form a retaliation campaign, and spread their arguments through the distribution of «anti-GPA-reform» pamphlets at our community meetings.

For example, the School Food Initiative set out to improve food on the plate at local public schools, and soon learned that such improvements also required us to influence cultural shifts within school districts as well as increasing food literacy throughout the commSchool Food Initiative set out to improve food on the plate at local public schools, and soon learned that such improvements also required us to influence cultural shifts within school districts as well as increasing food literacy throughout the commschool districts as well as increasing food literacy throughout the community.

They are working with impossibly tight funding; they may face high turnover of labor; they may be at the bottom of the food chain within their school district, viewed as little more than an annoying adjunct department vaguely linked with mystery meat, ladies in hairnets, and the persistent complaint that «school food sucks.»

Pencils, paper and even textbooks are on the way out as officials at Glen Ellyn School District 41 plan to put laptops and tablets into the hands of each student within three years.

The Empire Center's Ken Girardin: «School budgets were approved at a record - high rate of 99.3 percent, adding to evidence that districts can live within a property tax cap set at either 2 percent or the prior year's average rate of inflation, whichever is less.»

«With the conceded disparate funding, compounded by the fact that taxpayers within the poorer school districts end up subsidizing, at least in part, the tax credits granted to taxpayers within the wealthier districts, I find that plaintiffs have stated a viable equal protection claim,» Lynch wrote.

The competition which will involve primary and junior high school pupils and students respectively from the 22 districts within the Western Region, kickstarting at the district level on Monday, May 21.

Off the top of my head the biggest ones are: (1) corruption within the Buildings & Grounds Department (2) corruption involving school district vendors over-billing and paying bribes and kickbacks that led to those two Federal indictments and convictions; (3) corruption involving police harassment of a woman on behalf of the manager of a local beach club; (4) a child rapist operating out of a public middle school; (5) an illegal gambling and pornography web site operated by members of the New Rochelle Police Department; (6) a retired police officer defrauding charities including St. Jude's Children's Research; (7) illegal asbestos handling and asbestos removal at an elementary school; (8) an effort to artificially inflate the salaries and pensions of senior police commanders; (9) the relationship between the New Rochelle Police Commissioner and a corrupt contractor, a man who has since been convicted on Federal corruption charges; (10) the sordid history of former New Rochelle Schools Administrator Freddie Dean Smith.

At 1:30 p.m., the Senate Standing Committee on New York City Education Subcommittee will meet to discuss various amendments to education law - including an act in relation to requiring certain public schools in any city with a population over one million to offer food options during lunch, an act to direct chancellors of city school districts, in cities having a population of one million or more, to examine and assess the feasibility of expanding the number and types of career and technical education schools and programs within such city school districts and an act in relation to improving educational outcomes for homeless students.

I am certainly open to negotiating a residency requirement with the police union, but even more so I than that, I think we should focus on promoting from within: we have the PSLA (Public Service Learning Academy) at Fowler, set up to train Syracuse City School District students who want to go into public service jobs (including police).

The linked Spring School event was held at the University of Southampton, Southampton, UK, during the period of 22 - 29 March 2015, on the theme of District Energy Supply within Cities, with special emphasis on low carbon options for 21st century cities.

Portability would make significant changes to how federal dollars allocated at the state level flow across and within school districts, private schooling aside.

We then see if, within districts predicted to experience larger reform - induced spending increases, «exposed» cohorts (children young enough to have been in school when or after the reforms were passed) have better outcomes than «unexposed» cohorts (children who were too old at the time of passage to be affected by the reforms).

Michael Petrilli called the Department's recent warning that it would take a closer look at these within - district allocations «meddling,» but it's shameful that our public policies disproportionately place students of color in schools with poor lighting, unsafe or temporary structures, and unequal access to technology and curriculum.

In this study, we address these questions by taking an in - depth look at funding differences between and within Texas school districts over the course of a decade, from the 1993 — 94 to 2002 — 03 school years.

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.

It's still a work in progress at the school and within the district at large.

The second is that we do a lot of advocacy work, whether it's the Department of Eds at the federal or state levels, with the district, or within schools.

When the National Council on Teacher Quality looked at turnover within Miami - Dade County Public Schools, they found significant disparities even within the same district.

Within KIPP schools, students in early grades have lower entering achievement levels, on average, than those in later grades, a pattern that is not evident at district schools.

Families in poverty are more likely to have within - district traditional public schools within one or two miles, but these differences narrow at longer distances.

Finding the Gold Within has reached audiences at more than eighty screenings at film festivals, conferences, think tanks, public school districts, colleges, Black Male Summit, etc..

By his third - year residency in Memphis at the Tennessee Achievement School District — the state's turnaround district aimed at bringing the bottom performing 5 percent of schools into the top performing 25 percent within five years — he found his initial interests that brought him toDistrict — the state's turnaround district aimed at bringing the bottom performing 5 percent of schools into the top performing 25 percent within five years — he found his initial interests that brought him todistrict aimed at bringing the bottom performing 5 percent of schools into the top performing 25 percent within five years — he found his initial interests that brought him to Ed.L.D.

We estimate that private school choice and intradistrict choice (allowing families to choose any traditional public school in their district) have the largest potential to expand the sets of schools to which families have access, with more than 80 percent of families having at least one of these «choice» schools within five miles of home.

We estimate that, under an interdistrict choice policy, 54 percent of all families would have access to at least one out - of - district choice school within five miles.

This indicates that while there are many reasons why school districts and states might want to seek to integrate relatively advantaged and relatively disadvantaged students within the same school, it appears unlikely that a policy goal of reducing the test score gap between students in these groups will be realized through further socioeconomic integration (at least once there gets to be the degree of socioeconomic integration necessary to be part of this study to begin with).

Cordes analyzed 14 years of student achievement data for 876,731 3rd — through 5th - graders attending 584 district elementary schools located in the same community school district within New York City where at least one charter school served students in the same grades.

Hopefully, prompting from the guidance to look at the variation in disciplinary responses by schools within the district would encourage the local school board to voluntarily eliminate suspensions for attendance violations and adopt (district - wide) those responses already working well in its less racially isolated schools.

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).

In a new study presented at the this year's fall research conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management in Chicago, we used data from CORE Districts, to assess whether there are systematic mindset differences present in the US population within and across schools, and whether holding a growth mindset predicts academic achievement gains of students.

He explains today there are many types of lesson study activities in terms of the context, focus and size — intra-school (in elementary schools and some secondary schools), within whole school districts or cities, at a prefecture level and national events where thousands of teachers visit a school to observe and discuss.

School districts are monopolies that operate within a state regulatory framework that insists that high school students not take any online courses unless they take all courses online at an all - virtual school that can admit only a limited number of stuSchool districts are monopolies that operate within a state regulatory framework that insists that high school students not take any online courses unless they take all courses online at an all - virtual school that can admit only a limited number of stuschool students not take any online courses unless they take all courses online at an all - virtual school that can admit only a limited number of stuschool that can admit only a limited number of students.

The practice is also the entry point for a larger focus on social and emotional learning (SEL) at the middle school and more broadly within the 64,000 - student Washoe County district.

In each case, the school district relies upon an individual student's race in assigning that student to a particular school, so that the racial balance at the school falls within a predetermined range based on the racial composition of the school district as a whole.

Reporting per - pupil expenditures at the school level will undoubtedly uncover some inequitable distribution of resources within states and districts across the country.

Such action shall include, but need not be limited to, direct notification, within 30 days of receipt of the commissioner's warning, in English and translated, when appropriate, into the recipient's native language or mode of communication, to persons in parental relation of children attending the program that it has been placed under high school equivalency program review and is at risk of not receiving an approval for program continuance, and disclosure of such warning by the district, or board of cooperative educational services at its next public meeting.

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If an LEA chooses to participate and has at least 40 percent of its student population counted as Identified Students, that LEA then provides free breakfast and lunch to every student within each school in its district.

Opportunity scholarships may be used only at private schools within the District of Columbia.

Abstract: This article analyzes the impact of classroom characteristics and opportunity wages on four possible labor market choices of teachers in Florida: remaining at their present school, switching schools within a school district, changing school districts, and leaving teaching.

Districts and BOCES are encouraged to reflect upon decisions made within Grades K - 2 to ensure testing is the minimum necessary for effective decision making at the classroom, school and district level.

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School districts can access Concentration Grants in addition to their Basic Grant funding if at least 15 percent of children who reside within the district are poor, or if there are at least 6,500 poor children.

Education reform at any level, from local to national, has a tremendous impact on what gets implemented within a school or district.

A recruitment process for new teachers that is much less effective than it might be does not result in the school district losing students or revenue, at least not within a time span or through a series of events that would make the connection discernible.

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.

Those include introducing and reviewing software, Internet resources, and other appropriate materials, and making the information available to staff; coordinating computer usage in projects and activities within, across, and between curricula and schools; working with classroom teachers, individually and in grade level teams, to plan, organize and implement the use of technology through such activities as demonstration lessons, team teaching, and joint planning; providing both building - based and district - wide staff development at faculty meetings, district professional development days, and after - school and summer workshops; and keeping abreast of current technologies by attending conferences and workshops on a regular basis.

When I look within a three - mile radius, I find no evidence of spillover effects on test scores of students at district schools, positive or negative.

The principal question is whether the degree of public school choice at the district level is associated with within district racial imbalance between school enrollment and the school - age population of individual schools» geographical catchment areas.