Sentences with phrase «attempts at school district»

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The latest attempt at reaching a storm - water agreement failed after the school district opted this week to proceed with the September plan, rather than to consider a proposed agreement with the Park District that was crafted with the assistance of medistrict opted this week to proceed with the September plan, rather than to consider a proposed agreement with the Park District that was crafted with the assistance of meDistrict that was crafted with the assistance of mediators.

Both state law and district policy prohibit elected officials from disclosing information discussed in executive sessions, and there has been at least one previous attempt to remove a member of the Buffalo School Board on those grounds.

U.S. Secretary of Education for an administration willing to dare attempts at substantive based initiatives for inner - city, lower - income school districts as well as for rural school districts

At the same time, litigants attempted to bring «equity cases» in federal courts designed to eliminate spending variations among school districts due to heavy reliance on the local property tax.

Using a complicated formula approved by the court, the state funds magnet schools that accept students from several different districts (at a minimum there must be two) at a per - pupil rate that increases as the number of districts sending students increases — an attempt to bring central - city minority students and white suburban students together in the same school.

GPSN Executive Director Myrna Castrejon said replicating high - performing schools has not been attempted in Los Angeles before or anywhere in the nation at the same scale, and the organization is encouraging the «best and brightest» in the district to apply for grants to expand their successful schools» impact on more children in LA.

That study looked at only ninth graders across 24 school districts in California, but also found that students who took algebra a second time were unlikely to score «proficient» on the state exam following the second attempt.

Quinonez called the district's action «a cynical, underhanded attempt to avoid the clear defects» and that the action is further evidence of «the desperate, unplanned, «ready - fire - aim» give - away -[schools]- at - any - cost approach of the school board and the district.»

School board members randomly appeared at schools, in what district employees called attempts to «harass and / or intimidate.»

Invariably, what is labeled «teacher bashing» is nothing more than anger at the teachers unions for blocking every type of education reform imaginable, as well as the unions doing their level best to block school districts» attempts to fire bad and even criminal teachers.

«The lawsuit, first filed in late 2015, contends the school district «has been attempting to replace experienced, higher - paid teachers with relatively inexperienced teachers at entry level salaries» since Carstarphen took over the top post in July of 2014.

In an attempt to help simplify the whole thing, Susanna Loeb and Ben York — a professor and researcher respectively at Stanford's Center for Education Policy Analysis — designed a program that sends parents of preschoolers in a low - income San Francisco school district weekly tips on how to improve their children's literacy.

«There have been a few attempts to change Georgia's law to allow students attending a charter school to participate in an extracurricular activity of the district,» when the activity is not available at the charter school, according to Lewis.

The non-profit organization Parent Revolution, currently attempting one such coup at McKinley Elementary in Compton, chose the most extreme option: seize the campus from the district and turn it into a charter school.

Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal has invited President Obama to tour schools with him when the president visits the state at the end of the week, the latest in Jindal's efforts to protest the Department of Justice's attempts to intervene in the state voucher program, which DOJ says interfere with desegregation efforts in some Louisiana districts.

Luna has made not just an important move, but a smart one at that, anticipating what is bound to be a collective outcry from school districts attempting to resolve the mismatch inherent when a poorly prepared workforce is required to teach to the rigorous Common Core standards.

In contrast with the incoherent attempts at professional learning often seen in school districts across the United States, many other countries prioritize professional learning for their teachers.

And despite the CEA's attempt at fear - mongering, the fact that parents choose charter schools in Connecticut is not at odds with supporting local district schools across the state.

Even though you attempt to distort the facts, the truth is that charter schools have never received more than 70 % at most of what district schools receive.

After the TEM Framework development process, Insight consultants trained over 600 school and district leaders, as well as supported the development of TEM's state certification standards and then certified over 600 school and district level observers at a pass rate over 95 % on first attempt.

Some reforms, for example, attempt to improve all schools in a district, statei or countryii at the same time.

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