Sentences with phrase «attract high quality schools»

In this position, Elyse oversees public policy and lobbying efforts, and works to attract high quality schools to Mississippi.

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Dr. Douglas N. Harris: There are two basic reasons for this: First, high - minority schools receive less funding and have difficulty attracting and retaining quality teachers and administrators.

The TAP is a systemic reform of public schools intended to attract, motivate, develop, and retain high - quality talent in the teaching profession.

This is troubling, as the demands of leading such schools, including the need to attract and retain high - quality teachers despite less desirable working conditions, may amplify the importance of having an effective leader.

A clear vision: inclusivity and quality If our vision of a musical school is limited to spotting, attracting and encouraging a few high achievers for public occasions, then music will never be «at the heart of the school».

«The extraordinary demands of educating disadvantaged students to higher standards, the challenges of attracting the talent required to do that work, the burden of finding and financing facilities, and often aggressive opposition from the traditional public education system have made the trifecta of scale, quality, and financial sustainability hard to hit,» concludes the report, «Growing Pains: Scaling Up the Nation's Best Charter Schools.»

Here was a high school senior unwittingly communicating key changes that need to be made to attract high - quality teachers to our field.

Of course, more was necessary: vigorous and energetic superintendents, strong efforts to create magnet schools and to attract high - quality teachers and principals, publicity to draw students to them.

But on the specific issue of attracting high - quality teachers to teach in at - risk schools or with difficult student populations, Jennifer Steele, Ed.D.» 08, says financial rewards have an impact.

The full white paper, Driving the Performance Agenda in Education, created by Affinity Workforce, explores the steps that school and MAT leaders are taking in order to tackle the skills crisis, and to attract high - quality teaching staff.

The creation of the new unit with a single focus on infrastructure delivery will enable the Department of Education to maintain focus on its strengths, continuing to deliver the high quality teaching and learning outcomes that are attracting a growing number of students to NSW government schools.

Salaries paid to personnel in public schools impact both the ability to attract high - quality professionals to serve students and the budgets of the school districts in which teachers, central office administrators, school leaders, and support personnel work.

Others are attracted because they are looking for a different, safer, or higher quality alternative to the public school in their neighborhood.

Research shows that high quality teachers are critical to raising student achievement, but struggling schools face challenges attracting and retaining highly effective teachers.

For instance, the results for black students are consistent with the plausible alternative hypothesis that predominantly black schools tend to attract and retain high - quality black teachers but only low - quality white teachers.

Some districts and states have moved toward professionalized pay systems while others are using loan forgiveness programs to attract and retain high - quality teachers, especially in hard - to - staff schools and subjects.

To achieve this goal, the state will need to attract high - quality schooling options and the staff to run them.

In this position, Elyse oversees public policy and lobbying, and works to attract high - quality schools to Mississippi.

As a large district in one of the most poorly funded states in the U.S., Arizona's Paradise Valley Unified School District (USD) struggled to attract quality teachers when competing against higher - paying positions in nearby states.

This pattern suggests the program disproportionately attracted certain types of private schools, such as schools struggling to keep students enrolled, relative to the high - quality schools that do not have this enrollment issue.

Regular debates and themed seminars on topical educational issues, input from Leading Thinkers, and high quality training events continue to attract school leaders and classroom practitioners in high numbers across the UK.

«We hope to attract some of the top - quality [charter] operators in the country,» he said, and «emphasize high - quality charter schooling.»

He says that by taking steps like establishing magnet schools that attract students from diverse backgrounds and regulating the expansion of charter schools, more children could benefit from higher quality schools, which typically have more resources, including more experienced teachers.

One reason is that the principal is the single most important factor in determining whether a school can attract and keep the high - quality teachers necessary to turn around struggling schools.

Peer problems, geographic mobility, and challenges in attracting and retaining good teachers have made it difficult to provide consistently high - quality learning experiences in schools serving a large proportion of low - income students.

Teacher Policy Research (TPR) is a research partnership between the University of Virginia, Stanford University and the University at Albany that examines the behavior of teachers and administrators with the goal of developing policies that will attract and retain high - quality teachers and leaders, especially in low - performing schools.

Efforts to improve educator quality and to attract the most effective teachers and principals to high - need schools have caused policymakers at the federal, state, and local levels to promote pay - for - performance plans.

With charter schools, this typically includes plans for launching and growing high - quality schools, attracting top - flight school leaders and teachers to manage schools and classrooms, and engaging parents and others who are most impacted by school choice.

The city would team up with The Mind Trust... to incubate quality charters, using up to $ 2 million from his RebuildIndy program as startup funds to help attract five high - quality charter school organizations to open schools.

The goal is to attract high - quality education reform organizations here and to invite charter school operators with strong track records to open schools here.

What these numbers do not show is a growing national problem, particularly acute in North Carolina that was not discussed in the debate over the budget — the problem of attracting high quality teachers to teach in the state's public schools.

State school boards association search professionals are uniquely qualified to provide a highly specialized, well - organized search that will attract quality candidates and adhere to the highest standards of ethics and effective school governance.

There are still many areas of the state that have trouble attracting high quality teachers, only a small percentage of students meet all college - ready benchmarks upon graduation, and remediation programs - which help high school graduates prepare for college - cost the state around $ 35 million a year.

Ultimately, the goals are to attract high - quality teachers, allow principals more control over school budgets, promote faster growth for our best schools and expand access for all students to attend an excellent school.

We are a group of 20 Oakland public district and charter school teachers serving on a Teacher Advisory Group brought together by Educate78, an Oakland nonprofit committed to attracting and retaining high - quality teachers in Oakland.

«His appointment will strengthen the NCTL's important work — ensuring we can continue to attract more high quality people into the teaching profession, further expand school led teacher training, and inspire ever greater standards of teaching and school leadership across the country.

Pay - for - performance compensation systems seek to improve educator quality and attract the most effective teachers and principals to high - needs schools.

In 2010, former charter - school leader David Hill was named director of academic operations for the so - called Jubilee Schools, and he instituted changes across the network — extending the school day, strengthening school culture, putting more emphasis on attracting and retaining high - quality teachers and principals.

It did not provide tools or insights that help state leaders attract and retain high - quality teachers, nor did it identify ways for leaders to understand how to develop incentives and cultures that attract and retain high - quality teachers in high - needs schools.

Attracting high - quality teachers poses a huge challenge for some schools, said Nathan Parker, superintendent of Summit Public Schools in Union County, and a former superintendent for Orange Township Public Schools in Essex schools, said Nathan Parker, superintendent of Summit Public Schools in Union County, and a former superintendent for Orange Township Public Schools in Essex Schools in Union County, and a former superintendent for Orange Township Public Schools in Essex Schools in Essex County.

Similarly, once the pathway for transferring licenses across state lines opens up, states would need to implement policies specifically designed to attract high - quality teachers to work in high - need school districts, particularly in rural locales, in order to limit shortages in those areas.

White working - class children need schools with incentives to attract high - quality teachers and longer days to allow pupils to do their homework, says a cross-party committee of MPs.

Provide special bonuses to high - achieving teachers, administrators and schools to attract high - quality professionals into teaching and to reward those teachers who are doing an excellent job.

To help disadvantaged schools attract, retain, and support high - quality teachers, OECD's Equity, Excellence and Inclusiveness in Education report outlines specialized teacher preparation, coaching, and mentoring programs to incentivize high - quality personnel to work in disadvantaged schools.

M. Out of this appropriation, $ 808,000 the first year and $ 808,000 the second year from the general fund is provided to attract, recruit, and retain high - quality diverse individuals to teach science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) subjects in Virginia's middle and high schools.

The motivation is twofold: to meet students» needs and to offer distinct programs that will attract parents who have fled Detroit in search of higher quality schools.

Competitive compensation attracts higher quality candidates to schools with more difficult working conditions;

The final budget bill cut state K - 12 spending by nearly $ 800 million, over7 percent — the largest amount in Wisconsin's history — and limited local governments» abilities to make up for these cuts through property taxes.14 That same year, Gov. Walker passed major tax cuts primarily targeted toward corporations and the wealthy that totaled $ 2.33 billion over 10 years.15 Gov. Walker and Act 10 proponents argued that the bill's reforms would allow schools to offset these cuts by reducing teachers» benefits and hiring lower - paid teachers, preventing budget cuts from affecting students.16 Gov. Walker also argued that eliminating requirements to bargain over salary structures, hiring, and working conditions would give schools additional flexibility needed to attract and retain higher - quality teachers.17

One key lever of the partnership is to improve the way high quality principals are matched with the schools that need them, so LSCs are better able to find and attract best fit candidates.