Sentences with phrase «autonomous school districts and school»

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Through its Renaissance 2010 program, the city is methodically closing its lowest - performing schools and then reopening them as charters, contract schools, or Performance Schools, which are highly autonomous but run by the dischools and then reopening them as charters, contract schools, or Performance Schools, which are highly autonomous but run by the dischools, or Performance Schools, which are highly autonomous but run by the diSchools, which are highly autonomous but run by the district.

The measure stems from concerns that local school districts have not always been welcoming — and sometimes are hostile — to the largely autonomous public schools.

With the exception of Saint Louis and Kansas City, which have autonomous pension systems, all of Missouri's school districts are part of the Public School Retirement System (school districts are part of the Public School Retirement System (School Retirement System (PSRS).

Funded by: Smith Richardson Foundation via subcontract w / Brown University Amount: $ 10,843 Dates: 1/1/17 — 7/1/20 Summary: In collaboration with researchers from Brown University Dr. Jones will examine the effects of Boston Public School's autonomous hiring policy reform on student, teacher, and school outcomes, with the broader goal of examining the nature and challenges of the teacher hiring and match process in large urban school distSchool's autonomous hiring policy reform on student, teacher, and school outcomes, with the broader goal of examining the nature and challenges of the teacher hiring and match process in large urban school distschool outcomes, with the broader goal of examining the nature and challenges of the teacher hiring and match process in large urban school distschool districts.

Add in the growing number of cities pursuing school portfolio management (which focuses on both charters and traditional district - run schools), and the urgent need to train administrators with the skills to thoughtfully manage what Edfuel calls «the autonomous and accountable public schools sector» is even more apparent.

City and school leaders in Boston reached an agreement with the Boston Teachers» Union last week to expand the district's system of small, autonomous schools, ending a 2 - year - old standoff that had stalled the growth of the experimental program.

The Portfolio Network meeting is an annual gathering of innovative district, charter school, community, and civic leaders from across the country who are figuring out how to run and oversee autonomous schools of choice in ways that ensure all families have good options and the system operates fairly.

It shares basic similarities with its brethren in Louisiana and Tennessee in that all three are charged with resuscitating the state's worst schools within the confines of a separate, autonomous district.

As a result, most Michigan charter schools are completely autonomous from the surrounding school districts, and it is difficult for school districts to block their entry.

Sponsored by a variety of entities, including state school boards and local school districts, they are oftened governed day - to - day by autonomous boards.

Dr. Cruz also took steps in her first year to begin to break down the organizational culture of autonomous schools and autonomous units, noting: «When I walked into this district again, it was very fragmented.

The Mind Trust, in partnership with IPS and the Mayor's Office, created the Innovation Schools Fellowship to create a pipeline of talented educators and entrepreneurs to design, launch and operate «Innovation Network Schools,» autonomous schools within IPS that can replace chronically underperforming or underused schools in the diSchools Fellowship to create a pipeline of talented educators and entrepreneurs to design, launch and operate «Innovation Network Schools,» autonomous schools within IPS that can replace chronically underperforming or underused schools in the diSchools,» autonomous schools within IPS that can replace chronically underperforming or underused schools in the dischools within IPS that can replace chronically underperforming or underused schools in the dischools in the district.

The Mind Trust, in partnership with IPS and the Mayor's Office, created the Innovation School Fellowship to provide a pipeline of talented educators to design, launch and operate «Innovation Network Schools,» autonomous schools within IPS that can replace chronically underperforming or underused schools throughout the diSchools,» autonomous schools within IPS that can replace chronically underperforming or underused schools throughout the dischools within IPS that can replace chronically underperforming or underused schools throughout the dischools throughout the district.

Even as a commission spent the past two years planning for the largest school district merger in the nation's history — the former Memphis city district and an adjacent suburban system became the unified 140,000 - student, 222 - school Shelby County district on July 1 — the landscape of governance within the legacy city school system was changing rapidly to favor parental choice and more autonomous schools.

We guide districts in planning for and implementing autonomous schools and zones.

We partner with educators and leaders nationwide to create a new generation of districts and schools: largely autonomous, high - functioning community assets dedicated to the values of equity, rigor, and continuous improvement.

The new school would be regional, serving students from Lawrence, Haverhill, and Methuen, and as a Commonwealth charter, fully autonomous and independent from the Lawrence public school district.

This work builds upon our longstanding work supporting Boston's and Los Angeles» in - district autonomous schools.

We work with our partners nationwide to create a new generation of districts and schools: largely autonomous and dedicated to equity, rigor, continuous improvement, and personalization.

Charter schools are free, autonomous public schools that operate independent of traditional school district policies and many state regulations, giving them the autonomy and flexibility that are the hallmarks of high - performing schools across the country.

Innovation Network Schools are public schools made possible by recent state laws giving IPS and other districts the authority to convert existing district schools into autonomous schools that are exempt from many IPS administrative practices and state regulSchools are public schools made possible by recent state laws giving IPS and other districts the authority to convert existing district schools into autonomous schools that are exempt from many IPS administrative practices and state regulschools made possible by recent state laws giving IPS and other districts the authority to convert existing district schools into autonomous schools that are exempt from many IPS administrative practices and state regulschools into autonomous schools that are exempt from many IPS administrative practices and state regulschools that are exempt from many IPS administrative practices and state regulations.

Create systems that encourage collaboration and sharing best practices between autonomous schools and and district - run schools.

The Mind Trust created the fellowship in 2014, in partnership with the Indianapolis Pubic Schools (IPS) and the City of Indianapolis, to help launch high - quality and autonomous Innovation Network Schools within IPS, the city's largest school district.

Innovation Network Schools are new, autonomous public schools that were made possible by recent state laws giving IPS and other school districts the authority to convert any existing school in the districts to a new Innovation Network Schools are new, autonomous public schools that were made possible by recent state laws giving IPS and other school districts the authority to convert any existing school in the districts to a new Innovation Network schools that were made possible by recent state laws giving IPS and other school districts the authority to convert any existing school in the districts to a new Innovation Network Sschool districts the authority to convert any existing school in the districts to a new Innovation Network Sschool in the districts to a new Innovation Network SchoolSchool.

«Indianapolis is among the most exciting cities in the nation to develop and launch a new, autonomous charter or district school, and The Mind Trust's Innovation School Fellowship and Charter School Design Challenge provide unique opportunities to do so,» said David Harris, founder & CEO of The Mind school, and The Mind Trust's Innovation School Fellowship and Charter School Design Challenge provide unique opportunities to do so,» said David Harris, founder & CEO of The Mind School Fellowship and Charter School Design Challenge provide unique opportunities to do so,» said David Harris, founder & CEO of The Mind School Design Challenge provide unique opportunities to do so,» said David Harris, founder & CEO of The Mind Trust.

A lack of oversight and confusion among several departments with little experience in understanding how affiliated charter school should operate, including school operations, school management services and budget services, lead the district to purchase textbooks, classroom furniture and other supplies for years on behalf of the autonomous schools.

A charter school is a public school whose operation is autonomous from the local school district and based on a contract with the State Board of Education.

In Arizona, Colorado, the District of Columbia, Georgia, Idaho, Hawaii, South Carolina and Utah, charter boards that are autonomous from the state's board of education approve charter schools.

Education Cities CEO Ethan Gray took to the stage at SXSWEdu to describe what a system of autonomous, accountable schools means for educators, parents, and school districts.

Policy shifts like the new Common Core State Standards and the governor's Local Control Funding Formula make local school districts dramatically more autonomous.