Sentences with phrase «average for urban districts»

I assume the $ 16.4 k you are referring to is average for urban districts, but an important factor in urban districts is that no charters take their share of ELL or bi-lingual students, which of course increase that increase local costs.

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Specifically, I pointed out that gains on the National Assessment of Educational Progress under Rhee's tenure were much larger than average gains for the other ten urban school districts participating in the assessment in 8th grade math and in 4th grade reading and math.

The annual average increase in the rate at which Houston's Hispanic students took Advanced Placement exams was five times greater between 2009 and 2012 than that of their peers in the 75 other urban districts vying for the Broad Prize.

The article announcing the undertaking tells us that almost half the nation's urban school districts had superintendent vacancies in 1990, and that the average tenure for such chief executive officers is now about two and a half years.

In a 2011 report for the Providence, Rhode Island, school board, researchers at Brown University's Urban Education and Policy program found that the district's 1,321 teachers took off an average of 21 days each per school year.

In Houston, as in so many urban districts, the accounting system pretends that every teacher earns the average salary of teachers in the district rather than accounting for the actual costs of the salaries at a particular school.

Even if 1 in every 10 of these graduates entered teaching for two years (average tenure at KIPP - like No Excuses charter schools) before moving onto other careers, they would provide only 6 percent of the some 450,000 teachers currently working in the member districts of the Council of Great City Schools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school systems).

In 2007 they approved funding for the first public Waldorf methods high school, in the Sacramento Unified School District; and (3) Three key findings on urban public schools with Waldorf methods: (a) In their final year, the students in the study's four California case study public Waldorf - methods elementary schools match the top ten of peer sites on the 2006 California test scores and well outperform the average of their peers statewide; (b) According to teacher, administrator and mentor reports, they achieve these high test scores by focusing on those new three R's — rather than on rote learning and test prep — in a distinct fashion laid out by the Waldorf model and (c) A key focus is on artistic learning, not just for students but, more importantly perhaps, for the adults.

Howell neglects to mention that among the 14 largest urban districts in Massachusetts, Worcester had the second highest percentage (68 percent) of schools meeting state targets for making «adequate yearly progress» under the law; the statewide average was 48 percent.

Houston also has the highest SAT participation rate of any urban school district in the competition — two - thirds higher than the Texas average — and showed the highest increase in Advanced Placement exam participation for all students.

In contrast to the district's abysmal performance just a decade ago, Springfield schools made larger composite performance index gains on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System tests in 2012 — 13 than both the state as a whole and the average for the 25 largest urban districts.

But what we continue to see in DC is that white students score well above both national and urban district averages for their race; black, Hispanic and poor children score well below national averages for their races and classes.

While most charters» scores trail more than 13 points behind state averages on every high school test, they're better than the average for Michigan's urban districts, and they made more progress than urban schools on three of the five exams.