Sentences with phrase «backgrounds than district»

Across the country, charter public schools are serving a higher percentage of students from low - income backgrounds than district - run public.

Not exact matches

Despite his background at the Park District, Uhlir says he has no problem with Millennium Park performing a rather more refined role than, say, its immediate neighbor to the south, Grant Park.

The district would also be more than 50 percent Asian — which includes people of all Asian backgrounds — which is something advocated for by The Asian American Community Coalition on Redistricting and Democracy.

Rather than the usual, meandering districts that typify most Congressional maps, California's new map boasts compact and geographically based districts that unify neighboring towns with similar cultural, socio - economic, and racial backgrounds.

Most notably, parents of charter - school students are more likely to be of minority background than are parents of either district - or private - school students (see Figure 1).

One superintendent of a large, urban school district said that low - income high - school students in his district were beginning to take MOOCs in greater numbers than students from more privileged backgrounds.

Basically, its provisions are as follows: If a prospective teacher who has a baccalaureate or advanced degree in an academic major other than education passes the appropriate certification exams and background checks and is hired by a school district to teach in the subject area of preparation in grades 8 - 12, the candidate will be granted a probationary certificate for a maximum of two years, at the end of which time the school district decides, based on the teacher's performance, whether or not to recommend the issuance of full standard certification.

However, district leaders don't have all the information they need when it comes to understanding which elements of a principals» background connect most to student success, as well as the elements that lead some principals to stay in their jobs longer than others.

Unlike other players in the school reform movement, Parent Power activists are grassroots - oriented players, often coming from backgrounds outside of education and policymaking circles, and have actually have dealt day - to - day with traditional districts which have treated them as little more than nuisances and pests.

Looming in the background of the district's student achievement issue is the problem of teacher retention with nearly 20 percent of MCS teachers leaving after their first year, and more than 40 percent leaving within three years.

But in many cases, suburban districts are doing only marginally better than big city peers in improving student achievement, and doing terribly by kids from poor and minority backgrounds.

The participating districts have at least 28 % of students designated as English Language Learners (ELL) and 60 % as coming from a Spanish speaking background but not necessarily designated as ELLs; these percentages are higher than the national average.

As with black and Latino families from the middle class, poor families of all backgrounds move into suburbia thinking that traditional district schools in those communities will do better in providing their kids with high - quality teaching and curricula than the big city districts they fled.

One out of every five suburban fourth grade young men from middle - class backgrounds were reading Below Basic in 2011, according to Dropout Nation «s analysis of NAEP data, just three points better than levels of illiteracy four years earlier; big - city districts brought down the levels of illiteracy for their middle class students by four percentage points in that same period, with nearly as many students from those backgrounds struggling with reading.

Located in the nation's largest arts district, the Museum acts as a catalyst for community creativity, engaging people of all ages and backgrounds with a diverse spectrum of programming, from exhibitions and lectures to concerts, literary events, and dramatic and dance presentations.Since the Museum's return to free general admission in 2013, the DMA has welcomed more than two and a half million visitors.

Located in the vibrant Arts District of downtown Dallas, the Museum welcomes more than half a million visitors annually and acts as a catalyst for community creativity, engaging people of all ages and backgrounds with a diverse spectrum of programming, from exhibitions and lectures to concerts, literary events, and dramatic and dance presentations.