Sentences with phrase «because school district administrators»

«There's nothing on the score card that's particularly surprising to us,» Cheatham says, because school district administrators have been looking hard at data since her arrival last spring.

Not exact matches

The Pleasanton School District, north of San Jose, Calif., is proposing this month to cut homework times by nearly half and prohibit weekend assignments in elementary grades because, as one administrator said, «parents want their kids back.»

While such dual - superintendency jobs used to be common in the state, many districts in the Chicago area rejected them because sharing one top administrator was too demanding in bigger school systems.

Johnson and other local school administrators have contended that use of such figures is misleading, in part because districts can not count on money not detailed in the itemized, district - by - district lists known as «runs.»

The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that the Columbus school district must reinstate a longtime administrator to her former job and reimburse her back pay because it provided insufficient notice when it fired her in 1990.

And school district administrators frequently oppose charter schools because the charter schools use public dollars but operate independently and out of the direct control of the local school board.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP)-- School districts across several states are rescheduling high - stakes tests that judge student proficiency and even determine teachers» pay because of technical problems involving the test administrators» computer systems.

Because the district utilizes a three - tiered busing system, committee member Todd Hauber, who also serves as the district's business administrator, indicated the committee is looking at starting either the elementary schools or Ecker Hill Middle School before the high sSchool before the high schoolschool.

Because of Felton Elementary's success with the newsroom program, the site coordinator and district administrators have expanded the model to other district schools.

Districts that had higher levels of opt out rates because they were honest with parents about the issue are still being required to submit a «Corrective Action» plan on how those school administrators will ensure parents don't opt out this year.

Some district administrators have said that elementary school teachers don't have time to provide the required 200 minutes of physical education every 10 days because students need every minute of classroom instruction to prepare for standardized tests.

Our urban school districts aren't struggling because school administrators and dedicated staff don't know what they are doing.

But a panel of three teachers and a school district administrator told the Assembly Education Committee at a hearing in Sacramento earlier this month that they couldn't get a clear picture of students» progress because the reports they received on how students did on the interim assessments lacked enough detail to be useful.

Last year alone, StateImpact found the cap lowered the state letter grades of 319 Indiana schools who performed well enough to earn A's or B's, but earned C's because they failed to make «Adequate Yearly Progress» under NCLB — much to the dismay of many district - and school - level administrators.

teacher6402: «The reason that scores and achievement are so low in urban districts is due to many factors: transient leadership, unqualified administrators, lack of curricula, poverty and transient students, lack of parental and community support, politicians posturing at the expense of poor and urban communities, and yes - ineffective teachers who often get in to urban school districts because they lack the skill set and content knowledge to get in to other districts.»