Sentences with phrase «best urban school district»

«Duval County is closer to being the best urban school district in the country now than ever before,» Vitti wrote.

Clearly, a major centerpiece of George W. Bush's success as Governor of Texas and a significant plank in the platform for his Presidential candidacy was his leadership of the Texas public education reforms in accountability and standards of the mid to late 1990's, and nowhere were these reforms in more evidence than in Houston, which was recognized as the best urban school district in America in 2002.

In 2005 the city was a finalist for the Broad Prize for Urban Education, given annually to the best urban school district in the country.

And Houston, under the former leadership of Bush's Secretary of Education Rod Paige and an enlightened board of trustees, has been a beacon for urban school reform, having achieved well - deserved recognition as the best urban school district in America.

Together, we will push our graduation rate from just over 60 percent today to 70 percent, then 80 percent and beyond until we can be counted among the best urban school districts in America.

Boston is now widely recognized as among the best urban school districts in America.

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Develop a training and mentoring program that will allow the Urban School Food Alliance to share its tried and true best practices with all the Alliance's Healthy Schools Program districts.

Another report says that the menu will now include «Salvadorean beef stew, chicken tandoori, Asian pad thai, California sushi roll and teriyaki beef and broccoli with brown rice,» but also notes the district says the changes were already in the pipeline well before Jamie even showed up in L.A. (And given what I know about school food procurement in my own large urban district, which I'm told can have a year - long lag time, that seems likely to be true.)

The six districts formed the Urban School Food Alliance in 2012 to combine their purchasing power of $ 520 million to force lower prices on better quality food, supplies and more environmentally friendly packaging and cutlery.

Well, now you can get solid information from a resource all your own: an anonymous food services director from a relatively large, urban school district has agreed to give straight answers to Lunch Tray readers» questions!

City school results still fall well below state proficiency levels but sit within the middle of the pack among the five biggest urban districts in the state.

Houston's schools, which are equally minority and poor, perform well relative to other urban school districts.

A 2005 study by the New Teacher Project, the national nonprofit organization that works with school districts to recruit high - quality teachers, examined five urban districts and concluded that seniority - based transfer privileges written into contracts often force principals «to hire large numbers of teachers they do not want and who may not be a good fit for the job and their school.»

The urban school districts of California have a well - publicized shortage of teachers.

As long as the elites hold onto the belief that their own school districts are excellent, they have little desire to push for the kind of significant systemic reforms that might improve their districts as well as the large urban districts.

Recently released by Education Resource Strategies (ERS), a nonprofit that works with large, urban school districts to rethink how best to use resources, Budget Hold»em can be played online for free or with a special deck of paper cards.

Our best school districts may look excellent alongside large urban districts, the comparison state accountability systems encourage, but that measure provides false comfort.

April 7, 2016 — To better meet the unique needs of different students, urban districts are increasingly expanding the options available to families by providing a variety of public schools: traditional, magnet, charter, and hybrid models.

She embodies the values of courage and commitment that are required to meet the daunting challenge that confronts urban school districts, making good teaching happen for every child, every day, in every classroom, to enable all children to learn and achieve at high levels,» said Professor Robert Peterkin, director of the Urban Superintendents Prourban school districts, making good teaching happen for every child, every day, in every classroom, to enable all children to learn and achieve at high levels,» said Professor Robert Peterkin, director of the Urban Superintendents ProUrban Superintendents Program.

Perhaps no event represented the trend in urban school politics better than Harold Levy's becoming chancellor of the nation's largest school district, New York City, in May 2000.

While 15 of the 25 students will work in an urban school district or state department of education, others will be at a range of well - established and startup education organizations.

Thus, I am cheered by evidence of progress in some urban school districts and continue to support reforms that result in their better academic performance.

Those top charters have also demonstrated an ability to team up with troubled traditional urban school districts — a role that probably represents the best shot for providing better schools for all.

The result, Moore Johnson says, is that best practices on how to effectively lead and manage urban school districts are being shared and are spreading in meetings, at conferences, and online.

The Ritter team reanalysis instead compared the racial enrollment of charter schools to that of central - city schools, describing it as «the best available unit of comparison,» and argued that the geographic concentration of charter schools in urban areas merits a comparison of schools located only within urban districts.

Andy Smarick makes a compelling argument that we would be better off closing failing schools, but he doesn't take into account the stark reality that often urban districts simply have too many «failing schools» to close them all.

Chapter Five of my book The Urban School System of the Future chronicles the intellectual history of chartering, which includes motivations well beyond district R&D.

In Arizona, a state that has always had charter schools that draw middle - class students, there is evidence that, on average at least, charters are not doing any better at raising student achievement than district schools; outside of urban areas, they appear to do a bit worse.

Because rural school communities vary widely, «generic» improvement plans designed for large urban districts usually do not work as well in rural settings, according to the authors of a new book on rural education programs.

And far too many school systems, especially urban districts with the most urgent need for dynamic competence in this crucial role, haven't yet figured out the best way to find the strongest candidates in the land and induce them to move into the principal's office.

The Texas educators attending came from nearly 70 communities throughout the state representing a mix of rural, urban, and suburban districts as well as elementary, middle, and high school principals.

Since most parents in urban districts are poor, we need a plentiful supply of well - funded vouchers, education tax credits, and tuition - free charter schools.

The district went from arguably one of the worst urban districts in the country to one of the best by using what Kirp calls «old school» tactics.

What is required of urban or suburban school districts to meet the educational, as well as the social - emotional needs, of these children?

During our work with district, charter, and private schools — large, small, urban, rural, as well as progressive and traditional — the master scheduling process tends to be more alike than different.

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 aschool, 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 aSchool 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.

In a ranking of 30 American urban school districts, 18 others performed better in math than Dallas, including Houston and New York City.

On the NAEP exams in reading and mathematics, students in charter schools perform no better than those in regular public schools, whether one looks at black, Hispanic or low - income students, or students in urban districts.

These include substantial spending to boost student achievement in urban schools, networks of charter schools as alternatives in urban public districts, and academic benchmarks on standardized tests for schools as well as students.

While Noguera's initiative bore a strong resemblance to the Harlem Children's Zone, in its holistic philosophy toward urban education as well as in its name, it differed in one salient aspect: Global Village worked in district schools, not charters.

This may well be true, but it is surprising to see such strong advocacy for the racial integration of schools at a time when the prospects for any public action — executive, legislative, or judicial — to combine for purposes of integrating urban and suburban school districts are just about nonexistent.

But if the spillover effects of urban charter schools on district schools are confined to relatively small neighborhoods, then findings from prior analyses may well be underestimates.

Some form of school - based management has been embraced by most large urban school districts and by probably well over a third of all American school districts during the past 15 years.

Or that there are entire urban school districts without a single school in good standing?

As a result, D.C. schools lagged a good 10 years behind competent urban districts such as those.

They are much better structured to get dollars into classrooms than an urban school district is, though.

In several of the higher - performing districts in our sample (including large urban / suburban as well as rural districts), for example, district leaders and school personnel described recent and ongoing district - wide efforts to support teacher implementation of differentiated instruction.

In our effort to better understand the logic behind these parents» school choices, as well as the impact of these urban demographic changes on public schools, we conducted in - depth interviews with dozens of parents participating in a kindergarten lottery in one of the increasingly white community school districts in New York City.

The tools represent the best thinking of school board leaders from urban, suburban, and rural districts across every region in the country.

Among 337 schools recognized nationwide, the New Jersey schools represent a mix from urban and suburban districts, as well as one charter school.