Not exact matches
So if you're in love with a house in a «less
good» neighborhood or
within a «less
good»
school district, before you write it off as an option, do a little more digging.
You can join any existing
school nutrition committees as a parent representative and have direct access to the people who are already working on
better school food
within the
district.
He spent more money on his meals than the
school district could spend, and brought in more (and
better skilled) labor than the
school district could afford — in fact, he basically opened a branch of one of his restaurants in a high
school — which is in no way working «
within the constraints.»
Education experts have a long history of imposing
well - meaning but ineffective policy changes on
schools, and the authority to reform
schools often lies
within each state or even
within individual
school districts..
Every
school district is different, though, and it's a
good idea to get a sense of how programming can work
within your
district's specific operational models.
For example, the
School Food Initiative set out to improve food on the plate at local public schools, and soon learned that such improvements also required us to influence cultural shifts within school districts as well as increasing food literacy throughout the comm
School Food Initiative set out to improve food on the plate at local public
schools, and soon learned that such improvements also required us to influence cultural shifts
within school districts as well as increasing food literacy throughout the comm
school districts as
well as increasing food literacy throughout the community.
Healthy
Schools BC Regional Grants are meant to support school districts and groups of First Nations and / or independent schools, in identifying, addressing and assessing priorities in the area of mental well - being through strengthening partnerships within the health and education sectors, and with community pa
Schools BC Regional Grants are meant to support
school districts and groups of First Nations and / or independent
schools, in identifying, addressing and assessing priorities in the area of mental well - being through strengthening partnerships within the health and education sectors, and with community pa
schools, in identifying, addressing and assessing priorities in the area of mental
well - being through strengthening partnerships
within the health and education sectors, and with community partners.
We live near several parks, excellent restaurants and quaint shops all
within a
good school district.
The Newfane Central
School District is one of the
best in New York State and is committed to developing and supporting positive partnerships
within the community.
And Democrats in the chamber are suggesting that some changes could be made and
school aid should be boosted as
well to help
districts budget
within the cap.
But in exchange, local governments and
school districts would have to stay
within the state - imposed 2 percent cap on spending growth as
well as consolidate or share services in long - term savings plans approved by Albany.
Local
school districts also fared
well under the Comptroller's latest rating, with all North Fork
districts staying
within the state's recommendations for acceptable fiscal stress.
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.
NSF officials have also asked a Bethesda, Maryland, consultant to assess
best practices
within an existing NSF - funded program that pairs university researchers with local
school districts.
L.A.
School Report observes, «The quality of those courses, in which most of the work is done online and over a shorter period of time, has been questioned by LA Unified watchers as well as those within the district, including the school board president.&
School Report observes, «The quality of those courses, in which most of the work is done online and over a shorter period of time, has been questioned by LA Unified watchers as
well as those
within the
district, including the
school board president.&
school board president.»
Where I get hung up, though, is with the idea that great leaders can make
schools — and especially
school districts — work
well, given the dysfunction of the larger system
within which they must work, and the Gordian knot that's been tied by decades of contradictory, often compromising, laws and regulations, not to mention the impossible politics often created by unruly elected
school boards.
Having established that the form of parental
school choice offered
within school districts is a harmful way of ability tracking, Burris uses that example to tarnish parental
school choice in its other forms of public charter
schooling and private
school vouchers as
well.
In the absence of a sizable,
well - organized and mobilized block of voters, the path of least resistance for most mayors is to focus on things that are
within their control (like a
school district), rather than on things are not (like independent education entrepreneurs).
The police training is part of a larger focus on SEL
within the Oakland
district that started in 2011, driven by research showing that children with social and emotional skills are not only more likely to do
better in
school, but also have
better lifelong success, such as attending college and getting
good - paying jobs.
We then see if,
within districts predicted to experience larger reform - induced spending increases, «exposed» cohorts (children young enough to have been in
school when or after the reforms were passed) have
better outcomes than «unexposed» cohorts (children who were too old at the time of passage to be affected by the reforms).
Even
within contentious Santa Clara County, where most of the San Jose — area superintendents are doing their
best to stiff - arm charter
schools, the Franklin - McKinley
school district brings in charters as welcome partners.
New research finds that students attending a
district school in New York City
within a half - mile radius of a charter
school score
better in math and reading and enjoy an increase in their likelihood of advancing to the next grade.
Likewise, although a given
district need not allow its
best teachers to transfer from low - income to high - income
schools within their own
district, they can not bar those same teachers from moving to neighboring
school districts or to private
schools.
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.
If things went
well, the enterprise would become a totally autonomous
school within the
district.
Students attending a
district school co-located with a charter
school perform 0.08 standard deviations
better in math and 0.06 standard deviations
better in reading, while those in
district schools within a half - mile of a charter
school perform 0.02 standard deviations
better in both math and reading.
Hopefully, prompting from the guidance to look at the variation in disciplinary responses by
schools within the
district would encourage the local
school board to voluntarily eliminate suspensions for attendance violations and adopt (
district - wide) those responses already working
well in its less racially isolated
schools.
These findings make clear that while we can learn a tremendous amount by comparing
school districts in terms of their racial, ethnic, or socioeconomic gaps in test scores, there is a large degree of variation
within school districts in their outcome gaps as
well.
Students in
district schools with three or more charter
schools within a one - mile radius perform significantly
better in math than students with just one charter in the neighborhood, and they are also significantly less likely to be retained.
But in a new article for Education Next, Sarah A. Cordes of Temple University examines the effects of charter
schools on neighboring
district school students in New York City and finds that these spillover effects are actually positive: students attending a
district school within a half - mile radius of a charter
school score
better in math and reading and enjoy an increase in their likelihood of advancing to the next grade.
Middle income families wanting
good schools often purchase homes in
good school districts that are just barely
within their financial means, causing them to live hand - to - mouth.
As
well as working with the children and families
within the
schools involved, residents from the wider
district will get to benefit from a range of events, tips and advice about how to live healthier and
well during the course of the project.
EdSource has created a database that families and educators can use to look up how
well their
districts and
schools are doing in getting students their diplomas
within four years.
Pay Teachers More and Reach All Students with Excellence — Aug 30, 2012
District RTTT — Meet the Absolute Priority for Great - Teacher Access — Aug 14, 2012 Pay Teachers More —
Within Budget, Without Class - Size Increases — Jul 24, 2012 Building Support for Breakthrough
Schools — Jul 10, 2012 New Toolkit: Expand the Impact of Excellent Teachers — Selection, Development, and More — May 31, 2012 New Teacher Career Paths: Financially Sustainable Advancement — May 17, 2012 Charlotte, N.C.'s Project L.I.F.T. to be Initial Opportunity Culture Site — May 10, 2012 10 Financially Sustainable Models to Reach More Students with Excellence — May 01, 2012 Excellent Teaching
Within Budget: New Infographic and Website — Apr 17, 2012 Incubating Great New
Schools — Mar 15, 2012 Public Impact Releases Models to Extend Reach of Top Teachers, Seeks Sites — Dec 14, 2011 New Report: Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction — Nov 17, 2011 City - Based Charter Strategies: New White Papers and Webinar from Public Impact — Oct 25, 2011 How to Reach Every Child with Top Teachers (Really)-- Oct 11, 2011 Charter Philanthropy in Four Cities — Aug 04, 2011
School Turnaround Leaders: New Ideas about How to Find More of Them — Jul 21, 2011 Fixing Failing
Schools: Building Family and Community Demand for Dramatic Change — May 17, 2011 New Resources to Boost
School Turnaround Success — May 10, 2011 New Report on Making Teacher Tenure Meaningful — Mar 15, 2011 Going Exponential: Growing the Charter
School Sector's
Best — Feb 17, 2011 New Reports and Upcoming Release Event — Feb 10, 2011 Picky Parent Guide — Nov 17, 2010 Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance: Cross-Sector Lessons for Excellent Evaluations — Nov 02, 2010 New Teacher Quality Publication from the Joyce Foundation — Sept 27, 2010 Charter
School Research from Public Impact — Jul 13, 2010 Lessons from Singapore & Shooting for Stars — Jun 17, 2010 Opportunity at the Top — Jun 02, 2010 Public Impact's latest on Education Reform Topics — Dec 02, 2009 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's
Best — Oct 23, 2009 New Research on Dramatically Improving Failing
Schools — Oct 06, 2009 Try, Try Again to Fix Failing
Schools — Sep 09, 2009 Innovation in Education and Charter Philanthropy — Jun 24, 2009 Reconnecting Youth and Designing PD That Works — May 29.
Implementation of the
school closure model may include, but is not limited to, closing a
school and enrolling its students in other
schools within the
district that are in
good standing.
Although most of the DCL is devoted to differences among
schools in the same
district, the Office for Civil Rights emphasizes that it will also examine differences
within schools as
well as differences among
school districts in a state.
While it is always
best to attend a
school within your school district, MYcroSchool Citrus Charter High School does accept students from neighboring counties on a case by case
school within your
school district, MYcroSchool Citrus Charter High School does accept students from neighboring counties on a case by case
school district, MYcroSchool Citrus Charter High
School does accept students from neighboring counties on a case by case
School does accept students from neighboring counties on a case by case basis.
The purposes of the observations were to gain an understanding of the instructional activities in the
schools, which should assist us to
better place the student achievement outcomes
within a context; provide some corroboration for the claims made by the various
district and building interviewees about the teaching and learning conditions in the
school; and provide a basis for discussion during the teacher interviews that would follow the observations.
Some are former
district staff frustrated with the bureaucracy and lack of autonomy, some are free marketers who philosophically believe (absent a whole ton of research) that the market will rescue
schools, some are pro union, some anti union, some want a new union, some are
well intentioned and fail, some are less
well intentioned and succeed, and there is a wide range
within.
Although the findings are weaker on this count, the
best evidence indicates that the impact of collective bargaining is especially negative for
schools that are «relatively» high minority
within a given (larger)
district....
With observed teachers, the focus was on specific activities during the lessons; general approaches to pedagogy; the role of the principal as
well as other leaders
within the
school,
district, and state on pedagogy; curricular and pedagogical decision making in the
school; professional development; and student learning.
Dr. Cruz believed the path to improvement in student learning would require strengthening compliance with new state - level expectations,
better vertical alignment of curriculum across the
schools, and more effective collaboration
within the
district.
The rigor of the online credit recovery programs came under scrutiny by LA Unified watchers as
well as by those
within the
district, including the
school board president.
I truly believe that our future teachers will be
well prepared to not only teach our students, but come in confident in the knowledge that they have the support they need to stay in the profession and to remain active, engaged teachers
within the Sanger Unified
School District.
As part of ESEA reauthorization, Congress should consider new ideas to address inequities in education funding across and
within districts, as
well as other measures to improve
school financing.
In order to attract and retain the excellent teachers that students in this country deserve,
school districts must adopt human capital
best practices used to attract talent, increase productivity, and improve outcomes
within high - performing organizations.
... the
best evidence indicates that the impact of collective bargaining is especially negative for
schools that are «relatively» high minority
within a given (larger)
district.
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school, a charter lab
school, or the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind who requests or shares criminal history information under this section is immune from civil or criminal liability for any good faith conduct that occurs during the performance of and within the scope of responsibilities related to the record
school, or the Florida
School for the Deaf and the Blind who requests or shares criminal history information under this section is immune from civil or criminal liability for any good faith conduct that occurs during the performance of and within the scope of responsibilities related to the record
School for the Deaf and the Blind who requests or shares criminal history information under this section is immune from civil or criminal liability for any
good faith conduct that occurs during the performance of and
within the scope of responsibilities related to the record check.
Researchers interviewed
district staff members as
well as principals and teachers from three
schools within each
district.
The Naiku platform allows educators to create, share, import and deliver rich standards aligned quizzes and tests in any subject area, using graphics, multimedia clips and hyperlinks to query students with multiple item types.With automated scoring and built - in analysis tools, teachers can inform and differentiate instruction
within the classroom, and data can be shared across the
school and
district to enhance
best practices.