Sentences with phrase «better than other districts»

The study concludes that District 4 is performing significantly better than other districts with similar demographics but no choice.

New Orleans is performing as well or better than other districts with comparable student populations nationwide.

Your investment will go directly to helping to grow our organization to reach full - scale — a four - school network that will educate 1,300 students at full scale better than all other districts and networks in the United States.

The toolkit lays out how to develop a marketing plan, by first assessing a district's image and deciding what makes the district unique or better than other districts.

Not exact matches

[1] In contrast, the predominant view of nutrition and medical researchers is that milk has nutrients essential for bone growth and development, [2], [3], [4], [5], [6] leading other school districts to take the position that any milk is better than no milk.

With its $ 272 million annual budget, the park district spends well over $ 30,000 an acre of park, she says, far more than any other big city.

I'm sick and tired of suburban politicians citing «hurting the middle class» as their mantra against good policy that actually helps the middle and working class — i.e. those who commute by another other means than driving in the Central Business District (and somehow afford to park!)

They all count the same when adding for a majority, but victories in one type of district may portend a much better night for Democrats than in others.

Francesca Carlow is a scrupulously honest person who has lived in our district, raised her family, built a business and been a well known community leader for 30 years, a person who, while not a professional career politician, made the decision to get involved in public service with no goal other than to make long island and New York State a better place to live work and play.

Success Academy's students, most of whom are black or Hispanic, performed better on this year's state reading and math tests than did students in any other district in the state.

The maps the task force released yesterday group Republican voters into districts that, rather than pulling together similar towns or neighborhoods, contort themselves into shapes that, with only a little imagination, look like «well - endowed camels,» among other things.

«Some people know him better than others; some don't know him as well yet,» said State Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, who has frequently escorted Mr. Espaillat around his predominantly white Bronx district in recent weeks, greeting constituents in apartment buildings and subway stations.

Speaking for myself as a voter, this election revolves around two issues for me; amnesty and the East Ramapo School District, one at the national level and one at the local level; neither one good, one worse than the other.

Put simply, we left the district's pension in better shape than any other district in Colorado.»

«The Court actually affirmed the legality of sampling» for purposes other than apportionment, Daley said — namely, reshaping congressional districts within a state as well as distribution of federal money to the states.

But certain cities and districts are better than others, Dr. Luepker says; it may be beneficial to consider the pollution level of where you live if youre worried about your heart health in the long - term.

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The lower - spending half of successful districts spent 50 percent less than the higher - spending districts, proving that many good schools do quite well with much less than other schools.

In addition, it wasn't particularly well aligned with the district's other main accountability program, school probation, which focused on second - quartile students rather than the lowest - performing students in a school.

Both student and teacher attendance is higher than at other local schools, with the student attendance rate surpassing that of every other middle school in the district (and significantly better than the citywide average).

It is interesting to note, however, that some teachers who receive layoff notices are well into their careers, implying that at least some districts in the state are making judgments about which teachers should be laid off based on criteria other than seniority.

The report by the NRC committee claims that gains in test scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) between 2007 and 2009 were no better than in the ten other school districts for which comparable data is available.

However, some pioneering districts, schools, and teachers achieved better, faster results than others.

Indeed, it would be remarkable if, all other things being equal, low - income students did not perform better in high - poverty charter schools than in high - poverty district schools given the self - selected nature of the classmates and parental community in charter schools.

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

The parents union, along with the parent empowerment efforts of StudentsFirst's New York affiliate (which is helping families in the Big Apple's traditional district fight for school libraries as well as lobby for teacher quality and other reforms), is actively helping families do more than just have a voice.

It is no secret that some school districts spend their money better than others.

These firms believe that, using economies of scale as well as other tools that are more readily available to the private sector, they can build organizations that use time and resources more efficiently and effectively than public school districts, leading to higher student achievement at a similar cost.

How is a Portfolio District any different other than that you gave it a new name and believe that good people will be in charge?»

The state went even further than the other finalists by requiring that all districts use the data to inform new performance - pay programs as well.

Some states do better than others at helping disadvantaged districts get the money that they need, but many states still have school funding schemes that actually worsen the problem.

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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.

BEST OF THE WEEK The Wall Street Journal's New Districts Reignite School Segregation Debate is probably the most interesting story of the week other than the affirmative action coverage (discussed below).

Rubin, who walked around in front of the justices more than the other two lawyers presenting, talks about how charter schools that are not governed by the statutes do not perform better than some of the schools that are, and he tries to explain why some predominantly minority districts have low - performing teachers.

It's definitely good news that Cache Valley School District will be joining others in Park City and Salt Lake City in offering teachers far better compensation than the state's elected Republicans have been willing to muster.

Some of the new offerings are more popular than others, and the district is doing its best to determine which ones students prefer.

In 2016 North Carolina's spending on students continues to rank toward the bottom in the nation and as resegregation reemerges in our public schools, it is clear that there are districts and buildings that are better resourced to offer high quality education than others.

In this district, unlike all other localities examined, students from high poverty neighborhoods had better attendance than their peers living in other parts of town.

In short, the researchers found that students in districts with bigger windfalls did better, on average, than students from other districts in the same state that got less.

These roles may include, for example: team leader, who takes responsibility for team and student growth; reach teacher, who takes responsibility for larger - than - average student loads with the help of paraprofessionals; master educator, who develops and leads professional development and learning; peer evaluator, an accomplished educator who coaches other teachers, assesses teachers» effectiveness, and helps his or her colleagues improve their skills; and demonstration teacher, who models excellent teaching for teachers in training.11 According to the Aspen Institute and Leading Educators — a nonprofit organization that partners with schools and districts to promote teacher leadership — teacher leaders can model best practices, observe and coach other teachers, lead teacher teams, and participate in the selection and induction of new teachers.12

The research, Reardon argues, helps highlight districts that might be doing a better job than others at closing those gaps.

He suggested that the Obama administration's NCLB waivers balance accountability with well - rounded education by providing states and districts with flexibility to include subjects other than reading and math in their accountability systems and encouraging their development of metrics like portfolios, essays, and oral exams to reflect student mastery of critical - thinking skills.

From opposing the expansion of high - quality charter schools and other school choice options, to its opposition to Parent Trigger laws and efforts of Parent Power activists in places such as Connecticut and California, to efforts to eviscerate accountability measures that hold districts and school operators to heel for serving Black and Brown children well, even to their historic disdain for Black families and condoning of Jim Crow discrimination against Black teachers, both unions have proven no better than outright White Supremacists when it comes to addressing the legacies of bigotry in which American public education is the nexus.

I met one teacher who teaches an extreme set of students, and who by others» accounts is one of the best teachers in her district, but she was labeled «highly ineffective;» hence, without evidence I'd beg to argue the VAM in use in this state is probably not much different than others.

North Carolina is better than many other states in the level and depth of its consolidated discipline report, but schools and districts are not obligated to provide similarly nuanced information to their constituency.

More specifically, the district and its teachers are not coming to an agreement about how they should be evaluated, rightfully because teachers understand better than most (even some VAM researchers) that these models are grossly imperfect, largely biased by the types of students non-randomly assigned to their classrooms and schools, highly unstable (i.e., grossly fluctuating from one year to the next when they should remain more or less consistent over time, if reliable), invalid (i.e., they do not have face validity in that they often contradict other valid measures of teacher effectiveness), and the like.

But we're having other districts actually email our staff, our whole staff list, and saying, «We pay better than your district.

Current investments by states in preschool programs, as well as individual eligibility, vary significantly: Florida, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and the District of Columbia each offer a program reaching more than 70 percent of the 4 - year - old children in their state, 133 although several other states have passed laws either establishing or piloting universal preschool programs.134

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