Sentences with phrase «between different school districts»

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Information on how funds are allocated between different programs and expenses and how funds are distributed between states, districts, schools, and students could also influence public opinion in important ways.»

Should parents in well - off suburban school districts be able to choose between schools that offer different approaches to learning?

The prize was awarded Sept. 16 by the Los Angeles - based Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, which bestows the award annually to a city school district that has made notable strides in improving achievement, especially in closing gaps between students of different racial and ethnic groups.

The study, Resegregation in American Schools, analyzes the latest data from the National Center of Education Statistics» Common Core of Education Statistics, and examines changes in racial composition in American schools, national patterns of segregation, the relationship between segregation by race and schools experiencing concentrated poverty, the difference in segregation in different regions and types of school districts, and the extent and segregation of multiracial sSchools, analyzes the latest data from the National Center of Education Statistics» Common Core of Education Statistics, and examines changes in racial composition in American schools, national patterns of segregation, the relationship between segregation by race and schools experiencing concentrated poverty, the difference in segregation in different regions and types of school districts, and the extent and segregation of multiracial sschools, national patterns of segregation, the relationship between segregation by race and schools experiencing concentrated poverty, the difference in segregation in different regions and types of school districts, and the extent and segregation of multiracial sschools experiencing concentrated poverty, the difference in segregation in different regions and types of school districts, and the extent and segregation of multiracial schoolsschools.

Between fall 2002 and fall 2008, the school district closed 23 large failing high schools (with graduation rates below 45 percent), opened 216 new small high schools (with different missions, structures, and student selection criteria), and implemented a centralized high school admissions process that assigns over 90 percent of the roughly 80,000 incoming ninth - graders each year based on their school preferences.

The tight connection between the different flavors of school choice is highlighted in those districts that deploy a common application for public schools of all types — charter, magnet, and traditional.

Together we conducted a major teacher survey, and I personally visited 28 charter campuses in Arizona run by 20 different operators and conducted in - person and phone interviews with more than 200 policymakers, district school officials, and charter school teachers, operators, students, and parents between November 1997 and May 2001.

Lake Washington School District has 11 choice schools, each designed around a different philosophy or theme, from the relationship between the environment and people to classical literature and historical themes.

If we want teaching and learning to change, how we interact between the school district office and school and how we organize the adults that are leading this change has to be different.

KNOWLEDGE BRIEF 10 by Stephen Raudenbush Statistically, comparisons of teachers across different schools make less sense in districts with high levels of between - school segregation.

The achievement gap between students of different races has been well - documented, and the San Francisco Unified School District is trying something it hopes will address the disparities early on: Hiring more black teachers.

In some cases, the rates of suspension are quite different even between somewhat similar districts and schools.

Meanwhile the tactic of putting all minority kids into super-subgroups ends up being a subterfuge because it hides the performance of kids from different backgrounds; a district can, say, do poorly in providing college preparatory curricula to Native Hawaiian children in its schools and still appear to do fine so long as the achievement gaps between groups don't appear to be so wide.

Because we have such decentralized governance structures — 50 different state systems and thousands of school districts all with their own rules and policies — there are many layers between the policy as written and the implementation in the classroom, each layer an opportunity for misalignment.

Under the pilot agreement between Los Angeles Unified School District and United Teachers of Los Angeles, the school board delegates authority to pilot schools» governing councils to try new and different means of improving teaching and leaSchool District and United Teachers of Los Angeles, the school board delegates authority to pilot schools» governing councils to try new and different means of improving teaching and leaschool board delegates authority to pilot schools» governing councils to try new and different means of improving teaching and learning.

Using days over percentages can be problematic because the length of the school year can vary between different schools and districts.

Let's suppose that a school district has schools in many different neighborhoods and that there is considerable difference in family income between neighborhoods but little difference in family income within a neighborhood.

No significant differences in high schools attended were found between the 2 groups, again suggesting that Seattle's mandatory busing program overcame the separation of students from different neighborhoods and elementary schools sometimes found in large urban school districts.

We [also] learned that the rules for school discipline are wildly different between districts.

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