Sentences with phrase «big city schools»

Although the politics are more raw in larger and big city school districts, even the smallest school boards can be marked by alliances among members and between members and key community stakeholders.

But now she claims to be all for public schools, at least according to reports on her recent speech to a conference of big city school leaders.

Discord has run many good educators out of big city school systems.

Doing better than the kids in big city school districts should provide suburbanites with little comfort.

He made New York City a magnet for reform - minded entrepreneurs, sent forth more than a few excellent leaders to other big city school systems, and is never afraid to speak his truth.

This is the third and final book in a series on big city school reform initiated by the Brookings Institution.

Paladino said more than 1,000 big city school leaders from across the country will be there.

It is true that nearly a third of the nation's 9th graders — and about half those attending dangerous big city schools — have voted with their feet against the disastrous state of the modern public high school.

... «The new NAEP results confirm that Duval County is one of the highest performing big city school districts in the nation,» said Michael Casserly, executive director of the Council for Great City Schools.

The project grew out of a practical problem we encountered when studying big city school systems: in many cities, the public school «system» is actually a collection of systems: school districts (often more than one), charter schools, and even state agencies.

In 2014, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said D.C. was «by every measure the fastest - improving big city school district in the nation.»

Cortines understands big city school systems.

Gates outlined his new investment in broad terms, saying that 60 percent would go to traditional public schools — an announcement that elicited applause in the audience of big city school superintendents — and that he wants to let schools and educators drive the process.

This problem appeared to be most dire for girls at Rural School: A full 72 percent of them reported suffering relational bullying either «every once in a while,» «often,» or «every day,» compared with 58 percent of girls at Big City School and 48 percent at Small City School.

Here's a look at the two central questions posed by «The Bee Keeper,» the new book about Michelle Rhee: Why do D.C. schools perform so much worse than many other big city school districts?

She has run a couple of big city school systems and is now superintendent in Atlanta.

From districts to schools: The distribution of resources across schools in big city school districts

Union leaders steered the debate away from the academic records of two big city school systems.

Alliance of Big City School Districts Aims for More Healthful Meals L.A. Unified and five others are striving to make wholesome food a national standard.

Comments on the proposed rule were solicited from school districts through the offices of the district superintendents of each supervisory district in the State, from the chief school officers of the five big city school districts and from charter schools.

The Young Women's Leadership School (known to everyone as TYWLS, or «twills») is a big city school, located on the top five floors of an 11 - story office building on busy East 106th Street in Manhattan, one of the poorest neighborhoods in New York.

In addition, big city school districts like Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, and New York City plan to apply.

One student said that in a big city school, kids roll through the system without even trying.

At Big City School, bullying tended to happen in the bathrooms, where there was generally no adult supervision.

Sure he is — but the record shows it's not enough to be a big city school system CEO.

It takes a special leader to serve on a big city school board, especially in Philadelphia, where chronic funding shortages have created a «zero sum» approach on virtually every issue.

The board needs at least some subject matter experts, people who have educational credentials and are skilled at navigating the twists and turns of a big city schools bureaucracy.

This was a period of significant social change, as the racial composition of big city schools...

In her new book, Follow the Money, political scientist Sarah Reckhow discusses the rise of a new generation of education philanthropists, the differences among them, and how their work has played out in some big city school systems.