Sentences with phrase «big districts»

All other things being equal, superintendents in bigger districts should be paid more than in smaller districts.

Even with improvement, better measures, and better policies, big online schools will likely have performance levels similar to those of big districts serving high - need, high - mobility populations.

Big districts face intense challenges but, yes, I think it is possible to make significant change over time at any scale.

The rest of the pie consists of extra money districts get depending on how many «at - risk» students a district has, how big the district is, and other factors.

More than 60 years after the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education ruling made school racial segregation unconstitutional, school secession has been gaining momentum across the South, with richer areas trying to wall their kids and tax dollars off from big districts in Atlanta; Dallas; Little Rock, Ark.; Baton Rouge, La.; Birmingham, Mobile, and Montgomery in Alabama; and Memphis and Chattanooga in Tennessee.

«We are getting calls from superintendents from big districts saying their community is demanding answers to how the school is prepared, and the superintendents are looking to us.»

«While my job title has changed and I now have a much bigger district to represent, I'm still going to be the same Jim Tedisco — as outspoken and independent a fighter for my constituents as ever.

Another approach is for big districts to «grow their own,» like the D.C. Public Schools is doing.

Several big districts like those in New York City and Chicago have used credit recovery programs for a few years now.

Big Districts Divided Over Cutting School Year if Prop. 30 Fails Slightly more than a third report that they do not plan any more furlough days, and the rest say that a shorter school year remains an option that they plan to raise with their unions.

Two big districts nearby — Durango and Ship Rock, New Mexico — pay $ 7,000 more to start.

One favored capacity building approach is to support cross-district partnerships to fast - forward the spread of best practices, using a model pioneered in the state by a group of mostly big districts.

Most big districts are portfolio districts but they vary in the extent to which they embrace or resist charter schools.

But the state's biggest district managed to come up with a creative solution: Instead of doing away with busing for older students altogether, Columbus eliminated most neighborhood bus stops and used neighborhood schools as centralized stops for older students.

If it was a big district (like the my first district in Long Island) we had 150 full time ministers, and that was after they split the district 10 years ago) So it had to be at his church.

«We work with thousands and thousands of school districts, and many of them are small and rural and would benefit enormously by getting in with the big fellows, the big districts that have huge purchasing power.»

To her credit, she's thinking about the issue (got all the random a la carte junk out of the lunchroom last year quietly) but it's hard when you're in a big district.

«The district geographically is a big district,» he said.

After the last round of elections, teachers union - backed candidates form the majority on the school boards of the three biggest districts in Erie County.

«It's a big district, take an hour and a half to drive from end to end, but I've had a great time of it,» said Nojay.

It's a big commitment, because it's a big district.

Besides all that, governance - type decisions may be made at the building level — and frequently at intermediate levels within a big district or region of a state.

Although some bigger districts have online systems for requesting a sub, typically, Cherry Rice says, «A principal would call Central.

Among the commercial reading programs that satisfy Houston's requirements, many schools in Texas» biggest district have selected the following:

Big districts may decide that the added funding brought by a few more kids isn't worth their while.

Big districts have big schools.

The bigger the district, of course, the lower the probability that this will have an impact, but if you don't ask, you don't get.

Yet, you don't see any big district that is consistently and uniformly doing effective community schools.

Indeed, the unintended consequences of their legacies shaped today's flawed educational system, in which political control of stagnant American schools has shifted away from families and communities to larger, more centralized entities — initially to bigger districts and eventually to control by states, courts, and the federal government.

Daniels said that this is very unique to Buffalo's charters since in the bigger district schools it was not common for the staff and administrators to know the families personally.

«It is a detriment to the big districts,» Wilhelm said.

But it's a strategy that has also enraged unions and become the subject of lawsuits in some of California's biggest districts, including Los Angeles, Sacramento and San Francisco.

Some bigger districts, like Los Angeles Unified and Long Beach, have indicated they are more comfortable with the state tests — both districts» teachers unions have agreed to contracts that would link teacher evaluations to student performance, according to CORE Executive Director Rick Miller.

In a large urban setting, a gift of $ 5000 can open the door to music leadership throughout 20 schools in a big district.

In a bigger district, when it's clear the principal is worth keeping, administrators can comply with the law by moving him or her to another school — perhaps even one that needs some of that tough love.

Well, there is at least one difference: A big district needs a big bond issue — $ 3.35 billion, to be exact.

It is such a big district people forget.

I set out to answer what I thought were a few simple questions: How much money has the state invested in the biggest districts with the highest concentrations of disadvantaged students?

A CALmatters analysis of the biggest districts with the greatest clusters of needy children found limited success with the policy's goal: to close the achievement gap between these students and their more privileged peers.

«There are also self - inflicted wounds in the big districts, but I think it's just a lot harder to get the kind of consistency that you can find in a smaller district.»

Despite being the biggest district in Paris, the 15th arrondissement of Paris is a calm and residential area.