Sentences with phrase «by school districts»

It is pretty ironic that Arne Duncan, the protégée of our own Paul Vallas, (Bridgeport's $ 229,000 part - time «reform» superintendent), is now charging that the private companies that are being hired by school districts are not being effective nor are they being held accountable for the failure of their programing.

The Urban Teacher Residency Program falls into a small category of alternative programs in California run by school districts.

I believed that instructional methods pursued by school districts as a result of standardized tests like the MAP could be harmful to Zachary.

For example, charter schools are not always created or managed by school districts.

TASBO has compiled a list of cooperatives utilized by school districts and charter schools in Texas.

Professional development offered by the school districts and IDRA that was recognized as a strong source of instructional support.

Petrilli said the growing use of credit recovery by school districts is alarming and may be responsible for the record high national graduation rate that was achieved for the 2013 - 14 school year.

Of the studies that exist, only a few have statistically controlled variables: Most are case or correlational studies and rely on data self - reported by school districts.

The state budget has implications on how money is spent by school districts in many ways that can cause some upheaval in teaching and central office staff positions.

We have prepared teachers in high - need areas that were identified by school districts, such as bilingual / ESL, special education, math, science and other subjects with an added supplemental certification in ESL and special education.

But even though we were able to get information out — put it on their radar so they could pay attention and talk with their superintendents — not all School Improvement Grant (SIG) applications were handled collaboratively by the school districts.

Abuse of School Meals Funds Target of Cannella Bill Acting on the financial abuses by school districts that «literally take food from the mouths of children,» a state legislator has introduced the School Lunch Protection Act.

Such out - of - the - box approaches to education are not possible through the traditional public school funding model in which parents are limited to options provided by their school districts.

This session will address the Board's guidance for «retirement suite» benefits (pension and other postemployment benefits («OPEB») that school districts provide to their employees) as well as the GASB's efforts to update the financial reporting model used by school districts.

This nominal increase was substantially below the actual increase in fixed costs experienced by school districts and failed to provide sufficient additional funding to provide all Colorado students with the opportunity to obtain a constitutionally adequate, quality education.

Calderon's bill would create four grade levels, to be decided by school districts.

Kajeet — The development of the Kajeet Smartspot ™ addresses the digital divide by providing a simple, portable Wi - Fi hotspot that can be deployed by school districts to provide off - campus broadband access to students anytime, anywhere.

NSBA and Rebuild America's Schools coalition forwarded a letter to Senate Leaders supporting a two - year extension for Qualified Zone Academy Bonds (QZABs), which are used by school districts in every state to renovate, repair, and modernize school buildings and classrooms.

Could it be that teachers aren't being supported by their school districts to recognize the warning signs of dyslexia and struggling readers?

Other options supported by school districts include:

NSBA's poll reveals the alarming choices faced by school districts in response to these challenges.

Unfortunately, subsequent regulatory additions of onerous «guidelines» for implementation of the rule by school districts had the effect of aborting the innovation and very few temporary certificates were issued, despite the documented demand for them by large numbers of applicants.

On a much more modest scale of philanthropy, educational foundations created by school districts give education supporters an avenue to donate money to supplement district tax revenues.

How are these essential training grounds of future school leaders viewed - by themselves as well as by the school districts that hire their graduates?

Teach for America (TFA), which has trained more teachers than any other US teacher preparation program, has been heralded by school districts across the country.

One of Dropout Nation «s constant bits of advice to President Barack Obama and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan over the past two years has been to open up the Race to the Top school reform initiative to participation by school districts, charter schools, and community groups.

Student surveys became the norm — and continue to be — by both school districts and 3rd party companies and all the while parents were forced to grapple with the swell of digital education.

Charter schools are public schools that are independently run from state school systems, and are typically funded by school districts or are considered independent charters.

New Jersey joins Washington and Michigan on the list of states that have selected CEL's 5D + Teacher Evaluation Rubric as a national model for use and testing by school districts.

The same benchmark test used by school districts in, say, Pennsylvania and in New Jersey might predict one state's test and not the other.

The Virtual Learning Academy Consortium was founded in 2012 by school districts from Genesee, Lapeer, Livingston, Oakland, Washtenaw and Wayne counties.

Charters are public schools that operate independently, with only limited oversight by school districts or other authorities.

It's a process invoked by school districts across New Jersey only a few times each year, a request for a waiver from state regulations that gets into the minutia of school operations.

Use of locally selected, nationally - recognized assessments by school districts, and the challenges and risks associated with using such assessments.

OSEP found that some of the practices used by school districts to delay or deny initial special education evaluations for students included serving such students via a Section 504 plan or a dyslexia program, or requiring that a student first be provided Response to Intervention for a significant period of time.

Revenue limits make no allowance for the categorically unaided costs incurred by school districts in addressing additional educational needs and school districts have been forced to absorb those costs through other budget adjustments.

Ninety percent of the kids in the Camden City School District are on free or reduced lunch, while it is almost surrounded by school districts with lower poverty rates.

Eight NGLC schools in the achievement sample were operated by school districts; the remaining 24 were charter schools.

As authorized by law, the Department of Law Enforcement shall retain the fingerprints submitted by the school districts pursuant to this subsection to the Department of Law Enforcement for a criminal history background screening in a manner provided by rule and enter the fingerprints in the statewide automated biometric identification system authorized by s. 943.05 (2)(b).

Preschools hosted by school districts are no more effective, on average, because nonprofits serve children under identical state safety and quality standards.

By looking at the strategies used by school districts in California, Connecticut, Idaho, Washington, West Virginia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, we found six «big ideas» for getting Smarter Balanced Ready:

A new coalition of local and national parent and advocacy organizations today raised questions about how private student information is protected by school districts, after new revelations concerning a database vendor moving into Illinois.

Chicago, IL: A new coalition of local and national parent and advocacy organizations today raised questions about how private student information is protected by school districts, after new revelations concerning a database vendor moving into Illinois.

Despite opposition from some of the state's most influential school organizations, the Assembly's Education Committee moved ahead Wednesday legislation that would greatly restrict use of capital appreciation bonds by school districts.

Under the bill, the commissioner, in consultation with the State Librarian, will develop a system for evaluating the effectiveness of instructional programs on information literacy established by school districts pursuant to the bill's provisions.

Three of the state's largest public education advocacy groups are leading opposition to legislation that would greatly restrict the use of long - term bond issues by school districts.

There's a growing commitment by school districts to support modernized work / technology tracks but these programs represent a drop in the bucket for most jobs.

Voters in both those states were unusually supportive of recent spending referendums put on the ballot by school districts.

The ED and DOJ guidance letter takes particular aim at zero - tolerance policies as implemented by school districts.

As many as 500 prospective teachers will receive intensive training this summer at the University of Southern California before being hired by school districts experiencing teacher shortages.