Not exact matches
Stacy:
While I have in the past pushed my
district to end its arrangement with Aramark (including a 2011 op - ed in the Houston Chronicle, I'll admit that in more recent years I've become less
certain that Aramark has been the obstacle to bettering our
school food.
If private
schools operate in response to market demands,
while district and charter
schools operate in response to government expectations, then one might conclude that the marketplace expects
certain fundamentals from all
schools.
While states,
districts, and
schools have long collected
certain education data for accountability purposes and in an attempt to be more data - driven, there is growing interest in leveraging new digital learning tools, online services, educational «apps,» and other technologies in the classroom.
While the metric to measure the
district's success to this goal is clear, it's not
certain whether DPS's
school performance framework, or its rubric to determine which
schools are performing, works.
While the argument could be made that smaller
school districts must spend more on non-teachers because
certain positions are necessary regardless of a
district's size, that does not translate with the data we have found.
As I wrote in City Journal, Senate Bill 1530 would have given firing decisions in
certain cases of abuse to the
school district, all the
while maintaining a teacher's due process rights.
While not every dollar a
school spends directly improves academic outcomes, a new report from Rutgers
school - finance expert Bruce Baker finds
certain kinds of money very much do matter: extra funding for higher teacher salaries and more equitable distribution of resources between rich and poor
districts, for example, are correlated with higher student achievement, especially for the neediest kids.
While I have been looking at the big picture here, to be sure there are some
school districts that are short on teachers and other
districts may lack teachers in
certain subject areas.