... «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.
Evidence offered: «A 2009 report from America's Promise Alliance, a national advocacy and research organization headed by retired General Colin Powell, showed IPS had the lowest graduation rate among central
city school districts in the nation's largest 50 cities.»
In 2014, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said D.C. was «by every measure the fastest - improving big
city school district in the nation.»
Not exact matches
In Oakland, one of the nation's most diverse cities, Jackson says he would like to see Uber hire local workers and businesses and invest in the community, including the Oakland Unified School Distric
In Oakland, one of the
nation's most diverse
cities, Jackson says he would like to see Uber hire local workers and businesses and invest
in the community, including the Oakland Unified School Distric
in the community, including the Oakland Unified
School District.
Over half of black children
in public primary and secondary
schools are concentrated
in the
nation's twelve largest central
city school districts, where the quality of education is poor, and where whites constitute only about a quarter of total enrollment.
The
school was famous
in 1995 when a movie called «Dangerous Minds» featuring actress Michelle Pfeiffer was based on a true story about Carlmont HS during a time when East Palo Alto was the murder capital
city in the
nation and there were 4 regions that segregated each students to attend (4) public high
schools in the Sequoia
District: Menlo - Atherton, Woodside, Sequoia and Carlmont.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel and
district administrators who have attacked Chicago as having the shortest
school day among the
nation's 10 largest
cities have begun touting this as an accomplishment: CPS officials say the 7.5 - hour day will tie Chicago with Philadelphia as «the leader among the largest
cities in instructional time» for...
Thanks to the Walmart Foundation, Partners for Breakfast -
in - the - Classroom received $ 8 million, which enabled us to expand breakfast -
in - the - classroom
in eight
school districts across the nation: Charleston County (SC); Denver Public Schools (CO); Des Moines Public Schools (IA); Elgin School District U-46 (IL); Guilford County Schools (NC); Jefferson County Public Schools (KY); Kansas City Public Schools (KS); Knox County Schools
school districts across the
nation: Charleston County (SC); Denver Public
Schools (CO); Des Moines Public
Schools (IA); Elgin
School District U-46 (IL); Guilford County Schools (NC); Jefferson County Public Schools (KY); Kansas City Public Schools (KS); Knox County Schools
School District U-46 (IL); Guilford County
Schools (NC); Jefferson County Public
Schools (KY); Kansas
City Public
Schools (KS); Knox County
Schools (TN).
Five years ago, when Chicago became the largest
school district in the
nation to privatize its meal program,
city officials said the initiative was designed to improve the quality and wholesomeness of student food.
Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren echoed Mayor de Blasio's rhetoric of income equality, saying her
city has the worst
school district in the state and the fifth - highest child poverty rate
in the
nation.
«New York
City will become the largest
school district in the
nation to recognize Eid al - Fitr and Eid al - Adha as holidays,» said Mayor Bill de Blasio.
In a study that surveyed the
nation's 100 largest
school districts, New York
City scored an A-minus on
school choice and competition.
On the heels of yet another
school shooting in the nation, the Lockport City School District discusses plans to install new security mea
school shooting
in the
nation, the Lockport
City School District discusses plans to install new security mea
School District discusses plans to install new security measures.
Prior to his appointment by the Governor, he was Superintendent of Public Education
in San Diego
City Schools, the
nation's eighth largest urban
school district.
These innovators are working
in cities and
school districts across the
nation.
The Council of the Great
City Schools, a Washington - based advocacy group for 66 of the
nation's largest urban
school districts, presented Mr. Forgione with the award at a dinner on Oct. 23, during its annual conference
in Houston.
The Cincinnati, Upper Arlington, and Orange
City school districts are building on new approaches already
in place to expand 21st Century assessments, technology use, and learning time and places, precisely the «edges of innovation» I discuss
in Education
Nation.
Perhaps no event represented the trend
in urban
school politics better than Harold Levy's becoming chancellor of the
nation's largest
school district, New York
City,
in May 2000.
That same year, Envision's second campus,
City Arts & Tech High
School (CAT), had the highest API gain
in the San Francisco Unified
School District, and it was rated as one of 12 exemplary
schools in the
nation by the U.S. Department of Education.
In 50 years, the council has grown from an organization with 12
districts to a membership consisting of 66 big -
city school systems across the
nation.
While discipline policies vary across
schools,
districts, and states — and as the
nation's largest
school district the New York
City public
schools are likely more bureaucratized and formalized
in matters of
school discipline than smaller
districts — the scale, scope, and level of complexity of the legal regulations affecting day - to - day
school practices appear quite formidable.
New York
City principals and assistant principals have agreed to trade
in some of their long - standing job security for substantial pay raises, setting the stage for a new era of
school management and accountability
in the
nation's largest
school district.
Even if 1
in every 10 of these graduates entered teaching for two years (average tenure at KIPP - like No Excuses charter
schools) before moving onto other careers, they would provide only 6 percent of the some 450,000 teachers currently working in the member districts of the Council of Great City Schools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school sy
schools) before moving onto other careers, they would provide only 6 percent of the some 450,000 teachers currently working
in the member
districts of the Council of Great
City Schools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school sy
Schools (the
nations 66 largest urban public -
school systems).
The chief executive officers of our
nation's state departments of education and
city school districts have enormous influence over the future of learning
in America.
Where once it was unsafe to roam outside of a few limited commercial and government sections, today the
District of Columbia is one of the most desirable
cities in the
nation to live and work, drawing diverse communities of people fighting over real estate, office space and
schools.
In Tacoma and 16 other
cities across the
nation,
school districts are boosting student attendance by sending home what they call «nudge» letters when students miss too many days of
school.
The Hechinger Report is investigating how professional - development funds are spent
in the country's largest
school system — New York
City — as well as
in other
districts around the
nation to see what we can learn from
schools,
districts and countries that excel at ongoing teacher training.
Design a
school that pays more and reaches all with excellence — October 10, 2013 Public Impact Co-Directors Refresh Vision: Opportunity Culture for ALL — September 25, 2013 Report shows promising alternative to closing failing charter schools — August 14, 2013 Rocketship Education: Bringing tech closer to teachers — July 24, 2013 Case study: New charter pays more, extends teachers» reach, gets strong results — July 9, 2013 Case study: How Charlotte zone planned Opportunity Culture schools — June 27, 2013 Case study: How one Leading Educators fellow extends her reach — June 17, 2013 Opportunity Culture district creates paid role for student teachers — May 22, 2013 Reports: City - based organizations» roles in quality digital learning — May 15, 2013 Nation's fifth - largest district explores extending reach of excellent teachers — May 9, 2013 A Better Blend: Combine digital instruction and great teaching to dramatically improve learning — April 30, 2013 Indiana Encourages Dramatically Different Models in New Charter Schools — April 18, 2013 Charlotte Flooded with Teacher Applicants Seeking Roles to Extend Their Reach — April 11, 2013 New charter school study shows the steps to great schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — Now
school that pays more and reaches all with excellence — October 10, 2013 Public Impact Co-Directors Refresh Vision: Opportunity Culture for ALL — September 25, 2013 Report shows promising alternative to closing failing charter
schools — August 14, 2013 Rocketship Education: Bringing tech closer to teachers — July 24, 2013 Case study: New charter pays more, extends teachers» reach, gets strong results — July 9, 2013 Case study: How Charlotte zone planned Opportunity Culture schools — June 27, 2013 Case study: How one Leading Educators fellow extends her reach — June 17, 2013 Opportunity Culture district creates paid role for student teachers — May 22, 2013 Reports: City - based organizations» roles in quality digital learning — May 15, 2013 Nation's fifth - largest district explores extending reach of excellent teachers — May 9, 2013 A Better Blend: Combine digital instruction and great teaching to dramatically improve learning — April 30, 2013 Indiana Encourages Dramatically Different Models in New Charter Schools — April 18, 2013 Charlotte Flooded with Teacher Applicants Seeking Roles to Extend Their Reach — April 11, 2013 New charter school study shows the steps to great schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — No
schools — August 14, 2013 Rocketship Education: Bringing tech closer to teachers — July 24, 2013 Case study: New charter pays more, extends teachers» reach, gets strong results — July 9, 2013 Case study: How Charlotte zone planned Opportunity Culture
schools — June 27, 2013 Case study: How one Leading Educators fellow extends her reach — June 17, 2013 Opportunity Culture district creates paid role for student teachers — May 22, 2013 Reports: City - based organizations» roles in quality digital learning — May 15, 2013 Nation's fifth - largest district explores extending reach of excellent teachers — May 9, 2013 A Better Blend: Combine digital instruction and great teaching to dramatically improve learning — April 30, 2013 Indiana Encourages Dramatically Different Models in New Charter Schools — April 18, 2013 Charlotte Flooded with Teacher Applicants Seeking Roles to Extend Their Reach — April 11, 2013 New charter school study shows the steps to great schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — No
schools — June 27, 2013 Case study: How one Leading Educators fellow extends her reach — June 17, 2013 Opportunity Culture
district creates paid role for student teachers — May 22, 2013 Reports:
City - based organizations» roles
in quality digital learning — May 15, 2013
Nation's fifth - largest
district explores extending reach of excellent teachers — May 9, 2013 A Better Blend: Combine digital instruction and great teaching to dramatically improve learning — April 30, 2013 Indiana Encourages Dramatically Different Models
in New Charter
Schools — April 18, 2013 Charlotte Flooded with Teacher Applicants Seeking Roles to Extend Their Reach — April 11, 2013 New charter school study shows the steps to great schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — No
Schools — April 18, 2013 Charlotte Flooded with Teacher Applicants Seeking Roles to Extend Their Reach — April 11, 2013 New charter
school study shows the steps to great schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — Now
school study shows the steps to great
schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — No
schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter
School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — Now
School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — Now What?
Between 2004 and 2009, Cerf was Deputy Chancellor of the New York
City Department of Education where he led organizational strategy, innovation, labor relations, and all matters pertaining to recruiting, supporting, developing, and evaluating the nearly 80,000 teachers and 1,450 principals who work
in the
nation's largest
school district.
Twenty - seven large
school districts, representing roughly 10 percent of the
nation's students, volunteer for extra testing so that they can have NAEP scores for their
cities,
in addition to their states.
Still, a majority of urban
school district officials think the program has the potential to deliver lasting change to long - foundering
schools, according to a survey by the Council of the Great City Schools, an organization in Washington, D.C., that represents the nation's urban school dis
schools, according to a survey by the Council of the Great
City Schools, an organization in Washington, D.C., that represents the nation's urban school dis
Schools, an organization
in Washington, D.C., that represents the
nation's urban
school districts.
The Rochester
City School District ranks among the top 10 in the nation when it comes to per pupil spending for large school dist
School District ranks among the top 10
in the
nation when it comes to per pupil spending for large
school dist
school districts.
The
nation's second state - run
school district, Tennessee's Achievement School District oversees 12 schools in the city and plans to run more than 50, most of them within Memphis, over the next five
school district, Tennessee's Achievement School District oversees 12 schools in the city and plans to run more than 50, most of them within Memphis, over the next fiv
district, Tennessee's Achievement
School District oversees 12 schools in the city and plans to run more than 50, most of them within Memphis, over the next five
School District oversees 12 schools in the city and plans to run more than 50, most of them within Memphis, over the next fiv
District oversees 12
schools in the
city and plans to run more than 50, most of them within Memphis, over the next five years.
While serving at - risk students
in one of the
nation's highest - cost
cities, charters get, on average, only two - thirds as much per - pupil money as
district schools get.
«Syracuse is now number one
in the
nation in terms of the percentage of black and Hispanic families living
in high - poverty neighborhoods,» said Sharon Contreras, outgoing superintendent of Syracuse
City School District.
Even as a commission spent the past two years planning for the largest
school district merger
in the
nation's history — the former Memphis
city district and an adjacent suburban system became the unified 140,000 - student, 222 -
school Shelby County
district on July 1 — the landscape of governance within the legacy
city school system was changing rapidly to favor parental choice and more autonomous
schools.
Today, Chicago Public
Schools — the third largest
school district in the
nation serving over 400,000 students — will stand with its sister
cities in adopting a policy and programming blueprint that increases the access to, equity
in, and quality of arts education.
Public education
in America is far from one - size - fits - all, and there is dramatic diversity within the more than 13,000
school districts across the
nation — from the 1 million students
in New York
City's more than 1,500 public
schools, to the 60 students at the K - 8
school on Beals Island, Maine, and its 100 - student high
school shared with the nearby town of Jonesport.
They are blamed when achievement scores are down and ignored when test scores are up; even
in New York
City, the
nation's largest
school district, where classes begin on Sept. 8.
Because of this, Indianapolis is one of the few big
cities in the
nation where charter
school students are progressing enough on standardized tests to close the achievement gap between urban
districts and the state average.
To promote it, he is blitzing the country and filling the
nation's newspapers with an argument that is familiar yet powerful: High quality charter
schools are the best hope for urban education, so states and
cities should do everything
in their power to allow them to grow and prosper, and
school districts should embrace them as well.
Scores for most
districts were higher than
in 2003, but few make gains since 2007 see summary table for
Nations largest
city school districts.
When the Illinois legislature gave Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley direct control of the
city's faltering
school system
in 1995, Daley appointed Vallas, the
city's budget director, to take the reins of the
nation's third largest
district.
The 2015 Draft
District Master Plan lays out expansion plans for Park
City's
schools that support our mission of innovation and excellence
in public education and a vision to become one of the top 10
school districts in the
nation.
Human Resources Director Tim McConnell said there's no doubt that
school districts across the
nation are competing to attract and retain the top talent
in teaching and right here
in Utah, they're already having to compete with teacher pay increases
in those
districts in which Park
City looks for employees.
New York
City, the
nation's largest
school district, enrolled half a million more students in 2015 - 16 than the runner up, the Los Angeles Unified School Dis
school district, enrolled half a million more students in 2015 - 16 than the runner up, the Los Angeles Unified School D
district, enrolled half a million more students
in 2015 - 16 than the runner up, the Los Angeles Unified
School Dis
School DistrictDistrict.
Administrators say a culture shift
in schools may be painful, but that it is both urgent and necessary to lift the two
cities from among the worst - performing
districts in the
nation.
«Indianapolis is among the most exciting
cities in the
nation to develop and launch a new, autonomous charter or
district school, and The Mind Trust's Innovation School Fellowship and Charter School Design Challenge provide unique opportunities to do so,» said David Harris, founder & CEO of The Mind
school, and The Mind Trust's Innovation
School Fellowship and Charter School Design Challenge provide unique opportunities to do so,» said David Harris, founder & CEO of The Mind
School Fellowship and Charter
School Design Challenge provide unique opportunities to do so,» said David Harris, founder & CEO of The Mind
School Design Challenge provide unique opportunities to do so,» said David Harris, founder & CEO of The Mind Trust.
By 2004, the Council of the Great
City Schools, a national nonprofit, published its own report, noting that D.C. remained one of the lowest - performing urban
school districts in the
nation.
«I think it is important for us to communicate with all of those people who have the stake
in what's happening
in education,» said Elia, who most recently led the
nation's eighth largest
school district, Hillsborough County, Florida, a racially and socioeconomically varied area that includes the
city of Tampa.