Sentences with phrase «control of urban school districts»

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The passing of the torch in Cleveland is imminent: This fall, the beleaguered school district will join the list of large urban school systems — including Boston and Chicago — under mayoral control.

TRENTON, NJ — Education Commissioner Saul A. Cooperman of New Jersey last week began proceedings to take control of the Jersey City public schools, describing the urban district as «bleak» and rife with political patronage, cronyism, and fiscal misdealings.

James J. Kemple, the executive director of the Research Alliance for New York City Schools, who conducted a study comparing the city's school reform efforts to a «virtual» control group modeled from other urban districts in the state, including Buffalo, Yonkers, Syracuse, and Rochester, «found New York City students improved significantly faster than the control group on both the New York state assessments and the National Assessment of Educational Progress during the reform period, from 2002 to 2010.»

If Bloomberg is reelected, his model of reform through dictatorial mayoral control will surely be urged on other troubled urban school districts.

Mandating that students work to pay off tuition, forging partnerships with philanthropists and foundations, converting to charter schools, and taking control away from pastors and putting it in the hands of lay experts — these are just some of the ways dioceses (essentially a church district) are hoping to stem the school - closure tide, which has reached worrisome proportions in America's urban areas, where close to half of all parochial schools are located.

In this randomized evaluation of the Safe & Civil Schools PBIS (positive behavioral interventions and supports) Model, 32 elementary schools in a large urban school district were randomly assigned to either an initial training cohort or a wait - list controlSchools PBIS (positive behavioral interventions and supports) Model, 32 elementary schools in a large urban school district were randomly assigned to either an initial training cohort or a wait - list controlschools in a large urban school district were randomly assigned to either an initial training cohort or a wait - list control group.

Through secondary analysis, CPE found that mayoral takeovers are «a rare, and largely urban phenomenon,» and out of more than 13,000 school districts in the U.S., only about 20 have come under formal mayoral control in the last 20 years.

Many large urban school districts are rethinking their personnel management strategies, often giving increased control to schools in the hiring of teachers, reducing, for example, the importance of seniority.

The same old story emerges in how certain education reformers paint pictures of corrupt, black school boards in urban districts that teach out - of - control students.

Writing for the Washington Post, Lindsay Layton reported the NOLA district closed the remaining neighborhood schools as part of a «grand experiment in urban education for the nation,» shifting local control of public schools by voters and their elected representatives to privately operated charter schools.

Students in the study were in the third grade as of spring 2013 and enrolled in a public school in one of five urban districts: Boston; Dallas; Duval County, Fla.; Pittsburgh; or Rochester, N.Y. Researchers used a randomized controlled trial to assess the effects of district - run voluntary summer programs on student achievement and social and emotional skills in the fall after the students participated in the summer program.

· Provide district leaders who are knowledgeable about education and urban contexts and skillful in collaborative and democratic decision - making processes, starting with a credentialed superintendent of CPS, and transitioning from mayoral control to a democratically elected school board that is accountable to the public.