Sentences with phrase «control than school districts»

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Sen. Marc Panepinto, who is no fan of the push for mayoral control over the troubled Buffalo public school district, suggested during a CapTon interview last night that there are forces bigger than a certain local assemblywoman behind the effort.

She has worked in school systems for more than 40 years, but her proposal for mayoral control of the school district

Talk of the Sound has been reporting for more than a year on the out - of - control spending by the New Rochelle School District and warning that totally unrealistic assumptions about property assessments, state aid and one - time injections of stimulus funding.

These studies show, consistently, that parental schools of choice not controlled by public school districts 1) are usually prohibited by law from screening out students based on admission exams, 2) use ability tracking less frequently than traditional public schools even when, legally, they can, and 3) may use ability tracking, but when they do, it is less likely to have a negative effect on the achievement of low - track students.

To get some hint of the future, one may look no farther than neighboring New Jersey, where the courts have retained control over the financing of several city school districts for decades.

The unions recognize that they have less control over private contractors than over the districts, and that the success of private contractors could well promote the flow of jobs, money, and control from public to private schools.

In the absence of a sizable, well - organized and mobilized block of voters, the path of least resistance for most mayors is to focus on things that are within their control (like a school district), rather than on things are not (like independent education entrepreneurs).

According to a report by the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, the school district, which funded the campus, has more control over student enrollment than the charter management organization does.

Despite making far larger test - score gains than students attending open - enrollment district schools, and despite the emphasis their schools place on cultivating non-cognitive skills, charter school students exhibit markedly lower average levels of self - control as measured by student self - reports (see Figure 2).

Magnet schools have higher proportions of black and Hispanic students than TPS in eight of the twelve states, and charters have more black and Hispanic students than TPS in six of the ten states where those analyses can be run (again, these are controlling for district fixed effects).

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.»

The board asserted that the statute gives the state board of education more powers than the Colorado state constitution permits and infringes on the state constitution's provision that the local school board «shall have control of instruction in the public schools of their respective districts.»

Indeed, other changes have involved shifts in power at the local level or even decentralization below the school district level, rather than greater control by the state (or the federal government).

By capping the number of charter schools statewide, limiting the annual growth in the number of schools per district, and providing for input from the local district before approval of charter applications, North Carolina has exercised more control over the establishment of charter schools than some states.

The district had been freed from mayoral control after more than a century, and a high - energy superintendent was leading bold moves to de-emphasize central administration, give schools greater autonomy, and engage families in a revitalized portfolio of educational choice.

Though England is voucher - averse, its charter - like sector is burgeoning, with more than half of all secondary schools now functioning as «academies» (we would say «conversion charters»), having successfully petitioned Whitehall to extricate them from district control.

Fifteen elementary schools and more than 1200 children in second and fourth grades in urban and suburban districts in Washington were assigned to participate in the Second Step program, versus as control, using a quasi-experimental design.

Factors other than educational considerations may have influenced the selection of schools the district brought back under its control.

Charter schools are publicly funded schools that operate outside the direct control of local school districts, under a publicly issued charter that gives them greater autonomy than other public schools have over curriculum, instruction, and operations.

Ruby (2006) found that middle school science students in treatment schools demonstrated significantly greater improvement on district standardized tests than students in the matched control schools.

Each such educational firm, or edfirm for short, functions like an independent contractor within the school district (with some requirements, to ensure much greater equity than is typical in public schools today) and is not controlled by the district office.

DPS» adoption of the LLN allows the district to shift more toward an authorizing body and service provider rather than a traditional command - and - control school system that emanates from the Superintendent's office with a focus on ``

DPS» adoption of the LLN allows the district to shift more toward an authorizing body and service provider rather than a traditional command - and - control school system that emanates from the Superintendent's office with a focus on «one best system» which we know does not work if you want a diverse set of great schools.

On a national scale, educators in more than 15 school districts have successfully declared their independence from the state and national unions» control of their local association.

States have set up command - and - control frameworks, viewing districts rather than schools as public education's first responders, which is at odds with school - level efforts to address the particular needs of students and communities.

Los Angeles Unified School Board Election Has Nation's Attention The race for three Los Angeles Unified school board seats has drawn more than $ 4 million in donations — as well as the attention of education leaders nationwide — as the district's powerful unions and the reform movement battle for control of public educSchool Board Election Has Nation's Attention The race for three Los Angeles Unified school board seats has drawn more than $ 4 million in donations — as well as the attention of education leaders nationwide — as the district's powerful unions and the reform movement battle for control of public educschool board seats has drawn more than $ 4 million in donations — as well as the attention of education leaders nationwide — as the district's powerful unions and the reform movement battle for control of public education.

When the state took control of the Tate County School District in 2009, the rural district that serves about 3,000 students was more than $ 1 million District in 2009, the rural district that serves about 3,000 students was more than $ 1 million district that serves about 3,000 students was more than $ 1 million in debt.

Affirming his longstanding belief in local control, Gov. Jerry Brown said Thursday that advocates for tighter state controls over the Local Control Funding Formula would better spend their time in school districts, pressuring local boards to spend money on low - income children, than making their case in Sacrcontrol, Gov. Jerry Brown said Thursday that advocates for tighter state controls over the Local Control Funding Formula would better spend their time in school districts, pressuring local boards to spend money on low - income children, than making their case in SacrControl Funding Formula would better spend their time in school districts, pressuring local boards to spend money on low - income children, than making their case in Sacramento,

The movement also needs to do better in taping the growing Parent Power movement for potential board candidates; as seen in Adelanto, Calif., where the successful effort by families to take control of Desert Trails Elementary School also fueled the defeat of two members of the district's board, there are families more than ready to take on traditionalists who want to keep the status quo quite ante.

The chamber's top education budget writer, Rep. Manny Diaz, Jr., said the legislation could ultimately create a scenario where a district is able to turn a failing school into a charter but maintain control over it rather than turning it over a private operator.

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.

And he argued that Connecticut should intervene more aggressively in school districts, saying local control, grounded in American tradition but not the law, has given the state an excuse to bow out rather than meaningfully try to improve schools.

One study that controlled for these factors found that the charters touted as successful — KIPP, Achievement First and Uncommon Schools — spend between 20 - 30 percent more than comparable public schools in their host disSchools — spend between 20 - 30 percent more than comparable public schools in their host disschools in their host districts.

Under mayoral control, Chicago has closed more than 80 district schools since 2002.

My personal experience in Newark, New Jersey — where the state has controlled the local school district for more than 20 years — has confirmed for me what I already assumed intuitively: The path to sustainable reform runs through, not around, parents and local communities.

Worse, the best political spin that the reformers could come up with was that after privatizing virtually the entire education system in New Orleans, and giving the corporate education movement total control of the city, the «average composite score on the ACT for students in the Recovery School District (RSD) New Orleans rose by» less than half a percentage point.

The groups» mission was to press the case for individual schools, rather than district administrators, deciding how to spend money coming into LA Unified from Gov. Jerry Brown «s new Local Control Funding Formula,...

Every charter school in the district — and that includes 52 affiliated and more than 200 independent schools — must craft an individual Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP) to show how it will disperse funds from Governor Jerry Brown's new Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF).

Those at higher - performing charter schools deemed themselves less conscientious, less self - controlled and less gritty than lower - achieving peers at district public schools.

The board, the California Department of Education and consultant WestEd are more than two years into developing a set of rubrics to be used by county offices of education and a state oversight body to evaluate how well school districts are meeting goals set within their Local Control Accountability Plans.

Denver has created more new schools than any other district in Colorado, and has sought to decentralize control and redistribute this authority to the school level.

Charter public schools still face underfunding challenges within the new Local Control Funding Formula, where at risk students stand to lose out on their share of concentration funding if their charter school has a greater percentage of at risk students than the local district.

Control of the contextual complexity in a few classes, or in a school or two, is a lot easier than control of the myriad contextual variables affecting programs in entire districts or Control of the contextual complexity in a few classes, or in a school or two, is a lot easier than control of the myriad contextual variables affecting programs in entire districts or control of the myriad contextual variables affecting programs in entire districts or states.

Their legislative agenda also includes taking away local citizen control of public schools and supporting the Malloy administration's effort to punish school districts in which more than 5 percent of the parents opt their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing scheme.

«Under this system, districts can escape notice or attention simply by shining in categories that are less than academic and whose outcomes they control,» said Chad Aldeman, an education policy expert whose Boston - based nonprofit group flagged this problem in a recent report on California's school accountability system.

A new survey by the Council for a Better Louisiana shows that, by a wide margin, New Orleanians would prefer to keep public schools under the umbrella of the Recovery School District rather than return them to the control of the Orleans Parish School Board...

The researchers in the district tested three theories about the negative impacts and found that only one of them may explain some of the learning loss experienced in voucher schools.46 More specifically, they investigated the possibilities that control group students were in higher - performing public schools; that voucher schools continue to offer less instructional time than public schools; and finally, that student mobility — the fact that a student is moving and adjusting to a new school — may be the underlying cause of the negative impact.47

Several studies of LSC reform conclude that site - based management under parent - majority LSCs successfully raised academic achievement.3 Further study showed that schools where LSCs were allowed to continue as the main policy - making body for the school after mayoral control was established in 1995 improved substantially more than schools where the district intervened and usurped LSC control.4

Rather than state takeovers — which remove local control and accountability — as the go - to solution for troubled districts and schools, strategies like student - centered education, including project - based instruction, and wraparound services focused on student and family well - being, should be deployed to fix struggling schools and stabilize neighborhoods.

In the five largest school districts other than Los Angeles, namely San Diego, San Francisco, Long Beach, Oakland and Fresno, researchers found that class size reduction raised the proportion of third graders who exceeded the national median by 10.5 percent in math, and 8.4 percent in reading, after controlling for all other factors.