Sentences with phrase «conventional school districts»

Gary Naeyaert, executive director of the Great Lakes Education Project, said charter schools are often a better academic option for students than the conventional school district they came from.

While touching lightly on all, this article focuses mainly on state reforms that take over schools, rather than districts, and that assume «LEA» functions for those schools — the mundane routines of oversight, administration, and finance that a local education agency (aka a conventional school district) ordinarily performs.

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The experiment in place - based education earned the 17,000 - student Grand Rapids school district a coveted $ 10 million grant from XQ: The Super Schools Project in 2016, one of 10 awards made to schools and districts around the nation that challenge conventional ideas of what high schSchools Project in 2016, one of 10 awards made to schools and districts around the nation that challenge conventional ideas of what high schschools and districts around the nation that challenge conventional ideas of what high school is.

A recent investigation of achievement in one large Tennessee school district (in which I am collaborating with Sanders and Paul Wright of the SAS Institute) has found that 20 percent of math teachers are recognizably better or worse than average by a conventional statistical criterion.

Newark, New Jersey, superintendent Cami Anderson (see «Newark's Superintendent Rolls Up Her Sleeves and Gets to Work,» features, Winter 2013) recalls that when she served as area superintendent for New York City's alternative schools and programs, the district had two «conventional wisdoms» when it came to evaluating guidance counselors and social workers: «The first was you'd be violating student confidentiality if you observed guidance counselors or social workers interacting with kids one - on - one, and the second was, if you weren't licensed as a clinical supervisor, you didn't have the authority to evaluate or document performance for these people.»

Most states still expect principals to possess a traditional administrative certificate, at least for those running district schools, and most of those certificates are still awarded primarily through completion of traditional «ed leadership» programs via graduate degrees in conventional education schools.

Amplify's school district customers bought the company's tablets and placed them in students» hands, but most otherwise left the conventional, one - teacher - one - classroom school model in place.

If one judged public opinion by conventional public discourse, one would soon conclude that parents in the United States are neatly divided between devotees of district - operated schools and choiceniks determined to avoid them.

(Va.) Despite recent efforts of the Obama administration to provide states more flexibility in developing new accountability systems, school districts across the nation continue to rely on performance measures tied to conventional testing systems, according to a new report.

More recently, Dr. Scripp has posted the Partnership in Arts Integration Research (PAIR) Report on ArtsEdSearch — a publication that details the expansive scope of arts learning research methods and findings in the Chicago Public Schools (see www.pairresults.org)-- and the Oakland Unified School District Principal Investigator's report, which demonstrates how a Music PLUS Music Integration Curriculum Intervention optimizes both music learning and its impact on academic performance when compared to conventional music control school proSchool District Principal Investigator's report, which demonstrates how a Music PLUS Music Integration Curriculum Intervention optimizes both music learning and its impact on academic performance when compared to conventional music control school proschool programs.

Specifically, students enrolled in charters in the state - run district made learning gains, on average, almost twice those of their peers in conventional public schools.

Beginning with the introduction of charter schools in the early 1990's, along with the expansion of choice options in many urban districts, a growing community of parents and educators seeking alternatives to conventional public schooling continues to fuel exponential growth in the public Montessori sector.

On average, charter schools are funded at $ 7,131 per pupil compared to $ 11,184 per pupil at conventional district public schools.

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In fact, a new report out from The Center for Reinventing Public Education, «A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2011,» argues that the relationship between conventional districts and charters is evolving «from a traditional paradigm of opposition, competition, and indifference to a partnership based on trust and collaboration through a shared mission, shared resources, and shared responsibility.»

Finally, the school district where this research took place used WSS only through third grade; some parents may have been concerned that their children would have difficulty making the transition to conventional letter grades in the upper elementary years.

Twenty - nine of the 51 schools that finished three consecutive years in the bottom 5 percent were conventional schools in the Detroit Public Schools district, or were former DPS schools that have recently been converted to charter public schools or are now under supervision of the Educational Achievement Autschools that finished three consecutive years in the bottom 5 percent were conventional schools in the Detroit Public Schools district, or were former DPS schools that have recently been converted to charter public schools or are now under supervision of the Educational Achievement Autschools in the Detroit Public Schools district, or were former DPS schools that have recently been converted to charter public schools or are now under supervision of the Educational Achievement AutSchools district, or were former DPS schools that have recently been converted to charter public schools or are now under supervision of the Educational Achievement Autschools that have recently been converted to charter public schools or are now under supervision of the Educational Achievement Autschools or are now under supervision of the Educational Achievement Authority.

The EAA was created to help the lowest performing conventional public school districts improve.

For districts that want to cultivate innovation and challenge conventional school choice rhetoric, head - down leadership isn't the answer.

This basic model is used to analyze a series of conventional policy experiments, including school district consolidation and district power utilization.

Public charter schools in Michigan are closing the performance gap with conventional district schools in some subjects, according to recently released results from a national assessment test that was given last year.

In Michigan, state funding follows the student, so a local district loses funding if a family relocates, or chooses to send their children to a charter school or a school in a neighboring conventional district (permitted under a cross-district «schools of choice» program).

Most school districts today are fascinated with a more conventional yet highly professional look and style.

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