Sentences with phrase «data about his district»

CEO Byrd - Bennett formed the independent Commission on School Utilization to gather data about the District's utilization challenges and to engage school communities around how to best address them.

The only other available disciplinary data about this district and this CMO's schools concerns school related arrests, but there were only school related arrests in Inskeep Aspire School.

Not exact matches

Mark Gonzalez has announced a new bureau to handle domestic violence cases after sharing data about the conviction rate involving those cases during his first year as Nueces County District Attorney.

It brings together (a) fragmented reflections from my three years of living and working with the Paraiyar communities in about 20 colonies around the town of Karunguzhi in Chingleput District, Tamilnadu (1985 - 87); (b) systematically documented data from a six - week intensive field trip in two of these 20 colonies, i.e., Malaipallaiyam.

Property tax bills from the Cook County Treasurer's Office include a new format that includes limited financial data about taxing districts» debt.

We would like to know more about these programs, so today at the School Nutrition Association convention (where 4,500 school district people are gathering), I'm announcing a national survey to gather baseline data on farm to school.

Researchers doing a similar study for the milk industry heard about the experiment from a news story and volunteered to advise the district on its data collection.

As for districts needing to scale back on nutrition standards to keep their programs afloat, what do we think about USDA's data which says that 90 % of districts have already adopted the HHFKA standards successfully?

The Unit is further responsive to elected officials and their staffs when questions arise about the TPU, and tracks TPU data based on State Senate and Assembly districts.

Hispanics make up 69 percent of the district's voting - age population, whites another 20 percent and blacks make up about 7 percent, according to the latest Census data.

It seems to me that this was a planted story that's become self - fulfilling; starting from so - called poll results that were funded by Turner's own campaign not a reputable, independent source of data about support in the district, and treated as though fact by a slew of subsequent articles about this race...

Its analysis of local authority data suggests about 1,000 of the 2,277 local school planning districts will be over capacity by 2015 - 16, the BBC said.

For a long time, there has been some skepticism about the data on which the district bases its plans and decisions.

To put this data into context, about 50 percent of Floridians» daily water use is for outdoor purposes, such as landscape irrigation, according to the South Florida Water Management District.

Because only about 15 percent to 30 percent of teachers instruct in grades and subjects in which standardized - test - score data are available, some states and districts have devised or added additional tests.

When I crisscrossed the district to talk to principals and administrators about their student data, I was often met with fear, confusion, and skepticism.

Each state should consider the demographic composition of its own districts in making its policy choices, not only about minimum n - size, but also about how districts can combine data to increase the number of students included.

«Reading and math are a big focus in our district, so they are often discussed; and we often talk about data and what we can do differently across the curriculum.»

Administrators» Data Gaps: A Crisis of Confidence We surveyed a national sample of school and district leaders to learn more about their experiences and perspectives regarding the use of data analytics in K - 12 educatData Gaps: A Crisis of Confidence We surveyed a national sample of school and district leaders to learn more about their experiences and perspectives regarding the use of data analytics in K - 12 educatdata analytics in K - 12 education.

Scholars have found easier, cheaper, and more fruitful yields from mining administrative data sets, usually stemming from compliance reports at the school or district level, than from collecting detailed information about what's happening in real classrooms in real time.

Second, the data are at the district level, limiting the ability to make inferences about individual students.

Analysis of the new survey data show that when the public is armed with information about the local district's national ranking, the share assigning an «A» or «B» grade to the local schools falls by 11 percentage points.

The Strategic Data Project (SDP), based at Harvard, will help states and districts assemble and analyze their student and teacher data, providing policymakers with much needed information about trends on student graduation and college - going, the effectiveness of teachers and schools, and human capital managemData Project (SDP), based at Harvard, will help states and districts assemble and analyze their student and teacher data, providing policymakers with much needed information about trends on student graduation and college - going, the effectiveness of teachers and schools, and human capital managemdata, providing policymakers with much needed information about trends on student graduation and college - going, the effectiveness of teachers and schools, and human capital management.

High - quality implementation data will be collected in all three phases to ensure fidelity of implementation, understand how key stakeholders use data in making decisions about expansion, and understand how a non-profit organization like CIS can successfully facilitate scale - up of READS across districts.

It can help school districts and other groups develop a common vocabulary about data, identify areas in which they can improve their use of data across their functional areas, and chart a path toward using the data more strategically.

Using the education department's Office for Civil Rights data, Miller estimates that about 37 percent of teachers are absent more than 10 days at district elementary and middle schools compared to 22 percent at charters.

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I was inspired by Lesaux's clear and straightforward thinking about how schools can better use literacy data to drive decisionmaking, as well as how connected she continues to be to practice in schools and districts today.

Teacher personnel data include teacher - level data about tenure status, years of experience in the district, demographic information, level of education attained, and certification status.

In the new issue of Ed Next, Bill Tucker writes about the new data system being rolled out by Texas, «one that aims to move districts from collecting data solely for accountability to collecting it to improve schools.»

A Wall Street company that provides independent financial analyses and credit ratings for businesses and school districts is offering a service that will enable states to link data about financial expenditures with academic results and compare performance across districts.

«A lot of parents don't even want the secretaries entering the data to know about some of this,» said Richard A. Denoyer, the superintendent of the 7,000 - student Princeton district, one of the plaintiffs.

Paige... I would love to see the Feds thinking more globally and rather than just thinking about states use... dive deeper and think about district use... that will help get the consistency that we really need in reporting and getting data back down to a usable level at the district

It's no secret that education leaders — like everyone else, it seems — are floating in data, with districts and state agencies gathering more information about students, teachers, and schools than ever before.

It sounds like Metro Nashville has a robust system for data collection and for analyzing that data to inform student outcomes, but what about those districts where the resources aren't readily available or they just need help improving their data collection processes, does DQC provide resources?

Many districts and states struggle to provide meaningful, real - time data about student performance to educators.

It has good data on performance, but the item of interest to district leaders includes statements about us being a good expenditure of public funds!

«Reading and math are a big focus in our district, so they are often discussed,» she said, «and we often talk about data and what we can do differently across the curriculum.»

Newly built to support college and career readiness standards, the bank spans grades 1 — 12 in reading and math and helps districts build assessments that produce high - quality data about student performance and match the level of rigor and item types found on statewide assessments.

Schiess and Rotherham could not draw definitive conclusions about rigor in rural education because of the lack of district - level data.

If the Philadelphia school district cares only about reading results, and places no weight on math results, our data could be used to support the policy choice that was made, provided no attention is paid to the statistical insignificance of the reading finding.

«The Classroom Walkthrough Tool, an evaluative tool that allows school leaders and districts to collect ample data on a teacher which then enables them to have a succinct learning conversation about their teaching practice.»

You can compare spending and other data for any of about 1,000 districts in California using our interactive below.

With most states classifying themselves as «local control,» here is how four state education agencies plan to support districts as they address teacher shortages: New Jersey will develop and disseminate teacher recruitment materials to districts and provide them with data about the state's teacher pipeline.

You can compare spending and other data for any of about 1,000 districts in California using the interactive below.

Consistently, clearly, and regularly communicate with students, parents, and the community about privacy rights and district policies and practices with respect to student data privacy;

Together, they implement provisions of Title I of ESSA that seek to ensure states administer high - quality assessments that are worth taking and provide meaningful data about student success and equity, while also encouraging states and districts to continue to push the field of assessment forward through innovation.

«Sometimes people think education is an intractable problem,» McCartney said, citing the scale of the issues, the flood of unanalyzed data about students» performance, and the apparently inadequate American level of learning revealed on tests administered around the world — not to mention the daunting gaps in performance between and within U.S. districts.

Workshop participants expressed concerns about data timeliness, local indicators, how data relate to districts» accountability plans, and how charter data are reported.

Dr. Cantrell listened to my arguments about why data - driven accountability is much more likely to damage fearful districts with a history of failure.