Sentences with phrase «decision by school system»

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The decision by Spokane Public Schools to abolish the valedictorian system and traditional class rankings is defended as a way of reducing student stress («Spokane schools will eliminate valedictorian system, class ranking,» The Spokesman - Review, FSchools to abolish the valedictorian system and traditional class rankings is defended as a way of reducing student stress («Spokane schools will eliminate valedictorian system, class ranking,» The Spokesman - Review, Fschools will eliminate valedictorian system, class ranking,» The Spokesman - Review, Feb. 3).

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«The decision to reject the waiver application submitted by Mayor Bloomberg is a tremendous victory for the more than one million children in the New York City public school system,» he said.

A controversial proposal to change how local governments and school districts are compensated for state - owned lands in the Adirondacks and Catskills by utilizing a payment - in - lieu - of - taxes system was not included in the final spending plan, a decision roundly praised by local stakeholders.

The decision upholds a March ruling from a lower court, and is a blow to the Bloomberg administration's attempts to revitalize the city's education system by shutting down failing schools.

Her 1974 book The Great School Wars describes how New York City has played educational three - card monte over its long public school history by moving apparent control over decisions up and down the system, between the central chancellor's office and the local superintendents, but never yielding any fraction of control to the scSchool Wars describes how New York City has played educational three - card monte over its long public school history by moving apparent control over decisions up and down the system, between the central chancellor's office and the local superintendents, but never yielding any fraction of control to the scschool history by moving apparent control over decisions up and down the system, between the central chancellor's office and the local superintendents, but never yielding any fraction of control to the schools.

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Dzintra I. Janavs wrote in a 20 - page decision that the mayor's plan violates several provisions of the state constitution by shifting, in part, «management and control of the 708,000 - student Los Angeles Unified School District to entities and authorities... that are not part of the public school system.&School District to entities and authorities... that are not part of the public school system.&school system.»

Ms. Steirer says her decision to serve others must be based on personal values and should not be imposed upon her by the school system.

While the court's 7 - to - 2 decision to invalidate the system was widely expected across Texas in recent weeks, the justices surprised observers by voting 5 to 4 to allow the legislature to wait until next year's regular session to come up with another solution to the problem of funding disparities between rich and poor school districts.

Rather than telling Bright Vale exactly what to do, the education system had created an environment where the school would improve by adaptive, local decision making.

For example, although the schools CMU chartered were required by law to administer the state testing system, the Michigan Educational Assessment Program or MEAP, the results were wholly inadequate for making high - stakes decisions like closing schools.

Though some will disagree about whether immigrants made the American Catholic Church or the American Catholic Church made the immigrants, the 1884 decisions by the Bishops stand as the foundational documents of a school system that so prospered that, by 1965, it was educating one of every eight children in the United States.

But observers in St. Paul believe two recent developments may create a favorable climate for the concept: the U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the state's 25 - year - old system of income - tax deductions for expenses incurred by families with children in private and public schools, and the endorsement of a generalized voucher...

I would change the way that many school systems currently make decisions - for example, by hiring and firing teachers in ways that do not ensure that all children get the best teachers available.

In Utah, which has the fastest - growing school - age population in the United States, a task force studying educational reform has found «an education system locked into a network of operating procedures by a multitude of traditions, decisions, practices, and attitudes which have evolved slowly over the years,» and has recommended 27 steps «to dislodge or alter some of the procedures.»

After 1974, however, school integration efforts outside the South were stymied by the Supreme Court's 5 - 4 decision in Milliken v. Bradley, which prohibited heavily minority urban systems from including nearby suburbs in desegregation plans.

As schools adopt blended learning, many are eager to use the floods of student learning data gathered by their various software systems to make better instructional decisions.

Regardless of the reform strategy — whether new standards, or accountability, or small schools, or parental choice, or teacher effectiveness — there is an underlying weakness in the U.S. education system which has hampered every effort up to now: most consequential decisions are made by district and state leaders, yet these leaders lack the infrastructure to learn quickly what's working and what's not.

The Texas Supreme Court last week ended the state's five - year legal ordeal with its school - finance system, ruling in a split decision that the system imposed by the legislature in 1993 passes every constitutional test.

But over the range of spending commonly observed among school systems in the United States, the effect on student achievement is often swamped by how wisely the money is spent, by bureaucratic and contract rigidities, and by a host of important policies and decisions that have nothing at all to do with money.

Judge Kalokathis is expected to issue a final decision on the overall school funding system by Feb. 1.

Some school systems are characterized by a high degree of centralization, where decisions on a wide range of issues are taken out of the schools» hands.

I am not suggesting that the Arnold Foundation (or the charter movement in general) abandon all quality control efforts, but I think quality is best promoted by relying heavily on parent judgement and otherwise relying on a decentralized system of authorizers with the most contextual information to make decisions about opening and closing schools if parents seem to have difficulty assessing quality on their own.

This actually does harm to our education system by encouraging state and local officials to avoid the difficult decisions needed to put their schools back on a sustainable path.

This manifested in new systems — from School Grades to new College - and - Career Ready assessments, to meaningful teacher evaluation — things that we can say changed the landscape by telling the truth and putting students and families at the center of all decision - making.

The lawsuit is the first of what many analysts expect will be numerous legal challenges around the country following a landmark decision in June by a California Superior Court judge who struck down the tenure system there as unconstitutional under state law, saying it unfairly saddled students in high - needs schools with low - performing teachers.

These systems have to be designed so that all schools have the same time frame for applications and admission decisions, and so that they can not be gamed by either schools or applying families.

According to the News and Star, after Kirby Stephen Grammar School failed their report, headteacher Ruth Houston and chairman of the governing body, Simon Bennett, sent a letter to parents stating that they believed the decision was «a failing of the inspection system, not the school, if an overall judgement is defined by a lack of a fence or not enough locks on doors, rather than the excellent teaching, leadership, behaviour and outcomes of the school.&School failed their report, headteacher Ruth Houston and chairman of the governing body, Simon Bennett, sent a letter to parents stating that they believed the decision was «a failing of the inspection system, not the school, if an overall judgement is defined by a lack of a fence or not enough locks on doors, rather than the excellent teaching, leadership, behaviour and outcomes of the school.&school, if an overall judgement is defined by a lack of a fence or not enough locks on doors, rather than the excellent teaching, leadership, behaviour and outcomes of the school.&school.»

«As a public school parent, I am committed to a fundamentally different way of making decisions about co-locations, and that's a commitment shared by the longtime teacher now leading our school system.»

The EEP has called for an effective teacher for every child (paying teachers as professionals, giving them the tools and training to do their work effectively, and making tough decisions about ineffective teachers); empowering parents by allowing them to choose the best schools for their children; holding grown - ups at all levels accountable for the education of our children; and, very important, having enough strength in our convictions to stand up to anyone who seeks to preserve a failed system.

School systems — public and private - should continue to make allocation decisions based on their superior local knowledge and administrative capacity, but should be guided by the new model and be fully transparent and accountable.

Parents across the U.S. want a real, substantial role in all decisions that affect our children's schools, such as the one provided by Chicago's local school council system.

New legislation passed in 2017 made changes to the timing of the high school assessment, so the placement agreement language is currently being re-assessed by the system, with a final decision about changes expected by June 1, 2018.

Parents United for Responsible Education (PURE) is about creating «a high quality public education for all children by informing parents about education issues and parents» rights, bringing parents into the decision making process, empowering parents in their role as advocates for their children, and assisting them in their interactions within the school system.»

Districts should be key drivers within comprehensive accountability systems by supporting continuous improvement, tracking additional measures of school quality and student success, using these measures to inform local decisions about resources and supports, and serving as laboratories of innovation for the state;

In every decision I made about the schools I led — be it professional development, program development, school culture, instructional focus and feedback systems, or curriculum design — any idea or insight I had was always sharpened and strengthened by including my colleagues in the conversation.

Distinguishing the earlier Brady decision, the court noted that funds were paid to the transportation system administered by the board of education, not directly to individual schools, and benefits flowed «toward the safety and welfare of elementary age school children and not into the accounts of non-public schools.»

One notable difference between corporate IT and educational IT in the public school systems is that technology budgets for education are constrained by factors outside the typical decision - making processes of «the business.»

PURE exists to support and assure a high quality public education for all children by informing parents about education issues and parents» rights, bringing parents into the decision making process, empowering parents in their role as advocates for their children, and assisting them in their interactions within the school system.

By: Yvette Arañas Many schools and districts have implemented a Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS, formally known as Response to Intervention), which involves data - based problem solving to guide decisions for instruction and interventions.

The most dramatic change wrought by this effort to radically reform the education system was to place decision - making control in the hands of local schools.

Our organizations — which collectively represent the voice of our nation's school system leaders — are deeply discouraged by and concerned with the Department's decision to virtually eliminate stakeholder engagement, an abrogation of the law's intent.

Allowing Arizona charter school employees to participate in the state retirement system was a decision made by the Arizona legislature in 1994.

This will satisfy ESEA / ESSA's evidence - based practice requirement, resulting in better decisions relative to the organizational, curricular, instructional, and multi-tiered systems of support practices (including strategic and intensive interventions) that are needed by a school relative to staff and student success.

By July 1996, every Kentucky school must be engaged in local decision making — so proclaimed the Kentucky Education Reform Act, passed in 1990, after the State Supreme Court declared the public education system unconstitutional.

In a news release Friday, Curry said his office made its decision after reviewing investigatory records that had alleged Bennett, the former superintendent of public instruction, had improperly used state resources, violated the state's «ghost employment» statute and changed the state's A-F grading system to benefit a charter school run by a prominent Republican donor.

Additionally, the poor state of some local school facilities — which, in North Carolina, are traditionally funded by local governments and not the state — contributes to a system that deprives some of a «sound basic education,» the legal benchmark set decades ago by the N.C. Supreme Court's landmark Leandro decision.

Although state law also allows local school districts to use teacher appraisal systems developed by district and campus site - based decision - making committees that include the same two criteria as the state system, it is estimated about 86 percent of Texas school districts use PDAS.

These unfair artefacts of the school system should be amended by the age standardisation of all results, which would then form the official record for educational decisions by schools, universities, employers, individuals and family.

Additionally, as required by statute and as a result of Supreme Court decisions requiring a statewide education accountability system, New Hampshire schools are required to participate in the Statewide Educational Improvement and Assessment Program.