Sentences with phrase «differences between school districts»

There are substantial baseline differences between school districts in equipment use and preparation methods.

Among each of the ten largest districts in Florida, the observed range between the 10th and 90th percentile of the SES test score gap is larger than the observed difference between the school district with the largest SES gap and the school district with the smallest SES gap (among the ten largest school districts in Florida, that is).

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The initiative, which coincides with Make A Difference Day, is collaboration between the Oneida County Youth Bureau, the Oneida County Office for the Aging and Continuing Care, Oneida County colleges, school districts, youth organizations and merchants.

The border between Westhill Central School District and the Syracuse City School District had a 38 percent poverty difference, making it the 15th-most segregated school district border in thSchool District and the Syracuse City School District had a 38 percent poverty difference, making it the 15th-most segregated school district border in District and the Syracuse City School District had a 38 percent poverty difference, making it the 15th-most segregated school district border in thSchool District had a 38 percent poverty difference, making it the 15th-most segregated school district border in District had a 38 percent poverty difference, making it the 15th-most segregated school district border in thschool district border in district border in the U.S.

Despite Cuomo's comments about the differences between rich and poor districts, his address brought a lukewarm response from the Alliance for Quality Education, which focuses on the wealth disparities among schools.

Rockland County Legislator Nancy Low - Hogan explained the bill's content, which states that when placing a child in a special education class, the school district must take into consideration any differences in educational impact between a school's environment and the child's home environment and family background.

Lead researcher Professor Les Mayhew, Cass Business School, said many of the differences in life expectancy between districts can be explained by unhealthy lifestyles and a lack of social mobility and investment.

The driving force of this relationship is not teachers» leaving urban districts for suburban ones; on the contrary, most of the difference in leaving rates between these types of schools is caused by teachers moving to new schools within their original district.

In response to lawsuits that identified large within - state differences in per - pupil spending across wealthy and poor districts, state supreme courts overturned school - finance systems in 28 states between 1971 and 2010, and many state legislatures implemented reforms that led to major changes in school funding.

Only anecdotal evidence has been offered in support of the claim that charter schools systematically remove students with disabilities, and little rigorous research has considered the underlying causes of the difference between the percentage of charter - school students and district - school students enrolled in special education, the so - called «special education gap.»

In response to large within - state differences in per - pupil spending across wealthy / high - income and poor districts, state supreme courts overturned school finance systems in 28 states between 1971 and 2010, and many states implemented legislative reforms that spawned important changes in public education funding.

Researchers studying spending differences between districts have established 0.1 as an acceptable level of equity, and we follow this convention in our analysis of between - school spending differences.

In this study, we address these questions by taking an in - depth look at funding differences between and within Texas school districts over the course of a decade, from the 1993 — 94 to 2002 — 03 school years.

So it is not altogether wrong to emphasize variation in the charter world, but on most of the school characteristics we find no significant difference between the variability in parental perceptions in the charter and district - school sectors.

We first examine the differences between schools in noncategorical resources by comparing each school's per - pupil funding to the average per - pupil funding in the district.

There are remarkable differences in the number of charter schools and enrollment between states, and even between school districts within the same state.

The alternative and, in my view, more plausible hypothesis is that the measures are misleading due to reference bias stemming from differences in school climate between district and charter schools.

The significance of the coefficients on the private - and district - school indicators allows us to test whether there is a statistically significant difference between charter - school parents and parents from either of the other sectors, after adjusting for differences in the observable background characteristics of the parents they serve.

The net impact on taxpayers, then, is 1) the savings that come from the difference between the voucher and the per - pupil revenue at district schools, for those who would have attended them in the absence of the voucher program, minus 2) the voucher costs for students who would have attended private schools anyway.

We do not find a consistent pattern of differences in attrition rates between KIPP and district schools (see Figure 2).

In all but one of the 11 remaining districts, there was a three - grade difference between the highest - graded and lowest - graded school in the district.

We next explore whether schools differ in the extent to which relatively disadvantaged students catch up to relatively advantaged students (or fall farther behind), and we investigate the degree to which the differences we observe occur within school districts, and not just between these districts.

The study, Resegregation in American Schools, analyzes the latest data from the National Center of Education Statistics» Common Core of Education Statistics, and examines changes in racial composition in American schools, national patterns of segregation, the relationship between segregation by race and schools experiencing concentrated poverty, the difference in segregation in different regions and types of school districts, and the extent and segregation of multiracial sSchools, analyzes the latest data from the National Center of Education Statistics» Common Core of Education Statistics, and examines changes in racial composition in American schools, national patterns of segregation, the relationship between segregation by race and schools experiencing concentrated poverty, the difference in segregation in different regions and types of school districts, and the extent and segregation of multiracial sschools, national patterns of segregation, the relationship between segregation by race and schools experiencing concentrated poverty, the difference in segregation in different regions and types of school districts, and the extent and segregation of multiracial sschools experiencing concentrated poverty, the difference in segregation in different regions and types of school districts, and the extent and segregation of multiracial schoolsschools.

Other key differences between CMOs and most school districts will enable the former to continue to scale effectively: 1) Governance structure.

Given that they have the same powers and organizational interests, the only difference I can see between PM and School District boards is that the PM is imagined to be a good guy, who will properly be motivated by quality and avoid interfering unproductively in school operations, while School District board members (even if appointed) are imagined to be bad guys who are more concerned with satisfying special interests and following procedures than with school quSchool District boards is that the PM is imagined to be a good guy, who will properly be motivated by quality and avoid interfering unproductively in school operations, while School District board members (even if appointed) are imagined to be bad guys who are more concerned with satisfying special interests and following procedures than with school quschool operations, while School District board members (even if appointed) are imagined to be bad guys who are more concerned with satisfying special interests and following procedures than with school quSchool District board members (even if appointed) are imagined to be bad guys who are more concerned with satisfying special interests and following procedures than with school quschool quality.

The AFT claims that charter schools are more racially homogeneous than district schools, citing research that makes much of very small differences (normally less than 10 percent) between charter and nearby district school student bodies.

Class size represents a major difference between Icahn and many other schools (charter and district).

The differences in reported levels of satisfaction between charter and assigned - district schools are wider among Asian and white families, too: for assigned - district schools, the difference is 16 percentage points for Asian families and 9 for white families, compared to a statistically insignificant 6 percentage points and 5 percentage points for African American and Hispanic parents, respectively.

Private schools generate similarly higher levels of satisfaction than choice and district schools in all three types of communities, but significant differences between charters and chosen district schools are not observed in any of the three areas.

Driven by their collective bargaining agreements, the vast majority of big school districts ignore between - school differences in teacher salaries.

These choice - based schools pose a greater threat to the private sector because the differences in satisfaction level are, roughly speaking, only half as large as between private schools and the assigned - district sector.

b. Availability of counselors, measured as the percent difference between the percent of alternative schools in the district that had a counselor and the percent of regular schools that did.

In a DOE national study of school finance during the 2008 - 09 school year, the department looked at differences in spending between schools in the same districts and found that about 40 percent of Title I schools were underfunded relative to non-Title I schools.

This was measured as the percentage point difference between the graduation rate at alternative schools and regular schools in the same district.

On this special edition of The Conversation, Dr. Steve Perry blasts the Associated Press» sloppy report on charter schools, explaining the difference between minority families choosing schools and forced segregation by traditional districts and states.

While federal assistance has an ameliorating effect on the difference in school budgets between wealthy and poor districts, the District Court rejected an argument made by the State in that court that it should consider the effect of the federal grant in assessing the discrimination claim.

Topics to be discussed include: Court Procedure: An understanding of the civil litigation process in New Jersey as it pertains to negligence claims; Damages: Understanding the standards for, and the differences between Compensatory and Punitive Damages; Facility Maintenance: Identifying potential safety hazards related to facilities and grounds, and taking reasonable steps to address common problems; Indemnification: Identifying when the school district is responsible for the actions of its employees, and when it may disclaim coverage; Insurance Coverage Issues: Understanding what is, and is not covered under a school district's insurance policy, and understanding whether your district will be allowed to choose its attorney or be required to utilize the attorney assigned by the Insurance Company; Negligent Supervision: Examples of school district negligence liability lie within the school, on the athletic field, in the locker room, and on school trips; Sovereign Immunity: Understanding the effect of the New Jersey Torts Claims Act on negligence claims against school districts.

Using the SRI, I calculate the mean for each district of the difference for each high school between the percentage of students that is black and the percentage of the school age population in the surrounding two - mile area that is black.

The most striking difference between charter elementary and district elementary schools is their size.

• In all four sectors, high - income parents are more satisfied with their schools than are low - income parents, but the difference between private schools and assigned district schools is greater for low - income parents than those of high income.

Also, 8 schools have been closed by state, demonstrating a fundamental difference between public charter schools and traditional district schools.

Networking between schools helps district leaders to identify differences in school needs and to enable school personnel to find solutions among themselves, rather than relying solely on the district for help.

Indeed, a close look at MCAS results shows there is surprisingly little difference between the quality of teaching in so - called «good» schools (wealthy, suburban schools with high MCAS scores) and «bad» schools (inner - city schools with low scores) when the results are averaged across all teachers in the district and disaggregated by student demographics, specifically race and poverty.

Given that this study identified a random sample of districts across the United States as participants, and that we have data only for districts that chose to become involved, actual differences between elementary and secondary schools nationwide may be even wider than those we have discovered.

Relative to the amount that the Portland and Seattle school districts spend per student — approximately $ 11,000 and $ 12,000, respectively — the difference between the districts» PTA contributions is quite small, less than 2 percent of per - student district expenditures in 2014.

At a young age I noticed there were significant differences between my charter school and the district schools my older siblings attended.

«It's the difference between owning a home and paying rent,» Moscow School District Superintendent Candis Donicht noted of the approaches taken by the two charter schools.

The Arizona Republic produced a video explaining the differences between public charter schools and district schools.

Because I actually think most parents don't understand the difference necessarily between charters and district schools.

The new school grades come the same week as the Public School Forum's release of data that show vast differences in per pupil education funding between North Carolina's poor and wealthy school distschool grades come the same week as the Public School Forum's release of data that show vast differences in per pupil education funding between North Carolina's poor and wealthy school distSchool Forum's release of data that show vast differences in per pupil education funding between North Carolina's poor and wealthy school distschool districts.