Sentences with phrase «district like someone»

Unfortunately, though, such a hands - on, labor - intensive approach can't possibly reach every child in a huge urban school district like ours.

I wish there were more interesting and better options in districts like Aurora and others along the front range.

And wouldn't the combined efforts of a consortium of huge urban districts like my own command the market power to make such changes worthwhile?

Lots of districts like to think they have close - knit leadership teams.

I don't want to heap a lot of unrealistic expectations on one person, especially in a huge district like ours where change can be a slow and frustrating process.

Its goal is to harness Democratic energy from deep blue districts like ours to help get out the vote in truly swing districts around the country.

But no group gets the burden of being responsible for the downfall of an entire district like parents who choose charter schools.

If I was in a school district like this, and I had kids in school there, I'd have book reading parties for the kids that wanted to read the books.

But real, meaningful change at a district level — at least in an huge, urban district like mine — often feels out of reach.

Things are likely to get better thanks to last year's ballot measure to hike taxes for public education, and Governor Jerry Brown's proposed formula revamp could make things even better for districts like LAUSD with lots of bilingual and poor students — if it's approved.

The Columbia Business School researchers studied the impacts of grade configuration on learning and concluded that «middle schools are not the best way to educate students» in districts like New York City.

That happened in both large school districts like San Jose Unified, East Side Union, Oakland Unified, Mt. Diablo Unified, all with more than 20,000 students, as well as smaller ones like San Mateo Union High School District and Alameda Unified.

He is sure to play up those that fit his campaign message, especially the bipartisan tenure law of 2012 and the state's aggressiveness in districts like Newark and Camden.

But current state law and union contracts make it very difficult for districts like LAUSD to ensure that all students have effective teachers in every classroom.

He denounced the records of districts like Syracuse to turn around failing schools, while laying some of the burden of New York state's high property tax burden at the feet of public school teachers» unions for pressing for pay raises year after year.

In a large urban district like mine, where over 80 % of our kids are economically disadvantaged and a universal, in - class breakfast is the norm, that additional food waste and expense for my district is likely to be considerable.

The Obama administration has placed low - performing, urban school districts like Detroit at the center of its reform prescriptions.

Holtz said the DPI also could do more with districts like Madison, which has no shortage of community involvement and interest in its schools but fewer than 60 percent of its black students are graduating in four years and about 80 percent are testing poorly in reading and math.

This indicative of the HPS, administrators are fired from other districts like Bridgeport and we hire them as assistant superintendents.

I believe Congress and the state of California need to take a hard look at the challenges that high poverty districts like Oakland face, because our District is hardly unique.

At stake are multimillion - dollar contracts with large urban districts like Houston and New York City.

Clearly other school districts like Chicago don't believe compliance costs are a factor.»

And as more and more students are graduating from districts like Los Angeles but appear not to have learned what high school graduates are expected to know, there is a growing concern that credit recovery programs may not deliver.

In addition, big city school districts like Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, and New York City plan to apply.

As districts like Philadelphia seek to «turn around» their public schools, let's not forget the lesson of the lost alternative schools.

Teachers with Ph.Ds and decades of service don't crack the six - figure ceiling, even in districts like Los Angeles Unified and San Diego Unified with powerful unions negotiating for them.

It was certainly unusual for an affluent, high - performing suburban district like Douglas County to aggressively pursue a mix of policies mix primarily designed for poor, low - performing urban districts.

The bill's sponsors have been offering changes in order to round up support for the plan from members of the House in swing districts like Rep. John Katko (R - Camillus) and Rep. Elise Stefanik (R - Willsboro).

Some districts are more rigorous in their charter applications and other districts like Denver are very open, so the growth in Denver, especially in looking at the turnaround and transformation are strongly suggested that they turn into charter schools rather than in other districts that we looked at in Pueblo and in Center and in Sheridan where they're really putting all their efforts into making the traditional school successful rather than turning it into another model..

For low - wealth, rural districts like Rockingham County Schools, those kinds of budget cutbacks are especially tough.

The paper notes that «for districts like Bridgeport, which sends about 1,400 students to charter school, the cost would be $ 1.4 million annually.»

«Given all the hand - wringing lately about whether or not Austin is still «weird,» people in all ZIP codes have a stake in the success of districts like East Austin.»

«We can support a change in the aid formula only if it ensures that high - needs districts like New York City receive the aid they are due.»

On the third page of the study, the authors write: «Negative voucher effects are not explained by the quality of public fallback options for LSP applicants: achievement levels at public schools attended by students lotteried out of the program are below the Louisiana average and comparable to scores in low - performing districts like New Orleans.»

As districts like Garland ISD help us grow, every Quaver user reaps the reward.

But as California moves this year to pour millions of dollars into diverse, high - poverty districts like San Francisco, parents and educators must ask themselves hard questions about which students were hurt most by five years of budgets cuts — and who was rescued by PTA fundraising.

Districts are likely to have a process for managing requests, especially districts like DC Public Schools where I used to manage this process and everyone wants to do research.

In the process, Wiseburn has taken in hundreds of black students from nearby struggling districts like Los Angeles Unified and Compton Unified.

As you can see, the schools that benefit the most from competitive equity divisions are the high - enrollment, big schools of larger districts like Sacramento Unified, Stockton Unified, East Side Union High School District of San Jose and others.

Forward - thinking districts like San Francisco USD, to their credit, have reduced the frequency of pizza on the menu to just once a week and I'd love for Houston ISD to consider following suit.

Congressional primaries are just over a month away, and it is make or break time for the many Democrats running in districts like NY - 23.

«It's the strong districts like ours that must not just fight back but to provide leadership in the fight to let us know what America really stands for,» said Rangel.

It's also shocking to see districts like Beacon, that gamed the evaluations so there's a swing from 24 % of teachers effective to 100 %.

Constructivism, a student - centered approach typically associated with the progressive left, was an odd cultural fit for a conservative district like Douglas County.

The Learning First Alliance, a consortium that includes the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, has highlighted how this has worked in districts like Long Beach and Chula Vista, California, and Aldine, Texas.

Stakeholders in Illinois and Chicago should rally around a long - term solution that rewrites the state funding formula to ensure districts like CPS receive their fair share, works toward sustainable pension reform, and declares a TIF surplus as an immediate stopgap measure to address the CPS budget deficit.