Sentences with phrase «district over the peer»

In Rochester, the administrators» union unsuccessfully sued the teacher union and the district over the peer assistance and review program, claiming that allowing teachers to evaluate one another violated the rights of administrators.

Not exact matches

Entitled «Transforming School Food: A National Gathering of Peers and Partners Taking on School Food Change,» the conference will draw over 160 school food service professionals and community organizations from over forty large school districts, as well as government agency partners and funders.

Membership Section Meetings Monday, July 13 and Tuesday, July 14 Membership Section Meetings allow peers from districts and schools all over the country to come together and discuss the best practice and challenges in your program.

Jenkins, a leader in Democratic politics for over 20 years, won his 16th District legislative seat for a third full term November 9, 2011 and was elected once again by his peers to become Chairman of The Board of Legislators and was sworn in on January 9, 2012.

Local school districts prefer to analyze their August graduation rates, which include students who were unable to graduate with most of their peers in June but made up the necessary credits over the summer.

As concern over America's competitiveness abroad intensifies, education officials in the U.S. are beginning to consider using individual states and districts — not just the nation as a whole — as the units against which to measure their international peers.

Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) found that NYC charter students gained an additional one month of learning per year in reading over their district - school peers; in math the advantage was five months of additional learning each year.

A study by Stanford's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) finds that over the course of three years, Texas charter school students on average gained the equivalent of 17 more days of reading instruction per year than their district school peers.

Then, over the course of the first year of the District Cohort, districts will participate in quarterly in - person meetings consisting of expert training and opportunities for peer collaboration.

The results show significant gains over the last eight years, with public charter students outperforming their district and private school peers in every grade level and on every subject tested.

Across that period, charter schools statewide consistently provided greater academic growth than their district peers: on average, charter students over the course of the study saw the equivalent of 34 additional days in reading and 63 in math each year.

Last month, the administration scrambled to get Virginia to scrap its low expectations for poor and minority children amid outcry from reformers and civil rights activists over the Old Dominion's move to approve AMO targets that only require districts to ensure that 57 percent of black students (and 65 percent of Latino peers) are proficient in math by 2016 - 2017; those targets were blessed by the administration back in June as part of its approval of the state's waiver proposal.

On average, charter students in California gain an additional 14 days of learning in reading over their district school peers, but lag behind their district school peers by 14 days of learning in math.

«Policies and practices put in place by city leaders a number of years ago have yielded greater equity over time, although charter students continue to receive less public funding than their peers in district schools,» he said.

This, in spite of the fact that the District decided to slash the offerings for those very children by eliminating all of the 27 elementary art, music and PE positions in the Lansing schools over a year ago, leaving the city's students with only 2 music, art and PE classes per semester, while their peers in neighboring school systems often receive these classes twice per week.

on average charter students in NYC gain an additional 23 days of learning in reading and 63 days in math over their district school peers.

A peer - reviewed study of academic gains in New Orleans, conducted by Tulane economists and glossed over in the Times piece, compared the performance of New Orleans students with that of other hurricane - affected students, concluding that «we are not aware of any other districts that have made such large gains in such a short period of time.»

This law has opportunities for states to set their own accountability standards and for school districts to incorporate social - emotional learning in professional development and in the classroom; a recent meta - analysis shows an average increase of 13 percentile points in academic performance for students with SEL exposure over their non-SEL peers.

The Best Lawyers in America © is based on a peer - review survey of over 50,000 attorneys in all 50 states and the District of Columbia and more than 7.3 million detailed evaluations of lawyers» legal abilities by other lawyers on their practice areas.

The Best Lawyers in America © is based on a peer - review survey of over 50,000 attorneys in all 50 states and the District of Columbia and more than 7.3 million detailed evaluations of lawyers» legal abilities by other lawyers in their practice areas.

Schools sustain and improve Open Circle practice over time by developing in - district / in - school trainers and peer coaches, and establishing SEL leadership teams that provide mentorship, outcome measurement and action planning.