Sentences with phrase «district reform efforts»

District reform efforts often include the establishment of new school - based teacher leader positions (e.g., literacy coaches) to work with principals and with district consultants to provide professional development assistance (e.g., demonstrations, in - class coaching, school professional development, or PD, arrangements) to individual teachers and teams of teachers in the targeted focuses of reform.

If test results show significant widespread gains in student results temporally associated with district reform plans, if these trends are generalized across all or most schools, and if the performance gaps between previous groups of low and high performing students and schools are seen to be diminishing over time, the argument is made that district reform efforts are having a positive impact on student learning.

She has lead school and district reform efforts in rural, urban, and suburban districts.

Insight in action As part of community - engagement work that accompanied district reform efforts, teacher leaders worked on district mathematics committees, facilitated grade - level meetings, presented at school board meetings, led professional development sessions and took on many other leadership roles.

For too long, too many vaunted district reform efforts have produced too little.

As part of district reform efforts, Alonso engaged all parties, including the teachers union and nonprofit groups.

Not exact matches

He points to his reform efforts at the Park District in pledging to help clean up the financially troubled Forest Preserve District, run by the County Board.

Other question topics included how Cuomo's love of cars and motorcycles affects his actions on mass transit, the ongoing investigations of Mayor de Blasio's fundraising efforts in the 2014 senate elections and whether Cuomo has been questioned in those investigations, current legislative efforts at retroactively extending the statute of limitations in child sex abuse cases, the developing troubles of Suffolk County District Attorney Tom Spota and whether Cuomo will act to remove Spota, the likelihood of «ethics reform» passing in this legislative session, the timing of an inspector general's report on the 2015 Dannemora prison escape and Cuomo's planned trip to Italy.

He played an instrumental role in ensuring New York State qualified for, and won, $ 700 million in Federal Race to the Top dollars, a US Department of Education sponsored effort to spur innovation and reform in state and local district K - 12 education.

Campaign finance reform advocates kicked off a mailing campaign this week, targeting specific districts as they ratchet up their efforts in support of a public financing system.

«As the chair of the Senate Education Committee, Senator Oppenheimer should be leading efforts to reform the state school aid formula so districts do not have to endure billions in cuts any given year and can operate within the confines of a local property tax cap,» said Cohen.

Sen. Gustavo Rivera, who has a high number of failing schools in his Bronx district, responds to Cuomo's recent highlighting of that fact in an effort to push his education reform agenda.

Bridgeton — Senate President Steve Sweeney and Assemblyman John Burzichelli joined with local officials, educators and others in a community forum to mark the increase in school funding for the Bridgeton School District as the result of the successful effort to include the school funding reform plan in the new state budget.READ MORE»

A Republican aligned advocacy group has in recent days bolstered its efforts in New York congressional districts to promote the push for tax reform in Washington.

Still, the overwhelming majority of the endorsements, money and door - to - door organizing efforts in the contest have gone to Ms. Niou, whose focus on reform and Asian heritage may help draw out the well - educated professionals and Chinatown residents who make up two key constituencies in the district.

Overall, nine people serve on the volunteer panel that has a voice on school policy, district leadership and the direction of Hartford's education reform efforts.

She was set Tuesday to file a legal declaration with the U.S. District Court, hoping to block Bloomberg's effort to put on hold a judge's recommended reforms to stop - and - frisk, including a federal monitor.

(The lines of Congressional districts, already the subject this year of some expensive lobbying by House Democrats — who, for their own reasons, aren't in any hurry to reform the process — are a joint effort.)

Indeed, Skandera and Ruszkowski have started to highlight those efforts, in the form of a coauthored paper on investing in teacher leadership published in December by Chiefs for Change, a group of reform - minded state and district leaders of which Skandera is a longtime member.

Although some education reforms like the development of the state - run Recovery School District (RSD) began before Hurricane Katrina, the storm fueled the development of new mandates and forced a redefininition of the school system in an effort to reopen schools as quickly as possible.

In Massachusetts, writes Georgia Alexakis in the Washington Monthly, the paradox of these reform efforts is, «The schools most likely to do poorly on the MCAS [the state test in Massachusetts] have also been most likely to embrace it, while those districts whose scores are already quite high are fighting hardest to get rid of it.»

It argues that while members of the reform community continue to advance district and charter efforts, they should also support initiatives that make high - quality private schools accessible to low - income families.

First, relatively affluent districts tend to have higher opt - out rates, with opt - out less common in the disadvantaged districts that are often the target of reform efforts.

«It's incredibly important to use data to drive education reform efforts,» said Michelle Rhee, chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools.

Some districts in our area have even made nominal efforts at reform.

Further complicating the politics of reform, charter - receptive local civic and business groups often also support efforts to improve district - run schools — particularly neighborhood schools.

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.

James J. Kemple, the executive director of the Research Alliance for New York City Schools, who conducted a study comparing the city's school reform efforts to a «virtual» control group modeled from other urban districts in the state, including Buffalo, Yonkers, Syracuse, and Rochester, «found New York City students improved significantly faster than the control group on both the New York state assessments and the National Assessment of Educational Progress during the reform period, from 2002 to 2010.»

It was one of the first five small, autonomous schools to be approved by the beleaguered Oakland Unified School District, the fruits of a nearly ten - year - long community effort to institute grassroots reform for Oakland's poor, mostly minority students.

Alonso served as CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools (City Schools) for six years, where he led a reform effort marked by a rebalancing of authority and responsibility among stakeholders, the building of a coalition in support of City Schools, leading edge labor contracts, and a focus on individual students and teaching and learning that yielded marked improvement in achievement and climate data across all levels, the first increases in enrollment in 40 years, and widespread political and ground root support for what have been divisive reform strategies in other districts.

A dispute within a Florida school district that state education officials worried could jeopardize their new education - reform effort has been resolved.

Though lacking any regulatory components, the report proved to be a blockbuster, mobilizing reform efforts in states and school districts across the country.

The National Institute for Urban School Improvement, funded by the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs, was created to facilitate and unify reform efforts in general and special education in the nation's urban school districts.

I'm looking forward to working within a district currently in the process of so many innovative and exciting school reform efforts.

School - finance reforms passed last year by Wisconsin lawmakers in an effort to reduce the gap between wealthy and poor school districts could have the opposite effect.

One early effort at reform was a proposal from the University of New Orleans (UNO) in the summer of 2001 to create and oversee a new charter school district, converting 10 existing public schools to charters.

«As a partner with the school district, BPE has raised almost $ 40 million in private funds for the district's ten - year reform effort since 1996.»

The changes were necessary, argued Superintendent Donald W. Ingwerson, because the district's current busing program interferes with efforts to increase parental involvement and bring about other school improvements mandated under Kentucky's landmark education - reform law.

From services such as tutoring, mentoring, and college readiness programs to larger efforts to fundamentally reform a district — all is done through private foundations.»

Discipline reform efforts are also underway at the state and school - district levels.

«Rather than using taxpayer dollars to provide vouchers to a few, we must focus our resources and efforts on concrete reforms that make our public schools better for all of the District's schoolchildren.»

The second main section of the chapter reports a case study of an exemplary district's efforts to make the most of large - scale reform initiated in the state of Illinois.

This report provides an overview of state teacher tenure reform in the United States as well as case studies of reform efforts in a sample of six states — Georgia, California, Florida, Wisconsin, New York, and Ohio — and the District of Columbia.

I posed the question to Maggie Runyan - Shefa, who serves as co-CEO of New Schools for New Orleans, the organization leading reform efforts in the Recovery School District.

Over the past three decades, mayors such as Richard Riordan and Antonio Villaraigosa have fought to place reform - minded players on the district's school board, while grassroots reformers such as Green Dot Public Schools founder Steve Barr and the group that is now known as Parent Revolution have successfully forced L.A. Unified to start an effort to spin off over 200 of its traditional public schools into charter school operators and grassroots groups.

The book The Prize details how the reform effort in Newark Public Schools failed, in large part, because Newark residents and district employees felt like reform was done to them, not with them.

California's new school funding system is driving districts in diverse regions of the state to shift their resources to achieve one of the key goals laid out in the sweeping financial reform effort — graduating students so they are ready for college or careers.

Considerable effort has been made over the past decade to address the needs of learners in large urban districts through scaleable reform initiatives.

Even as school districts around California and the nation come under pressure to sustain existing reforms and introduce new ones, budget cuts are threatening to slow or halt those reform efforts.

Perhaps the best two pieces I've come across are from the Newark Star - Ledger's Tom Moran including an opinion piece on where things stand that notes district progress along with charter school improvements and reformers» misguided focus on the parts of the story Russakoff leaves out (Newark students are better off, despite the political noise) and also a Q & A with Russakoff in which the author rebuts a deeply flawed NYT review, proposes a forensic audit of Newark's $ 23,000 - per student spending, but calls the Zuckerberg - funded reform efforts a «wash» over all (Author Dale Russakoff discusses new book).