Sentences with phrase «district sector»

Thanks to two decades of smart reforms and the work of countless stakeholders, our great city has an exceptional charter sector and a rapidly improving district sector.

First, advocates must answer a fundamental question: What type of relationship should the nascent charter sector have with the long - dominant district sector?

This piece limits its focus to three organizations that use parent mobilization and advocacy to catalyze district sector and charter sector reform: Parent Revolution, Education Reform Now, and Stand for Children.

Proficiency rates on the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) among charter students are not only consistently higher than those of students in their respective district sectors, but many of these rates compare favorably to the states with the highest average levels of performance.

What's your best guess for a) how the charter sector of ten years from now will differ from today's and b) how it will differ from its contemporary district sector?

After seven years of earning attention through their First Saturday ArtCrawl, the Downtown Arts District sector of Nashville — spanning loosely from the Frist Center to the SoBro neighborhood, and gravitating along 5th Avenue — was officially named «The Avenue of the Arts» by Mayor Karl Dean in June of 2013.

The updated 2013 report — by the same organization using the same methodology — found that the charter sector had improved substantially and was now significantly outperforming the district sector.

It is not certain whether students in the district sector are more likely to become in need of special education or whether district procedures are designed to identify more readily that a student is in need of these services.

For instance, consider the impact of a student who is not in special education moving from the district sector to the charter sector in Denver.

Yet the differences we document are consistent with two classic ethnographic studies of schools in the private and district sectors.

It means its subscribers don't care if a school comes from the district sector or the charter sector — what they care about is if the school is doing right by kids.

When it comes to instruction in character and values, parental satisfaction within the private sector varies less than it does in either the charter or district sector.

This is also not surprising, given that teacher hiring in charter schools is often less tightly regulated than it is in the district sector.

But I would've preferred the report to point out that school quality matters far more than school operator, and while the CSO - model is a promising approach to the district sector, it should be viewed in the context of a city's entire portfolio of schools — CSO, charter, and private.

Even the sweeping standards and assessments movement of the last 20 years, culminating in No Child Left Behind, takes for granted and makes use of the district sector.

She suggested that chartering is, always has been, and should remain an R&D effort for the district sector.

Moreover, the suspension rates for black students (and youngsters with disabilities) were slightly higher in the district sector (17 percent and 25 percent respectively) than in D.C. charters (16 percent and 22 percent).

In the K — 12 world, however, tenure remains the norm for public school teachers in the district sector, vouchsafed in most places by state law and big - time politics, as well as local contracts, even in so - called «right to work» states.

Others seem to want the charter sector to permanently operate in parallel to a district sector, giving interested low - income families public alternatives to assigned government - run schools.

The creation of such councils would probably need to be mandated by local school boards, at least in the district sector.

David Osborne, senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute, completed an analysis of D.C.'s two sectors, documenting how competition led the district sector to emulate charters in many ways, including more diverse curriculum offerings; new choices of different school models; and reconstituting schools to operate with building level autonomy, especially giving principals freedom to hire all or mostly new staff.

And in the district sector, experience has taught us that some schools have been so dysfunctional, for so long, that efforts to «turn them around» are virtually destined to fail.

to open up the district sector to different people, different arrangements.»

The assigned - school - district sector has a strong competitive advantage because assigned - district schools are free and universally available, and 76 percent of American students attend them, according to a 2012 survey by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), part of the U.S. Department of Education.

New Orleans and Denver became the first cities to use this Roth / Shapley - inspired centralized enrollment system across charter and district sectors.

By a wide margin, parents with children in the private sector express much higher levels of satisfaction than parents in the assigned - district sector.

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.

Charters were intended, explains Kolderie, to «differ in fundamental ways from the district sector» with four important elements:

The chartered sector is essential for the improvement of public education, functioning as the seedbed for new models of school, and new approaches to teaching and learning, that will gradually migrate over to the district sector.

To research new and different models and to have the district sector replicate those that are successful.

The share of enrollments in the district sector that aren't in «beating the odds» (light blue) schools.

By contrast, about a quarter of all district enrollments were in «beat the odds» schools, suggesting that, on average, the charter sector is more likely to provide enrollment in a «beat the odds» school than the district sector in the city.

Public education now has two sectors: a district sector and a chartered sector.

Success for the district sector might depend on its picking up innovations from the charter sector.