Sentences with phrase «districts doing analysis»

Not exact matches

Wilson said the park district's timeline for reviewing its options involves getting as much information in its hands as possible so it do an analysis of the information and try to decide if the lease is something even worth further discussion, or if it's something that doesn't fit within the framework of the park district.

We have done the cost analysis in our school district and determined that the cost of doing the meal prep ourselves is vastly higher than the cost of getting our meals from Preferred Meal Systems (PMS).

Even when we didn't have specific information pre-prepackaged (press releases, policy analyses, details about how particular Congressional districts would be affected, video B - roll, etc.), we had staff on hand who were primed to do the research and put critical material together quickly, often in hours.

«I think every member of Congress faced with this decision is doing an analysis of their district and the makeup of their voters and making a decision.»

«As we have done the analysis, it is apparent to me — and I'm 100 percent confident — that if this bill was passed, we are looking at $ 1,600 being kept by the average family in the district,» said Reed, whose district includes much of the Southern Tier.

«While the executive's proposal falls far short of eliminating the GEA in [fiscal year] 2017, it will likely be looked at as inequitable because some districts had their GEA eliminated and some did not,» the Senate analysis said.

Beth Newcomer The Legislative Analyst for NYC Council Member Helen Rosenthal (District 6, Upper West Side) encouraged attendees to reach out to their local Council Members and urge them to support the following legislative initiatives: • Possible legislation regarding divestment of the city's pension funds from fossil fuel companies • A bill to require the city to do a carbon footprint analysis of all the products the city procures, and to use that analysis to inform a policy of low - carbon operations • A number of bills to reduce the carbon emissions of city - owned vehicles and improve the sustainability of city buildings • A bill to enhance the city's already - strong idling laws so as to make them easier to enforce Find your Council Member here.

«You can do an analysis across 435 congressional districts (nationwide) and you will find New York money in every single one of them,» Coffey said.

Congressman Jose Serrano leads all of his New York colleagues in securing earmarks for his district, according to an analysis done by the New York Post.

A follow - up analysis, released in February 2008, showed that 16 percent of districts had reduced elementary school class time for music and art — and had done so by an average of 35 percent, or fifty - seven minutes a week.

Given that charter schools can and do enroll students across traditional boundary lines, our analysis took into account the demographic composition of students in the entire metro area, as opposed to a single school district.

The CREDO analysis also shows that Michigan's low - income students, who comprise the vast majority of charter students in Detroit, make modest achievement gains (less than a month of additional learning in math each year) compared to district schools, as do black and Hispanic students.

This analysis makes clear that large differences in the performance of high - SES students and low - SES students in the same schools do exist; that these apparent gaps are not simply reflective of gaps in preparation; and that while the variation across school districts is substantial, the variation within school districts may be even larger (at least among the largest districts in Florida).

In Denver, when the school district did a deep - dive analysis to improve the quality of teacher applicants (it had already determined quantity was not a problem), it collected information from charter and district schools.

First, Curtis's office did a computerized collection analysis of the district's library holdings.

The Commission will examine factors that impact spending in education, including: school funding and distribution of State Aid; efficiency and utilization of education spending at the district level; the percentage of per - pupil funding that goes to the classroom as compared to administrative overhead and benefits; approaches to improving special education programs and outcomes while also reducing costs; identifying ways to reduce transportation costs; identifying strategies to create significant savings and long - term efficiencies; and analysis of district - by - district returns on educational investment and educational productivity to identify districts that have higher student outcomes per dollar spent, and those that do not.

Charter advocates have disputed the IBO's analysis (PDF), arguing that they don't take district schools» large pension costs into account.

In LCFF's early years, analysis finds districts generally didn't make radical changes in spending, but did show evidence of spending in ways that could...

This analysis will include not only the speed of Internet access, the technical training of teachers, how many hours a day students have access to computers, and whether this technology is available to students with disabilities, but also whether «students have access to necessary technology outside of school and how school districts support students who do not have Internet access at home.»

Even states do provide data in a form that allows for item analysis, some districts stop short of providing schools with strategies and tools needed to investigate underlying factors that might be causing identified problems.

If they don't, the cost shift noted in the fiscal analysis would mean increased costs to districts who then operate with decreased revenue.

REGIONAL ANALYSIS: How does Oakland compensation (salaries and benefits) compare to neighboring school districts in Alameda County?

The first was a quantitative analysis of student academic outcomes, comparing results for schools that received federal School Improvement Grant (SIG) funding to similar schools in the same districts that did not.

From our experience, districts don't often use a survival analysis method because they are not aware of it, their data analysts are mostly focused on federal reporting, and the methodology is technical and could be beyond the capacity of many districts to properly and efficiently utilize it.

Analysis of gains in individual districts shows that those that kept bilingual education improved and those that never did bilingual education improved; everybody improved in California and there were no obvious differences between gain made by English learners and English proficient children.

And while I may disagree with some very smart people (and yes this makes me nervous) about how they should be used (I lean towards principals using them on a micro level, districts and beyond using them at the macro, ie not to evaluate individual teachers, but schools, districts, etc) I don't think anyone can disagree on this hard fact: not every K - 12 classroom will be tested every year in a way that is rigorous or consistent enough for value - added analysis.

This data includes listings of schools in need of improvement as well as AYP information for every campus and district, analysis of the number of Title I districts and campuses that did not make AYP, an overview of appeals results, and a broad look at state results.

The actual number is almost certainly higher as the analysis only looked at district and charter - school students, and didn't take into account those who are homeschooled or attend private or online schools.

This new analysis finds that nearly 50 percent of all students in nine Maricopa County district attendance zones do not attend their assigned district school.

L.A. Unified, the nation's second largest school district, does not now do value - added analysis of its teachers.

The Times did its own value - added analysis based on seven years of standardized test scores obtained from the school district under the state Public Records Act.

Performance - based evaluations based on value - added analysis of objective school data allows for districts and schools to recognize and reward those teachers who are doing good and great work.

Because these items are included for purposes of school and district analysis of results and do not contribute to student scores, we disregarded them in our assessment of alignment.

However, analysis of the budget proposals shows that all districts in the state do better with the «Classrooms and Kids» budget than they would with the Governor's, the House, or the alternative budget proposal that simply rolls up the categorical funds for Best Practices and Performance (in fact, when you do just that, some districts will get less money next year than they did this year).

A 2007 study by the Council of the Great City Schools, a coalition of the nation's largest urban districts, found that from 2001 to 2006, more of Oakland's public school children were excelling each year, at about every grade level, in reading and math (the math analysis didn't include high schools).

«Like any good executives, district leaders want a comparative analysis of data — how they're doing in comparison to similar districts, why one district may be doing better than theirs, and how to achieve performance parity,» Williams says.

Through review and analysis of teacher recommendations, districts may be able to avoid holding back students inappropriately while at the same time advancing students who do not perform well on tests but are capable of succeeding in a higher math course.

The Senate's potential new formula for funding Kansas schools is based on spending at 41 districts where — according to a recent statistical analysis — students are doing well academically relative to local poverty rates.

Even so, our findings of higher segregation in charter schools do not substantively differ from other analyses comparing charters to their surrounding district or nearest public school.

Heather Hough, the executive director of the research work done with the CORE districts at the nonprofit Policy Analysis for California Education, or PACE, spoke with InsideSources about the research side of CORE's innovative accountability work.

Education Trust - West plans to do an analysis of districts» and schools» Smarter Balanced results to identify those that excelled and then speak with principals about what they did to achieve the results.

According to an analysis of Houston Independent School District data published by the Houston Chronicle in April, «more than two - thirds of its 284 campuses lack librarians, more than half are without a counselor or social worker, and 14 % do not have a nurse.»

School districts really like this guy because, like Bob Marzano, he does «meta - analysis,» which, as far as I can tell, is throwing a bunch of research studies other people did into a pile and performing some fancy math Jiu - Jitsu that spits out a number that's supposed to tell you what works and what doesn't.

In district - level analysis, the Education Trust finds that nationally districts serving high concentrations of low - income students receive on average $ 1,200 less in state and local funding than districts that serve low concentrations of low - income students, and that gap widens to $ 2,000 when comparing high - minority and low - minority districts.17 These findings are further reflected by national funding equity measures reported by Education Week, which indicate that wealthy school districts spend more per student than poorer school districts do on average.18

NYC teachers have been warned against sharing their professional analyses of the educational appropriateness of state tests and former Chancellor Farina told parents at a private meeting in District 15 that she herself would in fact opt out in certain cases yet declined to share this with all NYC parents, despite D15 parents» strong urging that she do so.

With the recent creation of many new, themed high schools and the continuing growth of the charter school movement, students in Philadelphia have more public high school options than ever.But more options haven't meant that most students are getting into the schools they prefer, or that the available choices meet students» needs.In fact, about 58 percent of District high school students are enrolled in schools that they did not choose, according to an analysis of School District data by Research for Action.

Update 8:35 p.m.: An independent analysis of Leon County school construction projects has turned up no criminal wrongdoing, but the district needs to do a better job of documenting its decisions.

I did a back of the napkin analysis of one district and came to the conclusion they could pay EVERYONE top step and only increase teacher salary costs by about 13 %.

* How does the pooling of these 13 disabilities mask, convolute, or confuse the academic results of different students with different disabilities in a school or district... and how does this pooling negatively impact a school's analysis of the outcomes — especially when they are unsatisfactory — and the resulting interventions?

Districts that do get flagged qualify for increasing levels of state intervention — starting with a data analysis conducted by a county office of education that's aimed at understanding the root causes of poor performance, and escalating up to possible state takeover if a district fails to improve.