Sentences with phrase «districts during the coming year»

In the end, Oregon agreed that it would do so beginning in 2013 - 14 — but won't spell out the specifics until after it has tried a couple of approaches in a few pilot school districts during the coming year.

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Park Board President Terry Lorenz said Gardiner «came into our district during a time of change and was a leader through a series of policy implementations that will continue to help our district throughout the coming years.»

Long Island school districts stand to recover more than $ 117 million in lost state financial aid during the coming year, according to the region's education leaders who say the money will help compensate for tighter state property tax limits.

The long - simmering issue came to the forefront during recent negotiations for a new contract with the Buffalo Teachers Federation, when district leaders noted that one in four teachers missed 15 or more days during the 2015 - 2016 school year.

In 2014, parents of students at Horace Mann Elementary School in Northwest Washington, D.C., spent over $ 470,000 of their own money to support the school's programs.1 With just under 290 students enrolled for the 2013 - 14 school year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income families.6

As a follow - up, each quarter during the school year teachers come to the district's central office for sessions to model new approaches to teaching.

The vote came in response to school district and teacher feedback during the first year of testing and a careful review of the test design.

Some districts will be able to find out how much money should be coming their way before the school year starts, he says, while others could use the funds to adjust class sizes during the early weeks when enrollment numbers at each school typically become clear.

The data comes from the 2009 Census of Government Finances and covers public school spending during the 2008 - 2009 school year and revenue from federal, state and local sources in districts with enrollments of 10,000 or more.

(The Education Department during Duncan's tenure released written guidelines reminding districts of that obligation, particularly after waves of unaccompanied children came to the country from Central America in recent years.)

Not to be outdone, Malloy's Commissioner of Education Stefan Pryor told the superintendents that despite what he and Malloy had said in the past and despite federal and state laws to the contrary, he was authorizing greater flexibility when it came to the amount of testing during the coming school year and whether school districts had to include test results in their teacher evaluation program.

During the 2011 — 2012 pilot year, additional sites came on board, and in 2012 — 2013, statewide adoptions began in Kentucky, Louisiana, and Georgia, along with multiple district implementations across many of the 50 states in which LDC is currently in place.

The vote came in response to school district and teacher feedback during the first year Read more about PARCC States Vote to Shorten Test Time and Simplify Test Administration -LSB-...]

During his ten - year residency at 395 Valencia, Jack Hanley Gallery became synonymous with the Mission District, fostering local artists that came to be known as «The Mission School.»