Sentences with phrase «easier for school districts»

Language in the School Code would make it easier for school districts to furlough more teachers by changing PA law and allowing school districts to use «economic reasons» as an additional reason for cutting positions.

The law, titled SB7, makes teacher tenure and layoffs contingent on student achievement and makes it easier for school districts to dismiss tenured teachers deemed ineffective based on student performance.

These trends began to reverse after a 1991 Supreme Court decision made it easier for school districts and courts to dismantle desegregation plans.

Measured Progress can now easily deliver its Formative Assessment Bank and STEM Gauge via Learnosity, making it easier for school districts across the US to implement meaningful, actionable assessments.»

And the Connecticut legislature made it easier for school districts to decline to renew a teacher's contract.

Wolf also expected NSF to make it easy for school districts around the country to incorporate the findings into their classrooms.

In the spring of 2011, when this survey was administered, no one thought it would be easy for school districts to balance their budgets.

«This bill would make it far too easy for school districts to close great charter schools, for no good reason at all, and that's not right or fair to us.»

Not exact matches

But instead of trying to bridge that gap by fighting for funding and other support for struggling school districts, the SNA, which claims in its mission statement to be «committed to advancing the quality of school meal programs,» chose to take the easy way out.

«We're proud of the program,» said school district Supt. Michael Smoot, who added that it makes life easier for parents and keeps children from being bounced around.

«Our School District's and schools» websites provide the community with a wealth of important information, and this new design makes it easier for everyone to access those resources,» Superintendent of Schools Dr. Brian V. Hightoweschools» websites provide the community with a wealth of important information, and this new design makes it easier for everyone to access those resources,» Superintendent of Schools Dr. Brian V. HightoweSchools Dr. Brian V. Hightower said.

He's now made it easy for any parent in any school district in which food services are outsourced to a FSMC to simply forward his post to the school board along with these simple questions:

Local government and school district officials have been pushing for changes to make it easier to budget within the cap, though that is unlikely to occur this legislative session.

Rozic is committed to extending and improving bike infrastructure in her district to make it easier for people to ride to nearby transit stations and to schools, advocating for real Bus Rapid Transit connecting Flushing and Jamaica, and ensuring that all police precincts in Queens are supplied with necessary enforcement equipment and trained in new traffic - safety laws.

For school districts, the restoration of the GEA makes it easier to plan for next year, lawmakers saFor school districts, the restoration of the GEA makes it easier to plan for next year, lawmakers safor next year, lawmakers said.

«Although it wasn't easy, School districts met the challenge last year and we congratulate them for that,» said Schuler.

The RCAN program aims to provide easier access to college for students in the Rochester City School District.

It was unclear if the Senate would take up a bill that passed the Assembly making it easier for residents of Hoosick Falls and other communities to sue for damages related to water pollution, or if the Assembly would pass a bill mandating testing for lead in school districts.

It's all too easy to make mistakes when you're emotional about the rigged teachers» contract by an incompetent Board of Education majority who sold out the school district as payback to teacher's union leader Phil Rumore for his election support.

The District of Columbia's public schools are 45 % charter, have high accountability standards, and make it easy for families to evaluate their options and enroll in both district and charter District of Columbia's public schools are 45 % charter, have high accountability standards, and make it easy for families to evaluate their options and enroll in both district and charter district and charter schools.

It's intended as a cost - effective way for teachers, schools and districts to manage grading in an easy online forum that can be accessed from school and home.

So scaled, it would be easy to develop teacher and school scores, norms across a school district, and goals for statistically significant improvements over time.

If heaven is defined by a system that is easy to maintain, and that other people take responsibility for maintaining, then school districts might indeed achieve Web - site nirvana.

«It's an easier program for us to manage, it costs about the same, and there's no question about separation of church and state,» said Robert R. Severs, director of funding and development for the school district.

Some leave for «easier» schools or districts.

As the number of schools subject to restructuring increases, so will pressures on states and school districts to look for easy ways out.

The record is clear that most districts could make it much easier, and more attractive, for parents to move their children from failing schools.

These obstacles are compounded by the fact that few districts are making it easy for parents to exercise their right to choose or to avail themselves of the related option that offers «supplemental services,» such as after - school tutoring, to students who remain in schools that have failed to improve student performance.

Its main purpose was to make it easier to pass bond issues for public school funding, and district advocates say that most voters were not aware of the provision («buried in a little Easter egg,» as Folsom put it) requiring public schools to offer charters their unused space.

Although a representative from the school district came in for an afternoon session on Kid Pix, the students did not find the program easy to use.

But developing a good rapport with the media, as well as a solid plan for marketing a school district, are easy to do and can pay big dividends.

A highlight of this cooperation is My School DC, a program making it easier for district and charter parents to choose from the many D.C. school options available through a common lottery application sSchool DC, a program making it easier for district and charter parents to choose from the many D.C. school options available through a common lottery application sschool options available through a common lottery application system.

(One should note that countywide school districts are more common in the South, which may have made easier the state vote and the acceptance of a countywide school district for Wake County.)

A 35 - year - old former teacher, John White headed to New Orleans in late April to become superintendent of the Big Easy's Recovery School District (RSD), quite an accomplishment for such a young man.

Robust Google G Suite for Education integration ensures privacy, security and makes it easy for administrators to provision and manage users, groups, schools and districts.

But developing good public relations, as well as a solid plan for marketing a school district, are easy to do and can pay big dividends.

The rules are designed to make it easier for districts to comply with the 65 percent policy than under a plan being pushed by a national group lobbying for ensuring that classrooms get that share of school spending, said Texas Commissioner of Education Shirley Neeley.

Larry Ainsworth is the author or coauthor of numerous published books, including: Common Formative Assessments 2.0 (2015), «Unwrapping» the Common Core (2014), Prioritizing the Common Core (2013), Rigorous Curriculum Design (2010), Common Formative Assessments (2006), «Unwrapping» the Standards (2003), Power Standards (2003), Five Easy Steps to a Balanced Math Program (2000 and 2006), Student Generated Rubrics (1998), and Getting Started with Rigorous Curriculum Design: How School Districts Are Successfully Redesigning Their Curricula for the Common Core (2013).

The Syracuse City School District's Central Registration Center is set up to streamline the student registration process and make the system easier for parents and families to navigate.

Having district - level expectations for curriculum and instruction makes it easier for district leaders to monitor and respond to school - level implementation.

The RCAN program aims to provide easier access to college for students in the Rochester City School District.

The Leading the Nation campaign is scheduled for 2018 and coincides with the 25th anniversary of the Massachusetts Education Reform Act, which increased and stabilized state aid to districts, established common learning expectations statewide, and made it easier to see where schools were doing well and where changes might be needed.

Student Transfers: Legislation has been introduced in both the House and Senate to make it easier for students to transfer among school districts, as long as the receiving district has capacity and approves.

The first mission created for this department was to develop a distance learning overview and process with the following mission statement: Provide high - quality, relevant, and current, 24/7 online Staff Development that is concise and easy to use for ALL staff members of the Marion County School District.

Larry Ainsworth is the author or coauthor of 15 published books, including: Common Formative Assessments 2.0 (2015), «Unwrapping» the Common Core (2014), Prioritizing the Common Core (2013), Rigorous Curriculum Design (2010), Common Formative Assessments (2006), «Unwrapping» the Standards (2003), Power Standards (2003), Five Easy Steps to a Balanced Math Program (2000 and 2006), Student Generated Rubrics (1998), and Getting Started with Rigorous Curriculum Design: How School Districts Are Successfully Redesigning Their Curricula for the Common Core (2013).

That's not to say that recruiting top principals for high - needs schools in large districts, where school leaders face added demands and often - inadequate incentives, is an easy task.

But rather than threatening the funding that compensates for federal activity in local school districts, policymakers should build on efforts such as the Military Interstate Children's Compact Commission that seek to make school transitions for military families easier.

ParentSquare and Project Appleseed have joined forces to offer schools and districts the easiest - to - use platform for dramatically improving parent communication and engagement at the lowest cost.

PEAPS - LA is encouraged by the District's efforts to provide clearer school quality information to families, and believes the new School Finder should be designed in a way that works for all families, provides easy comparisons between schools, and provides useful information on all public school opschool quality information to families, and believes the new School Finder should be designed in a way that works for all families, provides easy comparisons between schools, and provides useful information on all public school opSchool Finder should be designed in a way that works for all families, provides easy comparisons between schools, and provides useful information on all public school opschool options.

Choudhury, 34, can be found juggling what he calls «design for diversity» as he focuses on providing students and their families more school choices in San Antonio, and a new enrollment system that will make those choices easier to access in a district where many families who could afford to leave did so, or who sent their children to private schools or charter schools, said Superintendent Pedro Martinez.