Sentences with phrase «effectively than districts»

In other words, districts large and small recognize that for - profit businesses can produce many educational goods and services more efficiently or effectively than districts can themselves.

The hope is that with the right financial resources and supports, Denver charter schools can use their autonomy to find innovative ways to serve severely disabled students even more effectively than the district has.

Not exact matches

In practice, the system allows voters to choose a person rather than a party (that's the personalization aspect) and this person effectively represents one district.

In a statement to be issued Tuesday, the caucus questioned why districts downstate were drawn with higher populations than upstate ones, effectively diluting the representation of areas where racial minorities are concentrated.

«The Oklahoma City case study suggests,» wrote Jellison, «that integration plans, with a great deal of effort, can work more effectively and that courts, rather than releasing districts from desegregation plans after only several years of operation, should ensure that everything possible is being done to promote an integration plan's success.»

Jeff Sellers, who runs Florida's data system, found that individual school districts collect far more information than the state needs or can effectively use.

Promising money to states if they come up with sensible ideas seems to work more effectively than punishing schools and districts for low performance.

But it at least roughly controls for a district's previous performance, rather than effectively selecting districts with favorable demographics.

The greatest insight we have gained in our work with school districts across the continent is that organisation that take the plunge and actually begin doing the work of a PLC develop their capacity to help all students learn at high levels far more effectively than schools that spend years preparing to become PLCs through reading or even training.

Twenty - five American school districts, including New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Detroit, possess the size — more than 100,000 students each — and the resources to build the kinds of organizations that might effectively support the schools, by recruiting and training high - caliber teachers, developing a demanding curriculum, and building an assessment system that accurately tracks student progress.

These firms believe that, using economies of scale as well as other tools that are more readily available to the private sector, they can build organizations that use time and resources more efficiently and effectively than public school districts, leading to higher student achievement at a similar cost.

As senior - level administrators are both the stewards of the pension system and the recipients of the highest net benefits, the authors conclude, «There is no reason to expect school administrators or their organizations to support reforms that would provide a more modern and mobile retirement system for young educators» and suggest that districts could be recruiting young teachers more effectively by putting money in upfront salaries rather than in end - of - career pension benefits.

Rather than deal with the growing concerns voiced by Connecticut's school superintendents, Cirasoulo and the Board of Directors completely reversed course and effectively threw their own members and Connecticut's school districts «under the bus.»

Later, Jewell groused that achievement school districts represent little more than a «new layer of bureaucracy that lacks the accountability to ensure public dollars are being spent effectively.»

Charter schools also are effectively serving English language learners, with a graduation rate that is 45 percent higher than their host district schools and 31 percent higher than New York's statewide average.

As part of Education Commissioner Dianna Wentzell's «leadership strategies,» designed to urge superintendents to «encourage» parents to have their children take the SBAC test rather than to opt out, the commissioner called in superintendents from public school districts across the state to the department's Hartford headquarters for a «training session» on how effectively to communicate with parents.

For example, when faced with the widespread failure of economically disadvantaged students to effectively engage with ambitious curricula, school districts have, on more than one occasion, dumbed - down those curricula, scripted them, and made them one - size - fits - all.