Sentences with phrase «entire school district»

Although chronic early absence can be a significant issue for entire school districts and particular elementary schools, it has largely been overlooked.

They have a much easier job in traditional public education where they can exert their influence on entire school districts.

NoVo Foundation A US$ 100,000 grant from NoVo Foundation will expand the Lions Quest program throughout one entire school district in the United States by 2013.

From there, Partners dedicated itself to building partnerships and offering tools, training and guidance to improve the quality of education across entire school districts.

For example, TeachBoost is a company that helps teachers and even entire school districts improve.

State Superintendent Mike Flanagan says the consequences of turning entire school districts over to for - profit charter school companies deserves more consideration from state lawmakers.

In the interest of child safety, individual schools and entire school districts often install content filters that aggressively block these Web 2.0 tools — not only social - networking sites but also blogs, wikis, and other Web pages that allow educators and students to create and access content.

In recent years, the Linked Learning approach to college and career readiness has been applied with positive results in individual high schools as well as entire school districts.

Systemic educational racism has shortchanged entire school districts serving Black, Brown and immigrant students, resulting in the underfunding of high need schools for students of all races.

The legislation allows entire school districts with at least an acceptable accountability rating to decide, via their district - level site - based decision - making committees and the school board, to be exempt from major provisions of the Education Code, including teacher rights and benefits, student discipline laws, parent rights and more.

I am told that finals before break is a scheduling issue for the entire school district.

These may sound like extreme measures for an afternoon errand, but there is only one office supply store in our town and it services the entire school district; over the years I have learned to contingency plan and pack.

«It would be unfair, however, to penalize the taxpayers of an entire school district merely because of an administrative oversight.

With the addition of 69 community schools in September, there will be a total of 215 community schools serving more than 108,000 New York City students — or more students than the entire school districts of Baltimore or Denver.

Still, the budget reporting requirements were significantly watered down from the Senate's original proposal earlier on Friday; the new rules now apply mostly to entire school districts, rather than individual schools.

The parent group asked the commissioner to put the entire school district in receivership, which would take the nine - member School Board out of the picture and allow Superintendent Kriner Cash to take full control.

But Harig told reporters he would have to sue the entire school district and that would make him a hypocrite since he ran on a platform of lawsuits against Paladino costing the district millions.

We only have one LCD projector for the entire school district — and it is a used one!

The group of talented young musicians meets every day — the only such program in the entire school district.

Lawler, who in addition to his job at Madison coordinates the PE program for Naperville's entire school district, has been advocating what you might call an enlightened approach to physical fitness for nearly thirteen years.

My job is literally to connect, share and teach an entire school district of strangers in various new locations.

Can a state's takeover of an entire school district improve student achievement?

And we stopped the legislator from chartering our entire school district.

«Our model was successful because it involved close monitoring through an entire school district, not simply one classroom.»

Entire school districts could also be taken over.

After ripping up an entire school district, charter schools try to mend fences by reviving Friday night lights

Rethink Ed has given Mrs. Brock a common language, which has encouraged collaboration across the entire school district.

Offering different packages for individual educators or entire school districts, Naiku's pay - as - you - go model is extremely accessible.

When reforming masters like Steven Adamowski want to trash an entire school district (their specialty) they know how to depress graduation rates (count anyone who ever entered the high school and disregard high mobility rates of urban and poor districts; forget that some students leave for the military; pretend transfers are dropouts).

IPS» White said mayoral control of IPS won't happen because the Legislature doesn't want to «disenfranchise an entire school district.»

It has fundamentally changed the culture of our entire school district.

Hats off to Thomas A. Edison Middle School and their entire school district in West Orange who truly understand the strategy of using good nutrition and physical activity to create a culture of health in the schools that can do nothing short of fueling student success.

Proven so effective that entire school districts have formally adopted the program, the Be GLAD method is now finding its way into professional conferences and professional development offerings throughout the country.

The Department of Contracted Schools will create a collaborative culture where high quality charter and partnership schools are given autonomy to effectively implement their educational programs while being held accountable for results which ultimately have a positive impact on the entire school district.

The Lansing School District will be continuing Late Start Wednesdays throughout the entire school district this year.

People use this term to describe every imaginable combination of individuals with an interest in education — a grade - level teaching team, a school committee, a high school department, an entire school district, a state department of education, a national professional organization, and so on.

In Georgia, entire school districts are allowed to convert at once.

AMP allows educators and administrators to coordinate assessments and curriculum in order to track results across an entire school district and to evaluate students» progress toward agreed - upon learning goals.

Under state law, if any of the four schools miss state accountability marks this year, the Texas Education Agency is required to either close the campus or take over operation of the entire school district and appoint a board of managers and a new superintendent.

In this session, led by Ashoka and a Changemaker School District, you will learn how to integrate empathy and changemaking into the curriculum and culture of your entire school district.

The overall issue is that charter schools were originally created to be laboratories of innovation that would be in collaborative relationships with «sister» traditional schools or an entire school district.

In this South Jersey city, a third of the entire school district budget is allocated to ultra-Orthodox students» transportation to private religious schools (some of which don't meet the state definition of «school») and to tuition to a special education school called the School for Children with Hidden Intelligence that only accepts ultra-Orthodox children.

In this South Jersey city, a third of the entire school district budget is allocated to ultra-Orthodox students» transportation to private religious schools -LRB-

There are two forms of achievement tests: those used to evaluate large groups, such as schools or entire school districts.

While teachers and parents say they understand the difficult decisions facing Stratford town leaders, they stand firmly against cuts to teaching staff, proposed furlough days that would close the entire school district, and other actions that threaten to erode their students» education.

Simpson - Waverly and Milner have among the top five highest proportions of Black and Latino teachers in the entire school district.

Jerry Nickell: If you lose 13 students in entire school district, you can't cut one teacher because those 13 students are spread out over elementary, middle school, and high school buildings, or let's close down one classroom because we lost 13 students and save on the utilities, or let's run one less bus service, or let's have one less food service person.

Chicago has initiated a pilot program for six of its public schools to add 90 minutes to their school day, the Chicago Tribune reports, a model that Mayor Rahm Emanuel hopes to expand to the entire school district.