Sentences with phrase «face dramatic school»

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In reality, in the face of dramatic past increases in school funding, the gaps in attainment, high school graduation, and family poverty have remained significant, largely resisting any major improvement.

Another dramatic problem facing rural education is the issue of consolidation of schools.

The real political test will come when students begin to fail the graduation exam, or when schools face dramatic interventions like faculty firings or reconstitutions.

The challenges facing many Catholic schools — low enrollment and threats to financial sustainability — put them in a position where they must close their doors unless something dramatic changes.

Basically: there should not be more school leaders facing dramatic changes in their English results compared to last year.

In the face of a dramatic $ 1.2 billion cut in state aid, school districts held the average statewide property tax levy increase at 3.4 percent under the proposed 2011 - 12 district budgets.

This exploratory study examined the extent to which the reform processes of the schools reflected characteristics and strategies found in the research, whether schools improving at different rates differed in systematic ways, and the most significant challenges faced in both securing and sustaining dramatic school improvements.

A Dorset town faces a shortage of primary school places caused by a «dramatic increase» in births since 2005.

Yet many suburban districts now rival urban districts in the challenges they face, having experienced dramatic population changes in just the past decade, with fast growing numbers of English Language Learners and students living in poverty attending Read more about Suburban Schools: The Unrecognized Frontier in Public Education -LSB-...]

Oklahoma school spending is down 28 % since 2008, when many states made dramatic cuts to schools in the face of the recession.

Arthur Levine, President of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, said of Change Agents: «In the face of dramatic demographic, economic, technological, and global change, the demands being made upon schools, and the principals and superintendents who lead them have changed profoundly.

When U.S. Secretary of Education John King visited Walter Cohen College Prep High School on Friday afternoon in recognition of its dramatic increase in test scores, former board member Kenneth Polite asked him one of the most difficult questions facing the New Orleans education landscape: Why are the city's public schools so segregated, and what can make them more diverse?

Both the education center and Texas Education Agency officials have spent the summer trying to chop the bulky House Bill 2398 into serviceable bites for educators and judges who face a dramatic shift this fall in the way they deal with chronic school skippers.

But it may help to ask us which drastic disruption we'd rather face: the adults having to make dramatic changes to ensure the children in their schools succeed now, or the children facing the drastic and disruptive change when they leave the care of our public schools ill prepared for further education, work, or full citizenship?