Sentences with phrase «facing urban school districts»

In these sessions, based on your district size, you will have an opportunity to discuss with board members from around the country relevant and timely issues facing urban school districts and share best practices and policies that are working.

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Hunter is the mother of a high school student, which she says gives her insights into issues an urban district faces.

The PELP faculty team invited, through a competitive process, urban school districts to partner in the design and delivery of an innovative executive education program tailored specifically to meet the actual challenges that educational leaders are facing.

With urban and suburban districts facing the deepest budget cuts they've seen since the recession of the mid-1980s — and a milder recession in the early 2000s — the prospects for comprehensive arts education in most K - 12 public schools appear bleak, and even schools with minimal programs may lose what they considered to be bare bones to begin with.

We already have an impressive joint project with the Business School, the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), which is an executive education program that unites the faculty resources of both schools to address the specific challenges faced by nine urban school districts from across the coSchool, the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), which is an executive education program that unites the faculty resources of both schools to address the specific challenges faced by nine urban school districts from across the coschool districts from across the country.

In the Bronx, parent groups teamed up with the local teachers» union and the school district to tackle one of the most challenging issues facing struggling urban schools: supporting and retaining teachers.

February 14: Driving Change: Challenges Superintendents Face in Urban Schools Kaya Henderson, Dean's Distinguished Visiting Fellow and former chancellor of District of Columbia Public Schools, was joined by Tommy Chang, superintendent of Boston Public Schools, and Tom Boasberg, superintendent of Denver Public Schools.

Its large urban districts, referred to as the «Big Eight,» have faced sharply declining enrollment due to both shrinking populations and an influx of charter schools.

Simply put, the problems confronting urban school districts are bigger, costlier, more numerous, and tougher to overcome than those facing most rural and suburban systems.

«The biggest threat that urban Catholic schools face is nostalgia,» he says both of districts nationwide and of his own diocese of Paterson, N.J..

This program takes a look at the specific hurdles faced by leaders in urban school districts and presents equally nuanced strategies to addressing these challenges.

The superintendent said she's aware of the challenges faced in urban districts like Rochester: poor attendance, low graduation rates, and students who can't afford a school lunch, for starters.

These are very real challenges that face many urban school districts across the United States.

Urban school districts in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Northern Kentucky were facing similar circumstances when StrivePartnership started as one of the first cradle - to - career community in 2006.

The Boston Public Schools (BPS) face the same challenges as other urban districts in the United States.

Short training programs reflect the reality of many urban school districts that have limited resources available to provide their teachers with face - to - face professional development experiences.

Portland faces challenges similar to many urban districts around the country: how to provide consistent, challenging, powerful classroom instruction in all schools, for all students.

Sadly, the neighborhood school near our Grand Rapids home lacked the record of academic achievement that instills confidence, and we faced the all - too - common reality of an urban district with too few high quality options.

Research shows many schools face challenges in retaining high - quality teachers, especially urban school districts and small, rural school districts.

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-...]

AIR's evaluation of the program indicates that student outcomes improved, despite the challenges faced by this complex urban school district, and even with imperfect implementation and uncertain fidelity.

Faced with a billion dollar budget deficit, Chicago's public school system is the most recent urban district to announce a massive closure of schools.

While small, neighborhood elementary schools are not only allowed but encouraged for urban and suburban districts, Malloy's bill will force small towns to regionalize their elementary schools or face losing their state education funding.

The study's sample was a mid-sized urban district that, faced with declining enrollment, chose to make student achievement a major criterion in determining which schools would be closed.

Third, the public sector is faltering in many urban areas — cities and school districts face long - term structural challenges to match revenues with expenditures.

Yet many urban school districts face budget shortfalls even as their need for financial support increases.