Sentences with phrase «few schools or districts»

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Individual schools or school districts can purchase subscriptions to Happy Numbers (though Milyutin said he's also sold a few subscriptions directly to consumers).

Worse, as Shakeshaft points out, «national data indicate that few [public school] administrators report educator sexual misconduct to the police or district attorney.

We're just a few weeks (or one week, for some school districts!)

Many of the schools we serve are private schools, and the public districts we do serve have Free and Reduced rates below 10 % [i.e, fewer than 10 % of the kids qualify for free or reduced price lunch.]

As co-chair of my school district's student nutrition committee for the past 8 years, I get exactly the same kind of feedback from parents and other advocates — some demand farm - to - school, some want only organic, some want to ban HFCS, etc. — and few understand the USDA regs which govern the meal program, or the limits of what can be accomplished on the inadequate government reimbursement.

I haven't been able to locate any reports about other local governments or school districts getting to this point, although quite a few are thinking about it — particularly after being hit with the unexpected recovery costs of back - to - back tropical storms.

«If I were to go to my district tonight at a meeting with the community, or school or a function and ask people if they thought the city was better prepared today for a storm than they were three years ago, very few hands would go up,» Queens Councilman Eric Ulrich said.

The goal is to target districts with high rates of childhood homelessness or few safe after - school options to help ensure children have a safe and productive place to go when school lets out.

NYSUT, meanwhile, backed a study to determine whether any changes to the funding formula is necessary, which would also take into consideration the impact on a small school district when a resident receives a windfall through inheritance or winning the lottery — a factor that throw aid formulations out of whack in areas with few wealthy people.

Owens found that neighborhood racial segregation across the country appeared to be driven largely by white families with children who are choosing, consciously or not, to move to neighborhoods and school districts with fewer minorities.

A few days after the data - day review, I visited Powell Elementary, a district school in northeast D.C., for a learning walk on peer - group feedback, or how to get teachers to help one another figure out how to reteach a troublesome lesson.

Mike Antonucci, whose Education Intelligence Agency bird - dogs union doings, wrote in June that almost a third of the nation's largest school districts, the 82 with enrollment of 50,000 or more, had fewer students in 2006 than in 2001.

Cohorts with more years of exposure to higher predicted spending increases have higher completed years of schooling than cohorts from the same district who were unexposed or had fewer years of exposure.

Most districts have just a few magnet schools — roughly 40 percent of these school districts have 10 magnet schools or fewer.

Charters appear to provide fewer extracurricular activities than either private or district schools, perhaps because they are newer and often have less - lavish facilities and limited space for playgrounds and sports activities.

These results add to evidence that boosting student achievement has few simple fixes — particularly in a school district like Houston, in which 88 percent of students are black or Hispanic, about 30 percent have limited English proficiency, and about 80 percent are eligible for free or reduced - price lunch.

His analysis reveals that «the enrollment of students with severe disabilities accounts for very little of the gap, as there are very few of these students» in either charter or district - operated schools.

This is the world our children have at their fingertips... this article presents a few solutions you can use at little or no cost in your school district.

Columbia Teachers College professor Hank Levin recounts that when the California legislature allowed districts to apply for waivers if they could demonstrate that laws or rules were hampering school improvement, «Fewer than 100 [waivers] were made in the first year» in a state with more than 1,000 districts.

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.

Majority - minority school districts like Detroit's have little recourse beyond pursuing voluntary and fairly limited interdistrict busing (usually one - way) or, in a few instances (Chattanooga - Hamilton County and Charlotte - Mecklenburg are examples), consolidating urban and suburban districts.

A district also must focus early wins on student learning to fit the turnaround formula, perhaps by adopting similar goals for one subset of struggling children or a few low - performing schools.

Few jurisdictions have passed significant voucher and tax - credit legislation, and most have hedged charter laws with one or another of a multiplicity of provisos — that charters are limited in number, can only be authorized by school districts (their natural enemies), can not enroll more than a fixed number of students, get less money per pupil than district - run schools, and so on.

Budgetary shortfalls, school district bankruptcies, teacher and administrator layoffs, hiring and salary freezes, pension system defaults, shorter school years, ever - larger classes, faculty furloughs, fewer course electives, reduced field trips, foregone or curtailed athletics, outdated textbooks, teachers having to make do with fewer supplies, cuts in school maintenance, and other tales of fiscal woe inevitably captivate the news media, particularly during the late - spring and summer budget and appropriations seasons.

These sites all offer users the ability to compare their school with others in the same school district or state (because standard tests in each state vary, it's difficult to make such comparisons across districts in different states), and a few rank schools based on test performance or other factors.

Just by cutting one to two hours out of my office day to spend a few minutes in each classroom and hallway of my small school district, I've learned more about the little (but often very important) things going on than I would have learned from email, phone calls or hearsay.

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/education/news/2017/03/03/414853/vouchers-are-not-a-viable-solution-for-vast-swaths-of-america/ The CAP report attempted to quantify the sparsity of school districts, which it measured as the share of districts with four or fewer schools.

Evaluations of the impact of the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program (RCCP) in four multiracial, multiethnic school districts in New York City showed that 84 percent of teachers who responded to a survey reported positive changes in classroom climate, 71 percent reported moderate or significant decreases in physical violence in the classroom, and 66 percent observed less name - calling and few verbal insults.

In 2013, the year before students transferred, fewer than 20 percent of students in the two unaccredited school districts were proficient in reading or math.

Many job offers [from other districts] do nt come in until the day school opens or a few days before, which is a problem for us, Sirois added.

Either the state or the district will have to make up the deficit, and the bankrupt school district will find itself even more financially constrained than before, with today's students receiving fewer resources on account of yesterday's mistakes.

Likewise, users can learn about the process of assessing school climate (including the 12 relevant dimensions of climate that need to be tapped), but a school or district would need a few thousand in funding in order to administer the Comprehensive School Climate Inventory (CSCI), the Center's proprietary instrument that has demonstrated reliability and valschool climate (including the 12 relevant dimensions of climate that need to be tapped), but a school or district would need a few thousand in funding in order to administer the Comprehensive School Climate Inventory (CSCI), the Center's proprietary instrument that has demonstrated reliability and valschool or district would need a few thousand in funding in order to administer the Comprehensive School Climate Inventory (CSCI), the Center's proprietary instrument that has demonstrated reliability and valSchool Climate Inventory (CSCI), the Center's proprietary instrument that has demonstrated reliability and validity.

Analyzing how districts distributed their state allocations across schools under California's landmark 2013 weighted student funding overhaul, districts varied enormously on whether they distributed more or fewer of the new and newly flexible dollars to the highest - needs schools.

In public schools, charter schools or school districts with fewer than 30 students subject to an accountability performance criterion set forth in paragraphs (14) and (15) of this subdivision, the commissioner shall use the weighted average of the current and prior school year's performance data for that criterion in order to make a determination of adequate yearly progress.

The K — 12 sector has fewer expert reviewers or platforms for user reviews than does higher education because the vast majority of students attend their assigned district school and hence have little need to compare various options.

Many districts also operate magnet or exam schools for gifted students, some of which admit disproportionately fewer low - income and minority students.

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However, school district administrators point out that by comparison with the aging facilities many traditional schools use, charter schools often locate in new or leased property, which demand fewer expenses.

In addition, education spending cuts have cost an unknown but likely significant number of private - sector jobs as school districts canceled or scaled back purchases and contracts (for instance, buying fewer textbooks).

Each dot in figure 1 represents one of the 120 largest school districts in the country, excluding those that have fewer than 1,000 white students or 1,000 African American students.

The teacher unions are trapped in archaic organizational models characterized by buildings and districts that are too large and too fragmented, compulsory attendance, the 180 - day school year, the 50 - minute period, age - grouping of students in 13 discrete grades, few performance or standards - based activities, and inaccurate assumptions about the dangers of privatization.

I thought a portfolio strategy meant that lots of groups ran the schools and the district ran none or just a few.

For instance, although most of the studies cited above do include statistical controls for peer effects (the mean characteristics of other student in a class or school), very few states or districts do so when generating value - added estimates.

A few states and districts nationally have experimented with one or two of these reforms; many states have increased the number of charter schools, for example.

Only a few have made sustained efforts at capacity building (such as Missouri «s 1993 Outstanding Schools Act provided funding for a state - wide teacher professional development system, or New Jersey «s provision of significant additional resources to high poverty «Abbott» school districts).

In a few districts, district and school leaders reported that analysis of trend data by district and / or state assessment specialists had led to the identification of early indicators of students academically at risk, based on test scores or other factors (e.g., family circumstances), in lower grade levels.

States and school districts are already dedicating increasing shares of their budgets toward pensions, and any stock market crash, or even just a few years of mediocre returns, will only accelerate that trend.

For instance, the authors excluded districts with poverty rates of less than 20 percent or more than 80 percent — districts with extremely high or low rates can do very little to remedy segregation within their district boundaries.69 The authors also excluded school districts with fewer than ten schools.

Is your school or district struggling to objectively identify top candidates because of shrinking talent pools, insufficient resources, and too few qualified educators for unique positions?

Few public schools (district - run or charter) serving low - income neighborhoods have successfully implemented a project - based STEAM program coupled with in - and after - school enrichment that include sports (no football though), arts, and extracurricular clubs.