Sentences with phrase «first big school districts»

Under Henderson's leadership, the city became one of the first big school districts to embrace the Common Core, overhauling its curriculum in math and reading.

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But now many powerful forces are aligned against school food reform: the processed food industry, which has a huge financial stake in the program and powerful lobbyists on Capitol Hill; the need of school districts to make their meal programs break even; First Lady Michelle Obama's vocal support of school food reform, which has politicized the issue for some conservatives hoping to score political points; and conservatives» general distrust of «big government.»

Rochester and Yonkers experienced significant improvements; for the first time, the graduation rate in a Big 5 city school district, Yonkers, exceeded the statewide rate.

Duffy also weighed in on Last In, First out, saying he is for anything that improves the graduation rates for students, especially in the state's Big 5 school districts.

Cuomo only asking the people to support the cap without any mention of mandate relief is the hamburger bun without the burger and simply fuels the opposition's (they say mandate relief before tax cap) claim that tax cap alone is a big - government scheme to take power away from and defund local towns and school districts and increase the power of the larger state government which created the property tax problem in the first place by passing the mandates which are the biggest property tax drivers and now refuses to change those mandates.

The big news out of the latest is official confirmation that school districts spent less money per student in 2010 - 11 than they had the year before, the first one - year decline in nearly four decades.

In How Schools Work, readers discover that first grade reading groups operate within a grand organizational scheme: groups nested in classrooms, classrooms housed within schools, schools situated within a big urban diSchools Work, readers discover that first grade reading groups operate within a grand organizational scheme: groups nested in classrooms, classrooms housed within schools, schools situated within a big urban dischools, schools situated within a big urban dischools situated within a big urban district.

The assessment itself was first given in 1969, but the underlying political compromises meant that (a) students were tested by age, not grade level; (b) results were reported either as percentages of test takers getting individual questions right or (starting in 1984) on a psychometric scale that included no benchmarks, standards, or «cut points»; and (c) the «units of analysis» were the entire country and four big regions but not individual states, let alone districts or schools.

Revamping a strategy in play when state leaders first hesitated on joining the federal Race to the Top competition, California will reportedly file for the second phase of the race in an application centered only around three of the state's biggest school districts.

This fall, New Orleans» state - run Recovery School District will become the nation's first big - city school system comprised entirely of charter scSchool District will become the nation's first big - city school system comprised entirely of charter scschool system comprised entirely of charter schools.

Charter Schools vs. Teachers Union: LAUSD Gives District Insiders Big Win With First Dibs on New Campuses

Wagner, L. «New Innovative School District spends big on public relations, applicant reviews in first year.»

The Big Spring Independent School District, an eight - campus district in a town of about 28,000 people in west Texas, is recruiting for its first year of implementation in the 2015 — 16 school year, and the TEA is identifying additional districts to support in thisSchool District, an eight - campus district in a town of about 28,000 people in west Texas, is recruiting for its first year of implementation in the 2015 — 16 school year, and the TEA is identifying additional districts to support in thDistrict, an eight - campus district in a town of about 28,000 people in west Texas, is recruiting for its first year of implementation in the 2015 — 16 school year, and the TEA is identifying additional districts to support in thdistrict in a town of about 28,000 people in west Texas, is recruiting for its first year of implementation in the 2015 — 16 school year, and the TEA is identifying additional districts to support in thisschool year, and the TEA is identifying additional districts to support in this work.

New Innovative School District Spends Big on Public Relations, Applicant Reviews in First Year

First of all, you must be thrilled to be asked to attend that big teacher interview with a dream school district.