Sentences with phrase «first public school system»

In our country's first public school system, teachers are collaborating on student - centered ideas to improve student outcomes and educational equity.

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His mother began to fight for her son, first against a local public school system that takes a cookie - cutter approach to children, then against the county and state.

Because neither the public school system nor his family could manage him, when he was 12 Sam was placed in the first of a series of residential schools that combined academics with programs of behavior modification.

I have my Bachelor's degree in Early Childhood education, and taught first grade in the Baltimore public school system last school year.

An educator since 1985, Tommi has worked as a class teacher, subject teacher, and block teacher for grades K - 8 and, prior to pursuing Waldorf Education, taught kindergarten and first grade in the public school system.

Jericho resumes classes Tuesday, the first of the Island's 124 public school systems to do so.

First Lady Michelle Obama is slated Friday to give the commencement speech at City College of New York, the flagship school of the CUNY system and the nation's largest urban public university.

As a public school teacher for the past twenty - four years, I know first - hand what is working in our education system and I know all too well what desperately needs fixing.

Dedicating a single press conference to the issue for the first time, Mr. de Blasio laid out in dire terms what would happen if New York City reverted to the old system of education that existed before his predecessor, Michael Bloomberg, won mayoral control of public schools in 2002.

Depending on what happens in the coming session, this could turn out to have been a first step in weakening the mayor's control over the city's public school system.

In his first budget address to the legislature, Murphy said he would use the extra revenue to ramp up state aid for school districts, increase funding for the beleaguered NJ Transit and a make a larger payment into the cash - strapped public worker pension system.

«Since her first child entered the City's public school system ten years ago, Ann Kittredge has immersed herself in learning about the many different facets of educational policy and has dedicated a great deal of her time and effort to volunteer projects aimed at improving the education experience of our children,» Borough President Katz said.

Attacking new teacher evaluation systems that are, for the first time, enabling district public schools to make decisions based on teacher quality, does violence to the cause of improving the quality of education for the overwhelming majority of students who don't attend charter schools.

STEM - focused high schools are important because they constitute the first U.S. science and mathematics reform that requires whole - school transformation rather than tinkering with peripheral components of an outmoded educational system or serving just a small, select segment of the public school population.

The story is about Charlie Bartlett (Anton Yelchin), a rich kid trying his luck for the first time in the public school system.

Our educational system faces some of the toughest challenges it has met since America's first public school opened in Boston in 1635.

He talked about Newark's universal enrollment system, which includes all of the city's public schools (both district and charter), noting that 75 % of families chose a school other than their neighborhood school and that 42 % of families listed their first choice as a «high - performing charter school.»

The suburban Denver schools in which we work are among the first large, comprehensive public high schools in the nation to convert to a performance - based system.

When Mayra Valle entered YES Prep North Central in the public charter school's first sixth - grade class six years ago, it was a shock to her system.

Within the span of one year, all public - school employees were fired, the teacher contract expired and was not replaced, and the state took control of almost all public schools, dramatically reshaping the teacher workforce and providing the first direct test of an alternative to the U.S.'s century - old system of school governance.

She also led Breakthrough for Learning, the first pay - for - performance system in the New York City Public Schools.

During the first half of the 20th century, when the New York City public schools composed one of the most successful systems in the nation, they were considered the jewels in the crown.

Although a recent union election cast doubt on the durability of the arrangement, Cincinnati has become the first public school district in the country to scrap the traditional salary schedule in favor of a system that pays teachers according to their classroom performance.

Ackerman's first superintendent position was in the Washington D.C. Public Schools from 1998 to 2000, where she made key changes to the system that included reworking the schools budget, revamping instruction resulting in boosted test scores, and reorganizing staff strSchools from 1998 to 2000, where she made key changes to the system that included reworking the schools budget, revamping instruction resulting in boosted test scores, and reorganizing staff strschools budget, revamping instruction resulting in boosted test scores, and reorganizing staff structure.

And on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS)- the state's standardized test, first administered in the spring of 1998 - Worcester public school students in different grade levels were 8 to 20 percentage points less likely to score at or above proficiency than were students statewide.

In a similar vein, Jennifer Vranek and her colleagues at Education First write, «Past accountability systems were the darlings of policy makers, think tanks, foundations, editorial boards, and advocates; they rarely had the support of educators, school communities, and the public writ large.

When first explaining that a «school voucher system allows parents the option of sending their child to the school of their choice, whether that school is public or private, including both religious and non-religious schools» using «tax dollars currently allocated to a school district,» support increased to 63 percent and opposition increased to 33 percent.

90, Ed.D.» 00, first got involved with the school system not as a politician but as a parent of two daughters enrolled in Cambridge Public Schools.

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Dr. Renee A. Foose, Superintendent, Howard County Public School System, MD Dr. Renee A. Foose became the first female Superintendent of the Howard County Public School System in July 2012.

Twenty years after Delaware's first charters opened, the state is still wrestling with their proper role within the larger public school system.

B4K stands for the proposition that the first priority of the New Jersey public school system must be the best interests of New Jersey students, not the special interests that dominate the status quo.

One of the first pre-college level virtual schools, The Virtual High School, was started in 1996 by the Hudson (Massachusetts) Public School System and the Concord Consortium.

First, afterschool and summer enrichment opportunities are available to all students as a core part of the public education system — whether through schools or organizations that partner with them — and not optional «extras,» which are particularly vulnerable to political vagaries and budget cuts.

He is currently writing a book about the challenge of building a first - rate public school system in the face of modern political dysfunction.

New York City's public high school system — the nation's largest — underwent a sweeping transformation during the first decade of the twenty - first century.

«Dr. Richard DuFour's In Praise of American Educators takes a surprisingly fresh approach to the traditional education blame game by spending the first four to five chapters talking about what schools and namely schoolteachers are doing right in America's public education system.

I knew that museum education could be an exciting platform for the kind of work I wanted to do with young people, but I knew I first needed to learn more about the public school system, educational policy, and curriculum design.

In the first three chapters of the book, Hill and Jochim make a case for the structure of a governance system they believe will be effective for improving public schools.

State Department of Education staffers held the first of ahalf - dozen public presentations on the new system, this one at Toms River High School North.

Recently hired Wake County Manager David Ellis revealed his first budget proposal to county commissioners on Wednesday with increases in many areas of county government including an additional $ 30 million for the Wake County Public School System.

New Jersey public schools will begin grading teachers and principals using a new evaluation system this fall, and educators received their first look last week at proposed regulations spelling out in greater detail exactly how they will be judged.

Denver Public Schools now prioritizes seating at 20 low - poverty schools for low - income students, and it recently opened a comprehensive high school that reserves a third of available seats for students residing in high - poverty neighborhoods.71 In 2012, Denver launched the first unified enrollment system for all traditional public and charter schools in the disPublic Schools now prioritizes seating at 20 low - poverty schools for low - income students, and it recently opened a comprehensive high school that reserves a third of available seats for students residing in high - poverty neighborhoods.71 In 2012, Denver launched the first unified enrollment system for all traditional public and charter schools in the diSchools now prioritizes seating at 20 low - poverty schools for low - income students, and it recently opened a comprehensive high school that reserves a third of available seats for students residing in high - poverty neighborhoods.71 In 2012, Denver launched the first unified enrollment system for all traditional public and charter schools in the dischools for low - income students, and it recently opened a comprehensive high school that reserves a third of available seats for students residing in high - poverty neighborhoods.71 In 2012, Denver launched the first unified enrollment system for all traditional public and charter schools in the dispublic and charter schools in the dischools in the district.

The first paper, «Building for the Future: A Toolbox for Attracting and Retaining Great Teachers in Hard - to - Staff Schools» provides a wide array of strategies for bringing in and keeping talent in the public school system.

This past cycle of Newark Enrolls, the collaborative enrollment system that lets parents prioritize their choices among traditional district schools and public charters, over 50 percent of parents of incoming kindergarteners chose charters as their first choice.

Tutorial networks were first started at the margins of a public school system, where chronic deficiencies in structure, transient teachers, and regional poverty were invitations to try radical innovations, without disturbing the rest of the schools.

AAE, as the leader of a growing professional educator network, believes that the charter school movement is an important component in creating a first - class public school system.

In that role, he helped build the nation's first mayor - run office to authorize public charter schools, creating a high bar for charter school quality and a rigorous accountability system.

Shoddy marking standards mean that hundreds of teenagers are wrongly missing out on places at their first - choice universities and eroding public confidence in Britain's exam system, the leader of Britain's top independent schools will warn.