Sentences with phrase «first urban district»

In the spring of 1996, Chicago became the first urban district in the nation to declare an end to «social promotion.»

Not exact matches

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The Buffalo Public School District and SUNY Buffalo State have launched the city's first - ever Urban Teacher Academy for high school students.

WBFO's Eileen Buckley says the Buffalo Public School District and Buffalo State have launched the city's first - ever Urban Teachers Academy for high school students.

The Urban Superintendents Program is the nation's first and only comprehensive program that prepares school leaders to address the challenges of large, urban distrUrban Superintendents Program is the nation's first and only comprehensive program that prepares school leaders to address the challenges of large, urban distrurban districts.

Similarly, when urban districts need to close a set of schools in order to consolidate, they increasingly ensure that school quality is the first consideration — preserve high performers and close low performers.

Appearing first in Denver and Des Moines in 1921, and in nearly all urban districts by...

Twenty - seven urban districts participated in the Trial Urban District Assessment in 2017, with five participating for the first urban districts participated in the Trial Urban District Assessment in 2017, with five participating for the first Urban District Assessment in 2017, with five participating for the first time.

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 district.

Ten years ago, TNTP released its first report, Missed Opportunities, which I vividly remember reading in disbelief — urban districts were losing out on scores of talented potential teachers because of their dysfunctional hiring practices.

The strongest results were in Charlotte - Mecklenburg's Project L.I.F.T., a zone of struggling schools within a large, urban school district, which got about 30 applicants per position in the first two years.

As the first layperson to serve as Secretary for Education and Superintendent of Schools for the Archdiocese of Boston, she served on the Cardinal's Cabinet and led the second largest school district in Massachusetts composed of 120 schools and 42,000 students primarily located in Greater Boston's ethnically diverse urban areas.

First, a centralized and muscular system of quality control, like PM, that is only established in urban districts clearly communicates to minority communities a lack of trust in their ability to judge quality as parents or even to judge it as decentralized charter authorizers.

In 2007 they approved funding for the first public Waldorf methods high school, in the Sacramento Unified School District; and (3) Three key findings on urban public schools with Waldorf methods: (a) In their final year, the students in the study's four California case study public Waldorf - methods elementary schools match the top ten of peer sites on the 2006 California test scores and well outperform the average of their peers statewide; (b) According to teacher, administrator and mentor reports, they achieve these high test scores by focusing on those new three R's — rather than on rote learning and test prep — in a distinct fashion laid out by the Waldorf model and (c) A key focus is on artistic learning, not just for students but, more importantly perhaps, for the adults.

Fresno Unified and Long Beach Unified are the first of a half - dozen urban school districts nationwide that Gates is awarding with a three - year, $ 5 million grant... read more

For a high - poverty urban district like LAUSD, where declining birth rates, reduced immigration, gentrification and the expansion of charters have left neighborhood schools scrambling for resources, education researchers believe that community schooling offers the first meaningful bang for its buck in delivering equity for its highest - needs students.

Georgia's Gwinnett County Public Schools, one of the nation's top urban school districts, has completed an initial pilot of the industry's first cognitive, tablet - based, vocabulary learning app.

During his tenure, Chicago became the first urban school district in the nation to release an RFP requesting educators and community organizations to start charter schools.

As the first large urban school district to introduce a comprehensive accountability system, Chicago provides an exceptional case study of the effects of high - stakes testing - a reform strategy that will become omnipresent as the No Child Left Behind Act is implemented nationwide.

While most of Chicago's high school seniors hope to attend college, the school system has a long way to go to make that vision a reality, according to a new report that is among the first to track the post-high-school experiences of graduates from a major urban district on a broad scale.

As the first noneducator to take the helm of a large urban district, Vallas inspired a trend in urban school reform across the nation.

Michelle Rhee, for example, first used her TFA experience to develop The New Teacher Project in a parallel attempt to increase teacher quality in urban areas by recruiting new types of teachers, and now to help improve one of the nation's worst - performing urban districts.

will each work with two states, and four urban districts within each state, to form the first cohorts of leaders to participate in the programs.

First, the report is a small - scale pilot study of assignments at six middle schools in two urban districts — a tiny and unrepresentative sample.

We first define equity in terms of how New Orleans, as an urban district, performed relative to districts serving more - advantaged students.

In one high - performing midwestern urban district, for example, two schools became a focus for district intervention during the final year of our study because they failed to meet AYP targets (the first two schools to be designated in that status).

While tenure has been eliminated in some states, including DC (the source of many other posts on this blog), this is the first lawsuit to take on large states with large urban districts with largely «blue» political histories.

First published in 2005, the Denver Plan is meant to be part gut check, part road map, and part measuring stick for the urban school district.

Her career started as a Teach for America Corps Member teaching both Kindergarten and First Grade in the urban school district of Miami - Dade County Public Schools in Florida.

Given that the LSP is the first statewide voucher program systematically studied (other rigorously studied programs serve smaller samples of students in urban school districts), the program's scale may have played a role;

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.

They were among the first smaller, more personal schools; «smaller» has become a rallying cry among urban school districts.

A recent attempt by the 11,000 - student urban district to pass a $ 49.8 million bond issue for school construction and repair - its first since the 1960s - failed earlier this year.

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The anti-reformers only produce delay in improvements and insulation from the people whose kids are being victimized in our large urban districts by putting teachers first in too many ways.

First, there's the financial impact of turnover — the estimated average cost to replace each teacher who leaves an urban school district is more than $ 20,000.

However, AUSL recognized that transforming teacher talent alone wouldn't suffice in improving educational outcomes for these students, so it expanded its scope and became the first non-profit organization in the country to contract with a large urban school district to transform the lowest - performing schools from inside the public school system.

Shortly after Bennett's critique, the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research was created, launching one of the nation's first data partnerships between higher education researchers and an urban school district.

In 2014, the percentage of students of color exceeded the percentage of white students in U.S. public schools for the first time.13 Meanwhile, 84 percent of all public school teachers identify as white.14 While this disparity occurs in classrooms across the country, the diversity gap is especially pronounced in many urban school districts.15 In Boston, for example, there is one Hispanic teacher for every 52 Hispanic students, and one black teacher for every 22 black students.

Although the report says charters, specifically those serving low - income minority students in urban areas, outperform their district counterparts in many cities, the sector hasn't done enough to push the envelope in the nearly 25 years since the first charter law was passed.

Winton Woods is a first - ring urban district just outside the Cincinnati city limits and is highly diverse: 85 % majority minority; 72 % low SES; 18 % students with disabilities; and 15 % English Language Learners.

The first study that found no evidence of confounding looked at large samples of students and teachers from a single urban district over several years.

Our first example is drawn from our observations of two successful teacher leaders, Robin and Beth, who worked in the urban Horizon School District, which enrolled high numbers of ELLs, representing more than 100 native languages.

Even when they do live in urban districts, many of them either use school choice clauses in collective bargaining agreements to get first dibs on schools that don't have Black or Latino children in them, or just send their kids to private schools to avoid the failure mills they themselves work in.

We seek to become the first great urban public school system in the country — one whose schools perform on par with the best suburban districts in America, one that personalizes the student experience for all children and one that provides multiple rigorous pathways through and beyond high school to help every child, regardless of background, live up to their potential.

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They report that «one study found that across five large urban districts, among teachers who were ranked in the top 20 % of effectiveness in the first year, fewer than a third were in that top group the next year, and another third moved all the way down to the bottom 40 %.

Brighton is hardly the first district in Colorado or the country to consider taking this step, but it would be the largest and most urban.

The first venue was the Urban Education Dialogue (UED), a forum of large urban district superintendents designed to foster dialogue about the challenges and opportunities associated with running K — 12 school systems in CalifoUrban Education Dialogue (UED), a forum of large urban district superintendents designed to foster dialogue about the challenges and opportunities associated with running K — 12 school systems in Califourban district superintendents designed to foster dialogue about the challenges and opportunities associated with running K — 12 school systems in California.

Informing both reports is the GoI's first - time grassroots consultative process, which reportedly consisted of upwards of 275,000 direct consultations on thirty - three themes with people at the state, district, urban local, block, and village levels across the country.