Sentences with phrase «for school districts across the state»

An on - time state budget is good news for school districts across the state, as they plug in the hard numbers to proposed budgets.

As attorney general, Cuomo exposed what he described as systemic pension fund abuses in which government contractors — including lawyers and doctors for school districts across the state — wrongfully had themselves listed as employees in order to collect taxpayer - funded pensions.

In addition Chuck has conducted numerous principal searches for school districts across the state.

You might want to check out Ed - Data, which is managed by the Education Data Partnership and recently uploaded 2011 — 2012 Academic Performance Index (API) and Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) scores for school districts across the state.

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She has worked for school districts, hospitals and retirement communities across the United States.

Cafeteria managers across the state had complained for a year about food that reeked of ammonia, but state and federal regulators failed to alert school districts.

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Nicole has helped school districts across the United States manage food allergies and create safe environments for food allergic children.

The organization Cook for America has partnered with a number of school districts across the state to redesign the operations and practices of school foodservice.

While the new CT State Law requires all districts provide a number for concussions diagnosed in their students, the Norwalk School Concussion Project is going a step further and shedding the light on the various types of sport and non-sport concussions across our K - 12 schools.

Comprehensive Assessment Systems - For the 2014 - 2015 school year, the Massachusetts Kindergarten Entry Assessment (MKEA) initiative was expanded to reach 173 school districts across the state, assessing over 36,000 students using a valid and reliable formative assessment tool.

«Secretary Duncan's report saying New York is on the watch - list for failure is yet another warning that the inability of school districts across the state and their unions to come together has jeopardized the quality of our kids» education,» Cuomo said.

He also referenced the fact that New York is now one of three states placed on a watch list for losing hundreds of millions of Race to the Top dollars by US Education Secretary Arne Duncan because it has «hit a roadblock» on significant policy provisions of qualifying for the aid, including establishment of the peformance evaluation system and creation of a database to track student records across school districts.

It is school district budget voting Tuesday across New York State, with a range of spending proposals, school board candidates and capital budget proposals being put to the voters for their approval.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Tuesday announced $ 35 million in funding available for high - need school districts across the state to establish after - school programs.

«It's crucial for the majority of school districts across New York State who are unable to comply with this misguided policy that we act now before the end of session,» Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins said.

Per - pupil funding levels should be adequate across all programs and settings — both school districts and community based organizations — in order to support high - quality pre-k for 3 - and 4 - year - olds, and the state should establish a timeline for ensuring adequate resources while expanding access to all eligible children, particularly in high - need communities.

«By rewarding donations that support public schools, providing tax credits for teachers when they purchase classroom supplies out of pocket, and easing the financial burden on families who send their children to independent, parochial or out - of - district public schools, we can make a fundamental difference in the lives of students, families and educators across the state,» he said.

The two - month delay threatens to cause planning nightmares for nearly 700 school districts across the state.

She has served on many executive committees including the American Association of School Administrators, the New York State Council for School Superintendents, the Association of Small City School Districts, and the New Standards Project, a national initiative that launched the transformation to standards - based instruction, a concept that remains the framework for teaching and learning across the nation.

«This toolkit is a valuable resource for communities, school districts and families across our state to help start serious conversations about the disease of addiction and the inherent dangers of drug use and experimentation.»

According to him, the upgrade of the public libraries in schools across the six education districts in the State was in line with the commitment of the present administration to expand access to knowledge for Lagosians.

«The passage of Proposal One is a big win for local governments, school districts, and taxpayers across New York State,» Cuomo said.

The measure also comes as school districts across the state on Tuesday reported high numbers of students choosing to opt out of the current round of English Language Arts standardized tests that will run for the next two weeks.

Public school districts across Long Island and the state are bracing for what many educators and parents expect to be a fifth consecutive year of Common Core test boycotts in grades three through eight, even as eight districts in Nassau and Suffolk counties and dozens elsewhere introduce computerized versions of the exams.

Voters in school districts across the state head to the polls today to decide school budgets and candidates for school board seats.

This week, the Kingston City School District, like public school districts across New York, administered state assessment tests in math for students in grades School District, like public school districts across New York, administered state assessment tests in math for students in grades school districts across New York, administered state assessment tests in math for students in grades 3 - 8.

Cuomo has addressed the funding inequities impacting school districts across the state, Skahen said, and she remains optimistic for the SCSD.

Since its implementation, school officials across the state have heavily criticized the state Department of Education for pushing the new mandates before local districts were ready for them, among other complaints

In September, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a law requiring school districts across the state to conduct periodic testing for lead contamination.

«Aid runs are necessary and critical to the local budget development process for the hundreds of school districts across the state.»

This year's average proposed tax levy increase in school districts across New York State is 4.6 percent, up from about 3 percent a year ago, according to the Empire Center for New York State Policy.

The group says it has filed 2,500 public records requests with government agencies across the state, including tiny villages and school districts, asking for their «checkbooks» — records of all expenditures in a given year.

After the proposition passed, state union representatives immediately lobbied the state attorney general to issue a «clarification» explaining that performance pay actually meant an across - the - board bonus for every teacher in a school or district, regardless of performance, and that funding classrooms directly actually meant passing the funding through the district first so the district, rather than the school, can make the major funding decisions.

Breaux: New Teacher Induction provides overviews and contact information for more than 30 highly successful, easily replicable induction programs used in rural, urban, and suburban school districts across the United States.

The Department of Education is seeking proposals for 21 comprehensive centers spread across the country that will provide expertise to states and school districts working to meet the demands of the No Child Left Behind Act.

Tax hikes that would have raised more money for education in Illinois were voted down in 48 of 60 local school district referendums, or 80 percent of the ballot initiatives held across the state on Nov. 5.

While we partner with a number of reform - minded districts across the United States, only about 20 percent of EP alumni in education work for school districts (including exciting new models like Louisiana's Recovery School District and Tennessee's Achievement School Distschool districts (including exciting new models like Louisiana's Recovery School District and Tennessee's Achievement School DistSchool District and Tennessee's Achievement School DistSchool District).

This phenomenon is common across the United States, with charters fighting for space in high - cost cities without the legislative and financial supports that district schools enjoy (see «Whose School Buildings Are They, Anyway?»

CAMBRIDGE, MA — In some school districts across the United States, public school buildings sit vacant while nearby charter schools searching for space are turned away.

In a new article for Education Next, Matthew Steinberg of the Penn Graduate School of Education and Johanna Lacoe of Mathematica Policy Research document the scope of discipline policy reform taking place across states and districts nationwide.

At least since the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, this has been interpreted to give the federal government the power to intervene in cases of legally sanctioned discrimination, like the segregation of public schools across the country; to mandate equal access to education for students with disabilities; and, according to some arguments, to correct for persistently unequal access to resources across states and districts of different income levels.

A Wall Street company that provides independent financial analyses and credit ratings for businesses and school districts is offering a service that will enable states to link data about financial expenditures with academic results and compare performance across districts.

Missouri's pension boundaries would make it practically impossible for high - performing school districts to operate a program, run a school, or loan teachers within the Saint Louis or Kansas City boundaries, just as state pension boundaries would make it impossible for schools to effectively work across state lines.

These assessments are the only assessment of student achievement that allow for comparisons across all the states, across some large school districts, across a range of subgroups, and over time.

The bulk of this important book consists of 12 detailed studies of how the law's mandated remedies for schools identified for improvement are playing out in states and districts across the country.

The dramatic variation in student performance across states raises the concern that many children will suffer in coming years as states and districts assume greater responsibility for monitoring and intervening in failing schools.

Now that the technological foundation for the use of robust systems of longitudinal education data has been laid in most states and school districts, experts say the focus needs to turn to making such data more useful for teachers, administrators, parents, and students, That will require a mix of strong leadership at the state and districts levels, greater collaboration across state agencies, and much better professional development and ongoing support for teachers and administrators.

Join Todd Wirt, assistant superintendent for academics with Wake County Public School System (WCPSS), N.C., and Carol Wetzel, senior director with Discovery Education, as they discuss the challenges WCPSS faced implementing Common Core State Standards across the district and how they determined the best way to scale professional development for its 11,000 teachers as they embarked on this digital and instructional journey.

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