Sentences with phrase «goals than state school»

Consequently, independent school students have clearer career goals than state school or academy school students.

Not exact matches

But if Sweetgreen's goal was to raise awareness about school nutrition (and not just garner a lot of publicity for its restaurants, which it did in spades), I fail to see what it accomplished by holding American schools up to an unrealistic international standard — whether the standard is unrealistic because it's inaccurate (Greece) or because the country in question invests far more time, money and effort than the United States in feeding its children (France.)

But he did not see fit to focus on charter schools in his State of the State speech in January, where he lays out his economic and policy goals for the year, any more than he'd chosen to focus on them at any point since becoming governor.

«Our goal was to show exactly how environmental protection can reduce poverty in poorer nations rather than exacerbate it, as many people fear,» says co-author Paul Ferraro, a professor of economics and environmental policy in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University.

That goal, which doubles as Diaz's own insistently self - deprecating joke about her flat chest, drives Elizabeth to do all sorts of disreputable things, like steal proceeds from a school car wash (where she reels in customers via a skimpy Daisy Dukes outfit) and compete for a salary bonus by drugging a state official (Thomas Lennon) and filching a test so that her class will perform better than all others, and especially that of ultra-cheery rival Amy (Lucy Punch).

The classroom - based charters were 33 percent more likely to meet their state achievement goals than other public schools, according to the May 25 report.

But I've seen enough to restate with fair confidence an earlier (and better informed) Fordham judgment, namely that millions of American school - kids would be better served if their states, districts and schools set out in a serious way to impart these skills and content to their pupils rather than the nebulous and flaccid curricular goals that they're now using.

Advocate Newspapers: State officials here in Louisiana say that No Child Left Behind is more concerned with all students meeting goals than with all students in schools making progress.

The positions Trump has mentioned — pumping $ 20 billion in federal dollars and convincing states to divert another $ 110 billion into school choice; repealing Common Core; reducing or eliminating the Department of Education — remain fairly ambiguous goals that, in some cases, raise more questions than they answer.

But the Senate has nixed the so - called Murphy Amendment, which would require states to identify and intervene in their lowest - performing schools; high schools with fewer than 67 % on - time graduates; and any school where disadvantaged or disabled students fall short of standardized test goals for two consecutive years.

Several years ago, the Obama administration recognized the reality that this goal was not going to be attained; and since the Congress could not agree on an alternative, the federal Department of Education granted the states permission to test and hold schools accountable in different ways than the original NCLB had done.

Furthermore, the most recent state test scores showed that Denver performed better than most districts in the state, showing commendable improvements in turnaround schools located in Far Northeast and Northwest Denver, even though the district is still far from its own goal of 3.5 percent improvement in growth across all subjects.

Most importantly, it determines that where schools are working, it is because educators, parents, and local communities have developed programs specific to meet their goals and challenges, rather than relying on a prescriptive state and federal role.

States and districts should ensure that principals» eligibility to earn additional compensation is based on a variety of measures that are aligned to state, district, and school goals rather than a single measure of student achievement

Two of their initial successes — Rhode Island (RI - CAN) and New York (NY - CAN), both states where Achievement First is aggressively trying to expand so that they can meet their goal of having 35 schools in the next few years so that they organization will be larger than 95 % of the school districts in the nation.

The 90 percent goal is a key element in a 387 - page ESSA plan the Illinois State Board of Education submitted last month to the federal government, outlining how students of all backgrounds will be assessed and grow academically, as well as how schools will be rated under myriad factors other than test scores.

David Albert, spokesman for the New York State School Boards Association, said the goal should be to limit the amount of time students spend taking tests, rather than lengthen it.

The board, the California Department of Education and consultant WestEd are more than two years into developing a set of rubrics to be used by county offices of education and a state oversight body to evaluate how well school districts are meeting goals set within their Local Control Accountability Plans.

This has resulted in states such as Tennessee letting traditional districts get away with low bar goals, such as ensuring that 42.8 percent of black high school students are proficient in Algebra I during the 2012 - 2013 school year, some 20 percentage points lower than the rate of proficiency for white peers.

The federal government has an ambitious goal of connecting 99 percent of America's students to high - speed broadband and wireless in their schools by 2018; at the state level, more than $ 2 billion has been allocated to support technology infrastructure improvement in schools (US Department of Education 2013; California Department of Education 2013, 2014, 2015).2 In spite of these investments, a large number of schools need significant infrastructure upgrades (Gao 2015).

Achievement First presently runs 20 schools but their goal is to grow to 35 schools in the coming years so that they can be larger than «95 percent» of school districts in the United States.

More than two - thirds of high school campuses met test score goals set by the state, twice as many schools as last year, the new statistics showed.

More schools are meeting our 90 percent goal for students passing state exams than ever before.

More than merely stating a goal or mentioning equity in a mission statement, districts must begin to operationalize their stated dedication to racial equity by placing district leaders in charge of elevating the issues, providing anti-racism training, monitoring data for racial disparities, and holding schools accountable for equity outcomes.

Stark County School Superintendent Jerry Klooster, a member of the task force that helped develop Vision 20/20 in 2012, said the goals of the group include developing a balanced state assessment system; making it easier for teachers from out - of - state to get a license to teach in Illinois; recognize that not all districts are the same, have varied resources and expectations, and differentiated accountability; and adequate funding of education based on local factors rather than «one size fits all.»

Many schools had scores lower than 600, when the state goal for a proficient school was 800 or higher.

Because such charter schools inculcate their students with an urgency to perform as well, or better than, their affluent counterparts, such a statement warrants celebration because it proves that they are achieving their stated goals.