Sentences with phrase «groups of districts»

The winners, which include districts, groups of districts, and nonprofits in partnership with districts or a group of schools, will use their awards to implement innovative approaches that significantly improve student achievement.

The competition is designed to help school districts and groups of districts implement bold local reforms focused on personalizing education for each student.

And indeed, 11 of the 16 districts or groups of districts are in states that did not win the original 12 Race to the Top grants for states.

State officials said they may be interested in directing part of their Race to the Top money to groups of districts where they believe the most good can be done.

We make these comparisons with groups of districts that had Democratic, Republican, or split - party control of the state government at the time the SFJ was issued.

Dwayne Clark, the UFT Manhattan borough representative (standing, far left), is with an enthusiastic group of District 5 members.

Innovations is among a small group of district - based trailblazers to use the «flex model» of blended learning as its foundation.

For this portion of the study, we compare KIPP students with two groups of district school students: all those attending non-KIPP middle schools in the same district, and a smaller comparison group of students attending middle schools that accepted an above - average number of students from the feeder elementary schools.

And now the Secretary is on the verge of giving a group of districts an ESEA waiver, which would overturn decades of state - led and controlled accountability policies.

First, CTBA cites a longitudinal study of Milwaukee's voucher program by researchers at the University of Arkansas, claiming that voucher students in grades 3 - 8 «performed statistically similar» to a matched group of district - school peers on standardized tests.

These grants are an unprecedented opportunity to follow the example of a bold group of district leaders and teachers, and work together to ensure that all students are taught by effective teachers, in our cities and beyond,» said Gene Wilhoit, Executive Director of the Council of Chief State School Officers.

The third example in this group of district - level efforts involved a cross-district study (Valencia & Au, 1997; Au & Valencia, 1997).

The authors call this group of districts the «Diversity Watch List.»

When the district first adopted Eureka Math in the 2016 - 2017 school year for Grades K — 5, staff from Great Minds, the nonprofit that developed the curriculum, conducted the Preparation and Customization of a Eureka Math Lesson professional development session for a group of district teachers, one from each grade level.

In partnership with NewSchools Venture Fund, we work with a diverse group of district, charter, and private school operators on a 10 - month journey — The Collaborative — to accelerate their trajectories towards next generation school models.

The following school year, a group of district and building administrators attended the Instructional Rounds in Education training at Harvard University.

This is the first time the Department has granted a waiver to a group of districts.

Civil rights and reform groups have been divided over the wisdom of providing a waiver to a group of districts, rather than to state education agencies.

The Portfolio Network is a group of district superintendents, new school office directors, mayor's staff, school board members, community leaders, and charter school leaders who are interested in implementing the portfolio strategy to improve their community's public school system.

A group of districts, however, offers insight for states considering some of these new indicators.

Plank said that a group of districts including Los Angeles and San Francisco with their own tracking systems have shared student - level test score data with researchers.

Grade Bands: All Grades On - site coaching provides an opportunity for a large group of district educators to collaborate with our trainers.

The LinkingWalk participants typically include groups of district leaders, school principals, teams of teachers and / or school / district coaches.

The waiver is a one - of - a-kind, as it marks the first time a group of districts were exempted from «No...

A group of districts in Central Louisiana is also looking to rejigger how teacher externships are happening in their part of the state.

We ground the content and structure of these first four days by framing the teachers» work in authentic learning experiences, collaboration with colleagues, and exposure to the expertise of a diverse group of district stakeholders, including students.

Researchers cautioned that the sample size was small, however, and subject to «higher variance and uncertainty» than the much larger group of district high school graduates.

For example, while I was practicing consumer rights law, I did a fair amount of CLE seminars for other lawyers, some non-lawyers, and even one for a large group of district court judges.

I've written a lot about this group of districts — The Best Posts & Articles On The NCLB Waiver Given To Eight California School Districts (Including Ours).

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The group of businesses — which also includes Twitter, Uber, and SpaceX — said the new order would inflict «substantial harm on U.S. companies, their employees, and the entire country,» in a brief filed in the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

Mr. Siegal, who for nine years served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York, joins Mintz Levin from Haynes and Boone, where he co-chaired the firm's Government Enforcement and Litigation Practice Group.

For the last 15 years, Partners for Progress, a group of private and public - sector leaders in St. Charles County, Missouri, have invested a significant amount of time and money to create a culture of STEM education in the area's school districts.

The 1965 Voting Rights Act requires states to create and preserve districts in which minority voting groups can elect their candidate of choice.

A group of 15 states and the District of Columbia have filed papers with the appeals court in support of Washington state's challenge to Trump's Jan. 27 order, saying it harms their educational institutions and economies.

In Washington state, a group of plaintiffs applying for immigrant visas asked U.S. District Judge James Robart in Seattle — who suspended the first ban — to stop the new order.

Febbo was part of a small group of people in line outside Samsung's swanky «technology playground» in New York's Meatpacking District, and a few were there to see about exchanging or returning their newly recalled Note 7.

The lawsuit, filed with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, argued the platform «knowingly provided material support and resources to Hamas... facilitat (ing) this terrorist group's ability to communicate, recruit members, plan and carry out attacks, and strike fear in its enemies.»

Southeast Asia's Grab said its app will allow a selected group of commuters to book and ride start - up nuTonomy's driverless vehicles within a western Singapore district, where the vehicles are being tested, and adjacent neighbourhoods.

The National Venture Capital Association, an industry group of top U.S. venture capitalists, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday in Washington D.C. District Court against the Trump Administration, alleging it illegally delayed an immigration program created during President Obama's term.

At a hearing in Moscow's Tverskoy District Court to decide whether Magomedov and his associates should be detained before their trial, Judge Maria Sizintseva said they had acted as part of an organised crime group and had tried to put pressure on witnesses.

On Wednesday, a judge in the Southern District of New York dismissed a key group of plaintiffs in litigation against Facebook for allegedly mishandling its 2012 initial public offering.

Earlier this year, U.S. District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco said California drivers could sue as a group on the question of whether they are employees or contractors, and over their demand for payment of tips that were not passed on to them.

The company «seems to believe» that the lawsuit should be pursued by individuals, not as a group, because «damages could amount to billions of dollars,» U.S. District Judge James Donato wrote in the ruling.

In February 2011, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, in conjunction with several other activist groups filed a brief with the U.S. District Court in New York City in support of ivi.

In the ruling on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco said California drivers could sue as a group on the question of whether they are employees or contractors, and over their demand for payment of tips that were not passed on to them.

In addition to lenders, cities and other community groups sometimes offer no - or low - interest loans within redevelopment districts to encourage businesses to do such things as improve the façade of their storefront, improve the structural infrastructure of their place of business, or create jobs.

Uber's ATG group will set up its first operation outside the U.S., at MaRS Discovery District in downtown Toronto, which will also include eight current University of Toronto students on Uber's payroll.

The nine plaintiffs in the first suit, filed June 2 in the Texas district, are SIFMA, the Financial Services Institute (FSI), the Financial Services Roundtable, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Insured Retirement Institute (IRI) and four Texas groups.

The Consumer Service Alliance of Texas joined the trade group in the lawsuit filed in a federal district court in Austin.

Nine plaintiffs including the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), the Financial Services Institute, the Financial Services Roundtable, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Insured Retirement Institute and four Texas groups, including the Texas Association of Business, filed a similar lawsuit on June 2 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.