Sentences with phrase «high school districts reported»

Grade - level shortages: Shortages occur at all grade levels, but the problem is worse in upper grades, with 60 % of middle school districts reporting shortages and 62 % of high school districts reporting the same.

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The school district during the 2011 - 12 year reported the highest number of in - school arrests in the state.

Contrary to media reports, the district has no record of Nikolas Cruz committing a PROMISE eligible infraction or being assigned to PROMISE while in high school.

But with consistent, dedicated nutrition education in the Boulder Valley schools, Cooper reports that meal participation in her district is now at a higher level than before the new changes were implemented.

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High schools within the South Bend (Ind.) Community School Corporation (SBCSC), with approximately 1,000 football - playing student - athletes reported concussions from football to decline by 40 percent from 2014 to 2015, the first year the school system implemented Heads Up Football district -School Corporation (SBCSC), with approximately 1,000 football - playing student - athletes reported concussions from football to decline by 40 percent from 2014 to 2015, the first year the school system implemented Heads Up Football district -school system implemented Heads Up Football district - wide.

Mr. Appiah is reported to have challenged the irate NDC supporters in the district to ensure that a picture of the former President is attached to all secondary schools in the country if they want him to maintain the one on the Nchumuruman Senior High School.

As TWC News previously reported, the Ithaca school district tested its water and found high lead levels in some schools.

(Released February 17, 2017) This report examines how 10 high need school districts on Long Island are impacted by the proposed 2017 Executive Budget in relation to how much they are owed under the Campaign for Fiscal Equity statewide settlement of 2007.

Not all districts had rates that high: Glens Falls reported an opt - out rate of 11 percent, Albany's schools were at 16 percent.

Michael Rebell, an attorney who won a landmark case requiring the state to fund school districts more equitably, and Randi Weingarten, president of a national teachers» union, wrote in appendices to the report that they agree with much of the group's findings, including recommendations for increased access to pre-kindergarten, technology and learning models that connect high school and college, and merit pay for teachers.

Senate Democrats and Erie County District Attorney John Flynn cited a recent report of decades of alleged inappropriate behavior by faculty at one of western New York's most prestigious high schools.

The U.F.T. held three «emergency» meetings with its members and parents on Thursday, ran a full - page anti-Cuomo advertisement in the Daily News, and released an extensive report claiming, among other things, that charter schools don't enroll enough high - needs students compared to their district school counterparts.

A shooter has been reported at Texas» Santa Fe High School, the school district thereSchool, the school district thereschool district there said.

In light of reports in today's Albany Times Union that a 10th grade teacher at Albany High School asked students to make a persuasive argument blaming Jews for the problems of Nazi Germany as part of a writing assignment, Councilman David G. Greenfield is calling on the school district to immediately terminate the teacher in queSchool asked students to make a persuasive argument blaming Jews for the problems of Nazi Germany as part of a writing assignment, Councilman David G. Greenfield is calling on the school district to immediately terminate the teacher in queschool district to immediately terminate the teacher in question.

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.

That month, however, officials in the Bethpage school district reported that monitoring wells at Bethpage High School — across the street from a park that is part of the Superfund site — had detected elevated levels of rschool district reported that monitoring wells at Bethpage High School — across the street from a park that is part of the Superfund site — had detected elevated levels of rSchool — across the street from a park that is part of the Superfund site — had detected elevated levels of radium.

But as WXXI's Hélène Biandudi Hofer reports, some believe there's one key element that can't be overlooked as District and school leaders work to improve the future of East High.

Jan. 25: State Comptroller DiNapoli, in his annual report on schools» financial conditions, says the Hempstead and Wyandanch systems on the Island face the highest degree of fiscal stress encountered by any non-urban districts in the state.

The Committee set up by the Upper West Regional Directorate of the Ghana Education Service [GES], to investigate circumstances surrounding a violent protest by students of Erimon Senior High Technical School in the Lawra District, is expected to present its report on Friday, February 2.

Austin Harig, a Hutchinson Central Technical High School senior, has the backing of local labor unions in the race for the Park District seat, as POLITICO New York first reported.

Some appear to be turned off by reports of Success suspension rates far higher than district schools» and the extreme focus on performing well on test scores.

The critical report is part of the Alliance for Quality Education's multi-year campaign to get billions more in school aid for districts like Utica that suffer from high poverty rates.

-LSB-...] BOCES Overcharging New York State Tax Payers A recent report by New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli uncovered that the Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) regularly overcharge school districts and price their services higher than needed.

NEW ROCHELLE, NY — Eight windows in two classrooms at New Rochelle High School were smashed out causing more than $ 1,000 in property damage, according to an Incident Report filed by the City School District of New Rochelle.

Some school districts are reporting that 60 to 70 percent of students boycotted statewide English tests, raising questions about whether the federal government could withhold funds from schools with high opt out rates.

The New York State Board of Regents is expected to act on two committee reports Tuesday, calling for a delay the impact of Common Core - related state assessments on educators and students and reducing the level of local school district testing associated with the new teacher evaluation law and higher standards for teaching and learning.

WBFO's senior reporter Eileen Buckley reports a new nation - wide study says there is a high rate of students arriving at school hungry, but the Buffalo Public School District is serving thousands of free meals to cityschool hungry, but the Buffalo Public School District is serving thousands of free meals to citySchool District is serving thousands of free meals to city kids.

Post-Tribune: Your source for Northwest Indiana news, events, crime reports, community announcements, photos, high school sports and school district news.

In a book that Smerdon and Borman would curate for the Urban Institute in 2009, Saving America's High Schools, many of the members of the research team expanded on the findings from the Gates report, offering a wealth of specific findings for many of the larger districts receiving Gates funds.

The report, «Boosting Performance and Containing Cost through Mayoral Academies,» contrasts the low performance of low - income and minority students and the wide achievement gaps in traditional district schools, and the high performance of low - income and minority students and smaller achievement gaps in high - performing charter schools in neighboring states.

The cost to states for designing and administering high school exit exams is modest compared with the «rapidly escalating» costs school districts face as they try to raise student performance on the exams, concludes a report released last week.

Mr. Mickelson wrote in his Feb. 14 veto message to the legislature that he was rejecting the measure because it would have required that report cards be issued on a district basis, with school reports averaged so that there was one each for elementary, middle, and high schools.

According to the Global Report Card, more than a third of the 30 school districts with the highest math achievement in the United States are actually charter schools.

Brian Jacob and Lars Lefgren find no relationship between teachers» pay and their performance in a mid-sized, western school district (see «When Principals Rate Teachers,» research, page 58); and Eric Hanushek, Steven Rivkin, and Daniel O'Brien, in a 2005 working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, report no relationship between teacher productivity and changes in pay, suggesting that surrounding districts do not pull the most effective teachers from the city by offering higher salaries.

Recently, Glazerman et al. reported that even after being offered a $ 20,000 bonus to move to a high - need school in their district, only 3.5 percent of middle school teachers in the top quintile of effectiveness and 7 percent of similarly ranked elementary teachers were willing to transfer.

Public school districts in Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco reported higher student - absentee rates than usual on May 1, the day of the boycott.

Because of the variation in definitions, there are no nationwide statistics on truancy, but school districts report that anywhere from 15 to 25 percent of their high school students are truant.

But while the school district's evaluation was positive in tone (Singapore Math «helped prepare students for higher - level math placements in middle school»), it reported mixed results and offered no recommendation for expansion.

According to a White House background report, the Education Accountability Act is «designed to hold students, teachers and schools to high standards, and to ensure that school districts and states provide students with a high quality education.»

These 10 tips draw on the expertise of the California Department of Education, ConnectEd, MDRC's research report, and many teachers and administrators in the Elk Grove Unified School District and at Francisco Bravo Medical Magnet High School.

This year's installment of Education Week's annual report features a comprehensive analysis of public high school graduation rates for the nation, the states, and every school district in the country.

Those goals are part of a new approach to admissions outlined in Turning the Tide, a report from the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Making Caring Common (MCC) initiative that has now been endorsed by more than 140 colleges and universities, high schools and districts, and allied organizations and scholars.

RAND recently released a report that determined that Playworks meets the highest standards for evidence under the Every Student Succeeds Act, so some schools and districts are using those federal funds.

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 aschool, 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 aSchool 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.

Thomas Dee and Brian Jacob, for example, report that exit exam requirements reduced high school graduation rates by about 2 percentage points, with larger effects in states with more difficult examinations, and with effects concentrated among black students and among students in districts with large percentages of students of color.

The second special report, Increased Learning Time Under Stimulus - Funded School Improvement Grants: High Hopes, Varied Implementation, highlights key findings about state, district, and school experiences related to the requirement to increase student learning time in SIG - funded scSchool Improvement Grants: High Hopes, Varied Implementation, highlights key findings about state, district, and school experiences related to the requirement to increase student learning time in SIG - funded scschool experiences related to the requirement to increase student learning time in SIG - funded schools.

This new FairTest report explains how and why state and local activists rolled back testing, such as high school exit exams and district - mandated tests.

Maintain the requirement that states and school districts issue and distribute annual report cards, including disaggregated data on student achievement and high school graduation rates, while also streamlining data reporting to ensure meaningful information is easily available to parents and communities.

The report also found that since teacher salaries and benefits make up the bulk of school budgets, a fair funding system was needed to provide an equitable distribution of high - quality teachers in all districts.