Sentences with phrase «higher than other districts»

In her district, achievement is typically higher than other districts in the state.

Not exact matches

The Chicago Park District was criticized Tuesday for having much higher operating costs than park systems in other major American cities, but it also won praise for its plans to lower its tax levy by $ 3.7 million in 1986.

If your district pays significantly lower per hour salaries, this may even out, but if the other district is paying salaries which are comparable to, or lower than, your district, your labor costs will be higher, possibly a lot higher, than theirs, to produce the kind of meals they are producing.

Other districts could be pushed, he said, to raise property taxes higher than they otherwise might, though because of voter approval rules, such a route will be difficult for many districts.

An investigation by Schneiderman found the Syracuse City School District suspends students at a higher rate than almost every other district in the District suspends students at a higher rate than almost every other district in the district in the country.

The scores of last year's MCAS tests given to Springfield school students rose across the board at a higher rate than the gain recorded by school districts statewide, and the dropout rate has fallen more than any other school system in the state.

As previously reported, start - up technology firms continue to set up shop all over Union Square, despite rents in the area remaining significantly higher than in other neighborhoods, such as the Financial District.

If she can't convince them that she and Peeta are loyal to each other and the Capitol, the chances of a revolt are higher, and Snow is more than willing to destroy any district that dares to oppose him.

The proportion of students in poverty in the majority - black elementary schools has increased over time, and remains at higher levels (currently at 91 percent poor) than the district's other elementary schools (76.6 percent poor.)

He talked about Newark's universal enrollment system, which includes all of the city's public schools (both district and charter), noting that 75 % of families chose a school other than their neighborhood school and that 42 % of families listed their first choice as a «high - performing charter school.»

The lower - spending half of successful districts spent 50 percent less than the higher - spending districts, proving that many good schools do quite well with much less than other schools.

And there are large differences in teacher retention rates between Colorado districts, meaning some have much higher turnover rates than others.

But homeowners do appear to be much more responsive than other Americans to higher spending levels in their districts.

While many affluent suburban districts have lower achievement than we might expect, some districts are producing very high achievement even when compared with that of students in other developed countries.

And it seems to be working: In spring 2007, Enota students scored higher in math on the Criterion - Referenced Competency Test (CRCT, Georgia's annual standardized exam) than any other school in the district.

Both student and teacher attendance is higher than at other local schools, with the student attendance rate surpassing that of every other middle school in the district (and significantly better than the citywide average).

Outwardly, Success is similar to other «no excuses» (Moskowitz dislikes that term) charter schools: students are called «scholars» and wear uniforms; a longer school day and year allow for about one - third more instruction time than district schools provide; rooms are named after the teacher's alma mater; a culture of discipline and high expectations reigns.

State laws often bog charter conversions down with excess baggage, such as keeping the school under the district's collective bargaining agreement, or requiring that it have a higher percentage of certified teachers than other charters.

As in most other school districts, the teachers in higher - poverty schools in our sample have fewer years of experience than their counterparts in lower - poverty schools (11.8 years vs. 14.0 years).

But even within public school districts, some schools have much higher turnover rates than others.

The study found that after multimedia technology was used to support project - based learning, eighth graders in Union City, New Jersey, scored 27 percentage points higher than students from other urban and special needs school districts on statewide tests in reading, math, and writing achievement.

And if you cut through the blather on the achievement record of Edison Schools, you'll find that it was materially higher than other comparable schools in their districts, including in Philadelphia.»

Controlling for other factors, houses in districts with higher - performing government schools are more expensive than those in areas with lower - performing schools.

First, do teachers and other district employees vote at higher rates than other citizens?

In every district with available data, and for all three sets of elections, other district employees who live and work in their districts vote at substantially higher rates than ordinary citizens do — rates that, on average, are just a shade lower than those of teachers who live and work in the district.

Indeed, it would be remarkable if, all other things being equal, low - income students did not perform better in high - poverty charter schools than in high - poverty district schools given the self - selected nature of the classmates and parental community in charter schools.

As per the former, it's essential for states to allow entities other than districts to authorize schools and to create high expectations for organizations that play that role.

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Beginning in the 2010 - 2011 school year, for each school identified for preliminary registration review pursuant to subparagraphs (ii) and (iii) of this paragraph, the local school district shall be given the opportunity to present to the commissioner additional assessment data, which may include, but need not be limited to, valid and reliable measures of: the performance of students in grades other than those in which the State tests are administered; the performance of limited English proficient students and / or other students with special needs; and the progress that specific grades have made or that cohorts of students in the school have made towards demonstrating higher student performance.

One in four students at Marshall is enrolled in special education — more than twice the district average, and more than in all but five other CPS high schools.

Therefore, Congress should close the comparability loophole by requiring that districts fund their Title I schools at the same level as or higher than — based on actual spending — their other schools.

CPS data show that Marshall sent more students to alternative schools than any other district high school in 2010 - 11.

Over the past seven years, the district has posted record enrollment increases (with a higher rate of enrollment growth than any other major urban school district in the country) and increased its four - year graduation rate by over 25 percentage points.

Santa Ana Unified School District Superintendent Rick Miller has been an educator for more than 40 years, having served as an elementary and high school teacher, a university adjunct professor, and as superintendent in other districts in California and in Idaho.

States, districts and schools serving the highest - need student populations receive more funding than others.

• Compared to 41 other regions nationwide, Newark has the second - highest performing charter sector based on charter students» high growth rates in reading and math relative to similar students in district schools, according to a 2015 CREDO study • 30 % of students now attend a charter school, a figure that more than doubled in this period.

These firms believe that, using economies of scale as well as other tools that are more readily available to the private sector, they can build organizations that use time and resources more efficiently and effectively than public school districts, leading to higher student achievement at a similar cost.

The problem, say some early - childhood educators, is that districts often have higher standards than other providers in such areas as teacher qualifications and staff - to - child ratios, and therefore have higher costs.

• A substantial share of the ineffective principals in high - poverty schools tends to move on to take principal positions in other schools and districts, rather than leave the profession.

Nevertheless, diversity of membership on site councils is fostered by district support for community participation and we found high - poverty schools are more often diverse in site - council membership than other schools are.

We also observe that higher - performing districts make greater efforts than others to maximize communication and coordination among different central office units in their interaction with teachers and principals.

· Among the larger districts, collective bargaining has more negative effects for high - minority schools than for other schools....

In addition to curriculum standardization, leaders in higher - performing districts were more likely than others to promote and support implementation of particular instructional strategies regarded as effective.

That is much higher than in all other high schools in the district, where 70 percent of students opt for a school outside of their attendance area.

Mark recently served three years as president of the city - wide PTA in Albany, which is a small district with a high poverty rate, and more charter schools per capita than any other district in the state.

Last month, an opinion piece on Bloomberg.com encouraged the DoE to withdraw their guidance and let schools and districts manage their discipline policies without oversight — despite clear evidence that prior to the 2014 guidance, African American students and other groups were (and in many cases still are) more likely to receive heavier punishment for the same offenses than white students, and to be suspended at a higher rate.

The annual salary adjustment under the performance salary schedule for an employee rated as highly effective must be greater than the highest annual salary adjustment available to an employee of the same classification through any other salary schedule adopted by the district.

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Those parents who can afford it choose private schooling in a higher proportion than the parents in any other substantial Washington school district.