Sentences with phrase «highest performing school district in»

Ash Fork, AZ National Showcase School 2015 - 2016 «Ash Fork School District went from underperforming to the highest performing school district in the state based on standardized testing.

After implementing Capturing Kids» Hearts, Ash Fork School District went from underperforming to the highest performing school district in the state based on standardized testing.

The notion of aspiring to be the highest performing school district in the nation is nice and the expectations are great, but the nurturing of our most precious resources shouldn't fall victim to the chase of an immoderate dream.

We look forward to showing you the 46 Success Academies that make up the highest performing school district in the state,» added Success Academy Chief Executive Officer Eva Moskowitz.

Join the director of technology at Del Mar Union School District — a high performing school district in San Diego, Calif. — along with Google in Education for an instructional webinar to see how they use Chromebooks in the classroom to support their curriculum focus, both in writing and the Common Core State Standards.

Not exact matches

The Élan Dance Company Showcase begins at 5:30 p.m. Sunday at the Naperville North High School Performing Arts Center, 899 N. Mill St. Tickets are available online at https://recenroll.napervilleparks.org/Activities/ActivitiesDetails.asp?aid=1235, by calling 630-848-5000, or in person at the Park District Administration Building, 320 W. Jackson Ave., or at the 95th Street Center, 2244 W. 95th St. Tickets are $ 8 in advance or $ 10 after Friday and at the door. ¿

Cherokee County School District is a high - performing, award - winning public school district serving 42,000 students in Metro AtSchool District is a high - performing, award - winning public school district serving 42,000 students in Metro District is a high - performing, award - winning public school district serving 42,000 students in Metro Atschool district serving 42,000 students in Metro district serving 42,000 students in Metro Atlanta.

The Project Development Objective is to increase access to senior secondary education in underserved districts and improve quality in low - performing senior high schools (SHSs) in Ghana.

BY LAUREN KATE ROSENBLUM The North Rockland School board meeting began with the North Rockland High School Marching Band performing in honor of the hard work done by district employees to get Thiells Elementary up and running after it was flooded by Hurricane Irene.

Vargas is announcing that three former leaders of high - performing city schools will return to leadership roles in the district.

The city is also implementing a $ 15 million «Single Shepherd» program to hire more guidance counselors for middle and high schoolers in low - performing Districts 7 and 23.

The Miami - Dade schools website says the district has become one of the nation's highest - performing urban school systems, receiving systemwide accreditation from AdvancEd in 2014.

The administration has also already announced a $ 51 million plan to expand Advanced Placement courses, with full implementation at high schools expected by 2021 and a $ 15 million program called «Single Shepherd» to hire guidance counselors for each middle and high school student in low - performing school Districts 7 and 23, which will be fully implemented by next fall.

None of the schools in the City School District of New Rochelle were designated as «high performing» or «high progress».

The researchers compared two groups of high school students from low - income neighborhoods in Los Angeles — 521 students who were offered admission to high - performing public charter schools through the district lottery, and 409 who were not.

«In other school districts, we usually observe negative effects when high - performing teachers leave,» Dee said.

Our version of PBL did work to improve achievement as compared to business - as - usual instruction in high - poverty, low - performing school districts.

With a mission of «high - performing public schools, inside and out,» EdBuild sought to provide both facilities renovations and academic support to a group of low - performing schools in the District of Columbia, with a vision of eventually taking on a large swath of D.C. schools and creating space that could be used flexibly by both traditional district and charter District of Columbia, with a vision of eventually taking on a large swath of D.C. schools and creating space that could be used flexibly by both traditional district and charter district and charter schools.

Holyoke Public Schools is the lowest performing school and highest poverty district in Massachusetts.

But even a local ballot measure to sustain school funding in this, the highest - performing district in the state, failed last year when antitax advocates mobilized to oppose it.

The 21st Century Green High - Performing Public School Facilities Act (HR 2187), passed in May by the U.S. House of Representatives, would authorize $ 6.4 billion in fiscal year 2010 for school districts to modernize, renovate, and repair their builSchool Facilities Act (HR 2187), passed in May by the U.S. House of Representatives, would authorize $ 6.4 billion in fiscal year 2010 for school districts to modernize, renovate, and repair their builschool districts to modernize, renovate, and repair their buildings.

As a leader who co-founded a high - performing charter school network and charter support organization, and who now leads Chiefs for Change, an organization of state and district leaders committed to educational excellence, I'm an ardent charter supporter — and I'm arguing for taking a look in the mirror.

Perhaps some states would empower high - performing schools first, while others might put failing schools into governors» districts like the one currently proposed in New Jersey.

Districts with schools that had persistently failed to make «adequate yearly progress» in their test - score performance were required to offer the students in those schools options ranging from a seat in a higher - performing public school to free tutoring services.

There is some indication that the lowest - performing schools in a district have higher WSI scores, and additional analyses reveal that this pattern is concentrated among elementary schools.

On the opposite side of the spectrum are compacts in Denver, the Texas district of Aldine, and Spring Branch, where superintendents are embracing high - performing charters by inviting them into their schools.

Balancing those funder desires, New Visions created a Request for Proposals to all community school districts and high school superintendents in the city, inviting any group of educators to propose a small high school — limited to some 100 students per grade — with a focus on the Bronx, which had the highest concentration of low - performing schools.

At the same time, participating faculty will conduct research aimed at measuring the effectiveness of the program, identifying the key underlying forces that are shaping educational leadership in urban school systems, and developing a set of powerful ideas to enable district leadership teams to create high performing systems.

This year the list is topped by four major research pieces: an analysis of how U.S. students from highly educated families perform compare with similarly advantaged students from other countries; a study investigating what students gain when they are taken on field trips to see high - quality theater performances; a study of teacher evaluation systems in four urban school districts that identifies strengths and weaknesses of different evaluation systems; and the results of Education Next's annual survey of public opinion on education.

In contrast, as district employees, these aspiring teachers will receive a salary and benefits, along with credit for being student teachers while they serve full - time in three Opportunity Culture schools under the district's highest - performing educatorIn contrast, as district employees, these aspiring teachers will receive a salary and benefits, along with credit for being student teachers while they serve full - time in three Opportunity Culture schools under the district's highest - performing educatorin three Opportunity Culture schools under the district's highest - performing educators.

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.

During the current academic year, a limited number of districts in five states — Alaska, Delaware, Indiana, North Carolina, and Virginia — have been permitted to offer students a choice of supplemental educational services a year before having to provide the option of transferring to a higher - performing school.

When one of Washington, D.C.'s highest - performing traditional public schools pursued plans to convert to a charter in 2006, the district agreed to several of its demands in exchange for the school's agreement to stop flirting with charter status.

This summer, a high - performing KIPP charter school in Annapolis, Maryland, was forced to close because it couldn't find a permanent facility, even though the school district, according to its own study, had 900 empty seats in a nearby, underutilized school.

Detroit parents still have very few high - quality options, despite a number of different reform interventions, including putting a state - appointed emergency manager in charge of the district, pulling the lowest - performing schools into a statewide turnaround district, and allowing a significant number of charter schools to operate.

In poorly performing schools, there are usually more challenges to contend with, such as demoralized staff (which often leads to high turnover), increasing pressures from district staff to meet adequate yearly progress targets on standardized tests, and physical environments that are poorly maintained and often unsafe.

In Manhattan's District 2, the unzoned school is the high - performing Midtown West.

The young organization has already achieved notable success: in 2005 its first campus, Marin School of Arts and Technology (MSAT), was the highest - performing school in its district on California's academic performance index School of Arts and Technology (MSAT), was the highest - performing school in its district on California's academic performance index school in its district on California's academic performance index (API).

Since last year, the U.S. Department of Education has awarded nearly $ 75 million in grants to schools and school districts interested in developing systems that reward good teaching and compensate teachers for taking jobs in hard - to - staff schools (low - performing and typically high - poverty schools).

Districts from California to Texas to North Carolina are tapping into these new funds to address two of the thorniest issues in education today: how to develop fair and accurate ways to measure effective teaching, and how to find sustainable strategies to balance the distribution of experienced teachers, who now tend to be disproportionately represented in high - performing (and typically more affluent) schools.

The achievement growth in math was not statistically significant relative to the achievement growth of the matched district - school students, but the study concluded that Milkwaukee district - school students were «performing at somewhat higher levels as a result of competitive pressure from the school voucher program.»

While this means that some of the students, whose test scores are included in the school's performance measure, may have only been in that school for a relatively short time, it avoids problems associated with excluding the high - mobility students - typically the lowest - performing students - from the district's overall accountability measure.

Wealthy families can afford to live in districts with high - performing government schools or to send their children to private schools.

My guess: For each instance where school district leaders and unions succeed in stopping a high - performing charter, there will be two instances where expansion gets approved and / or district leaders and charters agree to some form of collaboration.

Thus, high - performing district or charter schools use chants, ceremonies, signs, and strong discipline to forge a culture defined by college - going and career success; at the same time, unlike schools of a half - century ago, they rarely seek to use those same exercises to help invest students in the American nation as a civic enterprise.

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

The scaling of high - performing CMOs provides one of the highest levels of return and leverage for philanthropic funds, particularly when you consider that CMOs tend to deliver much higher student achievement than the local district; these schools will continue to serve students in a high - quality way over time; and there are few investments in K — 12 that have consistently yielded this level of performance.

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.

Suburban areas with high - performing school districts have shown little support for vouchers, so it was surprising to have the first locally enacted voucher program come from Douglas County, a Denver suburb with one of the highest median incomes in the country.

Leaders in high - performing, high - poverty schools hold a view similar to this one expressed by a superintendent in a Northwest school district: «There is a bright red thread running from every student - learning problem to a problem of practice for teachers, and finally to a problem of practice for leaders.»