Sentences with phrase «hired by the school districts»

Enrollment in educator preparation programs has dropped by more than 70 percent over the last decade, and has fallen below the number of estimated hires by school districts around the state.

As many as 500 prospective teachers will receive intensive training this summer at the University of Southern California before being hired by school districts experiencing teacher shortages.

Basically, its provisions are as follows: If a prospective teacher who has a baccalaureate or advanced degree in an academic major other than education passes the appropriate certification exams and background checks and is hired by a school district to teach in the subject area of preparation in grades 8 - 12, the candidate will be granted a probationary certificate for a maximum of two years, at the end of which time the school district decides, based on the teacher's performance, whether or not to recommend the issuance of full standard certification.

It is pretty ironic that Arne Duncan, the protégée of our own Paul Vallas, (Bridgeport's $ 229,000 part - time «reform» superintendent), is now charging that the private companies that are being hired by school districts are not being effective nor are they being held accountable for the failure of their programing.

The U.S. Department of Education has become increasingly concerned that that the private companies being hired by school districts to provide «tutoring services» aren't actually delivering on what they are being contracted for.

The water agency said it wanted to collect samples alongside the company hired by the school districts.

Not exact matches

Hired by a management company to serve as the nutrition director of a small local school district, Valenza brought his restaurant management skills to the school lunch arena and made it his mission to serve up fresh, healthy meals to New Jersey's kids.

He was an ubiquitous presence in the school,» said Darlene Larson, an associate superintendent for human resources at District 214 who was hired by Miller as an English teacher at Buffalo Grove High when it opened.

His company contracted with the School District to do masonry work, and was hired each year by the School District as its time and materials contractor for masonry work.

Cuomo has mentioned several things in the last week: a surcharge on for - hire vehicles like Uber and Lyft to generate funds for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, requirements that school districts provide a school - by - school breakdown of their spending, and more funding for the New York City Housing Authority.

Cuomo convened the mandate relief council in 2011, and during his first three years in office has helped localities by capturing cost increases in the Medicaid program and taking over its administration from counties, giving school districts more flexibility in how they set up bus transportation and imposing a less - generous pension plan for newly hired workers.

The NYS Senate however, voted them down and instead «passed a series of so - called school safety measures that, among other steps, would require police officers at schools in New York City and provide grants to districts outside the city to hire retired law enforcement as school resource officers,» as reported by The NY Daily News.

A civil rights consultant hired by the Buffalo School District to review admissions policies at criteria - based schools, is accusing Board Member Carl Paladino of making «a clear effort to control my work and intimidate me.»

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.

A 2005 study by the New Teacher Project, the national nonprofit organization that works with school districts to recruit high - quality teachers, examined five urban districts and concluded that seniority - based transfer privileges written into contracts often force principals «to hire large numbers of teachers they do not want and who may not be a good fit for the job and their school.»

They hired Educational Resource Strategies (ERS) to study the distribution of dollars across students in the district and discovered that «it was the most inequitably distributed set of dollars across schools they had ever seen, by far,» said Anagnostopoulos, who also found that 25 percent of the district's costs were in building and maintenance.

Franklin D. Smith, a former superintendent of schools in the District of Columbia and Dayton, Ohio, has been hired by...

Mrs. Bush is equally articulate about «backpack spending» (the institute is sponsoring a project on school - district productivity that includes 20 different researchers» papers); teacher autonomy («Obviously, if you are held accountable as the principal of your school and you don't have the authority to change anything, by either hiring or firing, or setting up another structure that your school district doesn't allow, then how can you be really accountable?»)

By examining the fundamental requirements of each program — admissions standards, course requirements, coverage of essential content, preparation in the CCSS, how the student teaching program operates, instruction in classroom management and lesson planning, and how teacher candidates are judged ready for the classroom — the Review will capture the information that any consumer of these programs would want to see, including aspiring teachers and school districts looking to hire the best teachers.

Nearly two - thirds of survey respondents indicated that teacher - hiring decisions are made at the school level or jointly by school and district.

Mr. Stanton was one of more than 60 employees hired by the 90,000 - student district last year to increase security at several schools that had...

«Consultants are hired by the district for technical needs at the district level, but not at the school level.

Yet the graduates from these colleges come out with good, solid content majors... which is very much in demand by the school districts doing the hiring.»

The company has managed the Minneapolis public schools since it was hired by the district in December 1993.

School districts, including most charter schools, have no choice but to pay the rates set by the state legislature, even if they'd prefer to spend precious resources on higher teacher salaries, hiring more teachers, or making other critical investments in school serSchool districts, including most charter schools, have no choice but to pay the rates set by the state legislature, even if they'd prefer to spend precious resources on higher teacher salaries, hiring more teachers, or making other critical investments in school serschool services.

Districts and schools wishing to hire more - effective teachers could benefit from collecting a broader set of information on their candidates, concludes a new working paper by several well - known teacher - quality researchers.

A similar idea was raised by CEE - Trust, the consulting firm that the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education hired to address problems in the Kansas City School District.

School districts are also having a difficult time hiring minority principals, partly because of aggressive recruiting by businesses that can offer two to three times the salary that schools can offer, Tirozzi said.

Large and medium - size school districts are hiring more rookie teachers and eliminating administrative jobs to reduce their costs, a recent survey by the Educational Research Service says.

New York City teachers who have been unable to find new jobs in the district under a new hiring policy, but remain on the payroll, will cost the city $ 81 million by the end of this school year, a report says.

However, the market will work much better if government regulates the providers more effectively and if preparation programs produce graduates whose readiness to teach can be clearly identified by the school districts that hire them.

All teachers newly hired by the district, regardless of experience, are evaluated during their first year working in Cincinnati schools.

Instead, school districts have attempted to enhance student learning (and address many other problems along the way) by hiring more people — more teachers (for smaller classes) and more teacher aides, guidance counselors, bus drivers, lawyers, accountants, special educators, bilingual specialists, and others.

A Virginia School District Isn't Hiring Enough Teachers of Color — but the Problem Is National (Think Progress) Mention of research published by Susan Moore Johnson.

Some parents of diabetic children in schools with no regular nurse, though, were dismayed by the ruling, because they did not know how their children could continue to attend school if the district could not afford to hire more nurses.

Funded by: Smith Richardson Foundation via subcontract w / Brown University Amount: $ 10,843 Dates: 1/1/17 — 7/1/20 Summary: In collaboration with researchers from Brown University Dr. Jones will examine the effects of Boston Public School's autonomous hiring policy reform on student, teacher, and school outcomes, with the broader goal of examining the nature and challenges of the teacher hiring and match process in large urban school distSchool's autonomous hiring policy reform on student, teacher, and school outcomes, with the broader goal of examining the nature and challenges of the teacher hiring and match process in large urban school distschool outcomes, with the broader goal of examining the nature and challenges of the teacher hiring and match process in large urban school distschool districts.

A local taxpayers» group had sought information from the job - application packets submitted by five teachers hired by the Easton school district.

Nor does a responsible governing organization do what school districts have done: give away all its options by hiring employees for life or entering collective bargaining agreements that undermine school leaders.

The academy was created by city and school district officials to help increase diversity hiring.

Whereas it might (absent intervention by a district's personnel director) be possible for the principal of a disadvantaged school to hire a «high - cost» teacher today, the principal would not be willing to do so if the extra cost were going to come out of the principal's own budget.

Schools hired their aspiring teachers from the pool of the most promising applicants selected by the district, working to pair team and aspiring teachers carefully.

The state also sent a signal by hiring Mr. Barbic, the founder of the Houston - based YES Prep charter network, to oversee the Achievement School District schools.

Whereas it might (absent intervention by a district's personnel director) be possible for the principal of a disadvantaged school to hire a... Read More

Charter schools ARE public schools: By law, they must adhere to all public education laws, hire appropriately licensed teachers, follow the same curriculum standards as do traditional school districts, take the same standardized, state - wide assessments and are free of tuition and open to all applicants.

The six districts» plans include working closely with select principal preparation programs to improve the training aspiring school leaders receive before they are hired by the district.

Instructional and noninstructional personnel who are hired or contracted to fill positions that require direct contact with students in an alternative school that operates under contract with a district school system must, upon employment or engagement to provide services, undergo background screening as required under s. 1012.465 or s. 1012.56, whichever is applicable, by filing with the district school board for the school district to which the alternative school is under contract a complete set of fingerprints taken by an authorized law enforcement agency or an employee of the school or school district who is trained to take fingerprints.

Beginning July 1, 2011, each individual newly hired as instructional personnel by the district school board shall be awarded a probationary contract.

The following month, teachers at the school voted to institute a series of reforms by becoming a Local Initiative School, a reform model that allows some autonomy from district policies, such as in hschool voted to institute a series of reforms by becoming a Local Initiative School, a reform model that allows some autonomy from district policies, such as in hSchool, a reform model that allows some autonomy from district policies, such as in hiring.

Fortunately, the last decade has seen markedly greater willingness by states and districts to invest in the support of school leaders, especially new hires.

Regionally, stories of teacher shortages have been prevalent this summer, perhaps best exemplified by the Clark County, Nev., school district's launch of a nationwide campaign to entice both new and retired teachers with hiring bonuses of up to $ 5,000.