Sentences with phrase «how big the district»

The rest of the pie consists of extra money districts get depending on how many «at - risk» students a district has, how big the district is, and other factors.

Not exact matches

«We are getting calls from superintendents from big districts saying their community is demanding answers to how the school is prepared, and the superintendents are looking to us.»

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Campbell senior Jordan McKinley, an intern with the Cobb School District's communication office, said he was surprised how big of a problem human trafficking is in the metro Atlanta area, especially in connection with Hartsfield — Jackson Atlanta International Airport and MARTA.

Not in the form of some «how to» guide or some «five step» program, but, first and foremost, by way of metaphor: «If the state of contemporary Catholic literary culture can best be conveyed by the image of a crumbling, old, immigrant neighborhood, then let me suggest that it is time for Catholic writers and intellectuals to leave the homogeneous, characterless suburbs of the imagination, and move back to the big city — where we can renovate these remarkable districts which have such grace and personality, such strength and tradition.»

Thanks for mentioning how «districts are still unconscionably underfunded when it comes to school food, and Big Food still plays too large of a lobbying role in shaping what appears on kids» trays.»

«The amazing thing is how the school smells like real food, like delicious roasting chicken,» said Stanley, of School Food Focus, which launched a similar program in St. Paul, Minn., public schools before taking on the pilot effort in Chicago, whose school district is more than six times bigger.

Following his own statement and statements from several supporters, Espaillat answered questions from the press, including whether he believes that Charles Rangel has willfully neglected small business owners, how does he reconcile his criticisms with the reality that many local residents decried the lack of shopping and services before this «big - box» mall existed, whether his «40/40/20» housing formula, in place of the common «80/20», is a state or federal issue and his view of Congressman Rangel's argument that Rangel's experience allows him to more productively represent the district.

After eight years running one of the biggest and most active public corruption operations as the U.S. attorney for the Southern District, Preet Bharara knows how to read indictments and plea deals, and with the big news out of the Mueller investigation, it looks to him like much more is coming.

How big a deal remains to be seen, but the fact that the move came at the request of the Justice Department's Southern District of New York — after a referral from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office — could be an indication that Donald Trump's affairs are now relevant to a second criminal probe.

As he makes his fourteenth appearance on the program, the legislator from the Bronx» 87th district will talk about how his district fared in the big snowfall, the anti-Muslim attack in his district, his proposed legislation to give voters a chance to recall their representatives, Bronx development issues, the state budget, and more.

How big that budget is depends on if the party is in the minority or the majority, and the size of the district they are representing.

Not quite sure how it is «heating up» when the challenger to an incumbent who is very popular in a district that favors Democrats has a negative campaign account balance and recently lost a bid for statewide reelection (and whose big victory was in 1994 — the year that Republicans could have nominated a French pornographer and still won with a few points to spare).

I also want to thank the members of the Assembly for their efforts to stop the wholesale closing of schools in New York City and to give communities a bigger role in deciding where and how schools should be co-located in their districts.

«The biggest things for us have been the size of the world, the density of the world, the streaming spaghetti of getting everything working with no load zones and seamlessly streaming,» Jones described, «Also, how we build missions in a much larger world like that — how we send you to different districts and how we get you to explore all of these nooks and crannies in the environment.»

Klein goes through a few of these testing issues — whether parents can opt their kids out of tests, whether school districts can choose their own tests, and how big a role tests should play in accountability — and explains where the House stands, where the Senate stands, and the pros and cons of both sides.

But in my school district, I gave up arguing only the BIG questions — How's the district doing?

The district has been a flash point in Colorado, where the system's difficult relationship with its local teachers union led to the expiration of its contract with the Douglas County Federation of Teachers (DCFT)-- a remarkable outcome when one considers how unthinkable that would be even in big cities with contentious district - union relationships.

In How Schools Work, readers discover that first grade reading groups operate within a grand organizational scheme: groups nested in classrooms, classrooms housed within schools, schools situated within a big urban district.

That's how he frames his role as superintendent of the Enlarged City School District of Middletown, New York, delegating much of the day - to - day work of running a high - poverty turnaround district of 6,800 students to look ahead and concentrate on the big District of Middletown, New York, delegating much of the day - to - day work of running a high - poverty turnaround district of 6,800 students to look ahead and concentrate on the big district of 6,800 students to look ahead and concentrate on the big picture.

A big piece in Hidalgo's puzzle is how the school and the district involve parents — no matter what their educational history or degree of English - language ability.

This special report, «The Chief Academic Officer's Evolving Role: Powering Big - Picture Learning Goals,» examines the challenges CAOs are facing in school districts across the country and how they are working to improve academics in the age of common standards and digital teaching and learning.

Many districts have also developed benchmark exams that are given a few times a year to measure students» progress towards mastering these power standards; that way, schools don't have to wait until August to find out how students did on the big, standardized state tests.

As you will see in the summary report (by Fordham's Dara Zeehandelaar and Amber Winkler) and several technical papers to follow, economist and pension expert Robert Costrell and education - finance expert Larry Maloney parsed the budgets of the Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Philadelphia school districts to estimate just how big an impact their pension and retiree - health - care obligations will have on their bottom line in coming years.

«Two big reasons students leave school are that they have no meaningful connection to an adult in the building, and no one knows their name or how to pronounce it,» said Trish Shaffer, the district's SEL coordinator.

This report parses the budgets of the Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Philadelphia school districts to estimate just how big an impact their pension and retiree health care obligations will have on their bottom line in coming years.

The biggest oversight of CER's reform comes in its failure to rank states on how they have passed and implemented Parent Trigger laws that allow families to take over failing schools as well as gives them the ability to negotiate with districts on how those schools will be overhauled.

Big changes in the state's student achievement tests, how they reflect student learning and the way they're used to hold schools and districts accountable are starting to roll out this year, DPI spokesman John Johnson said.

«The big problem is the district and the union have not figured out how much weight they will count for,» said Fernandez, who...

Considering Connecticut's biggest corporate executives are determined to see their policies adopted, no matter how wrong that are, it will be interesting to see if the new Executive Director of the Connecticut Council for Education Reform reverses herself and joins the call for charter schools or if she is able to sit down with her organization's members and explain why shifting scarce public resources from district schools to charter schools is not the solution for closing Connecticut's achievement gap.

They spoke with Marty Blank, president of IEL and director of the Coalition, about how community schools have helped their districts overcome challenges, their biggest lessons learned in implementing community schools, and why they believe the strategy is one that truly works to support students, families, schools, and communities.

Among the big budget questions that have yet to be resolved by the state legislature is how much school districts will need to contribute toward teacher pensions, which could affect hiring.

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He had originally thought he was going to talk about how the district is too big and recommend making the district smaller, but said privately, «I didn't think the board would be unified in this resolution.»

«The big problem is the district and the union have not figured out how much weight they will count for,» said Fernandez, who is also a former member of UTLA's Board of Directors and House of Representatives.

Because there can be so much variation in poverty within a school district (just think about the socio - economic differences between Tribeca and the Bronx), the Department of Education is making a big push to calculate exactly how much each school spends on a student.

Curious about the big splashy new NPR education story about education funding that just rolled out this week, telling us how massive the funding inequalities are between states and among districts in the same states?

Scheduling and Class Disruption One of the biggest complaints that surfaced from teachers and district leaders was how disruptive assessments are, leading to a loss of valuable instruction.

On Thursday, during her second interview with the school board, Greene said learning how to stay engaged within a district with about 80,000 more students would be her biggest challenge.

«RTI is this big thing that really can transform how we approach teaching all kids,» said W. David Tilly III, the director of innovation and accountability for the Heartland Area Education Agency, which provides resources and professional development to 54 districts in the state, including Lynnville - Sully.

The biggest of these drawbacks is how the Levy Swipe will harm teacher pay in many school districts and thus make our Teacher Shortage even worse than it is now.

I set out to answer what I thought were a few simple questions: How much money has the state invested in the biggest districts with the highest concentrations of disadvantaged students?

Learn how NISL has adapted best practices in military leadership development to help states and districts address the three biggest issues in school leadership in this article for the National School Boards Association publication, The State Education Standard.

It's unclear how big a factor achievement data would be in the nation's second - largest school district.

Their big question / focus is, how to get in the bloodstream of the district so that no matter what happens organizationally, teachers and families feel so empowered to be partners that you can't disband the office because it's not an office it's a movement.

One big new component for schools under the LCAP is that school and district managers will need to show how they have engaged parents in the planning process — something the board also asked staff to provide more and better examples of to shore up a draft planning template.

School districts spend most of their money on people, and one of the proposal's biggest impacts would be on how teachers are distributed.

Jonathan Palumbo, a spokesman for the Executive Office of Education, said the administration has proved its commitment to increasing charter schools with the new legislation and noted that the paucity of new schools reflects how most districts, especially those in big cities, had already reached their budget limits.

A disagreement over how to count one student could make a big difference for one school in Monroe County Community Schools, that district's superintendent says.

The biggest disconnect on how to solve the student loan debt problem in Maryland stems from Rep. Andy Harris, the lone Republican from District 1.