Sentences with phrase «hundreds of districts»

«Everybody has been tightening their belts,» by cutting back on energy, making transportation more efficient, and even going to a four - day week in hundreds of districts.

Hundreds of districts across the nation, most of them small and rural, already do just that.

Those at the state level will still have the challenge of getting hundreds of districts to accomplish federal compliance and remain accountable.

The encouraging finding in this report is the very good news that hundreds of districts do not have highly differentiated suspension rates and / or use suspension only rarely.

In hundreds of districts, student groups were rated red in math and English language arts or another indicator.

Milk still keeps the region afloat, backed by the town's Fonterra plant which processes tens of thousands of litres from hundreds of district farms.

Are they using the Smarter Lunchroom techniques, giving active encouragement to get kids to try new foods, offering student sampling programs, or implementing any of the other strategies being successfully used in hundreds of districts around the country?

June 3 (Bloomberg)-- America's education - reform movement — the most significant social movement of our time — is just completing another productive school year, with hundreds of districts beefing up accountability and standards.

The Lewises promised hundreds of districts that if they bought fitness equipment for students from the American Fork,...

«There are hundreds of districts working on performance pay plans; many states passed legislation requiring some type of performance pay for teachers, or some portion of teacher pay,» said Dr. Marc J. Wallace Jr., founding partner of the Center for Workforce Effectiveness, which is allied with the Center for Policy Research.

But like an old, out - of - date suit collecting dust in the back of the closet, desegregation cases affecting hundreds of districts haven't been concluded.

But Steinhauser acknowledges that there will be challenges if dozens, or potentially hundreds of districts choose to sign on to the CORE program.

«It mischaracterizes how special education is funded, it ignores millions of dollars that charters pay to the district for facilities, and it guesstimates the staff time of hundreds of district employees, among many other distortions and false conclusions.

Goldwater Institute Attorney Clint Bolick, who defended voucher families, says, «This is a victory for minority and low - income schoolchildren, not only in Louisiana but around the country» because hundreds of districts are under desegregation orders like the one DOJ tried to use to stifle educational opportunities in Louisiana.

The Skillful Teacher has sold over a half million copies and is the bible of teaching in hundreds of districts around the country.

Magnet Schools of America is affiliated with hundreds of districts and can assist with a search process.

Value - added modeling is used in hundreds of districts.

In addition, she has served as a consultant to hundreds of districts, universities, intermediate agencies, and state departments of education in virtually every state and in many other countries.

My commentary clearly supports a delay — far better to do it right than to provide substantially flawed statewide assessment data to millions of students, thousands of schools, hundreds of districts, and tens of millions CA citizens for two or more years.

Hundreds of districts, including Chicago, Denver, New York City and Washington, D.C., are using such methods as a way to strengthen their teacher evaluations by factoring in student performance.

Hundreds of districts have signed similar agreements, usually with one of the two big players in the industry, Coca - Cola and Pepsi.

TERC's Using Data team has worked in over 23 states, hundreds of districts and schools nationwide building teacher - led data teams and facilitating data analysis techniques and instructional improvement steps that result in increased student achievement.

There is now an Internet site that lets you look up hundreds of districts» Local Control and Accountability Plans — and to add your district's LCAP to the mix.

Larry has presented to schools in hundreds of districts, and in almost every state around the country, here are just a few: