Sentences with phrase «identifying additional districts»

The Big Spring Independent School District, an eight - campus district in a town of about 28,000 people in west Texas, is recruiting for its first year of implementation in the 2015 — 16 school year, and the TEA is identifying additional districts to support in this work.

Not exact matches

Park District of Highland Park staff identifies a need for additional support, for safety and programmatic reasons, and communicates this need to the family

The program identifies districts across the country to provide additional fundraising and campaign support.

«We decided, based on that information, that we needed additional ways to better identify fugitive emissions and to shine a bright light on those fugitive emissions,» says Eric Stevenson, the district's director of meteorology, measurement and rules.

Two additional districts that have recently engaged in processes to identify 21st - century student outcomes are Jeffco Public Schools (Colorado) and Loudoun County Public Schools (Virginia).

A number of studies have found a higher incidence of identified disabilities in those states that provide districts with additional dollars for each student diagnosed as disabled.

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.

For each high school equivalency program identified as having the lowest percentage of students meeting the high school equivalency performance criteria, the local school district or board of cooperative educational services shall be given the opportunity to present to the commissioner additional information.

Maine's plan also includes partnering with the Maine Education Policy Research Institute to identify successful longevity pay approaches in other rural states, approaching the state legislature to fund a pilot, and encouraging districts to partner with local business leaders and community organizations to fund this additional pay.

These revamped data systems could both identify districts in need of additional support such as finance and leadership training and superstar districts with leaders who could share what works among their peers.

And if identified schools in an LEA don't make sufficient progress to meet state «exit» requirements, Section 1111 (b)(3)(B) broadens state authority to act directly — potentially without LEA approval — to «take additional improvement actions» to implement «alternative evidence - based State - determined strategies» for improving the district's comprehensive and targeted improvement schools.

With plenty of feedback from additional experts, including some at Fordham, the team identified four early - implementer districts that appeared worthy of scrutiny: Kenton County (KY), Metro Nashville (TN), Illinois's School District 54 (Schaumburg and vicinity), and Washoe County (Reno, NV).

Covington went on to say that his staff had identified the «best» teachers in the district and would be giving them additional students.

In addition to taking advantage of additional funding from the state, and attending mandatory workshops offered by the state for all schools identified as not meeting AYP, district leaders (curriculum superintendent, curriculum directors, school improvement director) conducted their own investigations of the problems in student performance and followed up with district support tailored to each school «s needs.

Absent a district structure for teacher leadership, work collaboratively with teachers to conduct a school needs assessment to determine gaps in leadership; identify multiple and varied formal or informal leadership opportunities; and provide flexible scheduling and additional compensation that would allow teachers to take on increased responsibility for professional learning, curriculum, or school improvement activities.

The Legislature has also taken steps to address the issue by providing additional state funding for the 2017 — 19 biennium to increase school districts» access to attendance data and support districts in identifying successful strategies to address chronic student absenteeism.

While additional research is needed on the characteristics of effective principals and how to best identify «fit,» experts encourage districts to use data tracking systems to learn more about the characteristics and experiences of successful principals in their own systems.

States and districts now have a much greater role in determining the best approach to help schools that have been identified as needing additional supports or intervention.

The programs have been identified by enrollments reported in the state student information system and by additional information reported directly to the Department of Education by local school districts.

Beginning in the 2018 - 2019 school year, states will use their accountability system to differentiate among schools annually, identify schools that need additional support and work closely with district leaders to determine how they can best deliver that support.

August 18, 2017, (LOS ANGELES, CA)-- With the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education set to discuss critical budgetary and policy decisions for the first time this term, Great Public Schools Now (GPSN), a nonprofit dedicated to identifying and replicating successful educational programs in underserved communities, today released additional results of its summer poll of Angelenos on the topic of education.

To support this broader vision, states and districts should also use their systems to direct resources to schools that are not identified for improvement but need additional supports.

Coming Soon is a database of mentors, where you will be able to identify a mentor in a similar district who is available for additional guidance and support.

An additional $ 10 million to $ 15 million will also go to 129 schools that were identified as having sharp enrollment declines to protect against staff or program cuts, the district said.

We are not suggesting that district personnel policies, or policies governing school choice, should be regarded as additional dimensions of district effectiveness, as per the district conditions identified in Anderson «s review (Anderson, 2006); it is simply the case that that they emerged in our analysis of principal interview data as additional sources of district influence on principal efficacy.

This section extends that line of inquiry to all eight of these district conditions identified earlier, plus additional district factors that emerged from our qualitative inquiries.184

Transparent and easily understandable data enables state education authorities, schools districts and individual school sites to identify schools and student populations that are struggling and may need additional interventions or resources, by utilizing data comparability.

The state must decide if it will take actions to initiate additional improvement in districts are consistently identified by the state for comprehensive school improvement and are not meeting the state's exit criteria or have a significant number of schools implementing targeted support and improvement plans.