Sentences with phrase «impossible for school districts»

Those numbers mean it's nearly impossible for school districts to raise their minority teacher ranks to a level comparable to their students of color, who account for 52 percent of students nationwide — and 80 percent or more of students in the nation's largest districts.

In most cases, it is politically impossible for school districts to proportionally decrease their number of employees as their student enrollment declines.

In fact, the lack of transparency surrounding charter schools makes it almost impossible for school districts to predict enrollment, manage their administrations, and develop long term plans.

Their short - term nature makes it virtually impossible for school districts to plan effectively, which can drive up property taxes.

Not exact matches

As labor accounts for about the same amount as the typical school district pays for food (about 44 % of the budget for the program), it is impossible to determine if other schools or other districts could try to do a similar program with a local restaurant, or even just with their own chef and cooking facilities, unless they know the labor costs.

One man said some school buildings in the district are so defunct that it's impossible for teachers and administrators to safely supervise and protect students, and that the district needs to build new schools with modern layouts to help solve its safety problems.

The New York State Catholic Conference has argued against the window for years, saying it could potentially cripple parishes, school districts and other nonprofit organizations in cases from decades ago that might be impossible to defend against.

For teachers in many school districts, being able to buy a classroom's worth of science, technology, engineering, and math kits for student use may be impossibFor teachers in many school districts, being able to buy a classroom's worth of science, technology, engineering, and math kits for student use may be impossibfor student use may be impossible.

Besides, it's impossible for state - level pension plan to act as a recruitment or retention incentive for individual schools or districts.

And a maintenance nightmare,» said Barry Ward, the facilities manager for the Silver Consolidated School District, in Silver City, N.M. «It was not efficient, and it was impossible to buy parts for it.»

In Washington, D.C., both the city and the school district are making it nearly impossible for charters to find classroom space, even though the mayor and the school district are broadly sympathetic to charter issues.

Bona - fide supply and demand considerations have made it impossible for states, districts, and schools to meet their teaching needs exclusively through mechanisms favored by the professionalizers.

A settlement between the state and New York City would be difficult enough by itself, sources in the state capital have said, but the lingering possibility that most other school districts outside the city would be able to use the case as a precedent for their own adequacy lawsuits made it impossible for the legislature to cough up the money without a fight.

Missouri's pension boundaries would make it practically impossible for high - performing school districts to operate a program, run a school, or loan teachers within the Saint Louis or Kansas City boundaries, just as state pension boundaries would make it impossible for schools to effectively work across state lines.

* It's impossible for state pension plans to act as a recruitment or retention incentive for individual public schools or districts within a state.

In both cases, she said, the local district raised objections to student records just before the deadline for closing out monthly payments, making it impossible for the charter school to gather the supporting documentation in time for payment.

The establishment of annual systematic student testing and data collection systems at the school, district, and state levels has created an opportunity for policymakers to link teacher evaluations and tenure to student performance in a way that was heretofore impossible.

In order to be included in our analysis, several criteria must be met: we must have school characteristics and outcome data available from the school before and after the adoption, the textbook must be identifiable from the SARC, the adoption must be on - cycle (2008 or 2009), the school must be a uniform adopter in the elementary grades under study (1 - 3 for the main analysis, 1 - 5 for the analysis up through fifth grade), and the school must not be in a district that is so large that finding appropriate comparison schools is impossible.

Despite the best efforts of the teachers to provide leadership for their school, along with efforts by the district to establish formal teacher - leadership positions, the combined effects of frequent principal turnover and frequent teacher turnover made it impossible for this school to sustain any momentum in its improvement efforts.

«Perhaps [this is] to keep [educators] from talking about how the legislature has shortchanged Arizona's school kids by hundreds of millions of dollars since the recession, and how the legislature is still making it nearly impossible for many districts to take care of even [schools»] most basic needs.»

... the Feinberg recommendations are still rather weak sauce, especially in light of the fact that it still keeps in place state laws and processes that make it almost impossible for school and district leaders to fire teachers who don't belong in classrooms.

Moving to neighborhoods with better district schools is often impossible for low - income families.

The main piece of good news for schools (COEs, school districts, and charter schools) is that they will get the $ 147 per Average Daily Attendance (ADA) in fully discretionary one - time funding in 2017 - 18, as the Legislature rejected the Governor's proposal to make those funds contingent upon a calculation in May 2019 (which would have made it virtually impossible to account for the funding this year).»

As school district leaders look for ways to combat online bullying, the rapid nature of technological change makes it nearly impossible to prevent every tragedy.

His new attacks on public education include taking $ 17.1 million out of traditional public schools, which will curtail extended day and summer programs in needy school districts, make universal preschool impossible, not fund priority districts as promised and at less than last year, and limit aid for transportation of students.

Tenure critics rightly note that in many school districts, the process an administrator has to go through in order to dismiss a teacher for cause ends up being so lengthy and expensive that it can feel nearly impossible.

Unfortunately, staffing and economic issues in many school districts make it impossible for teachers to keep up with grading and evaluating writing assignments while also managing classrooms, instructing, and planning.