Sentences with phrase «in most districts»

And less funding for public schools has contributed to teacher shortages in most districts across the state.

Increase in property taxes are limited in most districts to the lower of 2 % or the rate of inflation, however, so rates don't change much year - to - year.

In most districts there is not a mechanism by which to ensure that incompetent teachers are not teaching.

Employment growth slowed moderately in most districts, with labour shortages reported in the manufacturing and construction industries.

And those just aren't feasible options in most districts, including my own.

In most districts everything shuts down and improvement work stops.

However, this dream is not a reality in most districts.

The answer in most districts is clear: No.

The report concludes that while substantial planning and implementation activities are occurring in most districts, classroom teaching based on the new standards is much less common.

They simply acknowledge that you have a plan in place, which in most districts can be as loose as you like.

Increase in property taxes are limited in most districts to the lower of 2 % or the rate of inflation, however, so rates do not change much year - to - year.

Currently, teacher salaries in most districts are disconnected from effectiveness.

As in most districts moving to an integrated sequence, students in 10th grade and higher who already have taken Algebra 1 or other courses in the traditional sequence will continue on that pathway, which will be phased out as they complete it.

However, student acceptance of the changes will likely improve over time, as indicated by their positive comments about healthy food and consumption of fruits and vegetables in most districts GAO visited.

«The good news from the variability of achievement among school districts with the same level of low - income students is that school effectiveness could reasonably increase achievement in most districts by between 0.75 and 2.0 grade - equivalents,» he says.

A growing body of research has shown that children who miss more than 10 percent of the school year — about 18 days in most districts — are more likely to struggle academically and drop out.

That the stupid cookie or candy included, or the extra bag of cheetos is going to make them banshees in the classroom where your and my child are trying to focus... I would say that even in most districts that the nutritional value on a reimbursable tray is probably better than the brown bag that is being brought to school by most!

If students do not accept these items, the result may be increased food waste or decreased participation in the lunch program, which were concerns in most districts GAO visited.

But in most districts willingness to serve has been sporadic.

And that doesn't even take into account the curriculum adoption cycles that exist in most districts, which result in content areas updating resources on a two -, three -, or four - year rotation due to budgetary constraints.

But acknowledging any such obvious fact would sweep the support from under the fixed salary ladders that are the basis for teacher contracts in most districts.

English - language - learners is the largest growing segment of the population in most districts.

In other words, middle school start times are somewhat earlier in Wake County than in most districts nationwide.

Still, some degree of nonresidency is probably a fact of life in most districts.

One standard deviation in teacher effects in math is in the range of.15 student - level standard deviations in most districts.

While some districts are building internal principal development programs to bolster the quality of their pool, a TNTP study found that assistant and regional superintendents report that «they had far fewer assistant principals — fewer than half in most districts surveyed — ready to become excellent principals than they had openings.»

While this issue with the test servers only caused minor delays in most districts, it also presented a different problem: Some students were able to log - in to the test and read the questions while others were not able.

With schools back in session after the #RedforEd teacher walkout, and summer vacation just a few days away in most districts, the intensity of the Arizona education movement has relaxed into a stea

Finally, I don't think «we» can change retirement age, only the other benefits beyond the self funded WRS Pension, which have been steadily eroded in the last 5 years in most districts.

Infante and others add that the Academic Performance Index and the federal No Child Left Behind law squeezed history out of the curriculum in most districts during the past decade.

We now have two more required observations in our agreement for tenured teachers beyond the two required by state law and practiced in most districts.

Given the widespread importance of teacher recommendations in most districts — and the relative lack of clarity in the new law — it is essential for the state and districts to work on a clearer and more nuanced way to handle this critical measure.

Salary schedules in most districts tend to deliver small annual increases the first several years a teacher is in the classroom, rather than providing larger increases at the time the teacher is expected to show significant improvements.14 15 Further, although there is little evidence that holding an advanced degree has any measurable impact on improved student outcomes, a master's degree is a significant determinant of compensation in many public schools.16

Presently in most districts across the country a student's grade often depends in no small way upon the luck of the draw regarding with which teacher the computer schedules the student.

In most districts tenure is granted after a probationary period of three years.

What matters is that schools receive the funding allotment their students are entitled to, which is currently not the case in most districts.

The «one size fits all» standard evaluation that is the only choice in most districts across the country will just not do for the increasing demands of teaching and learning in the 21st century.

School councils with either advisory or decision making responsibilities have been widely implemented in most districts by now.

I think in most districts the supt. makes the call.

And that unfair implication was only reinforced when Jamie asked a worker at this school about the stunning difference between its food and the usual processed junk we see in most districts.

It was abundantly clear that in most districts there was no effective accountability for teachers after they were granted tenure, which in most locations requires only a few years of teaching....

Although the state Legislature has provided the funds to increase starting salaries in most districts to at least $ 18,000 a year, some districts are still handicapped by unattractively low pay.

In most districts, students don't have to take milk with lunch, but it must be offered.

Right now, in most districts, wellness policies are vaguely written, purely aspirational documents that few people in the district even know about.