Sentences with phrase «in school districts around the state»

«This reduction can be made up only through increased property taxes in school districts around the state,» a DPI analysis of the last proposal said.

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We're not sure what's in the water in Pennsylvania, but after one school district in the Keystone State distributed buckets of rocks around school to pelt shooters as a last resort, and another handed out tiny baseball bats to thwart would - be attackers, we asked readers what you thought of these...

SNA's Keys to Excellence is a state of the art online self - assessment tool that allows you to compare your school nutrition program's performance with other districts in your area and around the country.

The revised plan, which would be included in the state budget, would also give districts more time to turn around what Cuomo calls «failing» schools or districts before a state - appointed «receiver» could seize broad authority over them.

Contract impasses in 10 districts around the state prompted King to yank federal «School Improvement Grants.»

The Alliance for Quality Education has been touring schools around the state to document what they say is the erosion of districts in economically depressed areas.

Much controversy the past year in school districts across the state centered around Common Core Learning Standards.

The state labeled Hughes a «persistently low - achieving» school in early 2010 because of its low test scores, and despite an infusion of state funding and efforts to turn it around, it has not markedly improved, district Chief Academic Officer Laura Kelley said.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia, in a highly unusual move, appointed veteran educator Jack Bierwirth as a «distinguished educator» for the Hempstead school district to bolster efforts to turn around the chronically troubled system.

The waiting lists to get into charter schools are around the block in the districts of state Assembly members who haven't challenged attempts to limit the alternative schools, according to data obtained by The Post.

That's led school districts around the state to complain that they won't know how much state aid they're getting for the new school year in time to get their budgets ready for the May statewide vote.

(One answer: New York City would still prefer to avoid the belt - tightening that's already on the drawing board in other school districts around the state.)

From what I can tell in talking with my friends around the state and country, we were the very last school district on the planet to let out for summer.

For example, a 2005 report in Illinois found almost no opposition to arts education among principals and district superintendents, yet there were large disparities in school offerings around the state.

99, took on a daunting challenge: figure out how to turn around the Lawrence Public Schools, the only school district in Massachusetts ever to be placed in state receivership.

State interventions to improve struggling local school districts have a mixed record, but in Lawrence, Massachusetts, a state takeover seems to be turning things arState interventions to improve struggling local school districts have a mixed record, but in Lawrence, Massachusetts, a state takeover seems to be turning things arstate takeover seems to be turning things around.

But individual schools and districts around the United States are making changes in the way they use time.

The U.S. Department of Education has finalized its rules governing $ 3.5 billion in school improvement grants for states and districts, making only small changes despite criticism that its four models for turning around the nation's worst schools are too prescriptive.

Foundations can continue to play an important role in enabling school districts and states around the country to understand how and why New Orleans has made better relative academic gains in such a short period of time, and to encourage them to adopt similar approaches.

The Gates Foundation has announced awards in an emerging area of its grantmaking: state efforts to turn around low - performing schools and districts.

Louisiana's top education officials have launched a nationwide search for organizations to help them turn around academic achievement in 11 chronically failing schools in districts around the state.

In recent years, there have been a series of state - and district - led initiatives to turn around failing schools.

The U.S. Department of Education's plan to grant states broad flexibility under the No Child Left Behind Act will free up as much as $ 800 million in money school districts now must set aside for tutoring students, but may mark a significant financial blow to an education industry that has grown up around serving low - performing schools.

On Election Day, voters in 31 school districts around the state will decide whether to raise property taxes to pump an additional $ 1 billion into the school system in the form of bond issues for buildings or mill levy overrides for operating budgets.

Taking over the then lowest - performing district in the state, Smith turned around Ogden schools, moving all of Ogden's elementary schools out of the bottom ten percent of elementary schools in the state.

«When you look at the annals of state intervention in local school districts across the country... there's virtually no track record, nor extant examples of states effectively turning around academic performance in local school districts until Lawrence arrived on the scene,» says Paul Reville, a professor of education at Harvard University's Graduate School of Educschool districts across the country... there's virtually no track record, nor extant examples of states effectively turning around academic performance in local school districts until Lawrence arrived on the scene,» says Paul Reville, a professor of education at Harvard University's Graduate School of Educschool districts until Lawrence arrived on the scene,» says Paul Reville, a professor of education at Harvard University's Graduate School of EducSchool of Education.

The opt - out movement seemed to remain strong, although opt - out numbers are down in some Western New York school districts and districts around the state also reported more students are taking the tests than last year.

During the recent 2012 - 2013 APPR Conference held in Albany, 200 educators heard a panel representing school districts from around New York State share reflections on their experience in developing a working APPR agreement for teachers and principals.

«Across the country, states, districts, and educators are leading the way in developing innovative assessments that measure students» academic progress; promote equity by highlighting achievement gaps, especially for our traditionally underserved students; and spur improvements in teaching and learning for all our children,» stated U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. «Our proposed regulations build on President Obama's plan to strike a balance around testing, providing additional support for states and districts to develop and use better, less burdensome assessments that give a more well - rounded picture of how students and schools are doing, while providing parents, teachers, and communities with critical information about students» learning.»

Enrollment in educator preparation programs has dropped by more than 70 percent over the last decade, and has fallen below the number of estimated hires by school districts around the state.

The executive leadership training programs will provide an opportunity for participating state and district teams to work more collaboratively in such areas as leading change and team development, leadership for instructional improvement, methods to accelerate leader performance, addressing stakeholder engagement around critical state and local issues, and sustaining improvements in school and student achievement.

As new state - created entities charged with running and turning around the state's worst schools, these districts are awarded certain authority and flexibility — such as the ability to turn schools into charters and to bypass collective bargaining agreements — that allow them to cut the red tape that has made so many schools dysfunctional in the first place.

The administration doesn't want to let reform - minded school districts miss out on Race to the Top funding just because their states are recalcitrant dinosaurs in the grip of teacher unions, etc.S o they're going to try something unusual: channeling dollars AROUND the states and directly to districts.

It goes something like this: Step away from federal heavy - handedness around states» accountability and teacher credentialing systems; keep plenty of transparency of results in place, especially test scores disaggregated by racial and other subgroups; offer incentives for embracing promising reforms instead of mandates; and give school districts a lot more flexibility to move their federal dollars around as they see fit.

Each voucher is worth $ 12,000, resulting in an expected impact of around $ 5 million, which is paid for using a reduction in state funding sent to public school districts.

The state Association of School Business Officials said in a report Monday that districts may not see increases in local revenues next year because the property tax cap will be around zero.

We believe in the importance of informed, empowered educators so we hosted a house party to bring together teachers from both charter and district schools in order to discuss the current state of the budget and to engage in a conversation around ideas to involve and inform more teachers.

In New York, Commissioner of Education David M. Steiner and the state board of regents this month put forward a broad package of changes that would include revamping the state's standards - and - assessment system, raising the cap on the number of charter schools, allowing additional institutions to train teachers and principals, and setting new demands for districts to turn around low - performing schools.

Built around the use of an embedded set of connected, web - based data tools, the OIP is being used by well over half of the 612 traditional public school districts and 100 + charter schools in the state to enact essential leadership practices as identified by the Ohio Leadership Advisory Council (OLAC), a broad - based stakeholder group jointly sponsored by the Ohio Department of Education and the Buckeye Association of School Administrators.1 It is also a key component of the state's Race to the Top (RttT) strschool districts and 100 + charter schools in the state to enact essential leadership practices as identified by the Ohio Leadership Advisory Council (OLAC), a broad - based stakeholder group jointly sponsored by the Ohio Department of Education and the Buckeye Association of School Administrators.1 It is also a key component of the state's Race to the Top (RttT) strSchool Administrators.1 It is also a key component of the state's Race to the Top (RttT) strategy.

Appointed Superintendents: Of the more than 14,000 school districts in the United States, only around 150 have elected superintendents.

School Improvement Network works with thousands of schools and districts in every state and around the world and has visited over 3,000 classrooms to document best practices in action.

Revamping a strategy in play when state leaders first hesitated on joining the federal Race to the Top competition, California will reportedly file for the second phase of the race in an application centered only around three of the state's biggest school districts.

The Center on School Turnaround (CST) at WestEd provides technical assistance to increase the capacity of state education agencies (SEAs) to support districts in turning around their lowest - performing schools.

Alison DeNisco writes in District Administration that «in light of a looming ESSA mandate to increase transparency around education spending,» district leaders across the nation «have been struggling to calculate per - pupil spending by school in accordance with state and federal requirementsDistrict Administration that «in light of a looming ESSA mandate to increase transparency around education spending,» district leaders across the nation «have been struggling to calculate per - pupil spending by school in accordance with state and federal requirementsdistrict leaders across the nation «have been struggling to calculate per - pupil spending by school in accordance with state and federal requirements.»

See EdSource's «Following the School Funding Formula» project for how school funding reforms are being implemented in selected districts from around the School Funding Formula» project for how school funding reforms are being implemented in selected districts from around the school funding reforms are being implemented in selected districts from around the state.

State Representative Sonya Harper (D) of the Sixth District championed both resolutions, explaining, «In speaking with my colleagues from around the state, it is clear that while our students experience trauma differently, their lives outside of school directly influence their behaviors and thus shape a school's climate and culture, for better or wState Representative Sonya Harper (D) of the Sixth District championed both resolutions, explaining, «In speaking with my colleagues from around the state, it is clear that while our students experience trauma differently, their lives outside of school directly influence their behaviors and thus shape a school's climate and culture, for better or wstate, it is clear that while our students experience trauma differently, their lives outside of school directly influence their behaviors and thus shape a school's climate and culture, for better or worse.

One specific concern is one that has been seen in many districts around the state: investing LCFF supplemental and concentration funds in increasing its budget for school police.

The agency is expected to be fully operational in the 2015 - 16 school year, once the State Board of Education has created criteria around when CCEE should step in to assist districts.

If you were a teacher in the state of California, chances are you do... On March 15, 2008, the Los Angeles Unified School District sent out thousands of notices (somewhere around 7,000 of them).

The report looks at specific approaches of school districts around the state, including in Oakland and San Francisco, around their ELLs and provides recommendations within the context of the many ongoing changes in the state, including LCFF.