Sentences with phrase «incentives for school districts»

Provide incentives for school districts to develop teacher leader initiatives and to provide compensation for teacher leaders that take on additional roles and responsibilities within their schools.

But it's a pillar of the White House's strategy of providing incentives for school districts to improve STEM education.

This week, Gov. Mark Dayton signed an omnibus education bill with a provision creating a powerful incentive for school districts and charter schools to work more closely to boost student achievement...

Kaukl also said he requested more money for mental health services, special education, a financial incentive for school districts to share services and a repeal of the state school year start date of September 1.

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School districts that comply with the new standards will receive an additional federal payment of 6 cents for each lunch served, a pretty big incentive to get with the program.

• Redesigning Education: Noting that New York is first in spending but 34th in results, Governor Cuomo proposed restructuring a portion of our education aid to create incentives that reward school districts for improving student performance and implementing management efficiency policies.

Incentive Operating Aid is available for fourteen years to reorganized school districts, beginning with the first year of operation as a reorganized district.

The omnibus education bill included funding for the «Schools of Hope» program, which encourages charter schools to open in low - performing school districts by giving them inceSchools of Hope» program, which encourages charter schools to open in low - performing school districts by giving them inceschools to open in low - performing school districts by giving them incentives.

Buffalo, NY — The Erie County Industrial Development Agency's Board of Directors approved incentives for two projects Wednesday, and agreed to refinance bonds for the Joint Schools Construction Board, saving the Buffalo School District nearly $ 30 million in financing costs.

Cuomo is projecting a 3.8 percent increase for school aid, which amounts to about $ 807 million, including formula - based aid to districts and targeted funding streams for pre-kindergarten, after - school programs and merit incentives for teachers.

Vermont Act 46 provides incentives, including property tax rate reductions, for school districts to consolidate.

The district was not the only area school district to offer an early retirement incentive for next year.

Since then, two IDA boards, four school districts, hundreds of Valley Stream taxpayers, and about a dozen state and local lawmakers have become embroiled in a controversy over the mall's tax incentives that have been blamed for steep tax hikes for residents.

In addition, Vanderhoef called for other future initiatives which included tuition fixes and employer incentives to accommodate returning vets, and an end to division in the troubled East Ramapo Central School District.

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

«We're always looking for school districts and other partners on the ground,» he says, «whether for new takes on incentives or other projects.»

There has been a gradual increase over the past decade in the percentage of districts offering pay incentives for shortage areas (see Figure 4), but recent evidence (see work by Katharine Strunk with Jason Grissom, Tammy Kolbe, and Dara Zeehandelaar) shows that few districts are truly strategic in matching incentives to staffing needs, and as a consequence, school systems continue to struggle to fill teaching slots in math and science.

As education is a public good and requires public funding, proposed structures should be measured by the incentives they will create for schools, districts, and teachers to produce great student outcomes at reasonable expense.

When it comes to the study of implementing education reforms, analysts tend to focus on the formal channels of implementation and the standard tools of public administration — for example, intergovernmental hand - offs (federal to state to district to school), alignment of curriculum, assessment and other components of the reform, professional development, getting incentives right, and accountability mechanisms.

We work with RSVP to provide incentives in the form of reimbursement for gas mileage, and our school district uses the STEP program to give tax incentives to the senior citizens.»

But with schools searching for new ways to boost performance among low - income, low - performing students, some districts have found that incentives to draw the best teachers and administrators to the worst schools are paying off.

Finally, we should continue to provide incentives for and encouragement to charters and educational management organizations to join the state and districts in the kind of novel forms of school turnaround work and governance now being pioneered in Lawrence.

It is a test for which students can not easily be prepped and, since the performance of individual school districts, schools, or students is not reported, there is little incentive to cheat or even to prepare for the test.

Third, the governor's initiative also calls for changing state and district incentive structures that drain quality teachers and resources from the schools that need them the most.

Previously, districts had strong incentives to resist high proficiency standards, as they feared their schools might be subject to increasingly severe penalties for not producing improved test results.

Currently, 38 states and 163 local school districts have enacted one or more incentives for National Board Certification.

Poor quality and a lack of incentives for improvement extend to the traditional district schools as well.

The linchpin of the state's work has been providing incentives for districts and schools statewide to adopt and implement a high - quality and coherent curriculum, particularly in English language arts (ELA) and mathematics, and to use that curriculum as the hook on which everything else hangs: assessment, professional development, and teacher training.

Researchers have proposed that districts pay teachers a bonus for the days they don't take off, or give their schools the money that would have been spent on subs as a collective incentive, or set up a reward system for teachers with good attendance (the Columbia study found that only 3 percent of teachers had perfect attendance).

Rewards in the form of a waiver, or incentives in the form of a state innovation grant or site - based merit pay, could be included in a public academy contract with a host school district; so must corrective action policies for academic or fiscal malfeasance.

Among many influential projects conducted under the auspices of EdLabs, Fryer has developed and implemented programs to test the impact of incentives on student achievement, teacher pay - for - performance concepts, and an effort to apply charter - school practices to a district turnaround school in Houston.

«Instead, as district leaders are discovering for themselves,» Haycock writes, «a better solution lies in a creative combination of targeted incentives for teachers and policies that empower administrators and school leaders to recruit and retain effective educators.»

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

Others note that there is a financial incentive for districts to delay making payments for as long as possible, even if they eventually have to pay the charter schools what they are owed in later installments.

But they do not call for an end to the multiple conflicts of interest that pervade the program: Currently, school districts have little (even negative) incentive to promote the tutoring, as they pocket the dollars when few students participate.

For example, the Teacher Incentive Fund created by the second Bush administration asks school districts and charter schools to commit to implementing performance - based teacher compensation systems.

Known as the Talent Transfer Initiative (TTI), the intervention identified a district's highest - performing teachers and offered them incentives for moving to and staying in its low - performing schools for at least two years.

By contrast, many school districts» incentive pay systems reward teachers for out - performing, rather than helping, their teammates.

Because property taxes play such an important role in school funding, affluent communities have an incentive to establish school district borders around their neighborhoods in order to ensure that the benefit of their wealth is reserved for their children alone.

Policies, financial plans, accountability measures and incentive structures support the use of ICT and other digital resources for both learning and district / school operations.

These policies could provide a possible incentive for schools or districts to move underperforming students to alternative schools.

Requiring districts to equalize their state / local spending in each Title I school with the average spending in non-Title I schools can create incentives for districts to adjust which schools they designate as Title I. For example, if a district's lower - poverty Title I schools (which could still be high poverty schools), have new, less - expensive teachers, kicking those schools out of Title I would lower average spending in non-Title I schoofor districts to adjust which schools they designate as Title I. For example, if a district's lower - poverty Title I schools (which could still be high poverty schools), have new, less - expensive teachers, kicking those schools out of Title I would lower average spending in non-Title I schooFor example, if a district's lower - poverty Title I schools (which could still be high poverty schools), have new, less - expensive teachers, kicking those schools out of Title I would lower average spending in non-Title I schools.

The nation's capital became the epicenter for the private school choice battle in 2004 when President George W. Bush signed the District of Columbia School Choice Incentive Act, which created the Opportunity Scholarship Prschool choice battle in 2004 when President George W. Bush signed the District of Columbia School Choice Incentive Act, which created the Opportunity Scholarship PrSchool Choice Incentive Act, which created the Opportunity Scholarship Program.

«There are many training programs for school principals, but few exist for top state and district education leaders who establish policies, incentives, and cultures that enable those principals to succeed in lifting student achievement,» added M. Christine DeVita, president of The Wallace Foundation.

Likewise, although funding disparities among school districts may be unjust, removing local fiscal incentives may alienate suburban taxpayers and erode their support for public education.

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.

For example, Maine recommends that districts adopt «longevity pay incentives» and create teacher leader programs in high - poverty schools.54 The plan also states that the Maine Department of Education will work with teacher preparation programs to assess the type and level of preparation afforded to aspiring teachers wishing to teach in high - poverty schools, isolated schools, and high - risk school settings with the goal of offering more supports, including housing, loan forgiveness, and housing for teachers in these types of schoolsFor example, Maine recommends that districts adopt «longevity pay incentives» and create teacher leader programs in high - poverty schools.54 The plan also states that the Maine Department of Education will work with teacher preparation programs to assess the type and level of preparation afforded to aspiring teachers wishing to teach in high - poverty schools, isolated schools, and high - risk school settings with the goal of offering more supports, including housing, loan forgiveness, and housing for teachers in these types of schoolsfor teachers in these types of schools.55

State - level leaders are charged with formulating policies that will frame practice in districts and schools more broadly, according to the public interest, and to provide incentives and sanctions for local implementation of those policies.

«Among them: partnerships between school districts and colleges to help communities grow their own teachers and align recruitment to high - need fields; competitive salaries as well as incentives, financial and otherwise, for hard - to - fill positions; the creation of strong mentoring programs and professional learning communities that make schools places teachers want to be; and effective leadership at the school level to maintain a supportive, collaborative school environment.»

Federal policymakers should create incentives for states, districts, and schools to meaningfully engage families in their children's education using research - based strategies and practices.