Not exact matches
«Now more
than ever, the people of the 37th Senate
District need an independent - minded, practical problem solver who will provide bipartisan,
innovative solutions to address the issues faced by Westchester's working families.»
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District About Blog Nonprofit leadership is more complex and demanding
than ever before, requiring updated and
innovative ways to meet mission and keep organizations healthy.
With their schools acting as clients rather
than dependents,
districts would be forced to compete for them, thereby becoming more
innovative and cost - effective.
Less formally, more
than 20 cities, through the Gates Foundation — funded
District - Charter Collaboration Compacts, have established cooperative working groups focused on a range of topics, such as solving shared problems, addressing gaps in service across sectors for students and families, and sharing
innovative practices.
It alleges that a review of the research on charter schools leads to the conclusions that, overall, charter schools: 1) fail to raise student achievement more
than traditional
district schools do; 2) aren't
innovative and don't pass innovations along to
district schools; 3) exacerbate the racial and ethnic isolation of students; 4) provide a worse environment for teachers
than district schools; and 5) spend more on administration and less on instruction
than public schools.
This year,
District Administration's Readers» Choice Top 100 Products features selections from more
than 1,500 nominations that range from cutting - edge student information systems and cloud - based security to
innovative gamification software and state - of - the - art classroom projectors.
The hope is that with the right financial resources and supports, Denver charter schools can use their autonomy to find
innovative ways to serve severely disabled students even more effectively
than the
district has.
As it stands, some
districts are willing to offer more
innovative programs
than others, but charter schools would motivate all
districts to be more flexible, she said.
The foundation has invested more
than $ 1 billion to date to improve all types of schools - traditional
district, public charter and private - and to support
innovative organizations that share a common goal: to give all families the ability to choose the best school for their child, regardless of their zip code.
For more
than 20 years, the Magna Awards have been recognizing
innovative school
district programs supported by board governance.
While far broader
than No Child Left Behind, the proposed federal regulations wouldn't allow the six California
districts to continue piloting their own
innovative program of multiple school quality and student success factors.
We recently visited three
innovative high schools in the Tacoma Public School
District that provide the area's 28,000 students opportunities to explore passions and connect to the community in deeper ways
than you see at most high schools.
Nationally there are 3,500 Charter Schools in 40 states plus the
District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, serving more
than one million students.What are the benefits of enrolling my child in a charter school?Charter schools provide an
innovative alternative to traditional NYC public schools.
Dave Calhoun, the director of research, evaluation, and assessment for Fresno Unified, one of the CORE
districts, stressed that the
innovative efforts were more focused on school improvement, rather
than high - stakes accountability.
In less
than 5 years, Piedmont became one of the most
innovative districts in the state, installing a citywide wireless network and 1:1 devices in K - 12.
In addition to increasing funding to help close the per - pupil funding gap between charter and
district schools, Connecticut lawmakers were able to expand an
innovative district / charter partnership program to more
than 30
districts and provide funding to offer more new charter school seats to the nearly 4,000 kids stuck on waitlists.
Berman and McLaughlin (1978), for example, found that some school
districts adopted programs for bureaucratic (i.e., compliance) or opportunistic motives (e.g., access to funds, to appear «
innovative») and were less successful in facilitating the implementation into practice of those programs
than districts that adopted programs as a means of solving previously identified problems in student and school performance.
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District About Blog Nonprofit leadership is more complex and demanding
than ever before, requiring updated and
innovative ways to meet mission and keep organizations healthy.
In our view, given his
innovative vision and success in both the public and private sectors, there is no one better able to lead Washington's 10th
District through these challenges and opportunities
than Denny Heck.
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District About Blog Nonprofit leadership is more complex and demanding
than ever before, requiring updated and
innovative ways to meet mission and keep organizations healthy.
Today, over 1,400 community, migrant and homeless health centers bring
innovative programs in primary and preventative care to more
than 9,800 urban and rural communities in every state, the
District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and U.S. territory.