Sentences with phrase «large urban districts»

• They sometimes face opposition from other organized groups, especially in large urban districts.

She has worked closely with large urban districts, suburban districts, small rural districts, regional offices of education, and association leaders.

For large urban districts, the rule has been to appoint outsiders who promise major changes in course to solve serious problems.

Most likely because we saw decreases in many large urban districts that had implemented breakfast after the bell.

And while senior officials have put pressure on large urban districts to curb manipulation of the system, it continues to flourish in schools throughout the state.

In some assessments, samples are chosen to report on states or selected large urban districts and as a result, more students must participate.

Not everyone considers school boards bad, and those who say they are bad for running large urban districts do not necessarily extend that view to suburban or rural districts.

Unlike most large urban districts, who partner with external organizations to provide coaching to their leaders, our district chose to meet this need by creating an internal service provider.

Our best school districts may look excellent alongside large urban districts, the comparison state accountability systems encourage, but that measure provides false comfort.

More than half of participating large urban districts said they didn't have enough time to hire qualified staff, according to the urban schools group survey.

The bad news is that from 2016 to 2017, schools statewide saw a 2 percent dip in student participation, with many large urban districts showing disappointing double - digit decreases.

If breaking up large urban districts into smaller ones was an integral part of the solution, he certainly never mentioned it.

Particularly in large urban districts, funding levels for disadvantaged or struggling students are often more than equal.

20 % decreases in state's topping off of the revenue limit bucket left many large urban districts with two choices during the Great Recession - 1.

A 10 percent of a standard deviation effect size is equivalent to closing one - quarter to one - half of the performance gap between weak schools (those at the 10th percentile of the achievement distribution) and average schools (those at the 50th percentile) in large urban districts like Chicago.

USP codirector Senior Lecturer Deborah Jewell - Sherman was pleased with the event as a celebration of the program and Peterkin, noting that it attracted not only alums from around the country, but also superintendents from large urban districts such as Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent Beverly Hall.

In choosing New York for the $ 500,000 prize, the panel noted that the city outperformed other large urban districts in the state on math and reading tests and showed greater improvement at all grade levels.

In 2002, NAEP began to report (on a trial basis) results from several large urban districts in the Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA), but school - level results are not yet reportable.

In 2003, just 15 percent of teachers in large urban districts across the country were black but in New Orleans, teaching was largely a job done by black women: 71 percent of teachers were black and 78 percent were women.

The list of applicants was decidedly varied, and included large urban districts like Elizabeth and Camden, suburban ones such as Fort Lee and Cherry Hill, and two charter schools, one north and one south.

Baltimore is not alone among large urban districts in essentially having two tiers of high schools: a handful of selective enrollment high schools and a larger group of lottery - admission or neighborhood schools where fewer graduates go on to college.

In either case the sheer challenge of closing long standing academic achievement gaps along with the complexity of large urban districts makes it difficult for district leaders to fashion a strategy and communicate a message that resonates with everyone.

A 2007 review of 66 principal assessment instruments in use in large urban districts found that 26 failed to evaluate principals» engagement with the curriculum.

The first venue was the Urban Education Dialogue (UED), a forum of large urban district superintendents designed to foster dialogue about the challenges and opportunities associated with running K — 12 school systems in California.

It goes on to say that the Great Public Schools Now Initiative would serve as a model for other large urban districts so that «governors, mayors and other leaders across the country can point to Los Angeles as a city where a coordinate set of important investments significantly improved opportunities for students, families and the city.»

I think it's interesting that our district is the only large urban district in the state of Ohio to receive the «effective» rating, which is the second - highest rating you can achieve in Ohio, by academic standards.

Another report says that the menu will now include «Salvadorean beef stew, chicken tandoori, Asian pad thai, California sushi roll and teriyaki beef and broccoli with brown rice,» but also notes the district says the changes were already in the pipeline well before Jamie even showed up in L.A. (And given what I know about school food procurement in my own large urban district, which I'm told can have a year - long lag time, that seems likely to be true.)

If you have any questions about school food — how things got the way they are, how to change something that bugs you — you can submit your questions to a real live food service director who oversees school food in a relatively large urban district somewhere in the U.S..

Historically, for example, a relatively small handful of large urban districts ate up whatever limited E-rate funds were available to support internal connections, leaving most schools and libraries with nothing.

In previous work, one of us found that Washington State's 2004 compensatory allocation formula ensured that affluent Bellevue School District, in which only 18 percent of students qualify for free or reduced - price lunch, receives $ 1,371 per poor student in state compensatory funds, while large urban districts received less than half of that for each of their impoverished students (see Figure 2).

Michael Podgursky responds: Collective - bargaining agreements negotiated by the AFT in large urban districts typically include language restricting the contractual teaching workday to little longer than the school day for students.

So despite consistent progress, Atlanta, Chicago, D.C., and Los Angeles are either at or still below the performance of the average large urban district.

Because rural school communities vary widely, «generic» improvement plans designed for large urban districts usually do not work as well in rural settings, according to the authors of a new book on rural education programs.

A recent survey of large urban districts nationwide found that students take an average of 112 mandated assessments during the K — 12 years; the survey discovered no correlation between mandated testing time and student performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, whose aggregate results are reported via «the Nation's Report Card.»

As a long - time member of the Public Education Leadership Project, a joint initiative between HBS and HGSE, Higgins co-authored a book with her colleagues on managing central office - school relationships called, Achieving Coherence in District Improvement; this book is based upon their work with large urban districts over a ten - year time period.

Considerable effort has been made over the past decade to address the needs of learners in large urban districts through scaleable reform initiatives.

In 2005 - 2006, about 60 percent of all California students were concentrated in large urban districts whose per - pupil base state grant was $ 85 less than the average grant statewide.

Elementary students in 10 city school systems struggled to perform simple investigations, interpret basic graphs and diagrams, and understand scientific classifications and relationships, concludes a first - ever report on the science skills of students in large urban districts released today.

Keynote presentation at the annual Large Urban District Association Conference, Springfield, IL.

In December, CPS became the latest large urban district to sign an agreement with the Gates Foundation, pledging greater cooperation and collaboration between the city's charter and neighborhood schools.

But despite that background and his initial support, he ultimately ran into the same obstacles that face other leaders of large urban districts who want to create major change, says former New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein.

She said the board decided to declare an «extreme emergency,» and went on to name an interim superintendent, Margie Pulley, who would assume control of the state's largest urban district once Gov. Phil Bryant signs the resolution.

UVA / PLE's previous work with six large urban districts focused on developing a pipeline of talented and prepared principals in difficult - to - staff settings.

In studying the school management approaches of five large urban districts recognized nationally for their performance, my Harvard University Public Education Leadership Project colleagues — Allen Grossman, Monica C. Higgins, Karen L. Mapp, Geoff Marietta — and I learned that asking whether centralization or decentralization is better is not the right question.

Oakland is the most improved large urban district in California over the last two decades.

«Today's results show that our nation's large urban districts continue to make progress in mathematics.

Slaton, and other small rural districts, can not pay teachers what large urban districts can, so we lose some of our very best year after year.