Sentences with phrase «larger than other districts»

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, the state pension plan does, too, and school districts, towns and villages, and other participants get a larger - than - normal bill.

And while more than 300 families are registered dog - park users, other large groups also use the village's limited green space, Park District Board Chairman Paul Aeschleman said.

Dana has intimate familiarity with what it takes to make significant changes in a large, urban district like my own, and she is less - than - starry - eyed about the ability of any other district to follow suit without outside funding — over and above the current USDA reimbursement rate, OR that amount plus six cents.

Texas currently counts everyone in the state, including illegal immigrants, before carving up districts of proportional population size, but the challenge argues that only eligible voters should be counted because the current system creates some districts with much larger numbers of eligible voters than others.

Despite spending more than $ 211,000 since 2015, Rice's district attorney committee still has $ 1,636,490 in the bank — the largest war chest of any potential candidate for Schneiderman's relinquished post other than state Sen. Michael Gianaris of Queens.

One study found that career academy students from a large district who entered a local university were more likely to complete their bachelor's degrees than other students from that district.

And there are large differences in teacher retention rates between Colorado districts, meaning some have much higher turnover rates than others.

Another possible explanation for our findings of large school - spending effects is that how the money is spent matters a lot and that districts use the resources that come from unexpected increases in school spending more productively than they use other resources.

States and school districts with more blacks and college - educated adults have a substantially larger share of their students in charter schools than other districts.

Specifically, I pointed out that gains on the National Assessment of Educational Progress under Rhee's tenure were much larger than average gains for the other ten urban school districts participating in the assessment in 8th grade math and in 4th grade reading and math.

The fact that Texas is a right - to - work state also meant that the union had less leverage than in most other large districts.

Based on a year of self - examination by 44 of the largest urban districts, «Challenges to Urban Education: Results in the Making,» casts the future of inner - city public schools in terms far more optimistic than other recent assessments.

In addition to having large year - to - year fluctuations in snowfall, annual snowfall in both states typically varies widely across In Maryland and Colorado, some districts are exposed to much greater variation in the severity of their winters than others, which allows us to use the remaining districts to control for common trends shared by all districts in the state.

The Boston study of just over 2,000 students in the public school district's universal program for 4 - to -5-year-olds found greater gains in vocabulary and math for participating students compared with nonparticipants, after one year, than seen in any other study of other large - scale pre-K programs around the US.

In other words, districts large and small recognize that for - profit businesses can produce many educational goods and services more efficiently or effectively than districts can themselves.

I do this by looking at the sample of students who are continuously enrolled in a district school between grades 3 and 5 in order to exclude students coming from and going to other schools; their results are nearly identical to, if not slightly larger than, the effects on the full sample.

Other research on these students by Dartmouth economist Bruce Sacerdote suggests that New Orleans evacuees experienced larger improvements in school quality than evacuees from other distrOther research on these students by Dartmouth economist Bruce Sacerdote suggests that New Orleans evacuees experienced larger improvements in school quality than evacuees from other distrother districts.

Creighton and WestEd used four major improvement strategies: 1) refining the curriculum and aligning staff training and student tests to that curriculum; 2) improving instructional practices, including those for English language learners, who comprise a large share of the district's students; 3) developing and using tests during the school year, other than those used for accountability, to assess what students had learned; and 4) implementing a system of individualized instruction based on student needs.

· Among the larger districts, collective bargaining has more negative effects for high - minority schools than for other schools....

With its state - run Recovery School District in place since 2005 to intervene in low - performing schools, Louisiana also has more experience at intervening in large numbers of schools than most other states.

From recruitment to retention, employing great educators plays a larger role in student achievement than any other decision school districts make, and TalentEdge is designed to support the human resources, absence management, professional development and administration officials who facilitate the talent life cycle to empower K - 12 education.

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Even with 60 new schools, charters would make up a smaller proportion of all schools at CPS than they do at some other large urban districts — in New Orleans, for example, about 70 percent of schoolchildren attend charters.

In November, a quietly released study from Stanford University revealed that Chicago public school students, on average, learn more from third grade through eighth grade than in any other large or moderate - sized district in the country.

Late last year, Stanford released research which showed that elementary Chicago Public School students were achieving faster learning gains than almost any other large public school district in the country.

Proponents point to positive benchmarks: District enrollment is growing; D.C. scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) have improved (in some cases at a much faster rate than students in other large urban districts); and teachers who left the district after receiving low marks on D.C.'s new teacher evaluation system were replaced with higher - scoring teachers who boosted student achiDistrict enrollment is growing; D.C. scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) have improved (in some cases at a much faster rate than students in other large urban districts); and teachers who left the district after receiving low marks on D.C.'s new teacher evaluation system were replaced with higher - scoring teachers who boosted student achidistrict after receiving low marks on D.C.'s new teacher evaluation system were replaced with higher - scoring teachers who boosted student achievement.

State formulas send Highland Park ISD $ 769 per pupil even though the district has a large tax base, one of the lowest tax rates in the state and raises more local revenue than every other district in Dallas County.

Just like any large district, some teachers are further along the learning curve than others.

These roles may include, for example: team leader, who takes responsibility for team and student growth; reach teacher, who takes responsibility for larger - than - average student loads with the help of paraprofessionals; master educator, who develops and leads professional development and learning; peer evaluator, an accomplished educator who coaches other teachers, assesses teachers» effectiveness, and helps his or her colleagues improve their skills; and demonstration teacher, who models excellent teaching for teachers in training.11 According to the Aspen Institute and Leading Educators — a nonprofit organization that partners with schools and districts to promote teacher leadership — teacher leaders can model best practices, observe and coach other teachers, lead teacher teams, and participate in the selection and induction of new teachers.12

The researchers sought to determine if Edison students are making gains larger than expected or larger than the district or other relative comparison groups.

Golan has more than 25 years» experience leading, conducting, and managing quantitative and qualitative research and evaluation projects in large school districts and other multi-site contexts for federal, state, foundation, and commercial clients.

Two other large districts, Sacramento City Unified and Elk Grove Unified, reported rates higher than the state, with rates of nearly 41 percent and more than 39 percent, respectively.

When broken out by district, gaps in teachers» skill were much larger in some districts than in others, as the chart below illustrates.

In the five largest school districts other than Los Angeles, namely San Diego, San Francisco, Long Beach, Oakland and Fresno, researchers found that class size reduction raised the proportion of third graders who exceeded the national median by 10.5 percent in math, and 8.4 percent in reading, after controlling for all other factors.

The Big Island has more... MORE gay - owned inns and B&B s than any of the other islands, with particularly large concentrations near Hawaii Volcanoes NP and the nearby Puna District.

No other city in the world has such district like Chelsea, the largest and richest of the NYC's art districts with more than 200 galleries.