Sentences with phrase «largest school systems use»

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A large portion of schools throughout the state use a computerized testing system - ImPACT - to set a baseline for concussion recovery.

In his first budget address to the legislature, Murphy said he would use the extra revenue to ramp up state aid for school districts, increase funding for the beleaguered NJ Transit and a make a larger payment into the cash - strapped public worker pension system.

A recent study from the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital done in conjunction with researchers from Colorado School of Public Health at the University at Colorado and Temple University used data from a large, national sports injury surveillance system to determine the effect of state - level TBI laws on trends of new and recurrent concussions among US high school athSchool of Public Health at the University at Colorado and Temple University used data from a large, national sports injury surveillance system to determine the effect of state - level TBI laws on trends of new and recurrent concussions among US high school athschool athletes.

New York City, with the nation's largest public school system, is also using incentives for educators, mostly in the form of bonuses for principals and teachers.

For example, a simple, streamlined process that allows families to choose any school in a large urban district — and uses a fair method for allocating spaces at oversubscribed schools — could be a way to weaken the link between residential and school segregation that has plagued our school system since the end of legally mandated segregation more than 50 years ago.

The larger software use not free, but if your school is looking for a new comprehensive data system, it comes highly recommended.

Now, as he assumes the role of chief academic officer of the nation's largest school system, Polakow - Suransky, who very few people, including educators, have heard of, will have to get used to being on a brightly - lit stage in the klieg - light capital of the world; just as private industry CEO Cathie Black travels from the well - insulated corporate board room to the decidedly raucous arena of a sprawling public school system.

In the most regulated environment, larger participants — those schools with 40 or more students funded through vouchers in testing grades, or with an average of 10 or more students per grade across all grade levels — receive a rating through a formula identical to the school performance score system used by the state to gauge public school performance, inclusive of test score performance, graduation rates, and other outcome metrics.

Jake Greenwood, School Business manager at large, Birmingham based secondary school, Four Dwellings Academy which has been using the system for 18 months said, «BookingsPlus is simple, effective and easy to use, and has streamlined our end to end bookings prSchool Business manager at large, Birmingham based secondary school, Four Dwellings Academy which has been using the system for 18 months said, «BookingsPlus is simple, effective and easy to use, and has streamlined our end to end bookings prschool, Four Dwellings Academy which has been using the system for 18 months said, «BookingsPlus is simple, effective and easy to use, and has streamlined our end to end bookings process.

The Council of the Great City Schools, a membership group representing nearly 60 of the nation's large urban school systems, pushed for the money to use the National Assessment of Educational Progress to compare results from city to city on a trial basis.

The researchers» approach to measuring the causal effect of competition between private and state schools uses the fact that the amount of competition in education today has in large part been influenced by the Catholic church's efforts in the nineteenth century to construct an alternative school system wherever the state religion was not Catholic.

Marshall - Tufflex's Sterling Profile 1 dado system has been used extensively in the expansion of Gascoigne Primary School, Barking, Essex, the largest primary school in tSchool, Barking, Essex, the largest primary school in tschool in the UK.

Study: Broader Data Use Could Improve Parent Involvement Education Week, May 30, 2013» «Unfortunately, because of a general lack of expertise in using data to guide strategy, sensitivity to releasing performance data publicly, and the political unpopularity of using scarce resources on analysis and [information technology] systems, relatively few large agencies have fully tapped the power of the data they have to better manage the performance of their schools,» says Jon Fullerton, the executive director of Harvard University's Center for Education Policy Research.»

As we are not defining these concepts using the familiar school institutions, the boundaries of this wider meta level may or may coincide with what might be called the «school system» (which itself is not precise as it may refer to, say, a state system or to something larger like a national system).

By the early 20th century the United States began to endow a large fraction of its youth with skills in formal, school - based, academic settings, using a system termed here the U.S. template.

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.

The large sums of money used to try and raise test scores only pushes kids away from school and causes stagnation of our educational system.

He added that potential developers have been put off from creating applications that can be used in schools because of the large costs associated with making them work on different systems.

There were about 400 test titles being used in the nation's largest urban school systems in the 2014 - 15 school year, and students sat over 6,500 times for tests across the 66 school systems studied, the research found.

A large number of school choice systems use merit - based assignment mechanisms in which students have incomplete information and constraints on the number of choices they can list.

«if educational responsibility remains solely on the immediate family, «choice» may take place in a world of insufficient numbers of quality schools, inadequate information about the stakes and alternatives, and large numbers of people unable to use the choice system effectively.

At NYCDOE, he led the development and implementation of an online platform that uses complex algorithms to manage PK - 12 admissions for the largest school system in the country, including the city's first online application for elementary school programs.

«We don't know a whole lot about kids using vouchers to attend schools that have been assigned grades in large part because a lot of the schools that offer vouchers do not have an A-F accountability system in place,» says Indiana University researcher Ashlyn Nelson.

Set for large - scale use during the 2014 — 2015 school year, the DLM alternate assessment system will let students with significant cognitive disabilities show what they know in ways that traditional multiple - choice tests can not and is designed to more validly measure what students with significant cognitive disabilities know and can do.

Officials at the National Education Association, the nation's largest labor union, said they're glad to see absenteeism in rating systems, as long as those systems are used to help identify schools for extra support and not to punish them.

In the Rosemount - Apple Valley - Eagan school district, the largest in the state to use Q - Comp last year, teachers voted overwhelmingly in November to continue the system, said Jim Smola, president of the district's teachers union.

«Gov. Larry Hogan has decided to take $ 68 million that lawmakers set aside for schools and use it to shore up the state's pension system instead — disappointing school officials in Baltimore and other large districts around the state.»

Ten urban districts in California — including the Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation's second largest — collectively called CORE (California Office to Reform Education) districts, have designed a system to make schools answerable for improving students» social and emotional skills by using data from student, parent, and teacher surveys, among other factors, to assess whether students are improving in these areas.

New York City's decision to fill staffing vacancies using the city's Absent Teacher Reserve (ATR) moves our nation's largest school system further from this goal.

Golan has also led work in Miami - Dade, the fifth - largest district in the country; there, she co-led an evaluation of an early childhood system that used case studies school and agency data.

With these new customer adoptions, the SafeSchools Online Staff Training System is now being used by 40 of the 100 largest school districts in the nation, including Austin Independent School District in Texas, Guilford County Schools in North Carolina, and Prince George's County Public Schools in Marschool districts in the nation, including Austin Independent School District in Texas, Guilford County Schools in North Carolina, and Prince George's County Public Schools in MarSchool District in Texas, Guilford County Schools in North Carolina, and Prince George's County Public Schools in Maryland.

• a new district facility plan for the Hickman County School District • district facility plan amendments for Christian, Clark and McCracken County School Districts • 2013 - 14 Local District Tax Rates Levied • a waiver of 702 KAR 5:060, Section 6 (2) from the Fort Thomas Independent School District • site approval for the proposed new high school, Floyd County • school district indirect cost rates for fiscal year 2014 - 15 • the appointments to the Kentucky School for the Deaf Advisory Board of Christina Nymo - Yance, Debbie Haydon, Jennifer Harris, Sharon White, Michelle Gadberry, and Mike Lafavers • the appointment of former Graves County Superintendent Pete Galloway to fill an at - large seat on the Kentucky High School Athletic Association (KHSAA) Board of Control • proposed amendments to the KHSAA Bylaws • a request from Kenton County to use an alternative effectiveness and evaluation School District • district facility plan amendments for Christian, Clark and McCracken County School Districts • 2013 - 14 Local District Tax Rates Levied • a waiver of 702 KAR 5:060, Section 6 (2) from the Fort Thomas Independent School District • site approval for the proposed new high school, Floyd County • school district indirect cost rates for fiscal year 2014 - 15 • the appointments to the Kentucky School for the Deaf Advisory Board of Christina Nymo - Yance, Debbie Haydon, Jennifer Harris, Sharon White, Michelle Gadberry, and Mike Lafavers • the appointment of former Graves County Superintendent Pete Galloway to fill an at - large seat on the Kentucky High School Athletic Association (KHSAA) Board of Control • proposed amendments to the KHSAA Bylaws • a request from Kenton County to use an alternative effectiveness and evaluation School Districts • 2013 - 14 Local District Tax Rates Levied • a waiver of 702 KAR 5:060, Section 6 (2) from the Fort Thomas Independent School District • site approval for the proposed new high school, Floyd County • school district indirect cost rates for fiscal year 2014 - 15 • the appointments to the Kentucky School for the Deaf Advisory Board of Christina Nymo - Yance, Debbie Haydon, Jennifer Harris, Sharon White, Michelle Gadberry, and Mike Lafavers • the appointment of former Graves County Superintendent Pete Galloway to fill an at - large seat on the Kentucky High School Athletic Association (KHSAA) Board of Control • proposed amendments to the KHSAA Bylaws • a request from Kenton County to use an alternative effectiveness and evaluation School District • site approval for the proposed new high school, Floyd County • school district indirect cost rates for fiscal year 2014 - 15 • the appointments to the Kentucky School for the Deaf Advisory Board of Christina Nymo - Yance, Debbie Haydon, Jennifer Harris, Sharon White, Michelle Gadberry, and Mike Lafavers • the appointment of former Graves County Superintendent Pete Galloway to fill an at - large seat on the Kentucky High School Athletic Association (KHSAA) Board of Control • proposed amendments to the KHSAA Bylaws • a request from Kenton County to use an alternative effectiveness and evaluation school, Floyd County • school district indirect cost rates for fiscal year 2014 - 15 • the appointments to the Kentucky School for the Deaf Advisory Board of Christina Nymo - Yance, Debbie Haydon, Jennifer Harris, Sharon White, Michelle Gadberry, and Mike Lafavers • the appointment of former Graves County Superintendent Pete Galloway to fill an at - large seat on the Kentucky High School Athletic Association (KHSAA) Board of Control • proposed amendments to the KHSAA Bylaws • a request from Kenton County to use an alternative effectiveness and evaluation school district indirect cost rates for fiscal year 2014 - 15 • the appointments to the Kentucky School for the Deaf Advisory Board of Christina Nymo - Yance, Debbie Haydon, Jennifer Harris, Sharon White, Michelle Gadberry, and Mike Lafavers • the appointment of former Graves County Superintendent Pete Galloway to fill an at - large seat on the Kentucky High School Athletic Association (KHSAA) Board of Control • proposed amendments to the KHSAA Bylaws • a request from Kenton County to use an alternative effectiveness and evaluation School for the Deaf Advisory Board of Christina Nymo - Yance, Debbie Haydon, Jennifer Harris, Sharon White, Michelle Gadberry, and Mike Lafavers • the appointment of former Graves County Superintendent Pete Galloway to fill an at - large seat on the Kentucky High School Athletic Association (KHSAA) Board of Control • proposed amendments to the KHSAA Bylaws • a request from Kenton County to use an alternative effectiveness and evaluation School Athletic Association (KHSAA) Board of Control • proposed amendments to the KHSAA Bylaws • a request from Kenton County to use an alternative effectiveness and evaluation system

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The market is much more diverse, more centered (most items are bought for K - 12 educational uses), much larger in sales than the library market, and the K - 12 publishers aren't the Big Six but rather smaller independent firms that work far closer with the school systems to survive.

We've seen individual schools such as Brighton Grammar and large consortias such as Brisbane Catholic Education and the Diocese of Wollongong embracing the digital age with the use of both systems,» said Mr Hillary Noye, Director of Business Development Asia Pacific.