Sentences with phrase «leave a public school district»

The report asks, «If a significant number of students left a public school district for any reason from one year to the next, is it feasible for the district to reduce the costs of these items commensurate with the decrease in its student population?»

Students who leave a public school district to attend a charter school — an independent public school that operates free of district oversight — take with them a slice of state aid that would have gone to the local district.

Not exact matches

She contends that educational choice will create a «two - tiered system in urban districts, with charter schools for motivated students and public schools for those left behind.»

He responded well to criticisms of the law's meal standards, including allegedly increased plate waste (debunked by the Harvard School of Public Health) and tales of districts leaving the NSLP in droves (actually, only 59 out of 99,000 have left, according to Vilsack, and Dana Woldow has reported they often suffer financially as a result).

While thousands of students have left rural public districts, poverty rates in these schools have increased, according to the analysis by the New York State Association of School Business Officials.

The Buffalo Public School district has placed East High School Principal Casey Young on administrative leave.

More than 6 percent changed schools within their districts, another 5 percent switched from one district to another, and 7 percent left Texas public schools altogether.

Ethnic composition of the student body is also an important determinant both of the probability of leaving the public schools entirely and of switching from one school district to another.

CORE and its member districts have partnered with TransformEd to assist member districts to fulfill public reporting obligations under its federally - approved waiver from No Child Left Behind school accountability provisions (NCLB waiver), approved by the US Department of Education (USDOE) on August 6th, 2013.

«In the K - 12 public arena, school districts are expected to respond to mandates flowing from the No Child Left Behind legislation at the federal level, along with various state and local assessments,» he says.

In Garcia v. Board of Education of Albuquerque Public Schools (2008), Gorsuch upheld an earlier ruling that a student plaintiff was not entitled to compensatory educational services despite the district's failure to provide an individualized education program (IEP) after the student left school and evidenced no willingness to return.

To be sure, there are often good reasons to place children out of district at public expense — no district can serve all students equally well — but neither are there always clear and obvious distinctions to be made between who can be educated in a regular school, those who need alternative settings and those like Adrian who run afoul of the rules so frequently, or who are penalized so often and systematically, that they simply give up and leave.

A new study, appearing in Education Next, shows that in the 34 districts under federal desegregation orders, including the 24 districts specifically named in the DOJ lawsuit, LSP transfers actually improve integration in both the public schools students leave and the private schools in which they enroll.

The authors examine four common practices that allow public funds to flow to schools for students who have left the district.

Public school districts are thus left better off both academically and with respect to per - pupil funding.

Michelle A. Rhee, left, the chancellor of the District of Columbia's public schools, talks to angry parents last week after a meeting to gather community reaction to a plan for closing some schools.

The federal No Child Left Behind Act, which President George W. Bush signed into law last year, represented a victory for the advocates of public school choice: the law rejected funding for private school vouchers, but did mandate that districts allow children in persistently failing schools to transfer to public schools that perform better.

In one public school, six black students left using LSP vouchers, thereby «reinforcing the school's racial identity as a white school in a predominantly black school district.»

With more U.S. public schools entering the restructuring phase under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, experts convened here last week agreed that the remedies for schools and districts that don't meet their achievement targets have so far had more bark than bite.

Howard Fuller with Bob Peterkin (left), the outgoing superintendent of the Milwaukee Public Schools, on the night in 1991 that Fuller was named the district's new superintendent

IMPACT, the controversial teacher - evaluation system recently introduced in the District of Columbia Public Schools, appears to have caused hundreds of teachers in the district to improve their performance markedly while also encouraging some low - performing teachers to voluntarily leave the district's classrooms, according to a new study from the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education and the Stanford Graduate School of EdDistrict of Columbia Public Schools, appears to have caused hundreds of teachers in the district to improve their performance markedly while also encouraging some low - performing teachers to voluntarily leave the district's classrooms, according to a new study from the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education and the Stanford Graduate School of Eddistrict to improve their performance markedly while also encouraging some low - performing teachers to voluntarily leave the district's classrooms, according to a new study from the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education and the Stanford Graduate School of Eddistrict's classrooms, according to a new study from the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education and the Stanford Graduate School of Education.

And when charters don't enroll high - cost special ed kids and suspend the kids that they don't want, district schools are left with a more challenging task because we do have to give them a public education, a free and appropriate education.

Like many school districts across the country, D.C. Public Schools leaves the decision on whether to include cursive as part of the curriculum up to individual principals and teachers.

Public school districts similarly offer choice and magnet programs that entice students to leave zoned schools, which theoretically «hurts» the zoned schools in the same way as you suggest vouchers do.

Lastly, the National Education Association points out that moving students from public to private schools harms school districts because they can not reduce their fixed facilities and transportation costs in proportion to the number of students who leave.

the graduation rate cohort for each public school district shall consist of those students who first enrolled in grade 9 anywhere three school years previously or, if an ungraded student with a disability, first attained the age of 17 three school years previously, and who have spent at least five consecutive months, not including July and August, in the district since first entering grade 9 and whose last enrollment in the district did not end because of transfer to another district, death, court - ordered transfer, or leaving the United States.

What has happened in Gadsden shows how the push to rank schools based on measures like graduation rates — codified by the No Child Left Behind Act and still very much a fact of life in American public education — has transformed the country's approach to secondary education, as scores of districts have outsourced core instruction to computers and downgraded the role of the traditional teacher.

An article in the Oct. 25, 2006, issue of Education Week on charter schools in the District of Columbia («At Age 10, Booming D.C. Charters Feel «Growing Pains»») should have said that 118 out of 146 regular public schools in the city did not make adequate yearly progress under the No Child Left Behind Act for last school year.

The chief financial officer for New Haven Public Schools is leaving the district for Achievement First.

The speech was Vargas» first State of Our Schools speech since taking over when Jean - Claude Brizard left the district to run Chicago Public Schools last year.

Any direct or indirect erosion of Impact Aid through a voucher program will reduce the Impact Aid funding currently going to these districts, and would also place a great financial burden on the local community, which would be left to fund public schools with an already low level of state and local tax revenue.

By 1969, more than 200 private segregation academies were set up in states across the South.38 Seven of those states — Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana — maintained tuition grant programs that offered vouchers to students in an effort to incentivize white students to leave desegregated public school districts.39 Between the 1969 - 70 and the 1970 - 71 school years, Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi saw tens of thousands of students flee to newly opened segregation academies.40 In a single school year, Mississippi led the trio with almost 41,000 students having left the state's public schools.

Indianapolis Public Schools has set a Thursday deadline for applications to the district's magnet schools, and until now, a lack of details about academic and extracurricular offerings at the four schools subject to takeover has left families inSchools has set a Thursday deadline for applications to the district's magnet schools, and until now, a lack of details about academic and extracurricular offerings at the four schools subject to takeover has left families inschools, and until now, a lack of details about academic and extracurricular offerings at the four schools subject to takeover has left families inschools subject to takeover has left families in limbo.

Charters can make a school district more attractive, bringing families who left for private schools or home schooling back into public schools.

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Ms. Anderson had argued that One Newark would offer more parents the opportunity to opt out of failing schools, and that by improving the smaller number of public schools that remained, it would ultimately help retain the families that might otherwise leave the district for charter schools.

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It would be as if those who always thought the district was too large to be manageable suddenly got their wish, leaving half the students in traditional public schools and the other half to wherever their parents could find new slots to enroll them.

Some of this revenue comes from fee - for - service after - school programs.34 * Meanwhile, in the district's highest - poverty schools — mostly located in Southeast Washington — schools had to pay for some of these same programs with public dollars, leaving less funding for other resources, staffing, or education or enrichment activities.

In some districts, this exclusivity, combined with aggressive expansion, is leaving vulnerable children in traditional public schools with inadequate resources.»

In the Tigard - Tualatin School District (TTSD), it's about «never giving up; nothing matters as much as teaching every child to read at grade level,» said former district superintendent Rob Saxton, newly appointed in September 2012 as Oregon's first Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction.1 TTSD's mission to educate every child is operationalized through a collective commitment to focused work; continuous improvement and refinement in instructional practice on a district - wide basis; and a pervasive attitude on the part of district and school personnel to ensure that all students leave TTSD able to be highly successful aSchool District (TTSD), it's about «never giving up; nothing matters as much as teaching every child to read at grade level,» said former district superintendent Rob Saxton, newly appointed in September 2012 as Oregon's first Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction.1 TTSD's mission to educate every child is operationalized through a collective commitment to focused work; continuous improvement and refinement in instructional practice on a district - wide basis; and a pervasive attitude on the part of district and school personnel to ensure that all students leave TTSD able to be highly successfulDistrict (TTSD), it's about «never giving up; nothing matters as much as teaching every child to read at grade level,» said former district superintendent Rob Saxton, newly appointed in September 2012 as Oregon's first Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction.1 TTSD's mission to educate every child is operationalized through a collective commitment to focused work; continuous improvement and refinement in instructional practice on a district - wide basis; and a pervasive attitude on the part of district and school personnel to ensure that all students leave TTSD able to be highly successfuldistrict superintendent Rob Saxton, newly appointed in September 2012 as Oregon's first Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction.1 TTSD's mission to educate every child is operationalized through a collective commitment to focused work; continuous improvement and refinement in instructional practice on a district - wide basis; and a pervasive attitude on the part of district and school personnel to ensure that all students leave TTSD able to be highly successfuldistrict - wide basis; and a pervasive attitude on the part of district and school personnel to ensure that all students leave TTSD able to be highly successfuldistrict and school personnel to ensure that all students leave TTSD able to be highly successful aschool personnel to ensure that all students leave TTSD able to be highly successful adults.

Private School Participants in Programs under the No Child Left Behind Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act: Private School and Public School District Perspectives (2007) describes participation of private school participants in federal education programs, the consultation process between private schools and public school districts, and public school district allocation of federal funds for services for private school particiSchool Participants in Programs under the No Child Left Behind Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act: Private School and Public School District Perspectives (2007) describes participation of private school participants in federal education programs, the consultation process between private schools and public school districts, and public school district allocation of federal funds for services for private school particiSchool and Public School District Perspectives (2007) describes participation of private school participants in federal education programs, the consultation process between private schools and public school districts, and public school district allocation of federal funds for services for private school particiPublic School District Perspectives (2007) describes participation of private school participants in federal education programs, the consultation process between private schools and public school districts, and public school district allocation of federal funds for services for private school particiSchool District Perspectives (2007) describes participation of private school participants in federal education programs, the consultation process between private schools and public school districts, and public school district allocation of federal funds for services for private school partiDistrict Perspectives (2007) describes participation of private school participants in federal education programs, the consultation process between private schools and public school districts, and public school district allocation of federal funds for services for private school particischool participants in federal education programs, the consultation process between private schools and public school districts, and public school district allocation of federal funds for services for private school participublic school districts, and public school district allocation of federal funds for services for private school particischool districts, and public school district allocation of federal funds for services for private school participublic school district allocation of federal funds for services for private school particischool district allocation of federal funds for services for private school partidistrict allocation of federal funds for services for private school particischool participants.

The worst fear of those of us who opposed the measure — that Question 2 would dismantle public education, district by district, and leave charter schools free from accountability to the communities in which they reside — will not come to pass.

Even in average districts, if just 30 students leave with vouchers, the ramifications for the public schools could be significant.

In December 2013, a shooting at Arapahoe High School, which is located in the Littleton Public Schools district, left one student dead.

Rossmiller said he could see DeVos changing the rules for federal money sent to public school districts for students living in poverty to allowing that money to follow the student if they leave a public school and enroll in a private school — a hallmark of Trump's education agenda.

In august, with only three weeks left before school doors opened, the Atlanta Public Schools and its surrounding suburban districts were looking to hire about 1,400 teachers.

Here are some of the most common reasons teachers throughout Metro Milwaukee cited for leaving their posts, according to a survey of human resource officers at school districts in the Public Policy Forum study:

Carranza announced earlier this month is leaving the district to become chancellor of New York City Schools, the largest public school system in the United States.

The D.C. Policy Center has already published over 60 studies on the District's economy and demography and provided strong evidence to develop a wide range of public policies, including proposals on paid family leave, tax reform, and out - of - school time programs.