Sentences with phrase «left district high»

New records obtained by Voice of San Diego quantify for the first time how many struggling students in the class of 2016 left district high schools and how many of them were not on track to graduate.

Ingram left her district high school after a series of moves and difficulty transferring credits.

In response to the data recently released by the district, Evans acknowledged that low - performing students are leaving district high schools, but said high - performing students transfer to charter schools, too.

Not exact matches

Several parents accused the district of failing to learn any lessons from the 1999 mass shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado that left 13 people dead.

He left Cherokee High School in North Carolina with the best rebound record in the state, both All - District and All - State, and was named his school's Academic Athlete of the Year.

An engineering firm has been hired with the few dollars left in the district's Capital Improvement Fund to pinpoint a cost for parking lot repairs and other high priority projects.

Proponents of this approach note that Massachusetts, which has the highest student scores in the nation, leaves to local districts the decision on how much weight to give test scores.

The state's highest court on Tuesday disqualified Democratic state Senate candidate Steven Glickman from the race for the 55th district, leaving Republican incumbent Rich Funke unopposed.

But Belling, forced to leave the Erie County district attorney's office at the end of last year, may be best known for two high - profile cases: the acquittal on the most serious charges against Dr. James G. Corasanti and the murder conviction (later resulting in a manslaughter plea) of Jeffrey J. Basil.

Many of Teachout's donations came from outside of the district and outside New York based on her high profile among the progressive left, Faso said, rather than any real connection with Hudson Valley residents.

And because the district does not always enforce its academic eligibility rules, some talented athletes leave high school lacking the skills they need to ge...

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

UFT Queens High School District Representative James Vasquez (back row, left) and members prepare to board the bus to Albany for UFT Lobby Day on March 9.

There has also been buzz that many teachers were waiting for the settlement of the new contract to retire, which could fuel an unusually high number of employees leaving the district.

«In other school districts, we usually observe negative effects when high - performing teachers leave,» Dee said.

Districts need to consider policies that better retain early career teachers who have a higher probability of leaving, especially early career teachers who are already highly effective.

The average job switcher moving from one district to another moved to a district whose average achievement was 0.07 standard deviations higher on the TAAS than the district the teacher left.

Graduates of the Los Angeles Unified School District will leave high school equipped with a «skills warranty» as well as a diploma, beginning in 1994, district officials announced laDistrict will leave high school equipped with a «skills warranty» as well as a diploma, beginning in 1994, district officials announced ladistrict officials announced last week.

The results indicate that higher salaries significantly reduce the probability that male teachers will leave a district.

That being said, if I do my job well, my hope is that I can leave DCPS as a district where students are achieving at high levels no matter their backgrounds, families are choosing DCPS schools because of the world - class education we provide, and parents and community members feel like they've contributed to DCPS» amazing successes.

A shooting rampage by two students at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999 that left 11 students and two staff members dead spurred administrators in the Branson, Missouri, school district to re-examine their security policy, and staff and student ID badges became part of the new plan.

KIPP schools replace fewer of these students in the last two years of middle school, however, and, compared to district schools, KIPP schools tend to replace those who leave with higher - achieving students.

No Child Left Behind is important in the efforts to continue this progress, and urban districts must continue effective practices that have brought about promising results: high standards, strong and stable leadership, better teaching, more instructional time, regular assessments, stronger accountability, extra resources, and efficient operations.

Concerned that high - stakes testing was narrowing student assessment down to a few scores, teachers and administrators in one Illinois district developed a system to assess a range of skills — including critical thinking and social - emotional skills — they wanted students to master by the time they left school.

Virginia, too, especially in its rural districts, is seeing some teachers leave the state for higher salaries.

The authors stated that they were unable to come up with particular ways in which school districts could spend money to improve the average verbal ability of their teachers (though other researchers such as Ferguson and Manski have suggested that higher teacher salaries might do so), so they left out possible ways that money might be spent to raise verbal ability.

Instead, he recommended new state interventions in 98 districts that were failing to meet the standards of the federal No Child Left Behind law; waivers from state rules and regulations for high - performing districts; and an improved data system to guide state and local decisionmaking in the future.

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.

For a high - poverty urban district like LAUSD, where declining birth rates, reduced immigration, gentrification and the expansion of charters have left neighborhood schools scrambling for resources, education researchers believe that community schooling offers the first meaningful bang for its buck in delivering equity for its highest - needs students.

A former Oakland high school math teacher, Lakshminarayanan left classroom teaching two years ago to become a coach, and the district provided a week of training in the summer, plus ongoing training every other month.

In fact, states and districts could provide a host of additional resources to the high - poverty schools and leave the staffing distribution as is.

More recently, No Child Left Behind forced schools and districts to start paying attention to high school graduation rates.

As the first large urban school district to introduce a comprehensive accountability system, Chicago provides an exceptional case study of the effects of high - stakes testing - a reform strategy that will become omnipresent as the No Child Left Behind Act is implemented nationwide.

If parents decide to leave the district, taking their children and their funding with them, the costs can be much higher than the benefits.

• A substantial share of the ineffective principals in high - poverty schools tends to move on to take principal positions in other schools and districts, rather than leave the profession.

The graduation rate is included in calculations by the federal government to determine if a high school, district or the state clears the performance hurdle set under the No Child Left Behind law, the sweeping education reform that imposes increasingly severe penalties for coming up short.

Meanwhile, declines have continued in the highest - need fields, and the highest - need districts are staffing classrooms with underprepared teachers who often struggle in the classroom, and typically leave teaching at twice the rate of those with preparation.

Lauren Petry, left, and Imani Williams from Bishop O'Dowd High School volunteered to read to children during a summer program that is part of the Hayward Unified School District's transition to a «community schools» approach.

The lowest dropout rate reported by OSPI was in the Darrington School District, where only 1.5 percent of students left high school before graduation.

In cities including Denver, New York City and Washington, D.C., black children are more likely to leave their own neighborhood in search of a high - quality school, according to the study, which examined urban school districts that operate school choice programs.

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.

Districts work to ensure that many high - quality choices are available, and continually seek to improve schools so that no students are left in low - quality options.

In many urban districts, more than half of teachers leave within five years, the research shows, and they abandon charter school posts at especially high rates, a significant problem given the growing presence of charters in many metropolitan areas.

Similarly, teachers who do not receive mentoring and support in their first years leave teaching at much higher rates than those whose school or district provides such support.

Turnover is higher in districts that meet shortages by hiring teachers who have not completed an adequate preparation, as novices without training leave after their first year at more than twice the rate of those who have had student teaching and rigorous preparation.

After the district previously did away with two different school day end times for grades K - 2 and 3 - 5, we expanded the elementary school day from 6 to 6.5 hours, leaving the re-working of the high school schedule to a later time.

«Eli Broad realized that his plan to dismantle the district, stifle democratic decision - making, and create an unregulated system that leaves high - needs students behind and doesn't guarantee parent involvement — he realized his plan isn't what the people of Los Angeles want.

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

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Opposite page at top, students from Lyford CISD's «Tech Squad» demonstrate green - screen technology during a media interview; opposite page at bottom, students from various school districts show school board members ways to integrate technology into learning; above, members of the Student Voices panel smile for the camera before panel discussion gets under way; at left, Ketu - ra Dobo, a student at Alvin ISD's Manvel High School, shares her views during a session; below, Student Voices panel moderator Andrew Brennan addresses the General Session audience.