Sentences with phrase «local district»

When respondents are given the state and national ranking of local district schools, charter support shifts upward to 56 percent and 58 percent, respectively (see Figure 3).

Why should learning about a local district ranking sharply increase support for universal vouchers but have the opposite impact on targeted vouchers?

While information about local district rankings shifts evaluations of local schools downward, it has little impact on assessments of the nation's schools.

Information Fuels Support for School Reform Facts about local district performance alter public thinking By Michael B. Henderson, William G. Howell and Paul E. Peterson

In both cases, she said, the local district raised objections to student records just before the deadline for closing out monthly payments, making it impossible for the charter school to gather the supporting documentation in time for payment.

Without question, some elements of teacher governance remain the purview of the local district and teachers union.

It comes as no surprise, then, that their perceptions of schools across the country remain unmoved when they receive information on their local district's ranking.

Nearly four in five uninformed Americans support this requirement, and information about local district ranking does not reduce support for this sort of high - stakes testing in either above - average or below - average districts.

The scaling of high - performing CMOs provides one of the highest levels of return and leverage for philanthropic funds, particularly when you consider that CMOs tend to deliver much higher student achievement than the local district; these schools will continue to serve students in a high - quality way over time; and there are few investments in K — 12 that have consistently yielded this level of performance.

New York State law says that a local district may impose a «contingency» budget — allowing an increase commensurate with the previous year's Consumer Price Index (CPI)-- without voter approval; rather, if the board of ed proposes a contingency budget (which we have) and the voters reject it, the board has the power to simply impose it.

Sixty - three percent of the general public says it prefers an increase in school expenditures in the local district, well up from levels in 2007 when only 51 percent of the public called for expenditure increases.

But then again, why would the NPR blogger paraphrase the president of a local district's teachers union who asserts that, despite low test scores, «their parents are happy» and then not ask parents like Salvador Ramirez and Jennifer Perez who have very publicly expressed their unhappiness with that district in their local paper of record?

And though charters have taken to putting a good face on things by comparing themselves to their local district schools, which is fair, the truth about quality is uncomfortable.

Decisions are managed at the local district level.»

By capping the number of charter schools statewide, limiting the annual growth in the number of schools per district, and providing for input from the local district before approval of charter applications, North Carolina has exercised more control over the establishment of charter schools than some states.

7) Reasonable funding levels based on the needs of particular student enrollments and other factors outside of district control, but also discretion by local district taxpayers to augment the funding of their schools.

Nevertheless, the North Carolina legislation is quite permissive in that it allows any individual or group to apply for a charter and does not require local district approval of a charter application.

The return of many white, upper - middle - class, educated parents — and their young children — to city centers has caused some urban districts, like those in Philadelphia, Chicago, and Boston, to actively encourage these families to send their children to local district schools.

The major planks of Klein's reforms are well known: breaking much of the old local district bureaucracy, empowering principals and creating a new principal training center, issuing report cards for schools, delivering autonomy and innovation zones for experimental schools, and keeping more of the city's problematic teachers out of its schools.

Mr. Fernandez had attempted to block the assignment of the principals because of allegations that the local district board's selection process had been tainted with political corruption and anti-Semitism.

Those levels do not change significantly when respondents are told the national ranking of their local district.

That is the secret to the success of Florida Virtual School, a state - run high school that offers alternatives to local district courses that any student in the Florida may take.

Another 20 percent are performing about the same as the local district, and the remaining CMOs are underperforming their districts.

If they take the course online, the state money goes to the virtual provider; otherwise, it goes to the local district.

Specifically, our analytical approach is to use statewide assessments to compare student performance in our CMOs» schools to that of students in the local district and state.

The high court upheld the state school board's ultimate authority to overrule a local district's rejection of a charter application, saying the provision in the state's charter law did not violate the state constitution.

They learn the expectations of a local district's science curriculum and not only show the ability to assess 6th grade science projects using the district's rubric, but also plan the next steps in designing instruction to meet the students» needs.

Analysis of the new survey data show that when the public is armed with information about the local district's national ranking, the share assigning an «A» or «B» grade to the local schools falls by 11 percentage points.

This may be popular with teacher unions and local district officials in Texas, but the general public nationwide may think otherwise.

-- the percentage of those giving the schools an «A» or a «B» on the traditional A to F grading scale drops 11 percentage points, from 49 % to 38 %; — support for a proposal to make vouchers available to all families regardless of income jumps 13 percentage points, increasing from 43 % to 56 %, while opposition to the proposal declines from 37 % to 25 %; — support for charter schools shifts upward from 51 % to 58 % when respondents learn the national rank of the local district, while opposition to charters declines from 26 % to 23 %; — opposition to teacher tenure climbs 8 percentage points, from 47 % to 55 %, while support for tenure drops 8 points to 25 %.

It showed that among the 16 states studied, there was wide variation in charter quality, and that while lots of charters were doing well, lots were doing worse than local district schools.

(This follows the basic design in Florida, where students can chose between courses offered at their local district school or courses offered by a statewide school, Florida Virtual School.)

According to Carla Smith, her high school has produced three elementary school teachers and one para-educator in the last decade, all of whom work in Renton schools, which represents a meaningful contribution to the local district.

In 1949, he took charge of the newly created National Citizens Commission for the Public Schools, which, by the end of the 1950s, helped spur the creation of more than 15,000 citizen groups focused on working with local district officials to improve local school problems.

You see, New York State law says that a local district may impose a «contingency» budget — allowing an increase no higher than the previous year's Consumer Price Index (CPI)-- without voter approval.

And he said it's just not politically possible in most cities — absent a forcing event like in New Orleans — to override community attachments to the local district.

The latest outcry involves a lawsuit by the local district attorney charging that the school board violated Louisiana's open - meetings law late last year when it approved a $ 210,000 settlement with Mr. Holmes.

«Interstellar» actress Jessica Chastain plays his wife, Anna, and the film co-stars David Oyelowo of «Selma» as the local district attorney as well as actors Albert Brooks of «Drive,» «American Hustle» actor Alessandro Nivola, and Catalina Sandino Moreno of «The Bridge.»

Inquire with your local district officials for further instructions.»

Antonelli, while having a heart of gold, can't quite shake his Mafioso past (he gets himself entangled in various con games to the chagrin of the local district attorney, played by the always hilarious Joan Cusack).

The Japanese are universally saintly, the local district attorney and mother of the murdered man are spawn of the devil.

Residents of Koome Island in Uganda have cause to smile after Makerere University Walter Reed Project (MUWRP), supported by the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, handed over a newly refurbished health centre to the local district authorities.

If you can't visit a hospital that is actually advertising posts, then go and visit your local district general hospital (DGH); it will more than welcoming.

«As I'm sure you are aware, the local district attorney would have a conflict of interest in this matter, involving as it does the leadership of his own party,» Smyth wrote in an Oct. 24 letter, referring to Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel Abelove.

Local district leader Cordell Cleare, a longtime Perkins aide, also filed petitions to run for the seat, which Holland's attorney has also challenged.

«There are people, whatever the prior administration may be, who sometimes vote, they may vote for Hillary [Clinton] for president but maybe locally, they voted for a Republican in their local district, for Assembly or county executive or something like that in this election last week, they voted Democrat for those local races.»

They include a variety of topics including campaign finance reform, public financing of campaigns, and empowering local district attorneys to prosecute corruption and ethics noncompliance.

Despite other lawmakers at the press conference like Ms. James criticizing local district attorneys for protecting their political «turf» at the expense of justice, Mr. Schneiderman repeatedly insisted his proposal is not «anti-D.A.» or «anti-NYPD.»

It will have a special prosecutor, subpoena power and the authority to convene grand juries; it can also assist local district attorneys.

The Legislature, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics and local district attorneys want no part of it, leaving the matter in the hands of the stern and competent U.S. Attorney's office.