Sentences with phrase «local district rankings»

We expect new information about local district rankings across the state and nation to alter public opinion in four domains.

Information about local district rankings increases public support for school choice programs, including charter schools, parent trigger mechanisms, and, especially, school vouchers for all students.

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

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.

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

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During the nearly 40 - minute discussion, Senator Liz Krueger, the ranking Democrat on the committee, argued that district attorneys» interaction with local police departments may hinder the objectivity of certain cases.

When Williamsville in September ended class rank for entering freshman, and for all following classes, it was the first local district known to take this step, according to the Erie County Association of School Boards.

In terms of available park space, city officials rank Jackson Heights 50th out of 51 community districts, which means local children have little open space to play in the neighborhood.

In Manhattan, Inez Dickens» District 9 received the most money, ranking sixth city - wide, with more than $ 940,000 for local groups.

Many top - ranking local Republicans lined up behind Lavine early, including Dadey, New York GOP Chairman Ed Cox, state Sen. John DeFrancisco, Onondaga County District Attorney Bill Fitzpatrick and Onondaga County Comptroller Bob Antonacci.

The table reveals significant local heterogeneity not just in disadvantage, but also in how school districts exercise the discretion they have under the current ranking and serving rules.

-- 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 %.

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.

«But when told that their local school district ranks below what they had previously assumed, many rethink their ideas about the quality of local schools and the steps needed to improve them.»

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

The researchers told one randomly chosen group of respondents the national ranking of their local school district, while providing no such information to another randomly chosen group.

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.

If CCSS were to enhance public knowledge of the performance of local schools as compared to schools elsewhere in the state and nation, the impact on the school reform debate could be substantial, especially (but not exclusively) in those districts that are ranked below average nationally.

Those giving local schools one of the two highest grades stands at 49 percent among the uninformed but just 41 percent among those told their own district's ranking relative to other districts across the state (see Figure 1).

But we find little evidence of a public backlash against Common Core and test - based accountability, at least on the basis of new information about local school district rankings.

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).

This should not surprise, given that the provided information concerned the ranking of the respondent's own local school district rather than the nation's schools as a whole.

Although informing people of the ranking of the local school district changes their views of teachers unions, the shift in opinion depends on whether the local district has a high or low ranking relative to other districts.

Overall, public support for school choice increases when the public is informed of the local district's ranking in the state or nation.

Meanwhile, should local schools perform higher than expected, as they may for at least some respondents living in districts in the upper half of the national rankings, then the opposite pattern of results may emerge.

The distance between these two judgments narrows, however, when Americans are told the ranking of their local school districts either within their state or in the nation as a whole.

In sum, 56 percent of those informed of their local district's national rankings favor universal vouchers, but only 34 percent support targeted vouchers.

Our findings reveal that the size of the differential drops from 29 percentage points to 18 percentage points once information about the local district's national ranking is supplied.

The state ranks 22nd out of the 50 states for its wealth - neutrality score, which measures the link between property wealth in the state and the amount of local and state revenue available to districts.

In an apparent surprise to GOP leaders, rank and file members of the House voted down an economic development bill Tuesday that because of unusual legislative maneuvering needed to pass to pave the way a bill that would have allowed local school districts to save more teacher assistants» jobs.

IDRA's Penny Power shows how much revenue your school district generates for each average penny of tax set by local taxpayers and rank orders 1,018 school districts across Texas.

Students are eligible for the program if the student's resident district is not a school district in which the pilot project scholarship program is operating and the student satisfies one of the following conditions: the student attends a local public school that has received a grade D or F by the state's performance index score, the student is assigned to a community school but would otherwise be assigned to a qualifying school, the student attends a local public school that was ranked in the lowest 10 percent of public schools in two of the three most recent rankings and the public school was not declared to be excellent or effective in the most recent rating system, or the student is enrolling in grades K — 12 for the first time and would be assigned to a qualifying school as long as they are at least 5 years old by Jan. 1 of the school year.

As MinnPost noted, «nationally, Minnesota is joining the ranks of a handful of other states that leave layoff policies completely up to the discretion of local districts.

He declared unconstitutional and «irrational» the way Connecticut funds and oversees local public schools; he found that the state government has the enforceable responsibility under Connecticut's constitution to provide all students an adequate education — not just the wealthy suburban kids who rank first nationwide in reading scores, but also the many «functionally illiterate» high - school graduates from the 30 poorest Connecticut school districts, which rank below Mississippi and 39 other states in those same scores.

, chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, and ranking Democrat Sen. Patty Murray (Wash.) want to shift decisions about academic standards, whether and how to evaluate teachers, what to do about low - performing schools and other matters to states and local school districts.

They also argued the rankings set a low bar for academic quality by comparing charter schools with local public districts, many of which are struggling urban schools, rather than with top - performing schools elsewhere.

The state superintendent, the highest - ranking elected educational officer, runs the state Department of Education, which measures school performance, assists lagging schools and distributes about $ 9 billion in state money to local school districts.

Such naivete explains why the Obama Administration has continually promoted case studies of reform - minded school leaders working closely with NEA and AFT locals, why Class Struggle author Steve Brill floated the laughable idea of Weingarten becoming chancellor of New York City's traditional district three years ago, and why organizations such as Educators4Excellence and Teach Plus — which represent younger, reform - minded teachers who now make up the majority of NEA and AFT rank - and - filers (and are staffed by teachers who are themselves centrist and progressive Democrats)-- work so hard to aim to lead reform from within union ranks.