Sentences with phrase «majority of school districts»

Yes, a vast majority of school districts in the country are run by elected boards.

But little has been written about the fact that the proposal misses the mark when it comes to the real challenges facing the vast majority of school districts across the country.

So, for two years in a row spending in a large majority of school districts has gone down.

This funding is used by the significant majority of school districts nationwide and is a critical support for schools.

A: I would say that the vast majority of school districts who offer credit recovery are doing it through some form of digital content.

That goal matches what the clear majority of school districts already have in their sites for students.

But in the vast majority of school districts, the data on child maltreatment and foster care is not linked to a child's educational records.

Developing a research - based evaluation system is a huge undertaking, one that is prohibitive for the vast majority of school districts in both cost and time.

«Every year, the voting public in the vast majority of school districts vote to accept or reject their school budget and its cost,» Donohue said.

Despite the calls for changes, the vast majority of school districts last month approved budgets within the cap, with only 18 districts statewide overriding the limit on levy increases.

The vast majority of school district budgets were approved by voters in New York on Tuesday, but it's actually a decline from last year.

«The increase that he is recommending for this year... does not bring the vast majority of school districts out of the hole that they are in.»

In the overwhelming majority of school districts, «last in, first out» (LIFO) provisions of collective bargaining agreements make seniority the main factor in determining which teachers are let go.

Since the vast majority of school districts employ uniform salary schedules, it seems reasonable to expect that educators should not experience gender - or race - based salary disparities».

Hard data on its prevalence are hard to find, but a large majority of school districts have adopted blended learning at least to some degree, and many charter schools are using it «to rethink the entire school experience,» according to Michael B. Horn of the Christensen Institute.

Despite a recent wave of reform, the vast majority of school districts nationwide continue to pay teachers based on salary schedules that fail to differentiate among teachers based on their subject - area expertise.

(That latter concern will be the subject of a future post, because in the vast majority of school districts, ingredient lists are not disseminated).

While the majority of school districts are working hard to comply with the new standards, some school districts across the nation are refusing to adopt the new lunch standards, instead choosing to opt out of the USDA School Lunch Program.

Numbers of students boycotting the state's Common Core tests dropped in the majority of school districts statewide this year, though the figures remained especially high on Long Island, an advocacy group said.

«It's crucial for the majority of school districts across New York State who are unable to comply with this misguided policy that we act now before the end of session,» Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins said.

The vast majority of school districts this week had their budgets approved by voters and nearly 99 percent all budgeted within the legal limit.

«The majority of school districts are meeting the new spending limits,» said DiNapoli in a statement.

Proponents of the cap have pointed to the vast majority of school districts and local governments being able to budget within the cap.

Bennett noted that a majority of school districts across the state have worked hard over the last three years at implement.

The majority of school districts, 606 of them, are using that existing teacher and principal evaluation system, having gotten a waiver letting them to push back implementing the new, Cuomo - backed system — under which teachers are scored on a matrix — until September 2016.

Almost 98 percent of school budgets were approved in statewide voting Tuesday, including the majority of school districts asking for overrides of the state's mandatory property tax cap.

«That way, a majority of school districts would benefit,» said Michael Borges, executive director of the business officials association.

In New York almost 98 percent of school budgets were approved in statewide voting Tuesday, including the majority of school districts asking for overrides of the state's mandatory property tax cap.

Nevertheless, the majority of school districts should most likely consider these questions, thoughts, ideas, and resources when establishing a hub.

In other words, as a result of political opposition, the vast majority of school districts, even in conservative Texas, turned down extra money from the state rather than adopt merit pay.

The vast majority of school districts — 713 districts representing 1.7 million students — are currently underfunded.

Thanks in large measure to a funding formula that pumps some money into the vast majority of school districts, the 30 - year - old effort to improve the education of disadvantaged students is one of the most popular federal education programs.

We have been able to predict the percentage of students scoring proficient or above in a majority of the school districts in NJ and CT using only community and family census data (Tienken, 2014).

Tom Evenson, spokesman for Walker, said the majority of school districts will likely get the new funding if passed as proposed.

The Common Core / Race to the Top / NCLB waiver program that linked bogus standardized testing (Pearson, RARCC, SBAC) in math and ELA with teacher evaluations (VAM) forced the majority of school districts to put science and social studies on the back burner at the K to 8 level..

Title II Part A offers critically important supports for solving current teacher shortages that are reported as a «big challenge» in a majority of school districts and in more than 40 states.

In fact, a majority of school districts with ninth - graders in the two counties appear to rely on at least some subjective placement, according to the study issued by the Lawyers» Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, which compiled previous studies and district data.

With a majority of school districts in rural settings and a strong investment in school infrastructure, Colorado schools include over 300 innovation, charter, and online schools.

A majority of school districts said they're ready for online tests aligned to Common Core.

Back in the 2000's, No Child Left Behind policies that mandated student testing prompted a majority of school districts to increase instruction time devoted to the two tested subjects: reading and math.