Sentences with phrase «majority of urban school district»

Still, a majority of urban school district officials think the program has the potential to deliver lasting change to long - foundering schools, according to a survey by the Council of the Great City Schools, an organization in Washington, D.C., that represents the nation's urban school districts.

Not exact matches

They would have been built in a handful of urban communities, where 32,000 children, a majority black and Latino, were sitting on waiting lists of existing charters as they languished in underperforming district schools.

Yes, many will take a course here and there, but the comprehensive high school in most suburban districts and proliferation of small high schools in urban systems will continue to enroll the vast majority of eligible teenagers.

«The charter school industry has targeted our relatively small urban district with an over-saturation of charters that causes a financial drain, without concern for the impact on the majority of students who will continue to attend the public schools.»

The majority of them are residents of large urban school districts where the cap has been hit.

As I noted in an earlier blog post, «Communities of color have chosen — no longer can charter advocates [and their funders with «dark money» pockets] make the false claim that they are representing the majority of families of color in urban school districts.»

Improving students» reading skills was a major issue for three high schools in an urban district in which the majority of students were below grade level in their reading assessment scores.